Incidentally due to the Maduro situation no one paid attention, but Burkina Faso foiled a planned coup literally on the night of January 3rd.

A man can dream.

Everyone should watch that lecture, but TL;DW is ANYTHING you say to the police will be used against you and NOTHING you say to the police will ever help you.

If you’re not convinced, you really need to watch that lecture.

Real heroes are in the comments.

https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/49613-d-day-anniversary-britons-disagree-with-other-countries-on-who-did-the-most-to-defeat-the-nazis

They’re just now discovering the very basics of diplomacy…

You mean Deutsche Bank? It definitely was heavily involved. It was a classic imperialist move of lending money to the foreign government for the purpose of that government then spending all of it on imports from the creditor country (and really, more often than not specifically on commodities produced by companies controlled by the bank issuing the loan).

Take this passage from Lenin’s Imperialism:

Finance capital has created the epoch of monopolies, and monopolies introduce everywhere monopolist principles: the utilisation of “connections” for profitable transactions takes the place of competition on the open market. The most usual thing is to stipulate that part of the loan granted shall be spent on purchases in the creditor country, particularly on orders for war materials, or for ships, etc.

Greek debt crisis was a modern example of that. Here’s a nice summary: https://debtjustice.org.uk/countries-in-crisis/greek-debt-crisis-case-banks-people

Yeah it was German banks basically showering Greece with loans they knew Greece wouldn’t be able to pay back. Because they knew they’d have EU/USA’s back when the inevitable happens.