PanArab

Makes no sense when the US is a net exporter. Then again something similar happened before https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/saudi-arabia-imports-record-russian-fuel-oil-june-trade-grows-2023-07-13/

A temporary authorization until the end of April next year but why?

Do the US plan on buying fuel from Russia?

A paramilitary force used in the past by the Sudanese government to quell local uprisings is now fighting the government and ethnically cleansing the country.

I have read that they have a gold mine to finance their war crimes, and some regional governments such as UAE are complicit.

"It is deeply concerning that China is trying to make the rich pay their fair share in taxes" -- western media, probably

I played the free Astro Bot game bundled with the PS5 and found it to be a quality platformer and a nostalgic trip through Playstation history. I didn’t play the latest release but will eventually.

The history of Western Sahara is more complicated than this article suggests. Until France and Spain divided the Moroccan Sultanate -AKA the Alawi Sultanate- during the scramble for Africa, it was all part of Morocco.

I have no idea how this could be solved, other than uniting the entire of Maghreb. On one hand Morocco has historical claims to the Western Sahara, on the other the monarchy is reactionary and corrupt and the people of Western Sahara have a right to self determination. Though in the grand scheme Sahrawis are not a distinct group of people than their Arab and Amazigh neighbors.

Well done Mexico

American military and intelligence officials have concluded that the war in Ukraine is no longer a stalemate as Russia makes steady gains, and the sense of pessimism in Kyiv and Washington is deepening.

So what's next? A Vietnam and Afghanistan style rapid collapse of the US-supported government? Something entirely different?

1975 Fall of Saigon

2021 Fall of Kabul

202X Fall of Kyiv...?

It must be quite the shocking turn of events for those who were convinced Ukraine was going to win.

Missiles and drones are democratizing warfare.

Cowards

Thank you.

The threat of a widespread conflict in the Middle East has shifted attention from Ukraine. Western fatigue with the war in Ukraine is real, “and increasingly so,” the foreign minister of Finland told the Financial Times recently.

I guess we have our answer to who has more patience. Though I expected this. Russia's political system allows more long term planning and commitments. In liberal democracies policies can change abruptly depending on who wins the election.

A tangential question, AIPAC-aside which is more important to the US: Eastern Europe or West Asia?

To me it seems Ukraine should have been a strategic priority for the US and not Israel, if it weren't for AIPAC influence, or is controlling the Eastern Mediterranean a priority for the US regardless?

I remember being called a Russian troll for asking the obvious, "why would Russia blow its own pipeline?"