Quote (Hamsterbaby @ Sep 3 2023 09:52am)
They should invite more people like Caitlyn Jenner and James Charles to receive Nobel Peace Prizes.
why?
i dont know James Charles but Caitlyn Jenner's life story is inspiring.
also a minor footnote (well, not so minor) ~
Sept 3 (Reuters) - Japan's "militarisation" complicates the situation in the Asia-Pacific region, the deputy chair of the Russian Security Council and former President Dmitry Medvedev said on Sunday. Russia and Japan have complex relations marked by decades of territorial dispute over a handful of small, Russian-held islands off Hokkaido that Moscow calls the southern Kurils but Japan claims as its Northern Territories. The dispute over the area, which the Soviet Union seized in the final days of World War Two, has prevented Tokyo and Moscow from reaching a peace treaty formally ending hostilities.
"It is regrettable that the Japanese authorities are pursuing a course towards a new militarisation of the country," the Russian TASS news agency quoted Medvedev as saying.
"Troop exercises are taking place near the Kuril Islands, which seriously complicates the situation in the Asia-Pacific region."
Japan's foreign ministry and Prime Minister's Office could not immediately be reached for comment outside business hours. Russia decided this year to declare Sept. 3 - the day after Japan's surrender in World War Two - a "Day of Victory over Militaristic Japan", spurring a protest from Tokyo. Medvedev said Japan, with help from the United States, was expanding its military infrastructure and increasing its arms purchases. Japan's defence ministry on Thursday sought a record $53 billion in next fiscal year's budget, part of its biggest military buildup since World War Two, aiming to double defence spending to 2% of gross domestic product by 2027, citing an increasingly assertive China and an unpredictable North Korea.
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alluding to the rapid buildup of the japanese army that I had previously outlined.
some more:
(also Reuters) - Some 280,000 people have signed up so far this year for professional service with Russia's military, the deputy chair of the Russian Security Council, former President Dmitry Medvedev, said on Sunday.
and finally:
KYIV, Sept 1 (Reuters) - A senior Ukrainian official said on Friday that drone strikes on Russian soil were set to increase and that recent such attacks showed that the war in Ukraine was gradually shifting to Russia.
In an interview, presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak also ruled out peace talks for now, saying any negotiations would amount to "capitulation" on the part of Ukraine and the democracies that support it. Ukraine had ramped up its strikes on occupied areas, and attacks inside Russia itself would also increase, carried out by "agents" or "partisans", Podolyak said.
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What baffles me is how the BBC can point at Russia refusing to negotiate / diplomacy when Ukraine and the US have repeatedly said that now is not the time for diplomacy / negotiation / peace. How anyone can believe a word out of the BBC or our collective media, on this point, is baffling.
This post was edited by ferdia on Sep 3 2023 03:12am