The Scots for “Laika” is “bowfer” in case you need some Russian translation for your poetry culture wars and controversies.
www.thetimes.com/article/6551...
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The Scots for “Laika” is “bowfer” in case you need some Russian translation for your poetry culture wars and controversies.
www.thetimes.com/article/6551...
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I see your point. But we simple newspaper people do like nice short words like “ally”!
Thanks, Norrie. That was my impression too. I did find it funny to see folk fighting when all they were really doing was referring to two different ways of using the word.
But don’t ask me. I don’t even know what
geopolitics means.
And today the front page of the times is about Britain’s Mid East “allies”, which seems a perfectly fair and common usage.
But do we need a way to distinguish between hard mutual defence pacts, eg Nato, and obligation-free loose arrangements like Russia/Iran? www.thetimes.com/article/b253...
What exactly do we mean when we say “ally”? There was a funny wee tiff on here the other day between a academic and a Canadian conservative about whether Iran and Russia were allies or not. Can BlueSky experts please adjudicate the meaning of this word for we idiots?
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It occurs to me that at some point a while back the veteran defence correspondent of the herald - a real character who had yomped across the Falklands and braved Scuds in Iraq - was promoted to “geopolitics editor”.
Yeah, I believe the Scots for “geopolitics” is “fechtin yonder awa”.
I think that is what geopolitics used to mean. I think it now means something like “foreign wars”. Police Scotland as a eg refers to protests related to geopolitics when they are talking about Gaza demos.
That sounds like a useful exercise!
As an old colleague always said, perhaps unfairly, biz guys are often quite stupid.
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Please help, Blueskyers.
I am not sure what is happening here. But “geopolitics”, it seems to me, can now mean almost anything from “great power competition”, to “international relations” to “foreign conflicts”. An I missing something?
Well, I saw the police take about UK protests related to geopolitics. They meant demos relating to Gaza. I thought that was odd, maybe just cops trying to be coy.
See, I alway thought “geopolitics” was basically the geography of international relations. You know the kind of thing, when TV pundits write books about how maps explain wars and the struggle for resources. But nowadays?