"The ‘#ceasefire talks’ seem to exist mainly so that the fact they took place can be reported. [..] The rolling diplomatic pseudo-event is an end in itself. In this respect the talks are similar to the debacle of the US floating pier, when US forces jerry-rigged a pontoon to get humanitarian aid into a territory that its closest ally was besieging." - #TomStevenson
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n18/tom-stevenson/short-cuts
#Gaza #WarOnGaza #Palestine @palestine @israel
"#Ethiopia is one of the world’s most populous countries, and yet the 2020-2022 #TigrayWar and ongoing suffering in the region has been largely ignored by the world at large. #TomStevenson joins the podcast to break down the history of the conflict, and explore why Prime Minister #AbiyAhmed, a Nobel laureate, has come to preside over such a brutal civil war."
https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/war-in-tigray
#Tigray #Eritrea #HornOfAfrica #TigrayFamine #TigrayGenocide
In "Someone Else’s Empire" by #TomStevenson, the decline of the #UK's global power post-#WWII led to a strategic realignment towards supporting #US hegemony, a decision driven by fears of geopolitical irrelevance. This shift, marked by subservience to US interests, reflects a long-standing pattern in UK foreign policy, deeply embedded since the end of WWII and shaped by America's military dominance and strategic interests in Eurasia, the Pacific, and the Persian Gulf.
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