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    • August 14, 2025 at 10:06 #63510
      AHH
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    • August 14, 2025 at 11:01 #63511
      AHH
      Keymaster


      Forgive him. He lacks perspective, being on the inside. He doesn’t understand the Arabs are condemned, like their western suzerains. They made their beds. They will all be Gaza’ed now. And none in the Cosmos will lament them, for all instinctively despise cowardly hypocrites. These modern day post-Truth Arabs undergird the satanic age of the Petrodollar, finance western Forever Wars, and have allowed Zionism to grow into what it is today. The truest base of Zion is not in evangelical USA or masonic Old Europe – it is in the godless deserts of the GCC. And that is why they shall burn, and at hands of their own Frankenstein monster, just like in the Shelley tale. For sure, their turn comes


      💠 @kuluary_zaliva:
      ⭕ ☠️ Statement by the Houthis: New Accusations Against Israel

      • 📝 Sayyid Abdul-Malik al-Houthi issued a statement on the crimes of the Zionist regime against the Palestinian people. The focus is on actions attributed to Israel, including the number of victims, the food blockade, and targeted attacks.
      • 📊 The statement highlights the humanitarian crisis caused by the ongoing conflict. It mentions a significant number of casualties, as well as accusations of using “humanitarian” parcels to conceal aggression. Special attention is given to the food blockade and its consequences, including hunger and deaths among children. It is noted that “aid” is delivered in limited quantities and often expired.
      • 🌐 Sayyid Abdul-Malik al-Houthi’s statement is part of a broader campaign condemning Israel’s actions. It aims to draw attention to the humanitarian disaster and emphasizes the perception of the conflict as deliberate extermination.

      💠 @Intel Slava Z:
      ⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦FSB and the Russian Armed Forces disrupted Kiev’s plans to implement the missile program of the “Sapsan” complex.

      It was intended to strike deep into Russia at 500–700 km.
      ⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦Ukraine planned to strike deep into Russia with “Sapsan” missiles with the permission of NATO representatives, the FSB reports.
      [Goldfinger and CONUS would still be on the hook, given requirement of their ISR. This is the real card he brings to Alaska – the mutual MAD he intends to uncork, which even the crashtestdummy hesitated to allow to NATO]
      ⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦Targets for which the Russian Armed Forces carried out multiple strikes related to missile production:

      • Pavlograd Chemical Plant. It produced and stored solid fuel for the “Sapsan”, as well as manufactured shells, small aerial bombs, and thermobaric charges;
      • Pavlograd Mechanical Plant. Missiles, propulsion units, control systems, and warheads for the “Sapsan” were assembled there;
      • Shostka State Plant “Zvezda”, where gunpowder and warheads were made;
      • Shostka Research Institute of Chemical Products, where rocket fuel for flamethrower systems was produced and new types of gunpowder were developed.


      As Laith said of this compradore traitor Nawaf Salam, he’s “protected” by his French dual passport and has already sent his family to France, the same way European elites currently torching Rummy’s Olde Europe already sent their assets and families on ratlines to CONUS and the western hemisphere

      💠 @Palestinian Commie:
      ⭕ 🇾🇪🇾🇪⚔️🏴‍☠️🇺🇸 It’s still astonishing how little attention is given to the fact that Yemen, the poorest Arab country, managed to force Israel’s Eilat Port to shut down and declare bankruptcy, a feat even far mightier Egypt couldn’t pull off back in 1973.

      Yemen has managed to chew off roughly 7% of Israel’s import-based economy and sealed its main access point for automotive imports. The blockade has caused Israel’s economy to bleed tens of billions of dollars in losses and unpaid taxes.

      The Red Sea blockade has been so mindbogglingly successful that the USMC last year acknowledged that they’re taking notes with hopes of implementing parts of Yemen’s strategy in the USMC 2030 Force Design restructuring program.
      [well, it helps to have integrity and a solid pair]
      ⭕ 🇾🇪🎙 Yemen announces having targeted occupied Lod Airport (“Ben Gurion”) with a Palestine-2 hypersonic missile
      ⭕ 🇾🇪🎙️”The Yemeni Armed Forces are monitoring on-ground developments in Gaza and affirm full confidence in the heroic fighters from all factions to thwart the enemy’s movements and foil his plan to occupy Gaza City, God willing, just as they foiled the previous “Gideon’s Chariots” operation, with operation David’s Stones, and the ones before it

      With God’s help, we will remain with you and by your side until victory, with all our capabilities, and we shall escalate our operations until the aggression stops and the siege is lifted

      Long live Yemen, free, proud and independent,
      And long live the free ones of this nation”
      ⭕ ⚡️ Al-Qassam Brigades blast a Merkava IV tank and a D9 military bulldozer with 2 Yassin RPGs in al-Zaytoun Neighborhood, Gaza City
      ⭕ ⚡️ Al-Quds Brigades announce blowing up 2 Zionist military vehicles with pre-planted anti-armour IEDs in al-Zaytoun Neighborhood, Gaza City yesterday
      ⭕ 🏴‍☠️🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 Director of the Israeli Aerospace Industry: “Our 30 years of efforts and preparation evaporated overnight!

      I wasn’t surprised by Iran’s capabilities, but their courage in sending all these missiles directly to our sensitive centers is what amazed me.”
      [see? ALL the miserable calculations of the dying Anglo-Zionists rely on opposing cowardly hypocrites to open their wall gates to them. Hence the softening up phase of economic wars, starvation, and spying of the tools of the Moshiach]

      💠 @🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
      ⭕ 🇰🇵🇺🇸 North Korea declares that it will not sit down with the United States.
      KCNA!
      [Pity the other civilizational-states lack the sense]
      ⭕ Iranian state media report that 21,000 suspects were arrested during the 12 days of war between Israel and Iran in June 2025, including more than 260 accused of espionage and 172 for illegal recording.

    • August 14, 2025 at 16:08 #63543
      AHH
      Keymaster


      what degenerate losers. With what do you threaten a people already under war conditions and the medieval economic siege of a half-century?? Just like sanctions, their very words lose worth – it is MAD all the way, on every battlefield, conventional and otherwise


      💠 @Hamas/Tsahal:
      ⭕ The Israeli Finance Minister announced that he would approve the construction of about 3,000 housing units as part of a settlement project that would connect Jerusalem to the existing Maale Adumim settlement, located several kilometers to the east.

      “The approval of construction plans in the E1 area buries the idea of a Palestinian state and is part of the many measures we are taking on the ground as part of the de facto sovereignty plan that we began implementing with the formation of the government,” he said.

      💠 @Palestinian Commie:
      ⭕ 🇮🇷🇵🇸🇱🇧🟡Ali Larijani: “We defend Hamas, which is a “Sunni” resistance, and Hezbollah, which is a “Shia” resistance, meaning our stance is not sectarian.

      The Islamic resistance has enough capability to make decisions, and we do not interfere in it or in the decisions of countries.

      There are devils in politics who may hide behind some to launch biased concepts, but we have presented our viewpoints and they were helpful.”

      “No one predicted that things would change so quickly in Syria

      The possibility of normalizing relations with Syria exists and we do not say it is impossible, but this depends on what we will see from the current Syrian state

      The situation in Syria is currently foggy and we do not see clear arrangements. “Israel” has intervened a lot, but we have to see what the future holds.”

      They wanted to overthrow the system in the Islamic Republic and their plan was to incite discord, but the opposite happened and even the opposition stood with the system

      The outlook in the region and the world will change and will no longer be unipolar. Will they be able to confront China? Have they imposed their orders on Putin?

      We must not make ourselves easy prey for the Americans, and we must be strong in confronting them.

      💠 @imetatronink:
      ⭕🔻 Seeji Sundarakshan: There is little the US can do against Russia militarily and economically against China…
      Gonna be a hard climb down from the unipolar tree!
      🔻 Lee Slusher: There’s nothing the US could do here to further its original, unrealistic goals, but it could still do a lot to make the situation an even bigger disaster. Unfortunately, I think that train will leave the station.
      🔻 Katz: The question is the size of the bribe Trump promises Putin to end the war.

      If this bribe in the form of a transfer of territory is large enough, Putin will accept.

      Then it is up to Ukraine and backers to accept.

      If Ukraine rejects then Trump can cease to support Ukraine.
      🔻 Lee Slusher: I think an agreement hinges on US acquiescence to Russia’s core security goals, the ones Russia has stated publicly for many years. Short of that, Moscow knows the fuckery won’t end. So, no reason to abandon it’s current, strong position. I don’t think the US will acquiesce.
      🔻 Katz: It will be interesting to measure how steadfastly Putin adheres to his conditions. What price is he willing to pay for the prospect of unambiguous victory?

      Absence of US acquiescence means that Biden’s war becomes Trump’s war.

      Is Trump willing to shoulder that responsibility?
      🔻 WS: Frankly, I don’t think many people understand what “unambiguous victory” really means for Russia, notwithstanding the fact that Putin spelled it out clearly in February 2022: NATO must withdraw to its pre-1997 borders.

      📜 In for A Pound
      🔻 Citizen of the American Gerontocracy: Putin must be ready to surrender now.
      🔻 Curmudgeon: Trump is suffering from either Tourettes or early onset of dementia. I tend to veer towards the latter.
      🔻 Антон: The Kremlin has big goals & great demands, but isn’t willing to sacrifice the political capital at home to achieve it on their own accord.
      That’s why it’s Putin that’ll be going to Alaska & not Trump going to Moscow.
      The # of troops they have deployed doesn’t match the ambition.
      🔻 WS: I disagree with every sentence of your post.

      I think Putin and his team have managed their affairs with remarkable patience and wisdom, and that — all things considered — Russia is more powerful and sovereign at this moment than at any point since the days of Peter the Great.
      🔻 wgm5239: Well said Will. The post is a nonsense, a denial of reality and promotion of ill founded conjecture.
      🔻 Tom Weiss: A Russian occupation and demilitarization of all of Ukraine and a NATO retreat to 1997 borders would be a shock to the West almost as bad as the fall of the Western Roman Empire. No wonder they are freaking out right now.
      [he’s left out Sweden and Finland.. increasing the humiliation to come with added zest]
      🔻 WS: Putin has been CONSISTENTLY EXPLICIT about this demand. He always says it the same way:

      NATO must withdraw ALL its military apparatus to the borders stipulated in the 1997 NATO-Russia Founding Act.

      And frankly, I am convinced NATO will not cohere long enough to fight over it.
      🔻 Erica Z: Watching this delulu 🇺🇸 🤡 show around this meeting is just sad at this point. All while the Israeli death cult scrambles for a second suicide mission in Iran. 🇮🇷 Kiev will be Rus again. 🇷🇺

      The West has lost control of the entire global chessboard. |media|
      ⭕ cont. thread:
      🤦‍♂️ Tough-Talking Trump

      Trump boldly proclaims that, if Putin does not “stop the war” after their meeting on Friday, “there will be very severe consequences.”

      I assess a 100% probability the war will continue well beyond Friday, until all Russian objectives are achieved.
      🔻 Lavr Dyogtev 🇳🇿 🇷🇺 ✝️: Putin will offer a deal MORE than he is prepared to give, almost a humiliating deal for Russia. Trump will be happy with it, but Ukraine will reject it. Trump will then have an exit route “it was a great deal, great, really good” and walk away convinced nothing can save Ukraine.
      🔻 WS: My sense of the matter is that such a move by Putin, at this juncture, would be interpreted by the “Masters of Crumbling Empire” as acquiescence to the partitioning of Ukraine along NATO/Russian lines.

      I do NOT believe Putin will make that mistake.
      🔻 Lavr Dyogtev 🇳🇿 🇷🇺 ✝️: I’m guessing Putin will offer Trump an exit route. A deal that Trump, and everyone else knows is a great deal for Ukraine. (The offer will be insincere, Putin hasn’t actually changed his goals.) Putin knows Ukraine, encouraged by EU “friends” will opt to continue the bloodbath.
      🔻 WS: The US is one of just TWO principal actors in this conflict.

      And the only exit route is capitulation.

      How they opt to frame that capitulation is up to them.

      But most everyone around the world will still know the score. |excerpts|
      🔻 Lavr Dyogtev 🇳🇿 🇷🇺 ✝️: 100%. Putin isn’t offering NATO anything. What he is doing is offering Trump an exit route. Conflict will end Russias way, but Trump can forever proclaim its not his fault. He had the deal on the table. He did all he said he would do and it was great, Ukraine should have signed.
      🔻 Pamela Sund: Trump says one thing, then another; what’s his end game?
      🔻 WS: It must always be understood that Trump is “making it up as he goes along”.

      There is no “plan”. There is no “end game”. There is only the “urgency of NOW”. Everything he does is predicated on his perceptions of exigency — which are, for the most part, shaped by others.
      🔻 lon martin: Not understanding how he negotiates would be confusing. Read art of the deal.
      🔻 WS: Art of the Deal was ghost-written.

      And besides that, it’s incoherent. Few people have even read it. They simply believe it says something meaningful, and that Trump is some sort of wheeling dealing magician.

      He’s not, and he never has been.
      🔻 AlphaPatriot 🏴󠁵󠁳󠁴󠁸󠁿: 4 years planning, exploring options, building a strong team & stronger relationships, leading to a blitzkrieg of EOs, investigations, deployments, & negotiations, knocking Dems on their heels & fear in the heart of the Deep State.

      This is not Improvision.

      It is calculated, scripted, coordinated, judicious, and powerfully effective.

      To believe this is the work of a bumbling simpleton is to think that Biden was sharp as a tack.

      Your TDS is showing and it is harming you. Look inward and do better.
      🔻 WS: Delusional nonsense.

      The “Deep State” is in greater control of America’s destiny now than at any previous moment.

      Trump is proving to be the most malleable puppet president in US history.

      That he has managed to surpass Biden in this respect is a marvelous work and a wonder.
      [wait Will. He cannot be both “making it up as goes along” and “the most malleable deep state puppet {without agency}. Choose. Which do your Sunday school lessons inform you is the correct one?]
      🔻 Obama: Then why did they try to kill him twice?
      🔻 WS: 🤔 Did they? 🤔
      🔻 NotABot: He is just the clown to distract from the plans which are executed since long with a strong continuity. @BrianJBerletic is spot on when he repeatedly states that the US foreign policy has not changed during many presidents and is following their think tank papers.
      🔻 lon martin: We r seeing deep state classified emails and doc’s. Is that part of the deep states master plan?
      🔻 WS: Two words: Limited Hangout
      🔻 lon martin: U may be right. I would be wrong if the main players don’t do time. Brennan,clapper, comey. Thoughts?
      🔻 WS: Two words: Ghislaine Maxwell

      We live in a world where the guilty go free by decree of the guilty.
      🔻 丸丸丸 🐧: I don’t know why anyone expected Trump to just let Russia win. He is deadly afraid of tarnishing his “legacy” with a defeat and shown zero understanding of geopolitics or history. His first term FR crown jewel is moving the embassy to Jerusalem.
      🔻 C. Sallustius: Exactly – this is the “or else” school of diplomacy, where the “or else” is left to the imagination. Putin knows the score: he’s not trading Crimea for a Mar-a-Lago photo op. The war will grind on, because Russia’s in it for keeps and the West’s in it for press conferences. Trump’s “severe consequences” line plays well on TV, but in Moscow it’s just another episode in America’s long-running reality show.

      ⭕ cont. thread:
      🤦‍♂️ Toughest-talking blowhard in American history.

      Trump will, sooner or later, bumble the US into a shocking military disaster
      🔻 hill hermit: He was supposed to start WWIII last time.

      Recycle and reuse
      🔻 WS: He DID start WW3, by arming and training the Armed Forces of Ukraine to inflict a strategic defeat upon Russia. Of course, that didn’t work out as they had planned.
      🔻 Inner Cynic: I’m of the opinion that Trump’s arrogance will not let him admit defeat. And certainly not with the likes of Graham, Rubio, and the rest of that murderous crew surrounding him
      🔻 WS: Admitting defeat is irrelevant. They have been defeated because they are the weaker combatant. Nothing can change that reality, whether they admit it or not.
      ⭕🔻 Preston Stewart: “Right now, the stuffing of the scoundrel who slipped under Dobropillia by 15-18 km is happening. Azov and others are stuffing everyone.”

      -Ukrainian Bakhmut Demon
      🔻 WS: ⁉️ So now we are supposed to believe that — for the first time yet in this war — the Azov Bros are demonstrating serious will and acumen for hard-core battle?

      Because I seriously doubt it.

      They have been dishonorable blowhard cowards from Mariupol to the present day.
      🔻 Officer 🇫🇷 The opinion 🇩🇰: Well, Azov haven’t shown it until now, so why would they change—playing tough guys until it gets too hot, then running and leaving it to men who aren’t really equipped to fight the battles, and who end up getting killed. No, I don’t think that will change. They’ll run when it gets too tough.
      🔻 White Spade ✊✊✊ ♠️: Preston Stewart is a basic US army bitch riding on his short time in the service acting as if he knows an everything and gathered a huge fan base of militarily illiterate followers. I respect his service but these GOWT guys think they know war and the old Vietnam and Korean veterans if they spoke up would quickly humble these GOWT guys
      🔻 Graham Lawrence: Blocking the retreat is more likely.
      🔻 Zigor: The most complete and dishonorable defeat can be sung as a true feat of war and epic deed.
      🔻 Cris: Bloodthirsty, Neo-Nazis, psychopaths….
      May I add?
      🔻 Foxexpress: They’ve paid to be kept away from the frontlines, how do we know this, because they are still alive, RU be rubbing hands in glee, 1 of the SMO goals will be achieved in the next week.
      🔻 Anthony Swan: Blocking the retreat. Shooting the weak. War crimes and committing atrocities for “freedom and democracy” Azov, That’s the only thing they are made for.
      [and attending warm ceremonies at Stanford U, the doting EU Parliament and many many other in-love western institutions of higher learning and political whoring]
      ⭕🔻 olexander scherba🇺🇦:
      How morally messed-up do you have to be to root for russia, an imperialist aggressor, against Ukraine, for whom
      It’s literally “live free or die”?

      Seriously, what’s wrong with all these people?
      #StandWithUkraine
      🔻 Armchair Warlord: Average Ukraine supporter explaining how the Ukrainians are totally fighting for freedom despite having no elections and staffing their military entirely via 18th-century press gangs.
      [Wait. I object. iirc, the British Royal Navy kept up tradition through the early part of the glorious 19th Century]
      🔻 WS: With the brave Azov Bros there to mow them down if they flee or falter.

      The whole thing, from its beginning until now, has been prosecuted by its US/NATO commanders as an obscene exercise in remorseless stupidity.

      It’s Cold Harbor repeated every other day for years. 🤦‍♂️
      ⭕🔻 Josh Crumb 🆔++:
      Open interest in our Gold contract about to hit 500 lots (not just front month, spread into a lot of Dec even).

      Singapore 🇸🇬 is rallying around our market, the city state is onboarding it and will champion it…the most modern and logical #gold contract in the world.

      This is a company maker on its own, full stop. …But ya’ll know by now that we have a helluva lot more world building to do from this gold standard foundation.
      #29ers $ABXX #ThesisNoMore #BestPhysicalFuturesTeamInTheWorld
      🔻 WS: I’m sure Josh does not recall our meeting and discussion at the 2015 Sprott Conference in Vancouver. I remember he gave me a Bitgold t-shirt. 😏

      We’ve exchanged thoughts since then, on occasion.

      Josh has, in defiance of the powers-that-be, built a globally significant business.
      🔻 Josh Crumb 🆔++: I 💯 remember. I had just recorded a long interview, and I remember I said something stupid that I still sometimes think about even today. Haha. I follow your insights closely to this day (and so does my son, who knows way more about military history and strategy than I ever will, and we’re grateful for your posts)
      🔻 WS: Sometime I should write a detailed treatment of my accidental but lengthy one-on-one conversations with Eric Sprott, Rick Rule, and Doug Casey at that same conference.

      I learned a lot that week, most of it in accidental but substantial discussions with people above my station.
      🔻 Josh Crumb 🆔++: That was an interesting year. The bottom of the energy / gold cycle (post shale bottoming), just before bitcoin really took off, and geopolitically a major inflection year (just before the Donald and Russiagate and basically the media & institutions going fully off the rails etc). I will look back at that year as one of the most important and inserting inflection years.
      🔻 WS: I bought my gold/silver miners over the next few months after that conference. Took $100k and put it in about ten companies. My biggest position: Kirkland Lake. Second biggest: Agnico Eagle. Dirt cheap. I’ve held them ever since. Literally for ten years running. Patience works.
      🔻 Josh Crumb 🆔++: I’ve been sprinting on a singular mission for ~10 years since then as well (actually about 12 years, started ‘13/‘14 with my first digital-gold patent). I saw how distributed information systems and distributed money (permissionless markets and price discovery) could change everything. But ‘15 is when I know the inflection was starting, the hinge of history
      🔻 WS: I can’t claim to have been truly informed enough about things at the time in order to make super-smart decisions. But I absolutely DID smell “something in the air” that moved me to act accordingly — in many different ways.
      🔻 Josh Crumb 🆔++: I’ll try to find a post I sent to all the Goldman macro heads at that time. They were calling for gold to keep falling (sub 1000), goldilocks market setc. I sent a manifesto how they weren’t watching society, living in an ivory tower. I said that the market wasn’t at risk, it was rigged and irrelevant, it was society that was inflecting and breaking, and they weren’t seeing the real human risks detached from the prices on the screen

    • August 14, 2025 at 22:32 #63550
      AHH
      Keymaster

      💠 @Vanessa Beeley:
      ⭕ Let us be very clear. If Russia is to be given the green light to effectively occupy southern Syria – it will be done in collaboration with Israel. Israel will benefit because there will be a military force that will maintain security in the south while Israel expands north-eastwards towards the David’s Corridor with Kurdish and US cooperation. This ultimately means that Russia is an ally of Israel and if you are an ally of Israel, you are automatically coming to agreement with the US deep state on some level.

      Since the fall of Damascus, Israel has lobbied the US to enable Russian presence to remain in Syria. Now, the Russian presence is consolidating and potentially expanding to include the north-east, the south, and the coastal region, thus utterly containing Erdogan.

      For Russians. revenge is a dish served cold – when Turkey shot down a Russian Sukhoi S-24 in 2015, everybody asked ‘why no retaliation?’. This is the retaliation that could not happen without Zionist influence. Russia has control of the anti-HTS militia in the south of Syria since 2018. They were the first to enter Damascus in 2024. Russia will potentially take back control of these forces to patrol the south, while maintaining their surveillance posts on the border with occupied Golan that were increased in 2024, leading up to the November HTS attack on Aleppo.

      At the time many people were questioning the Russian role as a replacement for UNIFIL on the Golan demarcation line. Many also asked if Russia would intercept Israeli missiles or would Russia defend Israel from the Resistance attacks from Syrian territory? Questions were being raised about the Russian agenda from 2017 onwards.

      What is now unfolding does suggest that Russia was never an ideological ally for Syria or for the Resistance. On the contrary, Russia would have preferred Syria pivot towards Saudi Arabia and eventually, normalise with Israel. What we now see unfolding is the true Russian agenda without the impediment of a Syrian government that had blocked their advancement.

      With Jolani desperate for Russian weapons and protection from many perspectives – we see the alliance between Russia and Israel being blatantly displayed for all to see. Anyone who tries to dismiss this as Putin 5D or 10D chess is not seeing the writing on the wall that was there long before 2024.

      This is the new paradigm in Syria and it should send a strong message to all who ally with Russia, that Russian interests are the priority and that Russian and US deep states are not perhaps the enemies that they are portrayed as. They will not ever be allies but from a realpolitik perspective, they will come to agreements on the policing of Syria, perhaps as part of the Ukraine deal now being hatched.

      I can add many personal conversations with Russian military and officials in Syria since 2017 that now make more sense in the current context. I will write something about these conversations and personal experiences very soon.

      💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
      ⭕ The Syrian and Turkish Defense Ministers sign a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in training and advisory matters.

      💠 @Ruslan Ostashko: 
      ⭕ 🇷🇺🇦🇿 The State Duma threatened to ban imports from Azerbaijan after aid to Kyiv

      Deputy Andrey Gurulev stated that Russia may impose a complete ban on the import of Azerbaijani goods following Baku’s decision to allocate $2 million to Kyiv for electrical equipment. Aliyev also threatened to lift the arms embargo on supplies to Kyiv.

      According to him, the disappearance of Azerbaijani products from Russian shelves will not affect our country but will be a serious blow to the republic itself. Besides this, restrictions on Azerbaijani business in Russia are also possible.

      📝 “And if you also pinch the guys who are here and engaged in some business, it will change everything very much. The special military operation is a broad concept. Broad along the entire border of the Russian Federation,” said Gurulev.

      ❓ What do you think, if Moscow cuts off imports and hits Azerbaijani business in Russia – who will feel it more painfully?
      ⭕ 🇦🇿🇷🇺 “Only scraps will remain of them”: Azerbaijan threatens the Russian army in the Caucasus

      Azerbaijani deputy Rasim Musabekov stated on a federal channel that the Azerbaijani army “significantly surpasses” the Russian troops in the Caucasus and in case of conflict will leave only “scraps” of them.

      📝 “The Azerbaijani Armed Forces today are larger both in equipment and in numbers than all that Russia has in the Caucasus. The Azerbaijani army consists of professional troops, not a bunch of prison criminals like in some Russian units,” Musabekov said.

      ✖️ He was responding to the words of deputy and former commander of the 58th Army, General Andrey Gurulev, who suggested banning imports of goods from Azerbaijan after allocating $2 million in aid to Kyiv. He added that “the special military operation is a flexible concept along the entire border of the Russian Federation.”
      Musabekov, in turn, noted that Gurulev and many Russian military personnel believe that “the head is only needed to wear a cap.”
      ⭕ 🇦🇿🇺🇦 Azerbaijan may transfer combat fighters to Kyiv

      Azerbaijani deputy Rasim Musabekov threatens Moscow with transferring MiG-29 fighters and other military equipment to Kyiv if Russia continues strikes on the facilities of the oil and gas company SOCAR.

      📝 According to him, Azerbaijan is currently changing its aviation, and the MiG-29s, once purchased from Ukraine and modernized “with Israel’s help”, can be transferred back to Kyiv:
      “Let Russia think about the fact that we also have a lot of old Soviet weapons in Nakhchivan.”

      ▪️ Earlier, he threatened to leave only “scraps” of the Russian army in the Caucasus.
      ⭕ 🇦🇿Aliyev called the AZAL plane crash over Russia unintentional

      The President of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, during a visit to the USA in an interview with Fox News channel stated that he does not consider the crash of the “Azerbaijan Airlines” plane on December 25, 2024, to be the result of a deliberate attack.

      According to the head of state, Baku only demanded official recognition of the incident, punishment of those responsible, and full compensation for damages.

      ❗️Recall, the AZAL airliner, flying the Baku–Grozny route, crashed near Aktau (Kazakhstan). There were 67 people on board, of whom 38 died and 29 survived. According to preliminary version, the tragedy occurred due to external physical and technical interference in the airspace of Russia over Grozny.
      ⭕ Britain has not left the South Caucasus. It controls Azerbaijani oil, manages the pumping of gold and gas, and builds routes to bypass Russia with the help of Turkey. And Azerbaijan itself has been turned into a platform for striking Russian interests.
      Not only grants work against us. Entire states are against us, ready to ignite the Caucasus for Anglo-Saxon benefit.
      Lugovoy’s film “The Englishwoman in Azerbaijan” is about another operation under a foreign flag, the result of which should be the isolation of Russia from Central Asia and the Caucasus.

      At the beginning of the 20th century, almost all the lamps in London were filled with kerosene from Baku. In 1918, General Densterville tried to seize oil fields for the Crown.
      Today — the same goals, only packaged as “contracts of the century” and “democratic partnership.”

      • British Petroleum (BP) participates in 7 major oil and gas projects.
      • Anglo Asian Mining extracts gold and copper.
      Over 500 British companies are firmly entrenched in Azerbaijan’s resources.

      This entire business pie works to undermine Russia’s presence in the Caucasus.

      Greetings to Azerbaijan and the diasporas in Russia. Russian interests are not a bargaining chip.

      • August 15, 2025 at 09:37 #63575
        emersonreturn
        Participant

        eye twinkle & high 5 to kj for providing us the proper ‘naam’ for india (& erdogan), ‘amphibian’ !🥳

        i’ve rarely if ever disagreed with vanessa beeley, but this warning reminds me of a current surge of emotion escalating from within lebanon, thus isn’t surprising to also learn it’s present in syria.  it smacks of hasbara.   russia, as the sage of these events, has exquisitely laid out was very wise to avoid the quicksand empire had prepared for her in syria.  that russia is now bargaining with the zionazis to deepen her presence in syria may be due to her naively, stupidly, duplicitously trusting the zionazis to gift her a way of delivering the turkish amphibian retribution or it may be strategic, a move to take & hold good ground for the next horrific stage in the battle.  in light of the zionazis activities in lebanon & its continual hate for iran & russia syria may be prove to be a situational advantage.  we shall see, we shall see, nevertheless, the zionazis are peerless @ generating fog.

        1997…& a return to that border;  putin was gaining full ascension @ that time, & doing it with such skill empire assumed he was a dupe as dumb as bolsonaro/guido/zelensky.  empire has never forgiven him for ‘duping’ them.  primakov’s team were engaged, all painfully aware what was ahead.  the plan has been methodical, deeply russian & remarkable in the ‘integrity & pair’ each of its appointees, deputies & adherents possess.  how does putin aligning with america in order to deliver erdogan his just desserts fit within what’s being decided on the battleground? i fail to see how this serves the plan?

         

         

    • August 15, 2025 at 04:21 #63551
      Mr P
      Participant

      One cool Dude! USSR sweatshirt…Zlatti71 on X: “Lavrov never does anything without a meaning. This is a message for the Russians at home… “We are back!”, not to intimidate but to make sure they can’t pressure us on anything.” / X…………..https://x.com/Zlatti_71/status/1956254932127936616?t=wh5MyL8QsUH7U-DJ6zQNQw&s=19

      I can’t tell if it’s AI or real…but it’s like Comrade L to send such signals…

      FWIW I disagree with Zlatti’s view…to the contrary, it’s a message to the fascists…

       

    • August 15, 2025 at 04:39 #63553
      AHH
      Keymaster

      ☝️☝️☝️ for those of you who waited for this kangaroo court to act against Zion. After the last chief Justice, Nawaf Salam, was packed off to sell Lebanon down the river, this Ugandese creature replaced him. There is NO HOPE from within ANY western institution during the Interregnum

       

      💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
      ⭕ 🇷🇸 Troubles have erupted again in Serbia, with some clashes between government supporters and protesters.
      ⭕ 🇷🇸 Here, protests are taking place again in several Serbian cities, notably Belgrade, Novi Sad, Kragujevac, and Sremska Mitrovica.
      ⭕ 🇷🇸 Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić:

      We are fighting against the powerful machinery of Western countries that want to break the backbone of Serbia during a color revolution.
      ⭕ 🇲🇱❌🇫🇷 The transitional government in Mali states that a plot to destabilize the country, planned by military personnel and civilians with the support of a foreign state, has been foiled.

      • Arrest of two generals, officers, and a French national linked to his country’s intelligence services involved in an attempted destabilization.
      • Malian authorities declared on Thursday that a French national was arrested on suspicion of working for French intelligence services, and accused “foreign states” of trying to destabilize the country.
      • The military in power, which came after successive coups in 2020 and 2021, making the fight against terrorism a priority, also indicated that dozens of soldiers had been detained in recent days for attempting to overthrow the government.
      • Mali, a country with an exceptional culture, has been facing a security crisis since 2012, fueled notably by violence from groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda and the jihadist group Islamic State, as well as local criminal gangs.
      • In a statement read on national television, the army declared that “marginal elements of the Malian armed and security forces” had been arrested for attempting to “destabilize the institutions of the republic.”

      💠 @kuluary_zaliva:
      ⭕ 🛡️ US strengthens Bahrain: HIMARS worth $500 million

      📝 The US has approved a possible sale of HIMARS rocket systems and related equipment to Bahrain for $500 million. Bahrain will receive four launchers, three tactical command posts, and auxiliary equipment.

      📊 The deal highlights the ongoing strengthening of the US military presence in the region. The delivery of HIMARS systems to Bahrain is part of a strategy to bolster the defense capabilities of US allies in the Middle East.

      🌐 Increasing Bahrain’s defense potential may affect the regional balance of power. This will strengthen the US position in the Persian Gulf region.

      💠 @Middle East Spectator:
      ⭕ —❗️🇱🇧/🇱🇧 Secretary General of Hezbollah, Sheikh Naim Qassem:

      • The Islamic Resistance will never abandon its weapons, not as long as Israel poses a threat to Lebanon, its aggression continues and its occupation persists. If necessary, we will fight a decisive Karbala-like battle against this American-Israeli project, until the very last breath, and we will never accept humiliation.
      • The Lebanese government bears full responsibility for any sedition and any internal explosion that may occur, and the destruction that follows. We do not seek it, but there are those working to ignite it.
      • Either Lebanon survives and we stay together, or you decide to stand on the other side, and all will be lost.
    • August 15, 2025 at 06:54 #63557
      AHH
      Keymaster

      💠 @Sputnik Africa:
      ⭕ African Union Urges Adoption of World Map Showing Africa’s True Size

      The AU has endorsed the “Correct The Map” campaign by Africa No Filter, calling on governments and international organizations to abandon the 16th-century Mercator projection in favors of one that reflects Africa’s actual scale.

      “It might seem to be just a map, but in reality, it is not,” AU Commission deputy chairperson Selma Malika Haddadi told Western media, warning that the Mercator distorts perceptions by making Africa appear “marginal” despite being the world’s second-largest continent with over a billion people.

      The map distorts the relative sizes of continents, exaggerating regions near the poles such as North America and Greenland, while reducing the scale of Africa and South America. Despite criticism, it remains widely used in schools and on digital platforms.

      📷 World map with true proportioned continents for approximation and comparison.
      ⭕ Europeans and Ukraine Have Made Every Effort to Prevent the Putin–Trump Meeting: Expert Says

      Most European countries — including Germany, France, and the United Kingdom — have been actively campaigning to stand alongside Ukraine in order to prevent the meeting from taking place, international affairs analyst Professor Ayele Bekri told Sputnik Africa.

      The EU “cannot ensure that Ukraine defeats Russia by any means. They lack the capacity, they lack the resources, and they lack unity among themselves,” he said.

      The expert stressed the following points:

      🔸 Ukraine is in no position, in any way, to defeat Russia;
      🔸 BRICS has become an important source of global power;
      🔸 The emerging world order is multipolar;
      🔸 This new order is consolidating in a way that will be difficult to reverse.

      🇷🇺🇺🇸 Commenting on President Putin’s decision to attend the Alaska meeting, Professor Ayele said it demonstrates Russia’s wish to maintain regular, positive, and constructive relations with the United States.

      💠 @Middle East Spectator:
      ⭕ Some of the Russian journalists, pilots and diplomatic staff who traveled to Alaska for the Putin-Trump summit were not even given a basic hotel by the Americans

      They are being made to sleep in a temporary facility, with no restaurants and limited running water, which was previously used as an emergency shelter to hospitalize COVID-19 patients.
      [Ah, that world-famous Yanqui “hospitality”. Straight into a shithole. Hope they brought the fumigation devices, tasters, and wrote their wills]
      ⭕ 🇮🇷 NEW: Iran’s Foreign Ministry has denied the Reuters report about Iran’s Supreme Leader allegedly giving the green light to resume negotiations with America, calling it ‘fabricated’ and ‘not rooted in reality’

      They state that if the decision is made, Iran will openly announce it, and we won’t hear it from Reuters. They also state that Iranian officials don’t talk to international media about such sensitive matters.

      💠 @kuluary_zaliva:
      ⭕ 🛢️ “Cold War” in Anchorage: Subtexts of the Meeting in Alaska

      • 📝 Videos of the Foreign Minister’s arrival in Alaska drew attention to his clothing with an abbreviation interpreted as a reference to the past. This happened before the official meeting of the heads of state.
      • 📊 This symbolic gesture, against the backdrop of reports supporting one of the countries, can be seen as a demonstration of positions. It sets the tone for negotiations, emphasizing historical parallels and geopolitical ambitions.
      • 🌐 Such signals shape the narrative around international meetings, influencing the perception of diplomatic efforts and future relations. They indicate the persistence of tension and the need to consider historical context in the current agenda.

      [they knew the desperate losers would try cheap humiliation rituals confering pretend-superiority, like housing them in doghouses and cheap visuals as attempted against China in 2021. So good for Lavrov for bringing the jeans and the “Fuck You” T-shirt. No need to cast pearls before demented swine]

    • August 15, 2025 at 07:31 #63561
      AHH
      Keymaster

      💠 @imetatronink:
      ⭕🔻 Harrius Haller: Are we sure there are enough hotels there to accommodate them ?
      🔻 WS: There are 86 hotels in Anchorage, a city of 300,000. Even the Motel 6 would be a major upgrade from what they’ve been provided.
      [what honorless scum. This should focus the Russkies — and mankind watching the Last Kabuki Dance]
      🔻 Paul Riedel☦: We shouldn’t jump to conclusions but hope for the best. Logistics are tricky in Alaska.
      🔻 WS: A free buffet and an open bar will go far to smooth the ruffled feathers.
      🔻 Brugiroux Guillaume: It sounds like the Israeli coming to DC with a bunch of laundry lol.
      Pathetic.
      [rather the zionazis doin the hosting]
      🔻 Dr. Anton: This is shocking
      [Pride before the Fall. Uncaring to reveal the bitter agonizing malice]
      🔻 Alan Watson: Since 2007, a major power that lost 25 million people during “The Great War,” has stated repeatedly, it will not tolerate Nazis or NATO missiles on its border. Until Russian security concerns are addressed, Russia will continue advancing on the battlefield to the Dnieper River.
      [and that’s what counts. Let the demented revel in optical sleights and despairing orgasms]
      🔻 In For The Fun: What a disgrace.
      [I bet the cowards still asked for permission to deal this sleight. Sold as “keeping the neocons off our swampy backs” or some such drivel. Unbelievable]
      🔻 Maurice: In all fairness I think all reporters should be treated worse
      [patience. They’ll be “hosted” on lampposts soon enough]
      🔻 Zionism is Nazism: it’s also a perfect representation of the US in 2025
      🔻 Kathleen Tyson: Reminds me of US not providing lunch to Chinese diplomats in Alaska. These slights will be documented, reported, remembered.
      🔻 kamfongchun: There was a similarly spiteful incident, a number of years back, where 35 Russian diplomats in the USA were expelled by Obama just before Christmas (due to their supposed involvment in the hacking of DNC servers)
      In ‘retaliation’ , the Russians/Putin invited 35 American diplomats & their families to attend the gala Christmas festivities at the Kremlin.
      lol!! |link|
      🔻 Noirspectre: Psych warfare on the accommodation level. How unoriginal.
      🔻 Andrea Sutton: Disgusting lack of courtesy!
      🔻 Marie Gomariz: Not an encouraging beginning.
      🔻 V: The USA is a third world country.
      [there we go again with clueless racism. I assure you, almost ALL “3rd world countries” have better manners and consummate traditions and cultures of hospitality, even and especially the godless desert wastes of the Wahhabi eastern arabian peninsula. This shameful mark of disrespect is gonna accelerate global contempt and evaporation of what remains of soft power]
      🔻 WINE TRAVEL: Soooo petty!
      🔻 Truth_Hurts🥷🏽🔻: This goes to show the current state of the USA lmao
      ⭕ 📜 The Delicate Exit

      Below I have linked to Part Two of my analysis of the Tucker Carlson interview of Vladimir Putin. It is, imo, one of the most important essays I have written, and particularly apropos in advance of the upcoming Putin/Trump “summit”.
      [more like as delicate as Ursula’s consensual rape… complete with grinning gargoyles. A naked shameless Emperor is most unedifying]
      ⭕ 🎹🎸 Unpolished Stones

      ⭕🔻 Anatomy of Truth 🇨🇦: ☺️☺️☺️
      🔻 Olga Bazova: Be careful, or you will be classified as a libtard rather than vatnik 🤣🤣🤣
      🔻 Anatomy of Truth 🇨🇦: At this point, I’m just over here collecting insults like it’s swag 😂
      🔻 WS: In my estimation, Dmitriev is, by a significant margin, the most unimpressive member of Putin’s current entourage. I think his utterances on macroeconomic questions are incoherent more often than not. On other topics, he’s either embarrassingly superficial or just plain dumb.
      [but Dmitriev is playing to the Yanqui gallery. Following and liking a beachy bosomy blonde babe from Bel Aire or thereabouts. Smart. Keeps the barbarians mollified that equally hairy, horny and uncultured knuckle-draggers work on the Russkie side. “When in Rome…”]
      ⭕🔻 Anders Åslund:
      There is no reason for Trump to meet Putin to discuss Ukraine.
      1. Trump & his sycophants know nothing about either country.
      2. Under Trump, the US has no role east of NATO in any regard.
      3. The initial reason for Trump’s decision to meet Putin was Witkoff’s misunderstanding.
      4. Whatever Trump does in Alaska, it is likely to be a major disaster for the US, worse then Munich 1938 or Yalta 1945 because of his anti-democratic & imperialist views & his ignorance.
      5. Trump may break the Western alliance for good.
      6. Stop this disaster! Cancel Alaska!
      🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: The Alaska meeting is a big win no matter what the outcome is, simply on the grounds that America and Russia interacting bilaterally freaks the Euros out and reminds them of their impotence.
      🔻 Anders Åslund: You mean a big win for lawlessness & cruelty?
      🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: You’re just worried that after Ukraine gets rolled you won’t be able to get more cushy sinecures working for Ukrainian banks. You said Russia was collapsing in 1999, you’ve been wrong about everything for decades and you have the vacant eyes of a man raped by the devil.
      [we’ve got to copyright and retire the term “sinecure”, for exclusive use by a certain retired crusty soviet sailor]
      🔻 WS: I’ve seen that look in the eyes of many different men and women over the years. It’s very distinctive. Once you’ve perceived it the first time, you can never not see it again. It is both shallow and unfathomable at the same time. Automatous life with no discernible soul.

    • August 15, 2025 at 11:26 #63579
      Mr P
      Participant

      “This is a calculated spite that says more about the insulters than the insulted.”

      It sure is!

      Let us remember the lesson from Hamlet and Polonius and the players…

      Ham> “Use every man after his desert and who should ‘scape whipping…Use them according to your own honor and dignity…The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. Take them in! Pol> Come, sirs. Ham> Follow him, friends. We’ll have a play tomorrow.

      Methinks the USSR shirt says “We’re back an’ stronger than before…and you are weak…be frighted.”

    • August 15, 2025 at 14:43 #63596
      AHH
      Keymaster


      well the brave man got into a car nicknamed “The Beast.” Fortunately it vomited him out again, like Jonah the whale.
      And what a hack job. Goldfinger did do the courtesy of receiving on a red carpet, but they made him walk between a wait phalanx of F-22 warjets, and then overflown by a B-2 bomber and other flying coffins. Unbelievably puerile. They musta been tempted to bomb the pair


      [Good Symbolism, whilst forced to pow-wow with Goldfinger. Send the speaker of their parliament to the Chairman. The bricks of the new world are being laid where it counts]


      ☝️
      O Canaduh!
      👇🏽

    • August 15, 2025 at 16:32 #63608
      AHH
      Keymaster


      Uncanny and brilliant psychoanalysis of Goldfinger:
      “hallmarks of deception, murder, … toying with victims/enemies — wanting to have them in dread of him (i.e. cowardly bully)… penchant for dealing a slow and painful death to enemies … bone-deep psychopathy… unflinching in dealing mass collateral deaths during crime sprees .. antisocial disorder.. cheats to win .. extremely competitive… penchant for opulent display of extreme wealth .. highly elevated ego .. hunts for the perfect crime .. craves public applause … sorely lacking in morality… a betrayer of business partners and subordinates .. a dark sense of humor .. a petty vindictive nature” — wow. This is like attending the intimate reading of a special someone’s biography, no?

      💠 @🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
      ⭕ 🇺🇸❌🇧🇷 The United States has canceled the visas of the wife and daughter of the Brazilian Health Minister, Alexandre Padilha. The minister did not have his visa canceled because it had already expired in 2024.

      • The U.S. Consulate General in São Paulo informed the minister’s family of the cancellations. The U.S. government stated that “information had emerged indicating” that Padilha’s wife and daughter were no longer eligible.
      • Padilha, who led the ministry in 2013 during the creation of the Mais Médicos [More Doctors] program under Dilma Rousseff’s government, said this does not change anything in his life.

      ⭕ 🇺🇸🇭🇹 The security company of former American Navy SEAL Erik Prince will soon deploy nearly 200 people from various countries to Haiti as part of a one-year agreement to combat gang violence, a person familiar with the plans said Thursday.

      The deployment of Vectus Global aims to help the Haitian government reclaim vast areas of territory seized last year and now controlled by heavily armed gangs, the source said, speaking to the Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss the plans.

      Vectus Global will also take on a long-term role advising the Haitian government on how to restore revenue collection capabilities once the violence has subsided.


      A major development may be the winding back of “sanctions” as sweetener to the oft-burned Russkie. Siluanov, Nabiullina, are there… but that ain’t gonna impress Russkie. The Dec 2021 Ultimatum terms remain on the table.

      💠 @BhadraPunchline:
      ⭕ 2/5 Interestingly, Putin signalled “progress of negotiations regarding the Ukraine crisis and the bilateral talks with the Ukrainian delegation.” Importantly, Putin carefully chose his words to compliment Trump for his
      ⭕ 3/5 “fairly vigorous and sincere efforts to halt hostilities, resolve the crisis, and reach agreements that serve the interests of all parties involved in this conflict.” Couldn’t be more direct in alluding that endgame has appeared. Putin added,
      [The combination of utter hysteria in Europe-404, and Russkie-Bears noises of satisfaction, indicate something substantial was put on the table. Now, let’s see the Russkie perspicacity, and wisdom, given serial betrayals by the “agreement-incapable,” and whether they choose to concede before full imminent achievement of goals on the battlefield]
      ⭕ 4/5 “The aim is to establish long-term conditions for peace not only between our countries but also in Europe and indeed globally – especially if we proceed to subsequent stages involving agreements on strategic offensive arms control.” The bottomline is that
      ⭕ 5/5 Kremlin is hopeful Russian objectives in special military operations can be realised through negotiations if process continues despite the warmongering. What remains obscure is territorial adjustments, but core elements of Putin’s June 14 speech last year are being addressed.

    • August 15, 2025 at 18:49 #63627
      emersonreturn
      Participant

    • August 15, 2025 at 22:59 #63631
      AHH
      Keymaster

      💠 @Intel Slava Z:
      ⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇸Negotiations at such a high level were very brief.

      Statements from both sides after the talks are as dry and vague as possible.

      In short, no agreement was reached. The war and escalation will continue.

    • August 16, 2025 at 05:00 #63638
      AHH
      Keymaster

      The best part of the Summit? Dmitriev relegated outdoors filming TikTok videos of pristine nature, mating moose, and sun-basking brown bears.


      ☝️ this was yesterday/ overnight

      https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1956601942530036007

      https://x.com/s_m_marandi/status/1956595461940265325


      A best case scenario POV. Highly unlikely, given centuries of hubris and nature of Evil. We shall see ….

    • August 16, 2025 at 05:41 #63641
      Mr P
      Participant

      Remarking that VVP was correct in visiting the military cemetery and placing flowers on the graves of soviet flyers who died in the lend-lease system. Morally correct, and also politically astute.

      Comrade Medvedev writes>

      16/08/25 – Dmitry Medvedev

      𝘈𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵
      𝘍𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴

      1. 𝘈 𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘧𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘪𝘨𝘩-𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚, 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘮𝘴 𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘴, 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥.

      2. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘈𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘜𝘬𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦.

      3. 𝘈𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘜𝘚 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘙𝘶𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘢. 𝘈𝘵 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘯𝘰𝘸.

      4. 𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵: 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘔𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘦𝘴.

      5. 𝘔𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺: 𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘴 𝘥𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘢 𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘒𝘪𝘦𝘷 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦.

    • August 16, 2025 at 06:58 #63660
      AHH
      Keymaster


      excellent discussion and correct preliminary conclusion. “Trust-building” is sufficient for now….

      💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
      ⭕ 🇧🇷🇺🇸 The Brazilian government is considering a boycott of U.S. military products in retaliation for the tariffs imposed on Brazil by Donald Trump, and this decision has put the entire chain of command of the Army, Navy, and Air Force on maximum alert to resolve this deadlock.
      ⭕ 🇵🇭🇦🇺 The Philippines and Australia have launched their largest joint military exercises ever conducted as tensions persist in the South China Sea. They will take place from August 15 to 29.

      They will involve 3,600 military personnel from the Philippines and Australia, with additional participation from the Royal Canadian Navy and the United States Marine Corps, it was added.
      ⭕ Guinea-Bissau: the government has suspended the Portuguese news agencies Lusa and RTP, ordering their journalists to leave the country.

      Guinea-Bissau was a Portuguese colony.
      [This may be more anti-EU than true anti-neocolonial. Her Prez was one of the five African Prezes that stood on House Duty behind Orange in the Oval Orifice. Everyone’s eating European lunches with gusto these days]

      💠 @Intel Slava Z:
      ⭕🌍🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡️Here is what major global media say about the results of the historic meeting between Putin and Trump in Alaska

      The most striking headlines:

      • Sky News: “Putin behaved as if he was in control and running the show.”
      • Politico: “Putin’s triumph in Alaska”;
      • The New York Times: “President Trump gave President Vladimir Putin a warm public reception, effectively ending his diplomatic isolation”;
      • Bloomberg: “The US-Russia summit showed how little Europe matters in Trump’s world”
      • CNN: “Putin still achieved significant successes”;
      • The Washington Post: “Putin won, regardless of the outcome”;
      • Financial Times: “Negotiations ended without a ceasefire, despite the warm reception given to the Russian leader by the US president”;
      • Al Jazeera: “A big victory for President Putin” at the summit with Trump in Alaska”;
      • El País: “Trump ended Putin’s isolation without achieving a ceasefire in Ukraine”;

      ⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦❗️Trump summoned Zelensky to Washington this Monday

      After a difficult phone conversation between Trump, Zelensky, and NATO country leaders, Zelensky announced that he will arrive in Washington for a meeting with President Trump on Monday.

      Meanwhile, Europe is concerned that Trump will now pressure Zelensky to make territorial concessions.

      Trump also stated that Vladimir Putin prefers a comprehensive agreement to end the conflict rather than a temporary ceasefire

      ☝️ Such sad days. The chemicals-addled Lemmings cheer on their own standing armies, occupation and arrived enslavement. “When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”

      💠 @Palestinian Commie:
      ⭕ 🔻2 Zionist settler terrorists were wounded and carried back to their colonies after the villagers of Al-Mghayer and Abu Falah repelled their attack, northeast of Ramallah. The armed terror herds withdrew.

      After a year of enduring terror attacks, West Bank villagers are now more often counter-attacking the army-backed herds at any price. The price is often in martyrs. When these provocations and tightening reaches all of the West Bank, an explosion will take place in the face of the Zionist regime |media|

    • August 16, 2025 at 08:20 #63671
      AHH
      Keymaster

      💠 @🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
      ⭕ The EU wants to scan private messages

      19 EU members support scanning private messages on WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, and others before encryption to “protect minors” on platforms.

      All messages deemed suspicious by an AI will be forwarded to local authorities. At the same time, the ProtectEU strategy goes even further with decryption access requirements for authorities by 2030.

      Critics warn that this initiative threatens digital privacy, enables mass surveillance, and can harm innocents if the AI “makes mistakes.”

      The “Chat Control” proposal will take effect on October 14 if Germany, which had not yet made a decision, votes in favor.

      🔗DigWatch
      [it is impressive. Just like Zion making grand plans to erect Pax Judaica, even as they death-gurgle, these dying, obsolete and demented nazis dutifully roll out the digital panopticon — “You shall be Happy, and having Nothing”] 

      💠 @imetatronink:
      ⭕🔻 RealJohnGaltFLA: Mr. Shryver, the really sad part is that of those of us who study history, finance, and international relations we quit trying to impart our knowledge on the terminally ignorant.

      It’s that frustrating. America has very little time left before there is no reversing the Roman path into history.
      🔻 Matthew McCracken: Sarah Palin can see Russia from her front porch!! |media|
      🔻 Josh Hopkins: It’s easy to assume someone who is ignorant of geography must be American, but in this case we are unjustly accused. He’s Australian.
      [well, as the wise Chinese say, the fish rots from the head. And the limbs and asses follow]
      ⭕ Dedicated to and with fond memories of a beautiful girl I dated for a while back in high school, and with whom I last spoke 46 years ago. @USAmbMNE |media|
      🔻 WS: Big wheels turning … |media|
      🔻 Casa ChiChi 🦀 #M4A 🚑: I hope your wife doesn’t mind these feelings, I think I might get jealous 🤦🏻‍♀️
      🔻 WS: I read it to her. She laughed. She knows me all too well.
      🔻 Janet Seaford 🏍〰️: I really enjoy ELO now, I didnt back when they were popular as I was into completely different genres at the time
      🔻 WS: I was never a huge ELO fan, but I always liked this album, which that girl gifted me, along with a book I’ve read several times over the years. And whenever I have revisited that album or that book since then, I have thought of her … and the tantalizing scent of her neck.

      In retrospect, I don’t think she appreciated how beautiful and alluring she really was. But I thought so. Furthermore, she was really smart, a great conversationalist, and she was a fabulous kisser. I remember making out with her in my old 1959 Pontiac Starchief.

      She was two years older than me, but I always had a thing for “older women”. 😏 I ended up marrying a girl almost three years older than me, and I’ve been with her over 43 years.

      Anyway, Judy left an enduring impression on me, and I sincerely hope she has led a happy and fulfilling life.
      🔻 WS: 🤔 Reminiscence on Teenage Love

      Youth is wasted on the young.
      ⭕ “Drug cartels”.

      Nonsense. They’re just looking for someone they can smack around who doesn’t have any meaningful capacity to hit back.

      And, of course, they lust after that heavy Venezuelan crude. You can’t make diesel out of shale oil.
      links:
      🔻 Natasha Bertrand: Meanwhile….Breaking: The US military is deploying more than 4,000 Marines and sailors to the waters around Latin America and the Caribbean as part of a ramped-up effort to combat drug cartels, two US defense officials told CNN — a dramatic show of force that will give the president a broad range of military options should he want to target drug cartels.
      🔻 Spaceman 🇺🇲: Lots of South American mercenaries fought in Ukraine, and there were reports of weapons transfers to cartels from Ukraine.

      Wouldn’t bet on it being as “easy” as they think.

      Cartels can disappear into the population with relative ease.
      🔻 WS: Meh. They would NEVER put “boots on the ground” in Venezuela, just as they didn’t dare do so against the Yemeni. They’ll just manufacture some lame pretext to launch a few airstrikes and then flex for the cameras and pretend the US is still the “irresistible force” on the planet.
      🔻 Spaceman 🇺🇲: The meaningful difference here is that the US mainland is in relative proximity to Venezuelan as well as the rest of the cartels. The escalation escalator rarely lets you get off.
      🔻 Dr Ragin: May be, just may be, Maduro is on Anchorage menu in a kind of “your backyard, my backyard” deal. Nobody in the world is going to miss that guy.
      [LOL. Keep dreaming. Iran and China and many many others stand with VZ, even if Russkie-Bear were to lose his marbles, above and below, which ain’t happening]
      🔻 WS: Nothing will serve to strengthen the resolve of the burgeoning BRICS partnership (and the repudiation of the global dollar system) than seeing the US attempt to assassinate its way out of its irreversible imperial decline.
      🔻 Lysander, Y Sinwar I am Legend: Well, if true, they will find that Mexican cartels have extremely effective ways of hitting back. You’re a fed prosecutor/FBI/DEA/IRS? You think they don’t know where you live? Can’t plant a bomb in your car? Can shoot you on the way to work? Invade your home and kill everyone.
      🔻 Tony Borgognone: Renegotiating supply routes I believe. Drug trade is never going away. To lucrative once they taste the power and money.
      🔻 iknowgoodthingseth ➕: Ah yes the ol’ provide a solution to the problem they created trick.
      🔻 Ed H. Hanna: They want that Venezuelan oil so bad. Their tenacity matches their desperation: how many times have they tried to overthrow Nicolás Maduro? The more they try, the stronger his position becomes.
      ⭕🔸 Theater Night

      My little town in southern Utah has one of the finest regional theaters in the United States — the Utah Shakespeare Festival.

      Tonight we’ll be attending one of our all-time favorite plays: Oscar Wilde’s classic The Importance of Being Earnest.

    • August 16, 2025 at 09:25 #63672
      Mr P
      Participant

      “The EU wants to scan private messages”  Anybody who will study cryptographic method can send and recieve and maintain secrecy. It’s a trivial matter. But the EU effort can be flooded and clogged with irrelevant stuff, and thus tease the nosey scrutinators. Obviously they’re afraid…good, they outta be. Their rule depends on the people being divided…and they know it.

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