“There are Russians here,” said a 21-year-old Syrian mercenary from Idlib. “The Turks confirmed this to us. I wouldn’t even hurt a Libyan here. But if I find a Russian, I will put a stick up his ass.”
Essential terms like “freedom”, “democracy”, “liberation”, even “terrorism”, are all mixed up and confused; they mean something absolutely different in New York, London, Berlin, and in the rest of the world.
...California lost 654,100 jobs to China from 2001, when China joined the World Trade Organization, to 2018... almost twice as much as the 334,800 jobs Texas lost...
The year 2020 could emerge as the start of the era of relative global chaos or major upheaval... as the impact of core population decline meets economic dislocation, and security and structural uncertainty.
