And likely receiving it, at least the US delegation yesterday in Rome seems to believe so. The question is whether the sanctions bite badly enough and quickly enough to prevent Russia from cutting Ukraine in half and forcing Kyiv to the table for concessions. Keep an eye on the Middle East too. Look at what Saudi…

Putin unfortunately, is more likely to be replaced either by,

No, I don’t think there is.

Rhodes scholars may not be known as Rhodes scholars for too much longer. Mandela Scholarship’s been mooted, at least for South African recipients.

Yeah, fuck the baby, the bath’s gone cold. Jesus Christ. Can these people hear themselves?

Smollet made it harder for future Emmett Tills to be taken seriously because his attempts to branch out from a fading television show were failing. He abused an already tenuous hate crime legal structure to maintain his celebrity status with the worst hoax since Tawana Brawley.

South Korea was building from a much more developed base anyway after the Gwangmu reforms. It was also only a colony for 35 years, and during that time the economic model combined with industrialization which the Japanese introduced was adopted post independence by the Korean state. Most of all, this same model was…

Some might call that respectability politics today, but I guess back then “uplifting the race” through emulation, “seeing one’s self through the eyes of others” as Du Bois put it, was the only avenue towards any kind of power.

I’m genuinely interested in your belief that 50,000 people were killed in Northern Ireland. It’s a legitimate question on my part, where did you hear that figure? I haven’t heard it before.

That’s cool. Fire Island or Boystown?

I’ll pay for your Greyhound if that’s what you’re worried about.

So, as it turns out, option B: apparently.

They resulted in (roughly) 3500 deaths over (roughly) 30 years. The scale is what matters though, in a population of Northern Ireland’s size, it would be equivalent to around 750,000 deaths in the US. They also killed more “mainland” British, both military and civilian, than either of the UK’s adventures in…

https://www.theglobaleconomy.com/rankings/Expropriation_risk/

It cuts across state ideologies. Distinctions are more geographical (“Global South-Global North”) than ideological.

Yes but the scale of the trade became industrial once Europeans/White people/Whatever got involved. Compare the figure of transportation from West Africa by 1600 to 1800. Compare also the change in population of Africa to other continents during that same period.

Yugoslavia? Northern Ireland? Heir to the throne really should be aware of Northern Ireland right? His grand uncle was killed as part of it in 1979. They had more military casualties there than they did in either Iraq or Afghanistan, and for obvious reasons more civilian deaths too.

Isn’t Dua Lipa Albanian?

He’s a long way from Mighty Ducks 2 right now.