Society, Culture, Economy Int. (sceinternational)

🧭 The “new normal” isn’t loud coups—it’s quiet accommodation. Europe shrugs at Erdoğan and Orbán because NATO needs Turkey and Hungary’s geography. Strategic utility trumps democratic norms. Meanwhile, Olympics and summits sell soft power and inclusion, even as ICE agents, security logics, and geopolitical rivalry shadow the spectacle. When leverage fades and pragmatism rules, democracy erodes not with a bang—but with a bargain. https://open.substack.com/pub/openaccessblogs/p/the-unraveling-the-spectacle-of-distraction?r=56p6o5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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☢️ New START expires. For the first time since 1972, there are no limits on U.S.–Russia nuclear arsenals—just as China expands, Europe debates its own umbrella, and hypersonic weapons blur deterrence. Add AI arms races, rare-earth scrambles, and space becoming a battlefield, and we’re back to raw great-power politics—only faster, more crowded, and less rule-bound. https://open.substack.com/pub/openaccessblogs/p/the-unraveling-the-spectacle-of-distraction?r=56p6o5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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🗺️💱📱🤖 From Africa’s push to redraw the world map to Argentina’s inverted tourism flows, Dubai’s app-based panopticon, and AI’s bubble-sublime paradox — today’s headlines show how symbols, money, order, and tech are reshaping power and everyday life. https://paragraph.com/@openaccessblogs/the-global-constellation-personalized-power-economic-reversals-and-the-ai-paradox

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🛩️From Arctic summits in airport lounges to festivals canceled by fear, from “cleanup” politics to crypto regulation—our world runs on spectacle, sovereignty, and platforms. The question isn’t if rules exist, but who scripts them—and for whose benefit. https://paragraph.com/@openaccessblogs/the-contemporary-reordering-how-climate-culture-and-capital-are-reshaping-our-world

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〰️ From tariffs to TikTok, climate gaps to cultural battles—our crises aren’t separate. They’re a ‘liquid crisis,’ feeding each other in real time. Resilience means acting across scales, without nostalgia or fatalism. https://open.substack.com/pub/openaccessblogs/p/powers-new-playbook-wielding-culture?r=56p6o5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

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