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A Lebanese trio.
💠 @kuluary_zaliva:
⭕ Lebanon’s President-elect to Visit Saudi ArabiaThe first country that newly elected Lebanese President Joseph Aoun will visit will be Saudi Arabia.
It has become known that he will come to Riyadh at the invitation of the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman . The date of the visit is still being specified. Saudi Arabia’s interest in electing Joseph Aoun is becoming increasingly clear.
[The blindness of arabs is beyond astonishing. Like most mankind, they’ve been occult neocolonial slaves for so long that most lack ANY agency. The relevant comparison is the ongoing civilizational suicide of the combined West, equally being wheeled to the abattoir by the Moshiach. Lebanon is a neighbor and kin of Syria who just watched the PetroSheikhs deceive Syria and let in the Horde. Now a Christian Prez of this collapsing fake-state runs in obeisance to the same desert bedouins.. As in CONUS, the Ashes will need to come first]💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕️ 🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇸 The Russian Foreign Ministry on the new U.S. sanctions against Russia’s energy sector:Washington’s hostile actions will not go unanswered. This is an attempt to harm Russia’s economy, even at the risk of destabilizing global markets. As for the future U.S. president, who cannot lift sanctions without Congress’s approval, they will inherit a “scorched earth.”
💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ NATO deploys two ships to monitor Baltic Sea infrastructureNATO has stepped up surveillance operations in the Baltic Sea region following suspicions of sabotage of submarine cables between Finland and Estonia.
Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen announced that two ships had been deployed to the region to monitor submarine activity. Valtonen called for increased technical surveillance of the area due to the limitations of ship-based surveillance.
NATO’s presence in the region is seen as a calming and stabilizing factor. The decision to step up surveillance came after Finland recovered the anchor of an oil tanker, the Eagle S, from the seabed, revealing criminal damage and interference with communications following a cable break.
Source: Bloomberg
💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ 🇮🇷/🇪🇬 Member of Iran’s National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Parliament:‘In general, chaos and destabilization in any regional or neighbouring country carries unintended consequences and bad effects.
For example, while the government in Egypt is far from ideal, we have no guarantee that what comes after is better. The Zionists will seek to exploit any weakness that arises.
We have seen signs that after Syria, some suspicious elements are trying to change and deteriorate the situation in Egypt. This is a worrying development, and we must do what we can to prevent it, because it is likely that there will be meddling and external hands at play in deciding this country’s future.’
[I suspect when the zero hour approaches for Egypt, like with Assad, the cowardly compradore clique will jet off to “a safe haven” on another time zone, and likely continent.. they have drawn the lesson with the serial depositions of Saddam and Gaddafi. These will not rebel against their sadistic masters. So what happens next?? If Egypt falls like this, and suddenly too, will there be a salafi Horde from Cairo to Constantinople? And are these to be the hungry mindwashed zombies prepped to invade both Yemen and Iran?? Interesting days ahead]It is surreal, watching the end of 500 years on an entire continent take place in silence
💠@Arab_Africa:
⭕ 🇹🇩🇫🇷 The French continue to leave Chad. On January 11, the French Armed Forces handed over their second military base in the city of Abéché in eastern Chad to local forces
💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇫🇷🇹🇩 The French forces officially hand over the military base in Abeche to the Chadian authoritiesThe handover ceremony, presided over by the Minister of the Armed Forces and Veterans, Issakha Maloua Djamous, took place on Saturday.
The photos shared by the local press show French soldiers boarding planes, marking their official departure.
[a year ago, Frenchie had enough cache to force Niger to permit the Exodus in the dead of night, without cameras, as Bagram base in Afghan had been evacuated.. consider the conditions of this departure, a few days after the attempted assassination of the Chadian Prez]
💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Andrew Desiderio: SCOOP: In her first public comments since being nominated for DNI, Tulsi Gabbard is throwing her support behind FISA Section 702—an authority she once sought to repeal—as her nomination teetersFISA/702 emerging as central issue after meetings w/ senators |story|
🔻 Max Blumenthal: It was always going to come down to Tulsi placing ambition over principle to get this job
🔻 C3: Say it aint so…😭😭😭
🔻 WS: reposts old:
I pay close attention to such things. You should, too. Tulsi Gabbard is not what she has pretended to be. She is as devout a disciple of American exceptionalism as all the rest.
⭕ reposts old:
In my opinion, Tulsi Gabbard’s biases predispose her to believe making war against Iran is an American strategic imperative.Her intelligence assessments will reflect that predisposition.
The empire needs a war, and Iran is their only practicable option.
#NoEasyWarsLeftToFight
🔻 C1: Ok Will, your original post was in November and in a week’s time Iran and Russia sign the treaty they’ve been working on. It makes Iran a bigger headache. Would Biden do anything petty to undermine Trump before the inauguration?
🔻 WS: They’re in no position to do anything.
⭕ 👀 Iranian Missile CityOf course, this is an IRGC propaganda clip. It is impossible to judge how many missiles Iran truly has, or how securely they are stored.
Even so, I continue to believe the US/Israel overestimate their own strength, and underestimate the strength of Iran. |media|
[it won’t matter. Hezbollah demonstrated similar, more modest, underground facilities.. and they currently suicide themselves against Mighty Russia. Legion don’t care. “He shall regard neither the God of his fathers nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall exalt himself above them all.”]
🔻 Brandon: I think you’re probably right to some degree about Israeli/US strength viz. Iran. But I also think that the Iranians are pumping these videos out in some desperate attempt to make themselves appear stronger than they really are. I still say non-kinetic diplo-econ containment + deterrence is the way for the West to go viz. Iran NOT real warfare which is a drain on finite resources.
🔻 WS: Maybe so. Time will tell.
🔻 Brandon: I am also now convinced that reclaiming Panama Canal Zone is no longer a defensive measure but about regime change in Venezuela. Which is a deep hole for US Grand Strategy to fall into. But, I digress.
🔻 Karen: 🤔 Hezbollah put out similar videos… yet look where they are at today, had to retreat, and now ruled under a new US puppet president where they are going to be forced to disarm..
🔻 WS: What? Hezbollah didn’t retreat at all.And if you believe they’re going to be disarmed … well, that’s just silly talk.
🔻 Dr. Anton: Do you think True Promise III is on ice?
🔻 WS: reposts his old:
If I were Iran, I would continue to operate from a largely defensive posture. Time is on their side.[and reposts another old tweet:]
These are some interesting thoughts. I agree with several paragraphs.But I adamantly disagree with several others.
I believe Iran/Russia would be wiser to assume a defensive posture against US/Israeli air power; to accept some losses for the opportunity to inflict severe losses on the airframes deployed — especially the support platforms.
If Iranian/Russian air defenses can defeat just 50% of the incoming missiles (e.g. ~250 out of ~500, which, based on Ukraine, is a very conservative expectation), I am convinced the results of the remaining 250 would be much less damaging than most people expect.
And if they can inflict even a modest 10% kill rate on the aircraft involved (e.g. ~20 out of ~200),
And if they sank or severely damaged just 2 missile destroyers and (quite conceivably) a US Ohio-class missile submarine …
Well, I think it would be viewed within the Pentagon, and in the eyes of billions of people worldwide as a stunning disaster for the empire.
Then would be the time for a powerful Iranian counterstrike — but primarily focused on the US bases in the region.
It would become a strategic masterstroke.
Quintili Vare, legiones redde!
At any rate, these are my views on the matter.
🔻 Mobile Infantry 🚜: So they store those in one big location, hmmmmm.
🔻 WS: There is no evidence nor even a suggestion that they store everything in one big location.In fact, they have are known to have multiple facilities of this sort.
🔻 Diogenes of Sinope: Whelp. Hezbollah showed videos like this too, yet their implied strategic threat appears to have been neutralized. 🤷♂️
🔻 WS: Neutralized?That is a premature conclusion. There is no evidence that Hezbollah’s missile stockpiles have been meaningfully depleted. The nature of the war between Israel and the so-called “Resistance” has always been one of ebbs and flows. Before long, it will flare up again.
🔻 C6: Although I see serious problems for Lebanese resistance which is now isolated from Iran.
🔻 WS: So is Yemen, and yet …
⭕ They are systematically annihilating the AFU/NATO forces in Kursk. It has been a catastrophic massacre. And as long as the AFU/NATO keep feeding men and equipment into the fire bag, the Russians will continue killing them.
📜 The Object of War
“In war, territory is the arena, not the fight.”
🔻 C1: What people don’t understand:
For a trap to work, it has to be attractive to the enemy.
Defend it just enough, make the enemy they have a chance or it will be to their advantage if they manage to take over the position.
Hence, why would Russia rush to overwhelm Kursk?
🔻 WS: 📜 Fall Like A Thunderbolt
🔻 C2: I had not yet considered the option that maybe Russia hasn’t taken Kursk back yet because they’re using it as a meat grinder.
🔻 WS: 50k AFU/NATO casualties and counting …
🔻 C2: But what are Russias losses?
🔻 WS: A lot of drones, a few hundred FABs, thousands of 152mm artillery shells.The overwhelming majority of AFU/NATO casualties never even SEE a Russian soldier. As a result of the very nature of the fighting, Russian casualties are a minute fraction of those they inflict. #Firepower
⭕ 😱 I must be in trouble now — three Blackhawk helicopters just flew right over the top of my house. Shook the whole house; rattled the windows.
🔻 WS: My wife and I just drove down Airport Road on our way to pick up my old F-350 at the tire shop. There are actually FIVE Blackhawks parked very professionally, side by side, on the tarmac. I figure they’re visiting the SUU helicopter school to do a little recruiting.
🔻 C1: Some people would love to see three big Black Hawks.
🔻 WS: My property is about a mile from the regional airport. All the Pentagon’s big Nevada test ranges are about 100 miles away. So I frequently see military aircraft fly right over my house to land and refuel.
🔻 C2: Your only choice is to run up the Russian Flag.
🔻 WS: I’ll run up this one instead. They’ll see it and say, “He’s cool. He’s one of us.”
[still prudent to have a big red banner (with something yellow, preferably a star and/or a hammer) in the trunk…]
🔻 C3: I’m deployed to AFG and my wife gets in touch and says that helicopters are buzzing near the house (we were near the MX border in AZ).She said: “Should I worry?”
Me: ” Only if you hear ropes hit the roof, you know what to do…”
Nothing came of it.
🔻 C4: what year is it? I have a 73 F350 Flatbed, but haven’t driven it in some time as I don’t have a current use for it and the bed itself really needs repairing [the rig itself runs great]
🔻 WS: 1997 7.3L Powerstroke. Paid $32k. 159k mileage. It will probably outlive me. |F350|
🔻 C4: nice that is way newer than mine lmao, which is sure to outlive me unless its in an accident because with a good steel body like it has someone will always want to repair the engine if necessary.
🔻 WS: It’s our official “Road Trip IFV”. Extra roomy, huge cargo space, smooth ride. We love it for the long-weekend trips we and the boys make to various places in southern Utah.What’s amazing is I get ~21 mpg on the highway.
It is rated for a 750-mile “combat range”.
🔻 C4: damn mine gets an average of 9 on dump runs so presumably 11 or 12 empty. The gas gauge doesn’t work and there was some problem with the tank selector so I disabled it and just listen to the front tank, which is behind the seat, slosh.totally my apocalypse rig though
🔻 C5: Nice dude, when are you lifting it?
🔻 WS: One day it will pass to my grandson, and he’s only 8-years-old right now.You can’t buy a truck like that anymore. They don’t make them. That 7.3L turbo diesel will run for at least 500k miles, probably more the way I’ve cared for it.
🎸 We Can’t Make It Here Anymore
⭕ 📜 The Ashes Will Come FirstThis bears repeating:
“The trajectory of events is not amenable to the voice of the people. The #EmpireAtAllCosts cult is calling the shots, and war remains their only recourse to the relinquishment of hegemony.”
🔻 blindpig/1966: Does their opponent understand this is though? An intelligent intellectual adversary, trained in the art of all forms of warfare, takes all necessary steps to ensure all roads of escape are blocked, prior to conflict, leaving only the war option early on. In this way, the trapped adversary has only a single option. However, when it’s become understood that they have no significant military advantage, they’re given the choice of only suicide via a lost war. Russia and others have made it painfully obvious that the US no longer possesses any economic or military dominance. All other avenues are blocked. Putin and his global south characters have proven to be the real adversaries here.
🔻 C2: That De Tocqueville quote wow how right he was. He describes evil but with a pretty face.
⭕ cont thread:
The elite man is the only creature that deserves to consume without producing. He is lord of all his lessers. He sets them to work. He gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving. The rest he keeps for himself.– The Gospel of Kagan
🔻 C1: is that a quote?
🔻 WS: It’s my own paraphrase of George Orwell, from Animal Farm.
⭕ My how time flies …
🔻 WS: My first truck was a ’74 F-250 Camper Special with a V-8. Great farm truck. I used to stack well over 40 bales of hay on it back in the day. Two tons. That was a neat trick.
🔻 C1: By virtue of that cap I can see you foresaw the Russian SMO 15 years before it happened.
Prescient
🔻 WS: I wore that hat for many years. It was my favorite. It was replaced by my current favorite, also a “Z” hat, which I have had for over a decade. I have a new “Z” hat to replace my current one when it finally reaches its expiration date.
🔻 C2: How long has it been?
🔻 WS: Circa 2007, I reckon. I remember that year I hauled 4 loads of 44 bales each, and stacked them six rows high in that hay shed I built single-handedly in 2001.
🔻 C1: the man is an oracle 😂
🔻 WS: I’m no oracle. I simply say enough things that, sooner or later, something is bound to seem prophetic, and most of the mistakes are forgotten. 😏
🔻 C1: what about the hat though
🔻 WS: Yeah … I honestly don’t know how to explain that, other than that I live an hour from Zion National Park.I will say this: the so-called “Zionists” do not even understand what Zion is, nor that it is separate and distinct from the original Jerusalem. Zion is the New Jerusalem.
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: This is unironically why Oryx quit. |media|
🔻 WS: At least the Ukrainians finally found a good use for the Abrams tanks.
⭕ While watching the sunset from my window, I saw half a dozen little dinosaurs walk up my driveway. I went out to chat with them, and they instantly raced towards me, believing I was a bearer of “good tidings” (in the form of grapes).It saddened me to disappoint them.
🔻 C1: Fun Fact:
The chicken is currently the closest living relative to the T-Rex. (in evolutionary terms)Please take care hand feeding those grapes
🔻 WS: They pretend to love me, but I know they’re just plotting their ambush if and when opportunity presents itself.
🔻 Dr. Anton: Are they still alive? 😳
🔻 WS: I hope so. I found some grapes. |grapes of love| will grapes
🔻 C3: Obviously you gotta carry grapes now at all times.
🔻 WS: They usually only get the grapes that have gone mushy. The few I just gave them were only soft. They snatch them off the grass like lightning, and run away from their sisters to tear it in pieces. So each gets a grape in turn and runs away to eat it, then comes back for more.
🔻 C4: careful mate. my buff orpington tried to swallow a grape whole and damn near choked to death –
🔻 WS: They assure me it’s a risk they’re willing to take.
🔻 C5: They’re called chickens. There’s no such thing as a dinosaur. Dinosaurs are fake.
🔻 WS: Don’t utter such heresy to their faces, or you’ll surely regret it — you’ll have to buy white eggs from the store💠 @Iran Observer:
⭕⚡️JUST INIran has unveiled a massive new Underground Missile City
Thousands of Ballistic Missiles are stored deep inside a Mountain, footage shows just 10% of the entire underground missile complex |media|
💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ NATO-backed nazi Kiev regime is trying to attack Novorossiysk from the air; air defense is operating in the city.In addition, Russian AD crews are repelling drones and missiles over Sevastopol, Kerch, Taman and the port of Kavkaz. Preliminary, the enemy is working over the Black Sea waters with NATO spies, AWACS electronic reconnaissance systems, accompanied by a pair of F-16 aircraft and a tanker.
Residents of the Voronezh, Kursk, Saratov and Lipetsk regions have reported drones. The authorities of Anapa have reported the operation of air defense systems.
[imagine 1% of this level of aggression taking place in any other country worldwide “not in war”. When does the terminology of “Special Military Operation” hamper, rather than deter the storm which already arrived??]
💠@BhadraPunchline:
⭕ Absolutely. ‘Russians are coming’! |media|
⭕ VOW! One of the strongest signal possible by Trump that he has far better things to do than fight Netanyahu’s wars. Signalling by Tehran (and Arabs) is working on Trump. Very good development for Middle East’s peace & stability if the DEEP, DARK SON OF A BITCH is shown the door. |media|
[“For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”]
⭕ A reasonable tradeoff — Ukraine for Greenland — is possible to end this horrific war, and move on with life? Both regions hold multi-trillion dollar untold treasures. ‘Let’s hold a Yalta 2 and discuss a deal that also throws in Taiwan!’ World politics is becoming curiouser! |media|
[LOL. Why? All of 404 lies at their feet, without having to sign another treaty guaranteed to be broken by the “agreement-incapable”]
⭕🔻 Kanwal Sibal: French FM has made a defensive statement about defending EU’s territory but without any “condemnation” of Trump’s astonishing territorial claims on allied sovereign countries that are part of NATO and, in Canada’s case, G 7 too. There is open cartographic aggression but no expression of outrage or personal attacks against him.India has wisely stayed away from taking sides in the Russia- Ukraine/NATO conflict that has European roots and has no reason to take sides in this quarrel within the NATO alliance and territorial issues between the US and EU.
Two of India’s neighbours claim Indian territory. Do enlighten me on any supportive statements by the EU or France against such claims.
🔻 MKB: Europeans a pusillanimous lot. But, seriously, all countries with ‘unfinished business’ of Partition are stakeholders in this. That includes China-Taiwan too – although not analogical situation.Beijing is not missing propaganda moment (unlike Russia which is cautiously brooding.)
⭕🔻 OilPrice.com: India braces for a severe cut in Russian crude supply as U.S. sanctions target 180 tankers. Russian oil, India’s top supplier, faces new restrictions as the Biden Administration intensifies efforts to curb Russia’s revenues.
🔻 MKB: a) Executive order can be reversed by Trump; b) Europeans need oil & won’t take Biden’s diktat from Delaware; c) Real issue is about tankers where Russia-India should roll up sleeves, sort out insurance-doable! d) US-Rus summit on cards; new ball game commencing☝️🔻 MKB: Panama Canal, Greenland, Canada — Trump’s prioritisation of US control of Western Hemisphere (and the hugely strategic Barents Sea) to perpetuate its hegemonic clout as global power is self-evident. At no point he referred to the Indo-Pacific.
they are starting to warm up the egyptian beef: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 MT Anderson: 🇺🇸USN MQ-4C Triton (169538//#ae625d) out of Guam taking a look at Scarborough Shoal (9 Jan 00:09 UTC)Given the ongoing 🇨🇳greyzone tactics and incursions into 🇵🇭EEZ , it would be great to see a more sustained US Navy presence
🔻 WS: If wishes were fishes … |story|
[more crickets]
⭕🔻 Lord Bebo: Andrew you’re invited to take a gun and go ahead to Ukraine!LMAO … “how to end war in Ukraine? easy just start WW3!”
🔻 Russians With Attitude: “It’s simple, you just deploy the ENTIRE ground forces of the US, Turkey, Germany and France”
🔻 WS: And, IF the Russians generously promised to not interfere with its assembly, this million-man army might be ready to go by spring 2026.Never mind all the US bases around the world would have to be vacated to make up the number.
🔻 The Surgeon: Several options
1. Idiocy
2. Reckless propaganda
3. Detachment from reality
4. Talking (or wrinting) is free
🔻 C4: No chance to build all the logistics you need for 1M in 1J. That’s the time you need to plan it.
2028 at its best.
⭕This is crazy stuff. |media|
⭕🔻 Sal Mercogliano: Baltic Sea Cable Probe: Finnish Investigators Suspect Shadow Tanker ‘Eagle S’ Dragged Anchor for Over 60 MilesThis ship was steaming at about 10 knots so this is over 6 hours of dragging its anchor along the bottom of the Gulf of Finland.
🔻Matthew McCracken 🇨🇮 🇺🇸 🇱🇷: Does the anchor match the anchor of on the starboard side? Does the Eagle S still have the rest of the chain with broken link to match on the port side? Is finding an anchor at the bottom of the seabed a smoking gun? There is a lot of traffic going through there.
🔻Matthew McCracken 🇨🇮 🇺🇸 🇱🇷: Also, is this what an anchor looks like it it dragging across the sea for 60 miles? I see a scrape mark but is that a smoking gun for 60 miles worth of anchor dragging? Do they have video/photos recording the 60 miles of dragging? Especially since this was heavily monitored. |media|
🔻Matthew McCracken 🇨🇮 🇺🇸 🇱🇷: This is still not lining up for me. The Finnish authorities are stating that it was brought in to port for “deficiencies.” Not sabotage. Is it legal for them to just detain a ship in international lanes making innocent passage? |link|
🔻Matthew McCracken 🇨🇮 🇺🇸 🇱🇷: The Finn agencies have not released a list of specific safety violations but the articles mention safety equipment, backup, etc. But nothing visible to the eye that would warrant Finn authorities to arrest a ship practicing “innocent passage.” Still a lot of questions.
🔻 WS: Every report I have seen about this purported event uses the words “suspect” or “have suspicions”, etc. And yet I have seen no credible evidence presented to support the allegation that undersea cables were even severed in the first place, let alone that this Russian ship was involved.I think the Finns commandeered it only because they “suspected” it was gathering intel, and they wanted to confiscate the equipment for examination — but then they found no evidence for that suspicion, either.
Watch, they’ll hold the ship for a few more weeks, and then quietly release it and memory hole the entire story.
🔻Matthew McCracken 🇨🇮 🇺🇸 🇱🇷:
Replying to @imetatronink @mercoglianos
It has a long list of repairs. The Gulf of Finland freezes over and the Eagle S hull is not designed for that. What happened to these wild claims of high powered navagation gear, Russian radio operators, and Russian keyboards? |Limey BS|
[LOL. the criminals are winging it on the fly. Two can play. Let’s wait n see what wicked ol’ Russkie unfurls for the irredeemably demented]
⭕🔻 Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺: This is a very good post and synergizes with my own view, that America is becoming less powerful outside of its bloc but *more* powerful within it. The coherent “world order” is fraying, and as it does America becomes even more able to act with impunity within its sphere.
[links the above by Russians With Attitude: “On American expansionism.The incoming administration seems to have a more realistic image of the state of American hegemonial decline and wants to take proactive steps to try to counteract and reverse it…”]
🔻 WS: Well … it is clearly becoming more able to TALK with impunity within its sphere. Whether or not it will be able to ACT with impunity remains to be seen.To exert dominance “within its sphere” will still require a massive reduction in its military footprint OUTSIDE its sphere.
🔻 StandwithGreenland: Trump may not be all that stable, but he IS a genius of sorts. That he would try to compensate for the loss of Ukraine by stealing Greenland and the Panama Canal was NOT on my Bingo card, but it makes sense tbh, if only in a Sopranos type logic. US reputation cannot be worse, so
[LOL. Spot on. We’re all gonna be entertained by the Orange Camacho Gang]
🔻 C3: Let’s see if it is willing to pay the price of showing the bad guy it really is, up to this point the US has been pretending to be a beacon of democracy and decency for the masses, even with the great propaganda that image will take a hit.
[and what is Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen et al?! a weekend’s youthful indiscretion, a la the Honorable Henry Hyde? The shocking thing is after Gaza they STILL pretend to be civilized. Old (dishonest) habits die hard]
⭕🔻 OSINTdefender: 911 Callers are reporting that a Group of at least Five Men in Ski Masks are starting Fires in the Studio City Neighborhood of Los Angeles.
🔻 Kuppy: CIA?? FBI?? Anti-oil activists??Maybe it’s all 3🤷♂️🤷♂️
🔻 WS: Won’t surprise me if “anonymous intel sources” finger “Iranian terrorists”.
⭕ 🔥 This essay articulates several insightful observations of things as they really are.“Trump threatens anyone who dares to awaken him from the dream of American strength, even as all the signs are exposed that this strength no longer exists.”
[links:]
🔻 Wellington Calasans:THE ANALYSIS IS SIMPLE! JUST UNDERSTAND THE EUROPEAN UNION, TRUMP, OTAN, BRICS…
A better understanding of the current scenario on the planet will require more than catchphrases, memes or other digital resources that encourage the imbecilization of people.
ALERT! This text is not for “duoneuronians”.
Europe is facing a serious economic crisis, exacerbated by the interruption of energy relations with Russia, partly due to support for the actions of the Ukrainian regime, but much more by US plans to make Europe an exclusively American destination.
The economic situation in Europe (with an emphasis on the European Union) is so serious that it seems to be imposing a new dark age on the continent. This time, with European citizens becoming victims of the disastrous choice to adhere to US policies.
With the closure of the last Russian gas supply pipeline, the European Union finds itself in an economic, social and political self-destruction that will surely take decades to overcome.
The situation is now exacerbated when the Ukrainian regime, praised by “European leaders” (pause for laughter), has cut the Brotherhood Pipeline, a historically strategic project that symbolized cooperation between Russia and Europe.
Russia, which once supplied more than 40% of the EU’s gas, has now become a minor supplier, while US exports of liquefied natural gas have increased. The most bizarre thing is that part of the gas supplied by the US to Europeans is Russian.
This suicidal policy of rejecting direct access to Russian gas, without the need to have the US as an intermediary, has resulted in extremely high energy costs for Europe, putting pressure on economies, industries and homes amid the need for new gas infrastructure and high transportation costs.
The current energy crisis has a direct impact on Germany’s economy and, by extension, that of the EU. The European suffering is part of the US plan to destabilize the trade relationship between the EU and Russia, seeking to expand its influence and interests in the region.
This situation has led to a dangerous environment of economic competition and military domination, where “European leaders” (another pause for laughter), for the most part, strangely submit to US demands, underestimating the consequences for their citizens.
While Russia grows economically, mocks sanctions (more than 27,000) and finds new markets for its energy resources, European citizens face increasing difficulties due to the high cost of energy and current Western foreign policy.
The US strategy, instead of relieving Europeans’ dependence on Russian gas, expands actions under the banner of Russophobia and closes the door to dialogue between Europe and Russia. Something that can only be broken down with a complete change of European governments.
The results are in. The European countries that plunged into the empty US pool in Ukraine are condemned to a grim fate, with the possibility of an escalation into a global conflict.
However, far from coming up with a Marshall Plan, this time the US should be part of the funeral procession, with its flag covering its own coffin, as it will be one of the economies victimized by the mistake of defying Russia in Ukraine.
The economic situation resulting from the current war in Ukraine will be exacerbated if former and incoming president Donald Trump ventures into a deeper arm wrestling match with Russia over the conflict.
Backing down would be the best strategy, but that seems too noble for such pathetic political figures who occupy positions of power among “Westerners”. A quick look at Trump’s government team and we can see that rock bottom is the goal.
Trump would go down in history if he shifted the blame for Russia’s victory by publicly acknowledging that the actions of the Obama-Biden administrations, which began in 2014, were wrong, and that the United States must respect the security interests of all countries, abandoning tactics such as sanctions, coups and invasions.
Admitting that everything in Ukraine was started because of Russia’s need to protect itself against a possible nuclear missile threat would be an honorable way out. The problem is that this attitude requires greatness.
Trump would only need to show that Russia acted exactly as the US did, when the Americans sought to defend themselves against the former Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Another problem is that the Donald Trump of the campaign no longer exists. What has been seen in the formation of his government is disheartening. Surrounded by messianic Zionists and crazed neoconservatives, everything Trump announces – usually in a threatening tone – sounds cartoonish.
In relation to NATO and Russia, for example, his demands that Russia withdraw its demands on Ukraine are not serious enough for anyone with more than two neurons to believe in the good intentions of guaranteeing peace.
Instead, Trump threatens anyone who dares to wake him up from the dream of US strength, even as he exposes all the signs that this strength no longer exists.
Even the US’s military equipment is not the best it has ever been, greatly reducing its usual weapon of deterrence.
In the dream of Trump and his aloof accomplices, there are economic sanctions against various countries, taxes against the European Union and China, support for Israel’s abuses in the Middle East, including encouraging the attack on Iran, the annexation of Canada, the theft of Greenland, war against Panama, war against Mexico, etc.
As we can see, Trump is an accident foretold. When Kamala lost the election to Trump, I commented on TPA that the big winner was Joe Biden, because he had rid himself of the electoral defeat and the blame for leading the US into total decline.
To make matters worse, the plans of Trump and his henchmen also include using US oil production as a weapon against Russia. This allows us to say that only those who slept through the 1980s and woke up a few months ago can see the viability of these strategies.
The choice of Zionist and neoconservative advisors explains, but does not justify, Trump’s stance of promoting a bellicose agenda that is clearly doomed to complete failure, especially since it does not take into account the costs and logistical conditions of a war, with an emphasis on China and the Taiwan issue.
Trump’s policies herald disaster. If he doesn’t radically change his approach to international issues, the impact on the US economy itself will be irrecoverable in the medium term.
If Trump doesn’t change, Europeans will be left – in order to avoid even more disastrous consequences – to change course and look to the BRICS economic bloc for a relationship based on mutual respect.
Translated from Portuguese with DeepL.com (free version)
🔻 WS: This is a first-rate analysis.
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: It’s one of the reasons why all four explicit targets aren’t known for their strength. He can only train his sights on the weaker ones; easier to get a “win”. Meanwhile global Pax Americana is *over*.
🔻 WS: Yes, on the surface it seems self-evident that annexing Canada, Greenland, Panama — and maybe even invading northern Mexico to “destroy the cartels” … it all appears to be low-hanging fruit.But the second- and third-order consequences are what expose a strategic blunder.
🔻 C3: I hope he goes for Mexico. An endless guerilla war with a large 5th column. California, fires, Oh yeah.
⭕ 🎸 I have been an obsessive aficionado of rock and roll since the mid-1960s.Almost all of my favorite rock bands emerged in the milieu of the 1990s.
That’s it. That’s the post. And I won’t take it back. |THREAD|
⭕🔻 Department of Defense 🇺🇸: Birds of the sky.An @usairforce F-15E Strike Eagle refuels and patrols the @CENTCOM area of responsibility. The F-15E provides the capability to counter violent extremist organizations through its agile use of air-to-ground weapons.
🔻 WS: 🤦♂️ “violent extremist organizations”In other words, “puny powers who can’t shoot back”.
The only relevant question is what it can do against a major power adversary.
The F-15 has been a mainstay of the USAF for decades. But it will be shot down in droves in a major power war.
🔻 cognitivedissonanceeverywhere: The F-15 is a fifty year old aircraft that was the apple of the USAF’s eye. There is no iteration or replacement on the horizon.
🔻 FELIPE: If it works well against violent extremist organizations, it was probably made to fight the US government and its plutocracy
🔻 C4: “violent extremist organizations” are they going to be using them against X [Twitter] posts?
⭕ The oldest trees on earth are within a short drive from where I live: ~5000-year-old Bristlecone Pines and 10,000+ year-old Quaking Aspen. |story|
Is someone afraid to cross Gibraltar and enter the Med, after what was done to a similar Russkie military sealift ship? What times💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇱🇹🇷🇺❗️ Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda called Kaliningrad a historically Lithuanian city that should bear the corresponding name“Even though the old inhabitants of Lithuania Minor, now part of the so-called Kaliningrad Region, have long since disappeared, the last vestiges of Lithuanian culture must be preserved there. No matter how hard Russia tries, Karaliaučius will never become Kaliningrad.”
💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕️ 🇷🇺🇱🇹 Maria Zakharova advised the Lithuanian president, who called Kaliningrad a historically Lithuanian city, to study history.She reminded that in 1939, Stalin signed an agreement with Lithuania on the transfer of the city of Vilnius and the Vilnius region, as well as on mutual assistance between the Soviet Union and Lithuania.
Additionally, Zakharova emphasized that Lithuania’s largest Baltic port was officially renamed from Memel to Klaipeda and became fully Lithuanian in 1945 thanks to the Red Army’s efforts, the monuments to which Vilnius is now demolishing.
All these “gifts” from the USSR, Vilnius can return if history is so burdensome for the Lithuanian president, noted the Foreign Ministry spokesperson on her Telegram channel.
💠 🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇬🇷🇫🇷 The Greek Air Force has received its latest [French] Rafale F3-R, the 24th aircraft ordered. This delivery completes the strength of the 332nd “Falcon” Squadron of the Greek Air Force.
[This is for “Brother Erdogan.” Zionazi France dutifully prepares the next phase of expansion of Pax Judaica, which involves the dismemberment of Turkey. Recall the 2006 Pentagon Ralph Peters map also anticipated this task of cutting up Turks, with expansion of Kurds into Anatolia, to complete “Rojava.” The next series of wars, as already messaged by Trump against Greenland and Canaduh, will see cannibalization within NATO]
💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇫🇷🇹🇩 France will try to disrupt Chad, Côte d’Ivoire and Senegal again, a Chadian politician saysThe attack on the N’Djamena presidential palace on January 8 was a result of France’s resistance to Chad’s independence, Takilal Ndolassem Hilaire, national advisor and the president of the Front for the Liberation of Chad party, told Sputnik Africa.
He added that France viewed Chad as a convenient “free aircraft carrier” and was unwilling to relinquish control.
The politician suggested that it was no accident that the French authorities exaggerated the significance of the attack, calling it a coup d’état. He argued that the West often amplifies events to demonstrate their importance and influence, creating the impression that problems are unsolvable without their intervention.
🗣 “Today, everyone knows that the financing of terrorism comes from the West, since there are military leaders who have been arrested. And during their interrogation, they all said that they were financed by the West,” the official added.
He also said that the Chadian capital remained calm, with citizens conducting their usual business, and emphasized that the recent incident wouldn’t disrupt the peace, as the people are calm and desire peace.
⭕ 🇹🇩 Chadian leader offers condolences “to the families of the heroically fallen” in the attack on the presidencyMahamat Idriss Deby Itno also wished a speedy recovery to the wounded.
“I would also like to pay a vibrant tribute to the responsiveness, bravery and professionalism shown by these valiant soldiers in the defense of the Republic’s foremost institution”, he said.
Denouncing the “attempt at destabilization”, the President stressed that “it is now up to the courts to establish the facts, apportion responsibility and apply the full rigour of the law”.
⭕ 🇹🇩 Attack on the presidential palace in Chad was an assassination attempt, the country’s president states🗣 “The attackers of this futile attempt aimed to eliminate me, but they were eliminated by the bravery, vigilance, and courage of the Presidential Guard,” President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno said on January 10, referring to the attack that had targeted the presidential palace.
The Chadian president also described the incident as an “attempt at destabilization.”
On January 8, around 7:45 pm, “a group of ill-intentioned individuals, composed of 24 people in a vehicle, simulated a breakdown of their vehicle,” according to the prosecution. They then attacked several guards at one of the entrances to the presidency using knives. In response, 18 attackers were neutralized, and six were injured.
A presidential guard was killed, and three others were injured, two seriously.
💠 @Arab_Africa:
⭕️ 🇷🇺🇹🇩 Russia condemns militant attack in N’Djamena against Chad’s leadershipOn January 9, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated that “Moscow strongly condemns the terrorist attack directed against the legitimate leadership of the Republic of Chad.”
“On January 8, in the center of the capital of Chad, the city of N’Djamena, a group of unknown persons, presumably members of the Boko Haram group, attempted to enter the territory of the presidential palace. Security forces repelled the attack and, according to information received from the official authorities, the situation is currently under control,” the official statement reads.
In turn, the French agency France24 reported that, according to a source in the security forces, there were not 50 attackers, but 19, and they belong to the Boko Haram group, which operates in the Lake Chad region on the border with Cameroon, Nigeria and Niger.
Pictured: Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby during his meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in January 2024
⭕️ 🇹🇩 Details of the attack on the Presidential Palace in the capital of ChadLocal media, citing a source close to the residence of Mahamat Idriss Deby, reported that more than 50 Boko Haram militants, dressed in sportswear and running past the main entrance to the palace, took part in the attack on the Presidential Palace.
The militants attempted a surprise attack, but were eliminated by return fire from the residence’s security.
UPD: According to the latest government statements, the attack was not carried out by militants, but by some unarmed hooligans. In short, “drone debris” fell on the Presidential Palace. Everything is clear, I hope.
💠@imetatronink:
⭕ ‼️ CSG-8 (USS Trembling Puppy + 1 CG and 2 DDG) has boldly ventured south a bit in the Red Sea, but remains about 300 km north of Jeddah and 1400 km north of the Bab el-Mandeb — still comfortably out of range of Yemeni anti-ship missiles.
🔻 MT Anderson: She has moved as far south as 🇸🇦 Al Qunfudah in the past 2.5 weeks, ‘trembling puppy’ may be a bit of an exaggeration
🔻 WS: Yes, it ventured that far, then the Yemeni lobbed a few pot shots at it, and it promptly zoomed back north again.Anyone who cannot see and admit that the USS Trembling Puppy is deliberately remaining well distant from potential Yemeni missile attack is being disingenuous.
🔻 MT Anderson: Disingenuous? where is your data?Here is mine⬇️
CVN-75 spots align nicely with where IKE spent the majority of her RS deployment
Time will tell if she starts to spend more time near Al Qunfudhah but the map looks very similar given the amount of time she has been in the RS |media|
🔻 WS: You’re disingenuous more often than you’re not. You blind yourself to the indisputable realities of increasing American vulnerabilities.(Also, your various analyses of movements and events in the Black Sea over the past three years have been simultaneously disingenuous and inept. You’re a mediocre propagandist with an impaired conception of military realities.)
In any case, I follow your feed because you do often provide valuable info, even if you frequently fail to interpret it correctly.
When CSG-2 (USS Brave Sir Robin) was last in the Red Sea, its crew (by its own admission) was “traumatized” by the constant barrage of missiles from the Yemeni. They encountered the most intense firepower the US Navy had seen since WW2. And every time they ventured too close, they found themselves under attack. They soon exhausted their magazines and had to run away. These are the simple undeniable facts of the matter.
You’re correct in noting that CSG-8 (USS Trembling Puppy) is now operating in a similar fashion. It got too close a few weeks ago, got attacked good and hard, shot down one of their own F/A-18Fs in the midst of the melee, and almost shot down a second.
Then both CVN-75 and CG-64 skedaddled at flank speed back to the far northern reaches of the Red Sea.
After gathering their wits for a few weeks, they ventured south again, launched a few strike sorties, and then were forced to fend off another series of pot shots from the Yemeni, after which CSG-8 sped back north to where they are now.
Meanwhile the Yemeni continue to impose a selective blockade of the Red Sea and the Suez Canal.
The US Navy continues to suffer a strategic defeat at the hands of the lowly Yemeni. It is one of the most shocking military developments of the 21st century.
[crickets]
🔻 C2: I thought a ‘pot shot’ was an easy, almost can’t-miss shot. You seem to use meaning the opposite.
🔻 WS: Random shots in the general direction of the target.
🔻 C3: I truly believe one of the main reason for an agreement in Gaza for a ceasefire is Yemen. Yemen said as much: they hold their fire when the genocide in Gaza stops.
[There shall not be a “ceasefire” in Gaza. Or one sold as the deceit currently unwinding itself in compradore Lebanon]
🔻 C4: In Oz Will, all our MSM tells us is that the US and Israel are punishing the Yemenis who are on the brink of collapse. 🤔😩
⭕ 💥 It is also worth noting that, over the course of the past 14 months, the Yemeni have shot down 14 MQ-9 Reaper drones with their modestly capable SAMs.The US has been forced to start using high-flying MQ-4Cs from Sigonella to surveil the area.
🔻 WS: I don’t believe the Yemeni actually shot down an F/A-18F. And if you parse their statements carefully, you can see they don’t really claim they did. What I interpreted from what they said is that, as a direct consequence of the chaos of their attack, a US fighter was shot down.
🔻 C1: 14 MQ-9 and 1 MQ-1 since oct 7
🔻 C2: Iran shot down one MQ-4C before. It may not be beyond reach of Yemen’s air defense.
🔻 C3: By the way Yemen is the poorest country in the region, poorer than Syria and Libya. Tells you something like you can bomb the hell out of them and they won’t care cus if you have nothing you have nothing to lose
⭕ ‼️ Trump’s declared intentions to seize a larger sphere of American dominance in the western hemisphere is a DIRECT consequence of the outcome of the Ukraine War.Before the war even started, I predicted it would result in the end of NATO as a functioning alliance.
Here we are.
🔻 Herodotus: Why does the loss of deterrence by US/NATO vis-a-vis Russia require a larger sphere for the US?
🔻 WS: It’s not a “loss of deterrence” versus Russia, it’s a loss of global hegemony to the inexorable realities of a multipolar balance-of-powers world. The empire is crumbling, and the US is simply moving fast to secure strategic depth in its own neighborhood.
🔻 Aristophanes: It is worth pointing out that Emmanuel Todd, during the run-up to the Second Gulf War, noted that the US was in decline and chose its adversaries accordingly. Iraq was a weak adversary then. Today’s Europeans don’t have even a modicum of political agency.
[what’s with the greek invasion]
🔻 C3: Good call. But did you have annexation of Canada on your bingo card? That gets some serious bonus points
🔻 WS: retweets his old from 27.07.2019:
“Lest there be any confusion, I’m needling these quaint foreign bumpkins in a very good-natured American-exceptionalist sort of way.After all, when it comes right down to it, everyone knows Canada is really the 51st state. 😜”
🔻 WS: Canada is one of my favorite states to visit.
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: I mused in the early days of 2022 to colleagues along the same lines without any strong commitment to the eventuality or possibility and was told to not be so silly. Glad to not be the only “silly one”.
🔻 WS: I started posting on Twitter about the coming war in Ukraine no later than 2018, and how it would herald the end of NATO. People just laughed at me.
[links his old from 23.04.2021:
“Ukraine has two options: accept its role as a buffer state, or be dismembered. If the US goads them into an attempt to subjugate the Donbass, Russia will slice away eastern Ukraine and assimilate it — and there is *nothing* the US can do to prevent it.”]
🔻 WS: The End of NATO, American Imperial Hegemony, and The Rebirth of A Multipolar World |THREAD|
🔻 Coco the Canadian Socialist Rat🇨🇦 🇨🇦: Almost *everything* in that thread came true the only part you missed is Nordstream 2 getting blown up causing energy prices to rise leading to the de-industrialization of Germany.
🔻 WS: I did not previously appreciate the degree to which the Germans had been subjugated by decades of occupation. I do now.That said, Nord Stream may yet deliver gas to Germany. One of the pipelines remains intact, and the others can likely be repaired.
🔻 Hola que ase: @imetatronink what is your forecast for UE, and specially, southern states with this future crisis? I could have a job offer in US for next years, would it be worth moving there with my family taking into account our terrible european leaders/politics?
🔻 WS: Club Med should have NEVER joined the EU. It was stupidity of the highest order. Italy (which with I am most familiar) should have never killed the Lira and embraced the Euro. And they should repatriate all their sovereign gold and go back to the Lira immediately.
🔻 José Alberto Niño: The liberal international order’s holy sacrament of territorial integrity pretty much ended with Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence in 2008.Since then, the natural laws of geopolitics have made their inexorable comeback.
🔻 C7: In my view, the US empire is gearing up for largescale war against the emerging poles of power – Russia / China / Iran. That’s the light in which the announced annexations of Greenland and Canada should be viewed.
🔻 WS: The US is literally incapable of engaging in “large scale war” against even ONE of the Russia / China / Iran axis. American power projection capability reached its zenith in 2003, and is now extremely diminished.
📜 All for One and One for All
🔻 C7: Maybe Trump’s planned annexations are a Hail Mary move to counter that alliance? Along with bringing in Indian tech workers who will then be trapped in the US and used to run the war economy.I see it more likely for the US to resort to desperate moves, than throw in the towel.
🔻 WS: War economy? The US is an effectively deindustrialized nation. US heavy industry is, for all intents and purposes, non-existent. No number of foreign immigrants can alter that reality. It took 3 generations to eviscerate US industry. It will take at least that long to restore it.
🔻 Filippo Neri: One aspect of deindustrialization is that, together with the industry, you lose the skills necessary to run an industrial society.
🔻 WS: 📜 The Arsenal of Democracy Isn’t(Originally published February 3, 2023)
⭕🔻 C1: Former Head of the Mossad Intelligence Directorate, Zohar Palti, recently gave a very interesting interview on @NadavPerry’s podcast.Here are his main arguments regarding 10/7, the Iranian nuclear program, the Abraham Accords, and the Syrian regime change: |THREAD|
🔻 C2: Is this true, @LeeBTConsulting @imetatronink @ArmchairW @FilippoNer97498?
If so, why is fully NATO backed Ukraine getting its arse handed to it? And Russia seems to have next gen missile tech no one else has (or at least demonstrated)?
And where does the the Western competency crisis (apart from Elon) & lack of industrial base feature?
But it is also true Syrian regime gone along with Iranian supply lines to Hezbollah + pager attacks, etc.
🔻 WS: Classic Mossad disinfo. The whole narrative about the Israelis humiliating the Iranians is fantasy; #TheImaginaryWar.And they have no firm knowledge that Iran is not already nuclear.
Nor, apparently, do they appreciate that Iran does not stand alone.
📜 All for One and One for All
⭕ 🤔 A recurring thought I’ve had in recent days is that there are undoubtedly powerful interests in the empire who remain willing — and quite conceivably able — to do “whatever it takes” to prevent the new emperor from reassuming the throne.There is tangible tension in the air.
🔻 C1: I doubt that . Trump is a total empire lackey.
🔻 WS: Non sequitur.
⭕ Sometimes, upon reflection, I regret yielding to my vice for polemics.But this isn’t one of those times. 😏
[reposts the above backhand to MT_Anderson, “You’re disingenuous more often than you’re not…”]
🔻 C1: As someone without background in this area, why a strategic defeat as opposed to a tactical one?
🔻 WS: A tactical victory or defeat is a direct battlefield result — a narrowly focused view of a conflict.A strategic victory or defeat encompasses the broad geopolitical, military, and logistical consequences, both direct and derivative.
The Yemeni are winning the strategic war.
🔻 C2: I’ll bet you didn’t win many popularity contests at school.
😉
🔻 WS: You’d lose that bet, but only because I’m actually much nicer in person.Besides, it’s all good sport. And my preferred sport was always the debate team. Basketball was fun enough, but debate was my favorite.
🔻 C3: Polemics are warranted when discussing serious matters. This certainly counts.I’m curious though: what can CSG-8 do? I got my Enlisted Surface Warfare pin a decade ago while serving aboard CVN-74. I’m racking my brain. And all I can think is, send in the Marines.
⭕ 🔥 RWA has written some extremely eloquent and insightful things over the past few years. But this post has to rank near the top.* HIGHLY RECOMMENDED * [links:
🔻Russians With Attitude: On American expansionism.The incoming administration seems to have a more realistic image of the state of American hegemonial decline and wants to take proactive steps to try to counteract and reverse it, breathing new life into the American Global Empire.
In this context, it makes perfect sense for the US to increase pressure on its vassals. I am not using the term in a pejorative sense. The US does not have “allies” in the traditional meaning of the word. It has vassals with different levels of feudal obligations and elite integration, and different tasks. Extracting more value from vassals — whether through tariffs, increased NATO budgets, meddling in local politics or potential territorial concessions — is an absolutely logical step in cementing and renewing America’s position as overlord of its sphere.
There are three ways America’s European vassals can react to this: look for protection outside of the sphere, try to make themselves more useful/necessary & advance integration, or take it on the face. Were we in, I don’t know, the 19th century, Denmark would just ask Russia for military support in Greenland in exchange for mild economic concessions and never worry again. As it is, the Royal Danish Army does not have any artillery anymore because they gave it all away for the purpose of firing cluster ammunition at Russian children in Donetsk. They did not receive anything in return for that and it did not help any Danish purpose. They cannot defend themselves if push comes to shove and they can’t ask anybody to help because most of their fellow vassals have done the same. The most likely option is that they’ll just take it on the face. Not just for pragmatic reasons, but also because they genuinely enjoy being dommed geopolitically.
America has no obligation to treat its vassals better. I’ve seen Danish people complain on here about supporting the US after 9/11, participating in the American wars in the Middle East, etc. That’s ridiculous. You know how a colony is rewarded for sending troops to its overlord’s wars? It doesn’t get beaten. That’s the reward for a lackey. Any person who takes any of the NATO democracy liberalism pilpul seriously is just not a serious person, it was never real, it was always just voluntary submission to be absolved from existing in History.
The world that existed in 1991-2022 does not exist anymore. It’s not coming back. You can just invade your neighbor. You can just fire missiles at international shipping lanes. You can just threaten to annex members of your military alliance. “You can just do things”, as the techbros like to say. The mirage of a post-historical order that only has to be policed from time to time but is never seriously challenged has disappeared. What did you think canceling the End of History meant? Vibes? Papers? Essays?
It’s not pleasant to be suddenly confronted with all of the above. It’s not pleasant to have to admit to yourself that your existence was a coddled theme park that is existentially dependent on the relative position of someone else and how he feels about that relative position. America’s vassals WILL have to confront this state of things and make hard decisions about their future. This means reckoning with their geopolitical impotence and either embracing dependency with open eyes or seeking pathways to autonomy that will inevitably involve risk, sacrifice, and a recalibration of their national priorities.
The era of coasting on borrowed security and ideological rhetoric is over. What lies ahead is a world where historical agency must be reclaimed or forever relinquished, and for many, the question may not be whether they are ready to make that leap, but whether they even remember how. America has now understood this — and is mentally preparing to switch back to the cold logic that comes with actual History. The times, they are a-changin’.
🔻 C1: 20 years ago, John Michael Greer published his theory of catabolic collapseThis is what we are seeing now with the 🇺🇸 imperial system
Unable to expand any further (#NoMoreEasyWarsLeftToFight) it will consume parts of the imperial system (on the peripheries, e.g. Europe, 🇦🇺) which will stabilise the empire – at a lesser level for some time
Until the next crisis occurs
Rinse and repeat for a few cycles and the 🇺🇸 empire will be yet another empire that has disappeared into the history books…
How quickly will the vassal states wake up to this? And how quickly will they work out how to disentangle themselves from tentacles of empire?
The global majority is bit by bit paving the way for those whose 👀 are open!
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🔻 WS: I understand this rationale, but I believe the American empire will experience not a long denouement, but a rapidly accelerating decline punctuated by a sudden chaotic balkanization.Not two centuries, but two decades of disintegration in crescendo.
And it has already begun.
[concur. there are no decades left for even the last stop of Pax Judaica. It’s Curtains Babylonia! Good riddance. Sayonara. Don’t let the door hit ya on way out. Let the fat cats and libertines mourn…. “Then the kings of the earth, who debauched and indulged themselves with her, will wail and lament over her. Standing at a safe distance through very fear of her torment, they will watch the smoke of her burning and cry, “Alas, alas for the great city, Babylon the mighty city, that your judgment should come in a single hour.” — but will Sarmat take even an hour??]
🔻 C2: “Twilight’s Last Gleaming” the fall of the USA was pretty fast.
🔻 C3: Europeans will be shocked if they end up being treated as countries in the Middle East, Africa and Central America usually are treated by the USA.It looks more and more like that we are back to the times of imperialism.
⭕ 🤔 The Gulf of ________What’s in a name?
That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Or so I’ve heard it said.
My personal observation is that toponyms are transitory.
⭕ The elite man is the only creature that deserves to consume without producing. He is lord of all his lessers. He sets them to work. He gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving. The rest he keeps for himself.– The Gospel of Kagan
[Good God. The wicked are left long years given their final abode. This life is their Paradise.. a measure of pity from their Creator. And the signs of that abode are clear on their disfigured bloated bodies]
