Bye bye, US soft power. Hello Chinese hegemony. But of course Trump is unable to grasp the concept of mutual benefit. It’s all a zero sum game to him.

That’s definitely their plan for Russia.

And they know Europe has no choice but to begrudgingly turn to China as an ally when the US is not a reliable partner anymore and might even become an enemy down the line.

They already have most of Africa in their pockets.

The US will now turn into Russia 2.0, a slowly decaying oligarchy, and China will slowly but surely gain influence there as well.

We are living in the Chinese century now.

Au contraire, the oil lobby very much wants this.

He’s clearly on some kind of weight loss drugs (Ozempic?) or more ill then he lets on. The fat was masking his real age. He also has a shorter haircut and a little less absurd make-up. Also no shoulderpads apparently. He doesn’t need to pretend to look less ancient than Biden anymore (or not look as old compared to Harris).

I was in Tokio last year and it’s really amazing. I have never seen such perfect efficiency and punctuality, and I’m German! A huge factor though is that all the people follow the rules and are mindful of everybody else. Nobody standing in the way, nobody pushing or shoving other people. Also, despite being a mindboggingly huge metropolis, there seem to be hardly any traffic jams. The world could learn a lot from Japan concerning transport.

1933 if you’re refering to Hitler. He was already six years in power in 1939.