What Actually Mattered This Week: Ukraine Passes 1000 Days at War
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WHAT ACTUALLY MATTERED THIS WEEK
The?Biden administration responded to Putin using North Korean troops against Ukraine by lifting a ban on long-range missile strikes into Russian territory for the first time in 1000 days of war.
Responding to that response, Putin launched a?hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.
While definitely an escalation, it’s worth noting that Russia has used nuclear-capable missiles against Ukraine before.
No matter what the internet tells you, this doesn’t mean nuclear annihilation is coming.
Since the International Criminal Court has no enforcement mechanism, that warrant doesn’t mean much (just ask Vladimir Putin).
Gaetz was (by far) Trump’s most problematic appointee as president-elect: he faced several “hard no's” from Republican senators who needed to confirm him.
Helping the Trump administration was the right move for Gaetz, who was an obvious distraction since his nomination was announced.
I wouldn’t worry about him too much. I’m sure he’ll have a number one podcast by the end of the year.
It’s now virtually certain that Jair Bolsonaro won’t be able to run for president of Brazil ever again.
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TRUTHS, DAMNED TRUTHS, AND STATISTICS
Couldn't be clearer: correlation between effect of inflation and 2024 voting intentions:
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THE GZERO WORLD WE’RE JUST LIVING IN
THE GRAPHIC TRUTH
YOUR GZERO WORLD
How worried should we be about population collapse? Two-thirds of the people on Earth live in countries with fertility rates below replacement levels of 2.1 children per woman. Experts warn that?the global population will start falling within 60 years, dramatically impacting the future of work and social security. In the US, Vice President-Elect?JD Vance?has repeatedly expressed alarm over falling birth rates.?Elon Musk?has called population decline “a much bigger risk” to civilization than global warming. Places like Japan and Italy are already grappling with shrinking workforces, skyrocketing retirement costs, and healthcare systems stretched to their limits. So, we are heading toward demographic catastrophe, and can governments do anything about it?
On “GZERO World,”?I sit with?Jennifer Sciubba, president and CEO of the Population Reference Bureau, to discuss population decline, the global fertility crisis, and why now is the time to reorient our economic and social welfare systems for an aging future.
“The governments that do not adjust their systems to deal with what you actually have, which is an aging smaller population in the future,” Sciubba warns, “They will have a problem."
For a longer, wider-ranging version of my interview check out the GZERO World podcast .
WORLD IN 60
Will new developments in Ukraine change the course of the war?
How likely will Trump be able to carry out mass deportations when he's in office?
Will there be political fallout from Hong Kong's decision to jail pro-democracy activists?
Find out in this week’s World in 60 Seconds!
DIG DEEPER: GZERO DAILY BY IAN BREMMER?
Welcome to Trump’s international honeymoon – it may not last long, but at least nobody’s having any fun.
In my column this week I explain why Trump's ability to get concessions from other countries early on will be greater than during his first term.
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BECAUSE THE INTERNET
RFK Jr. eating McDonalds is 100% this meme:
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WHAT TO READ THIS WEEK
A question on many Americans’ minds after a very divisive election season: how did we get here? In “End Times,” Peter Turchin skips partisan jabbing and opts for a data-driven approach to explain why America’s societal instability was all but inevitable.
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DEEP THOUGHTS
"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeated, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it." —Maya Angelou
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I am president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media and foreign affairs columnist at TIME. I currently teach at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and previously was a professor at New York University. You can follow me on?X , Threads , Bluesky , Facebook , Instagram , and TikTok .
Président Directeur Général et Président du Conseil d'administration du Réseau d'action en santé cardiovasculaire (RASC)
1 天前Well, we just learn basic thing this week-end. We don’t f… with russian?
International Business Executive/Board Member for consumer-packaged goods and beauty organizations
1 天前Ian, Russians want negotiations! Their 3 day war of grnocide is almost 3 years now. You can talk about that too instead of talking about Ukrainian capitulation all the time.
Principal - Artifex Engineering, Inc.
1 天前A few remarks, - ICC arrest warrants for war criminals Netanyahu and gallant mean a lot - they are war criminals indicted for genocide and the ICC’s 124 signatory countries are obliged to arrest them if they travel to any of them; - People are surprised/upset at Trump nominating Matt Gaetz for AG? They elected Trump who is a convicted felon and actually found liable and fined for sexual assault; - There’s no population collapse - the World population is increading. There’s just a problem of distribution among countries.
Founder at New American Spring
1 天前"Leaders" who cannot see, in their power-drunkenness, that their blind destiny is to perch, like strange vultures, over the global dead… https://newamericanspringblog.wordpress.com/2024/11/23/strange-vultures-domination-through-destruction/
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2 天前Bedankt dat u hebt gedeeld