M. Kabir
@mkabir.bsky.social
Ph.D in International Relations, faculty, research interests in alliances and the geopolitics of Asia-Pacific. Read non-fiction, history, and IR books. 💙 Rumi’s poetry, Stephen King📚& dystopian novels.
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November 27, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Trump said that he is barring South Africa from participating in the Group of 20 summit next year at his Miami-area club and will stop all payments and subsidies to the country.
Picking a fight for nothing . . . It’s so weird!!!🎪🤡🥴
apnews.com/article/trum...
Picking a fight for nothing . . . It’s so weird!!!🎪🤡🥴
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump says he's barring South Africa from participating in next year's G20 summit near Miami
President Donald Trump says he's barring South Africa from participating in the Group of 20 summit next year near Miami.
apnews.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Trump said that he is barring South Africa from participating in the Group of 20 summit next year at his Miami-area club and will stop all payments and subsidies to the country.
Picking a fight for nothing . . . It’s so weird!!!🎪🤡🥴
apnews.com/article/trum...
Picking a fight for nothing . . . It’s so weird!!!🎪🤡🥴
apnews.com/article/trum...
What Black Friday ⁉️
Everything is on sale all the time in D.C. 😳🙉🤡
Everything is on sale all the time in D.C. 😳🙉🤡
Pardons Are For Sale!
When Democrats Take Control They Better Fix This…..
When Democrats Take Control They Better Fix This…..
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
What Black Friday ⁉️
Everything is on sale all the time in D.C. 😳🙉🤡
Everything is on sale all the time in D.C. 😳🙉🤡
In a saner world, this happens 👇
When I worked for Obama, I advised him on how to talk to Russian leaders. I never gave the Kremlin advice on how to talk to Obama (and I talked to Ushakov many times!).
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
In a saner world, this happens 👇
Russia wants all or nothing! There wouldn’t be a negotiated “peace” deal then. . . It’s what Russia wants!
Well. . . They have helping hands in America 🙄
Well. . . They have helping hands in America 🙄
Russia won’t make any concessions in a so-called peace deal.
Deputy FM Ryabkov claims that all possible concessions were already made by Putin “in Anchorage, Alaska.” Everything else is off the table, they won’t discuss it publicly and will continue pushing to achieve all declared goals.
Deputy FM Ryabkov claims that all possible concessions were already made by Putin “in Anchorage, Alaska.” Everything else is off the table, they won’t discuss it publicly and will continue pushing to achieve all declared goals.
November 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Russia wants all or nothing! There wouldn’t be a negotiated “peace” deal then. . . It’s what Russia wants!
Well. . . They have helping hands in America 🙄
Well. . . They have helping hands in America 🙄
Another military coup in Africa!
A group of senior army officers in Guinea-Bissau say they have deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embalo and suspended the country's disputed electoral process.
www.dw.com/en/guinea-bi...
A group of senior army officers in Guinea-Bissau say they have deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embalo and suspended the country's disputed electoral process.
www.dw.com/en/guinea-bi...
Guinea-Bissau military deposes President Embalo after vote – DW – 11/26/2025
Military officers say they have deposed the president and suspended the election process, closing the borders and imposing a curfew. First round general election results had been expected imminently.
www.dw.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Another military coup in Africa!
A group of senior army officers in Guinea-Bissau say they have deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embalo and suspended the country's disputed electoral process.
www.dw.com/en/guinea-bi...
A group of senior army officers in Guinea-Bissau say they have deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embalo and suspended the country's disputed electoral process.
www.dw.com/en/guinea-bi...
Exclusive for Reuters:
The US-backed 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, which became public last week, drew from a Russian-authored paper submitted to the Trump administration in October.
reut.rs/3XQq2ZT
The US-backed 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, which became public last week, drew from a Russian-authored paper submitted to the Trump administration in October.
reut.rs/3XQq2ZT
November 26, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Exclusive for Reuters:
The US-backed 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, which became public last week, drew from a Russian-authored paper submitted to the Trump administration in October.
reut.rs/3XQq2ZT
The US-backed 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, which became public last week, drew from a Russian-authored paper submitted to the Trump administration in October.
reut.rs/3XQq2ZT
Nice article by Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social 👇
Hegseth is a dude-bro sporting some questionable tattoos, a creation of television who’s acting as if he won "The Apprentice: The Nuclear-Weapons Season."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Senator Mark Kelly Is in the Wrong Job
He should be secretary of defense.
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Nice article by Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social 👇
“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask. . . “
— Milan Kundera
— Milan Kundera
November 26, 2025 at 4:17 PM
“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask. . . “
— Milan Kundera
— Milan Kundera
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
— George Orwell
— George Orwell
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”
— George Orwell
— George Orwell
“There is tenderness only in the coarsest demand: that no-one shall go hungry any more.”
— Theodor W. Adorno
— Theodor W. Adorno
November 26, 2025 at 3:41 PM
“There is tenderness only in the coarsest demand: that no-one shall go hungry any more.”
— Theodor W. Adorno
— Theodor W. Adorno
“Do not seek the company of the blind to share your vision.”
— RUMI 💙
— RUMI 💙
November 26, 2025 at 4:08 AM
“Do not seek the company of the blind to share your vision.”
— RUMI 💙
— RUMI 💙
Constitutional hardball and lawfare— using law to disenfranchise black voters.
November 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Constitutional hardball and lawfare— using law to disenfranchise black voters.
Trump’s chief interlocutor with the Russian government last month advised a senior aide to Vladimir Putin on how the Russian leader should go about pitching the U.S. president on a peace plan aimed at bringing an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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apnews.com/article/trum...
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Report: US envoy coached Putin aide on how Russian leader should pitch Trump on Ukraine peace plan
President Donald Trump’s chief interlocutor with the Russian government last month advised a senior aide to Vladimir Putin on how the Russian leader should go about pitching the U.S. president on a Uk...
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Trump’s chief interlocutor with the Russian government last month advised a senior aide to Vladimir Putin on how the Russian leader should go about pitching the U.S. president on a peace plan aimed at bringing an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
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apnews.com/article/trum...
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apnews.com/article/trum...
Today in History:
November 25, 1986
The Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.
November 25, 1986
The Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.
November 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Today in History:
November 25, 1986
The Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.
November 25, 1986
The Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.
Love 💙 this show!!
November 25, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Love 💙 this show!!
Not all Supreme Courts are the same! Good job 👏 Brazil 🇧🇷!
At least one insurrectionist goes to jail
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...
Bolsonaro to Start Serving 27-Year Sentence Over Coup Plot
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Not all Supreme Courts are the same! Good job 👏 Brazil 🇧🇷!
What is normal now in American politics—normalizing the abnormal 👇
A mayoral candidate saying maybe the city should cover the cost of bus rides gets the full socialism panic treatment before he even tries it.
A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
A sitting president taking billions of dollars worth of shares in private companies gets “I must say, a tad unusual” after it’s been going for nearly a year.
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
What is normal now in American politics—normalizing the abnormal 👇
A wolf 🐺 doesn’t stop being a wolf just because it speaks sweetly and gently!
November 25, 2025 at 2:51 PM
A wolf 🐺 doesn’t stop being a wolf just because it speaks sweetly and gently!
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
November 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
— Mark Twain
— Mark Twain
“Nothing bewitches like service to others, and the best way to win friends is to act like one.”
— Baltasar Gracián
(Baltasar Gracián (1601 –1658)was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher.)
— Baltasar Gracián
(Baltasar Gracián (1601 –1658)was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher.)
November 25, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“Nothing bewitches like service to others, and the best way to win friends is to act like one.”
— Baltasar Gracián
(Baltasar Gracián (1601 –1658)was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher.)
— Baltasar Gracián
(Baltasar Gracián (1601 –1658)was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher.)
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November 25, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Afghanistan, India and Pakistan: A trinity of troubles
Shifting geopolitical landscape in South Asia is a reflection of past colonial actions and modern-day security needs.
An illustrated history:👇
aje.io/88heoq
Shifting geopolitical landscape in South Asia is a reflection of past colonial actions and modern-day security needs.
An illustrated history:👇
aje.io/88heoq
History Illustrated: Afghanistan, India and Pakistan: A trinity of troubles
Geopolitical landscape in South Asia is shifting, a reflection of past colonial actions and modern-day security needs.
aje.io
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Afghanistan, India and Pakistan: A trinity of troubles
Shifting geopolitical landscape in South Asia is a reflection of past colonial actions and modern-day security needs.
An illustrated history:👇
aje.io/88heoq
Shifting geopolitical landscape in South Asia is a reflection of past colonial actions and modern-day security needs.
An illustrated history:👇
aje.io/88heoq
These accounts saturate online and spread misinformation. Sad for American democracy!
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
These accounts saturate online and spread misinformation. Sad for American democracy!