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August 7, 2025
Open (Neither Ukraine Nor Palestine) Thread 2025-176
News & views not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine …
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Roger Boyd | Aug 7 2025 17:53 utc | 11 Posted by: Doug Terpstra | Aug 8 2025 21:48 utc | 101 Euronews.com Posted by: Laurence | Aug 8 2025 21:51 utc | 102 They have no reverse gear. Posted by: DunGroanin | Aug 8 2025 22:04 utc | 103 Global News Posted by: Laurence | Aug 8 2025 22:31 utc | 104 Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Aug 8 2025 16:40 utc | 79 Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 8 2025 22:43 utc | 105 @ LoveDonbass | Aug 8 2025 22:43 utc | 105 Posted by: malenkov | Aug 8 2025 22:57 utc | 106 what does this message mean? Posted by: snake | Aug 8 2025 23:04 utc | 107 Australia weighs price floor for critical minerals, boosting rare earths miners
Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 8 2025 23:18 utc | 108 Typical for pro palestine supporters. Most of them just utter nonsense. Literally not any other major world power but Russia was revealed to be a paper tiger. Posted by: Key Inevitable | Aug 8 2025 23:19 utc | 109 Deep State in Disarray Posted by: PassionateProgressiv | Aug 9 2025 0:50 utc | 110 For those keeping track of current events on the conservative media front in the U.S., they might be aware of the recent beef between Nicholas Fuentes and Tucker Carlson. Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 9 2025 2:12 utc | 111 FBI , aka terror factory in NZ , looking for, or manufacturing ‘chicom spies’ ? Posted by: denk | Aug 9 2025 3:42 utc | 112 Posted by: ThouShalt | Aug 8 2025 23:18 utc | 108 Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Aug 9 2025 4:14 utc | 113 OMFG ! Posted by: denk | Aug 9 2025 4:14 utc | 114 ‘The government recently denounced the Cook Islands for reaching an economic agreement with China without first consulting Wellington. Posted by: denk | Aug 9 2025 4:46 utc | 115 In the world Trump comes from the adage is Location, Location, Location! Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 9 2025 5:40 utc | 116 Scott Ritter has a chat with Arka Bahçem (video 30mins) about the Oreshnik missile. Instead of going out into the weeds with the technical stuff again, I shall make another point as the thought occured to me as I was watching it. Posted by: persiflo | Aug 9 2025 6:47 utc | 117 Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 8 2025 18:33 utc | 89 Posted by: joey_n | Aug 9 2025 8:53 utc | 118 The US and its allies will be over the moon with this, imagine just how much murder and mayhem they’ll be able to cause up and down this corridor, against the likes of China, Turkey, Iran and Russia using Azerbaijan and Armenia – as staging posts. Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 9 2025 9:23 utc | 119 The commemoration – is such a farce, that the Japanese are too afraid to mention which country dropped the nukes on Japan during WWII – of course in the West its all but omitted as well, of the vita roll that the Soviets played in WWII. Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 9 2025 9:28 utc | 120 Oh to be a fly on the wall in the room – and listen to what they have to say. Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 9 2025 9:31 utc | 121 Trump to try and stamp down on the US governments drug dealing competitors from Latin America – of course the upside is, confiscating and selling the competitions drugs – maybe even back to them. Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 9 2025 9:34 utc | 122 This guy must surely be on the Myrotvorets hit list – alongside the likes of Roger Waters – a Nato backed kill list. Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 9 2025 9:39 utc | 123 Trump’s tariffs have fucked up the USA’s relations with so many countries. If having lots of trade with the USA means the USA can attack your economy when it doesn’t like what you do, then you are obviously going to try to trade with anyone other than the USA Posted by: Codename Molotov | Aug 9 2025 10:14 utc | 124 Putin is a fool if he goes to Alaska. Posted by: William Gruff | Aug 9 2025 10:36 utc | 125 Posted by: canuk | Aug 8 2025 13:12 utc | 57 Posted by: 🤡 | Aug 9 2025 10:56 utc | 126 Iran is a military superpower. Posted by: 🤡 | Aug 9 2025 11:08 utc | 127 “US President Donald Trump has secretly ordered the Pentagon to begin using military force against Latin American drug cartels previously labeled ‘terrorist organizations’, The New York Times reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.” LD. has just received his 17th ,”The Most Retarded Post I Have Read Today’ Award with the below nonsense: Posted by: canuk | Aug 9 2025 12:40 utc | 129 Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Aug 8 2025 16:03 utc | 75 Posted by: canuk | Aug 9 2025 12:50 utc | 130 If you’ve ever made a product before, you’ll know that what the US is doing is leveraging that market every producer covets. That doesn’t discount what you’re saying there, but worth mentioning. Posted by: Jimieus | Aug 9 2025 13:09 utc | 131 @John Gilberts (1): I expect the EUR/USD to DOWN and I wouldn’t be surprised to see the EUR/USD go down A LOT. e.g. 50% down or e.g. down to say 0.60 or 0.50. Posted by: WMG | Aug 9 2025 13:23 utc | 132 Thank F*ck I’m not British. Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 9 2025 14:40 utc | 133 @NemesisCalling #111 Posted by: c1ue | Aug 9 2025 14:48 utc | 134 @136 c1ue Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 9 2025 15:11 utc | 135 jewish students are becoming multi millionaires because Trump is forcing universities to pay them damages while israel uses billions of tax dollars to fight their wars. All while Americans are losing their middle class status. Posted by: 9 mm Scorpion | Aug 9 2025 16:01 utc | 136 ….jewish students are becoming multi millionaires because Trump is forcing universities to pay them damages …. Posted by: exile | Aug 9 2025 16:17 utc | 137 Trump as a symptom. Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 9 2025 17:19 utc | 138 Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 9 2025 17:19 utc | 140 Posted by: waynorinorway | Aug 9 2025 18:12 utc | 139 —❗️🇮🇷/🇦🇲/🇺🇸 Senior advisor of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Akbar Velayati: ‘Iran will prevent the establishment of a US-controlled corridor in Armenia, with or without help from Russia. A passage can be established from Azerbaijan to Nakhchivan without the need for a corridor. The southern Caucasus is not real estate that Trump can rent. If necessary, it will become a graveyard for U.S. mercenaries.’ Posted by: Mary | Aug 9 2025 19:13 utc | 140 It almost makes you wonder if Masoud Pezeshkian isn’t in the Epstein files….. Posted by: ockham | Aug 9 2025 19:41 utc | 141 If that is truly the end goal, they could achieve this way easier with appropriate industrial planning and investing like China does it. Posted by: evgis | Aug 9 2025 20:02 utc | 142 A German article about a 16-year-old who drops out of school to join the Bundeswehr. Posted by: BlindSpot | Aug 9 2025 20:09 utc | 143 @NemesisCalling #137 Posted by: c1ue | Aug 9 2025 21:51 utc | 144 There’s something in the Russian psyche that sees conspiracies and treason under every rug. “Zrada.” Posted by: Armchair Warlord | Aug 9 2025 21:57 utc | 145 If Humans Were As Evil As We’re Usually Told, We’d Be Extinct Posted by: JohnGilberts | Aug 10 2025 2:03 utc | 146 @147 c1ue Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 10 2025 2:49 utc | 147 Posted by: Armchair Warlord | Aug 9 2025 21:57 utc | 148 Posted by: lex talionis | Aug 10 2025 3:22 utc | 148 Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 10 2025 2:49 utc | 150 Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 10 2025 3:38 utc | 149 Posted by: c1ue | Aug 9 2025 21:51 utc | 147 Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 10 2025 3:41 utc | 150 @152 Tom Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 10 2025 5:06 utc | 151 Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 10 2025 5:06 utc | 154 Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 10 2025 5:48 utc | 152 *I’m NO scholar on the USSR Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 10 2025 5:51 utc | 153 Nemesis… Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Aug 10 2025 6:05 utc | 154 @ Tom Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 10 2025 6:31 utc | 155 @ Tom re: PMC Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 10 2025 6:44 utc | 156 How are the BRICS supposed to function if they don’t drop Microsoft? Posted by: Tom | Aug 10 2025 9:50 utc | 157 Trump is doing everything correctly, according to the neoliberal economic paradigm. Posted by: Smash Kapital | Aug 10 2025 10:42 utc | 158 my thanks to Armchair Warlord and lex talonis Posted by: ockham | Aug 10 2025 12:28 utc | 159 More thoughts on AI that should hopefully sober up less technically minded barflies on what large language models actually are. This is from Gary Marcus on the recent chatgpt 5 release – worth a read if you have even a passing interest. Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Aug 11 2025 1:27 utc | 160 As you point out, there are far more effective ways to get the results they want, ways that have been used to great success in China, but it requires using the power of government to actually do things, which is completely anathema to the Western political caste. Posted by: LoveDonbass | Aug 11 2025 2:30 utc | 161 Amnesty published about Venezuela the other day: Posted by: arby | Aug 11 2025 15:53 utc | 162 Sturgeon the female equivalent of Tony Blair, an egotistical sociopath is on tv right now spewing lies out ten a penny – of course this lying treacherous b&stard is really on tv to promote her memoirs in an interview that has a dig at Salmond. Posted by: Republicofscotland | Aug 11 2025 18:24 utc | 163 If this article is correct , let me bring to your attention who are the leaders in rearmament- Germany and Hungary ( state owned company) , you know the same Orban who many believe is fighting against European madness. Posted by: Dagny Taggart | Aug 12 2025 12:52 utc | 164 Posted by: Eastern Interest | Aug 13 2025 14:00 utc | 165 That is why China might not become global superpower. They simply don’t have guts to do what is needed. There is reason why China’s final warning is meme. Posted by: rulakarbes | Aug 13 2025 18:53 utc | 166 |
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