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Oct 22 2025 
All the World is a Stage across the Ancient Silk Road
A time travel across History – the Ancient Silk Roads as well as Xinjiang may well be the ultimate crossroads of civilizations. Along Central Asia, they are the (beating) heart of the Heartland…
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
ON THE SOUTHERN SILK ROAD – Silk is the stuff of legend. Literally. At first manufactured… Continue reading -
Oct 11 2025 
On the Silk Road to Isfahan
Judge Nap catches our roving eye nomad—pilgrim between flights to review the incendiary moment
💠 Rock’n Roll Geopolitics:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺RYABKOV UNPLUGGED“We have a certain building of relations, which has cracked, which is collapsing – the Americans are to blame for this. Now the cracks have reached the foundation. I think it’s easier to destroy than to build.… Continue reading
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Sep 26 2025 
Russia on Iran Snap-Back Sanctions
tomorrow, 27ᵗʰ September 2025, the 2015 JCPOA “snap-back” sanctions will come into force. With disavowal from China and Russia, it will become a milestone day in the disintegration of the post-WW2 UN system.
with appreciation to Dr. Karl at karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium.
One Major FM statement and two by main UN Representative Vassily Nebenzia
On 20 September, Russia’s… Continue reading -
Jun 30 2025 
The Angel of History as a symbol of Resistance
The Global South now seems to have a crystal clear perspective of the new contours of the catastrophe laid at the feet of the Angel of History .. now they have met an immovable symbol of Resistance.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
It’s one of the most mesmerizing passages in the history of knowledge.… Continue reading
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Jun 29 2025 
West isolated, Iran to nuclearize
“… on June 22 Trump struck and a terrible beauty was born.”
By Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at the Indian Punchline.
The former President and Deputy Chairman of Russia’s Security Council Dmitry Medvedev who is one of the most authoritative voices in the Kremlin, wrote on the Telegram channel on June 23 a critique on the Middle East… Continue reading
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Jun 28 2025 
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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Jun 27 2025 
Khamenei’s Victory Speech to Iran
As most know, Trump yet again delivered bombast instead of truth, although Khamenei was able to pick out the one shred of truth that tumbled from Trump’s maw.
with appreciation to Dr. Karl at karlof1’s Geopolitical Gymnasium.
What sort of admission it will become in time is unknown at the present. But it will bolster the Iranian… Continue reading
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Jun 25 2025 
The Ceasefire Kabuki
The myth of genocidal invincibility has been shattered forever .. that death cult in West Asia can indeed be mortally wounded .. TACO announced a one-sided ceasefire and fled .. There will be blood – over and over again.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
In the end, predictably, the Circus Ringmaster went TACO (“Trump… Continue reading
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Jun 22 2025 
The Persian-American Murder-Suicide in the Qur’an
A living Revelation anticipates the astonishing tableau which confronts us today: the violent and calamitous end to the Old Order heralded by the aggression of the Anglo-Zionists on Iran.
Divine Revelation, as Sheikh Imran Hosein and serious scholars note, is neither static nor dead. The same verses in subsequent generations, according to need of the flock,… Continue reading
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May 24 2025 
A Travelogue of Modern Iran: From the Caspian to the Persian Gulf
The full version, including what happened in Tehran on several fronts – IRGC, nanotechnology, academic debates – of the column originally published on Sputnik.
By Pepe Escobar at VKontakte.
ON THE ROAD IN IRAN – The International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) is one of the most crucial geoeconomic/infrastructure projects of the 21st century. It unites at… Continue reading
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Mar 22 2025 
Geography
If the US is foolish enough to start a big war against Iran .. geography is the indomitable god of war.
By William Schryver at imetatronink.
So the US is sending Carrier Strike Group One (CVN-70 USS Carl Vinson) to the Middle East, leaving CSG-5 (CVN-73 USS George Washington) to “hold the fort” in the western Pacific from the semi-safe environs… Continue reading
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Oct 20 2024 
Reviewing Fortress Iran
1️⃣ “Iran is a country that has managed to maintain its sovereignty despite facing significant geopolitical challenges for centuries. Whether we talk about modern military powers or historical empires, few have succeeded in subduing this strategically critical nation. But what makes Iran so difficult to invade? In this video, we’ll explore the geopolitical, military, cultural,… Continue reading
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Apr 24 2024 
Persian Patience, Flexibility & Encirclement Pushed to Direct Deterrence
Why does Iran behave the way it does? What geopolitical strategy drives her? What are the secret origins of how the Iranian leadership sees the world? Parables of mountain climbing, wrestling and highways in Persian history..
