Tag archives for USA - Page 2
Grok: Kidnapping by a state is lawful everywhere
Here’s the talk I just had with Grok: Me: In the US, like in most countries, courts consider the legality of the evidence submitted, and if such evidence was warrantless…
România, Europa și lumea în 3 scurtissime idei
❶ Neparticipare, blocaj, sabotaj din partea a patru judecători ai CCR pe care nu-i spânzură nimeni, căci nu permite legea. V-am spus eu că onor CCR trebuie desființată, Constituția reformată,…
Cenzura, o extremă urgență în România (ca să parafrazez)
În loc ca cenzura să fie interzisă în UE, aceasta este de fapt încurajată. Vezi de pildă Directiva (UE) 2019/790 a Parlamentului European și a Consiliului din 17 aprilie 2019…
Mark Rutte just made a huge mistake
From the December 11, 2025, Keynote speech by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and moderated discussion with Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany Johann Wadephul in Berlin: And how is…
Trump’s Gaza success eclipses his China chaos
After having pampered Genocidal Bibi and praised the IDF in the Knesset, Trump went to the 2025 Gaza peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh. But what I found concerning is his…
Dan Wang & Zhang Weiwei on China
In this comment, I quoted from Dan Wang’s piece in The Atlantic, A Nation of Lawyers Confronts China’s Engineering State. There is more from this guy, and not only from…
How is Putin really seen by Xi? Notes on the 2025 SCO summit
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in a nutshell Founded in 2001, when Putin didn't seem such an ogre, with two official languages—Chinese and Russian—the SCO included as members, alongside China…
The Great AI Leap Forward: To panic or not to panic?
I’m not sure that I should be doing this, but I collected some recent news on AI, on which I’d like to add some minimal comments. I’ll start with quick…
Understanding Israel, Trump, and the “negotiations with Iran”
The 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, or Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), defines and designates as nuclear-weapon states those that have built and tested a nuclear explosive device…
Thoughts about BRICS+, China, and Europe—and the US
I'm by no means an analyst of any kind, but I happen to have had a few thoughts, and I decided to put them down. They're not phrased that well,…
Bibi + Donald + Iran = 💣
I initially wanted to update my previous short post, Israel is the land of love, either at its end, or through comments, but I decided to behave more traditionally and…
I asked AI how to fix America’s “undocumented” millions
Triggered by the current events in LA, but not mentioning anything about Trump’s deployment of the National Guard, I asked a couple of chatbots if they see a logical solution…
It’s not the liberal order that we’re losing, and the decline didn’t start with Trump
By pure chance, I ran over some older contributions to Foreign Affairs by Graham Allison, Professor of Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. I'll just paste here some excerpts, without…
The Three Shitheads (and us)
We, Europeans, are cocksuckers. We sucked Putin’s dick (and we still do, as the EU still imports some gas from Russia). We suck Netanyahu’s dick, because criticizing Israel is seen…
You don’t impress me much. Neither of you!
❶ Putin: “We offer Kyiv to resume direct talks without any preconditions starting from May 15 in Istanbul.” ❷ Zelenskyy, take 1: “It is a positive sign that the Russians…
Un mal nécessaire? Varoufakis about China, back in 2018
I’m an easy prey for YouTube’s algorithms, and I was just presented with an excerpt from an address by Yanis Varoufakis to the Cambridge Forum in Massachusetts on May 9,…
The one big mistake Xi is making right now
There might be more important things to worry about right now, but I thought of wasting some time with one that bothers me. And yes, it's about comrade Xi. I…
China repeats all the mistakes made by the West—and yet…
There are only a few thoughts that I wanted to express since some time already. Nothing too fancy, just some basic ideas. My recent “love for China” started before the…
Those analysts still don’t get it
I just happened to read this opinion by Quinn Slobodian in The Guardian: “MAGA’s sinister obsession with IQ is leading us towards an inhuman future.” Yes, it does. Of course…
Why China’s Xi is everyone’s best ally against shithead Trump
As he threatened two days ago, Trump has imposed an incredible tariff on China: 50% atop the original 34%. But this 84% additional tariff means that all goods from China…