In recent years, diplomacy has become a lost art in the Western Empire and its surrogates.

Alert onlookers will have noticed that their “diplomats” are now in fact anti-diplomats. They interpret their work as being to make threats and issue rude remarks.

The pioneers of this

“Very soon, the only topic at any international meeting on Ukraine will be unconditional surrender of Kiev regime. I advise you all to prepare for this in advance.”

－ Russian UN ambassador Vasily Nebenzya

Chinese scientific firsts and breakthroughs have become so routine as to be boring.

And most have been nurtured quietly, without the public fanfare so beloved of hype-oriented cultures.

Here’s the latest, for the record. Typically, it benefits people generally, not a handful of

The Fed’s magical mystery printer has now defied all the known, and unknown, laws of economics & finance.

Will Judgment Day ever come?

“It's oddly fitting that in a time when the interest on US debt just hit a record $1.1 trillion, that the US deficit for just the first six

Looks like ByteDance could be entering a period of explosive growth.

Watch out Instagram, and others.

And Washington’s thuggery against TikTok may prove a damp squib. If it passes the Senate, the initiative could get derailed in the courts or on some technicality.

The Chinese

The collective West has become a collective factory of jokes.

“France has shifted its naval posture from intercepting drug traffickers and poachers to training for a conventional war, Rear Admiral Jacques Mallard has told Politico.

“Mallard commands France’s only carrier battle

Gaza, Gaza, Gaza.

Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine.

... while continuously provoking China to attack the Philippines in the South China Sea.

And Taiwan in the Taiwan Strait, Ukraine in Europe, etc, etc.

The American way of war, 21st century.

The real “overcapacity.”

Real headline:

“The world asks US, Blinken to rein in Israel over Gaza.”