my best guess would be that this weekend is the swiss peace summit where they invited like ninety countries but not russia. putting out the barest, most basic sounding demands is an easy play when you aren’t even invited to the current version of peace talks. it’ll make ukraine’s demands for crimea, belgorod, kaliningrad, and billion dollar annual reparations look ridiculous in a few days, if the talks even get that far. you’re right that the west isn’t done, but the west is the one cooking up this swiss conference
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i think if anything graham’s comments give us some insight into different factions within the US mono-party. vicky nuland spent a decade trying to make this war happen out of sheer love of the game (belief in the necessity and possibility of beating russia on the battlefield). when she got replaced, but the war didn’t end, it’s obvious there’s at least one other school of thought in the democrat camp. looks like some republicans are also interested in ukraine, even though the two parties just pretended to fight about war aid. the mineral resources in question are predominantly coal and natural gas, and both chevron and shell were on track to begin exploitation before the SMO. it’s not so much saying the quiet part out loud, but saying one of several. the US famously feels no obligation to discuss its intentions, and also famously has a dozen different groups trying to grab the policy lever. so it says something about what a shit show ukraine is that not only is the squabbling open to the public, two different interest groups have had to put their cards out on the table. obviously admitting stuff won’t change anything, but i think it’s a source of some optimism that the US war and foreign policy machines are running less and less smoothly
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i thought i got really lucky with the first guess, but then i almost needed all six lol. gold, cash crops, and no oil made me think ballpark southeast africa
a few days ago the state water board put the area on probation (stop pumping groundwater), which could mean they actually build state flood management stuff there. the tulare lake basin is currently exempt from state regulations, and so the locals/ ranchers have built no appropriate infrastructure and pump as much as they want. water is something california takes pretty seriously, so they might actually do something to reform the water system in the central valley
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diamonds and chemicals/ medicine made me think benelux, and i think the netherlands has more exports and luxembourg has fewer than ~$500 billion
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on an earlier tradle, someone here said that disproportionate economies tend to be islands. dependent territories still aren’t countries
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british and french overseas territories shouldn’t be in the answer pool. at least gibraltar is pretty famous
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i thought somewhere in the indian ocean at first, but then i overcorrected from madagascar
Seek by iNaturalist is a iPhone/ Android app that lets you point your camera at any animal or plant, and it’ll try and identify it down to species. There is some stuff about location tracking, officially to give you a little scavenger hunt for plants and animals near you. A hiking buddy of mine showed it me two years ago, and so far I’d say a lot of times you can only get to genus, but for most plants you can get the common name from the genus.
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the gambia gave me the continent, and that economy isn’t big enough to be nigeria. there’s only so many places that make cocoa, but i got lucky that cameroon was my next guess
i’m happy to be corrected on this, but my understanding is that the key role of the war cabinet was a consensus builder. netanyahu and the opposition leaders, including gantz, were all in the room making decisions together, because the war transcended the political divide or whatever. the opposition is not opposed to genocide, so this will not affect anything ongoing with the military. the opposition decided that for whatever reasons, netanyahu is running the war poorly and has no plan for victory. someone in the news mega a few days ago said that gantz is just so excited for the CIA to pick him as the leader of a color revolution in “israel”. internal “israeli” politics have been operating in a coalition, but now the main opposition has pulled out and performatively submitted a bill for dissolving parliament/ fresh elections. i say performative because they lack a majority or alternative coalition to likud, so the bill has no chance. the contradictions of Zionist civil society are heightening, but this is another brick in the wall instead of any sort of inflection point