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  • The choice of Alaska as the venue for the meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump on August 15 was somewhat unexpected but a significant signal of the U.S.-Russian dialogue on aligning positions moving into a decisive phase. The chosen location is a diplomatically subtle move reflecting the mutual calculations of both sides. For Moscow, it is a tactical concession allowing the American president to secure symbolic control over the format and exclude the presence of third countries in the negotiations. For Washington, it is a way to minimize leaks, control the information environment, and curb pressure from globalists.

    According to leaks from Western media, the Ukrainian issue may become the first major field for compromise. A scenario in which the Donetsk and Luhansk regions come under full Russian control while the Russian Armed Forces withdraw from the Sumy, Kharkov, and Dnipropetrovsk regions would create a new configuration of the demarcation line. In the Kherson and Zaporozhia regions, the borders are expected to be fixed along the current front line. A possible first step — the introduction of an “air truce” — would reduce the intensity of hostilities and create a basis for the gradual implementation of agreements. It is also clear that Russia will seek Ukraine’s neutral status, a ban on its military development by the West, a political reset in the country, nuclear-free status, the lifting of the ban on the Russian language, and the formalization of territories annexed to Moscow. This would be a blow to the “hawks” in the U.S. and Europe, for whom maintaining the conflict is key to retaining influence. However, Washington’s leverage over Kiev and its sponsors makes such a compromise realistic.

    Moscow, in turn, will insist on the lifting of sanctions, the unfreezing and return of its assets in the West, and the restoration of full economic and other forms of cooperation with the U.S. At the same time, the Ukrainian issue is only one block on the agenda. Strategic stability, arms race limitations, extension of the New START treaty expiring in 2026, a new “détente,” redistribution of influence in key world regions, as well as matters related to BRICS, the Middle East, and international trade are also expected to be discussed. In this context, the words of the Russian leader’s aide Ushakov are important: Alaska and the Arctic are areas where the economic interests of Russia and the U.S. intersect, offering prospects for large-scale mutually beneficial projects.

    The results of the upcoming summit could become a turning point in international relations, in which the U.S. and Russia shift from hostility to civilized coexistence. If agreements are signed and their implementation begins, the world will enter a phase of plurality, in which Russia gains an institutionalized role as one of the key actors entitled to shape new rules of the global game, and the U.S. gains a tool for strategic crisis management without excessive costs. We stand on the threshold of a starting point toward stabilizing the world system based on balance and respect for the interests of major players, rather than confrontation.

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  • Is this all a smokescreen like Iran was? I'm starting to get real concerned.

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    I halfway suspect they're going to try to arrest him. That seems like the sort of stupid you could get this administration to sign off on.

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    Omg. Cut it out. First of all International Court has no Jurisdiction in the USA specifically, second of all this would immediately become blood war. What a fucking idiotic thing to halfway suspect. Like its ok when AsianJayLeno jokes about it, but not for realsies. Do you have any idea what would happen in Russian society if they duplicitously kidnapped their chief?

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  • The question is what will happen after the alaska meeting if it is successful? Because the ukrainians won‘t accept any deal that the russians have accepted (likely broadly in the framework that has been reported with ukraine giving up the whole of donbass and the other fronts being frozen). And the EU will do its best to deflect US pressure on kiev.

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    You're missing some key details. The rumors are that what's being bargained for is a 49 or 99 year armistice on the "won" (liberated, siezed, whatever your preference) territories, in addition to some other econ related stuff (lift sanctions, normalize relations, release forex). The gambit is as follows: either Zelensky capitulates and signs, which means he is dead, or he continues the fight and Trump quits the conflict - which means he's dead in 2 years. 

    The corolary is that in the event of a ceasefire, the UAF army deserts and goes home. This immediately leads to profound domestic turmoil on UA territory. The converse is that none of the UAF survives. 

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    The question is what will happen after the alaska meeting if it is successful?

    Why should it be successful in the first place? Luhansk + Donetsk + otherwise frozen front line without an end of NATO's open door policy for Ukraine and an intact Maidan regime in Kiev - for Moscow that would not be a successful conclusion of the war. It would merely be an armistice for a couple of years. Why should they agree to that? Maybe Trump has delusions about doing high diplomacy that way: a personal agreement between two gentlemen, without any concrete treaty, without the involvement of cumbersome foreign affairs bureaucracies, without lengthy battles over domestic ratification. Why should that be worth anything to anyone? In three and half years, he'll be out with the future of MAGA being uncertain and maybe once again Democratic Russia hardliners controlling the White House.

    I suppose, Trump could simply walk away from Ukraine. He clearly doesn't want to, but he could. There's preciously little the Euros and Yukes could do about him unilaterally ending all weapon transfers, intelligence sharing and finally declaring the door of NATO to be shut for Ukraine henceforth.

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    No Ukraine in NATO is exactly a precondition.

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    I don't think Trump is going to put much more time into this if neither side is willing to compromise enough to make a deal.

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    long time ago. The UK may still want ukraine to fight on but the US does not. Ukraine today is in a way even more in need of peace than it was then but also its political leadership is in a much less secure position to actually sign anything. If the war ends with a major ukrainian concession and then there are new elections, Zelensky will not survive politically. By now he has also made almost every other power-center in ukraine his enemy. Poroshenko, Klitschko, Timoshenko and so on but also the oligarchs and the newly powerful players that are the nationalist formations in and outside the army such as the Azov movement all are biding their time to dethrone him. And there is still the threat of Zaluzhniy returning.

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  • https://www.euronews.com/2025/08/08/unimaginable-peace-azerbaijan-and-armenia-sign-historic-agreement-after-decades-of-conflic

    “We are today establishing peace in the South Caucasus,” Azerbaijan's President Aliyev said. "Today we writing a great new history."

    Armenian Premier Pashinyan added that this agreement represented "opening a chapter of peace". "(We are) laying foundations to a better story that the one we had in the past," he added.

    The peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan has been signed. Here's hoping the caucasus can finally know some actual peace for the first time in a long while.

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    Turkish hatred for Armenians is ethno-nationalistic, rather than religious.

    Armenian friends include Iran, partly due to proximity/diaspora, partly due because Turkish ethno-nationalism can affects Iran western provinces.

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    I am sure the Americans have Armenia's best interest at heart and that agreeing to become a useful base of operations in Washington's eternal struggle against Iran will work out just fine out Yerevan. I couldn't think of any example of this tactic backfiring, especially not in the wider region.

    As a rule of thumb: it's always a good idea for countries to grant their far removed diaspora extraordinary influence on local foreign policy decisions. This group's lack of skin in the game and dispassionate detachment ensures a healthy influence of idealistic considerations to the detriment of otherwise dominant material concerns.

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    I don't think you're correct on whose behind this (diaspora) and what the motivations are (US colony)

    The armenian diaspora in the US have been decrying the peace deal and calling for the US to intervene against the turks, much like the diaspora in Russia has called for much the same thing except youknow Russia intervening.

    This is Azerbaijan and Turkey forcing Armenia into the deal and the west and Russia not caring enough to stop it, Trump hasn't so much aided in the peace as he's a key to stopping congress from sabotaging it (perhaps because of the diaspora)

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    I don't think diaspora libs are driving this. Those people don't any any power. They are not determining the course of anything. They're just useful idiots, a convenient force multiplier and fig leaf for an external actor who is addicted to meddling and spreading chaos. If the USA, always loudly crying about being taken advantage of and pretending to be tired of costly entanglements, really wanted to stay out of another quagmire then it could simply do so. Instead it's intimately involved.

    For years, you have been a regular contributor in a series of megathreads which deal mostly with the results of Washington's decision to both deliberately and needlessly stick its greedy fingers in a foreign, far away place. It's rather stunning that you manage to look at the same playbook getting used in Armenia and then conclude: "Hey, this time it's clearly different!".

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    Particularly as over the past year or so there's been a lot of talk from the various non-governmental parts of the Blob about how the US needs to get involved in the South Caucasus. Here's the Carnegie Endowment, for instance

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    We see the same world but with different eyes.

    If you look at it in a certain light I can see how you blame the americans, after all they were responsible for the armenian pivot to the west in 2018, but for us to put the blame on the americans for Armenians current situation we have to make some assumptions, that if Armenia didn't pivot west the Russians would have intervened to protect Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020 or that they wouldn't even have needed to.

    I don't buy that, I believe this has been a long time coming with Armenias stagnation and Azerbaijans growth and at most the invasion would have been delayed to Russias distraction in 2022, but in the long term we would have mostly ended up where we are now.

    The country responsible in my eyes is Turkey, ultimately they gave the green light for what happened in 2020, held a hand over Azerbaijan to shield them from consequences and dictated the terms of the peace (much to Aliyevs dismay, as he actually wanted more than just a corridor from Turkey to Azerbaijan) they had the means and motive to make this all happen the way it did.

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    Yep, i do also agree. I have been following this thread since 2022, and sometimes i feel they are too charitable to Russia foreign policy behaviour.

    The diaspora ultranationalism (i'm part of that diaspora btw ) can be blamed for Armenian revanchism toward Russia, but the party most resposable for escalating the situation are the azeri/turk who subscribe to some greater turkey ethnonationalism that stir the pot. Azeris even subscribe to some intense nationalism were Armenian are some invaders similar to the Israel/Palestine rhetoric.

    And Russia dont what to engage with it because Turkey is one of their oldest fr/enemies with they engage in trade & military disputes. Even as Turkey being the one of the responsable for overturning the Assad regime.

    Would not blame Armenia to try court USA given that basically Russia brushed off 2023 ethnic cleasing of Nagorno-Karabh even since 2020 the writting was one the wall the Azeri were gonna try it again. At the end of the day Glendale/Paris/Palermo seems more a liability for the Azeri than Moscow.

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  • It's funny that the Kursk adventure now appears to have backfired on Zelensky in another way. He spent all that time saying "we'll accept a peace that trades a little bit of territory along the Kursk-Sumy border for a big chunk of territory further east" and now the Russians have turned it around on him

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    This was trivially evident about 6 months ago.

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  • So with Trump championing the BRICS cause one tariff threat at the time, how is his administration exactly hoping they'll be able to smoothly engage in their much desired Asia pivot?
    The US have basically pissed every major player in the area and haven't exactly been doing wonders to mantain the loyalty of it's allies/vassals there.

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    It's much easier to pivot to Asia when Europe is as pathetically supine as it currently is. Illinois gives the administration more trouble than the EU does.

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  • This is from the ukraine foreign legion subreddit, from a poster tagged as a "credible and verified". It's hilarious. You have to be an idiot, mentally challenged or a 20-something male to read this and decide you want to sign up for the Ukraine foreign legion.

    Khartiia is insane in the sense that just when you think it can't possibly get any worse, it does. Nobody that has ever served in another unit and then came to Khartiia has ever liked it. I regret ever recruiting for this unit but I was naive and thought that maybe if I bring some good soldiers the problems would go away. They didn't.

    Every person there with experience unanimously agree it's the worst brigade they have ever seen. The battalion commanders either are completely dumb and retarded or intentionally lie to their soldiers saying the russians are all dead and they're surrendering and that we cut off their logistics route and that you're gonna be sent to clear trenches when you're actually going on a suicide assault mission. They tell you you're going on a "special reconnaissance mission" but you're actually just walking through friendly territory to try and find a new path (basically demining with your feet), they will always tell you a mission is 10 days but they know it won't be because they don't have the manpower to rotate you out (usually missions are 3 weeks+ with a couple days off where you're not allowed to go Kharkiv anymore). They operate in the SAFEST FRONT in ukraine and still manage to take 50-80% casualty rate. To fix the manpower problems they don't allow people to leave anymore and threaten to send you to what is described as "an isolated room in the forest in Dnipro with nothing except internet".

    To give you a concrete example, when I first came to Khartiia, we were only 5 english speakers. After one week of mediocre training we were told we were going on a trench clearing mission to capture about 40 enemy positions. With 4 men. I assumed there was an element of OPSEC and they didn't want to give us all the details of other forces but no, the commanders are just completely retarded and actually wanted to send 4 people to take 40 positions. In the mission briefing they didn't even talk about mined areas or have them marked on Kropyva, I had to ask at the very end if there's mines only to be told "Oh yeah there is this giant minefield somewhere in this area" while they vaguely point at something with the mouse cursor. Just the fact I was put as a platoon second-in-command with at the time ZERO missions under my belt should have been my fucking warning sign to leave. There were plenty of other good alternatives but I was picked because of "language skills"

    Khartiia is REALLY good at propaganda and hiding this shit, they had a camera crew following us 24/7, camera crew in the command centers, everywhere. But that's it. They suck at everything else. Shit training, they take anybody (hence why I started recruiting myself to try and stop the influx of people with 0 military experience and shit physical conditions who could not do FIVE fucking pushups to save their life), and most importantly, shit command.

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    At least it’s happening to American war criminals and Colombian fascists and not some poor guy kidnapped while walking his dog

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    Yeah, couldn't care less about these turds being recycled honestly.

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    That sounds grim.
    Did the OP say how or when he returned from there?

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    Dude moved to a new unit and is still in Ukraine.

    I lurk in some of the foreign legion online spaces, and the stories are wild. Take ALL of these comments with a massive grain of salt - there's larpers all over these places.

    Here is a story from another legionnaire.

    ... Had something similar happen in 1st Bat. IL but our squad just flat out refused. They ended up sending a fireteam of Colombians instead (without giving them the full information) you can guess what happened to them. The position was completely lost not so long after and that’s when most of us broke contract or just moved units. That wasn’t a singular instance. Shit like that would happen constantly.

    ... and another ...

    I personally watched a Uki officer send 20-25 marines into an assault that literally every single person that was in that AO told him don't do it. He sends them regardless. Half died in the initial push and the other half died holed up in base-ments and half standing buildings, one of them got fucking decapitated by the Russians on our drone feed and this officer watched this whole thing take place and then just went to the kitchen to stuff his face with food and left for the night.

    ... and then another prospective foreigner asking about medical care if you get injured.

    Ukrainian medical care for soldiers is reliable enough, but depending on the ward / hospital you end up in your experience will vary wildly. ... ending up in some of these hospitals scares me far more than getting my leg blown off. If you get a young doctor trained in western standards, you're golden. If you get an old soviet doctor that is hanging onto his medical license by a thread, expect very little in the way of anesthesia during surgery or painkillers before/after. Infection rates depending on the hospital are extremely high compared with the West, and the prevalence of drug resistance bacteria is extremely high in Ukraine.

    No fucking thanks ... Ukraine is ABSOLUTELY the victim here, but you have to be a complete ghoul to demand this war continue when Ukrainians have to deal with shit like this.

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    threaten to send you to what is described as "an isolated room in the forest in Dnipro with nothing except internet".

    Sounds a lot better than sitting in trenches to me but these people are probably there because they think they will kill some Russians.

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  • It looks like r news is joining the other default subs in censoring 'antisemitic content.' I was banned without a notification or an explanation (after two polite requests for one).

    Not even bothering with a notification is new to me. Perhaps Reddit admin acted.

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  • This is arguably one of the most significant periods in the last 4 years and this thread is crickets. Everyone at the beach or something?

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    I think the latter half of last year was the more impactful period of the Ukraine war.

    We had a vegetable U.S. President, while Ukraine was launching attacks on Russia's early warning radar systems. Then we authorized "deep strikes" into Russia ... which accomplished ... nothing. I was worried about the 3:00 AM phone call to president Potato Biden, not from a legitimate Russian attack, but from something mis-interpreted or conjured up by acting President Blinken.

    Current developments are, IMO very good things, because at least we are talking directly with the Russians. That doesn't mean we are closer to end of the war. The Ukrainians and Russians both want to keep fighting and neither are willing to concede anything. So the war will continue.

    Things get interesting if the US walks away entirely, and tosses Ukraine to the Europeans to sort out.

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    I am enjoying a warm summer day sitting in the garden with my dog thank you very much.

    But what is there to discuss? We know so little. And we sure as hell know that anything that might work will immediately be rejected by the other side. Mainly involving territory.

    The most interesting development so far is that it is now clear that the slogan „nothing about ukraine without ukraine“ is dead when Trump meets with Putin alone.

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    Everyone at the beach or something?

    No, I've been involved in something very important.

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    Everyone at the beach

    Yes, 30c+ cloudless for the next week.

    Wish you were here <3

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    Summer in Scandinavia, best week of the year lol

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    Nightless parties ahoy!

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    Sounds terrible

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    What’s left to say?

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    I’m watching the Mets and Yankees crash out, it’s fun

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  • Trump and Putin will meet in Alaska on Friday, August 15th.

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    And Zelensky already said they won‘t give up any territory… So the swap trump suggested (which I suppose would mean the parts of sumy, kharkov and dnipro that russia occupies against the remaining 25% of donetsk that ukraine still holds) seems to have immediately run into new obstacles.

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    Maybe they're meeting in Alaska because the US is going to give back Alaska.

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    They're going to arrest Putin.

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    Trump will lure him in and Israel will launch a surprise attack killing everyone there.

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    Stop right there, criminal scum!

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  • Trump on Intel's new CEO, Lip Bu Tan:

    "The CEO of INTEL is highly CONFLICTED and must resign, immediately. There is no other solution to this problem. Thank you for your attention to this problem!"

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  • I am starting to get bored of William Spaniel, his spastic dissonance was entertaining for a while but he's starting to get a tad bit too annoying with his insistent NATO dick riding and has proven to be clearly out of his depth as soon as he jumps off from his numbers into the "soft" aspects of geopolitics.

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  • If they somehow work out a peace deal between US and Russia regarding Ukraine before the end of the this year, I'll eat my fucking hat.

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  • https://x.com/dwnews/status/1953768803566780624

    German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has announced that Berlin will not approve German weapons exports to Israel for use in the Gaza Strip "until further notice."

    Could they not just claim its not for Gaza? Is Germany going to question it?

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  • The YAPms sub banned me for saying that MTG criticizing AIPAC is based. Fuck them.

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    I actually know one of these acronyms.

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    My son got me into Magic: The Gathering back in the 90s and it's a lot of fun.

    AIPAC is the holding corporation for the US government I think

    That's two. How's that for "out of touch boomers"

    (Lol. But seriously what the fuck is yapms)

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    Man my humor really doesn't translate as well as I think it does apparently

    The lol was to kind of signify nothing before that was said in seriousness

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    Yet Another Political Map…Simulator, I think?

    Another election nerd subreddit

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  • Russian troops in central Pokrovsk.

    UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1mkc02m/ru_pov_new_geolocation_of_russian_troops_in/

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  • Journals have started to examine if the actions in Israel are actually supported by religious texts, as the state has claimed.

    "Is this Judaism" asks: "Are the above actions by the Israeli government and IDF in Gaza consistent with the ethical tradition of Judaism and the obligations that flow from it?", and conclude "the alleged acts of the Israeli government and IDF in Gaza are clearly and directly contrary to the Judaic tradition of ethics as it has developed over the millennia.", although only Part I has been published.

    In "The West’s Ethical Framework Might Not Recover After the Israeli Genocide in Gaza", it is pointed out that a well-known ethical principle, "Do not do unto others what one would not want done unto oneself", is commonly held and dates back to Ancient Egypt.

    Up until now I had assumed this more enlightened approach was relatively new, but it turns out that fair play is ancient history.

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    So you're saying the genocide does have a religious justification?

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    But that's exactly why I posted my original comment.

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    Idk what this guy is talking about. That auction had a bid to cover over 2x and the yield on the 10 year has barely moved.

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    This seems like history happening. That's a ten year bond at roughly double the rate on a lot of mortgages.

    Looking forward to what people make of this.

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  • heres how assad can still win

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    I'd like to see Assad go on jeopardy or wheel of Fortune

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  • over on the syria subreddit right now is a post of a graphic distributed by the government of two alleged "assadists" they captured. the brave security forces apprehended the men heading to a christian village to blow up a church. it was meant to be a false flag you see. the isis flags they were carrying were meant to fool you.

    folks we are entering unchartered territory in delusion.

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  • https://x.com/ragipsoylu/status/1953424221725426073

    Aliyev and Pashinyan will sign following texts tomorrow in DC per Kyiv Post

    • Joint peace declaration

    • Initialing a peace deal

    • Joint letter to exit the Minsk Group

    • Bilateral MOUs with the US

    TRIPP – Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity’ will be announced

    Not sure why they named it after Trump.

    https://x.com/ANCA_DC/status/1952457567101428010

    "If President Trump's looking for credit for forcing a reckless 'peace' on Armenia, he certainly won't be getting any from the US citizens who are most invested in this issue - namely, Americans of Armenian heritage - voters who stand foursquare against unilateral Armenian concessions of territory, security, and sovereignty made at the barrel of an Azerbaijani gun. - Aram Suren Hamparian, ANCA

    It's pretty odd to see an interest organisation like this, one which seemingly doesn't serve anyone involveds

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    There is no degree of cucking Pashinyan will not stoop to. It is remarkable that this traitor is still free, much less in power. Are there no honorable generals in Armenia?

    As always embracing color revolution is national suicide. If you let the cia and their hired whores win your society dies. Its that simple. It dies. Ukraine, Georgia 2007, Syria, Libya. Armenia spat in Russias face in 2018 and they got punished by losing everything, then the Americans come in to pick up the pieces. It is the same story as the Ukraine-mineral deal, first you will bleed for America, then when you are weak they will take everything you have left. America has no allies, only slaves.

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    As always embracing color revolution is national suicide.

    What would be suicide is picking a fight with Azerbaijan when Russia can provide no support.

    Russia and Azerbaijan have also been having scuffles lately, but yea, Armenia suffering the fate of Ukraine in this scenario would be by making themselves vulnerable to the azeri, not by siding against Russia who is far away and unable to assist and for whom Armenias security really isn't remotely a priority.

    America here is only tangentally related imo, they need to name shit after Trump and play ball to get congress to stop blocking shit but the real power in the area and the real threat to Armenia is Turkey-Azerbaijan and only by completely laying down flat did Pashinyan avoid an invasion of Armenia itself by Aliyev, one that I'm sure would have been condemned all across NATO (maybe even by Turkey) and seen a lot of finger wagging but no one would have lifted a finger in its defense.

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    Technically they did invade. They're occupying something like a hundred square miles of Armenian territory. Pashinyan didn't avoid Armenia's dissolution, he just postponed it while also closing any possible doors to dodging it.

    Armenia suffering the fate of Ukraine in this scenario would be by making themselves vulnerable to the azeri

    So buy drones and air defense. Azerbaijan isn't a military colossus; it'd be easy to make Armenia indigestible. Even if you think Pashinyan did the right thing early on, after 2020 the thing to do was the sort of crash course remilitarization that Ukraine undertook after 2014. They're not doing that even now.

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    They're occupying something like a hundred square miles of Armenian territory.

    I'm finding absolutely nothing on this when searching the web, you're going to have to be more specific.

    So buy drones and air defense. Azerbaijan isn't a military colossus; it'd be easy to make Armenia indigestible. Even if you think Pashinyan did the right thing early on, after 2020 the thing to do was the sort of crash course remilitarization that Ukraine undertook after 2014. They're not doing that even now.

    Ukraine after 2014 got flooded with aid and arms, Armenia isn't getting anything which was my point to the earlier poster, I really don't think the US/EU are really much involved here or particularly interested in Armenia, this is a Turkish/Azerbaijani operation. As for air defense, where would you suggest Armenia gets this from? China isn't selling it to them, Russia certainly isn't, they can't afford to compete for western.

    Where would Armenia get the money for the grand revitalization of the military?

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    I'm finding absolutely nothing on this when searching the web, you're going to have to be more specific.

    That's surprising, because it literally has a wiki page

    As for air defense, where would you suggest Armenia gets this from?

    Anywhere. They don't need high-end stuff to deal with Azeri drones, which are what killed them. It doesn't exactly take an S-300 PMU to kill a TB-2, and as we've seen in Ukraine MANPADS are enough to keep SU-25s practically out of the fight.

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    My comment was about the 2018 revolution, Armenia is certainly doomed now even if the Russian alliance was restored. Russia could yield no aid in 2023 but the war was lost in 2020, the strategic situation after that point was such that Azerbaijan could take Artsakh whenever they pleased. If Putin had wanted to Russia could have intervened in 2020, but why intervene for Pashinyan- a pro west color revolutionist?

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    Man I don't think Russia even if Armenia had the most pro-Russia dude literally wants to be part of Russia tier in charge would have gotten involved in making a reality of a flashpoint between itself and the second largest army in NATO over a disputed territory officially belonging to Azerbaijan, at the time them and Azerbaijan didn't really have big disagreements either.

    And after that as you say, there was nothing to be done, Armenia is a country with limited options and they seem to get on board Pashinyans path when the alternative is jingoism against an opponent they cannot defeat and would just start taking their actual territory.

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    It’s because of the money coming from the SoCal diaspora population

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    The US is incredibly good at coopting or suckering elites. They're not good at anything else anymore, but somehow they can always convince the upper strata to throw everybody else over.

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    Which in itself is really a legacy from the end of the Cold War in which globalization and unipolar dominance incentivized national elites to forge ties with or otherwise be immersed in American culture through schooling or employment.

    Opportunities for American higher education via things like the Fulbright Scholarship or Ivy League executive programs have developed a class of elites who believe more in sanctity of an American-led global order than many Americans do, given how much many of them personally prospered from it.

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    Yes but imagine you despise your neighbours, and there’s a chance you can get a green card and work for your uncle’s optometry store in Glendale.

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    What do they get out of it?

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    This is pretty common in America. We had Irish-American groups who were otherwise right-wing patriotic dumbasses who supported the Vietnam war and shit but were aiding the IRA.

    As an Armenian diasporoid myself, I must admit it is funny to see these morons cope with the fact that the Soviet Union wasn’t actually “doing the Second Armenian genocide” (a thing most Armenian nationalists literally believe) and was actually the only reason the nation survived at all for as long as it did

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    I was mildly suspicious when they initially mentioned HTS without mentioning they're an offshoot of AQ, more suspicious when they mentioned Jolani's bounty without mentioning he received this bounty because was he was the head of IS in Syria, until about 2/3 into the article I finally realized they're whitewashing massacres conducted by our Moderate Headchopper In Charge.

    edit: I looked at MHIC's w*kipedia page. Top section is as bad I suspected, also includes a fresh professional headshot of our MHIC.

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    What’s MHIC stand for? Can’t find it on the interwebs.

    Edit: nevermind, just got it.

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    i had been visiting a site for my job during that massacre and was meant to work with two syrian alawites and one christian. i was there for a couple days but never got much work done for the simple fact the entire time they were all on their phones receiving videos and updates of who had been killed. "remember x, the one who owned the bakery? they killed his son." "remember y, that tall guy? hes dead along with his entire family." stuff like that. it was all very grim. a sister of one of the alwites even sent him a picture of where shed hidden some stuff of sentimental value for him to come collect after theyd all presumably been killed. thankfully that didnt happen.

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    Thats incredible! Grim as it is Im sure we'd all be eager to hear more.

    Im old enough to remember the sort of factionalism of SCW fanboys (myself included) that would absolutely flatten any sort of class analysis . Hypothesising moves by various ethnic tribes or islamic sects like they are casting pokemon. This article very clearly casts this as poor schmucks versus their elite abusers.

    I know I'm guilty of the reverse ,but Id love to force a few FSA fanboys to sit down and read this once for every time they just handwaved these people as "alwaite assadist scum" or something similar

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    I know I'm guilty of the reverse ,but Id love to force a few FSA fanboys to sit down and read this once for every time they just handwaved these people as "alwaite assadist scum" or something similar

    One can hardly expect them to change their mind and adopt a nuanced perspective on the "other" when they blame the Alawites for their collective suffering over the past 14 years. They've never had to interrogate the opposition's failures throuhout the civil war or the power dynamics that kept many on the side of Assad for years.

    This piece is a whitewash of the new regime, insofar as it still tries to shift blame onto the old regime as if the Alawites were too foolish to trust converted HTS/ SNA militants who were coming into sweep the region.

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  • https://fixupx.com/atrupar/status/1952706732750155978

    Trump on his EU trade deal: "The details are $600 billion to invest in anything I want. Anything. I can do anything I want with it."

    “If you look at Japan, we’re taking in $550 billion and that’s like a signing bonus that a baseball player would get,”

    “They [EU] brought down their tariffs, so they paid $600 billion and because of that, I reduced their tariffs from 30% down to 15%.”

    Trump starting to wake up to how he signed a deal in which the EU/Japan doesn't actually have to give him anything, he feels tricked and says the deal is off if they don't give him his money, he's also dropped the pretense in regards to who gets to invest it.

    If the goal was to keep Trump busy until he's out of office, paying the 600bn let alone 1.5 trillion isn't worth it, assuming a doubling of what the US economists estimated they go from a 0.7% GDP loss to a 1.4% GDP loss (europe going from 0.4 to 0.8) he's going to end up hurting the US economy and he's not in that strong a position politically that he can shrug it off easily, assuming a breakdown of Japan deal for similar reason and escalation into trade wars we're looking at even greater losses to the US economy, on account of Trump wanting a bloody trillion+ dollars in money he can do anything he wants with.

    Wish they'll just take this opportunity to let Trump kill an already unpopular agreement, it will be more evidence to countries (who certainly do not want to pay any of the 600bn-1.5trillion) that you can't reason with the man, they'll not be able to say there wasn't a serious attempt at getting a deal.

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    They don't need Boris Johnson since their current govt. seems more than willing to continue the war regardless of public opinion.

    The Ukrainians Lose Appetite for War, Support Negotiated Peace graph tells the story plainly. The inflection point from 2023-2024 coincides with the failed Ukrainian offensive. A majority of Ukrainians figured out the same thing we all did, including Zaluzhnyi. Here we are two years later ...

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    Crazy how that works despite media censorship. That can only mean that the Russians have evil psychic powers to spread their wicked propaganda.

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    man

    he was a nuclear scientist himself so this is a big deal. he was also definitely a sociopath. imagine giving the mossad the gps coordinates of the guys you have lunch with every day.

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  • Just made the mistake of going onto a Israel-Palestine thread on debate sub CMV.

    It's genuinely quite astonishing to see so many people haggling over the definition of genocide, playing both sides, rampant whataboutism, concern trolling "I think some awful things are happening.. but let's be adults".

    Honestly. We have the footage now: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/05/wasteland-rubble-dust-graves-how-gaza-looks-from-the-sky

    I don't understand how people can still vehemently engage in speculation when there is a video right there. Bots? Hasbara? Who knows.

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    Every single sub with Israel in the name, that isn't explicitly anti zionist, is just a mad libs version of stormfront.

    IP is full of GHF massacre enthusiast, genocide deniers ironically using holocaust denial arguments, and crypto fascist.

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    I've thought about leaning into the obvious holocaust denial/ Gaza genocide parallels if I stupidly get involved in a debate on this again.

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    It's Clinton arguing definitions during Rwanda all over again.

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    Something something only democracy in the middle east, something about gay marriage and western civilization.

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    Nobody believes the glitch theory.

    By Wednesday morning, officials in Trump’s government were quietly telling staff that the deletions were the result of a technical “glitch,” sources familiar with the matter say. As a result, personnel scrambled to fix the issue, figure out how exactly it happened, and also review other parts of the website to see if there were any other conspicuous deletions.

    Some federal staffers raised their eyebrows at the blame-a-glitch explanation, given the apparently coincidental nature of the deletions affecting sections of the Constitution that the second Trump administration is openly working so hard to shred.

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  • https://coreyrobin.com/2025/08/04/if-you-oppose-the-state-of-israel-this-post-is-not-for-you/

    Corey Robin posts a bunch of recent quotes from Zionists who've now at last come to the conclusion that Israel is committing genocide. On the one hand, it's nice to see that so many have finally accepted this, but on the other hand, it's awfully convenient for them that they only did so after so much of Israel's mission has been carried out.

    The last quote is especially direct though:

    Burg is the former Speaker of the Israeli Knesset, former interim President of Israel, former chair of the Jewish Agency, and former chair of the World Zionist Organization. He writes:

    Could it be that the current State of Israel, that its body stronger than ever and its spirit deader than ever, no longer deserves to exist? Not because of what happened on October 7, but because of everything that came before, and everything that has erupted since….The destruction of Gaza is a damning indictment of Israel’s moral bankruptcy. And we must face the truth: Israel without an ethical foundation has no justification to exist.

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    Land acknowledgments soon? 

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  • In the last few weeks, Budanov, Yermak and now Syrski have all made comments and statements directly aimed at Ukrainians themselves. All three have said basically the same thing, that the Ukrainian people need to accept and prepare for further mobilization and militarization.

    AFAIK - Zelensky hasn't said much about this.

    Regardless, it all seems coordinated vs. coincidental and intended to be fair warning to the Ukrainian public.

    Something is brewing, and my only question is whether or not these three have discussed this with Zelensky privately, or if they are using this to exert public pressure on him.

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    With what police force and money are they going to set up their little dictatorship? They have been trying to make Azovites their private thug force, but so far they're busy with internal feuds and are mainly into the lifestyle the war brings. Hard to build up a military dictatorship if your army is made up out of poor dudes who hate you.

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    Europe will continue to support Ukraine since they are well aware of what a collapsed Ukraine could mean for them and their countries. In addition, European politicians have a lot at stake in Ukraine and have a personally vested interest in seeing Ukraine "win".

    Ukraine has further to go if they choose to fully mobilize their country. The military could absorb the police forces across Ukraine (there were rumors that either Syrski or Zulzhuny wanted to do this 18 or so months ago, and Zelensky shut it down), militarize them and use them to enforce conscription. This is already happening to some extent, but if it were done officially then it would signal that Ukraine is headed towards an overt military dictatorship.

    I am not saying this will happen, I actually doubt it all, but when you have those three people effectively saying it _should_ happen, then you have to start paying attention to things.

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    India can just threaten to stop exporting IT operators, the american tech empires would collapse without them.

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  • “After subtracting these massive operational costs—the payments to Mothership, the fees for texting services, the cost of digital ads and list rentals—the final sum delivered to candidates and committees is vanishingly small. My analysis of the network’s FEC disbursements reveals that, at most, $11 million of the $678 million raised from individuals has made its way to candidates, campaigns, or the national party committees.

    “But here’s the number that should end all debate:

    “This represents a fundraising efficiency rate of just 1.6 percent.

    “Here’s what that number means: for every dollar a grandmother in Iowa donates believing she’s saving democracy, 98 cents goes to consultants and operational costs. Just pennies reach actual campaigns.”

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  • Apparently it's not popular to recognise Trump is a committed Zionist. Everyone wants to insist on this fantasy that he's being blackmailed by the Mossad or undead Epstein. Because they've fallen for his self-image as being a maverick outside the bounds of normal political allegiances. There's nothing unusual about Trump, he's allied to power and money. If Gaza could offer him a dollar more than Tel Aviv he'd be pro-Palestinian, but who has the money there?

    To me this is another manifestation of the 'clumsy empire' trope. Americans love to frame every war as the poor, reluctant, pacifist America once again being forced into carpet bombing somewhere in Asia for half a decade. They didn't wanna! They were just dragged in against their better nature! Over and over this happens. Somehow this only happens to the nation that invested most of it's wealth into building and maintaining the military and industrial infrastructure required to do exactly that.

    No. It's an empire fueled by blood, same as every empire that has ever existed.

    And Trump isn't some tabula rasa without ideology, he has an ideology and it is committed Zionism (you could of course quibble why, for Trump he seems to simply be a devotee of the philosophy of Ragnar Redbeard and that's why he loves Israel).

    Trump in October of 2021:

    “The biggest change I’ve seen in Congress is Israel literally owned Congress — you understand that — 10 years ago, 15 years ago. And it was so powerful. It was so powerful. And today it’s almost the opposite.”
    “You have between AOC and Omar — and these people that hate Israel. They hate it with a passion — they’re controlling Congress, and Israel is not a force in Congress anymore. I mean, it’s just amazing. I’ve never seen such a change.”
    “And we’re not talking about over a very long period of time, but I think you know exactly what I’m saying. They had such power, Israel had such power — and rightfully — over Congress, and now it doesn’t. It’s incredible, actually.”

    This man wasn't supporting the Israeli project because they honey-potted him into raping some children against his better judgement. If anything it's more the other way around: his sexual predilections explain why he's also the sort of person to support a genocidal apartheid state — the raw exercise of power gets him off. Build an empire and eventually you'll get a Caligula, and at this point you've had more than one. It's been almost nothing but little boots.

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    Trump has no principles, he's definitely being blackmailed by Mossad

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    It's difficult to imagine Trump as being committed to anything ideologically

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    That's by design.

    For some people 'ideology' implies a carefully thought out weighing of the moral and political aspects, for others ideology is an outgrowth of their fascination with the naked exercise of power. Trump is more the latter. The end result is he pursues the Zionist agenda, willingly, because it feels to him like something he believes.

    It's why he got a little shook by the Iranian response. They started looking powerful, and he had his little hissyfit on the tarmac. That's the brittle ideology of the narcissist at play. You can see similar psychology at work in many of the committed fascists from the 20th Century wars.

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    "Build an empire and eventually you'll get a Caligula"

    God, that writing is fire. Dune Messiah quality.

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    arent you contradicting yourself a little? if zionism is a problem its because it means something, and if it means something then for reasons you very well articulate you can bet it does not apply to trump. if trump cares only for coin and power then in order to describe him as a committed zionist youll either have to dilute zionism such that it effectively means little or describe so many others as zionists that the palestinian struggle becomes to some extent indistinguishable from class struggle.

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    He's a Zionist because the Zionists offer him what he values: money and power. The money gets him interested, but he has an appetite for power such that he is committed to whosoever allows him to feel powerful by proxy. He admires the Zionist regime for stomping the life out of the Palestinians. For a similar reason he cannot help but be sympathetic to Russia in the war, although he also simultaneously hates Russia for making him personally feel powerless to stop the war.

    Zionism is at heart a fascist movement. It insists on expanding the Israeli remit through violence, rather than through establishing friendly relations, because it values domination for its own sake. That appeals to Trump in a libidinal way, and once aroused he is open to adopting the ideology. So he 'believes' in Zionism as much as he believes in anything.

    He is, after all, a human. His motivations and interests are both simple and complex at the same time, this is the 'dialectic' of Trump. He is both motivated only by power, and also committed to the Zionist project (of merciless exercise of power for the cause of greater Israel).

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    okay, i see. youre taking zionism for what it is not what it purports to be. if zionism did mean something decades ago today its become all the things youve described. in some sense its not even particularly jewish anymore.

    though i dont disagree with you for whatever reason ive always been most interested in steelmanning zionism as genuine jewish nationalism. this is where for example youll encounter the common hasbara talking point of jewish nationalism being indistinguishable to say french nationalism. or to put it another way, im interested in why leftist/socialist zionism died so quickly so long ago despite the contemporaneous proliferation of leftist movements around the world. im interested in that inherent contradiction notwithstanding all the issues you highlight.

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    It is called "Good Czar, bad boyar" myth and it is common in history for people to believe it.

    Like there this idea that the king have the best in mind of the realm and only because of their scheming advisors everything is bad. 

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    Or in the german variant, "if only the kaiser/führen knew"

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  • The source for EU joining US secondary sanctions against China is a bunch of sites linking to Politico using an unnamed diplomat.

    Politico is about as reliable as 'The Sun' is in the UK.

    I'm not saying it couldn't happen, just that Politico saying it will is not proof of anything, I'd go as far as to say considering Politicos pro US anti EU stance it could be an attempt at influencing negotiations between the EU and the US or the EU and China.

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    Do you think the EU has devised any contingency plans beyond dragging it's feet behind the US and hoping the weather gets better?
    Genuine question.

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    No.

    These contingency plans would require central planning which requires a central authority, EU sometimes looks like it has that but mostly (when there is no consensus) it doesn't, it's dozens of different states pulling in different directions, even with the most europe-hostile government in the US we've seen, I'd say since before WW2 though far as the EU is concerned we might as well say ever.

    It cannot oppose the US as long as member states are hopelessly dependent on the US, even in IT security microsoft has just been given a 'hall pass' to be considered secure for use by governments in the EU, as in, even plans to make it so the US couldn't destroy us by cutting us off are sabotaged by these US-loyalists in the EU, most fervent ones being the members bordering Russia.

    It's not impossible to go ahead with some of those plans regardless, some countries seem like they might just be playing for time as while they are still overtly pro-US they are working on building a foundation for a future where the US cannot destroy us by simply cutting us off, but having to do so in a divided fashion makes it very inefficient and makes them vulnerable to being isolated and picked off.

    I don't want to say there's no hope, this die-hard pro US faction used to be just about everyone except France (and it was even worse when the UK was still a powerful member pulling in that direction) but now its down to maybe half if not less than half of the EU member states but that's little help when status quo preserves itself and change requires consensus, I'm not sure this level of resistance to the US would even last until the democrats replace Trump in the white house let alone after so I still think if we are to have any chance of changing the status quo it needs to be now, we don't know when if ever the next opportunity will present itself.

    If I were to look on the bright side of things seeing as I don't think we're going to be able to exploit the current opportunity, I don't think the days of the US being able to secure the loyalty of every member state bar France is ever coming back short of some US-led victory against Russia, so even if we miss this at least Trump will have moved the needle in a way thought impossible just a year ago.

    Maybe the gradual change in our relationship will be just enough to stop us from getting dragged into a war, as previously the US would have just needed to pacify one (albeit a big one) member state, but the resources and threats required to force a consensus in the EU might be too much now to the point they need to instead bring in supportive member states individually and not have their assistance to the US include matters of trade, which would make europes assistance against China weak and divided.

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    What countries would you even consider being in the anti US camp besides France and maybe Hungary? I have a hard time thinking of any at this point.

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    Calling France and Hungary anti-US is going too far, I don't think you'll find anti-US nations in the EU.

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    Spain is once again being (a tad bit) different as of late.
    Not that they're going to suddenly flip a switch and rabidly oppose uncle Sam but their movements have been noticeable.

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    The best thing that could happen to the EU is Russia annexing the Baltoids

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    good, accelerate the democratic + jewish contradiction.

    you know, i will admit to sometimes feeling a little pity for the secular/liberal israeli types. i think the mass psychosis/delusion we here tend to make fun of them for was always going to be an inevitable consequence of the foundational myth of the state. almost every single early zionist including israels founders were anything but religious, and so to them the success of israel never hinged on something so insignificant as whether or not jews no longer needed to sing and pray "next year in jerusalem" every hanukkah but simply on whether or not jews outnumbered arabs. they understood the game plan from the outset, that they had to effectively invent and then maintain a nation.

    but then an austrian gets rejected from art school and suddenly the holocaust happens, and now you have an influx of jews from all over europe trying to get away from nationalism and fascism, and so they fall hook, line, and sinker for the myth that actually the land was empty and this is nothing like german nationalism. unfortunately, it (literally) took einstein to see through much of that, and so since the countrys inception you have a case where most israelis knowingly hold two conflicting ideas in their minds, that israel can be both democratic and jewish. it has to be democratic because the nazis, but it also has to be jewish because, well, the nazis. that cannot be easy.

    the contradiction has been growing more and more apparent over the years, of course, but i feel october 7th really accelerated things. it seems most israelis are finally waking up to it all, except not to pull it out at the root but in order to recontextualize it. as it turns out, folks, israel can still be both democratic and jewish if its democratic for jews. now the question remains how long theyll be able to keep this blatant charade up; my guess is for as long as the generous burger taxpayer dollars keep allowing them their pretenses.

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    We'd be so lucky.
    Too bad they aren't the only ones creating spacejunk on a weekly basis, though certainly some of the most notorious.

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  • India has woken up to the fact that US sanctions for buying Russian oil would cost it less than paying more for oil.

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    lebanon's sovereignty is gone within a year if Hezbollah disarms lol

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  • I think the EU-US trade has demonstrated the dangers of giving away any kind of leverage in international relations when dealing with the yanks. You don't have the cards if you preemptively alienated everyone else on the planet on their behalf. Luckily, the utter humiliation of July 27th might have caused the Eurocrats to finally reassess some things. Our relations with China might be bad, but not unreparably so. And considering the importance of various rare earths for our drive to renewable energy autarky (which ceased being optional after we - RIGHTFULLY! - broke ties with our most important energy supplier), number one priority should be not making things worse with Beijing.

    China Faces EU Sanctions Over Secret Drone Shipments to Russia’s Military

    Well... there goes that idea. So scratch the R and C out of BRICS. That still leaves plenty of other letters. India is supposed to be increasingly important. Let's go for that instead.

    India’s refiners face pressure as EU sanctions hit $14bn fuel exports

    Okay, not a great start. But that's really only a very specific sanctions package. That alone might not prevent good relations, which we need as a counterbalance to the US.

    Throwback Tuesday: Both Brussels and Washington appear to be moving in the same direction, plotting sanctions against Beijing and Delhi, respectively, over their persistent enabling of Moscow throughout Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. It’s a whiff of old-school Western alignment that feels downright retro. 

    You know what - let's just reschedule project "good relations with non-US countries". We'll deal with it later. As long as we have access to energy, we'll manage to struggle though this and all will be well. We can do without refined Russian oil products, which is what we bought from India at a premium price to punish Russia by punishing our selves. Every one knows, when push comes to shove, it's all about the natural gas anyway. And at least Germany managed to ink a deal with Qatar to keep that going. IMPORTANT: No Eurocrats involved, who (I'm starting to suspect) are only capable of ruining things.

    Why Qatar's gas lifeline to Germany is at risk

    The agreement, due to start in 2026, was part of Europe's broader strategy to reduce reliance on Russian gas following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Nearly three years later, Qatar has threatened to halt LNG deliveries to Europe in a row over a European Union directive aimed at improving ethical standards in global trade.

    Oof. Things. Are. Starting to look dire. There is one last option though. We could buy even more Russian LNG. The Russians won't mind, since LNG sells for more than pipeline gas. That way, we'll add additional costs to our struggling economies, foment more political turmoil by impoverishing our citizens and, very important, we'll continue to finance Putin's unprovoked full-scale invasion. Was that what we wanted to achieve? I forgot. I'm pretty sure it was though. Ever wondered how Europe managed pull ahead of every other civilization? This kind of high-IQ elaborate political scheming is how we did that. 💪

    Hanlon says: not malice, just cushitic fish-taboo level of idiocy. Occam says: the simplest explanation is deliberate malice.

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    Hilarious. If you ever want to write for a communist newspaper i know whom to ask

    Itll be much funnier to read the news from outside of the country tho

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    This feels like reading one the french enlightment novelist reading their work in a Saloon. Lmao.

    Great writing.

    Probably would find a good place writing for a Charlie Etbro kind of newspaper, but then.

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    Greece and Rome were not the excusive civilizations in Europe by any measure. For instance the bronze Nebra sky disc, dated to 1800-1600 BCE,a dn found in Germany is the oldest concrete depiction of astronomical phenomena found in the world combining imagery and likely functionality in a portable object, or we think, since we have no idea what it's purpose is. And the central European Unetice culture (2300–1600 BCE) produced advanced bronze metallurgy, on par with anything in the Mediterranean during the same time, with evidence of standardized molding and mass production, just no surviving writing, which is not unusual. And that's just one example to disprove Greek/Roman self obsessed bigotry. Heck the romans adopted Chainmail (lorica hamata) from Celts, which had significant advantages in flexible use and most importantly very essay field repair over other options at the time. You didn't need a specialized blacksmith or artisan after an engagement or significant wear, and was later adopted as far as China.

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    As long as Ushi's ponies are wolf-free, Mertz can fly his bi-planes, Meloni sprays her hair and Macron can dodge his wife we're all gonna be just dandy.

    However, the EU dragging it's feet might ultimately prove to be Washington's undoing when the ammo cases arriving at the island chain theatre come loaded with IOUs and their missiles filled with thoughts and prayers.

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  • British operatives are plotting an ECO-SABOTAGE at sea

    One engineered spill to frame Russian oil as a global threat

    One crackdown on Moscow's 'shadow fleet', spearheaded by NATO with US backing

    Intel drops here — direct from Russia's SVR (1/6)

    https://x.com/RT_com/status/1952380771408269377?

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    Flashbacks to when western newspapers were calling the Russian invasion an ecocide

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    War are absolutely destructive to ecosystems in a way that the average cant fanthom. 

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    Why can't the Brits stay out of Ukraine for once? They have been obssessed since, like, the 19th century

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    They've had a hardon for Russia since the times of Ivan the Terrible

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    This whole story seems to be circular reporting that started on twitter. One of the 'sources' this substack cites includes a very obviously AI generated image as a 'photo' of the two captive Brits.

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    Agreed.

    BUT that wouldn’t matter since Larry has a separate source.

    From the article -

    “A source from French intelligence provided additional confirmation:

    My longtime intelligence colleague, whom I know from working in the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) and whom I fully trust, told me that Russian special forces landed from several ships and infiltrated the command center of the Ukrainian armed forces. They captured British soldiers who coordinated the use of British missiles and drones against Russian troops and civilian targets.

    While I cannot rule out the possibility that this is circular reporting, I think the information is credible.”

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    Sure, but I still find it dubious that any of this happened. This is a massive propaganda / PR coup for the Russians. Why aren't they shouting about this from the rooftops? There have been many bogus claims about captured/killed NATO military advisors circulated by semi-official Russian sources before. Why wouldn't they report a real one?

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    Not for westerners, for internal consumption.

    It's a huge boost for the narrative that they're really fighting against NATO, not just Ukraine.

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