A week of modern politics in a nutshell

[Hekazi]

US is set to impose tariffs following WTO ruling on $7.5 billion (€6.8 billion) worth of European imports for aiding Airbus become a global competitor which hurts its American rival Boeing and thus American interests,
the EU is willing to retaliate and apply sanctions but it prefers a negotiated settlement.

US military troops pull out of Northern Syria abandoning Kurdish allies, "they didn't help us in WW2, didn't help us in D-DAY, they were paid massive money for their service" -Trump
a move that was criticized by some analysts who warn it will create a vacuum to be filled by powers that don’t share Israel’s interests.
The Kurdish forces fought alongside the US against the Islamic State for nearly five years, losing roughly 11,000 fighters.
Trump said he learned that the Kurds didn’t help in Normandy from a “very, very powerful article”.

Turkey invades Syria and begins shelling exposed Kurdish SDF positions.

Israel condemns Turkey's actions and is gonna support the Kurdish forces with humanitarian aid.

Israel may have 300 nuclear weapons including submarine-launched missiles.

As US pulls out of Syria, Netanyahu insists Israel can defend itself on its own.

Fleeing Kurds free ISIS prisoners in Syria promising they will go after America.

Trump not worried about ISIS fighters because "they will be escaping to Europe".

Trump defends diplomat's fleeing wife after the death of a British teen, "it happens", turns down Boris Johnson's request to waive diplomatic immunity.

Trump admits US killed millions in wars based on lies.

Germany, France, Britain to condemn Turkish offensive of Syria.

Erdoğan threatens to flood EU with 3.6 million refugees if it calls Turkish operations "invasion".

About 2,200 people watched the German synagogue shooting on Amazon's Twitch, gunman apologizes every time his homemade rifle failed to kill someone.

Civil unrest at Ecuador's capital as thousands join anti-government rallies calling for the repeal of austerity measures, 2 dead, dozens injured and hundreds detained over a government loan with the IMF.

A Russian sloppy assassination squad "Unit 29155" "has proven they can get to anyone" yet were immediately noticed in the West is believed to be a troll move by Moscow.

Hong Kong's violent protests sees rise in violent mobs and chaotic riots amid the surfacing of an old US-Hong Kong Policy Act signed in 1992 prior to the Sino-British joint declaration and the British handover of HK. The one sided policy states the support to the establishment of a genuine democracy in HK and to secure US sphere of influence in the region.
Today the US is viewed promoting separatism by granting visa to people that participate in the protests and are backing, with the NED, anti government activists that have been spotted meeting with high US officials as early as 2014 in an an aim to democratize and substitute HK's Basic Law with their own to protect US intelligence agents stationed in HK and keep it a jurisdiction haven from mainland China.

China's destruction of Uighur burial grounds.

Nestlé, Tim Hortons top plastic polluters, again.

Netherlands passes motion to support Taiwan's participation in international organizations and urges other European Union member states to do the same.

Outcry calling for Blizzard boycott following their decision to ban a Hearthstone player with the nickname Blitzkrieg.

NBA partners in China have cut ties with the league following anti-government involvement.
NBA fan raises 43K in less than 48 hours to support Hong Kong protesters at season opener in LA.

Huawei's 5G dominance should be challenged, and why the EU and the US wants to freeze Huawei, In a highly-charged report, released on October 9, the EU warns that the combination of new technologies and 5G networks introduces a risk of hostile state control of critical infrastructure, logistics, transportation and even law enforcement. The document “doesn’t name China or Huawei, but it paves the way for regulatory measures such as restricting an over reliance on telecom equipment from a single supplier, especially if the latter is based in a country with poor democratic standards.” For which you can clearly read Huawei and China.

Japan-SK trade war escalating.

North Korea threatens to resume nuclear tests after nuclear negotiations with the US in Sweden.

PG&E's intentional power outage in California will be affecting almost 800.000 households in hopes to avoid wildfire.

Brexit: EU citizens who miss registration deadline face deportation.

A footage in Mexico shows a mayor tied to the back of a pickup truck and dragged through the streets.

Oil contamination on Brazilian beaches "very likely from Venezuela".

In its fight with Venezuela, the Trump administration takes aim at Cuba.

Arizona official runs a human smuggling business in which he brings women from the Marshall Islands to bring birth in the US then places their babies for adoption to US parents and charges $40,000 per adoption. He stands accused of selling 29 babies.

[Ivanstone]

You forgot the one about a Republican official in Arizona running a human trafficking operation.

[Hekazi]

You forgot the one about a Republican official in Arizona running a human trafficking operation.

Thank you, I added it.
Nothing is really surprising at this point.

[Ivanstone]

Thank you, I added it.
Nothing is really surprising at this point.

Splinter News shut down. A small player but where I'm I supposed to get my strident, socialist rantings from now? I need cheep mockery of hedge fund managers inability to outperform index stocks and bonds to come from some place.

[Gaidax]

Trump not worried about ISIS fighters because "they will be escaping to Europe".

He really said/wrote that? Haha, man, the guy is pure gold. If Trump did not exist, we should have made one just for the shit like that.

[Edge-]

He really said/wrote that? Haha, man, the guy is pure gold. If Trump did not exist, we should have made one just for the shit like that.

Yes. If they escape the prisons they'll go to Europe, and as America that's not our problem.

He said it during one of his usual unhinged press conferences, I think this was after he defended abandoning the Kurds because "they didn't fight with us in WWII, they didn't fight at Normandy" (paraphrased). He said that too.

[Gaidax]

Hilarious. If someone would just make a book of all the shit he said, it would be a comedy gold bestseller.

[Edge-]

Hilarious. If someone would just make a book of all the shit he said, it would be a comedy gold bestseller.

I don't think there are any copy editors that would be able to work on that book, they'd all have nervous breakdowns in the first few chapters trying to understand what were actual spelling/grammatical/structural mistakes and what was actually what Trump said/wrote.

[Somewhatconcerned]

What a time to be alive.

[Santti]

I don't think there are any copy editors that would be able to work on that book, they'd all have nervous breakdowns in the first few chapters trying to understand what were actual spelling/grammatical/structural mistakes and what was actually what Trump said/wrote.

Nah, I'm sure there would some people that would be interested. Like Egyptologists trying to translate hieroglyphs. A Trumpologist! A modern take on archaeology.

[Calfredd]

Nah, I'm sure there would some people that would be interested. Like Egyptologists trying to translate hieroglyphs. A Trumpologist! A modern take on archaeology.

Maybe they can finally tell us what covfefe is.

[Fincayra]

US military troops pull out of Northern Syria abandoning Kurdish allies, "they didn't help us in WW2, didn't help us in D-DAY, they were paid massive money for their service" -Trump

What was our excuse for fucking over the kurds the first time?

[Powerogue]

"a move that was criticized by some analysts who warn it will create a vacuum to be filled by powers that don’t share Israel’s interests."

Business as usual, apparently!

"Fleeing Kurds free ISIS prisoners in Syria promising they will go after America.
Trump not worried about ISIS fighters because "they will be escaping to Europe o_O""

Whoop, nevermind. Why shoot for creating one enemy in a foreign country when you can have two?

Truth is stranger than fiction. Good grief.

[Azadina]

Trump not worried about ISIS fighters because "they will be escaping to Europe".

....

Well, I'll just say, that his callous disregard for allies went far enough this time. Just a jail cell won't suffice as his fate no more.

[draynay]

Maybe they can finally tell us what covfefe is.

The name of the book of course.

[Z-Man]

What was our excuse for fucking over the kurds the first time?

They didn't help us in World War One.

[GreenJesus]

It's pretty obvious Trump has no idea what the fuck he is even doing, where he is, what his name is, or what time it is.

[Hekazi]

They didn't help us in World War One.

didn't help fight the British colonialists too in the American civil war.