Jurnal Singkat

 https://www.almendron.com/tribuna/the-cost-of-the-war-to-vladimir-putin/ The cost of the war to Vladimir Putin Miércoles, 20/Abr/2022 Ian Bremmer The Economist The outcome of Russia’s war in Ukraine remains in doubt. But there is no question that Vladimir Putin’s decision to launch a large-scale invasion is one of the worst strategic decisions any leader of a powerful country has made in decades. There is no plausible outcome in Ukraine that won’t leave Mr Putin and Russia far worse off than before February 24th, when the war began. Mr Putin has cost his country the lives of thousands of young soldiers, some of them conscripts. He claims that Russians and Ukrainians are “one people”, but his war has given Ukraine a stronger sense of national identity than it’s ever had before and transformed it into Russia’s bitter enemy. He has shown the world that his army is ineffectual, and...

 https://theintercept.com/2022/03/06/russia-john-mearsheimer-propaganda/ Sincere internal criticism of the U.S. — or any country — often sounds a lot like insincere foreign criticism. A MINOR SQUALL   on Twitter this past week may have largely gone unnoticed amid the larger hurricane about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. But it’s worth taking a close look at it, because it illustrates something significant about U.S. foreign policy since World War II, and how propaganda works everywhere. It started when Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs — the equivalent to the U.S. State Department — did something unusual: It tweeted out an endorsement of a  2014 article in Foreign Affairs  — the publication of the Council on Foreign Relations, probably the most influential American think tank on U.S. foreign policy. The piece was by John Mearsheimer, a professor in the political science department at the University of Chicago and a prominent member of the “realist” school of f...

 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220531-why-chinas-population-is-shrinking https://theconversation.com/chinas-population-is-about-to-shrink-for-the-first-time-since-the-great-famine-struck-60-years-ago-heres-what-it-means-for-the-world-176377 China's population is set to get smaller for the first time since the great famine struck 60 years ago. Why? And how will this affect the rest of the world?   The world's biggest nation is about to shrink. China accounts for more than one-sixth of the world's population, yet after four extraordinary decades in which the country’s population has swelled from 660 million to 1.4 billion, its population is on track to turn down this year, for the first time since the  great famine  of 1959-1961. According to the latest figures from China's  National Bureau of Statistics , China's population grew from 1.41212 billion to just 1.41260 billion in 2021 – a record low increase of just 480,000, a mere fraction of the annual growt...