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Dec 06 2025 
Weekend Kvetch Thread
Continuing the Kvetch … Open thread, no rules – not even the three that we have.
A friend and I had a Kvetch session early in my morning. In this session I learned that the Pretend Holy Hebrews in their Pretend Holy Land are discouraging Yiddish. Yiddish is the richest and funniest hybrid language ever made… Continue reading
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Dec 05 2025 
Media statements by the President of Russia and the Prime Minister of India
Following Russian-Indian talks, Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi made statements for the media. The statements were preceded by a ceremony for the exchange of signed documents.
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/78657
29 Documents were signed by the parties. The video, at the link above, lists these – I am sure we will get a list that is… Continue reading
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Dec 05 2025 
Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem has stressed that Lebanon is facing a “dangerous, expansionist Israeli aggression”
Highlights from the speech of the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem, during the festival organized by Hezbollah, “Blood and Ink,” in glorification of the martyred scholars on the path to Al-Quds:
Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire that took effect on November 27, 2024. Under the deal, Tel Aviv was required to withdraw entirely… Continue reading
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Dec 05 2025 
Chinese Characteristics of Socialism: Civilisational Factors in CPC Governance
Recommended by Jeff J Brown
Leo He Zhao writes how and why China’s governance is Confucist-Daoist-Buddhist AND Communist-Socialist.
Class must be prioritised in any analysis…
But over centuries and millennia, the collective “recipes for living” (Clifford Geertz’ famous definition of culture) that emerges from particular conditions and trajectories does become a force which also shapes history.
Materialism is the… Continue reading
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Dec 05 2025 
Brian Berletic: More on the US National Security Strategy paper…
Brian Berletic: More on the US National Security Strategy paper…
Here are Sputnik’s questions and my complete answers regarding the recently released US National Security Strategy document below – I will also be doing an article/video this coming week…
Question 1: In the recently published National Security Strategy of the US, NATO’s expansion is criticized, and Russia… Continue reading
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Dec 05 2025 
Pepe Escobar : Will Russia and China Help Venezuela?
With Judge Andrew Napolitano
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Dec 05 2025 
CIA secretly engineered 1962 war which ruined China-India relations for decades
CIA secretly engineered 1962 war which ruined China-India relations for decades
The month-long October-November 1962 border conflict between China and India killed up to 6.2k people, and poisoned ties between the fledgling Asian powers for decades to come.
But according to a groundbreaking new academic study by Lakshmana Kumar cited by Kit Klarenberg, it was the CIA… Continue reading
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Dec 05 2025 
Joint Statement following the 23rd Russia-India Annual Summit ”Russia-India: A Time-Tested Progressive Partnership, Anchored in Trust & Mutual Respect“
Joint Statement following the 23rd Russia-India Annual Summit December 05, 2025 “Russia-India: A Time-Tested Progressive Partnership, Anchored in Trust & Mutual Respect”
1. At the invitation of the Prime Minister of the Republic of India H.E. Mr. Narendra Modi the President of the Russian Federation H.E. Mr. Vladimir Putin paid a state visit to India on December 4–5, 2025 for the 23rdRussia-India Annual Summit.
2. The Leaders reaffirmed their support for further strengthening of the Special and Privileged… Continue reading
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Dec 05 2025 
Restoring US ‘military overmach’ in ‘Indo-Pacific’
Trump’s White House just released its National Strategy paper. No doubt Brian Berletic will prepare a full analysis. No, the US is not retrenching or intending to pull punches in this area.
There is a lot of blunt discussions about mainland China, Taiwan, allies in the region, South China Sea etc.
This is real politik:
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The United… Continue reading
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Dec 05 2025 
Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: EU–US Split? EU Moves as the UK Economy Collapses
The EU: There is nothing left, besides hatred of Russia. That is the only political message that they have, and they will keep on working it. The stakes now are so high and what is at stake is the physical, military and demographic survival of Europe itself.
What the EU is attempting is to inculcate a… Continue reading
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Dec 04 2025 
Ahead of his state visit to India, Vladimir Putin answered questions from anchors of Aaj Tak and India Today TV channels.
Interview with Aaj Tak and Indian Today TV channels
http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/78649Anjana Om Kashyap: Dear viewers,
Hello and a very warm welcome. You are watching India Today, and I’m Anjana Om Kashyap and we’re at the Kremlin today and you’re about to witness history: a very historic moment.
It is said that when two old friends meet, they have their private jokes, they have a lot of fun and they have a bond of camaraderie… Continue reading
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Dec 04 2025 
Prime Minister Modi hugged President Putin: Just as we expected
Modi welcomed Putin himself. The dancing girls were appreciated, and Putin is at Modi’s house now.
It looks like RT is front and center for Russian media. The interview with India Today is here:
https://www.rt.com/on-air/628971-putin-interview-indian-media/
And the welcome, short for now, is here:
https://www.rt.com/india/628905-putin-set-to-arrive-in/
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Dec 04 2025 
The BRICS Unit
Taking all information from Pepe Escobar’s post: Pepe Escobar: How the BRICS+ Unit Can Save Global Trade
I mention that I am convinced Pepe’s work was absolutely correct as provided to him. I also know that without a deep technical and background in this field, and with deep respect for our longstanding friend Pepe, he may not… Continue reading
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Dec 04 2025 
Global Trade News
“The genie is out of the bottle. The provocation of a “USV privateer war” on trade routes threatens to collapse global maritime trade.”
By Rotislav Ishchenko at ukraine.ru.
(machine translation)
The oil tanker Virat has been attacked twice by unmanned boats near the Bosphorus Strait. On one occasion, the ship Kairos was also set on fire. Western media… Continue reading
