For Moscow, still struggling to maintain a semblance of influence in post-Assad Syria, new attempts by Haftar to seize full control of #Libya could have severe consequences, undermining already faltering «African Corps» projects across continent.
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I feel like this should be getting more coverage. It's been coming for a while, but Kazakhstan's GDP per capita has passed Russia's to become the highest of the ex-USSR countries. Obviously, oil and gas prices are important here (Turkmenistan is third) (1/n)

America's liberal intelligentsia & professional consultants (many of whom are enormously popular here on Bluesky) have engineered a thoroughly cowardly and ugly Democratic Party. If we're living in America's latest Gilded Age, today's mainstream liberals won't be the authors of tomorrow's New Deal.

André Naffis-Sahely in @thebaffler.com looks at Bhutan's ethnic cleansing of its Lhotshampa minority, the refugee diaspora's resilience, and how the West has turned a blind eye due to anti-China geopolitics and Western civ's larger philosophical crisis.

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