the La Familia Michoacana and the Jalisco New Generation cartels.

I’m always confused about who decides to translate what. Like, why did la familia michoacana get to keep its article and get an extra “the” tacked on. Why did Nueva generación get translated but not familia?

Yeah I know Eritrea used to be the Ethiopian coast, just figured that they would have held on to part of it after the war either through military force or negotiation.

I’ve always found it odd that Ethiopia doesn’t have any coast, they’re a historic power and the coast is right there, you’d think they would have just taken a bit. Djibouti couldn’t have been that hard to conquer. Or just a little piece of Somalia or Eritrea.

Yeah Somalia, the main source of piracy in the world, is mentioned not only in the article but in the little preview blurb also.

IIRC they were subsidized a good deal for developing nations.

The thing is Russia was Russia (who saw that coming) and took our money and then kept delaying delivery. By the time the Sputnik came through neighboring countries were getting their orders of EU/US vaccines.

You’re assuming Russia is going to be a rational actor, and that there are enough checks and balances to keep Putin from using nukes.

Hopefully everybody else would be sensible and nobody would take Russia’s side. Hopefully Russia wouldn’t randomly nuke other countries in their death throes.

But even if both of those things turn out fine the economic fallout (and other kinds of fallout if it goes nuclear) will be a global problem.

Yep, one of my kids got freaking Sputnik here in Guatemala since our president is an idiot and spent the whole initial vaccine budget on sputnik and then it was impossible for him to travel to the US for several years since they don’t accept Sputnik and he can’t get another vaccine since he’s already in the system as having gotten one.

Russia clashing with multiple nuclear powers. What could go wrong?