What's going on in *insert location here*

[Biffer]

World's gone batshit. I can't keep up with everything that's going on.

Ukraine, Israel, Syria, Korea, France for a start.

Georgia going to shit too

There's an unknown flu like virus in the DRC that's killed about eighty people.

The military junta in Niger is seizing overseas assets

Chinese navy trying to sink a Filipino coast guard vessel

Revolution in Myanmar

Someone tried to assassinate the Bolivian president

Head of United Health are assassinated in New York

And Diageo is limiting the amount of Guinness pubs can order in the run up to Christmas.

[Sandstorm]

I’m giving blood on Monday. Doing my part.

“Would you like to know more?”

[laurent]

Cheering on the Government collapse

[Biffer]

Cheering on the Government collapse

Looking forward to the far left - far right coalition tackling the new pandemic in the midst of Russia invading Poland then?

[laurent]

Cheering on the Government collapse

Looking forward to the far left - far right coalition tackling the new pandemic in the midst of Russia invading Poland then?

There is no far left in the french parliament (none of the elected left are in that bracket).
There will not be a coalition between them and the far right.

What Macron attempted was a right / far right coalition though.

[Raggs]

Romania just put a previously completely unknown far right, Russia supporting guy through to the final round for presidential elections. And now it's been found that Tiktok was boosting his videos (illegally presented videos) and suppressing his opponents.

[Biffer]

Romania just put a previously completely unknown far right, Russia supporting guy through to the final round for presidential elections. And now it's been found that Tiktok was boosting his videos (illegally presented videos) and suppressing his opponents.

Shockeroonie

[Hugo]

CIA working overtime.

All jokes aside, as US power (and prestige*) declines the more unstable the world will become since a) the US will do desperate things to try and stay top dog and b) some bad actors will be emboldened to chance their arm.

* The invasion of Iraq in 2003 and US support of Israel in Gaza have pretty much destroyed this notion of rules based order that at least created this perception that the international system was orderly rather than anarchic.

[Jethro]

World's gone batshit. I can't keep up with everything that's going on.

Ukraine, Israel, Syria, Korea, France for a start.

Georgia going to shit too

There's an unknown flu like virus in the DRC that's killed about eighty people.

The military junta in Niger is seizing overseas assets

Chinese navy trying to sink a Filipino coast guard vessel

Revolution in Myanmar

Someone tried to assassinate the Bolivian president

Head of United Health are assassinated in New York

And Diageo is limiting the amount of Guinness pubs can order in the run up to Christmas.

Pales into insignificance compared to the current Hooping cough outbreak in the Taree school system, Wife has immediately blamed the anti immunology crowd.

[mat the expat]

Pales into insignificance compared to the current Hooping cough outbreak in the Taree school system, Wife has immediately blamed the anti immunology crowd.

Creating the Double Bay/Byron triangle

[Slick]

I was just thinking about this last night. I think historical precedent tells us that there is a kind of mass resetting at intervals, usually as a great empire starts to wane.

Was hoping to not live through that, but here we are.

[SaintK]

World's gone batshit. I can't keep up with everything that's going on.

Ukraine, Israel, Syria, Korea, France for a start.

Georgia going to shit too

There's an unknown flu like virus in the DRC that's killed about eighty people.

The military junta in Niger is seizing overseas assets

Chinese navy trying to sink a Filipino coast guard vessel

Revolution in Myanmar

Someone tried to assassinate the Bolivian president

Head of United Health are assassinated in New York

And Diageo is limiting the amount of Guinness pubs can order in the run up to Christmas.

Bloody hell the world is going to hell in a handcart!!!!

[epwc]

The flipping Bahamas!!!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cvg7xp1v7l3o

[Uncle fester]

CIA working overtime.

All jokes aside, as US power (and prestige*) declines the more unstable the world will become since a) the US will do desperate things to try and stay top dog and b) some bad actors will be emboldened to chance their arm.

* The invasion of Iraq in 2003 and US support of Israel in Gaza have pretty much destroyed this notion of rules based order that at least created this perception that the international system was orderly rather than anarchic.

I maintain that the lies and deception in the run up to the second Iraq war were a key contributor to the lack of trust in authority that has fed into the rise of groups like qanon and conspiracy theories.

[fishfoodie]

CIA working overtime.

All jokes aside, as US power (and prestige*) declines the more unstable the world will become since a) the US will do desperate things to try and stay top dog and b) some bad actors will be emboldened to chance their arm.

* The invasion of Iraq in 2003 and US support of Israel in Gaza have pretty much destroyed this notion of rules based order that at least created this perception that the international system was orderly rather than anarchic.

I maintain that the lies and deception in the run up to the second Iraq war were a key contributor to the lack of trust in authority that has fed into the rise of groups like qanon and conspiracy theories.

In the US, a lot of people draw the line at Watergate, or the Pentagon papers, because there in black & white they could see the lies that the "Elite" know for decades, but still sent kids go off to die, in an exercise they knew was doomed to fail. It completely destroyed any trust that a Generation had in their Government.