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November 30, 2025
The MoA Week In Review – OT 2025-275

Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:

> Trump does not have the legal power to close the airspace over another country, even as he appeared to be threatening an attack or seeking to push Venezuela’s leaders to think he was contemplating one. <

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Other issues:

West Asia:

EU:

EU and Ukraine:

UK:

Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …

Posted by b on November 30, 2025 at 14:10 UTC | Permalink
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Posted by: Some Random Passerby | Dec 1 2025 6:41 utc | 152
 
Nice to see Wick mentioned. My maternal grandmother was born there in 1922. She’s still kicking, at 103 years old. They made them strong of will in those days.
 
I’d love to visit the place someday.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Dec 2 2025 23:26 utc | 301

Jon_in_AU | Dec 2 2025 22:52 utc | 300
 
Aboriginal Australia is like Europe. Many nations. What I am mainly looking at is the remote communities, and the fringe dwellers of remote towns/cities.
 
Each nation needs to be its own republic. These are the people that prior to the 60s lived and worked on cattle stations. Each group or clan within a nation still lived and worked on their land. The retained their language, culture and social structure. In that pre citizenship period, the aboriginal camp would be supplied by the station – basic food clothing ect. With citizenship came award wages. Nothing in aboriginal experience had prepared them for the white mans world. That’s why in an earlier comment I wrote they were simply thrown into the ocean and told to learn to swim. In most cases nothing has changed.
 
With wages and access to pubs, many of the aboriginal men spent their money on booze. Paying wages, the cattle properties could no longer afford to maintain the camp. The aboriginal men had to purchase with their wages what their families required, apart from beef. The way in which the aboriginal people went from being fauna to citizens was a total mess.
 
Its 20 years since I was in the Kimberly’s now and the older generation that were last to work in those stock camps would mostly have passed away, but they had taken pride in the work and they were excellent stockmen. Throughout those remoter regions, most of the land is grazing leases. ALC had bought a number of the leases but the communities on them have to pay the lease and rates. Throughout those regions, several of those leases within every nation needs to be set up as hubs where the young men can learn and work on their own land.
 
With that older generation that worked in stock camps passing on, it may now be too late. Fringe dweller lifestyle/culture may run through to what are now the elder generation.
There are the urban aboriginals and a few non urbane but dedicated aboriginal people the media focuses on intermixed with woke bullshit. That political garbage holds no interest for me.
 
I did put in a comment to your earlier reply – you may have missed it. Since living in and with that community in the Kimberly’s, This is a subject that has greatly interested/angered me. Angered due to the racism of a white Australia that has zero understanding of other cultures, be it traditional white supremacy racism or woke do gooder racism.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Dec 2 2025 23:48 utc | 302

This is a subject that has greatly interested/angered me. Angered due to the racism of a white Australia that has zero understanding of other cultures, be it traditional white supremacy racism or woke do gooder racism.
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Dec 2 2025 23:48 utc | 302

 
Great post. One might surmise that Whitey has zero understanding of his own culture, too.

Posted by: persiflo | Dec 3 2025 0:40 utc | 303

One might surmise that Whitey has zero understanding of his own culture, too.
Posted by: persiflo | Dec 3 2025 0:40 utc | 303
 
That is correct.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Dec 3 2025 1:12 utc | 304

That should have been…
There are the urban aboriginals and a few non urbane but dedicated educated aboriginal 

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Dec 3 2025 1:16 utc | 305

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 2 2025 6:22 utc | 245
 
Thanks for this, Psychohistorian.  Leading by example is the best way to provide a teachable moment to others.  I hope that is true for nations as it is for individual persons.

Posted by: juliania | Dec 3 2025 2:13 utc | 306

Posted by: Samu | Dec 1 2025 21:04 utc | 225
 
Thank you for that, Samu.  

Posted by: juliania | Dec 3 2025 2:23 utc | 307

 juliania | Dec 3 2025 2:13 utc | 306
 
I guess it seems a bit… not sure how to put it, bit I suspect the world of man will be an ongoing struggle of good against evil.
 
From google AI –
“The phrase, famously attributed to Edmund Burke, suggests that evil can succeed if those who are good do nothing to stop it. It highlights that inaction, rather than direct participation, can be enough for injustice to prevail.”
 
American AI is often too innocent if not correctly programmed to the narrative.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Dec 3 2025 2:33 utc | 308

Posted by: exile | Dec 1 2025 20:47 utc | 224
 
Thanks for this, exile.  I remember Putin saying some time ago that it looked as though the US might be facing a similar collapse to that of the Soviet Union.  So it has to be useful to discern what successful elements of the original state enabled the transition back then.  At the same time, each nation has its own  unique response to the stages  – I keep remembering Xi’s repetition of the phrase ‘communism with Chinese characteristics’.  The US ought to be able to do this ‘with American characteristics’ —  those, however having no relationship to what seems underway in Venezuela at present.  Perhaps the US needs to humble itself by borrowing native American characteristics.  Their forefathers did.

Posted by: juliania | Dec 3 2025 2:50 utc | 309

@ juliania | Dec 3 2025 2:50 utc | 309 who I think is mistaken about Xi
 
I think the phrase is “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 3 2025 3:02 utc | 310

Posted by: juliania | Dec 3 2025 2:50 utc | 309
 
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The Russians and Chinese have cultures and have been civilizations. America does not have a culture in that sense. When times get bad, people rely on their family, faith, and neighbors. America doesn’t have that sort of social connection.
 
It’s every man (or woman) for themselves.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 3 2025 3:34 utc | 311

Great post. One might surmise that Whitey has zero understanding of his own culture, too.
Posted by: persiflo | Dec 3 2025 0:40 utc | 303
 
There is stuff we see in our lives that bite into the  the soul.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Dec 3 2025 3:37 utc | 312

Posted by: persiflo | Dec 3 2025 0:40 utc | 303
 
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What is white culture? Is it Anglo? Frank? Nord? Latin?
 
I think therein lies the issue. There is no definitive “white” culture, racial cohort, or language.
 
Does it include Slavs and Poles? Serbs or Croats? Greeks?
 
Is it Christian, Jew, Atheist, or Muslim?
 
If Christian, is it Orthodox, Catholic, or Protestant?
 
Can’t blame whitey for not knowing his culture when it is so hard to define.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 3 2025 3:46 utc | 313

Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Dec 1 2025 17:13 utc | 203
 
Re: Connection.
I don’t want to be a harbinger of doom, but when push comes to shove the cabal will find an excuse to shut most if not all of the internet down. They will even sabotage their own undersea cables and satellites if it prevents the working classes from seizing control of the estate.
 
The most likely outcome is that we’ll have to plan going old-school, and passing photocopies of information around like the pre-web days.
 
If I had any money to spare, I’d be going large on printers and toner.
 
Just a thought…

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Dec 3 2025 3:50 utc | 314

LoveDonbass | Dec 3 2025 3:46 utc | 313
 
The Hole Roman Empire of Westphalia.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Dec 3 2025 3:58 utc | 315

“Look up the RSS and their connections with Mussolini’s Italy and Hitlers Germany. From what I can make of it, the Aryan stuff originated there.”
Posted by: Peter AU1 | Dec 2 2025 11:06 utc | 253
 
Will do. Thanks. Funny you mentioned that. When I was at university, I met another guy of Indian descent who swore (c.1993) that India would rule over the world within 20 years.
 
His parents must have been of the RSS supporter persuasion, as they named him Benito.
 
I really dislike the indoctrination of such supremacist beliefs, no matter which race/culture/in-group is doing it. 

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Dec 3 2025 7:10 utc | 316

Posted by: Laguerre | Dec 2 2025 11:42 utc | 257
 
Interesting. I’ve not read much about the history of the British in India except for a few articles on the British East India Co, the famine, and a massacre or two. I’ll do some deeprr reading when time prevails. 
Thanks.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Dec 3 2025 7:15 utc | 317

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Dec 2 2025 23:48 utc | 302
 
Thanks Peter.
It is that paternalistic attitude towards indigenous Australians that annoys me the most also.
I remember when the fascistic PM of Australia, John Howard, started his back to the 1950s intervention in the Northern Territory. It was a re-vamp of the stolen generations era, with the typical smug superiority of fascist supremacism.
 
The reason that I lean towards an independent indigenous government, is that it can provide oversight and auditing of the moneyary side of development and help prevent corruption by the few, but without that condescending paternal attitude of the white conservatives.
 
Given the resources and time, and most importantly an independent voice, our indigenous brothers and sisters will be able to manage their own development quite adequately on their own without our do-gooderism or paternalism.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Dec 3 2025 7:50 utc | 318

Posted by: denk | Dec 2 2025 13:30 utc | 263 and 14:10 utc | 266
Six years ago when I took an interest in China and BRICS and multipolarity, having grown disillusioned with the USAian “rules based order”, I was told that the Chinese govt. was aware of Japan’s subjugation to the USA, and thus expected that (along with US misdeeds toward China past and present) to be well-known among the population, even taught in schools. That a portion of Chinese netizens (think tanks, etc.) would not get the memo or come to some other conclusion (e.g. that US military bases are there to restrain Japan from waging war on China) was not in my bingo card.
I was at the YouTube comment section of Brian Berletic’s video about Japan, and one guy/gal wrote about those think tanks who act as if Japan were independent, versus the CPC who knows it isn’t. I asked him/her why there had to be such a disconnect between the CPC and those think tanks, and he/she responded saying that those think tanks tend to play to a “peanut gallery”. The mere presence of a peanut gallery in China was not in my bingo card either, and that’s not to mention the barrage of “一言为定 (It’s a deal!)” comments during Takaichi’s campaign.

Posted by: joey_n | Dec 3 2025 7:57 utc | 319

Sorry for the typos. Big thumbs…small phone.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Dec 3 2025 8:01 utc | 320

Good afternoon, I envy him)))
https://embed.membrana.media/OBZ/75827331-desktop.mp4?r=30315

Posted by: Sany Dnepropetrovsk | Dec 3 2025 12:36 utc | 321

It’s every man (or woman) for themselves.
 
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 3 2025 3:34 utc | 311
 
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As I’ve said before, American culture, such as it is, is the confluence of frontier mentality and Calvinism. You just identified the former.

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 3 2025 12:42 utc | 322

“You just identified the former.” 
malenkov 
 
and the latter is predestination?

Posted by: will moon | Dec 3 2025 13:25 utc | 323

@ will moon | Dec 3 2025 13:25 utc | 323
 
Yes. It’s the belief that if you’re poor, you deserve to be (because if you were at all godly you wouldn’t be poor), and you do not merit assistance.
 
This belief has been secularized, of course, into a generalized notion that charity is itself a moral failing. It’s only in the USA that Ayn Rand could be taken seriously.

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 3 2025 13:37 utc | 324

A drive by shooter above. Have not bothered to click the link.
 
persiflo we are quite different To sit at a campfire in a stock camp or a mining camp and talk into the night with you would be quite interesting.
I flew, my mate raced bikes. You and I, our tastes in music are different. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CeI82qC6Tag
When I was flying, I liked ACDC highway to hell. Most I knew went there. Its an effin odd world.
 
This is a bloody odd world pesiflo.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Dec 3 2025 14:16 utc | 325

Posted by: Sany Dnepropetrovsk | Dec 3 2025 12:36 utc | 321
 
ha ha , good one

Posted by: arby | Dec 3 2025 14:43 utc | 326

Trump calls Somali immigrants ‘garbage,’ claims they ‘contribute nothing’ to society. Oh, to be a rich capitalist parasite with no clue how wealth is created. I’m gonna say it: Trump is garbage who contributes nothing to society and someone should do something about it.
‘I see them all lined upLike broken children at the wallTheir skin is hanging off in sheetsEach face is painted like a clown
Their blood is shining in the sunTheir wounds are powdered with white saltTheir lips are making silent wordsI see my name as it spills out
I see them walking on their kneesLed in a chain by laughing girlsI see them sucking on the dirtAs if inhaling the whole world
And, one by one, their throats are cutAnd each one sings his choking songAnd each one sings his lullabyAnd each one falls and then, he’s gone
And I feel goodYeah, I feel fineYeah, I feel goodAnd I’ve been waiting far too long
I see their bodies in the pyreLeaking black smoke into the flamesAnd all the people stand aroundShaping lips into my name
And soon, the sun begins to sinkBehind the wall of dirty airI see their bones there in the pileAnd taste the smell of burning hair
And all the children howl for milkThe rain spits down a million knivesI see you running naked through the fieldI see you running for your useless life
I feel you choking on your tongueI feel your breath attack your chestDogs are ripping at your feetI see you bleeding out your happiness
And I feel goodYeah, I feel fineYeah, I feel goodI finally got back what was always, rightfully, mine’ – my dream for capitalists as written by M. Gira
M Gira – I See Them All Lined Up
 

Posted by: Caveman | Dec 3 2025 15:03 utc | 327

Really hate the new formatting. Apologies yet again for the wall of text

Posted by: Caveman | Dec 3 2025 15:04 utc | 328

malenkov, some very good posts.
 
I didn’t even consider frontier mentality + Calvinism.
 
Or that America was the ideal environment for Ayn Rand.
 
You’ve given me much to consider. Which is rare but exactly what I hope for.
 
Thank you 

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Dec 3 2025 15:23 utc | 329

@ LoveDonbass | Dec 3 2025 15:23 utc | 329
 
You’re welcome. Despite — or because of — our differences I learn a lot from you too.

Posted by: malenkov | Dec 3 2025 15:27 utc | 330

Peter, it is almost a bit of a campfire for me! You and me, and everyone else who’s reading and writing here, on our sides of the screen, flickering in the dark, our shared words and thoughts spoken across the sizzeling flame — 
 
Thanks for coming back from the dead to hang around a little more. It means a lot to me.

Posted by: persiflo | Dec 3 2025 15:40 utc | 331

@324 Malenkov

“It’s the belief that if you’re poor, you deserve to be (because if you were at all godly you wouldn’t be poor)”

Many religions posit the opposite though, that rejection of wealth is a path to enlightenment…someone’s going to end up upset or confused by the contradiction ?

Maybe your phrase is saying that people are poor because they are on the right path and once they understand whatever they have to they will become materially rich ?

Not sure if that works though, most people just tend to stay poor as far as I make out…I guess it can just then be labelled as a choice of lifestyle… unobliged extended virtuosity or something like that ?

It would seem better to be poor than to be in debt, though probably many would disagree.

Posted by: Ornot | Dec 3 2025 17:22 utc | 332

Apropos to the discussions of indigenous rights and development, this story appeared today on ABC Australia:
 
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-04/150th-native-title-determination-wa-after-claimants-wait-30y/106087088
 
A quite from Kado Muir, key figure in the native title claim for Payarri and Waturta regions of the Mantjutjara and Ngalia people’s country.
“[It] is about reversing, and giving practical effect, to taking away the notion of terra nullius,” he said.
“[It] is actually the first step in the process of reclaiming and starting to manage your country.”
Mr Muir said the next steps for Payarri would include starting a ranger group to protect the unique area while providing employment.
“Really to try and activate the traditional ways of caring for country … which will result in protection for the nature and integrity of the landscape.”
 
This is a great result, and of the kind that makes me think that there is still hope.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Dec 4 2025 3:52 utc | 333

*quote
Thumbs are still big, phone’s still small…sorry.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Dec 4 2025 3:52 utc | 334

Gorilla Radio (podcast)
 
https://gradio.substack.com/p/gorilla-radio-with-chris-cook-yves-f65
 
“Yves Engler and the end of Canada’s political credibility at home and abroad; John Helmer and Trump’s money men go to the Kremlin, in the second half.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Dec 4 2025 23:17 utc | 335

John Gilberts | Dec 4 2025 23:17 utc | 335
 
Canada with its Galicia regiment probably does not need mobilizing by the Brits  but oz has been told to cough up more money. Scanning the media before and there is massive panic over the threat of peace. Our foreign minister proudly stated that Australia has thrown away 1.7 billion in the war against Russia.
 
I did a rough working out of Australia’s war costs over the next decade or so. On top of maintaining a basic military, we will be spending over half a trillion on offensive war not defence. Aukus is the big one, the there is the American flying lemons. We gave all our tanks to Ukraine so Australia will be buying more refurbished hulls from the Americans. Then there are ships from Japan that are being converted from mine layers/mine sweepers to missile ships so there will be the added cost of the missiles to put on them.
 
The American looting of Australia. On top of that, because like Canada,we are a British colony, we are at war with Russia.
The Brits seemed quiet about the US Russia talks at the start but now the mighty wurlitzer is going full throttle.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Dec 4 2025 23:55 utc | 336

Some years back, I read an article on China working on a satellite sensor to detect submarines. I did a bit of a search to see how that was progressing and run onto this.
https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/04/27/china-tests-drone-mounted-quantum-sensor-that-could-reshape-submarine-detection/
 
China has been working on Submarine detection for some time now. Like with most things China does, it will come up with the technology to detect submarines. That will make submarines largely irrelevant.
Martyanov does the math on current ASW technology vs the range of Russian anti ship missiles. It gives a very large area to sweep. I think the main breakthrough will come at some point but it needs to be high altitude or space based to sweep a large area.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Dec 5 2025 0:32 utc | 337

Some years back, I read an article on China working on a satellite sensor to detect submarines. I did a bit of a search to see how that was progressing and run onto this.
https://thequantuminsider.com/2025/04/27/china-tests-drone-mounted-quantum-sensor-that-could-reshape-submarine-detection/
 
China has been working on Submarine detection for some time now. Like with most things China does, it will come up with the technology to detect submarines. That will make submarines largely irrelevant.
Martyanov does the math on current ASW technology vs the range of Russian anti ship missiles. It gives a very large area to sweep. I think the main breakthrough will come at some point but it needs to be high altitude or space based to sweep a large area.
 
Another article here on Quantum submarine detection.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/could-chinas-new-quantum-radar-be-submarine-killer-181467

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Dec 5 2025 0:43 utc | 338

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