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September 7, 2025
The MoA Week In Review – OT 2025-203

Remember these cruise missiles which I claimed do not yet exist? Aviation Week has details:

> The ERAM has emerged within a mere 14 months since the release of solicitation in August 2024—the prototype air-launched cruise missiles have a scheduled delivery in October.

The plan now is to deliver a first lot of 840 ERAMs, split between two designs separately produced by Virginia-based CoAspire and California-based Zone 5 Technologies, by the end of October 2026, the documents say.

Although Ukraine is cleared to buy up to 3,550 missiles, the first production run is smaller. The first 10 are scheduled for delivery in October. <

Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:

  • Sep 6 – Outage
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Africa:

Europe:

Google (or why I don't use it …):

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Comments

The whole attack against solar energy was initiated when the wholly unqualified and mentally stunted 17th United States Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, made an idiotic statement:

Even if you wrapped the entire planet in a solar panel, you would only be producing 20% of global energy. One of the biggest mistakes politicians can make is equating the ELECTRICITY with ENERGY!
<a href="https://x.com/SecretaryWright/status/1962861731174097195

“>https://x.com/SecretaryWright/status/1962861731174097195
The barfly c1ue, like the obedient MAGA cultist that he is, joined in pushing the narrative that solar is bad. Unsurprising that reactionaries like persiflo joined with him.
There are measured response on what solar energy and electricity can and cannot accomplish from experts in the field:

1. There’s no technical barrier today to replacing most petroleum consumption in the passenger vehicles segment with electricity, just an economic one (and sometimes political or cultural). This is happening now.
2. There are decently large technical and economic barriers to replacing natural gas steam crackers with electric crackers, but we’re working on it and we’ll get there.
3. There are massive technical and economic barriers to replacing jet fuel with electric-powered airplanes, due to the low energy density and high weight of the batteries. This could theoretically happen someday but is hard to imagine anywhere in the near team and another pathway might mature first.
4. It’s a physical impossibility to produce the extremely useful liquid coal tar without coal. It’s chemically derived from coal via pyrolysis and electricity can’t perform this work.
<a href="https://x.com/pretentiouswhat/status/1963162977890378011

“>https://x.com/pretentiouswhat/status/1963162977890378011
Read the entire Twitter/X thread to understand the issue more fully.
This whole debate occurred because America, lacking in technological prowess and industrial capacity to race ahead of China in renewable energy, turned to leveraging its propaganda power to convince everyone that renewable energy is doo-doo, bad, sucks, nasty, mean to me in high school etc. Carelessly exposing oneself to American ideas without adequate protection is actively dumbing oneself down. Cases of regression in mental faculties abound in MoA.
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Sep 9 2025 19:54 utc | 301

The Duran: Brian Berletc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYBsYxqyb6c
“Regime change industrial complex.”
eg: Venezuela, Iran, Serbia, Thailand, Indonesia, Nepal…

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 9 2025 19:55 utc | 302

DF: Max Blumenthal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naTFeh4DMtM
“Rubio’s drugboat diplomacy.” Also Israel’s Qatar Hamas strike, ‘Gaza Riviera’ and ‘Trump’s total support for Israel: ‘the mask is off’.
Recommended.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 9 2025 20:14 utc | 303

@All Under Heaven #34
You are such a stupid moron.
I made zero references to China; I reference only the technology itself.. . .
Posted by: c1ue | Sep 7 2025 21:56 utc | 81
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Yes, he/she is a moron, or something.
On a recent thread this moron put totally made-up shit into my mouth. Really, stuff out of nowhere that I never said and never had ever written even remotely about.
Posted by: Jane | Sep 7 2025 22:49 utc | 117

Stop pretending, Jane. You’re another MAGA cultist that blames American problems caused by American policies on everyone else but America. And you think people would just forget that supported Trump’s plan to annex Greenland back in January?

The good thing about MoA is that it doesn’t allow people outside of b himself to edit or delete comments, so it encourages (some) people to actually think carefully before they post a comment because it will stay archived for a long time. The bad thing about MoA is that it doesn’t have a full-fledged database that allows someone to pull up a commenter’s history, which is why I’ve taken to the occasional habit of recording the time and date of notable posts that I happen to come across, if time permits. The recordkeeping is necessary because Americans and wannabe-Americans, who form a vast segment of MoA’s commenters, are incapable of keeping themselves from lying much like their beloved political leaders.
Let’s start with this,

I have never written a single thing on the subject of “America feeding the world.” Nada.
Posted by: Jane | Sep 7 2025 3:46 utc | 209

Indeed, in the strictest and narrowest sense, Jane hasn’t. However, people are capable of making connections between the things that Jane brought up and carefully arranged in her comments.

Meanwhile, our local conch catch is auctioned off to China. I feel that this trade should be stopped. But in the future, if there are any conch left, we’ll be eating them ourselves.
We might not like it, but I think the US can “pivot” to food self-sufficiency if needed. But who knows the source of all the “food” that goes into the junk food that so many USA-ians consume. Perhaps it is the corporate food processors that are more dependent on foreign suppliers.
Posted by: Jane | Sep 6 2025 19:29 utc | 134

Oh, poor America, deprived of food self-sufficiency because of those dastardly Chinese buying up all our conch catch!
As for Jane’s MAGA sympathies,

And where do you get the MAGA crap,eh, Bullshit Under Heaven?
Posted by: Jane | Sep 7 2025 3:46 utc | 209

Let’s go all the way back to January 2025 when Trump was eager to annex Greenland and Panama,

But in the “good for whom?” field, Greenlanders might be glad to get out from under the Danish yoke. It is kind of absurd that tiny Denmark controls gigantic Greenland, but more to the point, there is a long history of overt racism by Danes regarding the indigenous population of Greenland.
Despite the negative colonial baggage, in the case of a referendum I hope the Greenlanders take plenty of time to consider the benefits of being far removed from one’s master!
Posted by: Jane | Jan 8 2025 15:24 utc | 19

Oh, Greenlanders, have you considered submitting to the benevolent authority of our lord and savior Trump?
It’s not just me who read Jane’s comment as veiled support for Trump’s annexation plans.
Exhibit 1:

@Jane:
“..Greenlanders might be glad to get out from under the Danish yoke. It is kind of absurd that tiny Denmark controls gigantic Greenland, but more to the point, there is a long history of overt racism by Danes regarding the indigenous population of Greenland.”
Uhhhhh, the US has a LOOOOOONG history of colonialism, racism and now GENOCIDE of 2 populations (Ukrainians and Palestinians).
I highly doubt Greenland would be better off under the US thumb. In fact, it may be much worse!
Posted by: Kay | Jan 9 2025 4:07 utc | 254

Exhibit 2:

Posted by: Jane | Jan 8 2025 15:24 utc | 20
“there is a long history of overt racism by Danes regarding the indigenous population of Greenland.”
Are you suggesting that the descendants of the genociders of the Native Americans will be better than the Danes?
Posted by: Jams O’Donnell | Jan 9 2025 14:35 utc | 319

The inveterate liar is you, Jane.
Posted by: All Under Heaven | Sep 7 2025 15:32 utc | 276

I will add this onto the pile too:

One good thing that Trump has done is (to start to) put the kibosh on offshore wind generation to feed the US grid. Of course those who live in onshore communities don’t get a direct feed of the electric power—it will come from the national grid, costs to be determined by the “provider.”
Posted by: Jane | Sep 7 2025 22:46 utc | 113

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Sep 9 2025 20:43 utc | 304

America blowing up 11 Venezuelans with no repercussions (while Duterte rots in ICC prison), America renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War, America arresting experts from South Korea, long-time puppets of America whose highest military decision-making powers during wartime are in the hand of Americans, who are sacrificing their own nation’s interests in a futile and belated effort to revitalize America’s moribund car industry, America revealing that their Navy SEALs murdered DPRK civilians in 2019 with zero repercussions. Quite a productive week of sowing death chaos for the Trump administration!
Elbridge Colby’s smokescreen about pivoting away from China is not believed by anyone serious, not when America is making big moves in its preparation for war against China these past couple of days.
Subic Bay Shipyard Re-Opens after U.S., South Korean Investments September 5, 2025. Hyundai has eyed the use of Subic Bay as a site to produce warships for the Philippines and regional clients.
US Doubles Down on Missile Power Near China Sep 05, 2025. The United States is continuing to boost its military presence near China, with a new anti-ship missile system being the latest weapon to be deployed on a Japanese outlying island on the front lines of the Western Pacific.
The South Koreans arrested by ICE were working for Hyundai, the very same Hyundai who is working hard to build warships for America in the Philippines!
Americans can’t help themselves but be racist, rabid warmongers.
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Sep 9 2025 21:12 utc | 305

Netanyahy had a coourt case. So he was supposed to attack Iran on 9 sept. Instead he attacked Hamas in Doha. Court case deferred or not?

Posted by: rqa | Sep 9 2025 21:16 utc | 306

Netanyahy had a coourt case. So he was supposed to attack Iran on 9 sept. Instead he attacked Hamas in Doha. Court case deferred or not?
Posted by: rqa | Sep 9 2025 21:16 utc | 306

A different excuse was already pre-planned for skipping the court case:
Netanyahu won’t testify at trial today, in wake of Jerusalem shooting attack 8 September 2025, The Times of Israel
But thanks for reminding me to add America’s bombing of Qatar to the list of accomplishments in the Trump’s administration very productive (destructive) week!
NOW – Press Secretary Leavitt confirms U.S. notified Qatar before Israel’s strike and assured them it won’t recur, also stating “Unilaterally bombing inside Qatar… does not advance Israel or America’s goals, however eliminating Hamas… is a worthy goal.”
The peace president is straight gunning for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Sep 9 2025 21:40 utc | 307

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Sep 9 2025 19:54 utc | 301
When you write “Death to America”, do you really mean it?
Because the heatred and the revenge are a long way, without end.
Even in the case that you are running out of friends, writing about China, like you do, omit the real Chinese that want to Tik Tok every fucking day: capital and mom state equal to Confucious.
So must effort for nothing, dear.
China is, by her way, capitalist to the core.
No socialism, just the same old mentality adapted to the new times. The same GDP monster.

Posted by: Esophagus | Sep 9 2025 21:50 utc | 308

When you write “Death to America”, do you really mean it?
Because the heatred and the revenge are a long way, without end.
Posted by: Esophagus | Sep 9 2025 21:50 utc | 308

There definitely isn’t any hatred on the part of America. Just very dispassionate dropping of bombs, staging of color revolutions by moderate rebels in faraway shores, gentle starvation and deprivation of critical medical supplies. All very clinical, very detached.
On “Death to America” as a slogan:
Death to America

The slogan in its historical context has been provoked by the U.S. government’s hostile policies towards Iran and expresses outrage at those policies, and does not wish for literal death for American people themselves.[13] In a speech to university students, Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei interpreted the slogan as “death to the U.S.’s policies, death to arrogance”.[14] Following a meeting with Army and Air Force commanders, Khamenei declared that the Iranian people are not against American people but that “Death to America” means down with American leaders, particularly President Donald Trump, then-national security advisor John Bolton, and then-secretary of state Mike Pompeo.[15][16]

On the socialist economy of the Marxist-Leninist state of China:

Even in the case that you are running out of friends, writing about China, like you do, omit the real Chinese that want to Tik Tok every fucking day: capital and mom state equal to Confucious.
So must effort for nothing, dear.
China is, by her way, capitalist to the core.
No socialism, just the same old mentality adapted to the new times. The same GDP monster.
Posted by: Esophagus | Sep 9 2025 21:50 utc | 308

ON STATE CAPITALISM July 9, 1953, Mao Tse-tung

The present-day capitalist economy in China is a capitalist economy which for the most part is under the control of the People’s Government and which is linked with the state-owned socialist economy in various forms and supervised by the workers. It is not an ordinary but a particular kind of capitalist economy, namely, a state-capitalist economy of a new type. It exists not chiefly to make profits for the capitalists but to meet the needs of the people and the state. True, a share of the profits produced by the workers goes to the capitalists, but that is only a small part, about one quarter, of the total. The remaining three quarters are produced for the workers (in the form of the welfare fund), for the state (in the form of income tax) and for expanding productive capacity (a small part of which produces profits for the capitalists). Therefore, this state-capitalist economy of a new type takes on a socialist character to a very great extent and benefits the workers and the state.

The Tax in Kind 21 April, 1921, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

State capitalism would be a step forward as compared with the present state of affairs in our Soviet Republic. If in approximately six months’ time state capitalism became established in our Republic, this would be a great success and a sure guarantee that within a year socialism will have gained a permanently firm hold and will have become invincible in this country.
I can imagine with what noble indignation some people will recoil from these words…. What! The transition to state capitalism in the Soviet Socialist Republic would be a step forward? … Isn’t this the betrayal of socialism?
We must deal with this point in greater detail.

Stay uneducated, American/wannabe-American (same difference)
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Sep 9 2025 22:08 utc | 309

Who do you think who invented the concept of fiat money. The Temple?
Long before the first notes measuring values of current properties and insurances in Europe, Chinese had records of all the transactions.
Temujin, in the Mongolica Peace, after 200 years of his death: every trade transaction were registered. Every minute paper of money was accountable.
China is socialist?
My fucking goss.
Have do you ever spend a night with people who wants to earn your money in the game?

Posted by: Esophagus | Sep 9 2025 22:12 utc | 310

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Sep 9 2025 22:08 utc | 309
If it’s an slogan, why do you repeat it?
Are you fucked by the monster behavior of the Americans? By their lack of compassion?
You have made a point.
We, the others, will try to do not.
If I understand your narrative, you do not want to be the same bully.
If you desire bad to those who have doing bad to you, this never will be up.
If we are morally better than this bullies, we never will do the same. Never.
If we are the same emotional people who desire revenge, we are the same people who deserve recognition.
Bad future.

Posted by: Esophagus | Sep 9 2025 22:28 utc | 311

@ All Under Heaven | Sep 9 2025 22:08 utc | 309
I think you’re one of the best commenters here, so I hope you will forgive me for saying: Don’t feed the troll.

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 9 2025 22:41 utc | 312

@ All Under Heaven | Sep 9 2025 22:08 utc | 309
I think you’re one of the best commenters here, so I hope you will forgive me for saying: Don’t feed the troll.
Posted by: malenkov | Sep 9 2025 22:41 utc | 312

Point taken. I’ll wander off for a bit.
Since Korea is on a lot of news with the DPRK spec ops raid, the Hyundai car factory raid, and the reopening of the Subic Bay naval yard for warships by Hyundai, here’s a parting gift that’s also related to Korea:

South Korean women file landmark forced prostitution lawsuit against US military
More than 100 victims filed a fresh lawsuit officially accusing the US troops, for the first time, their lawyer announced on Tuesday. The lawsuit seeks $7,200 in compensation per victim.
More than 100 South Korean women forced to work as prostitutes for US soldiers stationed in the country have filed a landmark lawsuit accusing Washington of abuse, their lawyers said on Tuesday, September 9. Historians and activists say tens of thousands of South Korean women worked for state-sanctioned brothels from the 1950s to 1980s, serving US troops stationed in the country to protect the South from North Korea.
<a href="https://www.lemonde.fr/en/united-states/article/2025/09/09/south-korean-women-file-landmark-forced-prostitution-lawsuit-against-us-military_6745189_133.html

“>https://www.lemonde.fr/en/united-states/article/2025/09/09/south-korean-women-file-landmark-forced-prostitution-lawsuit-against-us-military_6745189_133.html
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Sep 9 2025 22:53 utc | 313

I have no doubt about the human being. We are a bunch of disgusting motherfuckers. Guys, gals and inbetweens. Give a fuck. Never will understand who we are.
We are abject. But we are committed.
We are able to torture our brothers and sisters, and after that feel bad for our behavior?
Fuck Ya!
It’s a fucking excuse to not recognize ourselves.
Don’t do it! Please, figure out to don’t make pain on our brothers.
Palestinians, hands up! All the people of good will are with you and against this brutal insanity:
https://youtu.be/WB6vbZE4avg?feature=shared

Posted by: Esophagus | Sep 9 2025 23:01 utc | 314

Was it under Trump 1.0 that TSMC was ordered to build a chip factory in the US or earlier? Video shows all the problems they run into, from finding a skilled workforce just to build the place to finding efficiently pure chemicals in the US that are a requirement for four to five nm chips. A lot of stuff they have to import from Taiwan anyway. They estimate it will cost 50 to 100% more to build chips in the US.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD1jyk3LhA8
“TSMC’s $40 Billion Arizona Nightmare”

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 9 2025 23:36 utc | 315

@ All Under Heaven | Sep 9 2025 22:08 utc | 309
I think you’re one of the best commenters here, so I hope you will forgive me for saying: Don’t feed the troll.
Posted by: malenkov | Sep 9 2025 22:41 utc | 312
__________________
Sorry, the old musician fag involves the comment.
Deserve a response:
And I hope you have a good day without cocksukers who try to use your comments for his illusions of grandeur.
Are you able to write something from you? Because you always pick up in another conversations with the aim of judgment.
Have you ever something sometime consecuential to write?
Dear old faggot

Posted by: Esophagus | Sep 9 2025 23:41 utc | 316

@ Esophagus | Sep 9 2025 23:41 utc | 316
It’s nice yo know that I don’t have to waste any effort discrediting you when you do such a fine job of it yourself.

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 10 2025 0:05 utc | 317

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 10 2025 0:05 utc | 317
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I have found it is better to let fools carry on. There is often little I could say that is better than them revealing themselves.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 10 2025 0:12 utc | 318

@ LoveDonbass | Sep 10 2025 0:12 utc | 318
There are things we fundamentally disagree on, but I’ve never questioned your wisdom or sincerity. 😊

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 10 2025 0:15 utc | 319

Posted by: malenkov | Sep 10 2025 0:15 utc | 319
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Thank you, that’s excellent. I have many flaws, but sincerity and conviction are not among them.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Sep 10 2025 0:33 utc | 320

On the other hand, seeing the two of you, holding hands, confirms your mutual intent.
The insufferable everyday bore who produces stereotypes, slogans, and fundamental evil phrases is associated with the lawyer for poor experts, the snob who, incapable of contributing on his own, uses others like whores to just all from his top.
Wait.
LD is a LLM probe with strict gtm time and confuses people because is ab assisted bot.
M is a real human who interpecs of any comment whit his conclusions if value.
LD write sentences during 18 hours per day, like globes in the sky, vacuum of content, like the cookie monster and, the most snobistic regular who never has been able to contribute except to judge the cualitity of the others, comes the two and make an anointed flair.
Fine. New friends: the bot and the snob. The two who make this place a game of egos.
Ler it be a new place with good manners, because this has become the bad Simphony of the last old caputs.

Posted by: Esophagus | Sep 10 2025 1:09 utc | 321

@ | Tue, 09 Sep 2025 19:51:00 GMT | 300

The paper linked by persiflo is not peer-reviewed.

Cool argument, “All Under Heaven”. Is that a Chinese name, by the way? cough, cough./s Must be the coal fire plants over here.

Posted by: persiflo | Sep 10 2025 1:10 utc | 322

What a difficult day this has been.
I come here with something others may have presented- I will look around, but not for long, so apologies if this is a repeat.
I went away from this conversation many times, but it got better every time I returned, and I had to return. Please follow to the end, if you haven’t already.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSkzK6u-DpM
I will add a couple of thoughts about arrogance. The secret to the longevity of – I will be inclusive now – Christianity is that arrogance is not the way. The way is the way of Christ, and that means selfemptying, which is what he as God did. He emptied himself. That is the concept, just don’t feel you have to believe it; you ought, though, at the very least to understand it.
The second thought is a quotation:

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

And thirdly, if you follow to the end of the dialogue, karlof1, there are words about global governance. I said back a way, that word “governance” dances.
So did this conversation.
(Now I’ll have a look at what everyone else has been saying, on this difficult day.)

Posted by: juliania | Sep 10 2025 2:52 utc | 323

Well first, what documents transcripts ect did Mercouris use to prove it?

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 9 2025 10:20 utc | 269
I can’t say I have an answer to that, unless it was intended to be rhetorical.
But now that you mention it, when the PoS2 agreement was announced a week ago, “Djole” made the bold claim that:

🇷🇺🇨🇳‼️It has been decided: Russia stops supplying gas to Europe – All capacities go to China‼️

https://x.com/onlydjole/status/1962991051276202395
Can one also argue that he/she has no proof of that?
Nearly two years back, Sputnik Globe ran a page discussing the Power of Siberia 2. Konstantin Simonov, Director-General of the National Energy Security Fund, had this to say:

“I would formulate the gas strategy as follows: we are fighting for the second Chinese contract, Power of Siberia 2, and we understand the strategic importance of the Chinese market. We are thinking about the Indian market as a medium-term prospect, but we are not giving up on the European market either. China and India, but we are will also fighting for Europe.

https://sputnikglobe.com/20230925/power-of-siberia-sino-russian-natural-gas-deal-of-the-century-1113611023.html
That is nearly two years old now, and it’s likely that circumstances have changed (prolly for the worse). As of yet, I still am waiting for Putin, Gazprom and co. to come forth and confirm or debunk what Djole and Mercouris said. But what I did find was another RT piece where the Kremlin debunks some rumor:
https://www.rt.com/russia/624169-kremlin-foreign-policy-east/

Kremlin debunks ‘eastern turn’ claim
Russia is not reorienting its foreign policy, spokesman Dmitry Peskov has stressed, adding that doing so would be a mistake.

Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Friday, Putin stressed that Russia had never turned its back on anyone and always “looks both ways,” just like the two-headed eagle on the country’s national symbols.

He emphasized that Russia has always been, and remains open to economic cooperation with the US, and that American businesses could greatly benefit from joint projects if Washington allows it.

How this changes anything is up to the next person.

Posted by: joey_n | Sep 10 2025 4:38 utc | 324

So we have Erdogan, PM of NATO member Turkey, talking to Putin at the SCO meeting in China; while Israel is bombing Turkeys’ assets in Syria.
The plot thickens.

Posted by: Passerby | Sep 10 2025 5:46 utc | 325

They have NO REVERSE GEAR.
in reply to SCO and BRICS and BRI
We get sabre rattling in the Carribean, collateral murder by the Oval Office now an empty boat being shot multiple times in the dark … even their gulf satraps get royally screwed – they all like to think they are Princes of the Deserts – they only ever were sand tribals who transported slaves and salt and screws their camels and goats … royals!
That’s a major airline hub the Zionazi Khazars bombed! AbuDhabi and The bigliest Dubai – Princelings must be shitting them selves – all their and Saudi etc miltary might is run and maintained by the MIC of the western companies – it can be shutdown immediately and even used against them if they go off range!
The near Failure in the subcontinent lights a fuse and burns down Nepal and its official records! That is more than a Color Revolt. Money raining from the sky to attract the ‘protesting youth’ and very sturdy looking MEN with combat weapons using the cover to attack the buildings of ministers and their homes.
These are BRITISH Mercenary recruits from the mountains – they are obviously the
“ Gurkha Recruitment for the British Army and Gurkha Contingent Singapore Police Force is run by the Recruit Cell in British Gurkhas Pokhara, part of British Gurkhas Nepal. “
https://www.army.mod.uk/learn-and-explore/about-the-army/corps-regiments-and-units/brigade-of-gurkhas/british-gurkhas-nepal/
The Great Gamers are still playing their Eton playing fields games.
The same goes for Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia and of course the Old Raj Empire.
CIA still largely in Pakistan Army- no sign of Imran Khan yet!
No. Reverse. Gear.
The world war will get hotter – 10’s of millions, 100’s are planned to be killed.
As the shapeshifters screech ‘off with their heads’ and try to stay in power.
The only solution’s is to do to them what they just did to Doha and Kathmandu (plus all the west Asia and North African deaths , west Africa, east Africa , Ukraine etc) and are planning to do to Venezuela – get them in their own palaces , on their private islands, their deep luxury bunkers – that is only way they will be forced to reverse or perish.
The few thousand of them.
To save billions of us.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Sep 10 2025 7:34 utc | 326

joey_n | Sep 10 2025 4:38 utc | 324
Each of the four Nordstream pipes has a capacity of around 27.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year. Three are gone and I don’t know how long they can sit with seawater in them but they will likely be repairable. The last pipeline will still carry around 27 billion then there is the line there is the line through Ukraine which I think is around 25 billion. That’s a max of 57 billion can transit through the intact piped in the future.
The new line to china will likely be around the same capacity as one pair of Nordstream pipes.Somewhere around the 55 billion. I haven’t seen any numbers on that yet.
At some point the European idiocy will end and they are not in the position of being able to survive a new fifty year cold war.
As for turning away from Europe completely, stuff like that needs to be tracked down to Kremlin or Foreign ministry transcripts and checked there. It is only Putin and Lavrov that count with that sort of thing. Even the likes of Sputnik and RT are not always reliable.
It might be ten years. It might be less or longer than that but at some point Europe will start trading with Russia again. Changes of government, the collapse of the entities of Nato and EU and everything changes completely.
I doubt Russia would invest money in new pipelines though. That will be up to Europe to pay for if it in the future wants to buy large quantities of piped gas again.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Sep 10 2025 8:11 utc | 327

I got entangled with All Under Heaven over an argument I may not have stated precisely enough. Here’s what I wanted to say: As per 2015, the transition to a renewable energies based grid in Germany (called the Energiewende) is astronomically expensive and, hence, unrealistic in the proposed time frame. It might be possible in principle, but so are many things.

Posted by: persiflo | Sep 10 2025 8:57 utc | 328

Posted by: persiflo | Sep 10 2025 8:57 utc | 328
And I would add: even if you manage to convert to 100% renewables, your industry will not be competitive with the industry of countries that continue to use fossil. This means factory closure, and unemployment – which is what we are seeing now.

Posted by: Passerby | Sep 10 2025 9:05 utc | 329

Nepal
A backgrounder
FUKUSA aka AUKUS /INDIA collusion in South Asia
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[MonthlyReview 2001]
After Indian independence, the new rulers of India sought to replace the British as the imperial masters of the kingdoms that lay in the Himalayan foothills between India and China. In Sikkim, a small state that adjoins Nepal to the east, India established a “protectorate” in 1950, and in 1973 the King was deposed in a coup crudely engineered by the Indian intelligence agency. Sikkim was thereupon annexed by India. Bhutan, a kingdom next in line to the east of Sikkim, like Nepal and Sikkim borders both India and China. When, in 1964, the Prime Minister of Bhutan moved to have a balanced foreign policy between China and India, he was assassinated by Indian operatives and the king’s younger brother, Lendrup Dorje, was put in his place. Bhutan has kept its formal independence, but ever since there have been Indian army posts inside Bhutan at the border crossings with China. Nepal has been a harder nut to crack.
Nepal was always under the influence of British imperialism from the time of the Sugauli treaty [1816], and later came under the direct influence of Indian expansionism. Nepal has witnessed the direct influence of expansionist and imperialist powers ever since the death of the nationalist Bhimsen Thapa [1839] through the rise of the British Dog (description courtesy of Karl Marx) Jung Bahadur after the Kot massacre, and in each successive political change. It shouldn’t be very hard for Nepali nationalists to understand the new Kot massacre as a continuation of the same pattern of “influence.”
Why was King Birendra and his family murdered at this particular moment? What was his crime in the eyes of the expansionist and imperialist powers? Whatever your political ideology might be, one thing every honest Nepali nationalist has to agree with is this: King Birendra’s liberal political ideology and his patriotism were seen as his weakness and had become a crime in the eyes of the expansionist and imperialist powers. During the one-sided Indian economic embargo and revolution of 1990, instead of surrendering himself to the expansionist powers, he surrendered to his people. This did not make the expansionist forces happy. Later, his unwillingness to mobilize the army—which has a tradition of loyalty towards the King—to curb the People’s Revolution taking place under the leadership of Nepal Communist Party (Maoist) became his biggest crime in the eyes of the imperialist and expansionist powers. Some Marxist pundits, based on this, called us a pro-monarchy party, and we can now say that we—NCP(Maoist) and King Birendra—had similar views on many national issues and this had created in fact an informal alliance between us. Obviously, this scared the imperialist powers and their cronies. In the context of a deteriorating Sino-US relationship and a growing strategic alliance between India and the US, the King who appeared soft on us—the Maoists—and China had become an irritation to the American Imperialists and especially to the Indian expansionists.
India’s dream of annexing Nepal like Sikkim had to be amended and instead they had to make Nepal a Bhutan first, before making it another Sikkim. After CIA (and the recently opened FBI branch in Delhi) approval, RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) [the Indian covert intelligence and operations agency] came up with a grand master plan to annex Nepal. Just like the cunning fox of folk-lore who stole the chickens by falsely shouting that an eagle was arriving, RAW too created a fake tale about the ISI (Inter Service Intelligence) [the Pakistani covert intelligence and operations agency] being active in Nepal and having penetrated the Palace. [The next few sentences, which refer to the 1964 Bhutan events, suggest a direct involvement of the new royal family in the June 1st slaughter] They even chose a Jigme Sigme for the Bhutanization of Nepal. And it is through that Jigme Sigme that the massacre was carried out. There shouldn’t be any doubt that RAW, which had already found their Lendup Dorje in Girija [the current pro-Indian Nepali Congress Prime Minister], aligned the new Jigme Sigme with their Lendup Dorje for the Bhutanization of Nepal, with a goal of eventual Sikkimization of Nepal.
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No wonder they call India USAss of South Asia and why gringo/anglo gushing about their shared values with Indians, ‘their distant Aryan Bro’ !

Posted by: denk | Sep 10 2025 14:21 utc | 330

Reportedly,
sino/pak military collaboration hitting a snag, following massive leak of Chinese drone./Xiaolong FC1 core technology to third party via Pak channel.

Posted by: denk | Sep 10 2025 14:38 utc | 331