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Nik Stankovic

@nikstankovic_

Serbian, US 10 yrs, China 15 yrs. Geopolitics, Asian Century. Tech, sim flying.

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🇷🇺 - Gagarin’s legacy lives on as the world commemorates first manned flight into space

'Let's Go!' Yuri Gagarin yelled as he became the first human to reach space on Apr 12, 1961 and orbited the Earth for 1 hour, 48 minutes on Vostok-1.

Today the world celebrates the…

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Here is my typical rabbit hole: I go to a random bar in Qingdao, China where they play... Cat Stevens of all people. Wild World (1971 before I was born).

youtube.com/watch?v=b2TB75…

Which has a lyric 'but if you want to leave take good care, hope you make a lot of nice friends out…

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My big lesson living in Asia is that I now know nothing about Japan (I used to know a lot). What I do know is they are trying to wade thru it, like everyone else.

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Hahahah. Hahaha.

The chair of the Senate Banking Committee, Senator Sherrod Brown, wrote 'Chinese electric vehicles are an existential threat to the American auto industry'.

Why? Aren't they unclean, unprofitable without subsidies, low range, useless environment burning,…

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To be fair, he has many children, and only some are in Gaza, while he lives in Qatar.

He is no different than Netanyahu. Zero difference.

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Written by two non-Japanese authors.
The secret is that there is no Japanese secret. Japanese know little about having a 'happy life'.
Suicide is the leading cause of death in men between the ages of 20-44 and women between the ages of 15-34.
What is the 'Japanese Secret' behind…

Written by two non-Japanese authors. The secret is that there is no Japanese secret. Japanese know little about having a 'happy life'. Suicide is the leading cause of death in men between the ages of 20-44 and women between the ages of 15-34. What is the 'Japanese Secret' behind…
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What do people think 10,000 French troops in Odessa or elsewhere will do? Vs 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers? People think somehow 10,000 French troops are better than Ukrainians. Marginally, today, probably.

Because right now 10,000 Ukrainians are taxi drivers and math high school…

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Another short-sighted Western view, that Muslim world is some sort of monolith. That all Muslims are the same and have the same views and agenda.

Even inside majority Muslim countries there are Islamic radicals that the majority rejects and even fights with.

All that Muslims…

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'We have to approach China from a position of strength'

Of course. Doesn't everyone want to approach any negotiation from a position of strength.

Who is in a position of strength here? China was locked out of international space cooperation (which mostly means US+Russia…

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Japan’s Kishida talking about the danger of Russia repeating a nuclear weapons catastrophe while standing in the US Congress, the only country to use nukes—ON JAPAN—has got to be the highest level of gaslighting, self-deceit, and lackeyism all at once.

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Quite the extraordinary interview of former Philippines president Duterte:

'When I was elected as president then (in 2016), I tried to craft an independent foreign policy, not really against America. I have no quarrel with America. But the problem was our foreign policy was…

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Unfortunately, China's industry still runs on coal, but the plan is to convert most of it to cheap Russian natural gas and nuclear power over the next decade or so.

The cars themselves are already 100% powered by renewables. All residential, services (this includes subways…

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This is by far one of the most profound and important questions facing the West in the next few decades.

Speaking is Hubert Védrine, France's former Foreign Minister and Secretary-General of the French presidency under president Mitterrand.

He says the West, 'descendants of…

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