2012-05-13, 18:08 | Link #21443 |
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49 bodies found on Mexico highway
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Insight: Canada's oil sand battle with Europe
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2012-05-14, 03:47 | Link #21447 |
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It's exagerate to compare ''dirtier'' oil and diamond than serve to pay for war, no ?
Insight: India's "Queen of Democrazy" at the crossroads of change http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...84C08H20120513
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2012-05-14, 19:31 | Link #21449 |
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Why Philippines Stands Up to China
The Philippines is hopelessly mismatched against China in pure military terms. But there are historical reasons why it won't back down in the South China Sea. http://the-diplomat.com/2012/05/14/w...s-up-to-china/ |
2012-05-15, 08:12 | Link #21450 |
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French architect could be pivotal figure in China scandal
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...84E0HA20120515 In Europe, carmakers talk plant closures http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...84E0JV20120515
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2012-05-15, 10:06 | Link #21451 |
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For an associate professor of military strategy at the US Naval War College, he sure doesn't spend much time talking about the possible role of the US in these matters. I would have preferred a little less emphasis on Thucydides and a bit more on the implications of the US-Philippines mutual defense treaty that he mentions in only one sentence.
I'm not defending China here by any means, but does the author really think that having US behind them doesn't play some role in encouraging Filipino assertiveness? I'd much rather have read a prescriptive analysis of the situation in the South China Sea, of possible future trajectories for naval encounters among China, its neighbors, and the US, and of methods to avoid escalation.
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2012-05-15, 18:39 | Link #21452 |
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Nuclear-powered ‘fast-attack’ US submarine docks in Subic
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2012-05-15, 19:44 | Link #21453 |
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EU carries out strikes on Somali pirates http://www.voanews.com/tibetan-engli...151588565.html Godspeed More news coming in EU Naval Force Delivers Blow Against Somali Pirates On Shoreline 15th May – Earlier today, following the decision taken on 23 March 2012 by the Council of the European Union to allow the EU Naval Force to take disruption action against known pirate supplies on the shore, EU forces conducted an operation to destroy pirate equipment on the Somali coastline. http://www.eunavfor.eu/2012/05/eu-na...-on-shoreline/ |
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FBI launches JPMorgan probe, shareholders back Dimon
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2012-05-15, 23:16 | Link #21455 | |
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2012-05-15, 23:34 | Link #21456 |
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Heh, here's an idea Jorge -- fix the problem. Mexico is effectively a failed state unless it can deal with these modern feudal warlords.
The US wouldn't go to war against Mexico as a country. Jorge stupidly conflates the idea in his rant which makes me wonder what his motives are ... but they might go after "transnational crime gangs" wherever they are located.
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2012-05-15, 23:39 | Link #21458 |
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I still think fairly well of president Fox... but, like our president, he's contending with a lot of cat herding and some of the cats are rabid :P
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2012-05-15, 23:57 | Link #21459 |
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I think that what Jorge was trying to say was that the reason why Mexico is the way it is today is because the united States has systematically tried to keep it from forming a secure and coherent government, as it would go against US interests to have a powerful country on the US's southern border. And likewise, to the American right Mexico (and Mexicans) have always been a threat.
And historically it's true, since Mexico's independence, the United States repeatedly attacked and undermined it's nascent government. He also seems to, quite rightly, see that Mexico's problems are internal in nature, but he also, quite rightly, sees that many of the historic reasons for those problems originate in Mexico's relationship with the United States. Even the Drug Wars is largely fueled by money and weapons coming from the United States. If Mexico didn't border the USA, it would likely be a lot better off. You could point at and contrast the US's other neighbour, Canada, but when Canada was a nascent state, it had the protection the most powerful country in the world, Britain, and was able to develop due to the security it provided. Mexico never had that luxury. Unlike Canada, Mexico also doesn't share any anglophone heritage. |
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