Weekly Geopolitical News Thread - Juche 112, Week 22
Weekly Geopolitical News Thread - Juche 112, Week 22
Testing a Hexbear-like thread for sharing and commenting on news. Might become a weekly thing if people like it 👀
Rules:
- Include sources in (at least) every top-level comment
- No clearly fake stories
- That's it for now
- Xibucks arrive on the third Sunday of every month
China urges NATO to respect Serbia's sovereignty
China urged the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to respect Serbia's sovereignty and territorial integrity and truly contribute to regional peace, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said on Tuesday during a regular press briefing.
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Regarding the escalating tensions in the region, Mao said that China is closely following the developments, adding that China supports Serbia's effort to safeguard its sovereignty and territorial integrity.
The spokesperson vowed opposition to unilateral actions by the temporary institutions in Pristina and called on it to perform its duty of establishing an association/community of Serb majority municipalities.
0Taliban deploys heavy reinforcements to Iran border
Videos circulating social media on 31 May show Taliban forces heavily reinforcing the Afghan border with Iran on 31 May, after significant escalation regarding a water dispute between the two countries, which resulted in heavy border clashes between the two sides over the weekend.
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The outbreak of fighting came a week after Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi warned the Taliban to respect Iran’s rights to water from the Helmand River shared between the two countries, under the 1973 Afghan-Iranian Helmand River Treaty. Iran has long accused Afghanistan of restricting the flow of its water to Iran and causing droughts or dry spells.
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Despite videos showing reinforcements on the border, Iranian media reports suggested that some “elements are trying to provoke the parties involved with rumors and fake news.”
0What even is the point? Do the taliban actually think they can go in the offensive against Iran? I really don't get what's the plan here
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Brazil to Support the Entry of Venezuela to the BRICS
“It is incredible and inexplicable that one country (the United States) imposes 900 sanctions on another country (Venezuela) just because they don't like it,” Lula stressed.
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During the press conference held after a private meeting, Lula announced that he supports the admission of Venezuela to the BRICS, an international cooperation forum that includes the world's largest emerging economies: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
The Brazilian president also recalled that he criticized the European and American rulers who recognized the opposition politician Juan Guaido as "president in charge of Venezuela."
Such a recognition was the consequence of a geopolitical "narrative" deliberately built against the South American country and its legitimate government.
"President Maduro returns to Brazil after 8 years. I have fought with the U.S. For me, it was so absurd that people who defend democracy turn their backs on an elected person with his people. The prejudice against Venezuela is very great."
"Now, it is in your hands that Venezuela make its own narrative and go back to being a sovereign country where only its people, through a free vote, decide who should govern. Then our adversaries will have to apologize for the havoc they have caused done," Lula told Maduro.
0And then Iran, Argentina, Algeria, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Egypt... BRICS will soon be controlling a vast majority of the global economy AND population. It's exciting, we may actually live to see the end of western hegemony
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Serbian military issues warning over Kosovo violence
Belgrade would not stand by if the ethnic Albanian authorities in Kosovo start killing or displacing Serbs in the breakaway region, Defense Minister Milos Vucevic has warned. The statement came amid heated protest by Serbs in Kosovo over mayoral elections in several towns, which they have described as a travesty.
Speaking to the public broadcaster Radio Television of Serbia on Wednesday, Vucevic assessed the risk of a violent escalation in the north of Kosovo as “big, probably the biggest possible.”
Kosovo’s prime minister, Albin Kurti, and his “unilateral, illegal, illegitimate decisions” are what led to the current tensions in the region, according to Vucevic. He also accused Pristina of denying ethnic Serbs their basic human rights and freedoms.
The minister pointed out that the Serbian military is “ready to carry out any task,” adding that Belgrade has defined any infringement against its “vital national and state interests” as a red line.
“We are talking about scenarios where, God forbid, someone kills Serbs, that physical liquidation begins of our people by the Kosovo police, the expulsion of Serbs,” the Serbian official clarified.
Vucevic emphasized that any such actions “would really be not only a red alarm, but also the moment when Serbia can’t just talk and sit idly by.”
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0Shit's really looking bad for Kurti when even the americans aren't putting up with his crap.
But what was he thinking? Ethnic albanian majors "elected" with 0-100 votes in constituencies of tens of thousands of people. That's clearly a matter of renegotiating the electoral process instead of giving the Mayor title to whoever was there first. I can't believe the Kosovar goverment thought that that was going to work out.
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