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#Trump’s actions & statements suggest he might be envisioning a world in which each of the 3 so-called great powers—the #UnitedStates, #China & #Russia—dominates its part of the globe, #ForeignPolicy analysts say.

It would be a throwback to a 19th-century style of #imperial rule.

Trump has said he wants to take #Greenland from Denmark, annex #Canada & re-establish American control of the #PanamaCanal.…extend[ing] US dominance in the Western Hemisphere….

#geopolitics
nytimes.com/2025/05/26/us/poli

President Trump and his aides have been trying to exert greater American influence from the Arctic Circle to South America’s Patagonia region.
The New York Times · What’s Trump’s Vision on China, Russia and the World?By Edward Wong

Green and more green: the season of new leaves in Japan. At Kyōto Imperial Palace (京都御所) I went into the former residence area of Emperors. Plus, from the northernmost subway station in the city, I walked around Treasure Pond (宝ヶ池公園), where I spotted a shy doe, oh deer!

It was during this season that my haiku in Japanese was published in the national Asahi Haidan, with a circulation of about eight million households at the time:

若葉には 枝に世界が 回るやう (全国版朝日俳壇)
To young leaves
The world seems
To spin on a branch

For criteria on making or judging real haiku in languages other than Japanese, read:
"Internationalizing the Essence of Haiku Poetry":
researchgate.net/publication/3

Download my published haiku, the Bilingual Haiku Scroll (和英俳句の掛け軸), with some of my best Kyōto photos representing the four seasons:
researchmap.jp/waoe/works/3080

#haiku#poetry#Japan

The latest blogpost by veteran UK socialist & anti-Zionist campaigner, Tony Greenstein:

“The Time Has Come for Britain’s Anti-Zionist Jewish Groups to Unite”

@palestine
@israel

“British & Western support for #Zionism is not because of their concern for Jews but because of their own #imperial interests. [..] It is for that reason alone that it is incumbent upon Jews who are not Zionists to say in both words & deed that what Israel does is *not in my name*”

azvsas.blogspot.com/2025/05/th

azvsas.blogspot.comThe Time Has Come for Britain’s Anti-Zionist Jewish Groups to Unite

A company I bought shoes from last year offered to send me shoes if I wore and reviewed them, and they arrived today in a Saturday surprise. I had NO idea what they'd look like. They have PLENTY of sole... I was 6'3" before, I'm 6'5" or 6'6" now. 😄 They look like Imperial shoes on Coruscant in Andor, and they're comfortable so far. 😊

My new idea is to use Roman miles instead of imperial. They’re 1,479 km or thereabouts (it’s an approximation and wasn’t fixed anyway) so i can just round it to 1,5km. Easy to convert to sane measures.

Now i just need to find an imperial measurements user to impress/confound. “Oh, you don’t mean Roman miles? What empire are you referring to?”

Roman miles make more sense than using 996 and 9/16ths Rods or whatever a mile is based on.

alojapan.com/1237162/imperial- Imperial Hotel, Kyoto Appoints Reiko Sakata as General Manager and Joins The Leading Hotels of the World #and #Appoints #as #general #hotel #hotels #imperial #Joins #Kyoto #KyotoTopics #leading #Manager #of #reiko #Sakata #The #world #京都 #京都府 TOKYO, April 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Imperial Hotel, Ltd. is pleased to announce that Reiko Sakata has been appointed General Manager of the Imperial Hotel, Kyoto, scheduled to open in spring 2026. In add…

St. Petersbourg. La cathedrale Ismailow S.-Peterburgʺ. Izmailovskīĭ Soborʺ. Zürich, Switzerland : Photoglob Zürich, between ca. 1890 and 1906 Print shows the exterior of Trinity or Troitsky Cathedral, regimental church of the Izmailovsky regiment of Imperial guards, and the Column of Glory, or Russo-Turkish War Memorial column. Cathedrals Russia Saint Petersburg 1890-1910,Orthodox churches Russia Saint Petersburg 1890-1910,Monuments & memorials Russia Saint Petersburg 1890-1910,Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878 Monuments Russia Saint Petersburg 1890-1910

#StPetersbourg #Izmailovskīĭ #Zürich #Switzerland #PhotoglobZürich #Trinity #TroitskyCathedral #Izmailovsky #Imperial #theColumnofGlory #Russia #Corinthian #Orthodox #Russian #SaintPetersburg #photography #historicalPhotos

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