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Shortly after the on-camera shouting match, Trump said the deal was off and posted: “He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office. He can come back when he is ready for Peace.”
Such is the standard of political debate that something as unremarkable as this latest sea incident has become a throbbing issue that supposedly shows the Albanese government as insufficiently belligerent.
The use of the island to deal with immigrants has been a blighted practice undertaken by US administrations since the 1970s. The Trump administration’s waspish approach to unwanted immigrants replicates the pattern of deterrence and demonisation.
Clearly it isn’t just right-wing extremists that threaten the world. The left has lost its mind as well. There is no such fucking thing as national security, and the more political, media and academic leaders adhere to it, the more insecure they help make us all.
The iconic Norwegian emergency medicine doctor, Mads Gilbert, is fighting to decolonize the concept of solidarity in medicine—and, by extension, western solidarity as a whole. Since the start of the war, he has remained one of the most tireless voices in exposing the Israeli genocide in the Strip.
Allegedly, the defence environment has changed, and New Zealand thus needs to spend significantly more on Defence.
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