#Geo-politics

[hussyknee]

Not so friendly reminder that Tankies are people who deny not only the genocides of Russia but also Vietnam and China (including the Uyghurs), and are apologists for the North Korean regime. They push Russian propaganda of "colour revolutions" every time a Global South country rises up against a totalitarian government because they believe totalitarianism is merely anti-communist agenda; deriding, dismissing and dehumanizing the liberation movements of our countries that come at great human cost. They're not anti-imperialists or anti-colonial; their chief issue with the imperial core is that it's not their ideology seated at the heart of it. They only care about Global South lives when it serves their ideology, and have no genuine concern or curiosity about the ground realities or agency of the communities impacted by imperialism and colonialism.

I also want you to understand that every major power player involved in this conflict is a genocidal fascist. Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthis that are fighting Israel are funded by the theocratic Iranian regime headed by Ebrahim Raisi (begging you to remember the hundreds of Iranian girls and women killed for protesting it). Iran is also an ally of the notorious Bashar Al-Assad's regime in Syria, responsible for the genocide and displacement of millions of his own people while actively funding the Islamic State he wages war against. Both Assad and Raisi are allies of Putin, who is currently trying to colonize and genocide Ukraine and is terrorising Poland, Hungary, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia etc. However, Iran and Putin (half-heartedly) are also allies of the Armenians who are being genocided by Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan is supported by the US, but also Erdogan in Turkey, infamous dictator that hates the European Union and is a close pal of Putin. Meanwhile the US's best friends in the Middle East is Israel, which hates Arabs, and Saudi Arabia, who doesn't recognise Israel as a country but is hated by most of the MENA and is currently in a Cold War with Iran.

*yanks y'all by the shirt and shouts in your face* THERE ARE NO GOOD GUYS HERE, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?? ONLY INNOCENT CIVILIANS CAUGHT IN A SPIDER WEB OF GREEDY, DESPOTIC, GENOCIDAL, FASCIST CUNTS. THERE IS NO POINT TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHICH ONE IS THE BIGGEST THREAT TO GLOBAL DEMOCRACY BECAUSE ALL THE FALL OF ONE DOES IS CREATE A POWER VACCUUM THAT WILL IMMEDIATELY BE FILLED BY THE NEXT BULLY.

These governments can only be toppled from within by their own people once external threats like war with their neighbours are eased, because militaries with nothing to fight are economic black holes that try to eat itself, and it's this economic stress that act as catalysts for coalition building and civilian revolt. Military losses weaken imperialists' coercive power and legitimacy over their own people, so the best thing you can do to help them agitate for change is preventing imperialist expansions from claiming any more victims.

[satzy]

The sole dissenting voice that killed the unanimous call for Gaza ceasefire - meet UN Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield

[gwydionmisha]

Let's talk about a summit, Iran, and what's next....

[gentlemans-code20]

#Doccie - Collapse

Collapse, directed by Chris Smith, is an American documentary film exploring the theories, writings and life story of controversial author Michael Ruppert (1951-2014). Collapse premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2009 to positive reviews.

[paranormalcryptid]

I LOVE the world building in dungeon meshi. I love how instead of juste randomly saying things like "omg look a dragon" or "wow magic water with anger issues" they explain pseudo-scientifically how these creature act and live. They're not just magical creatures, they are actual animals/spirit with distinct behaviours. It's so interesting

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

It’s called asymmetrical warfare. If you can’t face off successfully against a more powerful nation on the battlefield you weaken and ultimately destroy it with attacks on infrastructure and disinformation to divide its people. It’s one of the main reasons Republicans want to kill off the rest of us and divide into smaller nations.

Who would benefit from American internal strife, civil war, or secession? Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea would be the primary beneficiaries of a weakened or divided America. Oligarchs also would have a field day plundering the remnants of the US if the government could no longer enforce regulation of industry, commerce, and banking.

Right-wingers, many trained on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, have been testing the waters by launching physical attacks on power grids. The right wing lunatic fringe believes the government would dissolve if power were lost just for two weeks. They could then live out their well known desire to be in an apocalyptic Wild West state.

[decolonize-the-left]

Leftists and activists I follow have said to be careful because the government can see how it's losing the propaganda war.

And that the only way to beat a propaganda war is to stop using fake propaganda. But who's dumb enough to actually threaten the USA so they have something real to threaten us with? The answer is unsurprising.

The USA.

So I've been hearing that our government would probably plan an attack on its own soil. If it meant putting the American people back in their place and restoring the security of billionaire bank accounts? Absolutely.

Y'all gotta be fucking kidding me.

And it looks like they have targets.

And before you say "the government wouldn't do that"

[sparkleplatypuswriter]

hi. just thinking about margo and sergei passing notes to each other for a month and then sitting at a kitchen table literally doing space homework and holding hands and smiling like high-schoolers.

[northern-punk-lad]

I don’t think anyone is surprised by these 4 countries are dedicated to colonialism

[cuntryhuman]

love you anmuts!!

love you ancoms!!

love you aninds!!

love you anfems!!

love you anqueers!!

love you anprims!!

love you angeos!!!

love you ansyns!!

love you anpacifs!!

love you ancols!!!

love you anpunks!!

ancaps, anmonar, anfasc and an4zis die!!

[hussyknee]

Yo, wanna thank you for your support for us. Unfortunately racists are everywhere, and I honestly try and cut that shit out of people, but can't stop everywhere on the internet.

You don't have to thank me, you shouldn't be going through any of this shit in the first place. Lmao if our entire race of people had to stop being problematic in order to deserve help and human rights, we would all be toast. The brainrotted should pretend that other people and places are also like the USA – made up of diverse individuals and communities instead of a hivemind.

Real talk – I fully expected Ukraine politics by and large to shift to the right, because that's literally what happens when there's a war. It's why the Global South is mess – colonization is traumatic and destabilising, which breeds fundamentalist violence and paranoia. The US became hypernationalist af and spent 20 years attacking an entire population because of just one attack. If you call yourself anti-colonial, it's a fucking requirement to understand that people under threat become reactive, militaristic and hypernationalist. It's not human to expect otherwise, and it's fundamental to understanding the creation of the Global South, and the internal violence of minority communities in the Global North. That's why I was pretty disturbed last year by the "Ukraine army has to disavow its white supremacist battalion first" and its counter that the Ukrainian army is unproblematic really. It's so fuckin out of touch with the reality of war. Bro, the country is getting blitzed to hell, people are dying, its all hands on deck, literally anybody that shows up to help is your new best friend, anybody that gets in the way is an enemy. I grew up in a war, we have Aryan supremacists running the country right the fuck now thanks to the Easter Sunday bomb blasts, I have bloody lived this reality my entire life. That doesn't mean my country is only full of Aryan supremacists, it means it's full of their victims, and it means my people, all my people, even the shit ones, need help. If you're only gonna show up for us if we're pure as driven snow, you're an oppressive piece of shit contributing to the colonial power matrix. The right to live free is not contingent on being "deserving", it's intrinsic to being human.

You want racists and fascists to not get a foothold in a country? Then help make it safe to live in.

[asha-mage]

Rand/Elayne, secret 👀

[Send me a character or pairing, and a one word prompt, and I'll write you a drabble!]

Here is what the people of Andor know-

Queen Elayne Trakand, Radiant of the Light, Lioness of the Sun, is the finest Queen they’ve had in a very long time, maybe the finest in Andor’s long history. She is brave and compassionate and wise in equal measures, unafraid to be ruthless and cunning when duty demands, but unwilling to be cruel or harsh without cause. She keeps trade open and the granaries full, the nobles in check and the alliances that make up the Court of the Sun strong. If there is one fault to be found in Queen Elayne it is the fault of all Trakand rulers, the fault that had ended her mother’s reign and almost destroyed the world, though she has kept it better checked then her predecessors. A fault that is all to human, and yet easy for the bard’s to romanticize and rationalize away- the kind of thing that will fit neatly into both her legend and her her history books, and something that is easy enough for her subjects to forgive given all else she does.

After all, what doe sit matter if the Queen has a truly terrible taste in men? The Queen can do as she wishes as long as duty is satisfied and the rule of law kept and the realm stays prosperous. So what if she had loved a traitorous Darkfriend? She had taken his head during the Last Battle in the end. So what if their had been some rough handed mercenary? Was a woman not allowed to enjoy making a scarred man bend to her will? So what if she had taken her new Captain General to Warder and lover both? The man she would be grateful to rise so high on her esteem. So what if a some dark haired bard slipped in and out of the palace’s private chambers? A woman had needs.

Queen Elayne Trakand was the most powerful woman in the Dragonlands, perhaps the world. She was Aes Sedai and twice a sovereign and the leader of the stronger alliance to ever been seen, and even if none of that was true she was the Queen. She could do as she pleased, and if anyone had any aspersions to cast, the meanest crofter, the lowest beggar in all of Andor or Cairhien would raise a hand to silence such.

Here is what the palace knows-

The Queen has no husband and never will. It is not an unheard of state of affairs for a leader, particularly one with a secure heir already in place. If some of the nobles and dignitaries are nervous about the lack of a second in line after the Daughter Heir or the missed potential of a marriage alliance, well it was their job to fret about such things.

The Queen was the Queen, and her duty was to provide an heir which she had done. Her private affairs beyond that, where her private affairs. The why is not that important. Rumor in the palace would name a thousand different reasons, but the most common accepted is that she had seen what love had done to her mother’s reign, to the rules of countless men and women throughout the long history of the Dragonlands, had tasted it herself with that snake Mellar and thought better of laying herself so bare in heart and soul. She was wedded to her realm and that was more then enough. Pretty musicians and handsome commoners who would ask no questions and be grateful for their Queen’s attention, could fulfill any other required need, without risk. It was no more then her due as Queen, after all.

And if there is one particular dark haired musician who stays for irregular but frequent periods in the royal apartments, well. Maybe she just likes his singing voice.

(The rumor that she had loved the Dragon comes up too from time to time, that he had been father to her children and first flame of her heart, but it it’s solidly in the middle of the pack in terms of believers, and evne it’s adherents would never begin to guess at the full extent or truth of it).

Here is what the Lion Guard knows-

The rumors of a bond with Mellar where trash, any woman of the Guard could tell you that. Captain General Guybon is her Warder and Captain General, but no more. There had been a mercenary at one point, though he had been more of a fop then a rough sort, and belonged to the Seanchan now these days. And there had been a man with a face like misshapen clay, a rough laborer whose smile could curdle milk.

There had been an Aiel woman too, sometimes, beautiful as the sun and sharp tonged as a viper, but soft and gentle for the Queen. She still visited sometimes, when her duties as Wise One did not call her away, but there was a distance there too, created by the Aiel’s role as peacekeepers.

But the Dragon? That was foolishness. A rumor cooked up to strengthen morale, to lend the First Prince of the Sword and the Daughter Heir an air of mystique, of divinity to their legacy. A pretty thing for the legends, and the footnotes of history books. The Dragon had never looked twice at Queen Elayne as far as her personal bodyguard knew- and there was no way such an affair could have been carried off without their knowledge. Certainly not.

And none of them, not Dragon, not mercenary, not laborer or Aiel, or Warder or Darkfriend traitor could claim the truth of the Queen’s heart. That honor when to the pretty dark haired man who sang the sad songs for her in the Old Tongue, who juggled and told stories to make her laugh and lounged with her long evenings on the garden.

It was him who taught the First Prince how to use his sword, who listened to the Daughter Heir cry out her night terrors, who played games with them, and read to them, and showed them the affection and love and devotion of a father. The matter of blood was irrelevant really- weather they where the laborer's or Cauthon’s or hells the Dragon’s didn’t matter. It was the gleeman they called father, and it was the gleeman who fulfilled that duty.

That was enough for the Lion Guard. He might never been Prince Consort in name, but in all the ways that mattered he was one of the House od Trakand, and so, they would spend their lives to guard him, for the sake of their Queen, and their realm, and the man himself.

Here is what the children know-

It is a secret. A very very important secret.

Your father saved the world once their mother had explained to them, time and time again. It nearly cost him his life. If it is found out he still lives, it will cost him the rest of it.

Cethlyn does not mind, not really. She is a bright girl, and can put together the pieces as they stumble into her hands growing up. The tale of the boy who had climbed the garden wall, and the Dragon who had given everything over to saving the world. The way mother laughs when she is in father’s arms, the same laugh as when she dances with Aunt Avienda or Uncle Mat in the small hours of the morning, or hidden away at the secret cabin that they only ever visit by Gateway. They form the whole picture in time, and she keeps her silence and lets tongues wag. One day she will be Queen in turn, she knows, she will have to put up with worse said about her.

It bothers Shevan a bit more. He hates people thinking some filthy Darkfriend’s blood runs in his veins. But he knows duty, and he loves his fahter, and can’t stand the thought of anyone taking his father away from them forever. As it is they see him rarely- and though he always returns with a song and a laugh and a new story, Shevan is hungry for more. Hungry to travel with him, to know him, to be trained by him in earnest, even as he is to shy to ask.

Neither child doubts or questions or wonders, why they look so different from the dark-haired man their mother calls Rand. It dosen’t really matter. The world is full of impossible and strange things. What is one more?

Besides, when their parents hold their hands and laugh, when they gaze into each other’s eyes and smile, when father sings in the soft lilting Old Tongue and their mother seems to breath it in like air- their can be no room for doubt. Not witnessing the raw love that fills them both, the admiration, the bond.

It seems a shame to keep it secret, and yet it seems right too, to hide this fragile brilliant light from the world, lest it be broken by the eyes of those that can not be trusted.

Here is the secret-

Elayne Trakand loves Rand al'Thor, despite all that lays between them, and maybe because of it. Their are others too, other compartments in their vast hearts, and that dose not preclude their love for each other. They have a family together, and Rand does his best balance his wanderings, and his abstaining from events, and being their father too. He has earned his peace and Elayne does not begrudge him it.

It should be tawdry and scandalous and dangerous. But it isn't. It is shockingly, almost disappointingly wholesome and pure.

They love each other, and it is a secret, but changes nothing. When it's true love, it never could.

[kosmic-apothecary]

Should Netanyahu be arrested and tried for supporting terrorism?

[trashytoastboi]

Hi ! Can I request an headcanon (Or a scenario I leave you the choice) where Shanks female s/o tells him that she is in fact a member of the Revolutionary Army.

How would he react to this discovery? Would he ask her to leave the Redforce? Or would he support her ?

P. S : her role is to send observations on geopolitics to revolutionaries

Take care and have a nice day !

Heyya🍀 hope you're doing well! I honestly loved this request because I thought of Shanks being an absolute sweetheart and supporting his S/O. Without further ado, hope you enjoy~🍞

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(Female Pronouns)

Headcanons: Shanks x F! S/O – Being an analyst of Geopolitics for the Revolutionary Army

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Shanks

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☠ {Name} originally acted much like a drifter, going from place to place along the Grand Line. Even making it to the New World successfully on her lonesome. Tenacity and careful observation earned her an unusual reputation. One which caught the attention of the Revolutionary army and she was scouted by a young man by the name of Sabo. Since then she was able to use her abilities to help the R.A. Of course her travels were completely free aside from a few annoying reports that had to be written and secret meetings to be had. Even amongst all of this, {Name} met Shanks... one thing led to another they ended up together.

☠ After they had been dating for a relatively long while. Shanks already had an inkling that {Name} was involved with something aside from his crew. But it never ever harmed the crew and that was the important factor. He left his curiosities to lie, seeing that he truly trusts her. {Name} frequently went on her own adventures and Shanks didn't mind. So long as she returned safe and sound. {Name} would pay the courtesy of telling Shanks that she would be gone for a while and the estimated time of her absence.

☠ Shanks already had an idea of something going on, it wasn't a rival pirate crew. The way she would carefully pick apart and analyze every place they went to. Her sometimes frightening insight into things like leadership, politics and the dark underbelly of near every place they went was impressive but peculiar. Shanks would put it down to her being a genius, maybe someone with enjoyment for such things but still perfection goes hand in hand with practice. Meaning it was not a skill she just picked up without constant practice. In fact, he knew the information wasn't all that official and could be very different from what was in the books, but terrifyingly accurate to the truth.

☠ {Name} could see Shanks was anxious. He played it off often, everytime he saw her off. She caught those glimmers of care and concern in his eyes that watched her leave. The lack of knowing what she was actually doing and just having to wait until she came back must have been hard. {Name} had decided that maybe the truth was something Shanks needed to know. She planned and practiced how she would tell Shanks the truth, the R.A were not the most fondly looked at organization. There was more hate than love on occasion. She told him about her journeys... what she does, the little details of her scouting, uncovering the truth of people and places and delivering it in a concise report to the R.A as a means of change for those very same people and places. Shanks only listened on in silence, his expression gave nothing away. Not whether he was surprised, upset or relieved. He just listened. At the end of her explanation, Shanks smiled, a sigh of relief fell from his lips. "I'm really glad you told me... I'm not entirely happy because I know it's dangerous, but I won't stop you. You're doing what you think is right and I'm proud of you for that" Shanks delivered his words so sweetly, his concern and love lacing the undertones.

☠ Shanks still held his fair share of worries. Knowing just how the R.A is viewed, but he didn't fully disagree with them. Most of their actions were for the betterment of many people. That was something he could respect, considering all the nasty sides he had seen in the World Government and even more so in pirates alike. Shanks did not tell her to stop, but rather spouted as many ways to protect herself as possible.

☠ {Name} found his declarations of protection to be very endearing, and the tips of staying safe became a droning speech. Shanks concluded it with a simple "So, tell me more..." {Name} was more than happy to explain the ins and out of what she did, Shanks couldn't grasp all of it as it went over his head a bit. Though he could tell she had a real passion for it considering how brightly {Name} lit up while talking about it.

☠ {Name} was thankfully a bit more transparent about her work. When preparing to leave it wasn't a random "I'll be back in a week." Like before, she would tell Shanks where she was going and how long she expected to be there with a tad more detail. However, there was one thing Shanks would often ask "How dangerous do you think it's going to be this time?" Depending on her answer, Shanks wanted to make sure that she wasn't in any terrible danger, and if she was...then he wanted to be nearby to protect her.

☠ Shanks and {Name} had come to the agreement that all the information she could give, she would. The information she couldn't share with Shanks would remain her secret and he will not press for any details. While most would have felt insecure at the idea of keeping secrets and half truths, he respected {Name's} will above all else.

[legobatman08]

listen the fuck up, i think (HOPE) all of yall are antifa on here, but for WHATEVER REASON, the only time y'all care about fascism is when it happens in countries you know a lot about. I'm tired of the only political shit discussed being America or some fucking western European country.

there's a very prominent neo-nazi party in georgia (WHICH MY CLASSMATE IS A PART OF????), with extreme conservative and puritan views. see the armbands and the flag in the back? that's the georgian neo-nazi symbol. don't ask me why the faces are blurred, my source for this is the nazi classmate himself, and he blurred it.

brief summary of how this sorry excuse of an organization formed: they broke into a nightclub because "DANCING IS SINFUL", destroyed the club obviously, beat up everyone who was there (girls, guys, university students, bartenders, EVERYONE). where was the police, you may ask? one of them was drunk and JOINED these shitheads, the rest showed up hours later for "unrelated reasons" and pretended none of it happened. you'll see that cops doing jack shit will become a reoccurring theme in this post. this all branches from the extreme upholding of "orthodox christian values" - they're doing all this in "God's name", AND THE CHURCH SUPPORTS IT. obviously, fascism in Georgia existed even before these fucking cunts, but they're growing stronger and recruiting more people these days.

SO, WHAT PROMPTED ME TO MAKE THIS POST? these days, they've gotten more physically aggressive. here are some examples:

they asked a random guy in the streets about his opinion on fascism, when he said he doesn't like it (FUCKING OBVIOUSLY), they beat him up (the police did JACK SHIT and pretended that the part security cameras glitched out WHEN THE NAZIS LITERALLY FILMED A VIDEO OF THEM DOING IT)

they killed a dog and kept beating it after death, and they beat up cats in the street (they filmed these as a video too)

they beat up the leader of a governmental organization Girchi, which is the most progressive party we have right now (with anti-governmental, anti-russian, and antifa anarchistic ideologies)

the Girchi leader was supposed to hold a lecture about politics for kids and uni students at a summer camp thing, and the nazis ATTACKED THE CAMPSITE AND THREW STONES AT PEOPLE.

update on the first one: an armed man in civilian clothes entered his HOSPITAL ROOM, some women tried to stop him, TURNS OUT HE WAS A COP, AND NOW THE POLICE IS PRESSING CHARGES FOR "ATTACKING A POLICE OFFICER"??????

1 - They didn't know he was a cop, 2 - they didn't even attack him just tried to stop him from going to the kid's bed because he was a threat, 3 - HOW THE FUCK ELSE WOULD YOU REACT IF A STRANGER WITH A GUN ENTERED YOUR KID'S HOSPITAL ROOM AND TRIED TO GO NEAR HIM?????

anyways, this shit is scary. the nazi party is recruiting minors, like my classmate, so that if they ever get arrested, the minors will have to be released because OBVIOUSLY nobody's gonna HAVE A 14 YEAR OLD ROT IN PRISON. even if they were all adults, as i mentioned, the police don't care, because they're doing this in the name of Christianity. they're posting xenophobic, homophobic, conservative and very christian nazi bullshit so that they can make people believe that they want what's best for people, BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT THE MAJORITY OF GEORGIA SHARES THOSE IDEOLOGIES. their name is literally "Geo National Unity" TO MAKE IT SEEM LIKE THEY'RE DOING THIS TO "HELP" US. EVEN IF THEIR IDEAS WERE MORALLY CORRECT, WHY THE FUCK AREN'T THEY BEHIND BARS FOR WHAT THEY'RE DOING??

i know I'm not the most coherent source of information, i know this just looks like a stupid rant, but this information isn't accessible in English, which means NOBODY OTHER THAN US GEORGIANS KNOWS WHATS GOING ON. the later this shit stops, the more fascists there'll be in Georgia, because no one wants to put a stop to this. cops are fucking pigs, as always.

I AM SO FUCKING SICK OF THIS. I'M TIRED OF SEEING SWASTIKA GRAFFITI ON WALLS AND SCHOOL DESKS. I'M SICK OF FEELING THREATENED JUST BECAUSE I'M OPENLY ANTI-NAZI AND SOMEWHAT OPENLY QUEER. I'M SICK OF RELIGION BEING AN EXCUSE FOR THESE FUCKING DEGENERATES. NOBODYS DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT. I'm sorry for getting fucking emotional on a post that's supposed to be informational, but SOMEONE had to fucking say it. progressive people in non-western countries are in fucking hell, because nobody acknowledges any problems in places that doesn't concern them. anyways please fucking reblog this, for awareness and for help and what-fucking-ever. thank you for reading.