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  • The Most Important Forecast Martin Armstrong Has Ever Made — Ukraine to Disappear

    05/16/2025 9:32:40 PM PDT · by delta7 · 87 replies
    You Tube ^ | 15 May 25 | Kerry Lutz
    In this shocking interview, Martin Armstrong delivers what may be the most important forecast of his career: Ukraine will disappear. This isn’t a guess. It’s based on decades of data from the Socrates AI forecasting system — and it’s never issued a warning like this before. We also cover: --Why Ukraine is finished, no matter what the West says --Why Europe needs war to stay afloat --How the next economic collapse will ripple from the periphery inward --And what you can do to prepare before the clock runs out Armstrong’s model has never been wrong about direction — and now...
  • The Weird Logic of Far-Leftists Who Support Putin in Ukraine - How Stop The War became Blame The Victim.

    03/13/2022 8:42:12 PM PDT · by DoodleBob · 52 replies
    Medium ^ | May 10, 2022 | Bernard O'Leary
    When Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine on February 24th, it caused a lot of problems for voices on the right and the left. Putin has a lot of fans in both corners, and these fans had spent years portraying him as a tactical genius, bamboozling us all with his four-dimensional chess moves. Right up until February 23rd, these Putin stans had been assuring us that Putin would never do something as dumb as launch a full-scale invasion of a sovereign democracy. Ever since then, the right have been able to change gears on Putin fairly seamlessly. This is WAR, and...
  • An Expert in Grand Strategy Thinks Trump Is on to Something

    01/17/2025 6:29:12 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 24 replies
    Politico ^ | 16 Jan, 2025 | Thomas P.M. Barnett
    Do you want a future in which Canada defects to the EU, Russia rules the Arctic and China runs Latin America? That’s the default outcome of non-action. Our inbound president Donald Trump generates torrents of diplomatic angst with statements about Canada being America’s “51st state,” the national security logic of buying Greenland from allied Denmark, and snatching back the Panama Canal to counter China’s growing economic footprint throughout our hemisphere. Where is all this expansionist energy coming from? How did Trump’s America First isolationism suddenly morph into an Americas First mergers and acquisition (M&A) strategy? Let’s be clear on who...
  • Is It Finally Time For Our Glorious Conquest Of Canada To Begin?

    01/11/2025 6:38:35 AM PST · by Twotone · 71 replies
    The Daily Wire ^ | January 8, 2025 | Matt Walsh
    Not long after Justin Trudeau became the prime minister of Canada in 2015, he made a big announcement. Without any prompting, Trudeau said something no other Canadian prime minister has ever said. He declared that Canada, as a nation, doesn’t really exist. He came out and casually admitted something Americans have known for a long time, which is that Canada is a fake country. Speaking to a reporter with The New York Times, Trudeau explained that, “There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada. There are shared values … Those qualities are what make us the first postnational state.”...
  • Biden admin pressuring African country to expand abortion by withholding aid: report

    12/22/2024 3:56:54 PM PST · by ebb tide · 56 replies
    LifeSite News ^ | December 20, 2024 | Calvin Frieberger
    Biden admin pressuring African country to expand abortion by withholding aid: reportThe Biden administration is allegedly attempting to use foreign aid to pressure the African nation of Sierra Leone to decriminalize abortion in its final weeks or else forgo $480 million in foreign aid meant for affordable electricity.WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – The Biden administration is attempting to use foreign aid to pressure the African nation of Sierra Leone to decriminalize abortion in its final weeks, according to a new report by the Daily Signal.According to a “former senior U.S. government official who has worked in the West African region,” the...
  • Economic troubles mount for Russia amid Ukraine war

    12/18/2024 12:37:35 PM PST · by USA-FRANCE · 95 replies
    Stubborn inflation, exorbitant borrowing costs, bankruptcy risks and a growth slowdown: the Russian economy is facing a slew of negative headlines, as the costs of the Ukraine war and Western sanctions mount. “The root cause of the economy’s problems is labor starvation and sanctions ... the symptom is an inflationary surge,” said Anton Tabakh, chief economist at the Russian ratings agency Expert RA.
  • Mexican Meddling in Oklahoma

    07/30/2024 8:42:07 PM PDT · by River Hawk · 13 replies
    The Oklahoma Constitution ^ | July 30th, 2024 | Allan Wall
    Mexican diplomats in the United States blatantly meddle in U.S. internal politics. They protect illegal aliens,promote illegal immigration,campaign against U.S. legislation, promote dual citizenship, and strive to win the loyalty of Mexican-Americans born in the United States. Mexico has 52 (!) Mexican consulates on U.S. soil. Meddling is official Mexican government policy. This is all totally in the open, yet almost nobody in the U.S. government complains about it. But this would never occur in the conservative red state of Oklahoma, with its conservative governor, now would it? Until May of 2023, there was no Mexican consulate in Oklahoma, and...
  • Why France is Actually Preparing for War With Russia

    03/25/2024 2:22:54 PM PDT · by Eleutheria5 · 28 replies
    To learn more about the French Intervention in Mali in depth, check out this video's next part on Nebula in Modern Conflicts: https://nebula.tv/videos/reallifelore...
  • Rare violent protests in Russia after anti-war activist jailed

    01/17/2024 1:34:49 PM PST · by MeganC · 5 replies
    The Telegraph (You Tube channel) ^ | Jan 17, 2024 | The Telegraph
    Russians have clashed with riot police in a rare, large protest after an activist was sentenced to four-years in a penal colony. Fail Alsynov appeared in court on Wednesday accused of making a racist comment in a speech against plans to mine gold in the central Bashkortostan region using migrant workers. Despite temperatures of -20C (-4F), thousands gathered outside the courtroom in Baymak demanding his freedom after the sentence was passed down. Videos shared on social media showed a bus and three heavy police trucks, alongside crowds of protesters who squared up to officers who were holding shields and wearing...
  • Medvedev Announces Russia's Plan to Seize Key Ukrainian Cities Including Odessa and Kyiv

    12/30/2023 1:10:50 PM PST · by JonPreston · 149 replies
    Dagens.com ^ | 12/30/23 | Henrik Rothen
    Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, has made a startling declaration regarding Russia's military objectives in Ukraine.In a statement on Telegram, he affirmed that Russia's so-called special operation aims to continue, with its goals including the disarmament of Ukrainian forces and the rejection of neo-Nazism by the current Ukrainian state.Medvedev also stated that Russia intends to capture additional Ukrainian cities, specifically naming Odessa, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, and Kyiv.
  • Zakhar Prilepin says Russia should annex more former Soviet territories

    12/22/2023 2:19:23 PM PST · by MeganC · 32 replies
    Russian Media Monitor (You Tube channel) ^ | 22 December 2023 | Russian Media Monitor
    Russian language transcript at the link. Go to "more" and expand the page to see this option.
  • State TV pundits say the Russian empire is expanding

    12/11/2023 11:44:57 AM PST · by MeganC · 44 replies
    Russian Media Monitor (You Tube channel) ^ | Dec 2, 2023 | Russian Media Monitor
    Russian language transcript available at the link. Click "more" and then "Show Transcript"
  • Putin is opening up a new front against the West

    09/30/2023 7:03:09 PM PDT · by Chad C. Mulligan · 85 replies
    The Telegraph ^ | 30 Sept 2023 | Ivana Stradner
    n the face of mounting tensions, Vladimir Putin’s overarching strategic objective is now clear: to dismantle NATO and expose the alliance’s vulnerabilities. With Russia experiencing setbacks in Ukraine, the immediate threat to NATO members like Poland and the Baltic States may be somewhat mitigated. However, it is in the Balkans where NATO ’s weakest flank lies, presenting an opportune target for Russia’s ambitions. *snip* This escalation is a dream come true for Moscow. Serbia and Russia have been preparing the Serbs for escalations in Kosovo for months, inflaming tensions in the Balkans to distract the West from its war in...
  • (Video) Pavel Gubarev defines Russia's goals

    09/29/2023 1:38:04 PM PDT · by MeganC · 6 replies
    Russian Media Monitor ^ | 29 September 2023 | Russian Media Monitor
    Pavel Gubarev, a Russian political figure in Donbass, openly and freely describes his point of view to Russian media. Highlights include saying it's okay to kill up to five million Ukrainians in order to conquer Ukraine, it's acceptable to kill all of the Ukrainians if that's what it takes and he freely calls this genocide, like many Russians he makes numerous references to engaging NATO in a nuclear war if Russia is not allowed to reassemble their empire, etc. All in his own words without editorial narrative.
  • Ignoring Russian History Is Costly (A large nation does not engage in the same pattern of behavior for centuries for no reason.)

    09/27/2023 3:11:08 AM PDT · by Chad C. Mulligan · 27 replies
    The Spectator ^ | September 13, 2023, 11:05 PM | Keith Naughton
    The Russian nation is more dependent on an autocrat and security state than any other European nation, and it has been for centuries — even before the Soviet era — whether it was the streltsy, Preobrazhensky Guard, Okhrana, Cheka, KGB, or siloviki. The wealthy aristocrats, now called oligarchs (previously boyars) never made a serious bid to circumscribe the autocrats’ power, unlike in most European nations; the Russian Orthodox Church has been dependent on the state since at least 1700; and, as for the masses, they have always been viewed as an instrument of the state or a resource to be...
  • Imperialism: Lessons from History

    09/09/2023 7:57:44 AM PDT · by EnderWiggin1970 · 18 replies
    Imprimis ^ | JULY/AUGUST 2023 | VOLUME 52, ISSUE 7/8 | Victor Davis Hanson
    The word “imperialism” comes from the Latin word imperium. It refers to a nation or a state implanting its rule on other states, treating them as subordinates and in an inferior fashion. Some suggest today that America is behaving imperialistically—we do, after all, have some 600 military bases around the world. So it is worth recalling some historical examples of imperialism to understand what the idea entails. Looking at empires through history, we can identify several things that most of them have in common. One is that their leaders often say or seem to believe that their imperialist policies have...
  • The Russians hunting for cheap flats in occupied Mariupol

    08/07/2023 4:00:03 AM PDT · by Timber Rattler · 11 replies
    BBC News.com ^ | Adam Robinson, Erwan Rivault and Olga Robinson
    It is one year since the Ukrainian city of Mariupol was largely destroyed by Russian forces and captured. It is now being transformed and presented as a showcase for rule from Moscow - and some Russians are even hoping to buy homes there. Russia claimed to have annexed Mariupol, along with all other occupied areas, following a series of referendums that have been widely condemned as sham exercises. About 90% of the city's buildings were damaged or destroyed by Russian shelling during a gruelling two-month siege. Thousands of civilians were killed and about 350,000 people left, out of the pre-war...
  • The trans ideology movement

    06/16/2023 8:14:37 AM PDT · by realcleanguy · 5 replies
    onthewomanquestion.com ^ | 06/16/2023 | Seiya Morita
    The essence of imperialism is, above all, to dominate, possess, own, appropriate, and thoroughly expropriate people considered inferior. One of the subjugated peoples within capitalist societies is the class of women. Dominant men, including leftists and liberals, have colluded with capitalism to carry out various forms of the colonisation of women
  • China spent $240 billion bailing out 'Belt & Road' countries, study shows

    03/27/2023 9:30:41 PM PDT · by Zhang Fei · 37 replies
    Reuters ^ | March 27, 20237:49 PM CDT | Rachel Savage
    JOHANNESBURG, March 28 (Reuters) - China spent $240 billion bailing out 22 developing countries between 2008 and 2021, with the amount soaring in recent years as more have struggled to repay loans spent building "Belt & Road" infrastructure, according to a study published Tuesday. Almost 80% of the rescue lending was made between 2016 and 2021, mainly to middle-income countries including Argentina, Mongolia and Pakistan, according to the report by researchers from the World Bank, Harvard Kennedy School, AidData and the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. China has lent hundreds of billions of dollars to build infrastructure in developing...
  • Imperialism? The West didn't colonize. It civilized

    12/13/2022 9:28:49 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 20 replies
    Don Surber Blog ^ | 12/10/2022
    Every four years, the World Cup comes around and Americans become interested in soccer until the men’s team loses. Then it is back to football. There is women’s soccer, too, but it attracts little interest, in large part because it is woke.The rest of the world is soccer mad because it is three minutes of action packed into three hours of drinking beer. Americans have baseball for that.Soccer also has a political side, which Alain Destexhe of the Gatestone Institute explored in this year’s celebration in Belgium — the de facto capital of Europe. The cheering was raucous and illuminating.Destexhe...