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Backseat Driver

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1. Wow, any USA official position except for a general okay on NGO aid?
Sun Oct 16, 2022, 03:15 PM
Oct 2022

Reading the wiki (Haile Selassie I era (1916–1974...) it seems a real mess of pressing 20th century ideologies pre- and post WWs, not least of which was/is both Mussolini's fascist Italian and Russian/Soviet/Putin's (yeah, all roads lead to...) oligarchical policies in this part of the African continent. What's the chance that long-game playing China stands in the mix of world powers as well as Christofascists and fossil-fuel barons extending their influence over military might and resources here now? Damn, I know we can't always serve as the world's police; however, with our support of Ukraine, I really had not been paying attention to this latest, dare I say, skirmish, molehill to mountainous, all out war and possible starvational genocide - is it racsist, similar to anti-semetic Nazism, willingness to wait out an African continental reduction of several million in the global population - gad, now something else to trigger a flare of SMH...

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Wow, any USA official position except for a general okay on NGO aid? Backseat Driver Oct 2022 #1
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