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theaitetos@diaspora.psyco.fr
theaitetos

The Pragmatic Phase

The smarter #clowns are now fully aware that #history did not, in fact, end, and that the pendulum is rapidly swinging back in their faces. So they’re attempting to recapture all the centrists and conservatives that their #globalist #overreach cost them and stave off a complete #collapse of their “neoliberal rules-based world order” by switching to their phase they describe as “pragmatic realism”.

The American public deserves a sober and realistic debate about the nature and salience of the U.S. interests at stake in #Ukraine. The American electorate also deserves to be told the truth: that Ukraine is highly unlikely to succeed in expelling Russian forces from its territory, even with the continuation of strong support from the West. Trump’s readiness to seek a negotiated settlement is not capitulation: it is pragmatism.

Trump’s skepticism toward nation building and the promotion of democracy abroad also resonates with the isolationist posture of early America. To be sure, Americans from the founding era onward believed that they were embarking on a unique experiment in building republican government, an experiment that they were ultimately destined to share with the rest of the world. Yet the founders and their successors were appropriately doubtful of the United States’ ability to engineer political change abroad and therefore understood that they needed to spread democracy primarily by example. As then Secretary of State John Quincy Adams famously stated in 1821, the United States “goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy.”

So, too, did successive U.S. presidents appreciate the need to operate in the world as it is, working with democracies and nondemocracies alike in the pursuit of U.S. interests. Even as President James Monroe warned Europe’s great powers in 1823 against any “future colonization” in the Western Hemisphere, he acknowledged and accepted Europe’s political preferences. It was the policy of the United States, he asserted, “not to interfere in the internal concerns of any of its powers; to consider the government de facto as the legitimate government for us; to cultivate friendly relations with it.”

Trump took this ideological variant of isolationism too far during his presidency, exhibiting a fondness for autocrats such as Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jung Un while giving a cold shoulder to the leaders of allied democracies. But Trump’s approach to grand strategy does exhibit due caution to the promotion of democracy abroad. He correctly traced the United States’ overreach in the Middle East to the “dangerous idea that we could make Western democracies out of countries that had no experience or interests in becoming a Western democracy.”

#Trump’s brand of U.S. statecraft has deep roots in the American experience and, like the original version of isolationism, has something for almost everyone, giving it broad appeal across the American electorate. Democrats dismiss his “America first” agenda as strategic delusion at their own peril. Instead, they should preempt it by embracing its best elements.

#Democrats need to find the middle ground between an expansive liberal internationalism that is no longer sustainable at home or abroad and the dangerous isolationist excesses that would likely accompany Trump’s return to the presidency. That middle ground entails standing by Biden’s multilateralism and his investment in old alliances and new partnerships, moves that have resuscitated U.S.-led collective action and restored the nation’s image as a team player. At the same time, the United States must avoid the bouts of strategic overreach, such as in Afghanistan and Iraq, that encourage the electorate to gravitate toward isolationist alternatives.

In Ukraine, that middle ground requires working to broker a cease-fire and focusing on ensuring that the 80 percent of the country still under Kyiv’s control is secure, prosperous, and stable. With Ukraine up against relentless aggression from a much larger neighbor, that outcome would qualify as a success by any reasonable measure. In the Middle East, Washington should seek to end the violence in Gaza and then lay out a pathway to Palestinian self-determination and normalization of Israel’s relationships with its neighbors. The United States should stand up to Chinese ambition, but also avoid unnecessary provocations that could lead to an irreversible geopolitical rupture. Washington should work intently to cooperate with Beijing to tame rivalry and advance joint efforts to tackle global challenges.

The United States cannot afford to run away from the world, as it did during the long era of isolationism. But it can no longer seek to run the world, which it has neither the power nor the domestic consensus to do. Instead, Americans need to learn to live in a world of ideological diversity and multiple conceptions of order, working alongside other centers of power, democracies and nondemocracies alike. Pragmatic realism should guide U.S. statecraft.

#ClownWorld always seeks to #control the entire #debate. So, now that events have escaped their control, they’re resetting the boundaries of the public discourse in an attempt to permit the less dangerous ideas entry while continuing to prevent any comprehensive discussion of the real causes, problems, and potential solutions.

Notice, in particular, the assumption that Americans “need to learn” whatever it is that Clown World is preaching at the moment. Thirty years ago, Americans “needed to learn” that they had a responsibility for pushing democracy, free movement, and independent central banks everywhere around the #world. Now, they are being told that they “need to learn” the limits of what they can do.

But what Americans really need to learn is that they are #not #free and that they do not need any #foreign #rulers telling them what to do.

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hruotland@diasp.org
Roland

https://x.com/JouanAnne1/status/1826182986645098734

«Durant des mois, Mathieu Garnier, collab parlementaire d'Ersilia Soudais, m'a envoyĂ© des messages oĂč il ironise sur ma famille dĂ©portĂ©e et fait rĂ©fĂ©rence Ă  mon pĂšre (sachant que je suis orphelin)», Lucas Jakubowicz sur son compte X.

#LFI #antisémites #clowns

https://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/harceleur-de-journaliste-la-deputee-insoumise-ersilia-soudais-lfi-conspuee-pour-une-nouvelle-video-20240821

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faab64@diasp.org
Farhad đŸ†“đŸ‡”đŸ‡ž â˜źïžNow

Millions of children trapped in Gaza, living under unimaginable horror, the trauma at such early age, is damaging them in a way one can't fathom. But then, there are those who try their best to do what they can to help making this living hell a bit less scary. The image, brought tears in my eyes, such a small act, can make a HUGE difference in the lives of children who have lost everything and living under a constant fear or bombs, explosions and dead bodies.

North #Gaza in the morning... Clowns emerge from the rubble. Children exclaim over the death that enters them from every door and window. Warplanes strike a target that is only a few hundred meters away from an entertainment carnival. Shrapnel falls in the middle of the joyous circle. The boys flee in terror. He calls out One of the young men told everyone: “Are we afraid of bombing?”
The transcendent wheat is shouted on the sickle with one voice: no

My photography 😊

Journalist Youssef Fares - #Gaza

HOW, just HOW can we ignore such crime to go on?

#Children #Trauma #Clowns #Genocide #SaveGaza #SaveTheChildren #StopIsrael #CeasfireNow #PeaceNow

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kcemorg@diaspora-fr.org
L'intrus

Ça fout la trouille...

TotalEnergies a 100 ans : grimĂ©s en clowns, des militants d’Extinction Rebellion mĂšnent des actions dans toute la France

Quelle drĂŽle d’idee... Si j’apercevais une chose pareille, je fuirais en courant et cauchemarderais durant des jours. Rien que lĂ , dĂ©jĂ , juste la photo, je sens que je vais avoir du mal Ă  m’en remettre... Comme quoi j’avais raison de me mĂ©fier de ER dĂšs le dĂ©part... Mais bon, que peut on espĂ©rer d’un mouvement de parents (si, si. Ça se voit.)

#Total #Clowns #ExtinctionRebellion

TotalEnergies a 100 ans : grimés en clowns, des militants dñ€™Extinction Rebellion mÚnent des actions dans toute la France

A lñ€™occasion de lñ€™anniversaire du groupe pétrolier, une soixantaine de militants déguisés en clown sont entrés ce samedi 23 mars dans la raffinerie de Donges. Des actions ont également lieu à La Défense ou Clermont-Ferrand.

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part_of_you@diaspora.psyco.fr
part_of_you

Chez les #clowns đŸ€Ą de la #macronie, qui ne font pas de #politique mais de la #pipolitique

đŸ‡·đŸ‡ș | « La #Russie va mal, elle veut nous persuader du contraire (...) ses Ă©lites fuient, ses investissements s'effondrent, nos Ă©conomies đŸ‡ȘđŸ‡ș sont beaucoup plus puissantes » affirme StĂ©phane #SĂ©journĂ© aux #QAG

https://t.me/GerardFoucherInfo/1982
#économie #désinformation #propagande #Russie #macron #Séjourné

GĂ©rard Foucher Public Channel

đŸ‡«đŸ‡· đŸ‡·đŸ‡ș | « La #Russie va mal, elle veut nous persuader du contraire (...) ses Ă©lites fuient, ses investissements s'effondrent, nos Ă©conomies đŸ‡ȘđŸ‡ș sont beaucoup plus puissantes » affirme StĂ©phane SĂ©journĂ© aux #QAG

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docnederlands@diaspora.psyco.fr
docnederlands

George Stanislaus van Herwaarde, Collectie Pierrot(s) met scepter, hond en viool
👉 Collectie Pierrot(s) met scepter, hond en viool [full size image]

Entrer une description pour l'image ici Leer Nederlands ! / Learn Dutch ! / Apprenez le nĂ©erlandais ! / Lernen Sie NiederlĂ€ndisch ! / Imparate l’olandese !

Gezichtsuitdrukkingen

facial expressions / expressions du visage / GesichtsausdrĂŒcke / espressioni del viso

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  • blij : happy, joyful / heureux, joyeux, trĂšs content / froh / felice, molto contento
  • rustig : quiet, calm / tranquille, calme / ruhig / tranquillo, calmo
  • guitig : mischievous / espiĂšgle, polisson / schelmisch, spitzbĂŒbisch, schalkhaft / furbo, birichino, discolo
  • verlegen (= schuchter) : shy / timide / verlegen, schĂŒchtern / timido
  • doodmoe : exhausted / mort de fatigue, Ă©puisĂ© / todmĂŒde / stanco morto, esausto
  • wantrouwend : suspicious / mĂ©fiant / misstrauisch / diffidente, sospettoso
  • depressief (= gedeprimeerd) : depressed / dĂ©pressif, dĂ©primĂ© / depressiv, deprimiert / depresso
  • zelfverzekerd : confident / sĂ»r de soi / selbstsicher / sicuro di sĂ©
  • optimistisch : optimistic / optimiste / optimistisch / ottimista
  • woedend : furious / furieux / wĂŒtend / furioso
  • bang : afraid / peureux, apeurĂ© / Ă€ngstlich, verĂ€ngstigt / impaurito, pauroso
  • jaloers : jealous / jaloux / neidisch, eifersĂŒchtig / geloso
  • schuw : timid, timorous / craintif, peureux / scheu / pauroso, timoroso
  • hoopvol : hopeful / plein d'espoir / hoffnungsvoll / speranzoso
  • geschokt (= geshockeerd, gechoqueerd) : shocked / choquĂ© / schockiert, geschockt / scioccato
  • schuldig : guilty / coupable / schuldig / colpevole.
  • verdrietig (= treurig, bedroefd, droevig, triest) : sad, sorrowful / triste / traurig, betrĂŒbt / triste
  • gelukkig : happy / heureux / glĂŒcklich / felice
  • boos (= kwaad) : angry / fĂąchĂ© / böse / arrabbiato
  • misselijk : disgusted, queasy / nausĂ©eux, Ă©coeurĂ©, dĂ©goĂ»tĂ© / [jdm ist von etwas] ĂŒbel,[jdm ist von etwas] schlecht, angeekelt, angewidert / nauseato, disgustato

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George Stanislaus van Herwaarde, Collectie Pierrot(s) met scepter, hond en viool
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George Stanislaus van Herwaarde, Collectie Pierrot(s) met scepter, hond en viool
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George Stanislaus van Herwaarde (1938 - 2011)
- Nederlandse modefotograaf en schilder
- Photographe de mode et peintre néerlandais
- Dutch fashion photographer and painter
- NiederlÀndischer Modefotograf und Maler
- Fotografo di moda e pittore olandese

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George Stanislaus van Herwaarde, Pierrot met papegaai
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George Stanislaus van Herwaarde, Pierrot with violin
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George Stanislaus van Herwaarde, Clown met hond en accordeon
👉 Clown met hond en accordeon [full size image]

COLLECTIES : #woordenschat_docnederlands #schilderijen_docnl
#nederlands #dutch #nĂ©erlandais #hollandais #niederlĂ€ndisch #olandese #neerlandĂ©s #woordenschat #vocabulary #vocabulaire #wortschatz #vokabular #vocabolario #vocabulario #leren #learn #learning #apprendre #apprentissage #lernen #imparare #apprendimento #aprender #taal #talen #language #languages #langue #langues #sprache #sprachen #lingua #lingue #lenguas #nt2 #opleiding #educatie #education #Ă©ducation #bildung #schulung #educazione #engels #english #frans #français #duits #deutsch #italiaans #italiano #woorden #words #mots #wörter #parole #gezichtsuitdrukkingen #facial_expressions #expressions_du_visage #gesichtsausdrĂŒcke #espressioni_del_viso #gevoelens #sentiments #feelings #gefĂŒhle #sentimenti #schilder #schilders #schilderij #schilderijen #schilderkunst #peintre #peintres #peinture #peintures #painter #painters #painting #paintings #maler #gemĂ€lde #malerei #pittore #pittori #pittura #pintor #art #kunst #arte #george_van_herwaarde #clown #clowns

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