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Posted by: SodaPop
« on: December 30, 2025, 10:03:46 pm »

End Of Singapore-U.S Ties? PM Wong Roars Against America & Trump Tariffs; 'First You Championed...''
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The Prime Minister of Singapore Lawrence Wong delivered a powerful speech in Parliament regarding Trump's tariffs, vowing not to back down. He assured Singaporeans that they will not be intimidated and are not afraid. Watch as Wong challenges Trump tariffs amid global market turmoil.

#singapore #lawrencewong #singaporepm #trumptariffs #unitedstates #trump #usa #trumpnews #reciprocaltariffs #singapore #usa  #trumpnews #TOILive #TOIVideos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Zo0zg7-Ko
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: November 20, 2025, 05:44:38 pm »

This could have been a good move, but unfortunately Eurocentrist Xi also did this at roughly the same time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVilwk4lIfI

thereby precluding any folkist interpretation of the Vajiralongkorn visit.

See also:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/colonial-era/portugal-colonialism/msg31265/#msg31265
Posted by: SodaPop
« on: November 20, 2025, 12:28:19 am »

Thai king travels to Beijing: First visit for a monarch to China in 50 years
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Thai King is in Beijing for the first visit to China by a Thai monarch since relations began in 1975.
Thailand has a constitutional monarchy, but the king is powerful, and close to Beijing.

Both sides have hailed this visit as a historic milestone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MujUDDhHbU

No one can trust the U.S. under Trumpism. This sentiment will linger for a long time after Trump is gone, I'm afraid.

The U.S. was SO different when my family and I moved here 36 years ago. The people were so much better too. These politicians really managed to **** up a good thing pretty quickly. Seems 9/11 was one of the last few nails in the coffin...
Posted by: rp
« on: October 09, 2025, 12:43:39 am »

"Another factor is from where India is now buying those products that it used to buy from the US. If India is buying from fellow former victims of Western colonialism, then OK, it is decolonization. But if India is buying from other Western countries, then it is not decolonization."
They are encouraging "Swadeshi"/made in India products.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: October 08, 2025, 11:16:17 pm »

Oh, now I see what you mean! Still, if India's reaction to the US tariff was to instead abandon the deal with Russia, the net effect would be less revenue by Russia, whereas by boycotting US goods, although you could argue this would leave the US with less money with which to itself buy from Russia, whether this ultimately results in less net revenue by Russia would depend on how the US allocates its decreased money.

Another factor is from where India is now buying those products that it used to buy from the US. If India is buying from fellow former victims of Western colonialism, then OK, it is decolonization. But if India is buying from other Western countries, then it is not decolonization.
Posted by: rp
« on: October 08, 2025, 08:51:15 pm »

I think you are mixing two things up. Boycotting of general goods in response to tariffs is a separate issue from choosing Russia over the US for oil (which triggered the tariffs).

"I consider Russia more Western than the US (though you can disagree on this part).)"
Culturally/aesthetically perhaps. But under the hood the U.S. is still very close. Consider the machinism of Silicon Valley/various Army labs. Although perhaps Russia is only behind because they lag behind in per capita income.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: October 08, 2025, 08:40:58 pm »

"Boycotting the American goods"

In order for something to be a boycott, the boycotter would have to be willing to buy the same product at a higher cost elsewhere. For example, I boycott Israel. Therefore, if a non-Zionist coffee shop sells the same drink as Starbucks does but at 150% the price, I will still buy from the non-Zionist coffee shop. But you just said:

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they chose Russia over the US due to Russia offering a better deal

So there is no evidence here that India is boycotting the US. If Russia were offering India a worse deal than the US, and India still took the Russian deal, then we could say India is boycotting the US. (But even in that case I would not call it decolonization because I consider Russia more Western than the US (though you can disagree on this part).)
Posted by: rp
« on: October 08, 2025, 08:14:12 pm »

Boycotting the American goods is not decolonization, in response to the US's (obviously racist) double standards on oil deals vis a vis Russia?
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: October 08, 2025, 05:43:43 pm »

"they chose Russia over the US due to Russia offering a better deal"

In other words, this was a pragmatic decision, not one motivated by decolonization. Which is why it does not belong in this topic.
Posted by: rp
« on: October 08, 2025, 07:44:36 am »

The US cannot claim to oppose any deal with Russia, as they themselves have made similar deals with Russia. Also, they chose Russia over the US due to Russia offering a better deal, not because the latter is more Western.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: October 07, 2025, 05:32:24 pm »

According to the video (0:35), the tariff by the US was in response to an oil deal between India and Russia. Since we view Russia as more Western than the US, choosing Russia over the US is not an example of diplomatic decolonization.
Posted by: rp
« on: October 07, 2025, 05:12:14 pm »

www.youtube.com/watch?si=Fjk5riY5yUg29cZe&v=hTeXskKdod8
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: September 28, 2025, 06:34:05 pm »

Well done Petro!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJU6dGAPNN0

Previous Petro coverage:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/diplomatic-decolonization/msg22855/#msg22855

Further information:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Petro#Palestine

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Petro condemned Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip during the Gaza war and accused Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians.[174] Petro expressed outrage after the 13 July 2024 al-Mawasi airstrikes.[175], and he was one of the very first world leaders to condemn the Israeli blockade on Gaza immediately following the October 7 attacks.[176]

Colombia formally supported South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).[177] In May 2024, Colombia suspended diplomatic relations with Israel.[178] Subsequently, Colombia announced the opening of a diplomatic mission in Ramallah, headed by an ambassador to Palestine.[179] In July 2025, Colombia was reported to have promoted an agreement with other nations to cease purchasing weapons from Israeli companies.[180]

Petro's stance escalated significantly in September 2025 during the UN General Assembly. In his speech, he declared that diplomacy had failed and called for the formation of a "powerful army" from countries that "do not accept genocide" to "liberate Palestine".[181] He argued that "words are no longer enough"
Posted by: rp
« on: September 18, 2025, 05:20:56 pm »

https://apnews.com/article/pakistan-saudi-arabia-defense-israel-india-11cd003a55eb7bec7431cb134f29db5d?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=discover&utm_campaign=CCwqGAgwKg8IACoHCAowhO7OATDh9CgwgNzLBDCT-vYE&utm_content=bullets
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Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan have signed a mutual defense pact that defines any attack on either nation as an attack on both — a key accord in the wake of Israel’s strike on Qatar last week.

The kingdom has long had close economic, religious and security ties to Pakistan, including reportedly providing funding for Islamabad’s nuclear weapons program as it developed. Analysts — and Pakistani diplomats in at least one case — have suggested over the years that Saudi Arabia could be included under Islamabad’s nuclear umbrella, particularly as tensions have risen over Iran’s atomic program.

But the timing of the pact appeared to be a signal to Israel, long suspected to be the Middle East’s only nuclear-armed state, which has conducted a sprawling military offensive since Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel stretching across Iran, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Qatar, Syria and Yemen.

Israel did not respond to requests for comment. The pact marks the first major defense decision by a Gulf Arab country since the Qatar attack. The United States, long the security guarantor for the Gulf Arab states, also did not respond to questions posed to the State Department.


A deal signed in Riyadh
Saudi Arabia’s powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman signed the pact on Wednesday with Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.

While not specifically discussing the bomb, the agreement states “any aggression against either country shall be considered an aggression against both,” according to statements issued by both Pakistan’s Foreign Affairs Ministry and the state-run Saudi Press Agency.
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: July 18, 2025, 07:18:16 pm »

This is what we need more of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JM8SWLRNOlo

Woke comments:

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Free Circassia! So Russia has no coastline on the Black Sea

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I think as part of reparations Ukraine should acquire the land to its east up to the Don river.  Kazakstan should get the land to its west.  The Don would form a natural border between the two.  The bad guys would be cut off from the Black Sea and Caspian Sea.

This is what I was saying years ago:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/armenia-and-azerbaijan-clash-over-disputed-nagorno-karabakh-region/msg15652/#msg15652