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🌟Nothing Happened on November 21, 2025... It is hard to imagine an event that absolutely no one cares about - but such events do exist, and one of them was theministerial meeting of the Kimberley Process in Dubai from 17 to 21 November. The Kimberley Process was created in the early 2000s to put an end to the financing of rebel movements in Africa through the trade in "blood diamonds". Never fully alive to begin with, the process stalled completely by the mid-2010s as various countries tried to turn it into a tool of geopolitical pressure. The main theme of the group’s recent sessions has been the proposal to expand the definition of “blood diamonds” to include violence committed not only by rebels, but also by militias linked to governments, private military companies, or criminal groups against local communities in diamond-producing areas. ➡️At the recent meeting in Dubai the participants once again failed to accomplish this humble paperwork. The idea itself is good, but with it the European countries and the US also try to stop any diamond flow from countries in conflict. In other words, the pretext is protecting African communities from PMCs, but the expected outcome actually is to strip Russia of income from diamonds that only very indirectly help finance the conflict in Ukraine and have nothing to do with any local communities. “A very small minority refuse to move. Only 4 participants … were unwilling to support progress that the overwhelming majority, including all African participants, clearly endorsed. The countries most historically tied to the trade, profit and legacy of what the world came to know as blood diamonds — countries that built reputations and fortunes while Africa paid the bill in blood and soil — are today the very ones slowing Africa’s attempt to turn that history into something better.” The funniest part of the situation is hearing lectures about Africa’s resource exploitation from the Arab chairman of a meeting held in Dubai, UAE. Devils Below