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  • The Imaginary Peace President

    “During his first term, Trump became the ultimate causal agent for every one of the current conflicts with Russia, China, Iran, and Venezuela.”

    By William Schryver at imetatronink.

    One of the most common claims about the Trump 45 administration is that “He didn’t start any new wars.”

    This is demonstrably FALSE.
    During his first term, Trump became the ultimate… Continue reading

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  • Japan antagonizes China, Koreas, Russia

    Takaichi: the Honeymooner. When will the divorce come?

    with gratitude to Julian Macfarlane at News Forensics.

    Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s poll numbers have risen to over 65%. I am not sure whether Takaichi is the Japanese Thatcher— or the Japanese Blair both of whom came into power with great numbers. .

    She has already sparked controversy.

    One is… Continue reading

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  • Why did the Aborigines eat Cook

    … Essentially, we need to do what the West is doing to us.

    By Rostislav Ishchenko at Ukraine.ru.

    (machine translation)

    For those who always worry that there are too many words, I will express the meaning of this material in one phrase: don’t be complacent, it won’t get any better.

    Now, for everyone else who doesn’t get it with just… Continue reading

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  • Dangerous Moment

    … it’s not so easy to escape from a war you started yourself, leaving your allies to fend for themselves.

    By Rostislav Ishchenko at Ukraine.ru.

    (machine translation)

    We are currently facing a moment of truth: either Russia will be able to complete its military operation in Ukraine within the next three to five months with a victory that… Continue reading

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  • Last Chinese warning

    … the Tianjin SCO summit is a collective demarche by Eurasia, which has united against the United States, the European Union, and their regional allies…

    By Rostislav Ishchenko at Ukraine.ru.

    (machine translation)

    The meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization states that opened in Tianjin today is undoubtedly a diplomatic triumph for China. This was clearly intended by the… Continue reading

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  • Dodging Wars in Departure Lounges

    A soulful globe-trotter reports from Vietnam, traveling from Cambodia, of life and timeless imperial pyrotechnics

    Linh Dinh at Postcards from the End.

    Since I’ve shown an interest in her past, Mrs. Seven, a 63-year-old widow living with two dogs, keeps telling me more. In Hai Phong 40 years ago as part of a performance troupe, she was… Continue reading

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  • The United States Cannot Defeat Iran

    Those whose calculus of a US/Iran war assumes overwhelming American air superiority will abruptly find the parameters of their equations altered.

    By William Schryver at imetatronink.

    How soon people have forgotten that, earlier this year, the US dispatched two carrier strike groups and a half-dozen B-2s (and other USAF assets) to disarm the Yemeni and open the… Continue reading

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  • Does Russia ride a Paper Tiger?

    “weak leaderships bring calamities on nations”

    Amb. Bhadrakumar explores the deeper psycho-geopolitical questions we all ponder. The western assessment is that “Putin shies away from taking tough decisions.” Russia was bearded in their own den, shown by the perpetrators of the strategic bomber bases attack to be perhaps riding a paper tiger, and are now under… Continue reading

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  • European kakistocracy locked in a Forever War against Russia

    Never interrupt your enemy when he is committing serial suicide.

    By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.

    Never interrupt your enemy when he is committing serial suicide (in reverse American gore-style, when the serial killer always resurrects). In the case of the EU kakistocracy, serial self-destruction is always a given, and always skyrocketing.

    So the EUrocrats in… Continue reading

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  • Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

    The inexorable decline of the American Empire has arrived at an Imperial Paradox. It must either fight a war and die, or not fight a war and die.

    By William Schryver at imetatronink.

    The inexorable decline of the American Empire has arrived at an Imperial Paradox. It must either fight a war and die, or not fight… Continue reading

  • The Coalescing Orange Chaos

    The Panel: a bemused historian, diplomat, and soldier sift through the entrails of a near-decomposing but spastic and enraged behemoth.

    Nima Alkhorshid of Dialogue Works interviews Mohammad Marandi, Larry Wilkerson & Chas Freeman as the clock ticks for Iran and U.S.: Talks or Total War? The constant changes of tack and talking points by Witkoff and… Continue reading

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  • Human Progress

    “How weary am I of devils and brutes, a true human is what I long for.”

    By Nora Hoppe at Al Mayadeen.

    The fact that our planet in this day and age is home to a genocide – visible to all human beings on personal devices throughout the world – an ongoing abomination unhindered by any international… Continue reading

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