Alastair Crooke told in one of his interviews with “Judge” Napolitano that Iran in the 12 day war also attacked a communication hub on an US military base in Qatar. Some links about those iranian attacks. (I repost the links I posted before).
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2025-07-11/satellite-photos-suggest-iran-attack-on-qatar-air-base-hit-geodesic-dome-used-for-us-communications
https://www.tbsnews.net/worldbiz/middle-east/irans-missile-strike-qatar-damaged-us-communications-dome-satellite-images
https://www.iranintl.com/en/202507102661
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Udeid_Air_Base

Posted by: WMG | Aug 7 2025 16:14 utc | 4

The Moldovan Western puppet Sandu, stamping out democracy in Moldova – Kallas and von der Leyen, will be proud of her.
“Moldova’s police action targeting alleged electoral corruption amounts to political persecution of the opponents of the government, according to exiled opposition politician Ilan Shor.
The authorities in Moldova said on Thursday they are conducting 78 search warrants across the country targeting individuals described as “members and sympathizers of a criminal organization.”
Ilan Shor, who leads the opposition Victory political bloc from abroad, claimed that the actions are directed at silencing his movement. The bloc is trying to overturn its ban from taking part in the upcoming parliamentary election against the ruling Party of Action and Solidarity.
“Law enforcement is turning offices and homes upside down solely under this demented suspicion of interference in the 2025 election, which hasn’t even taken place,” Shor said. “These searches are just more political repression and intimidation of anyone who refuses to support those scoundrels.””

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 7 2025 16:24 utc | 6

As expected India’s Modi will meet with Xi, and possibly Putin over Trump’s sanctions against India for not playing ball on Russian oil.
“Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to travel to China in late August and is expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, a government source in New Delhi has told RT.
The proposed visit to China comes after US President Donald Trump threatened to double tariffs on Indian goods over the country’s purchases of Russian oil. US tariffs of 25% on Indian goods came into effect overnight on Wednesday.
The Indian Express earlier reported, citing sources, that Modi would attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tianjin from August 31 to September 1, adding that a meeting between the two leaders could take place on the sidelines.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 7 2025 16:46 utc | 8

Putin should be nuts to listen to the lying West. But the US national interest is not in these worthless wars. The globalist traitors in the US who continue to prop up the criminal EU regime should be arrested, tried, and convicted of treason. ESG is a RICO violation and those bastards must go down.

Posted by: kassandra | Aug 7 2025 17:18 utc | 10

Ushakov’s strategic cooperation argument is a good one. China is the only real global competitor if we exclude the EU. And, well, Russia is well positioned to profit off helping the US contain both. Nothing major, but say reentering the EU energy market on price points that allow the US to compete, or limiting the amount of aid it might provide China (in the case of a Taiwan issue) to level similar to Chinese restraint towards Russia during the Ukraine conflict.
Point is. Any isolation or marginalization strategy the US might care to embark on against China or the EU rather depends on Russian cooperation. And since regime change in Russia is off the table, then it seems plausible the US will not burn too many bridges. At least not under the current administration.

Posted by: Moderation in things | Aug 7 2025 18:16 utc | 12

Swede detected! 😀

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Aug 7 2025 19:46 utc | 14

Anyone who believes a word out the mouths of b&stards like her needs their head examined.
“Labour homelessness minister Rushanara Ali threw four tenants out of her east London townhouse before relisting the property for £700 a month more in rent, The i Paper can reveal.”
https://nitter.poast.org/theipaper/status/1953152881617420311#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 7 2025 20:02 utc | 16

AI chat bots such as Chat GBT – are a tool that is used against folk who question the official narrative.
https://nitter.poast.org/Documark/status/1953388368626176041#m

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 7 2025 20:42 utc | 18

Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 7 2025 20:10 utc | 17
Pretty much nailed it after only one minute.

Posted by: Laurence | Aug 7 2025 21:03 utc | 20

The real reason for the US warmongering with China
As with virtually every other major US or European war.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 7 2025 21:26 utc | 22

Gonzalo Lira murder case opened.
https://tass.com/society/1999491

Posted by: Thurl | Aug 7 2025 22:27 utc | 24

Radika Desai has teamed with Global Times to produce this 5-minute infomercial: “Internal contradictions could determine the fate of dollar system,” which is well worth the small amount of time spent.
Posted by: karlof1 | Aug 7 2025 20:10 utc | 17
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Thanks karlof1. Desai being a Marxist likes to talk in contradictions. 🙂
People like the USD because they like to buy houses and stocks and watch them appreciate. (asset inflation). Both are harmful to the working poor who would prefer a living wage and be able to pay rent. This is peak capitalism which is ripe for some strong socialist ideas.

Posted by: financial matters | Aug 7 2025 23:26 utc | 26

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 7 2025 19:56 utc | 15
I just looked him up. Born in Malaysia, early education in Singapore, MS in physics at MIT, had started working on PhD when 3 mile island reduced opportunities in nuclear physics, so transferred to San Francisco.
Has served 30+ years as an elder at his Presbyterian church.
My lord Trump is dumber than a box of rocks

Posted by: Mary | Aug 8 2025 0:28 utc | 28

Random:
Scylax, the Ancient Greek Explorer Who Mapped India https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/08/scylax-ancient-greek-explorer-mapped-india/
Remove the ability to read the ideas, and the ideas die. https://shorturl.at/LDd4z
Pakistanis Hold Anti-India Rallies to Mark 6th Anniversary of Revocation of Kashmir’s Special Status https://www.nhregister.com/news/world/article/pakistanis-hold-anti-india-rallies-to-mark-6th-20802555.php

Posted by: Dogon priest | Aug 8 2025 1:01 utc | 30

OUch, the Terror factory opens shop in NZ !
https://tinyurl.com/yy3n74av

Posted by: denk | Aug 8 2025 2:47 utc | 32

China aims to promote the innovative development of the brain-computer interface (BCI) industry, targeting accelerated adoption of BCI products across sectors, such as industrial manufacturing, health care and consumption by 2027 and the establishment of a safe and reliable BCI industrial ecosystem by 2030, according to a recent set of guidelines.

photos
https://x.com/ChinaScience/status/1953652389061570998
Unlike Elon’s brain chip program, no surgery is required.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 8 2025 3:08 utc | 34

Hedges: ‘Silent Holocaust’- Israel’s Guatemalan Genocide
https://youtube.com/watch?v=PEg0ai_lAk
Chris Hedges and lawyer Jennifer Harbury discuss Indigenous genocides in Guatemala and Gaza. Recommended.

Posted by: JohnGilberts | Aug 8 2025 3:31 utc | 36

@ Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 7 2025 21:26 utc | 22
good article.. someone else shared it at moa yesterday and i read it… it is worth repeating.. thanks tom..

Posted by: james | Aug 8 2025 3:41 utc | 38

Pale faced, forked tongue…
Reuters
Former UK PM Johnson rejects China’s bullying of Taiwan, calls for deeper ties with West
Former British prime minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that Taiwan did not deserve to be bullied by China and urged the West to build…
.2 days ago
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Thats all folks !

Posted by: denk | Aug 8 2025 4:53 utc | 40

All these pedophile networks, genocidal maniacs, millenarists of all brands need to be entirely outcasted, boycotted by normal people. This means not buying anything except grocery at the peasants market actually.
Can that really be organized? Letting know the thousands who are accomplice that ultimately it depends on them (starting with journalists and government officials)?

Posted by: Tom | Aug 8 2025 5:18 utc | 42

Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 8 2025 5:08 utc | 41
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Not all monotheism is equal.
I don’t know what your conception of monotheism is, but the cosmos is a part of Islam.
The Ottoman and Persian Empires were the seats of knowledge in their time.
Many of the miracles of the Quran are scientific.
It was Christians (Western Europeans) who declared science heresy and tortured people for being curious and pursuing knowledge.
Islam came after Christianity to correct many of the errors.
IMO, much of Islam has been obscured and distorted.
Tragically, the people with the means to promote knowledge and understanding of Islam are more interested in giving billions to Trump for investment and creating Takfiri terrorists for the CIA.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 8 2025 5:26 utc | 44

Independent media is curated for us.
They are not who we’re lead to believe.
https://x.com/FuentesUpdates/status/1953610262168420670
Question everything and everyone.
If you don’t see the sucker in a relationship, that means that you are the sucker.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 8 2025 6:15 utc | 46

“If Saramago would win the 1988 prize for “for his ability to blend fantasy and reality” and for his unconventional narrative style, which basically removes all punctuation, then Trump should have no problem for his ability to do the same and for being able to USE THE CAPS LOCK KEY ON EVERY SINGLE POST!”
Posted by: Incoherent Thoughts | Aug 7 2025 19:28 utc | 13
Well, I looked up Saramago and I bet he wouldn’t have won that Nobel Prize in Literature any time after he made the following statements in 2002! Trump really WOULD be more likely to win for his Truth Social posts.

During the Second Intifada, while visiting Ramallah in March 2002, Saramago said that “what is happening in Palestine is a crime we can put on the same plane as what happened at Auschwitz … A sense of impunity characterises the Israeli people and its army. They have turned into rentiers of the Holocaust.”[4] In an essay he wrote expanding on his views, Saramago wrote of Jews: “educated and trained in the idea that any suffering that has been inflicted . . . on everyone else . . . will always be inferior to that which they themselves suffered in the Holocaust, the Jews endlessly scratch their own wound to keep it bleeding, to make it incurable, and they show it to the world as if it were a banner.”[35] Critics of these statements charged that they were antisemitic.[10][36]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Saramago

Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 8 2025 8:41 utc | 48

The story about contaminated crude oil from Azerbaijan continues to rumble on:

$ 70 million: Dirty oil from Azerbaijan wanders in the Atlantic for the third week
It is the third week that a tanker with contaminated oil from Azerbaijan is wandering in the Atlantic Ocean. Obviously, the owners cannot sell a batch of raw materials with a high content of organic chlorides.
For the fifteenth day, the Delta Blue tanker maneuvers in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Portugal. According to AIS vessels, the tanker was sailing from the Turkish port of Ceyhan to North-Western Europe. However, on July 25, he changed course and began to maneuver.
And it still does this with a cargo of up to 158 thousand tons, whose cost can be about $ 70 million. According to AIS vessels, the tanker’s draft is 15.9 meters out of the maximum 17.1 meters. The ship indicates that it is in the waiting mode for instructions.
The real reason for the delay is unknown. It is quite possible that the owner of the lot cannot sell the oil, as it is contaminated with organic chlorides. The ship left Ceyhan on July 17, after which the terminal was stopped due to contamination detection until July 23.
As reported by EADaily , the Italian Eni announced the receipt of contaminated oil at its refineries, followed by the Austrian OMV and the Czech division of the Polish Orlen confirmed the import of raw materials with chlorides that did not have time to reach the refining capacity. Romania, in turn, imposed a state of emergency, as a shipment of contaminated oil in 90 thousand tons forced OMV Petrom to take raw materials for its refineries from the country’s strategic reserves.
British BP, which is the operator of production in Azerbaijan and the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, confirmed substandard oil.
“The assessment results confirm the presence of organic chlorides in some tanks at the Ceyhan terminal. Appropriate measures were taken to isolate these tanks, while loading from the tanks, which were assessed as meeting normal specifications, continued, ” Tamam Bayatly, Head of BP Azerbaijan ‘s Communications Department, told AnewZ .
Reuters reported that discounts on Azerbaijani oil have reached a four-year high.
Substandard oil can be used, but for this purpose it is mixed with high-quality raw materials in such a proportion that the level of chlorides sharply decreases and meets the standards.

https://eadaily.com/ru/news/2025/08/08/70-millionov-gryaznaya-neft-iz-azerbaydzhana-bluzhdaet-v-atlantike-tretyu-nedelyu (via translation add-on.)

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 8 2025 10:54 utc | 50

Crazy to me that Russia started this entire war to improve its geopolitical standing in the world and it had the opposite effect.
Posted by: Fit Rice | Aug 8 2025 10:44 utc | 49
Fact check……there is absolutely no truth to anything stated in the above sentence, except perhaps “crazy”.

Posted by: CeaClearly | Aug 8 2025 12:11 utc | 52

I quote from Peter Gerard Myers concerning leftism
“Why are Trotskyists gaining power? Because Thatcherism and Reaganomics have thrown increasing numbers of people on the scrapheap.
Robots and AI are taking away the futures of people of all social classes.
Politicians stand aside while billionaires, such as at the World Economic Forum, set the agenda.
The only way to keep Trots from gaining power, is for other parties to return to socialist (but not communist) policies themselves.
Trots specialise in Class War, just like Capitalist billionaires.
But the kinds of socialist governments we had in the 1950s, 60s and 70s – the Attlee government in Britain and the Chifley/Menzies governments in Australia – were based on Class Unity, not Class War.”
My own immediate thought is that those more reasonable socialists were allowed some room for maneuver because the dollar was strong.
I wonder if there are any reasonable socialists in the west. As long as they have careers tied to the globalist Young Global Leader meme, I think not.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Aug 8 2025 12:34 utc | 54

An American president won the nobel price for literature? Who?
Posted by: petergrfstrm | Aug 8 2025 5:18 utc | 43
Not a president: Sinclair Lewis. 1930.
Several of his notable works were critical of American capitalism and materialism during the interwar period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Lewis
Not a pres. of the US, but of the UK, Winston Churchill, who wrote more than 40 books.
Americans who have won the Lit. Prize.
Bob Dylan is the most recent, 2016.
list of Nobel Lit prize.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/lists/all-nobel-prizes-in-literature/
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Imho Trump is obsessed with the Nobel Peace Prize as Roosevelt, W. Wilson, MLK, J. Carter, Kissinger and Obama were awarded it.
It seems to be felt as a kind of anointment of ‘a glorious American figure’ recognized by the ‘Intl community’ as a ‘a man of substance’ who promotes ‘what is best for mankind’, errr…
Total nonsense of course, the Nobel PP endorses successful war-mongers, boosted cultural figures, random dudes, etc.

Posted by: Noirette | Aug 8 2025 13:08 utc | 56

Sandu – Kallas, von der Leyen, and a whole host of Western leaders won’t like this one bit.
“The parliament of Gagauzia, an autonomous, predominantly Russian-speaking region in Moldova, has rejected the sentencing of a local Euroskeptic leader to seven years in prison, calling it illegal and politically driven.
Gutsul, who was elected in 2023 and has consistently advocated for close ties with Russia, was found guilty of channeling illegal funds from an organized criminal group to the banned Euroskeptic SOR party and of financing protests against the Moldovan government.
Gutsul denied the charges, calling the process a “political execution” conducted “on orders from above.” The ruling triggered protests outside the courthouse against Moldova’s pro-Western government.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 8 2025 13:44 utc | 58

The Algerians getting tough with their former colonisers.
“Algeria has revoked a decade-old agreement granting visa-free travel to French diplomatic and service passport holders, in retaliation for what it called France’s “provocation, intimidation, and bargaining” amid deteriorating relations between the two countries.
The Algerian Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that Paris had informed Algiers of its suspension of the 2013 Algeria-France accord that exempted diplomatic and official passport holders from visa requirements. It said a senior French embassy official was summoned to a meeting where two notes verbales were delivered, one of which denounced France’s decision.
“This denunciation goes beyond the simple suspension previously notified by the French side and definitively puts an end to the very existence of this agreement,” it stated.
“It [Algiers] reserves the right to apply to the issuance of these visas the same conditions as those set by the French Government for Algerian nationals. This is a strict application of the principle of reciprocity,” the ministry added.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 8 2025 13:48 utc | 60

Starmer – et al are just covering their backs, by pushing the recognition, they know that they could stand trial some day for aiding and abetting in genocide.
On the recognition its all shit, there can be no real return to a true Palestinian state until the occupying force known as Israel is dissolved for good, for two enclaves far apart from each other Gaza and the West Bank – the former destroyed, cannot constitute a sovereign country.
I’m sure one of Israel’s prominent backers could house them the USA, Britain, France, Germany etc, afterall – most of the illegal settlers squatting in Palestine, come from foreign countries.
“Israel is reportedly weighing retaliatory measures against the UK over its anticipated recognition of Palestinian statehood, including the potential suspension of intelligence sharing, The Times reported on Thursday.
A diplomatic source, apparently speaking on behalf of the Israeli government, warned that Britain “has a lot to lose if Israel’s government decides to take steps in response.” The official cautioned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet “have cards they could play too.”
Israel condemned the British government’s stated intention to recognize a Palestinian state next month unless humanitarian conditions in Gaza improve significantly. Netanyahu accused UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer of “rewarding terrorism.” Israel’s critics allege that its policies in Gaza are designed to render the enclave uninhabitable, forcing civilians to flee or face death.
The Times reported that a deterioration in UK-Israel security cooperation could have damaging effects for both countries.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 8 2025 13:59 utc | 62

Send the all back I say public services in Britain are on the brink of collapse as it is without Christ knows how many Ukrainians putting more pressure on them – in Scotland there’s at least 28,000 of them and I can only speculate how much more than the £67 million quid the Scottish Colonial Administration (SNP) sent to Ukraine, whilst services in Scotland go into freefall.
Of course the British government, snuck in 24,000 Afghan traitors to Britain – some with up to 14 family members – at a cost to the taxpayer of at least £800 million quid.
“The British authorities have increasingly been denying Ukrainian migrants the right to extend their stay in the UK, according to the BBC’s Russian service.
Since the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in February 2022, the UK has accepted over 250,000 Ukrainians. However, the ‘Homes for Ukraine’ scheme, which provided three-year visas to those fleeing the fighting, was recently closed to new applicants, and existing visas are now beginning to expire.
In an article published on Thursday, the BBC reported that since the beginning of this year, British authorities have been refusing to grant permanent protection status to Ukrainians on a large scale, arguing that the western regions of their home country are safe.
While the Home Office has consistently emphasized that the scheme is temporary, up until recently several options had remained available for Ukrainians wishing to stay in the UK.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 8 2025 14:07 utc | 64

Posted by: Fit Rice | Aug 8 2025 10:44 utc | 49
You are a certified moron!
Posted by: canuk | Aug 8 2025 13:12 utc | 57
A mind in a belief trap, more likely.
We all have them. It’s part of the reason for all of this. Whatever we call it. City, Illuminati, Knights Malta, They, ZOG whatever. It’s all pinned on a belief. We need to believe better. Imo.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Aug 8 2025 14:45 utc | 66

Cecil Rhodes

Africa is still lying ready for us it is our duty to take it. It is our duty to seize every opportunity of acquiring more territory and we should keep this one idea steadily before our eyes that more territory simply means more of the Anglo-Saxon race more of the best the most human, most honourable race the world possesses.

FFW 21C
Biz as usual, with their gringo cousin minding the store now.
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All the proxy wars waged by Africom in Congo, Sudan, Central African Republic, Mali also target China’s presence in Africa
sudan, the ONLY party to benefit from this brutal, foreign funded African holocaust has been Pax Americana, the U.S. of A
The War On Terror Spreads to Africa AFRICOM’s [the U.S. military’s Africa command] goal is to eliminate China and other countries influence in the region.
NATO’s War on Libya is Directed against China_ AFRICOM and the Threat to China’s National Energy Security _africom
Bolton Threatens to Force Africa to Choose Between the US and China
only a crisis like Ebola could help persuade skeptical countries on the continent to accept an increased Africom presence.
Boko Haram US AFRICOM’S Latest False Flag Franchise2
‘Ebola’ An NWO Scam To Build Africom_ Agenda 21 ‘Regional Coordination’, Police State Response Announced
AFRICOM has reduced the armies of the continent to appendages of the Pentagon,
Kony Hoax Dissected sudan, africom, Kenya, whose Prime Minister Raila Odinga is Obama’s cousin.
etc etc………..
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Exhibit A
Obama, the son of Africa did Kenya.

‘The NSA, in conjunction with local phone operators, sent anonymous text messages to the population. In areas populated by the Luo (Odinga’s ethnic group), they read “Dear Kenyans, the Kikuyu have stolen our children’s future… We must treat them in the only way that they understand… with violence.” In areas populated by Kikuyu, they read: “The blood of any innocent Kikuyu will be paid. We will slaughter them right to the heart of the capital. For Justice, establish a list of Luos that you know. We will send you the phone numbers to call with such information.” Within days, this peaceful country sank into sectarian violence. The riots caused over 1 000 deaths and 300 000 displaced. 500 000 jobs were lost.
Madeleine Albright came back. She offered to mediate between President Kibaki and the opposition trying to overthrow him. With finesse, she stepped aside and placed in the spotlight the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights. The board of this respected NGO was newly chaired by the former Prime Minister of Norway, Thorbjørn Jagland.
Breaking with the Center’s traditional impartiality, he sent two mediators on site, whose expenses were entirely footed by Madeleine Albright’s NDI (that is to say ultimately out of the U.S. Department of State’s budget): another former Norwegian Prime Minister, Kjell Magne Bondevik, and former UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan (the Ghanaian is very much on the scene in Scandinavian states since he married the niece of Raoul Wallenberg).
Compelled to accept the compromises forced on him in order to restore civil peace, President Kibaki agreed to create a prime minister post and to entrust it to Raila Odinga, who immediately began reducing trade with China.

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https://www.voltairenet.org/Behind-the-2009-Nobel-Peace-Prize
https://pages.uoregon.edu/kimball/Rhodes-Confession.htm
Imperialists will do what imperialists always do, with or without ‘Jew influencers’ !

Posted by: denk | Aug 8 2025 15:01 utc | 68

@WMG #4
All you are pointing at, is a photo from the show Iranian attack on the US air base at Al-Udeid.
Show because Iran warned ahead of time and the base was fully evacuated before the attack was initiated.

Posted by: c1ue | Aug 8 2025 15:35 utc | 70

@3485 #67
You clearly don’t understand basic economic concepts like purchasing power parity.
Western economies have higher absolute value GDPs because everything is more expensive in them, plus Western GDPs include all manner of junk ranging from predatory financial shenanigans to prostitution and other criminal activity.
In purchasing power parity terms, Russia now has the 4th largest economy in the world. And this is according to Western analysts such as at the IMF: BNE Intellinews link
And also Wiki: source
Note specifically that in GDP PPP terms – Russia only lags China, the US and India.
Equally, the assertions that Russia
a) Does not have high technology
b) Is not educated
c) Spends too much on defense
All 3 of these are mostly garbage assertions.
Russian high technology: hypersonic missiles, 50 kmph underwater subs, 230 mph torpedos, Oreshnik, stealth detecting radars – there are any number of glaring examples of Russian military technology which literally have no Western equivalent.
On the civilian side: Russia has one of only 3 functional world spanning global positioning systems, which in turn encompasses a world class space program.
True, Russia does not have bleeding edge chip development…but so what? iPhones don’t create much actual economic value above any general cell phone.
Russian education: You are incredibly ignorant if you believe the Russian education system is inferior. Look at the numerous and highly visible Russian scientists, software engineers, actual engineers, etc etc everywhere. If anything, Russians today decry how education has DECLINED since the Soviet era, since education in Russia today is more (but not primarily) a function of money whereas it was completely non-money focused in the Soviet Union era.
Russia’s literacy rate is 99.7% vs. 79% among adult Americans and 98% in the EU, give or take.
Russia defense spending: Russia is spending in the order of $130 billion to $140 billion a year for military. It was 5.4% of GDP in 2023 and 7% in 2024 but 3.58% in 2021 – the difference is the Ukraine conflict.
To compare: US military spend as a percentage of GDP is 3.4% during “peacetime”; EU military spending is 1.9% of GDP.
BUT: Ukraine has amply demonstrated that Russia needs to spend on its military, and furthermore that Russia’s spending is far more productive than the West’s.
Even accounting for PPP adjustments – the fact that Russia is outproducing the entire West in terms of air defense, artillery shells, tank and AFV systems – pretty much everything except airplanes – shows that Russia is at least getting value for its spending.

Posted by: c1ue | Aug 8 2025 15:55 utc | 72

Posted by: Mary | Aug 8 2025 0:28 utc | 28
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It’s not Trump, except he is the Chief Executive, and so, everything is his fault.
Would you believe me if I told you that ICE has been going onto reservations?
Sounds wild, right?
But that is where we are.
Nationalism on steroids ends up looking a lot like Zionism.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 8 2025 16:01 utc | 74

EU is fucked: energy edition
Doomberg talked about how fucked the EU is.
Total EU fossil fuel consumption is in the order of 38 exajoules (joule = unit of heat) a year.
EU produces around 5 exajoules of fossil fuels a year.
To give an idea of the scale of this gap: it is about the same as the entire US natural gas consumption in a year.
A more specific example: Germany has long been held up as a shining example of a first world manufacturing power. But that was when it was burning its own coal, had a large fleet of nuclear reactors AND was importing huge quantities of cheap Russian natural gas.
All 3 of these primary pillars are now defunct:
The last hard coal mines in Germany were shut down in 2018.
The last operating German nuclear reactor was shut down in 2023 from a peak of 17.
Nordstream was “mysteriously” blown up in 2022.
As a direct consequence – and in direct opposition to alternative energy assertions – Germany had the highest electricity prices in Europe last year at just under 40 euro cents per kWh.
So a direct barometer of Europe’s decline is the extension of the duration in which Germany in particular and the EU in general refuse to trade for cheap energy from its literal neighbor, Russia.

Posted by: c1ue | Aug 8 2025 16:04 utc | 76

How the US didn’t need to drop the A-Bombs on Hiroshima or Nagasaki, but they did it anyway – to see the results.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/hiroshima-nagasaki-us-nuclear-lies/290336/

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 8 2025 16:33 utc | 78

The White Man’s Burden,” a poem by Rudyard Kipling, was written in 1899 and urged the United States to take up the task of colonizing and governing newly acquired territories, including the Philippines. The poem is interpreted as a justification for imperialism, suggesting that white colonizers had a moral obligation to civilize and uplift “inferior” peoples.
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Gringo took over the baton without missing a beat, called their mission white man’s

manifest destiny.

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Pres. William McKinley
‘…there was nothing left for us to do but to take them all (all of Spain’s possessions) and to educate the Filipinos, and uplift and civilize and Christianize them, and by God’s grace do the very best we could by them, as our fellow men for whom Christ also died.”
The Filipinos, most of whom had already converted to Christianity in the decades before the Americans arrived, didn’t feel they needed “God’s grace” as defined by White Americans. In February 1899, under the leadership of Emilio Aguinaldo (who had been brought back to the Philippines from China by U.S. warships, in order to fight against the Spaniards), the Filipinos launched a war for freedom and democracy against the forces of the United States.
Though the war against the Filipinos is largely forgotten or ignored in this country, it was a bloody and brutal conflict that saw American soldiers and disease kill hundreds of thousands of Filipinos. While Black men, women and children were being tortured and killed in this country, White American soldiers slaughtered the brown-skinned inhabitants of the Philippines so that American businesses could expand into the Pacific.
“We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world,” said Sen. Albert Beveridge in the U.S. Senate, speaking for the economic and political interests of this country. “Where shall we turn for consumers of our surplus? Georgraphy answers the question. China is our natural customer….The Philippines give us a base at the door of all the East.”
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Trump gushing on Mckinley
‘America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation on earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the entire world.
A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America — (applause) — and we will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs. (Applause.)
President McKinley made our country very rich through tariffs and through talent — he was a natural businessman — and gave Teddy Roosevelt the money for many of the great things he did, including the Panama Canal, which has foolishly been given to the country of Panama after the United Spates — the United States — I mean, think of this — spent more money than ever spent on a project before and lost 38,000 lives in the building of the Panama Canal.
We have been treated very badly from this foolish gift that should have never been made, and Panama’s promise to us has been broken.
The purpose of our deal and the spirit of our treaty has been totally violated. American ships are being severely overcharged and not treated fairly in any way, shape, or form. And that includes the United States Navy.
And above all, China is operating the Panama Canal. And we didn’t give it to China. We gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back. (Applause.)
Above all, my message to Americans today is that it is time for us to once again act with courage, vigor, and the vitality of history’s greatest civilization.
So, as we liberate our nation, we will lead it to new heights of victory and success. We will not be deterred. Together, we will end the chronic disease epidemic and keep our children safe, healthy, and disease-free.
The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation — one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations, and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons.
And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the Stars and Stripes on the planet Mars.
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The Pinnoys officially got their ‘independence’ in 1946 but in reality, continued to be ruled from Washington thru patsies until this very day.
Poor sods currently used as cannon fodder to poke the dragon in SCS.
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Moral of the story…
Once pirates , always pirates.
Jews or no Jews
https://www.countercurrents.org/us-cox240107.htm

Posted by: denk | Aug 8 2025 17:05 utc | 80

“von der Leyen and the Commission are terrified of a truly free press, which is why the EU spends close to €100 million each year subsidising pro-EU media content and narratives.”
The Report on it.
https://brussels.mcc.hu/news/report-uncovers-eus-eur80-million-annual-media-machine-raising-alarm-over-propaganda-and-threats-to-press-independence

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 8 2025 17:38 utc | 82

White supremacists
Exhibit A
Rudyard Kipling
“I could quite understand…why the lower caste Anglo-Saxon hates the Celestial. I hated the Chinaman before; I hated him doubly as I choked for breath in his seething streets. I hate Chinamen.”
It is justifiable to kill him (the “Chinaman”)”.
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https://fumanchucomplex.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/what-was-the-yellow-peril/
With guys like these, who need the Jew ?
Are such specie extinct today, think so ??

Posted by: denk | Aug 8 2025 17:56 utc | 84

So a direct barometer of Europe’s decline is the extension of the duration in which Germany in particular and the EU in general refuse to trade for cheap energy from its literal neighbor, Russia.
Posted by: c1ue | Aug 8 2025 16:04 utc | 76
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Spite is a funny luxury and a weird measure of wealth.

Posted by: too scents | Aug 8 2025 18:21 utc | 86

Jesus H Christ. Not sure what happened there. Sorry about that. Guess I forgot to close the tag on my HTML link.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 8 2025 18:29 utc | 88

@too scents #86
It is not spite – it is physics. 33 exajoules of energy to be specific.

Posted by: c1ue | Aug 8 2025 18:36 utc | 90

The truth about Muslim oppression in China!!!
https://x.com/thinking_panda/status/1953891126068621490

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 8 2025 18:56 utc | 92

They dropped the bomb for OTHERS to see the results.
Posted by: waynorinorway | Aug 8 2025 18:12 utc | 85
And so the Red Army decided to stick around in Europe for a while.

Posted by: Laurence | Aug 8 2025 19:55 utc | 94

Posted by: Laurence | Aug 8 2025 19:55 utc | 94
The Red Army should have kept marching when they had the momentum. They would have spread themselves thin, and then it would have become a war of attrition where all the people who dislike the Bolsheviks would have fought back. Or maybe they would have won.
But I dislike the subjunctive.
Would things have been better under the dictatorship of the proletariat or the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie?
Does Nomenklatura translate to bourgeoisie in Soviet Russian?
I think the USA should have just let the Euros kill themselves in their tribal wars. We have enough on our own hand killing our own people.

Posted by: lex talionis | Aug 8 2025 20:28 utc | 96

With superpowers being unveiled as paper tigers it looks like human civilization is circling back to age of conquest
Posted by: Lintson | Aug 8 2025 12:52 utc | 55
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Or…
The eventual and inevitable cycle of a changing of the superpowers.
China and Russia by virtue of their nukes are superpowers.
Iran is a military superpower.
All 3 are leading the world in science and space technology.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 8 2025 20:52 utc | 98

And then Oppenheimer gets to act like some martyr, ala “It pains me so much to punch you.”
Posted by: lex talionis | Aug 8 2025 20:16 utc | 95
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Einstein too. I’d say we were dealing with an ethnic trait (“I have done wrong; feel sorry for ME!”) except that Edward Teller remained stubbornly proud of his crime against humanity.

Posted by: malenkov | Aug 8 2025 21:38 utc | 100