And where is this supposed war supposed to occur?

Mission accomplished

A month ago, Colombia’s first left-wing President Gustavo Petro dismayed many of his supporters by committing to strengthen Colombia’s cooperation with NATO in areas such as climate change, human rights, integrity building and cyber defence

Not just military.

Thanks, will give it a read

fungus does not effect healthy people apart from ringworm and other topical things.

But it’s getting warmer

Which may make more of them able to survive in humans, as per the article, which I quoted?

Compounding the problem, research shows, is that rising temperatures appear to have expanded the geographical range of some deadly fungal pathogens, and possibly made them better adapted to human hosts.

The Kursk disaster also garnered world wide attention

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kursk_submarine_disaster

Dead people don’t pay premiums

Medical experts say one reason for the surge is that more people have compromised immune systems, including cancer patients and those taking medicines after organ transplants. Compounding the problem, research shows, is that rising temperatures appear to have expanded the geographical range of some deadly fungal pathogens, and possibly made them better adapted to human hosts.

Literally the last of us

That’s literally what whataboutism is

The major contributing factors in the famine were the policies of the Great Leap Forward (1958 to 1962) and people’s communes, launched by Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Mao Zedong, such as inefficient distribution of food within the nation’s planned economy; requiring the use of poor agricultural techniques; the Four Pests campaign that reduced sparrow populations (which disrupted the ecosystem); over-reporting of grain production; and ordering millions of farmers to switch to iron and steel production

Central planning literally made it worse.

And locking up political enemies is pretty authoritarian…

Authorities often label independent or investigative coverage as “fake news”.[2] Since Xi Jinping became the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2012, various commentators, protesters, feminists, lawyers, journalists, and activists have been arrested, detained, jailed, and threatened for attempting to exercise press freedom.[3][4] As of 2023, Reporters Without Borders called China “the world’s largest jailer of journalists.”[

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_the_press_in_China

and simply by the political system both countries have it’s impossible for China to surpass Russia since capitalism isn’t as efficient;

China has already surpassed Russia in pretty much all measures inc:

China GDP 17T Russia GDP 1.7T

https://data.worldbank.org/?locations=CN-RU

the only reason why the US and other European countries have so much wealth is because of the historical imperialistic and colonial policies, while China achieved all that simply through centralised planning

They also killed millions with central planning,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

and have now become a market autocracy, not communist.

China is an old country, they’ve had plenty of imperialistic and colonial habits and still do, have you heard of the Hui?

https://thediplomat.com/2021/06/chinas-repression-of-the-hui-a-slow-boil/

That’s one way to spin losing access to the two largest, richest markets in the world. It did not end up well for them the last time the iron curtains were drawn

I’m not sure being dependent on China is good for Russia either They’re basically now just the mining and resource supplier with no competition to up whatever price China wants to pay them.

I’m not sure the active and hot sort options are working as intended

The same posts are at the top from 7 days ago for me

Sorting by new is ok at the moment due to the lower number of posts

I always doubt headlines with % in and no numbers

Bilateral trade is on track to reach $200 billion

That’s not a lot.

“Nothing of the sort has been implemented but there are discussions so that we can trade in local currencies of countries like India, Russia or China,” Egyptian Supply Minister Ali Moselhy was quoted as saying by Reuters

Lol, not quite what the headline sensationally implies

Ah, thanks. Someone else told me I could click three dots and I couldn’t see one other than in the messages thread which doesn’t do it either.

Edit. Oops, that other post is mine as well, my arthritis edibles have kicked in :)-

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