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Transnational Thursday for March 21, 2024

Transnational Thursday is a thread for people to discuss international news, foreign policy or international relations history. Feel free as well to drop in with coverage of countries you’re interested in, talk about ongoing dynamics like the wars in Israel or Ukraine, or even just whatever you’re reading.

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Kate Middleton announces she has cancer.

This is a win for conspiracy theorists and "reading a wide array of primary sources and performing [your] own synthesis." I saw numerous mainstream media sources during the speculation frenzy flat out state that Kate Middleton did not have cancer, but the fine print of the sources they were basing these statements on did not say that.

This really takes the wind out the sails, doesn't it? It's much more fun to speculate why they're using body doubles and releasing doctored pictures, but cancer and chemo just deflates everything.

I hope she recovers. Cancer at any age is sad, but at her age is a tragedy.