The New Coffee Room

@taiwan_girl Situation in Ruanda is pretty stable. Situation in Eastern Congo however is very volatile: president Tsishekedi tried to eliminate his predecessor Kabila, bit killed a French national who worked for the UN. The drone used during the attack appears to be US-made...

@Renauda And expensive as well

BTW, Ruanda never was on the shithole list.

@Axtremus Rwanda is not really on speaking terms with the USA for the moment.
Trump badly wants the minerals that up till now were going to Ruanda so he literally menaced president Kagame of Ruanda under the pretence that Ruanda doesn't stick to the peace deal that he brokered recently.
Pretty complicated situation because China is/was still involved in that region.

@taiwan_girl Never had safety issues.
We were just asked once to stop taking pictures of Lake Kivu near the border with Congo (Bukavu).
Probably because there just had been serious fights during previous days between M23 and other factions.

We were there twice in 2025. Beautiful country.
Clean, good mainroads, decent hotels and b&b's.
Will be going back in september.

@Mik Jesus ??? LOL

Apparently Trump wants the Kurds to start an insurrection.
How many times haven't the USA stabbed them in the back for the last 20 years?

Up till now Iran hasn't used its most sophisticated weapons.
Wonder why...

Trump. Demented creep. X2.
LOL

@Mik Damn, I just exposed myself

When my parents started in 1958 they could raise 4 kids on one income. When I started in 1985 we could raise two kids on two salaries.
In 2025 my kids can barely raise one kid on two salaries.
And then politicians want young people to have more kids.
Ain't gonna happen.

@89th This wasn't basically a protest move. It is a deliberate strategy of undermining political stability.
If you don't get that you're willingly blind.

@Mik Well, we didn't vote for this shit show, but we are facing the consequences.

@Renauda France will not do that. Neither will Belgium as the consequences might be too obnoxious.
But this is definitely a US strategy: causing havoc by pertinently lying about and interfering with local politics in Europe.
Trumpty-Dumpty and Shite (US ambassador in Belgium) are exponents of sheer stupidity and arrogance.

@Horace Poor you. It's Greenlandic

The claim that Kazakhstan tried something on Trump in 2017 was -at least for me- a new element.

And again: the Trump 'kompromat'. Si non e vero, e bene trovato.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/69648

Interesting article on Sino-Russian relation:

https://www.saratoga-foundation.org/p/kitaizatsiya-china-in-russia-newsletter-082

There's this story about using hyalonacid to make their crotch more voluminous. So the suits need to be adapted resulting in jumping larger distances.