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States trade and work with a country they pretend to not recognize and then readily allow it to be devoured by a nation-eating far-right power. In the currents of 21st c. international politics trade defines existence, but apparently not enough to justify it.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I would imagine there would be first a gradual blockade and potential room for some illusion of negotiations, and then an invasion attempt.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

As I recall, the amount of typos in later manchu texts makes any visual correction a futile matter. But it's pretty anyhow.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/04/2026

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

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Old World Review @oldworldreview.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Our new article discusses the spread and transformation of Manichaeism in China where it faced continuous hardships, ultimately integrating with Maitreya Buddhism. The story also explores the rumors of possible Manichean travels into Taiwan. oldworldreview.com/2026/03/18/m... #history #religion

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Mani at the ends of the Earth

Manichaeism was a world-religion established in the 3rd century Sassanid Persia by the prophet Mani (216–274). Despite its complex cosmology, the religion sought to combine teachings from a variety…

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Is it just the season or are there really so many more mainlanders in Hong Kong now?

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Got this 阿美 grammar. It is, of course, hell.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I wouldn't know aside from what seems to be the most obvious cause (treason?). But why the Himars are fine but missile defense is excused as too costly?

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

What's their reasoning for being against financing the T-Dome?

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Nonsense. Played it extensively last year and it was very enjoyable. Apparently the most outdated part is the creativity in its world building, that doesn't seem to be part of Bethesda's formula anymore.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Good initiative, but the task is impossible.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Hualien's Dongdamen night market has many of its signs written in three indigenous languages.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Tässä tarinassa molemmat osapuolet voisivat näin akateemisesti sanottuna haistaa paska.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Hot take: if your city is not walkable, it's not a city.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Mielikuvituksen puute on ollut kauan Suomen KV-ajattelun heikkous. Tämä pakkomielle "länsimaista/transatlanttista" kompleksia kohtaan on vissiin vaan pahentanut tätä ongelmaa.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Regarding Davos: Rutte's angle to the Greenland schism is a bit disturbing, and unreasonably submissive considering his role. Stubb's is consistent. Both are upholding the delusion Carney discussed. At some point we can't afford to pretend anymore, but apparently that time has yet to arrive.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Real life advice this one.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Chinese diplomatic approach has long been harmful for its soft power agenda, a phenomenon admitted by certain Chinese scholar(s) too as I remember. As always, foreign policy merely mirrors domestic politics.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

I agree. I think part of this delusion stems from pop-IR analysis and its overuse of geographical (e.g. supposed "geopolitical") theories, rather than understanding that the fundamental reasons for the war are within Russia. And no, we can't fix her.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Hyvin lohdullisesti selitetty tuo, että vastavalmistuneet eivät löydä töitä. Aina positiivinen merkki.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Wild how the country with the largest foreign affairs toolkit and power projection arsenal in the world could do so many things, and yet seems insistent on doing this thing in particular.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Of course, treaties are as reliable as the states that sign them. How are we to know what, according to Americans, counts as Russian aggression in the future? Or are the inevitable violations going to be obscured with propaganda and "who knows what happened"-narratives?

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

The third point in the plan is also rather strange: "It is expected that Russia will not invade neighbouring countries [...]" And if they do invade? Obviously this isn't presented in a particularly convincing way, so why mention it at all?

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Regarding point 11 in this mafia-esque extortion - What the hell is this? It's not up to Americans and Russians to decide weather Ukraine is or isn't eligible for the EU membership. Neither is anything else EU-related.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

It seems rather clear that the so-called peace plan was written for the sole purpose of being rejected.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Important topic. Though I'd like to emphasize that despite the standardization efforts for the Latin-based orthography, there's a variety of "unofficial" writing methods for these languages being used. I've even heard of someone still using Kanji. I think it's great, even if a bit impractical.

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Mika @mitseak.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Pretty good lecture by Jeffrey Wasserstrom on current developments in Hong Kong - "Hong Kong 2025: Competing Visions of a City’s Past, Present, and Future" www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zrm...