World Politics

Leaders of the countries of the world and global issues.

Thinking in Systems: A Primer, by Donella H. Meadows

Priority request. "Some of the biggest problems facing the world—war, hunger, poverty, and environmental degradation—are essentially system failures. They cannot be solved by fixing one piece in isolation from the others" -- amazon.

nepotism

Priority request. "granting an advantage, privilege, or position to relatives or friends in an occupation or field – for instance business, politics, academia, entertainment, religion or health care. In concept it is similar to cronyism" -- wikipedia.

What is the ideal calibration for a Head of State?

Spoiler alert: our nations' leaders are nowhere close to the ideal.

Claudia Sheinbaum

Mexican politician, scientist, and academic who has served as the 66th president of Mexico since October 1, 2024, the first woman to hold the office -- wikipedia.

dictator

a ruler who is unconstrained by law; a person who behaves in a tyrannical manner -- vocabulary.com.

Bashar al-Assad

Syrian politician and military officer who served as the 19th president of Syria from 2000 until his government was overthrown in 2024 -- wikipedia.

Abu Mohammad al-Julani

Request: Leader [of] the rebel group that took power in Syria. He tries to look more moderate. Is he a improvement on Assad? Or just another dictator?

2024 Romanian presidential candidates

Presidential elections were held in Romania on 24 November 2024. A second round will be held on 8 December 2024, as no candidate achieved an absolute majority in the first round -- wikipedia. Călin Georgescu and Elena Lasconi are the remaining candidates.

ICC arrest warrant for Israel's Netanyahu

Alleging war crimes, International Criminal Court judges issued arrest warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and former defence minister Yoav Gallant last week -- BBC.

globalism

"treating the whole world as a proper sphere for political influence" -- Merriam-Webster.

Vicente Fox

Request: a Mexican businessman and politician who was president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006. Was said to be calibrating around 560 in one of Doc’s early 2002 lectures.

pacifist

Priority request: A pacifist rejects war and believes there are no moral grounds which can justify resorting to war. War, for the pacifist, is always wrong. In a sense the philosophy is based on the idea that the ends do not justify the means. The word pacific denotes conciliatory -- wikipedia.

T/F: WWIII has already begun (November 2024 update)

Calibrations dating back to August 2022.

T/F: Russia plans to invade Poland

37 million Poles want to know.

T/F: Russia intends to invade Europe

Request: World War 3 [?]