Rob York

Well, what you've got to understand about this operation is ...

Chinese nationals fighting for Russia in Ukraine are mercenaries-US officials More than one hundred Chinese citizens fighting for the Russian military against Ukraine are mercenaries who do not appear to have a direct link to China's government, two U.S. officials familiar with American intelligence and a former Western intelligence official said.

Chinese military officers have been in the theater behind Russia's combat lines "with Beijing's approval to draw tactical lessons from the war," reports Reuters. Pales in comparison to U.S. military coordination with Kyiv, but still a strand in the war's wider web.

www.reuters.com/world/chines...

Maybe the court decision was delayed so they could be more thorough. Because I read it and ... yeah. They disassembled Yoon.

Lee Jae-myung's presidency is going to be bitter medicine but sometimes that's necessary.

Quick translated version of Constitutional Court's decision to uphold President Yoon's impeachment today.

There will be a presidential election in 60 days, on June 3.

Source: n.news.naver.com/article/366/...

Right. I suppose they should ask themselves what led Yoon to believe that was a viable option.

South Korea will be focal point of liberal American envy for the foreseeable future.

Damn.

This is a development that will crush Donald Trump's most fervent supporters in Korea, but Lee is actually more aligned with the POTUS on several issues, North Korea included.

Yoon Suk Yeol is officially an ex-president and now an election must take place – one that will likely result in Lee Jae-myung succeeding him.

8-0. Coups are, in fact, illegal.

Congrats President Lee Jae-myung, I guess.

Given the lead in comments from the Chief Justice, seems increasingly likely that Yoon impeachment will be upheld.

Sure sounds like Yoon is screwed.

I just looked up Sky Daily. Guess it's the Korean OANN.

I'm sorry ... what?

His evidence for the imminence and severity of the threat was also terrible -- and I say this as someone who thinks PRC FIMI operations in Korea need to be taken far more seriously.

With everything that's already happening, we're just waiting for the #ConstitutionalCourt of #Korea to tell us whether a #coup is actually illegal.

Schwarzenegger winning seemed like the most embarrassing thing that would ever happen in politics at the time and now he’s to the left of every elected Republican and a few Democrats and just makes videos going “young men, my fadda was a Nazi and he was a contemptible loosah”

I'm sure he has. He's very smart.

But given how often he rants about "globalists" these days I'm pretty sure he doesn't share our priorities.

With all that's going on in the world, BR Myers is doing vlogs about how "woke" college students in the West have an inferior grasp of classical literature and proper English to the North Korean leadership. Let me know if and when he discovers the plot again.

brmyers.substack.com/p/kim-jong-i...

Haley Britzky @halbritz AFRICOM commander Gen. Langley tells senators that China is "trying to replicate" USAID programs in Africa as the US scales back USAID. "They're trying to use that as an extension of the Belt and Road Initiative to gain favor by the African countries," Langley said.

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen

It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world

It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

“Media studies” was an endlessly mocked class in the UK press when I was a teenager, and it turns out probably the most vital class you could take.

South Korea's acting president calls for talks with US over tariffs South Korea's acting President Han Duck-soo called on Thursday for talks with U.S. officials to shield the export-reliant economy from the impact of U.S. tariffs and ordered emergency support measures for businesses.

Not a great time for leadership uncertainty.

www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

With Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence, the “5 eyes” agreement will get a 6th eye.

Opinion | Migration Is Remaking Our World, and We Don’t Understand It at All Migration is central to our politics and our world, but nobody really understands it.

“The surge of people trying to reach Europe, the United States, Britain, Canada and Australia has set off a broad panic, reshaping the political landscape,” the columnist @polgreen.bsky.social writes. “Yet despite migration’s centrality to our politics and our world, nobody really understands it.”

WAP (1980s DC hardcore)

Ruling party rebounds: Support ratings surge back to precrisis levels Recent polls showed support ratings for the ruling party have recovered to what they were before martial law, with one indicating that the party has narrowed the gap with the main opposition party to ...

I wonder how much of this is because the 민주당 wasn't content to impeach Yoon and demanded the head of Han Duck-soo. Either way, I would still favor Lee Jae-myung if an election against Oh Se-hoon took place tomorrow but it won't be an overwhelming mandate.

www.koreaherald.com/article/1038...

Opinion | The hidden danger of Trump’s tough trade tactics Trump’s tariff threats to bully countries into helping achieve his political goals may create a backlash like the one that propelled him to power.

Wrote this Sunday night, which honestly feels like weeks ago.

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