I’ve taken to loading the Apocalypse thread first thing when I come to Global South. Then in other tabs I read the latest on the site. When I turn to the Salon the Apocalypse thread is loaded. I like the X embeds, personally. And the workaround of preloading the page before I’m ready to read it seems to work.

I would hate to see any reduction in content in this thread, and I would also hate to put more work on you, AHH.

Amarynth, the whole page takes the loading, not just the individual posts. So, less embeds per each post and more posts equates to the same load.

If reduction is the goal, it seems that shorter, and more frequent, threads would be the answer – depending on the work to start a new thread.

Alaska is a brilliant choice. Geography is everything with this one. Far away from the reach of drones from London and Kiev, an area far more under the control of the US and RF militaries than a big city would be. Security should be really tight. And for most people in the US, I think Alaska is far enough away it doesn’t at all feel like Putin actually coming into the US.

The Alaska Accords – if this happens and produces something – could form a nice historical pivot. One day the tunnel connecting the two continents could get built. Pipelines from Russia’s far east connecting to the US Alsakan pipelines. Imagine that. Lifting sanctions so that the US can buy Russia oil/gas – imagine that.

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I’ve been waiting for Alex Krainer to parse all this, and to my great pleasure he’s paired with Harley Schlanger at Crypto Rich. Harley has the LaRouche viewpoint and Krainer has long held the high-altitude view on all of this, so the discussion is fascinating, even including the concept of Russia eventually taking back Constantinople, citing the Sheikh.

It’s a spiritual war, a spiritual renewal – say military strategists that Krainer talked to in eastern Europe.

And rule number one is beware of psy-ops because this place in time is heavily pregnant with them. Surface appearances cannot be trusted, and if one is willing to forego outrage at Trump for a bit, one might find the discussion valuable:

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USA, RUSSIA, CHINA & THE SLOW EMERGENCE OF A MULTI-POLAR WORLD – ALEX KRAINER & HARLEY SCHLANGER

(System didn’t want to take a direct link from this video platform??)

An excellent discussion at Danny’s place with Alex Krainer and Patrick Henningsen. I haven’t seen these two men together before, they discuss a lot of nuance, largely around the imperial system still out there killing everyone, and the one now trying to be born.

Silly title from Danny but lots of meat in this one:

Dear AHH, it may well and truly be “slaughtering the golden goose”, but there is a thing called “price discovery”. This is what’s happening. It doesn’t say that the US is always winning, nor losing. Simply that chips will fall where they may, according only to reality, and not to rigged markets.

It is brutal reality, as you conceive.

No one in my camp ever said it wasn’t.

And your esteemed economists may be wrong. Personally I suspect they are – I think your esteemed economists are wrong. They conflate the foreign with the domestic, you do the same, and I say explicitly that this leads to a false conflation.

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Don’t think that the domestic lobby wants some perfect dream world of supremacy and profit. It only wants justice, which means the rule of law when laws are broken, and the fair price in markets that are not rigged. And all of this means only that we will see the truth of things, regardless of what those principles result in.

Sorry if it overlaps into the global world and especially the global south – but this was never the intent. This is the domestic USA trying to correct its orientation.

The globalist parasite sunk deep into its neck and draining blood doesn’t improve the optics, but there it is.

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ps…none of this means to soften the hatreds of the world for the USA, all of these grievances are truly earned. Nothing here is trying to mitigate or diminish the karma incurred through the savagery visited upon the innocent world by the western world .

Nothing I ever say is ever intended to rescue the western world from the gallows whose name is lovingly carved by destiny and justice.

Not trying to excuse. Just trying to describe.

Dear emersonreturn, I have not speculated. The tariffs as they actually come to be applied seem not to create inflation – because no new money is being created – and for the most part the supply/manufacture end is absorbing the cost. Why? Because the US market actually is worth being in, and the US consumer has enough choice to switch if a price goes up, for the most part.

In other words, from what I can gather, the tariffs are a good idea and they’re working for the US – Medvedev is correct, Trump is grifting, always, but always for the USA.

So I suspect that a lot of people calling the tariffs a negative thing are actually wrong, even the esteemed authors here. And also, I should add that the tariffs and all this noise that is perceived as foreign policy – I don’t see it that way, I see it as domestic policy. And he has very sound thinking behind all his domestic policy (many people worked on it).

It happens to involve other countries but only incidentally. We shouldn’t conflate the two – the tariffs and all the extortion, these are not foreign policy, not part of empire.

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As to his Zionist hook, his foreign policy, that’s completely different – certainly it’s horrifying but I put that into a different place, because as I’ve said before, it was always going to be this way regardless of who’s president.

In your terms: empire continues while Trump effects domestic change – there’s a school of thought that says this is a deliberate trade-off, “I’ll front your manic empire thing, you let me do this domestic thing that the people voted for” (they didn’t actually vote for foreign policy – stopping wars was fiscal common sense, that’s all – it was always the domestic policy).

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So personally, I only study Trump on his domestic actions. As to what he says, I can only repeat what I’ve said all along – I don’t listen to any word he says, ever, not one. I wipe all accidental exposures out of my mind. I watch only what actually happens on the ground.

I offer this healing balm to all: don’t pay any attention to the words – not one, not ever. Don’t sacrifice any part of your happiness to nothingness, a sound and fury signifying nothing.

Watch results only.

If anyone hears of the freeing of Laith Marouf please post it here. I’ve seen in several sources that the Lebanese authorities detained him at the border – latest is from Dmitri Lascaris 5 hours ago. Still detained, it seems.

Thank you, Amarynth, that’s a significant distinction.

Slowly at first, then all at once – and Russia must manage this collapse for its own ends – an additional complication, but a problem to have, for sure.

We are no longer watching the fall of Ukraine. We are watching the character of Russia as it holds itself back from giddiness, and pretends to be dour and stoic, all the while as the million flowers bloom.

This will be a thing to behold. Many thanks for your good eye 🙂