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This is another foreigner living in China and he has no patience for eggturds who claim they know everything about China because they heard from someone.
https://jerrygrey2002.substack.com/
Posted by: Surferket | Jul 11 2025 7:14 utc | 201
Posted by: Friend_of_MLK / July 11 2025 6:56 utc/ 196
Thanks for posting. So there too…Amazing the degree to which Zio-nazi domination now infests the Western PTB. Amazing the degree to which Western citizens have allowed this to happen.
Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 11 2025 7:21 utc | 202
Posted by: Surferket | Jul 11 2025 7:09 utc | 200
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Yeah, but he is American. God’s chosen people.
Did you see Trump meeting with the leader of Liberia?
Congratulated his English, unaware that Liberia is an English speaking country.
Americans know everything about the world. They saw it on the teevee.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 11 2025 7:25 utc | 203
Alastair Crooke:
Israel has used bases in (iraqi / iranian) Kurdistan & Azerbeidjian to launch attacks (fighter jets, drones with cruise missiles) on Iran in june 2025. This is a sign the US / Israel are expecting to continue the war on Iran. NATO seems to execute a MAJOR cyberattack on Iran right now.
Weblink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zO3jNWfyWNI (57 minutes).
Alex Krainer talked to Larry Johnson about how “the West” is busy waging a war on the BRICS. This perfectly fits with the story Alex Krainer told Larry Johnson (Sonar21)). No, this 12 day war in the Middle East is far from over. Underneath the surface the war continues or – at least – the preparations for the next stage of the war are already underway.
Vidoe with Krainer & Johnson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jlh8Z_XWM8
(Crooke always has a very deep knowledge of events unfolding in the Middle East).
Posted by: WMG | Jul 11 2025 7:59 utc | 204
“US War Against BRICS Kicks Into Overdrive I Alex Krainer Interview”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jlh8Z_XWM8
Posted by: WMG | Jul 11 2025 8:01 utc | 205
Yo eggturd I don’t need to “hear” what someone says about China. I don’t need to watch YT to see what someone says about China.
I live in China!
Posted by: Surferket | Jul 11 2025 7:09 utc | 200
Seems you live in a different part of planet that’s not called China.
Posted by: WMG | Jul 11 2025 8:03 utc | 206
Posted by: WMG | Jul 11 2025 8:03 utc | 206
You just won’t quit your stoopid idiocy that’s exposed by someone actually living in China.
Posted by: Surferket | Jul 11 2025 8:37 utc | 207
For those interested in sociology…
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11609-025-00557-4
“Abstract
For authors like Ralf Dahrendorf and Wolfgang Schluchter, the analysis of elites was central to any social analysis: It showed whether society actually lived up to its claim of being a meritocracy. This essay examines this question on the basis of the social recruitment of the German elites over the last century and a half, from the German Empire to the present day. The research, which covers almost 2400 elite members, shows that social mobility is far lower overall than one would expect over such a long period of time. Although the aristocracy lost its importance as the main field of recruitment for the political elite after the First World War, this was only associated with a limited social opening in the following century. The upper class and the upper middle class, which were already much more important than the aristocracy for elite recruitment in the judiciary, administration and business during the German Empire, have been undisputedly dominant ever since. Social climbers from the middle and working classes have only gained very slowly and not even continuously. In the economy, their share has risen from 12.7 to 19.1% since 1907. There has been no progress in the administration since the 1930s, and three quarters of the judiciary still come from the upper middle and the upper class. Only in politics has there been a greater social opening, albeit hardly more so today than during the Weimar Republic.
…”
Posted by: BlindSpot | Jul 11 2025 8:59 utc | 208
It seems like you don’t understand how the “petrodollar” economy works. The U.S is able to go into debt so much exactly because the U.S dollar dominates so much. They can literally just print U.S dollars, and part of the inflation will be absorbed by the countries using U.S dollars outside of the U.S. The U.S can just tax the world to continue its growth due to its military and political(all the coups, like the one in Ukraine) might.
Everything is working well for them. Sucks for Europe, but that’s what you get for being the continent for vacations and boomer pensioners.
Posted by: Sea Associate | Jul 11 2025 9:51 utc | 209
UK National Audit Office has criticized the government over its F35 procurement ..so few spares and maintenance staff for the few we have against a huge order, that the planes are only permitted 7.5hrs flying time a month but cannot even do that ho ho ho.Well worth reading about this sick comedy.
Posted by: Jo | Jul 11 2025 10:31 utc | 210
Posted by: Surferket | Jul 11 2025 7:09 utc | 200
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Yeah, but he is American. God’s chosen people.
Did you see Trump meeting with the leader of Liberia?
Congratulated his English, unaware that Liberia is an English speaking country.
Americans know everything about the world. They saw it on the teevee.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 11 2025 7:25 utc | 203
The assumptions you continually make are deeply offensive, LD, and you make them frequently. Firstly and importantly, there is no such thing as a ‘chosen people’, either Scripturally or in the general understanding of the citizens of the United States, who are generally referred to as Americans although the designation applies to all Tthe inhabitants of the lands easy to identify on a map. These lands, of which you may yourself be a citizen (my apologies if I am incorrect) are also historically referred to as the New World.
I’ve lived here more than half my life and I haven’t ever encountered anyone here who corresponds to your description. I never met nor voted for Donald Trump, and what he says or does is far from what I, or the majority of Americans in the limited sense of the word, believe or say or do. We are under a regime whose actions and beliefs can be criticized, but to apply that criticism to an entire population is a form of verbal genocide. Stop it.
Posted by: juliania | Jul 11 2025 10:34 utc | 211
I know -I have my won RE deposit here in Canada but can’t process them economically.
Posted by: canuk | Jul 10 2025 11:59 utc | 120
Things must be heating up for you eh:) I mean w carney and ford doing everything they can to get the fing of fire doused and off to China for processing:)
Posted by: Tannenhouser | Jul 11 2025 10:37 utc | 212
I will make the observation also made by Alexander Mercouris during his regular Thursday podcast, that had Trump followed his advice he would not now be in the precarious position his presidency puts him.
Indeed, I have heard President Putin say that the US appears to be following the same path that his country, Russia, was on during the final years of the USSR. Which reminded me that if that is our fate, we ought next to be on that country’s upward path, if sensible leadership was our lot. Putin’s example, when regime change came to Ukraine’s Maidan, was to hold fire, to do everything he could to maintain the peace. And here on line and elsewhere — for doing that, he was excoriated.
Hold fire — this Donald Trump has not done. Instead he has begun to curse Putin, as John Helmer points out in his last conversation with Nima. Trump appears to have lost his bearings. In this, he is becoming our Yeltsin. Not on all points, but history can be this kind of a teacher; it does sometimes rhyme.
Perhaps, as has happened for other countries, a leader like Putin will come along in future for the US of A. It might be he is presently overseas somewhere, observing his native land from afar, seeing the potential from a different perspective. If so, I wish him, or her, Godspeed. It is something to hope for. Someone, somewhere like Russia. Or China. Or even in my own native land.
There are good people everywhere.
Posted by: juliania | Jul 11 2025 11:18 utc | 213
I know -I have my won RE deposit here in Canada but can’t process them economically.
Posted by: canuk | Jul 10 2025 11:59 utc | 120
Things must be heating up for you eh:) I mean w carney and ford doing everything they can to get the fing of fire doused and off to China for processing:)
Posted by: Tannenhouser | Jul 11 2025 10:37 utc | 212
I have no minerals properties in the ring of fire but, in general, because of impending WW#3 minerals now are more highly sought after.
Posted by: canuk | Jul 11 2025 11:32 utc | 214
Donald Trump has once again been cleared from all the Russiagate nonsense – under its current director Ratcliffe who is in Trump’s camp, the CIA has now declassified some relevant material. It reveals that during the end of Obama’s 2nd term, then CIA chief Brennan was the driving force behind the inception of Russiagate. It was sold to the public as something detected by the secret services, while it really was the invention of a small group of people: Brenan, Clapper, Comey and, if you believe RT, also Obama.
My source is a 20 minutes video of Aaron Mate with Judge Napolitano,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYJByHnoRYY&t=131s
where they also discuss Netanyahu’s third visit to Washington. N apparently plans to drive the remaining Gazan population south past the Rafah border into some kind of concentration camp, with the idea of permanently relocating them to some other country. Trump is likely to greenlight that approach. He was having a bunch of Mossad agents at his dinner table in the White House, while Tulsi Gabbard was conspiciously not attending. She has tried to keep Trump from intervening in Iran, but it seems he is now rather listening to Ratcliffe.
Posted by: grunzt | Jul 11 2025 11:35 utc | 215
“The assumptions you continually make are deeply offensive, LD, and you make them frequently. Firstly and importantly, there is no such thing as a ‘chosen people’, either Scripturally or in the general understanding of the citizens of the United States, who are generally referred to as Americans although the designation applies to all the inhabitants of the lands easy to identify on a map.”
Posted by: juliania | Jul 11 2025 10:34 utc | 211
Very well written juliana; LD makes such atrocious blanket statements that are only worthy of a uneducated adolescent.
Posted by: canuk | Jul 11 2025 11:36 utc | 216
Posted by: juliania | Jul 11 2025 10:34 utc | 211
Very well written juliana; LD makes such atrocious blanket statements that are only worthy of a uneducated adolescent.
Posted by: canuk | Jul 11 2025 11:36 utc | 216
Ever heard of manifest destiny? Nevertheless, Americans act like they’re the chosen people. I think it’s so obvious that examples aren’t even necessary.
Posted by: HB Brian | Jul 11 2025 14:39 utc | 217
No, this 12 day war in the Middle East is far from over. Underneath the surface the war continues or – at least – the preparations for the next stage of the war are already underway.
(Crooke always has a very deep knowledge of events unfolding in the Middle East).
Posted by: WMG | Jul 11 2025 7:59 utc | 204
Evidently true in principle, but you’re forgetting something else that Crooke said. Israel has used up and revealed a large part of its box of tricks in the first attack. And the Iranians are alerted. It’ll take some time to prepare new ones. could be years. Netanyahu evidently wasn’t too successful in Washington. I presume ha was looking for US engagement in a more serious war, and/or agreement to his Gaza aims. But Trump won’t go for a potentially long war. In-Boom-Out is his thing, and that can’t be done.
Posted by: laguerre | Jul 11 2025 15:20 utc | 218
Posted by: laguerre | Jul 11 2025 15:20 utc | 218
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Also Trump used up the nuclear pretense.
If it was obliterated, there is nothing more to bomb.
Ironically, the Iranians have deported 700,000+ illegal immigrants since the 12 day ass kicking.
America struggles to deport 10,000 in months.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 11 2025 15:39 utc | 219
EU summons Chinese ambassador over laser incident involving German aircraft
Tsk tsk tsk
Those nasty Han seems to be picking fight with the entire ‘civilised world’ every each day.
Imagine a Martian coming to earth, after three days of exposure to western bullhorn it’d has to conclude that Han must be the fucking most aggressive bastards of planet earth. !
Posted by: denk | Jul 11 2025 16:15 utc | 220
BREAKING 🚨🏳️🇷🇺 – Taliban Seeks Russian Weapons After Diplomatic Recognition.
Following Russia’s official recognition of the Taliban government, the group has requested to purchase military equipment from Moscow.
According to Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Taliban Defense Minister Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob sent a letter highlighting interest in Russian weapons, praising their quality and suitability for Afghanistan’s defense needs.
https://x.com/MonitorX99800/status/1943713355547443483
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 11 2025 16:49 utc | 221
Trump funding Ukraine via NATO exposes for all to see The Biden-Trump-Conjoined-at-the-(Lower)-Hip Globalist Theorem. . . or put directly Biden, Trump: Two Cheeks of the Same Ass.
Very intimate.
Posted by: elmagnostic | Jul 11 2025 17:53 utc | 222
Every month there’s a new fake news story spread about super-majority White Russia or Belarus importing millions of non-Whites, so people in 50% White America where it’s actually happening can say “Heh see, they’re just as bad as us.”
Posted by: Pax Tube | Jul 11 2025 18:58 utc | 223
I am not comfortable reading this from The Cradle
Turkiye inks deal with Libya to deepen military ties
https://thecradle.co/articles/%20turkiye-inks-deal-with-libya-to-deepen-military-ties
sub-heading
Turkiye’s latest military agreement with Tripoli follows similar moves in Central and South Asia as part of Ankara’s NATO-aligned regional strategy
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 11 2025 19:52 utc | 224
LoveDonbass | Jul 10 2025 16:56 utc | 157
*** Canada is a British colony. It will become American when Britain bends the knee.***
What makes you think the administrators of ‘Britain’ would ever promote themselves from full-face-in-the-dogshit grovel to mere kneeling?
Posted by: Cynic | Jul 11 2025 22:19 utc | 225
Until they put his away, Zohran Mamdani has become my favorite subject: a rare, clear beam of delightful enlightenment. Shining a spotlight on the general money-marinated depravity of Dims; just hela fun, six ways to Sunday…
Hopefully some schadenfreude will lighten up your Friday. A Wall Street Journal exclusive account describes how billionaires and Zionists are besides themselves with the prospect that simply throwing money behind opponents to Zohran Mamdani in his bid to become New York City mayor is not likely to succeed. But that isn’t stopping them from trying.
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jul 11 2025 23:49 utc | 226
https://www.rt.com/news/621306-germany-develop-nuclear-weapons/
Germany could develop nuclear weapons – IAEA
Berlin has the necessary capabilities and materials to develop an atomic bomb in a matter of months, Rafael Grossi has said
(The understandably negative stigma of) Germany making and possessing its own nuclear weapons is one thing (and as far as I know the ones it already has on its soil are foreign-owned anyhoo). Some of the commentary calling for the US/Trump and/or Israel to bomb Germany’s nuclear facilities (especially from folk who normally oppose/condemn US/Israeli imperialism) is another thing.
Case in point, and quoth the as-of-this-writing most upvoted comment:
The U.S. now needs to drop bunker busters on all German nuclear facilities. Assassinating Germany’s nuclear scientists may also be a necessary step.
Why the USA of all countries? How is the US any more trustworthy after what it did to Hiroshima and Nagasaki? I thought we were opposing US imperialism, not encouraging it! What am I missing here?
To end on a related note, it reminds me of an older comment someone wrote:
lot of the anti-war, anti-Imperial crowd are victims to that sort of propaganda, including even people like Scott Ritter according to [another comment in the article]. It’s so bad that a lot of the RT Commentariat would probably come to NATO’s gallant defense if meant keeping Germany down some more. However, this does not subtract from the horrors of Nazism or the sheer masochistic idiocy of present German policy.
Posted by: joey_n | Jul 11 2025 23:51 utc | 227
Everybody knows it, nobody talk about it, its left to Brazilian economist Paula Batista…
India is a fucking parasite and trojan in BRICS/SCO
Enjoying the benefits of NSB largess while thwarting every majority agreed initiative.
Posted by: denk | Jul 12 2025 2:35 utc | 228
Re: Air India Dreamliner crash.
The preliminary report says that “someone” in the cockpit switched off the fuel feed to both engines soon after take-off. Someone else asked why the fuel feed was switched off and someone switched the feed on again.
But the delay in restoration of engine power came too late to recover speed and altitude.
Investigators determined that all systems on the 787 were in perfect working order prior to the crash.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Jul 12 2025 2:45 utc | 229
🚨 JUST IN:
🇺🇸 FBI Deputy Director Bongino may resign over the Epstein cover-up and shielding of pedophiles — CNN.
https://x.com/Middle_Eastern0/status/1943854828586762371
The Epstein thing has been a total own goal. All they needed to do was stall and find a patsy or two to convict.
Now it is snowballing despite a paid astroturf campaign on social media.
Tucker has gone on the war path, talking about Israel now. LOL
Whatever happens, Trump needs to fire his Communications director.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 12 2025 3:00 utc | 230
Tucker and Bannon, two huge voices on the MAGA right. Wow.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 12 2025 3:02 utc | 232
Posted by: Cynic | Jul 11 2025 22:19 utc | 229
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I don’t think it will happen. Your reading comprehension is poor.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 12 2025 3:04 utc | 233
When the American empire finally collapses, historians won’t be stunned by the greed of the elite; they’ll be stunned by the loyalty of the poor.
The working class didn’t just vote against their own interests. They worshipped the billionaires robbing them. They slashed their own benefits, gutted their own healthcare, and cheered while the rich wrote off private jets as tax deductions. Not because it helped them. But because they were told it would hurt someone else.
And that, right there, is how you rig a democracy without even breaking a single law.
https://x.com/ShawnRyan762/status/1943675733886316629
I’m not too big on the Hoi Polloi or class warfare.
The only kind of government worthy of the name is a revolutionary government.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 12 2025 3:17 utc | 234
Tucker and Bannon, two huge voices on the MAGA right. Wow.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 12 2025 3:02 utc | 236
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How a Chinese tycoon built a pro-Trump money machine
BBC
https://www.bbc.com › world-us-canada-65019134
16 Jul 2024 — Guo Wengui has been convicted of running a billion dollar scam in the US. His followers tell their stories.
Guo Wengui
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Guo_Wengui
Between 2018 and 2020, Guo launched two media projects with Bannon, G News and GTV Media Group, which spread misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic, …
Biography
Twitter campaign against Guo
Civil lawsuits
G News and GTV
Chinese business tycoon and Bannon ally Guo Wengui …
The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com › world › mar › ho-wan-…
15 Mar 2023 — US attorney says Wengui, also known as Miles Guo and Ho Wan Kwok, used stolen money to buy a $3.5m Ferrari and finance a $37m yacht.
Who is Guo Wengui, the Chinese billionaire who owns …
NBC News
https://www.nbcnews.com › politics › justice-department
20 Aug 2020 — Bannon was arrested on Guo Wengui’s yacht Thursday. The arrest shines a light on Bannon’s relationship with Guo, who has his own history of …
Guo Wengui, the Chinese tycoon and convicted fraudster …
The Straits Times
https://www.straitstimes.com › singapore › guo-wengui-…
19 Jul 2024 — Guo and Mr Bannon began working together, uniting over a shared enemy: the CPC. Guo told The New York Times in a 2018 interview: “We both …
The ‘business’ between Steve Bannon and Guo Wengui
ThinkChina
https://www.thinkchina.sg › society › business-between-s…
28 Aug 2020 — Bannon quickly linked up with Guo Wengui, a fugitive Chinese billionaire in the US, and continued his right-wing propaganda while getting into anti-Communist …
Steven Bannon associate Guo Wengui charged with fraud
CNBC
https://www.cnbc.com › 2023/03/15 › doj-charges-guo…
15 Mar 2023 — Prosecutors accused Guo Wengui, an associate of former Trump White House advisor Steve Bannon, of a large conspiracy that duped his online …
Bannon-allied Chinese billionaire arrested on fraud charges
Politico
https://www.politico.com › news › 2023/03/15 › banno…
15 Mar 2023 — Guo Wengui and his financier, Kin Ming Je, were charged in a 12-count indictment with wire fraud, securities fraud, bank fraud and money laundering.
Exiled Chinese Billionaire Guo Wengui Is Convicted of Fraud
The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com › 2024/07/16 › nyregion › g…
16 Jul 2024 — A federal jury found that Guo Wengui defrauded investors, many his own fervent supporters, of hundreds of millions of dollars. He could face decades in prison.
Who Is Guo Wengui, the Chinese Emigre With Links to …
Foreign Policy
https://foreignpolicy.com › 2020/08/26 › guo-wengui-c…
26 Aug 2020 — Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon greets the fugitive Chinese billionaire Guo Wengui before introducing him at a news …
People also as
Posted by: denk | Jul 12 2025 3:26 utc | 235
ZH has a posting up with the title
Tensions Explode Between Bongino And Bondi Amid DOJ Epstein Memo Fallout: Reports
Supposedly, if Bongino resigns, Patel is right behind him.
Trump trying to bury the Epstein story is way beyond stupid and sure fits my claim that Trump is the perfect face of dying God Of Mammon cult empire.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 12 2025 4:10 utc | 236
Posted by: psychohistorian | Jul 12 2025 4:10 utc | 240
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I am learning from the Chinese. A lot of issues resolve themselves with patience.
I think Bongino is a dirtbag and Patel is banging a Zionist chick, but I will be surprised if they both make a move. This could be a power play on their part, too.
Regardless, this was poorly played by Trump. A demonstration of poor judgment and a lack of cunning.
I keep hearing from Larry Johnson and others that Trump is not well and not as sharp as he once was.
It’s also pretty interesting to me that JD Vance disappeared after talking about the Epstein List aggressively during the campaign.
Interesting times.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 12 2025 4:21 utc | 237
Dr Mahathir [100 birthday]
DJT is a nutjob
China doesnt colonise us like the west
Thats all folks !
Posted by: denk | Jul 12 2025 4:52 utc | 238
Posted by: denk | Jul 12 2025 3:26 utc | 239
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Bannon and Carlson are Sinophobes, but the MAGAs listen closely to them.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 12 2025 4:55 utc | 239
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MAGA = white supremacists union.
Posted by: denk | Jul 12 2025 5:01 utc | 240
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Yeah, Zionism is white supremacist.
MAGA is a Zionist movement.
Have you seen Chairman Kim’s comments about Israel and Zionism? It is the death penalty in the DPRK now to promote Zionism.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 12 2025 5:37 utc | 241
India is a fucking parasite and trojan in BRICS/SCO
Posted by: denk | Jul 12 2025 2:35 utc | 232
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India will break or be broken.
Why Keeladi Is Shaking Up India’s History and Politics ==> https://youtu.be/orgaAUlMXjQ
Posted by: too scents | Jul 12 2025 5:51 utc | 242
NOW – Tucker Carlson says Epstein was “working on behalf” of Israel and Israel was “committing crimes” on American soil.
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1943833522344755521
Watching Zionism unravelling in real-time.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 12 2025 5:55 utc | 243
It’s also pretty interesting to me that JD Vance disappeared after talking about the Epstein List aggressively during the campaign. Interesting times.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 12 2025 4:21 utc | 241
Every time I see a pic of JD Vance I get an image of Jerry Falwell Jr. sitting on a chair in the corner of the room bashing his bishop while his wife is on the bed fooling around with a young gigolo.
Strange people, those elites.
Posted by: waynorinorway | Jul 12 2025 6:15 utc | 244
A good summary:“Findings on an Illegal War that the West Enthusiastically Waged and Lost“ (Haenseler):
Iran has probably suspended hostilities under the influence of Russia and China.
When weighing up all interests, the disadvantages for Russia, China and ultimately Iran appear to have outweighed the foreseeable advantages, at least for the time being.
The following thoughts should be evaluated as such, as we have not been able to gain insight into the Russian and Chinese decision-making process. As a matter of principle, Russia and China do not let us look at their cards:
Firstly, Russia – always de-escalating – must take into account the interests of Israelis of Russian descent. At around 2 million, their number is considerable.
Secondly, a continuation of hostilities would very probably have forced Russia to become more involved due to the existing treaty of principle on strategic cooperation, even if there is no mention of obligatory military support in the event of war in the treaty. There was therefore a risk of becoming a de facto participant in the war against a country whose population has extensive connections to Russia and a large proportion of whom speak Russian. In addition, Russia is making great military progress in Ukraine and does not want to disperse its forces.
Thirdly, remember the patience that Russia exercised towards Israel during the Syrian war, despite the loss of material and, above all, human lives. For example, Israeli warplanes deliberately used a Russian unarmed aircrafts as cover against Syrian air defenses.
Fourthly, a further indication of Russia’s reticence towards Israel is the fact that the involvement of the Mossad in the Ukrainian drone attack against military airfields in Russia is still not officially mentioned in Russia, although many Russian blogs report on it and the facts leave little room for interpretation in view of comparable attacks by the Israelis in Iran.
Fifthly, a full-scale war in Iran would also come at an inopportune time for Russia in economic terms. The north-south transport corridor from St. Petersburg via the Caucasus and Iran to India is nearing completion and is of considerable importance to both countries.
China’s interest is more obvious. It is primarily concerned with economic reasons. A war in Iran would have severely disrupted the Chinese in the realization of their Belt and Road project, in which Iran plays a major role and represents an important link in its further expansion to Africa and Europe.
The Chinese also purchase a great deal of natural gas and oil from Iran. An escalation would have severely damaged China’s economic interests. For example, immediately after the ceasefire began, the US contractually allowed China to purchase oil and gas from Iran without sanctions. This provides Iran with income and China with planning security, if one can speak of reliability and security in agreements with the Trump administration. The current resurgence of social media reports from the White House about 500% secondary sanctions against Russia’s trading partners sends its regards.
Part of the gas and oil that China receives will be used by Iran – another agreement that was reached very quickly after June 25, 2025 – as payment for modern Chinese fighter jets. Previously, China insisted on cash payment, which delayed the realization of the project for a long time.
We assume that Iran, Russia and China have been given something by the US in return for arms silence: Firstly, the US is allowing China to officially purchase gas and oil from Iran, as already described. In return, the US now appears to have regained access to rare earths from China. This is of paramount interest to the US, especially for the defense industry. Rare earths are not rare and the US also has significant deposits. However, the US does not have the complete production cycle from mining to refining, while China does.
Russia has probably obtained American concessions with regard to Ukraine – the details are not known, but the news on Ukraine certainly suggests this.
Trump has already admitted that Iran has hit Israel hard and those responsible in the White House and the Pentagon are well aware that a continuation of the Iranian attacks would have completely destroyed Israel. As a result, the US would have lost even more face than it already has. From its imperial perspective, it would have been forced to launch further military strikes against Iran, for which the US is neither economically nor militarily (lack of ammunition) prepared. A few B2 bombers would not have been enough, because Iran cannot be dealt with militarily with bombs and missiles alone. Any further attack by the US on Iran would in turn have forced Iran to attack the US bases in the Persian Gulf. And then what?
It seems that not only Israel has been shot out, but that the Americans simply do not have enough ammunition either. Three reasons for this: firstly, for three years the US has been emptying its stockpiles for Ukraine, despite the lack of successes. It is therefore not surprising that the US announced yesterday that it would not be supplying any more weapons to Ukraine. Second, since October 7, 2023, the US has been supplying vast quantities of ammunition for the genocide in Gaza. Thirdly, the US’s production capacities are anything but sufficient to meet demand. As mentioned above, Israel used as many air defense missiles in the 12 days of the war with Iran as the US is able to produce in two years.
The need is now so great that the production of Patriot missiles, for example, is also taking place in other countries. Germany, for example, will produce 1000 of these missiles. However, there is no mention of how long this will take. In a report dated 20 July 2024 , the Russian newspaper Kommersant, referring to the US Department of Defense, writesabout the increase in annual production of missiles for the Patriot missile defence system from 500 to 750 units. To put the figures mentioned here into context: To defend against an Iranian missile, the Israeli air defense system fired up to 25 of these missiles at the target. This figure is extreme and certainly due to specific circumstances. But as a rule of thumb: for every missile that attacks – and Iran has thousands of them – there are at least two interceptor missiles.
https://xymphora.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Menz | Jul 12 2025 8:26 utc | 245
@Menz | Jul 12 2025 8:26 utc | 249
Very useful. Ta.
Posted by: Don Firineach | Jul 12 2025 9:21 utc | 246
Re Dreamliner crash
Reaction to the report, from the aviation community, see wwwDOTppruneDOTorg, implies belief in crew member suicide. ( plus mass murder, of course )
Posted by: necromancer | Jul 12 2025 9:52 utc | 247
implies belief in crew member suicide
necromancer | Jul 12 2025 9:52 utc | 251
Except that the second crew member then said he had NOT cut the fuel feed. (Also on tape). However, it is possible that the “result” of any enquiry will be “pilot error” to save Airbus share prices. (Can’t do a “boeing”, can we?)
“Every time I see a pic of JD Vance I get an image of Jerry Falwell Jr.”
Posted by: waynorinorway | Jul 12 2025 6:15 utc | 248
Perhaps you should properly educated yourself and watch, “Hillbilly Elegy” a movie of which JD wrote the book about his early life story. If you do watch it, you will immediately disabuse yourself from comparing JD with Jerry Falwell.
Or you can still keep posting your ‘fantasies’ on the man.
Posted by: canuk | Jul 12 2025 11:51 utc | 249
Posted by: Menz | Jul 12 2025 8:26 utc | 249
Excellent analysis, thanks.
I would add one more idea that China and Russia would take into account when advising Iran to consider a ceasefire:
6. China and Russia both know that the USA’s power will decrease over time because of its monstrous debt, over reach as the Axis powers-for lack of a better term- are ,at the same time, becoming stronger as the their economic and military power increase.
Posted by: canuk | Jul 12 2025 11:58 utc | 250
Except that the second crew member then said he had NOT cut the fuel feed.
Posted by: Stonebird | Jul 12 2025 10:07 utc | 252
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The ghost in the haunted Boeing machine needs to be exorcised.
Posted by: too scents | Jul 12 2025 12:04 utc | 251
disabuse yourself from comparing JD with Jerry Falwell.
Posted by: canuk | Jul 12 2025 11:51 utc | 253
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Your man crush envy is embarrassing. Vance is such an obvious plant.
Posted by: too scents | Jul 12 2025 12:11 utc | 252
Your man crush envy is embarrassing. Vance is such an obvious plant.
Posted by: too scents | Jul 12 2025 12:11 utc | 256
You are another ‘pundit’ whom didn’t read the book or watch the movie; if you want to hold desperately on to your cherished VDS (Vance Derangement Syndrome) its better that you don’t educate yourself.
Posted by: canuk | Jul 12 2025 12:17 utc | 253
or watch the movie;
Posted by: canuk | Jul 12 2025 12:17 utc | 257
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If you’ve seen one Disney Princess you’ve seen them all.
Posted by: too scents | Jul 12 2025 12:36 utc | 254
from Caitlin (obviously):
A new report from WIRED has found that the supposedly “raw” video footage of Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell which Trump’s Department of Justice released to prove Epstein committed suicide was in fact digitally manipulated.
“Metadata embedded in the video and analyzed by WIRED and independent video forensics experts shows that rather than being a direct export from the prison’s surveillance system, the footage was modified, likely using the professional editing tool Adobe Premiere Pro,” the report reads. “The file appears to have been assembled from at least two source clips, saved multiple times, exported, and then uploaded to the DOJ’s website, where it was presented as ‘raw’ footage.”
This just keeps getting better and better.
Epstein is officially a leftist conspiracy theory now. Rightists dropped it when they supported the president who’s covering it up, so now it’s ours. From now on if you want to talk about Epstein you are joining the side of the commies. Welcome to the revolution, comrade.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2025/07/12/genocide-summer-camp-and-other-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix/
Posted by: Aleph_Null | Jul 12 2025 13:59 utc | 255
I’d say that his tariffs will backfire on him as they did with China, however – EU leader are far too stupid and easily duped into carrying out the USA’s bidding.
“President Trump announces 30% tariff on the European Union and Mexico.
Trump says if they retaliate, these tariffs will be raised by the same amount as the retaliation.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 12 2025 14:48 utc | 256
I’d say that his tariffs will backfire on him as they did with China, however – EU leader are far too stupid and easily duped into carrying out the USA’s bidding.
“President Trump announces 30% tariff on the European Union and Mexico.
Trump says if they retaliate, these tariffs will be raised by the same amount as the retaliation.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 12 2025 14:50 utc | 257
Why am I not surprised by this.
“Julie Eadeh will be the next Consul General in Hong Kong for the US.
She was caught meeting with Hong Kong rioters during the 2019 riots in Hong Kong.
The US was directly involved in instigating and organizing the riot that almost destroyed Hong Kong.”
https://nitter.poast.org/Kathleen_Tyson_/status/1943986144582287433#m
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 12 2025 14:54 utc | 258
US Congresswoman Nancy Mace asked on Twitter, “Who sleeps better at night knowing that Donald Trump is President?”
A sycophantic rhetorical question…
One of the replies, “Epstein’s clients”
Womp womp
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 12 2025 15:14 utc | 259
Due Dissidence on the Texas flood
https://rumble.com/v6w2t7k-texas-governor-insults-those-seeking-accountability-for-flood-disaster.html
Kern County discussed but did not invest in flash flood alert system for 30+ years unlike Comfort just up river with 0 casualties. What happens when get a few cranks in wrong positions in a community.
Posted by: Thurl | Jul 12 2025 15:30 utc | 260
This is useful – Great Game & Big Picture – Glenn Diesen with …
Lasha Kasradze: Azerbaijan as the Next Frontline Against Russia & Iran?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4ZOUrdlfO8 [40 mins
Posted by: Don Firineach | Jul 12 2025 15:49 utc | 261
Rainmaker cloud seeding days prior to Texas Flood.
https://rumble.com/v6w2hia-there-was-nothing-natural-about-the-texas-floods-dane-wigington.html
Posted by: Thurl | Jul 12 2025 16:20 utc | 262
I’ve lived here more than half my life and I haven’t ever encountered anyone here who corresponds to your description.
Posted by: juliania | Jul 11 2025 10:34 utc | 211
You say you lived in “us” half your life. You don’t mention working…..are you perhaps an elite who has never had to rub elbows with working people?
I was born in the US almost 3/4 of a century ago. I have worked 50+ years, starting at age 16. I am so glad that this Epstein issue is on the table, I am now going to tell my story.
I am female. I was sexually abused at 15 by my stepfather (an old pervert). I was raped at 20 by a DEA agent and raped and sodomized by his 6 ft 189 lb buddy. I got an attorney and sued the agency in court. This was Houston,TX mid 70’s. It turned out the judge was extremely corrupt and wanted a bribe from my attorney. When we did not pony up, this is true my friend, the judge walked right up to me and my attorney and said to me that he had a golf tee time scheduled and that hearing this case would make him miss it. He was furious that we did not plead. I wanted a jury. The case was heard but DEA of course lied. One DEA witness, I had never seen before. All totally made up. A few years later the judge was indicted and found guilty (for bribes) but did he spend a second of time in jail/prison. Of course not. But he stuck many an innocent person in jail when they did not pay his bribe.
Bottom line is this, America’s elite are exempt from the law and always have been! There is nothing new here. As a working female, in a male dominated profession, my personal experience is that aging “red, blooded American men” want young women. Most aging men I know would love to “pop” a girls “cherry”.
The reason Trump wants this to go away is that the truth is for aging men with money, young girls have been and are regularly “consumed and disposed of” for eternity. In Jesus’s time, girls were married off at the age of 7-9 to old men who sometimes waited until they began menstruating before “taking” them. It is no secret to me that aging men want young girls. This is why it is so easy to blackmail them, they eagerly relish the activity.
Posted by: CeaClearly | Jul 12 2025 17:21 utc | 263
I hope Rubio has changed his handshake. I shook his hand at a “TEA party” (remember those) before he was elected to anything. As a business person who has shook a lot of hands, I was taken aback at the weak, “gay” handshake. If he had that same handshake for the Russian envoys being USA Secretary of State, it would show real weakness to them. Oh, wait, I guess they already know……
Posted by: CeaClearly | Jul 12 2025 17:36 utc | 264
“The assumptions you continually make are deeply offensive, LD, and you make them frequently. Firstly and importantly, there is no such thing as a ‘chosen people’, either Scripturally [ . . . ]”
Posted by: juliania | Jul 11 2025 10:34 utc | 211
I’m more than a little amazed that this statement has so far gone uncontested.
Deuteronomy 14:2:
“For you are a people holy to the Lord your God; the Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.” – Deuteronomy 14:2
I suppose one could argue that the New Testament abrogates that, but there are those people who believe in the Old Testament only.
Posted by: malenkov | Jul 12 2025 18:20 utc | 265
Posted by: malenkov | Jul 12 2025 18:20 utc | 269
As a bible reader you must then know of the parable Jesus told (yes this is parapharased) regarding the landowner who sent representatives to collect profits from the workers but the workers beat up the reps and so then the landowner sent his son, thinking surely they would respect the son. However the workers (chosen one’s?- remember this is a parable) killed the son.
So even if they were originally the “chosen ones” that ended when Jesus was persecuted by the “elders” and so therefore Jesus declared he was giving “it” to the gentiles because they would recieve it. IMO the “chosen” status died with Jesus.
BTW it is a known fact that women have done more throughout the 2K years to elevate Chritianity than men. Is it because Jesus treated women as equals while the ROW thought of women as something to own?
Posted by: CeaClearly | Jul 12 2025 18:38 utc | 266
Re Dreamliner crash
The correct verbal response to double fuel shut off at rotate speed is “ FXCKN HELL!!!”
Not “ why did you … “
Captain covering his soon to be dead ass…
Posted by: necromancer | Jul 12 2025 18:43 utc | 267
@ CeaClearly | Jul 12 2025 18:38 utc | 270
I’m guessing that you didn’t read the last sentence of my comment? Nobody Jewish by religion would impute any authority to a New Testament parable.
Posted by: malenkov | Jul 12 2025 18:55 utc | 268
Posted by: malenkov | Jul 12 2025 18:55 utc | 272
You did not use the word “Jewish” in your comment. Interesting, because I did not think anyone “Jewish by religion” read the Holy Bible and that they have their own reference material.
Posted by: CeaClearly | Jul 12 2025 19:06 utc | 269
CeaClearly: I did refer to “those people who believe in the Old Testament only”, n’est-ce pas?
Posted by: malenkov | Jul 12 2025 19:10 utc | 270
Posted by: malenkov | Jul 12 2025 19:10 utc | 274
If you meant “Jewish by religion” why didn’t you say that? Please sir, tell me, what book does the average “Jewish by religion” person use in their synagogues? I am gentile, they won’t let me in. So I don’t know what goes on but I thought they used a Talmud or something like that not the Holy Bible that you are referring to.
Posted by: CeaClearly | Jul 12 2025 19:16 utc | 271
@ CeaClearly | Jul 12 2025 19:16 utc | 275
On what basis do you call me “sir”?
As for the rest of your comment, I am not responsible for your profound ignorance in religious matters.
Posted by: malenkov | Jul 12 2025 19:21 utc | 272
Posted by: malenkov | Jul 12 2025 19:21 utc | 276
While you were pontificating, I looked it up and according the internet, people who are “Jewish by religion” do not use or read the book that you referred to in their religion. Therefore, back at ya, I am not responsible for your profound ignorance in religious matters. But thank you, I do now know the answer to the question that I asked you.
Posted by: CeaClearly | Jul 12 2025 19:31 utc | 273
Shorter CeaClearly: “It’s YOUR fault I didn’t know that religious Jews don’t accept the authority of the New Testament, SIR!”
Buh bye.
Posted by: malenkov | Jul 12 2025 19:39 utc | 274
Posted by: malenkov | Jul 12 2025 19:39 utc | 278
You must be one heck of a thin skinned snowflake!!!!
Posted by: CeaClearly | Jul 12 2025 19:45 utc | 275
Twitter’s Dune bot spat out this quote today.
“The most dangerous game in the universe is to govern from an oracular base. We do not consider ourselves wise enough or brave enough to play that game.”
The way the Western hegemon rules could be considered an oracular base. That is certainly what they are seeking with AGI.
Epistemology is essential and often disregarded.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 12 2025 19:48 utc | 276
waynorinorway @ 248
Every time I see a pic of JD Vance I get an image of Jerry Falwell Jr. sitting on a chair in the corner of the room bashing his bishop while his wife is on the bed fooling around with a young gigolo.
Strange people, those elites.
Gilbert Gottfried already covered it:
***Warning, Not Safe For Work***
Extreme, dragged out, super foul mouthed gross out, but, it’s all about the punchline, the joke is structured to make you slog it out for the epic punchline.
Gilbert Gottfried: The Aristocrats
Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jul 12 2025 21:11 utc | 277
I never really understand why MoA wants to act like these supposed anti-Western alliances are powerful enough to stand up to the West, or really have anything more than an uncomfortable alliance with each other. Russia, Iran, China- they ultimately look out for themselves when push comes to shove. And they really wouldn’t be able to challenge the US even if they did always stick together.
And I’m not even going to get started on BRICS+, other than to say that I won’t believe in the power of BRICS+ until more than 5% of people outside of MoA have even heard of BRICS+. (And BRICS+ included the US ally India to begin with, and now they also include Egypt, and the ultimate US ally, the UAE.)
Posted by: Budget Cry | Jul 12 2025 21:44 utc | 278
CrossTalk: Acting With Impunity
https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/621282-west-impunity-destroying-international-system/
“The West has much to answer for: using Ukraine as a proxy to defeat Russia, aiding and abetting Israel’s many acts of aggression and genocidal war against the Palestinians, and finally, taking part in an unprovoked war on Iran.
What do all these transgressions have in common? A sense of legal impunity. The West is literally destroying the international system.
CrossTalking with Ramzy Baroud, Scott Ritter and Ehsan Safamejad.”
Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 12 2025 23:37 utc | 279
My conspiratorial thinking
Please tell me if my following thoughts are likely, or if I’ve just become overly paranoid.
Re: Trumps “craziness”
Trump’s craziness still works for the Uniparty, as it allows the Deep State to implement policies they want, which would otherwise seem out of character for the democrat party.
His craziness is also used to support the illusion of the two party system, the illusion of Democracy. Also, it keeps the People polarized into opposite groups, Divided and Ruled, so we are much less inclined to unite against the government.
Re: Israel’s craziness, and the social/media backlash
Something about this is fishy. So the Israelis are suddenly completely uninhibited about turning their psychopathy up to 11 ? And it has suddenly become mainstream to be against them. As if they were being sacrificed/cut loose by their (British ?) partners. Israeli psychopathic brutality notwithstanding.
Something about this is fishy. What is going on here, under the carnage show and backlash ? Did their (British ?) partners encourage Israel to let loose, in order to cut them loose ? Is this being used as a big distraction for some kind of hidden shenanigans ?
Re: Controlled Demolition of economies. It’s seems to me impossible that European governments are so incompetent and stupid that they are so steadfastly destroying not only the fabric of their society, but also their economies. I imagine the idea is that money is only as good as the power it confers, and the rich are purposefully taking a hit, while impoverishing everybody else, to better take advantage of everybody else, buying everything up for pennies on the dollar and taking advantage of ultimately economic slave labour.
Now, is the whole “Israel the Genociders” thing being used as a smokescreen, or to somehow divest the Jews of their riches ? Or what ?
Anyhow it seems to me like something here is happening, hidden to us.
Posted by: Featherless | Jul 13 2025 0:30 utc | 280
The US midterm election is going to be a bloodbath if the Democrats capitalize on this devastating message.
https://x.com/ossoff/status/1944140393685086557
Trump could release the Epstein files tomorrow, and it wouldn’t help. Most people get very hurt when they are disappointed. By not handling the Epstein stuff well, it makes it very easy for the Dems to play the sexual predator card against Trump.
Regardless of what I think about justice and Epstein, this was a stupid error to make politically; it will go down as one of the biggest unforced errors in American political history.
Now he is making weird and desperate social media postings pleading with people to forget about Epstein.
Screenshot of post
https://x.com/ArmchairW/status/1944193792078492153
Note: Epstein was prosecuted during Trump’s first administration
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 13 2025 1:31 utc | 281
People move in herds, and there are a lot of MAGA people burning their red hats today, making videos.
What happens is, ex. I am a MAGA, not super mad about Epstein, but I see members of my tribe overreacting, and while I may not make a video, my enthusiasm for identifying with the group has diminished a bit. I may feel a little self-conscious about being an public Trump supporter.
Herd behavior is very difficult to override. We get social cues from others, and sometimes, we follow them because it’s too much energy to go against the herd without a payoff.
Normally, people avoid the herd (vaxx, for example) to avoid harm. But in the case of going against MAGA, there is no upside except signaling that you are against Epstein or pedophilia, whatever the narrative is shaping up to be.
The thing is, the Democrats can hint that supporting Trump is supporting grooming or whatever, and they don’t have a leg to push back from because Trump refuses to go after Epstein criminals.
Any on-the-fence Trump supporters who aren’t hardcore MAGAs may not want to risk signaling that they are soft on sex abuse.
Rational or not, that is how the social mind works.
And that is how you flip house seats in the midterms, and then leading up to 2028, how you attempt to impeach Trump once again.
Like it or not, that is the political/social math.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 13 2025 2:34 utc | 282
When I talk about the ascendancy of China, people often imply that China being “the” superpower means we will see Uyghur death camps and social credit scores. Fox News propaganda is really powerful. It’s not just Fox. British Muslim influencers also believe CIA narratives.
China has 56 different ethnicities.
Unlike the US, China doesn’t practice genocide and ethnic cleansing.
https://x.com/RebeccaYChan/status/1944219427979079826
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Who knew that China had a Tatar population?
Today is the Saban Festival of the Tatar ethnic group in Xinjiang.🍎💃🍞
A short festival video from a Uyghur area.
https://x.com/UlyssesFinn/status/1943901886320693680
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Jul 13 2025 2:39 utc | 283
CN Live: Epstein Justice?
https://x.com/Consortiumnews/status/1944185283358208284
“With Nick Bryant.”
Posted by: JohnGilberts | Jul 13 2025 5:03 utc | 284
Featherless
I think that the EU and Trump are destroying their economies in order to…merge them and turn into an authoritarian fortress. But it seems like a desperate move indeed. The US are overstretched and its allies look bad. There will be a day after, and it will be gloomy to be Western Ukrainian or Israeli.
Posted by: Tom | Jul 13 2025 5:05 utc | 285
@Tom – thank you. Ya I figure us plebs are in for some kinda police state, definitely. Things just seem, not only bad – like usual – but bizarre, in an artificial way.
Anybody else seeing any details in their crystal ball ? Are these things connected, or did my mind bring random events together in an incoherent way ?
Posted by: Featherless | Jul 13 2025 5:33 utc | 286
Not sure if posted already. Is something going to happen in Iran or Ukraine?
When evis is too busy to party, it cannot be good for humanity.
The Dominos closest to the Pentagon is reporting high traffic.
Freddies Beach Bar, the closest gay bar to the Pentagon is reporting very low traffic.
As of 4:37pm ET
https://x.com/PenPizzaReport/status/1944134633433739694?t=eVy1p4HyIBVKZiSutXL9HA&s=19
Posted by: Friend_of_MLK | Jul 13 2025 8:09 utc | 287
O’Donnell is an American born in New York state.
“US President Donald Trump has threatened to “take away” talk show host, actress, and comedian Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship after she criticized his administration’s handling of the deadly floods in Texas.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 13 2025 9:16 utc | 289
LoveDonbass (287).
There are no real good guys – ever wonder why the Dalai Lama, is a CIA asset, think Tibet, as for Russia – Putin quaffed Quails Eggs with Tony Blair, (when Blair was PM) in St Petersburg, at the opera whilst Chechnya burned.
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 13 2025 9:26 utc | 291
Never mind Trump removing Rosie O’Donnell’s US citizenship, Trump would do better to follow suit here – the same should apply to other nations as well.
“Americans who fight for other countries, including Ukraine and Israel, should be stripped of their US citizenship, journalist Tucker Carlson has argued.
Speaking at a conservative conference in Tampa, Florida called Turning Point USA on Friday, Carlson was asked whether he believes US nationals can pledge allegiance to two countries at once. The former Fox News categorically denied the notion of double loyalty.
“I think anybody… who serves in a foreign military should lose his citizenship immediately. There are a lot of Americans who’ve served in the IDF, they should lose their citizenship. There’s a lot of Americans who’ve served in Ukraine and they should lose their citizenship. You can’t fight for another country and remain an American. Period.””
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 13 2025 9:31 utc | 292
The (ICC) has lost its credibility – the majority of its members, (more likely don’t want to) with regards to changes to amendments to expand the courts powers, complicity is probably the their reasons for not voting for it.
“The International Criminal Court (ICC) has not been able to pass an amendment that would expand its powers regarding investigations of world leaders over crimes of aggression.
A crime of aggression is considered the most serious offense under the Rome Statute, which established the court. Currently, the ICC can prosecute heads of state over war crimes and genocide, but in order for it to launch proceedings over the crime of aggression, the Kampala amendments of 2010, which define the body’s jurisdiction in the area, must be ratified by all sides of a conflict. So far, they have been backed by just 41 of the 125 members of the court.
The ICC held a special session at the UN headquarters in New York from Monday to Wednesday to decide on the harmonization amendment, which was proposed by Germany, Costa Rica, Slovenia, Sierra Leone, and Vanuatu. It calls for the court to be allowed to initiate crime of aggression investigations if at least one of the warring parties has backed the Kampala amendments.
However, members of the court have not been able to find common ground on the issue, with the UK, Canada, France, Japan, and New Zealand insisting that the final decision should be made after at least two-thirds of ICC participants have ratified the Kampala changes.”
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 13 2025 9:41 utc | 293
Not sure where this guy lives, but it is ultimately about the NSA and cybersecurity on the top level. Maybe younger pupils are made to believe in a parallel, democratic world (and they want the geeks among them to start with linux and continue from there).
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1e7smz1/kde_urges_the_european_commission_restore_funding/
I have also noticed that the administrations, and not only in universities, have started to have a month-date-year format. It says it all.
Posted by: Tom | Jul 13 2025 12:39 utc | 294
Posted by: Tom | Jul 13 2025 12:45 utc | 295
Russias leadership is so weak and dumb that it gets tricked again and again by those pesky anglosaxons.
Outplayed and outsmarted by collective West!
Either way it puts Russia in a losers position. Be it evil West that outplays noble Russia, or Russia being run by dickhead diphits with farts instead of brains.
Posted by: dreamrpg | Jul 13 2025 13:45 utc | 296
The Russian government as a whole is largely an incompetent and predatory mess. Just because Western propaganda about Russia is fake doesn’t mean Russian propaganda is real.
Posted by: pegobry | Jul 14 2025 0:41 utc | 297
So a Westminster pen pusher accidentally released info that the British government was secretly letting Afghanis into Britain – Afghanis that helped the West oppress Afghan citizens for the West’s benefit.
A superinjunction was thrown over any info getting out, until this pen pusher accidently released the info
Posted by: Republicofscotland | Jul 15 2025 12:08 utc | 298