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We are living in a new world of hedgers. The shocks of the last several yearsāCOVID-19, Russiaās war in Ukraine, U.S. President Donald Trumpās tariffs, and the Iran conflictāhave upended how nations approach international affairs. The smooth flows of a globalized and rules-based world have clotted into uncertainty, forcing states to find new pathways for trade, diplomacy, resource extraction, and defense cooperation. Countries no longer consider historical partnerships, values-driven alliances, and regional blocs to be sufficient to protect and advance national interests.
Hedging is the practice of avoiding exclusive dependence in a world of unreliable partners. It involves cultivating competing relationships across different domains so that no crisis or betrayal will leave a state out of options. In decades past, states tended to hedge their bets in specific circumstances. India, for example, emerged from colonization as a nonaligned nation but hedged amid Chinaās rapid growth to build ties with the United Statesāeven as it maintained warm relations with Russia. Now, this is not just a tactic limited to emerging powers or a response to particular geopolitical shake-ups. Hedging has become central to international relations, shaping how powers great and small approach trade, technology, finance, energy, and security.
States are no longer hedging within a system that is episodically volatile but out of a recognition that there no longer is much of a system at all. The rise of what we might call āhedgemonyā is both a response to the reshuffling of the global order and an accelerant of this transformation. Although these moves are being pursued by individual governments in search of stability and security, the net result may be a world that is less predictable and even more dangerous.
Twenty-five years ago, globalization was embraced as almost a panacea. Deeper integration across borders was expected to make the world richer, more cohesive, and more humane. U.S. President Bill Clinton encapsulated the vision in his 2000 State of the Union address, when he argued that āopen markets and rule-based trade are the best engines we know of for raising living standards, reducing global poverty and environmental destruction, and assuring the free flow of ideas.ā
That conviction shaped an era of free trade agreements and global value chains: Companies shifted manufacturing to lower-cost jurisdictions and sourced inputs from wherever they came cheapest. Products designed in one country used components from others, were assembled elsewhere, and eventually funneled for shipping through centralized hubs to markets worldwide. That model bore cheap goods and global economic growth, but it also scattered the seeds of future fragility. The 2008 financial crisis was an early warning that globalization carried the risk of cross-regional contagion.
Interdependence was not easily undone. By the eve of its 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Russia was supplying around 40 percent of the European Unionās pipeline gas imports. China still refines roughly 70 percent of the worldās supplies of 19 of the 20 most important strategic mineralsāthough the United States and other Western nations are fervently trying to change this amid intensifying U.S.-China competition and Beijingās periodic throttling of critical mineral exports.
Now that the spell of innocuous interdependence has been broken, nations are moving with grim resolve to foster diversified, even redundant, dependencies. Countries are increasingly hedging their bets with hegemonsānamely, by seeking strong ties with both China and the United Statesāwhile also striving to lessen hegemonic dependency through greater self-sufficiency and diversified relationships. Even the superpowers are hedging: The Biden administrationās CHIPS and Science Act and Trumpās Pax Silica both sought to reduce reliance on China and, by association, Taiwan;
NEW STUDY: Topical vitamin C in DMSO completely ELIMINATED 56% of biopsy-confirmed skin cancers in just 12 weeks.
44% of the squamous cell carcinoma lesions SHRANK by over 85%.
94% of patients were able to AVOID surgery.
The average cancer lesion size dropped 71%.
The treatment was 30% ascorbic acid in a 95% DMSO/5% distilled-water solution, applied twice daily for 12 weeks.
DMSO was used as a skin-penetration enhancer, helping the vitamin C pass through the outer skin barrier and reach the lesion more effectively.
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/study-topical-vitamin-c-in-dmso-eliminated
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Scientists have now developed a way to genetically engineer lettuce with pig DNA to make plant-based meat taste like meat
The is a new 2026 study that inserted pig myoglobin genes into lettuce chloroplasts, which persisted in the lettuce grown from the harvested seeds. āThis research follows the British company Moolec, which inserts pig DNA into soybeans to create what they call piggy soyā
āSince this is all considered gene editing and not genetic modification, it bypasses most regulation and can be sold with little restrictionsā
I have no words for how depraved the minds of these Christ-hating transhumanist idiots are.
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š®š± Israel's New Grand-Strategy;
Excerpts from an article published by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), a think tank funded by the Tel Aviv University:
'The United States is a ādeclining powerā and, given its ongoing social and political shifts, will soon abandon Israel in any event.'
'Severing ties with the United States is therefore not only inevitable, but essential to Israelās independence.'
'The stateās Jewish identity takes precedence over its democratic system of government.'
'any arrangement with Arab actors is temporary and deceptive'
'War is necessary, and preventive war is preferable because it secures a significant achievement at the outset.'
'most Arab states are not genuine nation-states ā¦ undermining their stability is viewed as a natural process, one that Israel can manage more effectively than it can contend with strong nation-states, and one that it should even encourage.'
'Defense is established by creating communities and ...
This is something that needs to be spoken about openly, as these sytems grow more insatiable it is going to change for the worse not better. You can clearly see the sites are all either news or pharmacy, this is about worldwide exploitation especially in western society concerning young adults and even, especially, children who have been abused or incarcerated unfairly.
This is typically because their lives have already been deemed unwanted as they have been put into foster care or sex trafficked then risk being put into forced pschiatric facilities for the rest of their lives (where new drugs are tested and experimented on youth) or behavioral labour camps (which make a profit).
The excuse is for learning disabilities or for mental illnesses (which are solely reaction s to their abuse not an illness- ie pysch fraud) is the sickest form of exploitation imaginable and yet it is happening in America and the UK and has been happening for decades solely because everyone is complicit. All programs shown are operative in America and The UK.
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š” š«š· š¬ Hundreds of French supermarkets have been hit by a cyber attack that caused their fridges and freezers to heat up, spoiling fresh and frozen food estimated to be worth millions of euros.
Hackers reportedly gained control of the software that regulates the temperatures of the refrigeration units, forcing some to warm to 50C (120F) overnight.
Almost 100 of the chain's stores were targeted, while between 150 and 200 IntermarchƩ supermarkets were affected, according to the AFP news agency.
IntermarchƩ said its fridges had heated up to 50C for six hours overnight into Monday, and the retailer had thrown away all the affected food to avoid health risks, the Reuters news agency reported.
Prosecutors in Paris confirmed the cyber attack and indicated it had prompted fire outbreaks, according to AFP.
š Rushi: "Weāve connected so much of our physical world to the internet that apparently even keeping milk cold is now a cybersecurity problem."
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