But major military powers — like Russia, China, Israel, India, Pakistan, and the United States — have never signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which bans its 112 member states from using or producing those weapons.

Now go look up when they found new fossil fuel reserves off the coast of Ukraine.

Remember when they found new fossil fuel reserves off the coast of Gaza? Trump does.

It’s just a game for some people.

Some Chinese analysts argued that China’s refusal to budge in the face of U.S. pressure commanded a certain geopolitical deference.

America’s allies need to “diversify the risk of their dependence on the United States,” said Wang Yiwei, a professor of international relations at Renmin University in Beijing. “Naturally, they chose China.”

“China’s might has won respect,” he said. “China’s stance has won respect.”

Beijing has been quick to capitalize on this opening. Mr. Trump’s aggressive maneuvers — like tariffs and military strikes in Venezuela, the Middle East and Africa — have allowed Beijing to cast itself, however improbably, as a defender of the rules-based order, the global trading system and a leader of the Global South.

It was never just Trump. That’s why there has been so much resistance.

“It’s a big club and you ain’t in it.”

If the files go public more than half of the political system in USA would go to prison and that system includes many rich people who are just donors. It’s the key to destroying Bullshit mountain.

Foundations of Geopolitics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics

OPEC wants low prices. Trump wants high prices. Just something to keep in mind for later.

How the tables turn.

Rich people donate money all the time. They can handle another one.

Concern grows as host of US military planes descend on UK bases.

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/25746135.us-military-planes-descend-airfield-near-cirencester/.