Drones and influence: Exclusive investigation into Turkey’s power play in Africa • FRANCE 24
Turkey is working hard to maintain and expand its influence in Africa, sometimes at the expense of France.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1m-DUMEg-x4
Tag: foreign affairs
Why is Argentina reigniting the Falklands dispute? | Inside Story
Argentina raising their emphasis on the Falkland islands is caused primarily by two things: domestic politics where Melei wants to look tough compared to his political opponents, and Trump indicating that he may more support Argentina’s claim compared to America’s previous position. Trump makes such statements, seemingly not realizing the real world consequences they may have.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9-28b9mNyI
Xi Is in Egypt. So Are China’s J-16 Fighter Jets — Siphoning US-Allied Secrets | Taiwan Talks EP920
Egypt is allowing China to test their planes against Western fighters. This makes China better able to defeat Western countries in war. Egypt is not a good friend to the United States even though the US gives $1.4 to $2 billion in foreign assistance to Egypt each year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjfZUmJu6eE
Why the US Lost in Afghanistan (w/Jon Lee Anderson, the Journalist Who Saw the Taliban Rise Twice)
Why the US Lost in Afghanistan (w/Jon Lee Anderson, the Journalist Who Saw the Taliban Rise Twice)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huk5XUm2p34
The Pentagon’s Unprecedented Plan for Venezuelan Oil
Before becoming president, Trump regularly said the US should have taken Iraq’s oil, ignoring the sovereignty of Iraq and proposing that the US just take other countries’ national resources by force.
It would have been wrong to dismiss comments like this by taking Trump seriously not literally. Trump literally meant that, and as president he has implemented similar policies by using military force to remove Venezuela’s former leader and actively trying to take a percentage of Venezuela’s oil for the US.
Getting Venezuela’s oil production up and running will take a tremendous amount of investment, and its unlikely that right-minded investors will invest in such a thing because it is too much money and risk if political winds change in the US or Venezuela. This means, it will likely require taxpayer money or the president strong-arming US companies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Baz2pNyH0DU
Blockade and Sanctions: How the US Plans to Win the Iran War
The US strategy in Iran is one of economic warfare through sanctions and blockade forcing: Iran to give in or a revolution in Iran. There doesn’t appear to be the forces necessary in Iran to create a successful revolution, but it’s not impossible.
The war isn’t the US economy VS Iran’s economy, it’s Iran’s economy and a regime willing to let its people take extreme suffering VS something breaking in the international economy that forces the US to give up.
WTH: What the Hormuz Is Going On?
The war against Iran has made the supply of oil low, and if something else happens like a natural disaster to decrease it further…things will be much worse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeQwZgWN9dw
China, Russia and Iran Team Up To Target Americans
Russia and China are helping Iran kill Americans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68d6APZOP1k
US sanctions have stopped Russia from rebuilding the Nord Stream pipeline.
US sanctions have stopped Russia from rebuilding the Nord Stream pipeline.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r06_2ooytHk
JD Vance Is Trying to Be Someone He’s Not (w/ Ben Rhodes) | Bulwark Daily
Trump’s bombastic behavior of threats, tariffs, and war are making the world more skeptical of the United States. China is taking advantage of that and arguing that they are the more reliable power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLFNVYZMNMk