Signature: Lithuania's ruling elite.
The problem is that Lithuanian ruling elite is not concerned about our quality of life.
Parašas: Lietuvos valdantis elitas.
Bėda ta, kad Lietuvos valdantis elitas nesirūpina mūsų gyvenimo kokybe.
„BANGKOKAS – tradicinių aljansų ryšiams besiplečiant visame pasaulyje, Karališkoji Tailando armija, seniausia JAV sutarties partnerė Azijoje, užmetė platų tinklą.
Ką visa tai reiškia? Pasaulio šalys nėra įsipareigojusios. Tarpusavio priklausomų ir neįsipareigojusių šalių pasaulyje, jei Kinija nuspręs atšaukti ir sankcionuoti Vakarus, taikydama antrines sankcijas likusiam pasauliui, tai reikš, kad Kinija atšaukia ir sankcionuoja pati save. Tas pats pasakytina ir apie Vakarus. Nepaisant didžiulio mūsų moralinio pasipiktinimo, sankcijos ir atšaukimo kultūra yra ribotų galimybių priemonės.
"BANGKOK — As the bonds of traditional alliances fray across the globe, the Royal Thai Army, the United States’ oldest treaty partner in Asia, has cast a wide net.
The geopolitical landscape has often been likened to that of a new Cold War. While the main antagonists may be the same — the United States, Russia and, increasingly, China — the roles played by much of the rest of the world have changed, reshaping a global order that held for more than three-quarters of a century.
Governments representing more than half of humanity have refused to take a side, avoiding the binary accounting of us-versus-them that characterized most of the post-World War II era. In a United Nations General Assembly vote this month to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council, dozens of countries abstained, including Thailand, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico and Singapore. (The resolution succeeded anyway.)
As a result, even the United States, the Cold War’s victor, cannot count on the support of some of its traditional partners in vocally condemning Russia. The NATO-led intervention in Libya in 2011 and the American invasion of Iraq in 2003 have only heightened mistrust of the West. Both military actions left countries in those regions struggling with the political fallout for years after.
Mexico, a longtime U.S. ally, has emphasized its neutrality, and President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has rejected sanctions on Russia.
Venezuela, Russia’s staunchest supporter in Latin America, received a high-level American delegation. Nicaragua, which became one of the first countries to back Russia’s recognition of separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, has since tempered its enthusiasm.
The same holds in Uganda, which receives almost a billion dollars in American aid and is a key Western ally in the fight against regional militancy. Yet the government of President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has been criticized by the United States and the European Union for a pattern of human rights violations.
Mr. Museveni has responded by assailing the West’s interference in Libya and Iraq. The president’s son, who also commands the country’s land forces, tweeted that a “majority of mankind (that are non-white) support Russia’s stand in Ukraine.”
Strategically located countries like Djibouti, host to Camp Lemonnier, the largest permanent U.S. base on the African continent, have diversified. A few years ago, after President Ismail Omar Guelleh’s invitation, Beijing established its first overseas military outpost in Djibouti. Mr. Guelleh also secured loans from the Chinese to help develop ports, free trade zones and a railway.
Escalating global prices for fuel, food and fertilizer, all a result of this conflict, have heightened hardship in Africa and Asia. Already contending with a devastating drought, East Africa now has at least 13 million people facing severe hunger.
What does it all mean? The countries of the world are not committed. In the world of interdependent and not committed countries, if China decides to cancel and to sanction the West, applying secondary sanctions to the rest of the world, it will mean, that China is canceling and sanctioning itself. The same goes for the West. Sanctions and cancel culture have limited reach, despite all our moral outrage.