"The gangs operating there... have formed a parallel economy based on drug trafficking. They consider themselves at war with France and with Western civilization..."
"We have only just got past the peak (of the virus) and I think we need to see a longer period of things being sustained at this level. If we stop social distancing, we are going to see it back in three weeks."
Meanwhile, in China, Wuhan officials are embarking on a 10-day mass testing drive aiming to test every resident in the city after another cluster of cases was found...
Popular European tourist vacations like Cinque Terre in Italy and the French Riviera in southeastern France are about to have some serious competition on their hands.
Chinese leaders "believe they have a narrow window of strategic opportunity to strengthen their rule and revise the international order in their favor.."
No matter how you look at it, a new system will be created out of the ashes of the currently dying world order. The question is only: Will it benefit the oligarchy or the people?
A pandemic, oil price collapse, a target country showing it has more capability than assumed, threatened expulsion from Iraq. The surprises have exposed long-time weaknesses... It’s always the unexpected things that test things to destruction.
