@evalax
PhD researcher focusing on hydropolitics 💧 unpacking expert discourses, colonialities, and agency in West African water governance 🌍 while grappling with ethics, positionality, and reflexivity quandaries 💭 (views my own)
The very idea of the "target" has been rendered meaningless in the post-Gaza world. Targets are no longer encountered or searched, they are manufactured, industrially, digitally, with AI, as a means to hide the carpet bombing of civilians in war.
Several hours in, and all that’s trending here is SNL and Star Trek. Not a word about Khamenei, murdered schoolgirls, or the start of Gulf War III. Really makes you wonder about this platform.
Major outlets covering this as a "mass casualty event" instead of a war crime is beyond jarring. After their chronic failures to report on atrocities in Gaza, Sudan, and elsewhere, it’s hard to have any faith in print journalism.
Anyone else seeing totally random and irrelevant stuff trending on their Explore tab? A literal regional war is breaking out in the Middle East, and all I’m seeing is sports and entertainment news. Is this by design?
The Board of Peace has wasted no time starting its first war.
Another diversionary war of aggression by a weakened rogue state and backed by a clicktatorship desperate for a rally ‘round the flag effect to stem the deepening unpopularity of a senile tyrant before the midterms. War is peace, right?
The very “mainstream media” that Trump has spent years ruthlessly attacking has now become a pliant, subservient arm of the administration, adopting its language to carry water and give the White House room to get away with murder.
Welcome to 2026 where imperialism is alive and kicking.
L'an passé je publiais ce livre sur l'énergie, le climat et la géopolitique.
Conclusion : la relative stabilité post-1945 reposait sur les énergies fossiles, et la crise climatique fait exploser cette paix de carbone en fragmentant l'espace mondial.
Maduro’s capture strikes me as the clearest and most decisive step toward a neocolonial dispossession of Venezuelan energy resources. The so-called Trump “corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine is just a cheap attempt to rationalise such a project for the region and beyond. (8/10)
My take is that there was never going to be a legal justification because the real objective of the operation itself is indefensible. If this was all about restoring U.S. access to these reserves, then there’s no real way to make that strategic goal palatable for the public. (7/10)
The only path even remotely approaching legality would have required an arrest warrant from the ICC, an institution the U.S. has spent years undermining and refusing to recognise. As Trump’s attacks on the ICC continued to escalate, this was never really a possibility. (6/10)
Critiques resting on the lack of UN approval also ring hollow. Russia and China would have *never* authorised a U.S. intervention of the sort. Past cases like Libya show how UN mandates can be weaponised for regime change with incalculable human costs for the broader region. (5/10)
Trump today acknowledged the true objective: securing access to Venezuela’s oil reserves. It’s not a departure from U.S. policy, but a continuation of long-standing imperial designs for controlling strategic resources in Latin America through extractivism and dispossession. (4/10)
By that same logic, Russia would only need the Duma to justify and expand its irredentist war in Eastern Europe, and the PRC would only need the National People’s Congress to act on Taiwan. Legislative cover does not make aggression or conquest lawful or acceptable. (3/10)
The outrage over bypassing Congress strikes me as rather performative. Procedural compliance does not confer legitimacy. Empires have long used legislative cover to rationalise their conquests. Congressional concurrence would have not made the operation defensible. (2/10)
Even if the U.S. Congress had authorised force, strikes on Caracas or the capture of a foreign leader (and his wife) would still have been illegal. At best, it would make unilateral aggression appear compliant, but it changes nothing about the lawlessness of the act. (1/10)
On a beaucoup commenté la nouvelle stratégie de sécurité nationale américaine.
Retour à la doctrine Monroe, défense de l'aire d'influence continentale, rivalité affirmée avec l'UE : c'est la fin des bénéfices partagés de l'intégration économique, on le savait.
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2025/12/0...
A literal wake-up call for Europe: the old alliance is over. Efforts to align the White House with the Kremlin’s strategy to destabilise the EU have now fully crystallised as policy. This guidance will likely change how U.S. embassies and CIA stations operate in the region.
Defacing the stolen headquarters of a congressionally mandated institution shows one thing: the regime loyalists will stop at nothing to appease their vain, petty tyrant. Try as they may, he will never go down in history as a peacemaker.
Still trying to process that my country might be invaded in a ‘wag the dog’ operation, bearing a thinly veiled juvenile phallic joke for a name. All to distract the U.S. public from the unseemly scandals plaguing the offender-in-chief.
Areas of the globe that were part of the British Empire. Current Overseas Territories in red. Mandates and protected states in lighter shade. From Wikipedia.
Some call it mass uncontrolled migration. Others call it the British empire.
If the Trump administration’s goal in Venezuela is to secure U.S. interests, it would be wiser for Washington “to return to the negotiating table than to gamble on the chaos that regime change would unleash,” argue Alexander Downes and Lindsey O’Rourke.
If you keep working hard at the art and craft of academic writing it can become a super power. So speaks a boy who barely passed English in school, still cant spell well and knows nothing of grammar beyond feel. Dont let AI close down your ability to become a great writer.
Take a deep breath. Exhale. Repeat.
Decolonisation and knowledges of decolonisation produced outside academia supersede the fraction of knowledge pooled in by academia on the topic. This realisation, not a hindrance in the labour of epistemic decolonisation, invites us to engage other formations of knowledge.
Saying climate change won’t spell the end of “humanity” embraces the deeply uneven geographies of vulnerability. By centring the resilience of industrialised nations, it disavows the disposability of others. We must resist these efforts to normalise climate necropolitics.
The U.S. has moved a destroyer to Trinidad and Tobago for an apparently unscheduled exercise just a few kilometres off Venezuela’s coast. I’m no military expert, but doesn’t it seem like a rather convenient target if a covert false-flag operation were underway? 🤷🏻♂️
Maybe the changes coming to the bad place will help convince a critical mass of folks from the Global South to come over and mix things up. It’s a nice platform and space, but the user base here is still missing the mark when it comes to regional diversity.
I do wonder if we’ll ever be able to customise the trending topics here. It’s getting rather tiresome being stuck with endless sports and gaming “news” while the world collapses.