Kowabunga

I have no idea of the outcome of this game of thimbleriggers. But one thing. Your political system is going to come out embalmed in shit.

It's quite interesting and it is indeed somewhat related (just like the US droid taken down near the Strait of Hormuz). If the enforcement of EU sanctions (because that's the rationale provided for the seizure) goes further than EU members (vis-à-vis the targets of the sanctions), the Strait of Gibraltar may quickly enter a new level of hard power tensions that so far have been mostly hidden.

Rename CHUK to SOber Union of British Radical Yokels.

After naming a new party after himself Chuka leaves CHUK like a rat. The paragon of commitment My dear brits: is there going to be a general election or not?

Fairy looks like he's read too much Mark Fisher and Ayn Rand lately. In any case vis-à-vis those seeing increasing unequality over 9000 as a mean to reach a technological singularity, subsequently restoring national glory... the later if it happens, it is going to happen in China whether they like it or not.

No deal is the default outcome and the most probable one, as EU leaders would not want the UK as temporary EU member using its veto power to keep the EU subject to continuous blackmail vis-à-vis the negotiations of the future UK-EU relationship.

Hearing May defend her deal with vocal fold nodules is rather tragic.

Maduro may fuck off. But if 15 years from now, big powers cause crisis after crisis in third countries (maybe yours!) just by powering powerless buffoons (de facto nobodies) through social media ruckus because they are the legitimate whatnot, remember people warned you. In international relations countries "recognise" states (structures having at least a partial control over a territory), not "governments". When it comes to "recognition", countries do not enter in the issue of the head of state deriving his/her power from the mandate of the masses, from a coup or from a strange woman lying in a pond distributing swords in a farcical aquatic ceremony. The "recognition" of a State (simply an application of a principle of reality) is also independent from wanting regime change, be it with the head of that State commiting seppuku, be it by frying that state with sanctions, or if you get along with hawkish plans be it by financing terrorist contras or just by bombing the shit out of 'em. All in all, the "recognition" is not a question of morality. Easening regime change through shortcuts based on post-truth may look cheap but it can only bring more destabilization to the world. This is not a good innovation. The order matters. It makes for a worse timeline. Bolton is a provocateur.

Sorry, but many people are losing the principle of reality, taking lightly the recognition of the President of Venezuela. Countries do not recognise powerless actors for a reason. Countries recognise ''de facto'' somethings, not "de facto" nothings. You may deem a ruler the devil on Earth, you may ask for elections but regardless of how illegitimate he/she is, in the end you will adhere to acknowledging who is the "de facto" ruler. I am not able to ascertain what the outcome of this case will be in terms of regime change, but in the long run, I am pretty positive people will lament these diplomatic innovations in the age of post-truth.

In hindsight, I think both remainers and brexiteers were united in one thing already in the referendum. Most of them went to the referendum wrongfully thinking it was a voting to end all votings.

UK 'could build new military bases around world after Brexit' WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!!! Rule the waves and que rulen los porros.

You are here, now:

A beautiful composite image of the Korolev crater, covered with ice, created from Mars Express data: It has a 1,8 km diametre and gathers 2200 km^3 of ice. While close to the Martian south pole, its location still falls outside of it. Mars Express beams back images of ice-filled Korolev crater EDIT: Actually ice it is 1,8 km-deep and has a 82 km diametre.

Well, I suspect a potential second referendum overturning Brexit may precisely bring this sort of movement to the mainstream "bigly". The ultimate antipolitical hellhole. And I suspect May knows this.

Still playing a lose-lose-meh russian roulette instead of just "ruling the void", as the rest of mainstream european governments. Question: Is the UK ripe for a mass movement of this sort within its brexit camp already or the video is purely anecdotal?

Most probably May won't be remembered fondly, but hey! it's not like she has good cards. The foolishness on Brexit is all on Cameron and his will to turn petty party politics into geopolitical earthquakes leaving his country at the mercy of foreign third parties and native scalpers. In the context of decomposition of socialdemocracy in Europe, I don't think Labour is doing "that" bad. Not bad at all, actually. But as much as Corbyn is a convinced brexiteer, his party must assess scenarios comparing the crude reality of Brexit and the virtues of the limited, but still very relevant, extra manoeuvrability of the UK inside the EU club and the prospects of change... but under a left-wing approach, instead of under those lazy blairite-tinted -lasses many labour remainers have in mind.

Aside from simple cause-effect relations, you could also blame also the "lexit" campaigners. Could you make a case for a left-wing Brexit? It is not the most intuitive "evidence-based policy" I could come up with, so maybe not, but if so.... you surely just don't do it by leaving tory scalpers having the leading voice and just settling for a "when we are out you'll see, how magically we''ll have the power to do X". Any idea of left wing brexit campaign should entail a frontal war of discourse against the default right-wing backslash. But I guess dealing that unlike Greece, the most dire economic problems for the 99% in the case of the UK (namely wage stagnation) are not particularly related to EU membership, was too much to swallow.

It is a testament to the persistence of the long enduring Pro-Brexit campaign (not since 2015, but decades of brain-drilling using the toxic UK media environment, now enforced with social media) the way those campaigners made british voters forget about getting very simple "cause-effect relations" that a 5-year-old toddler could grasp by playing to connect dots on a paper. Take for instance, our cherished @SirBalon , someone as far a I understood working in the business of "advertising"!? getting persuaded by the fuzzy siren songs of "muh sovereignty" without real proof of actual control. Is this sorcery, or rather social media is frying our brains? All of that because your privileged elite of usual suspects wanted to make a booty out of the misery of the average Joe? Sad.

Man, it is not moral standpoint. I prefer "my world" remaining "liberal" and autonomous from superpowers taken out of dystopic scifi novels. Barring buying into Nazi conspiracy theories of Eurabia, Saudi medieval theocracy doesn't affect it that much, to be honest. A dystopic totalitarian hightech China is however a direct threat to that.

Ugh, in my antropologically pessimist framing of the situation (which I seem to share with Mr. Trump), countries should be wary of China, instead of welcoming that soon-to-be-ultimate-totalitarian state pulling a Bienvenido Mr. Marshall. I mean in the sense of the need for creating "entities" of bigger scale (both economical, political, and even military) to confront that in Europe, instead of the nation-state folding. The road towards that goal is full of dangers and dead-ends, though.

Any analysis of trade of goods that doesn't take China into account is myopic, in my opinion. Probably, I am wild-guessing here, deal bombed because people feel cheated because they feel trapped, not because the trap gives you more or less room in terms of economic autonomy.

I don't know really to what extent the latest ruckus was perfidious Albion trying to be perfidious or Pedro Sánchez trying to score a cheap electoral point. It seems obvious however that since article 50 was activated, the Spanish Government has tried to position itself in the upcoming negotiations for a new statu quo with no real end-game in sight but in terms of changing the balance of the current relationship with Gib to a less damaging one. The latest tirade as I have said, I don't know, but the whole Spanish Government stance, I think it is rather compatible with the proverbial Hammurabi's "what comes around goes around" logical process, seeing how the Spanish Government was forced to accept certain conditions wrt Gib set by the UK, member of the EU club, when they entered the EU club in 1986. IMO, the unbritish thing was setting for a really bad starting hand after voting to exit without ever taking into consideration UK & Friends is bigger than England and thus, Northern Ireland (and as sidenote Gib) would place the UK in a sorry position to deal with the EU. Who knows in any case how those negotiations will fare up and, long term, what "weapons" may Gibraltarians have at their disposal to confront a potential geopolitical long term drift (maybe both the tax-haven-low-regulation-smuggling current environments as well as also the possibility of developing a super-port in partnership with Tanger-Med).

Gibraltar español.