World Politics

Leaders of the countries of the world and global issues.

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: Russia plans to invade Poland

37 million Poles want to know.

T/F: Russia intends to invade Europe

Request: World War 3 [?]

European Union Parliament

"The Members of the European Parliament are directly elected by voters in all Member States to represent people’s interests with regard to EU law-making and to make sure other EU institutions are working democratically."

lethal injection (justice system)

Request: a comprehensive action greater than 200 in intention?

communism

"political and economic doctrine that aims to replace private property and a profit-based economy with public ownership and communal control of at least the major means of production (e.g., mines, mills, and factories) and the natural resources of a society" -- britannica.com.

free speech in 2024

"Notable is that the calibration of current ‘free speech’ [2008] in the United States is at level 180, whereas free speech during the World War II era calibrates at 255" – RS&MM, chapter 6.

Big stick ideology

"As practiced by [Theodore] Roosevelt, big stick diplomacy had five components: possess serious military capability, act justly toward other nations, never to bluff, to strike only when prepared to strike hard, and to be willing to allow the adversary to save face in defeat" -- wikipedia.

Fidias Panayiotou

Priority request. "a Cypriot politician and YouTuber who was elected as an independent MEP in the 2024 European Parliament election" -- wikipedia.

Viktor Orban

Prime Minister of Hungary keeps out "NGOs financed by George Soros, has a notoriously anti-woke attitude, neutrality in the R-U war, didn't accept the EU's plan to let migrants through the Hungarian border etc." -- request.

Viktor Orban's July 27, 2024 lecture

Request: Struggling to discern if this is anti-West propaganda or an accurate analysis of the global situation today.