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Feb 19 2025 
Let the New Great Game begin
This was never meant to be Yalta. Although Yalta 2.0 may eventually happen.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
This was never meant to be Yalta. Although Yalta 2.0 may eventually happen. On the Victory Day parade in Moscow next May 9, celebrating 80 years of the end of the Great Patriotic War and the… Continue reading
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Feb 16 2025 
Spring is in the air …
… in US-Russia ties as Trump’s revolution gains momentum
By Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at the Indian Punchline.
What emerges from the dramatic happenings of the past week is that the 3-year chronicle of US-Russia rivalry and the NATO’s proxy war in Ukraine was a crisis engineered with great deliberation by the Anglo-American nexus per a pernicious agenda… Continue reading
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Feb 14 2025 
TECHNOFEUDALISM
Meet America’s New Oligarch Ruling Class
🚨🇺🇸🤖 TECHNOFEUDALISM: Meet America’s New Oligarch Ruling Class
Pepe Escobar joins us to discuss how the US Deep State created Big Tech, why China’s technological innovation model is superior, and Trump’s obsession with AI dominance.
(01:42) What is technofeudalism?… pic.twitter.com/YntxsLx13w
— NewRulesGeopolitics (@NewRulesGeo) February 13, 2025Pepe Escobar joins the New Rules Podcast to… Continue reading
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Feb 11 2025 
Keep on Trumpin’
Either Ukraine surrenders unconditionally – or the war show must go on. Meanwhile, let’s Keep on Trumpin’.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
Mr. Disco Inferno has reverted to his default mode of throwing tantrum after tantrum because nearly everybody in West Asia and beyond is sayin’ NO to the Gaza Riviera Resort and Casino scam.
Here’s a… Continue reading
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Feb 08 2025 
In Valdai, confronting the “American problem” in West Asia
While Trump runs riot with his global land grab projects, multipolar visionaries in Valdai were mapping out the actual, tangible territorial routes that will define this century’s geopolitics and geoeconomics.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
MOSCOW – The 14th Middle East Conference of the Valdai Club in Moscow was hit by a geopolitical bunker buster bomb right… Continue reading
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Feb 04 2025 
Ottoman Empire 2.0?
Pepe Escobar joins #NewRulesPodcast to discuss Turkey’s political and economic expansion in Syria, Africa, and Central Asia.
(2:20) Turkey’s political elites
(7:42) 90% of Turkish elites are Atlanticists
(11:31) Erdogan’s double game with Russia and China
(16:16) Will Syria backfire?
(27:12) Turkey: Energy superpower?
(32:50) Central Asia: Turkey’s next frontier
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Feb 04 2025 
SMO: Large frontline summary 27-31 January 2025 – Marat Khairullin
From Marat’s Substack
Today, a surprising situation has developed. To understand what is happening at the front, it is necessary to take into account the international context, and vice versa, without taking into account international issues, it is impossible to analyze the situation at the front.
Therefore, let us immediately outline foreign policy priorities in order to… Continue reading
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Feb 02 2025 
The Chihuahua Energy Policy: it’s a gas, gas, gas
European chihuahuas, enjoy your “strategic defeat” fantasies!
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Let’s start with the tale of an Empire bragging to the wind.
Mr. Disco Inferno orders OPEC and OPEC+ to lower the price of oil, because, in his mind, that may solve the war in Ukraine – as in forcing Moscow to the table… Continue reading
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Jan 30 2025 
What Sültan Erdogan is really up to
On the table, a geopolitical banquet – served by some of the best independent analytical minds from Bursa to Diyarbakir.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
CONSTANTINOPLE – The scene is a Circassian restaurant off fabled Istiklal street in historic Beyoglu. On the table, a geopolitical banquet – served by some of the best independent… Continue reading
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Jan 28 2025 
Dancing to Trump’s Disco Inferno
The spectacle of Trump’s sound and fury … something veils the same old imperial mindset, now blasting out in the open as a weaponized three-ring circus.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
In the late 1970s Donald Trump, in his early thirties, cocky as ever and recently married to Ivana in 1977, could be seen on and off… Continue reading -
Jan 23 2025 
Trump Shocks the World
Genocide segues into beach front real estate. Pepe begins the beguine at 58 min.
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Jan 23 2025 
The Age of Interplanetary Exceptionalism
Only the U.S. can rebrand a genocide into a great real estate opportunity in a “phenomenal location”.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Let’s start with the key take away: Manifest Destiny reaching the stars. Literally.
Trump 2.0 – the greatest show on earth – did start with a (big) bang: “We will pursue our Manifest… Continue reading
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Jan 15 2025 
I’m gonna MAGA you, Baby
No wonder Trump had to come up with a seductive, but still fraught with danger, larger than life psy op to imperatively change the narrative.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
It’s the greatest show on earth – unleashing a double bill of New Paradigm and Manifest Destiny on crack. We are the greatest. We will… Continue reading
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Jan 08 2025 
Next Stop, Tehran
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard admitting a severe loss in Syria means what? What will it do to compensate?
By Abdel Bari Atwan at Rai Al Youm.
The “fundamentalist” opposition forces, supported by the US and Turkey, have taken power, and attention is now turning not only to how to reorganise the Syrian house from within but also… Continue reading
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