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Feb 11 2025 
Keep on Trumpin’
Either Ukraine surrenders unconditionally – or the war show must go on. Meanwhile, let’s Keep on Trumpin’.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
Mr. Disco Inferno has reverted to his default mode of throwing tantrum after tantrum because nearly everybody in West Asia and beyond is sayin’ NO to the Gaza Riviera Resort and Casino scam.
Here’s a… Continue reading
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Feb 08 2025 
In Valdai, confronting the “American problem” in West Asia
While Trump runs riot with his global land grab projects, multipolar visionaries in Valdai were mapping out the actual, tangible territorial routes that will define this century’s geopolitics and geoeconomics.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
MOSCOW – The 14th Middle East Conference of the Valdai Club in Moscow was hit by a geopolitical bunker buster bomb right… Continue reading
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Feb 04 2025 
Ottoman Empire 2.0?
Pepe Escobar joins #NewRulesPodcast to discuss Turkey’s political and economic expansion in Syria, Africa, and Central Asia.
(2:20) Turkey’s political elites
(7:42) 90% of Turkish elites are Atlanticists
(11:31) Erdogan’s double game with Russia and China
(16:16) Will Syria backfire?
(27:12) Turkey: Energy superpower?
(32:50) Central Asia: Turkey’s next frontier
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Feb 04 2025 
SMO: Large frontline summary 27-31 January 2025 – Marat Khairullin
From Marat’s Substack
Today, a surprising situation has developed. To understand what is happening at the front, it is necessary to take into account the international context, and vice versa, without taking into account international issues, it is impossible to analyze the situation at the front.
Therefore, let us immediately outline foreign policy priorities in order to… Continue reading
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Feb 02 2025 
Fascinating: Russia and DeepSeek
DEEPSEEK: THE GHOST OF THE SOVIET UNION HAUNTS SILICON VALLEY
Turns out DeepSeek, the AI titan shaking up the tech world, wasn’t born in Beijing boardrooms or Silicon Valley labs. It was built on the forgotten code of the Soviet Union.
“I won’t lie, our AI was created on the basis of Soviet developments – the OGAS… Continue reading
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Jan 28 2025 
Dancing to Trump’s Disco Inferno
The spectacle of Trump’s sound and fury … something veils the same old imperial mindset, now blasting out in the open as a weaponized three-ring circus.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
In the late 1970s Donald Trump, in his early thirties, cocky as ever and recently married to Ivana in 1977, could be seen on and off… Continue reading -
Jan 16 2025 
Russia and Iran Alliance Treaty: Comprehensive Strategic Partnership
A few important days are rolling in. The 19th is an important day. The day that ceasefire is supposed to kick in is Sunday, 19th and after the long wait for the signing of the Russia and Iran Alliance Treaty the day is here on Friday 17th.
Here is Dmitry Symes Jr and Prof. Marandi discussing… Continue reading
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Dec 30 2024 
Crash of Azerbaijani civilian airliner in Kazakhstan
Accidental tragedy or monstrous provocation?
Editorial at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
It may be hoped that the attempts by Russia’s adversaries to politicize this tragedy and use it to weaken the trusting relations between historically close nations are doomed to failure.
The crash investigation of the Brazilian-built Embraer 190 airliner is ongoing, and therefore, it is too early… Continue reading -
Dec 22 2024 
Putin weighs in on the Syrian situation
All that glisters is not gold —
Often have you heard that told.
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold.
Gilded tombs do worms enfold.
Had you been as wise as bold,
Young in limbs, in judgment old,
Your answer had not been inscrolled
Fare you well. Your suit is cold.By Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at the Indian Punchline.
Russian… Continue reading
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Dec 20 2024 
Putin’s Q&A and the Forever Wars Riddle
Putin’s answers connect to the fog of the Forever Wars.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
He spoke for four and a half hours, virtually non-stop, reviewing the results of 2024, mastering all the facts.
His Direct Line received over 2 million questions, from Russia and around the world. And he had to crown the performance with a flourish,… Continue reading -
Dec 18 2024 
Russia’s therapeutic mRNA vaccine against cancer and it will be distributed to patients free of charge.
BREAKING:🇷🇺 Russia says it developed a therapeutic mRNA "vaccine" against CANCER and it will be distributed to patients "free of charge." pic.twitter.com/iC8wpXjAdW— Megatron (@Megatron_ron) December 17, 2024
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Dec 10 2024 
Navigating the Fog
An Interview with Professor Sergey A. Karaganov
By Nora Hoppe and Tariq Marzbaan at Al Mayadeen.
As we transition from a dying world to a new one in its turbulent birth pangs – we find ourselves in a foggy interregnum that urgently needs more clarity for us to move on…
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Dec 10 2024 
Lessons from Syria: Assad and Putin
Why do the Brutalists Lose?
by Marat Khairullin on Substack.
Syria is important. No matter how bitter it is to realize this. But there is such a maxim, “no matter how hard the failure is, if you have learned from it, then it is no longer a failure, but the next step up the mountain.” In other… Continue reading
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Dec 09 2024 
Russia’s Next Move
Pepe Escobar reviews the debacle and sordidness with Judge. And Russia’s Next Move
