The withdrawal from Afghanistan is causing irrational blowback in South Korea.

The argument being made is, "If the US will give up on propping up a government against a guerrilla after 20 years, maybe it will refuse to support a bona-fide ally against an external invasion." It seems wildly irrational to me, but the fact it is being made is one aspect of damage caused by the occupation of Afghanistan.

I have no opinion on the specific policy question being discussed.

The UK government plans a massive shift to using hydrogen as a fuel in vehicles. The crucial issue is how to produce that hydrogen.

The inconvenience of making hydrogen by electrolysis is that it takes a big investment. We can be sure that the Tories will try to use "blue" hydrogen as much as possible, as an excuse to include fossil fuel despite pledges to decarbonize.

My opinion is, if survival of civilization requires this investment, we must do it.

According to modeling, by the end of this century the North China Plain will suffer fatal weather, before even the Persian Gulf and India.

* Census data shows that Americans are shifting from safer areas of the US to the regions most at risk of heating and flooding.*

5 years after release from Guantanamo prison, student researcher Mansoor Adafyi who was treated by the US as a terrorist, is treated now by Serbia like an unwelcome immigrant being pressured to leave, except that Serbia won't let him leave.

Serbia does not allow him to work, and does not give him medical care. I suspect that Serbia does this as part of a commitment to the US.