blobjim [he/him]

This is like the weirdest inter-national hostility in the world to me. As far as I know, there is absolutely no reason for Japan to have a hostile stance towards Russia other than because Japan is a US vassal, and that the Japanese Empire got its butt kicked by the Red Army (but that seems like it wouldn’t that much of an effect in 2026, even if the Japanese govt still clings to that kind of stuff).

It’s wild that Raúl Castro is still involved at that level. He was there on the Granma in 1956. Bless him.

Non-US-aligned countries ought to stop even participating in UN votes. Some departments of the UN are still useful, the ones that do actual on-the-ground work funded by a budget. But the whole debate and voting part of it is often just an annoying way for the US and its pets to brow-beat countries in the smarmiest way.