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title: Une première femme se joint à une ligue professionnelle masculine de baseball au Canada
content: <p>L'Intercounty Baseball League a été créée il y a plus de 100 ans.</p>
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guid: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2164240/tarifs-chine-trump-rencontre-geneve
title: Négos commerciales : les É.-U. « vont devoir faire plus de concessions » que la Chine
content: <p>Les deux puissances économiques se sont rencontrées pour la première fois à Genève samedi.</p>
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guid: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2164267/delegation-vermont-montreal-solidarite-donald-trump
title: Une délégation du Vermont au Québec en solidarité face « au chaos fomenté par Trump »
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<p>Des élus du Vermont ont fait un geste symbolique en achetant des produits du Québec à un marché de Montréal.</p>

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guid: https://brixsweden.org/?p=5399
title: Alexander the Great, North Macedonia, and the Belt and Road Initiative
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<p>By: Bojana Jovanovska*</p>
<p><em><strong>The Silk Road represents a rich and long history that dates back to the era of Alexander the Great’s regime and continues to the present day. To understand the importance of Macedonia within this historical context and how it came to play a particular role, we must present the situation starting from those ancient times. My focus will be on the economic dimensions and the potential benefits that have accrued to Macedonia from this journey.</strong></em></p>
<p><strong><em>Alexander the Great: Transforming regional economies alongside the Silk Road route</em></strong></p>
<p>As one of the most influential historical figures, Alexander the Great was not only a good leader but also an emperor that put a lot of effort into improving the well-being of his citizens. With his territorial expansion not only in Europe, but also in Africa and Asia, Alexander the Great made a movement which proved to the world how a big kingdom can have economic benefits from establishing, back then, new trading routes and adding economic priorities. Obviously, the new lands conquered by Alexander required expansion with new economic ways, so that process led to a new chapter, the chapter of establishing new economic policies with a specific focus on the food production and food availability around the areas. As a result of this the urban centers were founded. These urban centers were mainly used as hubs for commerce and attracting new merchants. A major characteristic that helped out in supporting the idea of a new economic pathway (the Silk Road) was the structure of the Hellenic economy back then. It was the fact that during that era the spread of the Greek culture across the lands was significant, with a goal to spread local traditions or customs in order to create a rich civilization. Furthermore advanced research was happening in the field of astronomy, philosophy, science and mathematics. Under these circumstances a quest for new economic cooperation was aroused. At this point the trading connection between the West and the East was necessary. That’s when the Silk Road got its importance. It became a special route for trades between the Mediterranean, China, Persia and India; however it also became a path for cultural exchanges and exchanges of ideas.</p>
<p>Now what kind of an impact did it have on the trade? Firstly, <strong>goods were traded</strong>. Here we are talking about variety of goods such as, silk from China, spices from India, glassware and wine from the Mediterranean, horses from Central Asia and many more. This is one aspect proving how the Silk Road managed to bring some benefits for the economies in ancient times; another one is the <strong>cultural exchange</strong>. The cultural exchange was a delivery route for ideas and cultures. As an illustration it also enabled the spreading of Buddhism from India to China, helped the introduction of new technologies, methods and resources between the East and the West.</p>

<p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://brixsweden.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Map-alexander-300x207.jpg" alt width="477" height="329" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-5400"></p>
<p>Map of Alexander the Great’s conquests. Source: Florida Center for Instructional Technology, University of South Florida, from H. G. Wells, the Outline of History (New York, NY: The Macmillan Company, 1921)</p>
<p>All things considered, Alexander the Great helped to shape the future of the Silk Road by his policies that required establishing agreements in the regions that were under his reign and by recognizing the importance of the new route, a road that can bring prosperity for many nations and  help out reentering into new ages of cooperation among the civilizations back in that period of time.</p>
<p><strong><em>From Ancient trade routes to the new Belt and Road: Macedonia’s new role in the BRI</em></strong></p>
<p>So, how does this story align with today? Since many readers might not be familiar with Macedonia, I would like to introduce some crucial details about it, including its location and other general information about the country.</p>
<p>As a beginning we are talking about a small country, a country that is located in the heart of the Balkan Peninsula in the European continent. Previously part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, North Macedonia became independent in 1991 and transitioned to a democratic system. Once called the Republic of Macedonia, it was known as FYROM due to a dispute with Greece. In 2019, after an agreement with Greece, it renamed itself to the Republic of North Macedonia, enabling its NATO membership and progress towards EU accession. Today, North Macedonia is a member of the UN, NATO, and the Council of Europe, and is a candidate for EU membership.</p>
<p>In terms of the economy, Macedonia is classified as an upper-middle- income economy by the World Bank. Macedonia is also rich in a variety of natural resources, including minerals like iron ore, silver, gold, copper, manganese, metal, etc. The country also has significant presence of flora and fauna, mountains, forests, and lakes. The main economic activities that are developed in Macedonia are agriculture, tourism, construction, mining, energy and fuel production, manufacturing, tobacco, chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing, and production of automotive components.</p>
<p>Macedonia and China established ambassadorial-level diplomatic relations on October 12, 1993, since then the relations between the two countries are described as fair and with mutual respect. As a result a major part of the cooperation between China and Macedonia is based on the trading aspect. Since 2023, China became the fifth largest trading partner for Macedonia after Germany, the UK, Serbia and Greece. During 2018, Macedonia and China achieved the highest annual mutual trading growth rate of 29% and in 2019, it was noted that China was the third import and export partner destination for Macedonia, after the EU and Serbia.</p>
<p>Macedonia’s main export goods to China are ferroalloys, marble, travertine and alabaster.  On the side of imports from China to Macedonia, the largest contributors are telecommunication equipment, including telephones for cellular networks, television receivers, and air conditioning devices.</p>

<p><em> </em>Graph 1. Trading intensity results for Macedonia with China</p>
<p><img decoding="async" src="https://brixsweden.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/graph-300x179.png" alt width="551" height="329" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-5402"></p>
<p>Source: ANALYSIS OF THE TRADE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA AND CHINA,  Prof. Kostadinka Panova &amp; Prof. Emilija Miteva-Kacarski.</p>
<p>If we look at the analyzed period, we can notice that even if the rate of intensity of the import and export is below 1, still the bilateral trade shows an upward trend. In 2019, exports witnessed the highest annual rate of 154, 4% and made a space for more future upcoming trading deals.</p>
<p><strong><em>Macedonia in the Belt and Road</em></strong></p>
<p>Since 2013, Macedonia officially joined the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). During the period from 2012-2015, it was considered the “golden age” of the Sino-Macedonian relations, with joint projects in infrastructure, Macedonia joining the 16+1 initiative (now the China-CEEC Cooperation). Besides that, the two countries started entering a new cultural cooperation momentum with the opening of the Confucius Institute under the most prestigious university in Macedonia, the Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, the capital city of the country. In 2013, then Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing, reaching an agreement on deeper cooperation covering trade, infrastructure, and foreign direct investments (FDIs). Today, companies like Huawei, Xiaomi, Sinohydro, and China Machinery Industry Group operate in Macedonia.</p>
<p>On the other hand, a lot of people are asking themselves why Macedonia, as a small country, is an important partner for China? Well to answer this, we need to look at the geographical location that the country is positioned in. The country plays an important role into entering not only the EU market, but also another major market within the European continent, that is the Balkan market. It is a crucial country that is part of the so-called “Balkan Belt and Road”. China plays a significant role in boosting the Macedonian economy, not just in trade but also in the infrastructure. The Macedonian government’s top priority is to develop a nation that can thrive in the 21st century, especially in two crucial areas: “<strong>Corridor 8</strong>” and “<strong>Corridor 10</strong>” corridors. Why these two corridors are that important? Firstly, <em>Corridor VIII</em> is a combined road and rail transport corridor traversing Albania, Macedonia, and Bulgaria. It links the Bulgarian port of Varna on the Black Sea to the port of Durrës in the Adriatic Sea. This chain further extends to Italy, the only EU member within this corridor. Its purpose is to ease trade and transportation across the Balkans, bridging the Adriatic and the Black Sea. On the other hand, <em>Corridor X</em> is part of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). It stretches from the border with Serbia to the border with Greece and connects multiple countries such as Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, and Greece. It’s highly important for assisting in transit and trade from the Balkan region to Central Europe and beyond. Both of them are viewed as important infrastructural projects and investments for Europe and for Macedonia. These corridors will enable Macedonia as a landlocked country to have an access to seas and ports around the European continent, from this point of view <em>China also views Macedonia as a potential economic partner because of these two important lines. Through these corridors, especially through corridor X, the Chinese goods could be delivered to Central Europe or any other European country in a relatively short period of time.</em></p>
<p><em> </em></p>
<p><strong>Map, Corridor VIII</strong></p>
<p><img decoding="async" src="https://brixsweden.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Corridor-VIII-300x153.jpg" alt width="584" height="298" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-5404"></p>
<p>Source: European Commission</p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Map, Corridor X</strong></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://brixsweden.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Corridor-X-300x186.jpg" alt width="583" height="362" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-5406"></p>
<p>Source: European Commission</p>

<p>Today Macedonia, as a participating country in the BRI, some important infrastructural projects took place in, such as the FD Expressway section. On July 18, 2023, POWERCHINA completed the right tunnel of the <strong>Farish-Drenovo Expressway Section</strong>, part of the Gradsko-Prilep Expressway which is aiming to improve central North Macedonia’s transportation. On January 14, 2025, the rest of the FD Expressway project by China Power Construction Corporation opened to traffic. Another project is the 13.75 – km <strong>Krupiste-Kocani Expressway</strong>, located about 107 km northeast of Skopje, is the second phase of the Štip-Kočani infrastructure project. It is part of North Macedonia’s A3 Highway and Pan – European Corridor 8. Linking Eastern North Macedonia to the China – Europe Land – Sea Express Route under the BRI. It has been operational since 2022. One project that holds a significant importance is the MS Expressway. North Macedonia’s National Highway Bureau announced the official opening of the <strong>Miladinovci-Stip (MS) Expressway</strong> on June 5, 2019. Constructed by POWERCHINA’s subsidiary Sinohydro Engineering, this vital infrastructure project now enables two-way traffic, significantly reducing travel time between Stip and Skopje from 90 minutes to just 30 minutes. It is a flagship BRI project in the Balkans, which the MS Expressway represents the first major infrastructure development under China-Central and Eastern European (CEE) cooperation. The 57 km <strong>Kichevo-Ohrid highway</strong> stands as one of North Macedonia’s most ambitious transportation projects in recent years. It is designed to enable connectivity between Ohrid—the country’s most important tourism oriented city —and other regions, the highway’s construction began in 2013 and the project is being executed by the Chinese enterprise Sinohydro.</p>
<p>From the cultural cooperation point of view, the Confucius Institute as part of the BRI journey in Macedonia is considered as a key institution for a stable cooperation between the two countries. It was opened in 2013, with an agreement that involved local and Chinese institutions within the Belt and Road framework. Today, located in the university’s public library, it functions as a hub for Chinese language education and cultural exchange.</p>
<p>In conclusion, Macedonia is involved in the Belt and Road Initiative, with China supporting its development across various sectors. Tourism and trade can be considered as present opportunities for further cooperation, and Macedonia, along with other countries, can play a role in facilitating the transfer of Chinese goods to Central Europe, putting more efforts on deeper infrastructural collaboration and building railways. The Confucius Institute in Macedonia not only promotes the Chinese culture and the language but also aids in economic and trading prospects.</p>

<p>* Bojana Jovanovska is a master and language student at University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius in Skopie, North Macedonia, and Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.</p>

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title: Langue, immigration, identité : les aspirants chefs du PLQ en quête d’unité à Gatineau
content: <p>Les candidats veulent reconquérir l'Outaouais, un ancien bastion libéral.</p>
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title: 80ème anniversaire de la Victoire sur le Nazifascisme : la véritable histoire
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Tout de suite après être devenu Chancelier en mars 1933, Adolf Hitler envoie à Washington le président de la Banque Centrale allemande qui est reçu à la maison Blanche par le président Franklin D. Roosevelt. Immédiatement les grands banquiers de Wall Street accordent à l’Allemagne de Hitler un premier prêt d’1 milliard de dollars.

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title: Élections fédérales : Terrebonne repasse aux mains des libéraux
content: <p>Les libéraux dépassent le Bloc québécois par un vote.</p>
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title: India-Pakistan Ceasefire Announced
author: ;Megan Dobrodt
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/2025/05/54430437305_e6df50cd50_c.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Following four days of escalating missile and drone attacks on targets within each other’s territory, India and Pakistan agreed on Saturday, May 10 to an immediate and full ceasefire. Leading up to the announcement, made in a flurry of posts by President Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and Pakistani and Indian officials, fears were growing that the conflict between the nuclear powers was spiraling out of control.</p>
<p>Rubio <a href="https://x.com/SecRubio/status/1921175185836708140">posted</a> on X, “Over the past 48 hours, @VP Vance and I have engaged with senior Indian and Pakistani officials, including Prime Ministers Narendra Modi and Shehbaz Sharif, External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, Chief of Army Staff Asim Munir, and National Security Advisors Ajit Doval and Asim Malik.</p>
<p>“I am pleased to announce the Governments of India and Pakistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire and to start talks on a broad set of issues at a neutral site.</p>
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author: ;Gretchen Small
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title:
Putin to Victory Day Gala: World War II Alliance Offers Example for Creating New Security Architecture Today

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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/size/w1200/2025/05/MEfJp9s6wtGv7kF09wq1BAjeRgilbM2Z.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>In welcoming remarks to the heads of state and others at a gala reception in Moscow for the 80th anniversary of Victory Day, Russian President Vladimir Putin <a href="http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76881">called for a new system of security and international relations</a>.</p>
<p>“I consider it important that today we have come together to celebrate the anniversary of the Great Victory and remember those who gave all their strength for the freedom of their native land and the entire world, those who sacrificed themselves in the name of saving humanity.</p>
<p>“This solidarity and fortitude in attaining a common goal is an example of invaluable importance. This example is especially important for us now as we again have to address the issue of sovereign rights of states and peoples to their identity and independence, to the very possibility to live in accordance with the historical, cultural and spiritual traditions of their forefathers, and to create a system of security and international relations based on the principles of real equality and respect for each other’s interests….</p>
<p>“As time takes us further away from the events of World War Two, it becomes all the more important for us to preserve the values that were upheld by the Great Victory and to pass to future generations the truth of how and in the name of what it was won, as well as our conviction that solidarity of the people in their support of the ideals of peace, freedom and justice is of unlimited power.”</p>

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title: It Is Freakish And Insane How Our Society Averts Its Gaze From Gaza
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title: Israel Keeps Digging Deeper
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/prGQ-sbFMY4" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On 8 May 2025, I was on “Judging Freedom” with Judge Napolitano. We mainly talked about Prime Minister Netanyahu's delusional thinking regarding Gaza and Iran. We also discussed America’s failed war with the Houthis, America’s failed policy on Ukraine, and more generally the deep hole President Trump has dug for himself on foreign policy. Finally, we discussed the dangerous conflict between India and Pakistan.</p>
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title: Dépouillement judiciaire : Terrebonne repasse aux mains des libéraux
content: <p>Les libéraux dépassent le Bloc québécois par un vote.</p>
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guid: 681f4027038a3200013aa485
title: Four Anti-Russian Horsemen Meet in Kiev
author: ;Rainer Apel
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<p>The <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/news/european-leaders-set-to-travel-to-kyiv-as-the-us-france-germany-poland-and-the-uk-call-for-30-day-ceasefire">leaders of France, Germany, Poland and the U.K.</a> arrived in Kiev early this morning to jointly “call on Russia to stop obstructing efforts to achieve lasting peace” and agree to a 30-day ceasefire “complete and unconditionally.” As reported, they demand in a joint declaration that Russia must stop “the invasion” and that “Ukraine must be able to thrive as a secure and sovereign nation within its internationally recognized borders for generations to come.”</p>
<p>In their declaration, the four heads leaders announced that they would increase their support for the Ukraine regime. “Until Russia agrees to an enduring ceasefire, we will ratchet up pressure on Russia’s war machine,” says the statement, as posted on the U.K. government website, in English and Ukrainian.</p>
<p>British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in particular used a London speech before his May 9 departure to Kiev to paint the image of a Russian threat to Europe against which the Europeans must respond by building for “war readiness” and supply Ukraine with military matériel to continue the war against Russia. Starmer emphasized that the U.K. has so far trained 50,000 Ukrainian men and women for combat.</p>
<p>The four leaders will hold an online meeting as well in Kiev, to which the governments of the “Coalition of the Willing” have been invited.</p>


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title: Construction of the American-Designed SMR Launched in Canada
author: ;Dean Andromidas
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<p>Construction has commenced on the American-designed GE Hitachi Small Modular Reactor (SMR), not in the U.S. but in Canada. It is being constructed at the Darlington Nuclear site in Ontario, which is already home to a nuclear power station of four Candu Reactors. On May 8 the Canadian Province of Ontario <a href="https://constructionreviewonline.com/news/construction-to-begin-on-first-smr-at-darlington-nuclear-site-ontario/">gave the green light</a> for construction to begin. Contracts have been signed with the companies concerned and construction is expected to start forthwith.</p>
<p>The new SMR is the BWRX 300 (Boiling Water Reactor model number 10 producing 300 MW of electricity). The design utilizes the technologies that have already been deployed in GE Hitachi’s most modern large reactors but in modular form for eventual mass production. It is the second American-designed reactor to enter the construction phase. The first is the NuScale SMR which is being constructed in South Korea in cooperation with Doosan, one of the largest engineering companies in South Korea with decades of experience in building nuclear reactors. China is constructing its ACP 100 pressurized water reactor SMR with power output of 125 MW. Russia is already deploying its RITM 200 pressurized water SMRs. With a capacity of 55 MW, they already power Russia’s new fleet of nuclear icebreakers and are now being deployed in Russian Arctic communities and on floating platforms.</p>
<p>The Darlington project is the first of four reactors that will be constructed at the site with the first expected to go online in 2030. The first reactor is estimated to cost US$4.38 billion while total cost of the four units will be $15 billion.</p>
<p>In addition to GE Vernova Hitachi Nuclear Energy, the main companies involved include Kiewit Nuclear Canada, a subsidiary of the large U.S. based engineering firm, the Kiewit Group and the large Canadian engineering company, Aecon. AtkinsRéalis, another leading nuclear power company, is also involved. A total of 50 companies will be involved with the project.</p>


guid: 681f58a5038a3200013aa503
title: Russian Ambassador for Building on U.S.-Russia Legacy from World War II
author: ;Bill Jones
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<p>At a major Russian Embassy reception on May 9 in Washington on the occasion of Victory Day, the spectators’ jubilant spirit included a good number of ambassadors assigned to Washington, and invited guests, including some World War II veterans. With music and singing, and a wonderful dance troupe performing, including younger grade school students who provided a rollicking performance of traditional Russian dances.</p>
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title: Putin and Patriarch Kirill Congratulate New Pope on His Election
author: ;Bill Jones
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<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 8 greeted the election of the newly elected Pope Leo XIV in a release on the <a href="http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76878">Presidential website</a>. “I am certain that the constructive dialogue and cooperation established between Russia and the Vatican previously will continue to develop, drawing on the Christian values that unite us.” Putin said. “Your Holiness, I wish you success in carrying out the important mission entrusted to you, as well as good health and well-being.”</p>
<p><a href="https://mospat.ru/en/news/93210/">Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’</a>, head of the Russian Orthodox Church, also greeted the election of the new Pope, expressing the hope that the relations between the two churches will continue. “You begin your ministry as Primate of the Roman Catholic Church at a special moment in history associated with a number of challenges facing the civilisation, as well as with certain signs of hope. In this context, the relationship between the Christian East and the Christian West acquires particular importance for the future of the world. It is my sincere hope that with your participation relations between our two Churches will be developing steadily, so that we could bear joint witness to Christ and reveal to humankind the imperishable beauty of life based on God’s commandments.”</p>
<p>Kirill also placed significance on the choice of Leo as his name, referring primarily to “St. Leo the Pope of Rome,” whom Kirill calls the “defender of the Christian community in Rome against the incursions of barbarians.” He goes on to wish that “This saint pleasing unto God … an upholder of the teaching on the fullness of our Lord Jesus Christ’s Divinity and humanity, building up unity in truth, is equally venerated by both Catholic and Orthodox Christians. May he inspire you in the demanding and responsible service ahead.”</p>
<p>The new Pope himself has, however, referred to Leo XIII, who made major breakthroughs in establishing the Church’s social doctrine, as the key reference for his choice of name, expressing to colleagues that the Church is also now in “an era of revolution.”</p>


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title: ‘The Margin of Victory’: Scott Ritter Substack Post on Soviet Contribution to the Defeat of Hitler
author: ;Diane Sare
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<p>Former U.S.MC Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter <a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-163235415">posted a lengthy Substack</a> article on May 9, entitled “The Margin of Victory.” In it, he addresses President Trump’s Truth Social Post about VE Day, which Ritter says has to do with Trump’s jealousy about the massive Moscow parade, and ignores the crucial role of the Soviet Union in defeating Hitler.</p>
<p>After describing the “slim margin of victory” at Waterloo and Little Round Top in Gettysburg, Ritter details the Soviet forces’ role in diverting a substantial part of the German operation during and just after the successful June 6, 1944 Normandy Landing with two massive offensives: Bagration and the “Dnieper-Carpathian Offensive which took place between December 1943 and May 1944. Here, the Soviets lost some 270,000 killed, and another 840,000 wounded—greater losses than the entire U.S. military suffered fighting against both the Germans and Japanese—while inflicting 380,000 casualties on the Germans. …</p>
<p>“The margin of victory for the U.S. and British forces in Normandy was slim and would have been even slimmer had the Soviets not carried out the twin offenses of Dnieper-Carpathian and Bagration. These two campaigns resulted in the Soviets losing more than twice the total number of casualties suffered by the United States for the entirety of World War II in both theaters of operations.”</p>
<p>Ritter continues, “As U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt noted in 1942, ‘Russian troops have destroyed—and continue to destroy—more manpower, planes, tanks and cannons of our common enemy than all the other United Nations combined.’</p>
<p>“It was the ‘skillful leadership, solid organization, appropriate training and, above all, determination to defeat the enemy, regardless of its own sacrifices’ of the Red Army which, Roosevelt noted in a 1943 letter to Joseph Stalin, ‘certainly forced Hitler’s armed forces to follow the path to final defeat and won the admiration of the people of the United States for a long time.’</p>
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title: &amp;#039;U.K. Lawyers for Israel&amp;#039; Condemned for Joking about Gaza Starvation
author: ;Steven Carr
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<p>Humanitarian organizations have condemned the U.K. Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), for cynical and cruel comments about Israel’s current violations of international law by using food as a weapon of war against the civilian population of Gaza. The offending remarks were made by Jonathan Turner, the chief executive of UKLFI who made light of the July 2024 report published in Britain’s medical journal, <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)01169-3/fulltext"><em>The Lancet</em></a>, which estimated that the Gaza death count to be 186,000 and a separate September 2024 study <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(24)02810-1/abstract">published in <em>The Lancet</em></a> which estimated that life expectancy in Gaza decreased by 34.9 years, or about half (−46.3%) the prewar level of 75.5 years. Turner’s cynical joke suggested that Israel’s embargo on food and supplies improved the health of the Gaza civilians by reducing the obesity rate and lowering the levels of tobacco usage. Turner’s comments were made at a meeting to discuss the possible boycott of Israeli produce by the grocery store Co-operative Group.</p>
<p>UKLFI’s members and patrons include Lord David Pannick KC, who has represented Boris Johnson and the late Queen Elizabeth II, former Supreme Court justice Lord John Dyson, and former Conservative Party leader Lord Michael Howard. UKLFI has threatened legal action against the British government over the Foreign Office cancellation in September of export licenses for certain arms shipments to Israel over concerns of a “clear risk” that Israel might use the arms in violation of international humanitarian laws.</p>
<p>The director of the <a href="https://palestinecampaign.org/">Palestinian Solidarity Campaign</a> Ben Jamal said: “As children in the Gaza Strip face the growing risk of starvation, illness and death, the suggestion by the head of U.K. Lawyers for Israel that they might benefit from weight loss is utterly sickening. These repulsive comments illustrate exactly what it means to be ‘for Israel’ and how low its apologists are prepared to sink in their attempts to justify genocide in Gaza.”</p>


guid: 681f8636038a3200013aa67e
title: Cheminade Address to Immortal Regiment Commemoration in Paris
author: ;Karel Vereycken
link: https://eir.news/2025/05/news/cheminade-address-at-may-8-paris-immortal-regiment-commemoration/
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<p>On May 8, in Paris, several hundred French and Russians families of veterans responded to a call by a collective of French associations for the 80th anniversary of Victory, acting in cooperation with the Russian committee for the 80th anniversary of Victory against fascism, “to join the civic commemoration to salute the courage of all the men and women who died on the field of honor to bring down Nazism.”</p>
<p>In Paris, the parade, also known as the “March of the Immortal Regiment,” took off from La Place de la République and marched to the Père Lachaise Cemetery to pay tribute to the Soviet soldiers, French and foreign, and to the French and foreign Soviet Resistance fighters who fought or risked their lives to defeat Nazism, as well as to the deported victims of the extermination camps.</p>
<p>People carried photos of their forebears, charismatic heroes or Resistance fighters of all nationalities who fought against Nazism: “Everyone can bring flags of allied countries and flowers to lay on the graves.” said the collective.</p>
<p>Among those invited to address the event, French Colonel Alain Corvez, former secretary general of the Fondation de la France Libre and Jacques Cheminade, President of Solidarité &amp; Progrès, who spoke at the tomb of the monument to Russian service members who fell in the French Resistance during World War II.</p>
<p>On May 7, the eve of Victory Day, Russian Ambassador Alexey Meshkov to France, accompanied by the military attaché, laid a wreath at the monument to Russian service members who fell in the Resistance during the Second World War, located in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. The ceremony was attended by Russia’s Permanent Representative to UNESCO Rinat Alyautdinov, and the management of the Russian House of Science and Culture in Paris.</p>
<p>On May 8, Cheminade said the following to the marchers:</p>
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author: ;Gretchen Small
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Haaretz Journalist Suggests Trump Might Reduce Israel to a &amp;#039;Bystander&amp;#039; in Southwest Asia Affairs

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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/size/w1200/2025/05/Screen-Shot-2025-05-10-at-9.10.05-PM.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>There are many rumors, largely-unnamed “sources” appearing in the press, of what U.S. President Donald Trump may or may not announce during his May 13-16 visit to the Gulf nations of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the U.A.E. In a May 9 article, however, <em>Haaretz</em> editorial board member and Middle Eastern affairs analyst Zvi Bar’el <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-05-09/ty-article/.premium/to-conquer-saudi-arabia-trump-is-sidelining-israel-as-a-regional-power-broker/00000196-b530-dbb0-af9f-bfb2f2210000">warned Israeli current leaders</a> they would be smart to take into account what the Trump administration has already done. As the daily summarizes Bar’el’s argument: “Trump’s moves with the Houthis, Iran, Syria, and Türkiye reveal the contours of his new geopolitical map—and reduce Israel into a bystander. The Gaza Strip could be next.”</p>
<p>Bar’el argues that Israel should not have been shocked that the Trump administration reached a ceasefire with the Houthis “behind Israel’s back.” He cites other signs that similar such decisions are underway (with Syria and Türkiye) to assert that there are two principles guiding Trump administration policy towards the region:</p>
<p>“One fundamental principle of the [U.S.] President’s policy is that Trump does not intend to fight other people’s wars—whether it’s Saudi Arabia’s, a U.S. ally for over seven decades; nor Ukraine’s, fighting for its life against the United States’ historical rival; and apparently not Israel’s, either.</p>
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guid: 681fb88b038a3200013aa7d9
title: Witkoff Slams ‘Neoconservatives’ for Believing War Can Solve Everything
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<p>In an exclusive, nearly 40-minute interview with Breitbart on May 8, Presidential Special Envoy Steve Witkoff denounced U.S. neoconservatives for their “bias toward military interaction,” as opposed to President Donald Trump’s, and his own, preference for dialogue to resolve problems.</p>
<p>“So in their minds anything that is of a military nature to be a solution to that problem, they have a bias towards that. They give no consideration whatsoever on what the consequences are on that,” he said of the neocon current in U.S. politics. “You hear this all the time, you hear people say ‘no, no we have to go treat that person with force. The Iranians are going to manipulate you in a dialogue and so you’re not going to be effective there.’... The neocon element believes that war is the only way to solve things. The President believes that his force of personality, the way he is going to respond to certain situations, can bend people to do things in a better way in the interests of the United States government. I believe in that, too.”</p>
<p>Breitbart asked Witkoff to respond to those, such as Fox News, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy (the self-proclaimed high priests of neoconservatism) and Politico, which have published big attacks on him in recent weeks. Witkoff said that he has been a “very loyal” friend of President Trump’s for a long time, and the two had spoken “endlessly about lots of things” before Trump was re-elected, “but I actually believe in his policy.” He cited, in particular, Trump’s policy of “settling the Iran conflict through dialogue.”</p>
<p>It should be noted, however, that there are still pitfalls to be overcome in this otherwise laudable policy. Witkoff reiterated that the Trump administration seeks an end to Iran’s entire nuclear enrichment program, not just weapons-grade enrichment—a demand that Iran has said it will not accept, as it denies Iran its rights under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to which it is a signer.</p>
<p>Witkoff called elimination of full enrichment “a more permanent solution to that crisis than any other alternative. That would physically change exactly how Iran was approaching a nuclear program. If we get them to voluntarily shift away from an enrichment program where they can enrich to not have centrifuges, to not have material that can be enriched to weapons-grade levels 90%, if we can get them to voluntarily do that that is the most permanent way to make sure that they never get a weapon.” That would be the best solution, Witkoff said, citing Trump’s threat that if Iran does not do so “voluntarily … the alternative is not a great alternative for them.”</p>
<p>Breitbart’s report on the interview, <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/05/09/exclusive-steve-witkoff-shreds-his-total-fake-news-critics-the-neocon-element-believes-that-war-is-the-only-way-to-solve-things/%5D">published May 9</a>, concludes with the teaser that “much, much more from Witkoff’s exclusive with Breitbart News is forthcoming.”</p>

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guid: 681fd547038a3200013aa839
title: U.S. Proposes Copy of Israeli ‘Aid’ Plan for Gaza
author: ;Megan Dobrodt
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<p>After UN and other international aid agencies <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/05/1162886">rejected</a> last week’s Israeli proposal to replace the aid distribution system in Gaza, currently run by UN agencies and NGOs, with Israeli military-controlled hubs, <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-envoy-says-gaza-aid-mechanism-to-take-effect-soon-denies-rift-with-israel/">U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told reporters</a> in a press conference on May 9 that a new aid distribution mechanism for Gaza would be taking effect “very soon.” Run by the Israelis (a gross violation of humanitarian principles)? No! says Huckabee. It will be run by the newly created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation—in which the U.S. encourages UN agencies and other groups to participate. What is the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation? <a href="https://apnews.com/article/gaza-aid-distribution-israel-hamas-8417c39884394656fd5328d4aebdad64">According to Associated Press</a>, the group is made up of American security contractors, ex-military officers, former government officials, and humanitarian officials.</p>
<p>Huckabee described the idea that this proposal was the same as the Israeli proposal as “wholly inaccurate,” despite reports that Israeli officials have been heavily involved in crafting it. Huckabee declared that Israel would not bring the food or distribute it but just secure the perimeter from afar while private companies (BlackRock, anyone?) would provide security to the distribution sites. Huckabee said that details about the plan would be announced in the coming days.</p>
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author: ;Megan Dobrodt
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&amp;#039;World Citizens of All Countries, Unite!&amp;#039;: Create a New, Post-Colonial World Order

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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/size/w1200/2025/05/lGKOecApsi0CwmYx6ALtNfpSq8F4gRAj.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Friday night into the early hours of Saturday morning, as India and Pakistan exchanged missile strikes on targets within one another’s territory, the possibility that the conflict between the two nuclear-armed powers would escalate out of control loomed large. By Saturday afternoon, it was <a href="https://eir.news/2025/05/news/india-pakistan-ceasefire-announced/">announced</a> in a flurry of social media posts by U.S. President Trump, Secretary State Marco Rubio, and senior officials in both India and Pakistan that the two sides had agreed to an immediate and complete ceasefire and, according to Rubio, “to start talks on a broad set of issues at a neutral site.” Though the situation remains fragile—each side accused the other of violations overnight into Sunday, May 11—the de-escalation of a trigger point that very well could explode into global conflict is confirmation of the fact that we may just be able to think our way out of this crisis.</p>
<p>Doing that successfully requires of all men and women of goodwill—elected world leaders emphatically included—that we not react to momentary events, but understand the historical dynamics underway that give rise to them. The focus given by Russia over the past week to the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazism, a victory achieved by a cooperative and extraordinary effort among nations for a common and existential cause, has been crucial in that respect. Against that backdrop, both Russia and Pakistan have <a href="https://eir.news/2025/04/news/moscow-work-with-a-revolutionary-u-s-against-british-empire-french-jacobins/">shone a light</a> over the past several weeks on the British Empire role in building the post-war hand grenade that threatens to explode in a variety of theaters of supposedly local conflict today.</p>
<p>One such very dangerous hand grenade is Southwest Asia, where President Trump will travel next week, visiting Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., and Qatar. The notable absence of Israel on the list of destinations, along with Trump’s May 6 announcement of a ceasefire with the Houthis and the planned resumption of U.S.-Iran talks on May 11, has made many—the genocidal and embattled Netanyahu quite notably—nervous about what forces will ultimately decide the fate of the region.</p>
<p>However, none of these conflicts will be solved unless the root causes are addressed; lasting peace will only come through justice, fairness, and development. In the case of Southwest Asia, that means a Palestinian state and <a href="https://schillerinstitute.com/the-oasis-plan-the-larouche-solution-for-southwest-asia/">LaRouche’s Oasis Plan</a>; more generally, it means we replace the old and evil system of geopolitics.</p>
<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on the world to take the lessons of that defeat of fascism 80 years ago to create a new, post-colonial world system. In addressing world leaders at a reception following the May 9 Victory Day parade—an event attended by 29 heads of state and government—<a href="https://eir.news/2025/05/news/putin-to-gala-reception-after-may-9-parade-wwii-alliance-offers-example-for-creating-new-security-architecture-today/">Putin said</a>: “The solidarity and fortitude in attaining a common goal is an example of invaluable importance … for us now as we again have to address the issue of sovereign rights of states and peoples to their identity and independence, to the very possibility to live in accordance with the historical, cultural and spiritual traditions of their forefathers, and create a system of security and international relations based on the principles of real equality and respect for each other’s interests.”</p>
<p>A new and truly human world system to replace that of geopolitics has been called for repeatedly over the past five decades by Lyndon and Helga Zepp-LaRouche as a vital necessity for the survival of mankind. In her 2022 “<a href="https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2022/11/30/ten-principles-of-a-new-international-security-and-development-architecture/">Ten Principles of a New International Security and Development Architecture</a>,” Zepp-LaRouche lays out the mission: “A new world economic order is emerging, involving the vast majority of the countries of the Global South. The European nations and the U.S. must not fight this effort, but by joining hands with the developing countries, cooperate to shape the next epoch of the development of the human species to become a renaissance of the highest and most noble expressions of creativity!</p>
<p>“Let us therefore create an international movement of World Citizens, who work together to shape the next phase in the evolution of mankind, the new epoch! World Citizens of all countries, unite!”</p>
<p>Those who wish to bring about such a new renaissance will come to the <a href="https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2025/03/01/conference-invitation/">Schiller Institute conference on May 24-25</a>, “A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!”</p>

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<p>President Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva arrived in Beijing today, following his May 8-10 visit in Moscow to participate in the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the defeat of fascism. (Brazil participated on the Allies’ side during World War II.) In China, he will meet with President Xi Jinping in a state visit on May 12, and will participate in the May 13 China-CELAC Summit (CELAC being the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States).</p>
<p>Brazil chairs the BRICS group this year. Russia and China, like Brazil, were founding members of the now-expanded BRICS. In a pre-trip <a href="https://x.com/LulaOficial/status/1919796004540314007">interview with Chinese journalists</a> on May 5, Lula explained that people need to be educated about what the BRICS group is all about. We participate in it to signal to the world what we want to see, he said, expressing the concept of the “one humanity” on which the BRICS is premised.</p>
<p>“The world is not Brazil’s; it is not China’s; it is not the Americans’. The world is made up of almost 9 billion human beings who inhabit the planet and who have the right to live decently and well,” he emphasized. “The world needs peace, patience, investment and development … to ensure that the people of the planet live in the dignified conditions which are their right…. Brazil can do a lot alone, but Brazil, together with China, with India, with South Africa and with the countries which make up the BRICS, is much stronger. We can do much more.”</p>
<p>After the Victory Day celebrations, President Lula and President Vladimir Putin held a bilateral meeting accompanied by ministers and advisors, and the congressional and business leaders who also accompanied Lula. Both mentioned in <a href="http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76883">their public opening statements</a> to the meeting that Lula had not visited Moscow for 15 years, but they know each other well from their cooperation in the BRICS.</p>
<p>Lula was blunt about the state of the world. “We are living in very challenging times. Much of what we hoped would follow the Second World War, such as the strengthening of multilateralism, an enhanced role for the United Nations, and the expansion of free trade, was seen as essential to safeguarding lasting peace. Sadly, that vision has not yet fully materialized, and today, true peace remains elusive,” he told President Putin. “The recent decisions announced by the President of the United States, particularly in the area of tariff policy, affecting all countries, undermine the principles of free trade, weaken multilateralism, and also disregard the sovereignty and dignity of independent nations. These are values we must not forget.</p>
<p>“The purpose of my visit today is to advance the development of our strategic partnership,” he stated. “Brazil sees Russia as an important partner—politically, culturally, economically, and in the fields of science and technology. Likewise, Russia has many shared interests in Brazil. We are two great nations, located on opposite sides of the globe. As part of the Global South, we now have an opportunity to strengthen our economic cooperation….”</p>
<p>The areas raised for increased bilateral cooperation ranged from military matters to space exploration, science, economic development, education, and energy.</p>

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&amp;#039;Marathon of Meetings&amp;#039; of World Leaders in Moscow Like a Second &amp;#039;Kazan Summit&amp;#039;

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<p>Vladimir Putin’s Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov <a href="https://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/articles/2025/05/07/1108772-na-parade-pobedi-zhdut-liderov-29-gosudarstv?from=copy_text">told Russian reporters</a>, as dignitaries from around the world began arriving in Moscow for the celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory that it was “truly turning into a major international event.… I could compare these four working days in May with the October BRICS summit in Kazan.” Andrey Kortunov, scientific director of the Russian International Affairs Council agreed, noting that the meetings provided an opportunity for the leaders representing Global South nations (the majority of those who attended since all but two Western nations boycotted the celebrations of the end of fascism), “to discuss issues of reforming the world order” in a continuation of the Kazan summit.</p>
<p>President Putin held a veritable “marathon of meetings” during the four days. His first on May 7 was with Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, invited to Moscow on a state visit. Their meeting, including a restricted format and a working breakfast which followed, concluded with the signing of a “Strategic Partnership and Cooperation Treaty” between Russia and Venezuela which had been carefully worked out in months of negotiations. Putin also reiterated that Russia supports Venezuela’s application to join the BRICS.</p>
<p>By the end of the day, Putin had held substantive bilateral meetings with Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, Mongolian President Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, and Republic of the Congo President Denis Sassou Nguesso, as well. May 8 was dedicated to his meetings with China’s President Xi Jinping. After the May 9 parade and gala reception (where he took the opportunity to speak with other guests), he went on to meet with Brazil’s Lula da Silva, Egypt’s Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Slovakia’s Robert Fico, Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic and Uzbekistan’s Shavkat Mirziyoyev. Along the way, he held a separate ceremony with Kazakhstan President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in which he handed him an official award certificate confirming that his father, Kemel Tokayev, had been posthumously awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, after documents of his father’s acts of bravery when fighting the Nazis in Poland were discovered.</p>
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A great deal of writing and speaking was done over the last three days with Putin’s oration capping it all:</p><blockquote><p><strong>Vladimir Putin</strong>: Good evening, or maybe good night already. I want to welcome everyone. Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear colleagues!</p><p>I would like to once again congratulate all of you on the Great Victory Day! We would like to thank our friends and foreign partners who were in Moscow with us during the anniversary celebrations to pay homage to the generation of winners.</p><p>We honor all those who contributed to the common victory over Nazism, including our allies in the anti-Hitler coalition, soldiers of China, members of the anti-fascist resistance in Europe, fighters of the people's liberation movements in Africa, in the Asia-Pacific region, and volunteers from Latin America.</p><p>Together with our friends and like-minded people, we share a common memory and respect for history, for the feats of true heroes who fought for freedom,<em><strong> and of course, our responsibility for the future, for building a more just and secure world.</strong></em> <em><strong>The issues that directly affect the stable and sustainable development of the entire world community – Eurasia and other regions of the world – were at the heart of the bilateral and multilateral meetings held in Moscow.</strong></em></p><p>Of course, they were held in a special, solemn, festive atmosphere, but at the same time they were extremely rich and informative, filled with topics on the political, economic and humanitarian agenda.</p><p>Summing up, and I would like to do so now, I will say that in four days – from 7 to 10 May – we have hosted events of official visits by the leaders of three foreign countries: the People's Republic of China, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.</p><p>In addition, 20 bilateral meetings were held with the heads of the CIS countries, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Latin America. In total, 27 heads of state from the CIS, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, Latin America, as well as about 10 heads of international organizations took part in the celebrations. Six other countries were represented at a high level.</p><p>We see such a broad participation of delegations from foreign countries and international organizations as inspiring evidence of genuine consolidation around the enduring ideas and values of our common Great Victory.</p><p>We are grateful to the leaders of 13 countries who sent units of the national armed forces to participate in the parade on Red Square. Their march shoulder to shoulder with our parade crews filled the general holiday with a special energy, the spirit of military brotherhood, hardened during the Second World War.</p><p>I was glad to personally thank the military leaders of the Korean People's Army and convey my warmest words to the soldiers and commanders of the special forces units of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, who, together with our soldiers, professionally, I want to emphasize this, conscientiously performed tasks during the liberation of the border areas of the Kursk region from the formations of the Kiev regime. I would like to emphasize that they showed courage and heroism, acted – I want to say it again-in the highest degree professionally, showed good training and preparation.</p><p>And of course, it was a special honor for all the leaders of the two countries to welcome the main heroes of the Victory Anniversary – World War II veterans from Russia, Israel, Armenia, and Mongolia-to the stands.</p><p>I would like to note that, despite threats, blackmail and obstacles, including the closure of air space, the leaders of some European countries also came to Moscow: <em><strong>Serbia, Slovakia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. I repeat: we understand what massive pressure they faced, and therefore we sincerely appreciate their political courage, firm moral position</strong></em>, and decision to share the holiday with us, to pay tribute to the memory of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War and World War II, who fought both for their father's home and for getting rid of the brown plague of the whole world, of all mankind without any exaggeration.</p><p><em><strong>It is important for us that millions of Europeans, the leaders of countries that pursue sovereign policies, remember this. This gives us optimism and hope that sooner or later, based on the lessons of history and the opinions of our own peoples, we will start moving towards restoring constructive relations with European states. Including those who today still do not abandon anti-Russian rhetoric and clearly aggressive actions against us. They are still trying, as we can see right now – to talk to us, in fact, in a boorish manner and with the help of ultimatums.</strong></em></p><p>Our comprehensive partnership and strategic cooperation with the People's Republic of China can serve as a true example of modern equal relations in the twenty-first century. Chinese President Xi Jinping was the main guest of the celebrations dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory.</p><p>We have had extremely fruitful <a href="https://translated.turbopages.org/proxy_u/ru-en.en.169f3174-68201bdc-60eda38f-74722d776562/kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76870">negotiations</a>, adopted two joint statements at the level of heads of state, and signed a number of intergovernmental and interdepartmental agreements covering such areas as energy, trade, finance, science, culture and much more. As I have already said, it has been agreed that in September I will pay an official return visit to China to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Victory over militaristic Japan.</p><p>It is deeply symbolic and natural that the main, in fact the main commemorative events related to the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe and Asia will be held in Moscow and Beijing—in the capitals of states whose peoples went through the most difficult trials and paid the highest price in the name of a common Victory.</p><p>Dear colleagues, I think it is obvious to everyone that during the talks and meetings held in Moscow, the issue of resolving the conflict in Ukraine was also raised. We are grateful to all our guests and friends for the attention they pay to this conflict and for the efforts they make to bring this conflict to an end. In this regard, I consider it necessary to focus on this topic separately.</p><p><em><strong>In this regard, I want to say: as you know, Russia has repeatedly made initiatives for a cease-fire, but they–-these initiatives--were repeatedly sabotaged by the Ukrainian side.</strong></em> Thus, the Kiev regime defiantly violated the 30-day–-I want to emphasize this–-30-day moratorium on strikes on energy facilities from March 18 to April 17, about 130 times, which was announced in accordance with our agreement with the President of the United States of America, Donald Trump.</p><p>The Easter truce initiated by Russia was also not observed: the ceasefire was violated by Ukrainian formations almost five thousand times. Nevertheless, for the celebration of Victory Day–-and we also consider it a holy holiday for us, you can only imagine how much we lost 27 million--we declared a truce for the third time on this holy holiday for us.</p><p>At the same time, we also conveyed to our Western colleagues, who, in my opinion, are sincerely looking for ways to resolve the conflict,<em><strong> our position on this issue, on the ceasefire on Victory Day, that in the future we do not rule out the possibility of extending the terms of this truce–-but, of course, after analyzing what will happen in these few days, based on the results of how the Kiev regime will respond to our proposal.</strong></em></p><p>And what do we see? What are these results? The Kiev authorities–-as you can clearly see for yourself--did not respond at all to our proposal for a cease-fire. Moreover, after the announcement of our proposal–-and this happened, as you may recall, on May 5 of this year-–the Kiev authorities launched large-scale attacks from May 6-7. The strike involved 524 unmanned aerial vehicles and a number of Western-made missiles, while 45 beks–-unmanned boats–-were simultaneously used in the Black Sea.<em><strong> In fact, during the three days of the ceasefire we announced–on the 8th, 9th and 10th—what you also saw from the mass media, in fact, from your reports, it was clear: during this time, five targeted attempts were made to attack the state border of the Russian Federation in eastern Ukraine. in the area of the Kursk region and at the junction with the Belgorod region, exactly during the days of the ceasefire we announced.</strong></em> In addition, 36 more attacks were launched in other directions. All these attacks, including attempts to enter the territory of the Russian Federation in the area of the Kursk region and the Belgorod region, were repulsed. <em><strong>Moreover, our military experts believe that they had no military significance, were conducted solely for political reasons, and the enemy suffered very heavy losses.</strong></em></p><p>As I have already said, the Kiev authorities not only rejected our proposal for a ceasefire, but also, as we have all seen, tried to intimidate the leaders of states gathered for the celebrations in Moscow. You know, dear colleagues, when I met with colleagues here in Moscow, I had this idea. I will share with you: who was tried to intimidate from those who came to Moscow to celebrate the Victory over Nazi Germany? <em><strong>Who were you trying to intimidate? </strong></em>After all, those who came to us are leaders not by their official position, not by their position,<em><strong> but by their character, by their beliefs and by their willingness to defend their beliefs.</strong></em> And who tried to intimidate them? <em><strong>Those who stand to attention in front of and salute and applaud former SS soldiers? And elevates to the rank of national heroes those who collaborated with Hitler during the Second World War?</strong></em> It seems to me that this is an attempt with obviously unsuitable means, and those who are trying to do this do not correspond to the swing that they themselves expect.</p><p>I will repeat once again: <em><strong>we have repeatedly proposed steps towards a ceasefire. We have never refused to engage in a dialogue with the Ukrainian side. Let me remind you once again: we did not interrupt the negotiations in 2022, but the Ukrainian side did. In this regard, despite everything, we suggest that the Kiev authorities resume the negotiations that they interrupted at the end of 2022 and resume direct negotiations. And, I emphasize, without any preconditions.</strong></em></p><p>We propose to start without delay next Thursday, May 15, in Istanbul, where they were held earlier and where they were interrupted. As you know, our Turkish colleagues have repeatedly offered their services in organizing such negotiations, and President Erdogan has done a lot to organize them. Let me remind you that as a result of these negotiations, a joint draft document was prepared, and it was initialed by the head of the Kiev negotiating group, but at the insistence of the West, it was simply thrown into the trash.</p><p>Tomorrow we are scheduled to have a conversation with the President of Turkey, Mr. Erdogan. I want to ask him to provide such an opportunity for holding negotiations in Turkey. I hope that he will confirm his desire to contribute to the search for peace in Ukraine.</p><p>We are committed to serious negotiations with Ukraine. <em><strong>Their purpose is to eliminate the root causes of the conflict, to reach the establishment of a long-term lasting peace in the historical perspective.</strong></em> We do not rule out that during these negotiations we will be able to agree on some new truces, on a new cease-fire. Moreover, a real truce, which would be observed not only by Russia, but also by the Ukrainian side, would be the first step, I repeat, towards a long-term, sustainable peace, and not a prologue to the continuation of the armed conflict after the rearmament, resupply of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the feverish digging of trenches and new strongholds. Who needs such a world?</p><p><em><strong>Our offer is, as they say, on the table. The decision is now up to the Ukrainian authorities and their curators, who, guided, it seems, by their personal political ambitions, and not by the interests of their peoples, want to continue the war with Russia at the hands of Ukrainian nationalists.</strong></em></p><p>I repeat: Russia is ready for negotiations without any preconditions.<em><strong> Now there are military operations, a war, and we offer to resume negotiations that were not interrupted by us. Well, what's wrong with that?</strong></em></p><p>Those who really want peace cannot but support it. At the same time, I would like to once again express my gratitude for the mediation services and efforts made by our foreign partners, including China, Brazil, the countries of Africa, the Middle East, and recently the new Administration of the United States of America, aimed at a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian crisis.</p><p>In conclusion, I would like to once again thank all those who shared with us the festive celebrations dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Victory over Nazism.<em><strong> I am confident that the spirit of solidarity and harmony that united us in Moscow these days will continue to help us build fruitful cooperation and partnership in the name of progress, security and peace.</strong></em></p><p>Taking this opportunity, I would also like to note the huge role of journalists, representatives of world news agencies, TV channels, and the press who covered the anniversary events, as well as the many-hour program of current negotiations and working meetings. We have done a lot to make people around the world feel the unique atmosphere of the current holidays in Moscow. <em><strong>Of course, I would like to thank you for this meeting, because it is rather late and, of course, everyone is already tired.</strong></em></p><p>Thank you very much for your attention, because it's almost half past one in the morning or even more than half past one in the morning in Moscow, I'm letting you go with God.</p><p>Thank you very much for your attention. Goodbye. [My Emphasis]</p></blockquote><p>A very deft move by President Putin, well framed and articulated. An excellent reply to the 30-Day Ceasefire Immediately demanded by Zelensky and crew. The first words from Zelensky’s mouth when he’s finally told he must negotiate must be I rescind my no negotiation decree—anything else is non-credible. It’s rather simple. Russia will continue its SMO until the other side finally capitulates to talks. 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guid: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2164300/oilers-golden-knights-deuxieme-tour-series-match-trois
title: Un premier gain pour Vegas face aux Oilers
content: <p>Les Golden Knights remportent le troisième match de la série disputé à Edmonton.</p>
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guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=885230
title: Perché il Giorno della Vittoria è ancora così importante per i russi oggi?
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<p><strong><em>Probabilmente nessun altro Paese celebra la commemorazione della vittoria sulla Germania nazista nella Seconda guerra mondiale con la stessa serietà della Russia. </em></strong></p>
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<p>Probabilmente nessun altro Paese celebra la commemorazione della vittoria sulla Germania nazista nella Seconda guerra mondiale con la stessa serietà della Russia. I russi hanno persino un nome speciale e unico per questo evento: la Grande Guerra Patriottica, un nome che evoca immediatamente un significato distintamente russo, ma che desiderano vedere riconosciuto anche dalle altre nazioni.</p>
<p>La Seconda guerra mondiale è stato il conflitto più devastante della storia dell’umanità. Nel suo progetto egemonico, la Germania nazista occupò quasi tutta l’Europa, con l’obiettivo, tra le altre cose, di garantire la supremazia razziale a coloro che considerava parte della “razza ariana”. Nel 1941, utilizzando come giustificazione le manovre militari all’interno del territorio dell’URSS e cercando di assicurarsi il Lebensraum im Osten (“spazio vitale a est”) per la futura colonizzazione tedesca, Hitler invase l’Unione Sovietica.</p>
<p>Inizialmente, alcune persone accolsero l’invasione con ottimismo, a causa della stanchezza nei confronti del comunismo, ma ben presto divenne chiaro che i tedeschi non erano venuti per liberare gli slavi, ma per soggiogarli, distruggerli ed espellerli dalle loro terre ancestrali.</p>
<p>Quattro anni dopo, tuttavia, i sovietici marciarono su una Berlino in rovina. Hitler era morto. Il governo nazista era al collasso. La seconda guerra mondiale, o Grande Guerra Patriottica, era finita. Ma non è questa l’impressione che si ricava dai film hollywoodiani come Salvate il soldato Ryan.</p>
<p>Nei media occidentali, nella cultura e nei libri di storia, l’evento a cui viene attribuita la sconfitta della Germania è lo sbarco delle truppe atlantiste sulle spiagge della Normandia nel D-Day. Fin dall’infanzia, ci viene insegnato che, grazie agli Stati Uniti, «il mondo non parla tedesco».</p>
<p>La realtà, tuttavia, è ben diversa: basta guardare i numeri.</p>
<p>Circa il 75-80% delle vittime tedesche durante la guerra si registrò sul fronte orientale. L’URSS inflisse oltre 3 milioni di perdite militari tedesche (morti, feriti o prigionieri) sul totale di 4,5 milioni di vittime tedesche. Queste cifre sembrano decisive per chiudere il dibattito.</p>
<p>Nessuno nega che lo sbarco occidentale in Normandia abbia avuto un ruolo significativo. Costringendo la Germania a combattere una guerra su due fronti e dirottando alcune delle sue forze da est a ovest, l’offensiva occidentale contribuì all’esito del conflitto. Ma questa spinta occidentale iniziò solo nel 1944, quando i sovietici stavano già respingendo i tedeschi verso i loro confini originali. Solo la cecità ideologica potrebbe portare qualcuno ad affermare che fu questo sbarco, piuttosto che le vittorie sovietiche a Stalingrado, Kharkov, Kursk e oltre, a portare alla caduta di Hitler.</p>
<p>Battaglie come Stalingrado (1942-1943) e Kursk (1943) furono punti di svolta decisivi in cui l’Armata Rossa non solo fermò l’avanzata nazista, ma lanciò la controffensiva che avrebbe portato alla caduta di Berlino. A Stalingrado, i sovietici circondarono e annientarono la 6ª Armata tedesca, segnando la prima grande sconfitta della Wehrmacht. A Kursk, nella più grande battaglia di carri armati della storia, l’URSS schiacciò le ultime speranze di Hitler di ottenere una vittoria strategica.</p>
<p>Ma quale fu il prezzo pagato dai sovietici?</p>
<p>Secondo le stime più recenti, 27 milioni di morti, tra militari e civili (anche se per lo più civili).</p>
<p>Ciò rappresenta circa il 17% della popolazione sovietica. Alcune regioni, come l’odierna Bielorussia, persero oltre il 25% della loro popolazione. L’Ucraina subì perdite di entità simile.</p>
<p>Da quasi vent’anni, ogni Giorno della Vittoria, la Russia organizza la marcia del “Reggimento immortale”, in cui i cittadini sfilano con le foto dei parenti che hanno partecipato alla Grande Guerra Patriottica. Questo rito commemorativo pubblico, estremamente popolare, si è diffuso in tutto il mondo. Perché riveste tanta importanza nella coscienza russa? Perché ogni famiglia russa ha dei parenti – nonni, bisnonni, zii – che sono morti in guerra. Non c’è una sola famiglia russa che non sia stata toccata da quella tragedia.</p>
<p>Per i russi, la Seconda guerra mondiale è la Grande Guerra Patriottica perché è stato il momento di maggiore pericolo per la loro stessa esistenza come popolo. Se fossero stati sconfitti, avrebbero rischiato l’annientamento. Eppure, dalle rovine del loro Paese, con sangue, sudore e lacrime, la loro vittoria sulla Germania ha garantito la loro sopravvivenza.</p>
<p>E come ha ripagato il mondo i russi per questo sacrificio?</p>
<p>Prima del 2022, soprattutto con indifferenza, ignoranza e falsificazione della storia. Dal 2022, con odio, razzismo, persecuzioni e cancellazione.</p>
<p>Questa è la grande delusione che i russi provano nei confronti del mondo moderno. Si guardano intorno e vedono che il loro immenso sacrificio non è rispettato come dovrebbe, almeno in Occidente.</p>
<p>Eppure, a 80 anni dalla loro vittoria sulla morte, mentre l’atteggiamento dell’Occidente nei confronti dell’eroismo russo può portare delusione e amarezza, i russi non provano altro che orgoglio per se stessi e per le gesta dei loro antenati.</p>
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title: Naviguer entre les disciplines
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<p>Rencontre inédite entre étudiants en sciences naturelles et en sciences sociales à bord de l'Amundsen.</p>

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guid: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2164064/sante-mentale-maladie-jeunes
title: « La santé mentale, on n’en fait pas une maladie, nous autres! »
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<p>Visite d'un organisme où les gens peuvent se rassembler et où la santé mentale est abordée autrement.</p>

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guid: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2163803/marie-perrin-terres-rares-recuperation-lampes-brevet
title: Cette jeune chimiste a découvert comment récupérer efficacement des terres rares
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<p>Cette découverte l'a propulsée au rang des 10 jeunes innovateurs décorés par l’Office européen des brevets.</p>

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guid: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2164187/moyen-orient-yemen-iran-divergences-trump-netanyahou
title: Les points de divergence s’accumulent entre Trump et Nétanyahou
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<p>Le président des États-Unis ne s’arrêtera pas en Israël lors de son prochain voyage au Moyen-Orient.</p>

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guid: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2163850/plaintes-origine-aliments-etiquetage-canada
title: Origine des aliments : encore plus de plaintes liées à l’étiquetage
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<p>La hausse est liée à une volonté de boycotter les produits américains au profit d'équivalents canadiens.</p>

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guid: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2164157/bibliotheque-haskell-stanstead-frontiere-etats-unis
title: La bibliothèque Haskell, symbole de ce que Trump ne peut détruire
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<p>Le calme revient dans une vieille bibliothèque québécoise victime d'une décision de l'administration Trump.</p>

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title: Le plan de campagne du NPD n’était pas adapté aux menaces de Trump, selon Boulerice
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<p>« Les gens avaient besoin d’un profil économique, pas d'un profil social », selon le député montréalais.</p>

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title: Dépouillement judiciaire : Terrebonne repasse aux mains des libéraux... par une voix
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guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=885235
title: The erased sacrifice: How the West rewrites the Soviet Union’s role in WWII
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<p><strong><em>Humanity remains doomed to repeat its gravest errors when it forgets its past.</em></strong></p>
<p>May 9 is the most sacred and important day to celebrate in Russia. Why? Because Russia — at that time part of the Soviet Union — lost nearly twenty-seven million people in just four years, from 1941 to 1945. Among them were countless soldiers of the Red Army, as well as millions of civilians.</p>
<p>As early as 2015 — ten years ago now — various newspapers and politicians, particularly in Germany, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-russia-germany-victory-day-20150510-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> that leaders like Merkel, Cameron, and Obama should commemorate Liberation Day in Kiev rather than Moscow. They claimed it should be celebrated “on their terms, not Putin’s.”</p>
<p>“Given the conflict that Russia was waging against Ukraine,” Western leaders supposedly could not sit on Red Square and watch Russian troops parade while war raged in eastern Ukraine, just 500 miles away. This marked the beginning of the information war against Russia, with baseless accusations that Russia had already invaded Donbass — a blatant lie.</p>
<p>But this was also the start — or perhaps the escalation — of historical revisionism, aimed at rewriting World War II history and excluding Russia from commemorations in places like Auschwitz, Sachsenhausen, and Dachau.</p>
<p>In its attempt to portray the United States (and allies like Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand) as the primary liberators of Europe, the West exposes its hypocrisy. While claiming to champion “democracy” and “human rights,” it downplays the decisive role of the Soviet Union. It was the Red Army that <a href="https://www.liberationroute.com/pois/249/u-s-troops-occupying-berlin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stormed</a> Berlin in April-May 1945 — two months before Western Allied troops entered the city. Yet Europe seeks to erase this from history books.</p>
<p>Another example is how the West <a href="https://euvsdisinfo.eu/report/poland-spreads-monstrous-lies-about-the-soviet-liberation-of-this-country/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">encourages</a> Poland — liberated by the Red Army — to discard this historical reality in favor of an anti-Russian alliance. On January 17, 1945, Soviet forces entered Warsaw and freed the rest of the country by March. The EU’s so-called “Disinfo” website dismisses such facts as propaganda, a disgraceful attempt to rewrite history in the bloc’s favor.</p>
<p>Perhaps many EU nations cannot bear the weight of their own past — colonialism, collaboration with fascism, or the fact that in the Netherlands, 90% of the eastern and southern population collaborated with the Nazis. Only 1-5% resisted, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnDMsdQ0ZLA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">primarily communists</a> in western cities like Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and The Hague. These resisters were never honored; instead, they were vilified, silenced, and pushed aside by post-war Dutch governments — many of which were led by former Nazi collaborators who remain influential to this day.</p>
<p>On May 9, 1945, the Red Army liberated Prague, ending the war in Czechoslovakia. Yet today, Czechia — unlike Slovakia — has embraced fascist tendencies. During the COVID crisis in 2020, the Czech government <a href="https://freesuriyah.eu/2020/04/14/tsjechie-verwijderd-oorlogsmonumenten-tijdens-de-covid-19-crisis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dismantled</a> a statue of General Ivan Konev, the Red Army commander who freed Prague. This act exposed Czechia’s shift away from democracy — mirroring Ukraine and the Baltics, where nearly all monuments to Soviet liberation have been destroyed.</p>
<p>If Eastern European countries claim they were “occupied” by the USSR after the war, they should examine their own histories. Many of these nations already had strong communist movements before liberation. Those who opposed them were often nationalists with fascist leanings — or, as in Ukraine and the Baltics, outright Nazis.</p>
<p>Take <a href="https://www.thesecondworldwar.org/the-axis-powers/romania-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Romania</a>, a Nazi ally that fought at Stalingrad. When the Red Army advanced in 1944, the king ousted the pro-German regime and surrendered to the Soviets. Romanian troops then joined the Red Army, contributing nearly twenty divisions to the fight against Germany. Europe dismisses this as Soviet coercion, but Romania’s communist resistance was homegrown, opposing a regime complicit in the deaths of Jews, partisans, and Soviet POWs.</p>
<p>A similar shift occurred in Bulgaria, where the communist-led Fatherland Front staged a coup in September 1944. The Bulgarian army then fought alongside the Red Army in Hungary and Austria, helping liberate Belgrade by October.</p>
<p>The Soviet Union freed much of Eastern Europe — later formalized in the Warsaw Pact, an alliance of nations liberated from fascism. These countries owed their freedom to the Red Army’s immense sacrifice.</p>
<p>Back then, Nazi propaganda — spearheaded by Joseph Goebbels — <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_Adolf_Hitler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> Jews were communists and communism a Jewish plot. At that time, propaganda flourished, particularly among fascists and Nazis, with Joseph Goebbels as its chief architect. The German people were fed lies — and here we see parallels with today’s situation (though now employing different political systems and propaganda tools) — that all <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_views_of_Adolf_Hitler" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jews were communists</a> and that communism was a Jewish invention; they called them Bolsheviks then. These people, the Nazis claimed, “had to be exterminated.” This became their justification for attacking Russia through Operation Barbarossa and attempting to crush the nation. While not all communists were Jewish, the Nazis had their solution: they branded Slavic peoples (along with Roma and political opponents) as “Untermenschen,” while declaring Aryans the “master race.”</p>
<p>Today, the West seeks to erase the Red Army’s heroic achievements, just as it tries to erase modern Russia and the former Soviet Union’s legacy. Yet for people across former Soviet nations, May 9 remains a sacred tribute to their ancestors’ sacrifices. This memory lives in their hearts, untouched by Western politics or the resurgent fascism that still plagues our world. If anything, the West’s decades-long hostility has only strengthened their resolve, proving that Nazism’s poisonous ideology persists.</p>
<p>Ukraine, the Baltic states, Poland, and Czechia may tear down every monument commemorating the Red Army’s liberation, but they cannot destroy what lives in people’s memories — how their forebears fought for freedom. No matter how fiercely the West demonizes Russia, its people know the truth, and such attacks only deepen their patriotism.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.ebsco.com/research-starters/history/etty-hillesum" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Etty Hillesum</a>, the Dutch-Jewish writer and philosopher murdered at Auschwitz in 1943, left us her final wisdom: “Someone else will continue where my life was cut short. And that is why I must try to live a good and faithful life until my last breath. That way, those who come after me will not have to start all over again.”</p>
<p>On September 7, 1943, just months before her death, she tossed a postcard from the deportation train that read: “Opening the Bible at random I find this: ‘The Lord is my high tower’. I am sitting on my rucksack in the middle of a full freight car. Father, Mother, and Mischa are a few cars away. In the end, the departure came without warning… We left the camp singing… Thank you for all your kindness and care.”</p>
<p>Tragically, her words go unheard today. Most in Western Europe, especially younger generations, likely don’t know her name — a bitter testament to how humanity remains doomed to repeat its gravest errors when it forgets its past.</p>
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]<p>That Ireland is not a quintessentially anti-Semitic country (as I believe it is not) is irrelevant.</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://gript.ie/myers-ireland-never-learns-from-its-diplomatic-follies/">MYERS: Ireland never learns from its diplomatic follies</a> appeared first on <a href="https://gript.ie/">Gript</a>.</p>

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title: Le français, nouveau passeport pour les immigrants qui souhaitent rester au Canada?
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<p>Les candidats ayant des compétences en langue française peuvent recevoir 50 points supplémentaires.</p>

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title: Hooray for Hollywood’s demise
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<p><strong><em>Trump’s decision to subsidise Hollywood is further proof that his economic policies are a mess but that his plans to kill off woke America remain firmly on track.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Trump’s decision to slap tariffs on foreign films and to subsidise Hollywood is further proof, if proof were needed, that his economic policies are a mess but that his plans to kill off woke America remain firmly on track. As Hollywood is a bastion of anti Trump Wokeness, killing it off will be to Trump’s political advantage.</p>
<p>Trump’s three Hollywood ambassadors are 86 year old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Voight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">John Voight</a>, 78 year old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylvester_Stallone" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Sylvester Stallone</a> and 69 year old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Gibson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mel Gibson</a>, while his most venomous Hollywood critic is 81 year old geriatric <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_De_Niro">Robert de Niro</a>, who belongs along with the others in an old folks’ home. De Niro recently starred in the action packed crime thriller, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irishman" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Irishman</a>, which was woefully short of action because De Niro and 82 year old <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pesci" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Pesci</a>, its lead actor, are both fit for the knackers’ yard as, of course, is 82 year old Hollywood fossil <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Martin Scorsese</a>, who directed it.</p>
<p>Although Alzheimers will cause Scorsese and Gibson to forget more about movies than the rest of us will ever learn, they should long ago have yielded the field to younger players, who can reach out to the key, younger audiences, who actually pay to watch movies and buy the popcorn, franchised goods and other crap cinemas sell to make ends meet.</p>
<p>Not only are Trump’s Hollywood ambassadors too old to hit first base with their core audience but Hollywood itself is dying on its feet. And they are not my words but those of Hollywood ambassador Mel Gibson in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Jb7yv0UVE" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this Fox News interview</a>, where Gibson explains how Hollywood has priced itself out of the market. When it is cheaper for Gibson to fly an entire crew to Europe for three days than it is to shoot around the corner in Los Angeles for a day, Hollywood has a major budgeting problem on its hands.</p>
<p>That problem is accentuated by Hollywood’s efforts to hit its core <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-quadrant_movie" target="_blank" rel="noopener">four quadrant demographic</a>, to still appeal to both males and females above and below the key 25 year old dividing line. Though blockbusters may have been able to do that in the past, it is infinitely much harder to do it now as those market segments have been further fractured along ethnic and other lines, and recent WOKE flops like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_White_(2025_film)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Snow White</a> have landed Hollywood further in the mire. When Hollywood cannot even showcase a simple child’s story like Snow White to children without smothering them in boring WOKE lectures, it is obvious Hollywood is on its last legs and young, talented producers and actors have not the sufficient space to operate there.</p>
<p>But it is not just Snow White. Consider <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/55_Days_at_Peking#Reception" target="_blank" rel="noopener">55 Days at Peking</a>, the1963 movie about the Boxer Uprising or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zulu_(1964_film)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zulu</a>, the 1964 blockbuster about the British extermination campaigns in South Africa. Good luck selling crap like that today in South Africa or China, where domestically produced Chinese movies like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_in_Thailand" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lost in Thailand</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Battle_at_Lake_Changjin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Battle at Lake Changjin</a> top the box office. For what it is worth, I enjoyed Lost in Thailand, which is a Chinese comedy with Chinese actors working their way through a typically shallow Hollywood plot and a cocktail of madcap mishaps that kept the punters laughing from one end of China to the other. The Battle of Changjin was just Chinese Audie Murphys, John Waynes and Steve McQueens hitting the Yankee black hats for six during the Korean War.</p>
<p>Nothing particularly new or novel in that, or in the hundreds of movies the Australians produced before striking box office gold with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_from_Snowy_River_(1982_film)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Man from Snowy River</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max">Mad Max</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodile_Dundee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crocodile Dundee</a>. Or indeed in South Africa’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gods_Must_Be_Crazy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Gods must be crazy</a>, which had me rolling around the aisles when I first saw it many moons ago. The point about all those movies and the soapies I have watched throughout Southern Europe, Mexico, Japan, South East Asia and the Arab world is not only is there oodles of local talent, all striving for their place in the sun but they all have large and receptive audiences, and Snow White and The Irishman do not pass muster for them.</p>
<p>Although <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Chan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jackie Chan’</a>s successes in Hong Kong, China, Europe and then in Hollywood show that cross pollination is possible, that is not what Hollywood wants. Hollywood wants to go back to the big budget movies of Audie Murphy, John Wayne and Steve McQueen, where the Chinese and Mexicans are good only as pig-tailed, sombrero-wearing black hats to be mown down by Wayne and his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Berets_(film)" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Green Berets</a> buddies. That ship has sailed and the good people of Ghana, of all places, agree with me on that.</p>
<p>The problem in Ghana is they feel the Nigerians are colonising them by poaching their actors and smothering their own film industry by offering cheaper Nigerian fare. Although I haven’t watched a lot of Nigerian films, I enjoy listening to Nigerian church music as it is so vibrant and it symbolises the African creativity that is bubbling to the fore not only there but all the way to South Africa which has a vibrant film editing industry and some great locations and enough lions, elephants, leopards, rhinos and buffalos to add spectacular local colour to whomsoever wants to shoot a revamped me Tarzan you Jane movie there.</p>
<p>Although we can skate by India’s <a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollywood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bollywood</a> and Nigeria’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nollywood" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Nollywood</a> for the sake of brevity, let’s just say Hollywood’s botox brigade have passed their sell by date by evey criterion and some we cannot yet imagine but Russian children like <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/02/11/soy-boys-sigma-boys-and-the-collapse-of-natos-eastern-front/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Betsy and Maria Yankovskaya</a> and their <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/04/27/marching-for-peace-in-moscow-this-may-9th/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contemporaries in China</a> and all of Southeast Asia can. Though I have no idea what those kids would hope to see at the box office, I do know that the old fossils of Hollywood and the Oval Office haven’t a clue either and that is another reason why the future belongs to the up and coming producers, directors, actors, costume makers and general factotums of Moscow, Beijing, Mexico, Manila, Bangkok, Joburg and Durban.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/can-trumps-movie-tariff-actually-work-1236207053/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Here is the influential Hollywood Reporter</a>,<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-news/jon-voight-trump-tariff-movies-united-states-1235331564/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> Rolling Stone</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/may/05/trumps-movie-tariffs-are-designed-to-destroy-the-international-film-industry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MI6’s Guardian newspaper</a> expanding on those and related points with respect to China, co-productions and tax breaks. And, though I am including them for the sake of completeness, my bigger point is that <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/02/11/soy-boys-sigma-boys-and-the-collapse-of-natos-eastern-front/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Betsy and Maria Yankovskaya</a> and their <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/04/27/marching-for-peace-in-moscow-this-may-9th/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contemporaries in China</a> and the rest of Asia don’t care about them or their Snow White wokeness. They want to dance and, as Hollywood cannot move beyond <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Astaire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fred Astaire</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cagney" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jimmy Cagney</a> and the great <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Rogers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ginger Rogers</a>, they, along with kids in the Americas and Europe, will get their inspiration and their kicks from the up and coming movie studios of Bollywood, Nollywood, Manila, Moscow and China’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hengdian_World_Studios" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hengdian World Studios</a> which, though the world’s biggest studio set, has a <a href="https://www.hengdian.com/en/business/subsidiary-74" target="_blank" rel="noopener">totally different</a> and much more flexible model than does the fossil that is Hollywood which, like its stars, is too old to learn and too set in its ways to adapt to today’s market. Perhaps Bollywood will make a musical about Hollywood’s demise and Chinese and Russian kids will dance to its soundtrack. Who is to know, and who is to care?</p>
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<p><strong><em>Donald Trump ha annunciato la resa degli Houthi in Yemen, ma è vero?</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><span><span><em>Segue nostro</em></span> <a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegram</a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tlg.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875659"></a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>.</span></a></span></strong></p>
<p>Il presidente Donald Trump ha <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-us-will-stop-bombing-houthis-after-agreement-struck-2025-05-06/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">annunciato</a> la conclusione delle operazioni militari statunitensi contro lo Yemen che si protraevano ormai da sette settimane, a seguito della “capitolazione” degli Houthi. Questa, per lo meno, è la ricostruzione formulata dall’inquilino della Casa Bianca, secondo cui il gruppo yemenita avrebbe assunto l’impegno a «non colpire più le navi nel Mar Rosso:  questo era lo scopo del nostro lavoro». L’intesa è stata confermata dai mediatori omaniti, che hanno tuttavia fornito dettagli altamente significativi. L’accordo impedirebbe a entrambe le parti di prendersi reciprocamente di mira, vincolando così gli Houthi a garantire l’incolumità dei navigli statunitensi – e forse europei – in transito nelle acque del Mar Rosso e dello Stretto di di Bab al-Mandab come contropartita per la cessazione dei bombardamenti Usa.</p>
<p>L’intesa giunge in concomitanza con l’annuncio relativo alla <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/next-round-iran-us-nuclear-talks-likely-be-oman-weekend-2025-05-06/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ripresa</a> dei negoziati tra Washington e Teheran incentrati sulla questione del nucleare iraniano, e nell’<a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/trump-to-attend-gulf-summit-during-saudi-arabia-trip-report/3556256" target="_blank" rel="noopener">imminenza</a> del tour diplomatico del presidente Trump nella penisola araba. Potrebbe quindi scaturire dalla volontà sia statunitense che iraniana di stemperare le tensioni in vista dei negoziati, in seguito alle uscite del segretario di Stato Marco Rubio secondo cui l’unica via a disposizione dell’Iran per scongiurare il conflitto consisterebbe nell’interruzione del sostegno agli Houthi, della costruzione di missili a lungo raggio e dell’arricchimento dell’uranio. Va tuttavia considerato che, come <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/houthis-declare-attacks-on-israel-to-continue-after-ceasefire-reached-with-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spiegato</a> dall’esponente verticistico del Consiglio Politico Supremo degli Houthi Mahdi al-Mashat, l’intesa appena siglata con gli Stati Uniti non contempla alcuna cessazione delle attività militari dirette contro Israele, che nei giorni corsi è stato nuovamente <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/how-houthi-missile-pierced-us-israeli-defenses-and-hit-tel-aviv-airport-expert-explains/3557120" target="_blank" rel="noopener">colpito</a> da un missile balistico yemenita. La specificazione di al-Mashat conferisce all’intesa appena raggiunta tra l’amministrazione Trump e gli Houthi un significato particolare, perché denota un evidente disallineamento tra gli interessi statunitensi e israeliani. Non a caso, ha <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-852927" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rivelato</a> il «Jerusalem Post» in base alle confidenze rese da un alto funzionario israeliano, la classe dirigente di Tel Aviv non era stata nemmeno informata dell’intesa.</p>
<p>Allo stesso tempo, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/05/houthis-yemen-us-israel-conflict/682716/">sottolinea</a> la rivista «The Atlantic», l’accordo «pone le basi per una tregua necessaria», dal momento che «la guerra contro gli Houthi rischiava di trasformarsi in una sorta di pantano. Sebbene i recenti attacchi americani abbiano arrecato qualche danno al gruppo yemenita, sono rimasti ben lontani dall’obiettivo dichiarato di “annientarlo completamente”. Gli Houthi rimarranno una notevole minaccia per l’intera regione, avendo dimostrato negli ultimi 18 mesi di poter interrompere a propria discrezione il traffico marittimo internazionale».</p>
<p>Secondo i dati riportati dal Dipartimento di Stato, da quando Israele ha scatenato l’Operazione Iron Swords nell’ottobre 2023, gli Houthi hanno sferrato 145 attacchi contro cargo commerciali statunitensi e 174 contro navigli della Us Navy. Il traffico attraverso il Canale di Suez è crollato del 60% circa, con conseguente allungamento dei tempi di consegna e incremento astronomico dei costi per le spedizioni. Come ha <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trumps-looming-war-key-trade-route-will-costly-2048315" target="_blank" rel="noopener">osservato</a> Jennifer Kavanagh, ex analista della Rand Corporation, «la genialità della strategia adottata dagli Houthi risiede nel fatto che i loro missili non devono colpire nulla o causare danni ingenti per raggiungere l’obiettivo di interrompere il traffico marittimo attraverso il Mar Rosso. Il clima di incertezza così creato è risultato sufficiente a spingere la maggior parte delle compagnie di navigazione ad allontanarsi dalla regione». Per di più, «i droni e i missili che gli Houthi utilizzano sono spesso economici e abbastanza facili sia da ottenere che da nascondere nel sottosuolo, ma risultano molto costosi da contrastare per gli Stati Uniti. I droni nella disponibilità degli Houthi, ad esempio, possono costare appena 2.000 dollari, ma i missili che gli Stati Uniti impiegano contro di loro costano più di 2 milioni di dollari». Con tutti i contraccolpi del caso.</p>
<p>Secondo una stima <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/04/politics/cost-us-military-houthis-limited-impact" target="_blank" rel="noopener">riportata</a> dalla «Cnn» sulla base di confidenze rese da tre anonimi funzionari di Washington addentro alla questione, le operazioni militari contro lo Yemen sostenute dagli Stati Uniti in appena tre settimane, foriere di risultati alquanto modesti, sarebbero costate circa un miliardo di dollari. L’offensiva, implicante l’impiego di missili da crociera Tomahawk e Jassm, bombe plananti a guida satellitare Jsow, bombardieri B-2 Spirit, una portaerei, diversi squadroni di caccia e sistemi di difesa aerea. Valutazioni dello stesso tenore sono state formulate, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/politics/china-weapons-yemen-bombing.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">riporta</a> il «New York Times», da funzionari del Pentagono, secondo cui «l’esercito statunitense ha conseguito risultati limitati» nella campagna militare contro lo Yemen. Inoltre, i vertici della Us Navy e la Marina e del Comando Indo-Pacifico sarebbero «molto preoccupati per la velocità con cui l’esercito sta consumando munizioni in Yemen».</p>
<p>Le operazioni statunitensi in Yemen avrebbero in altri termini impresso un’accelerazione decisiva al processo di erosione delle riserve strategiche di armi e munizioni statunitensi in corso quantomeno dallo scoppio del conflitto russo-ucraino. I dati indicano che l’Operazione Prosperity Guardian, lanciata dall’amministrazione Biden nel dicembre 2023 per contrastate l’attivismo degli Houthi, ha <a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-attacks-houthis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">richiesto</a> un consumo di missili e munizioni più intenso rispetto a quello sostenuto dagli Usa durante l’intera Seconda Guerra Mondiale. All’agosto 2024, gli Stati Uniti avevano <a href="https://www.theamericanconservative.com/why-let-the-houthis-bleed-our-military-stockpiles/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lanciato</a> contro lo Yemen 125 missili Tomahawk (costo: tra 1 e 2 milioni di dollari), pari al 3% delle riserve.</p>
<p>A gennaio, il viceammiraglio Brendan McLane ha <a href="https://www.twz.com/news-features/navy-just-disclosed-how-many-of-each-of-its-surface-to-air-missiles-it-fired-during-red-sea-fight">spiegato</a> che la flotta di superficie della Us Navy aveva esploso nell’ambito di Prosperity Guardian ben 120 missili Sm-2, 80 missili Sm-6, 160 munizioni da 12,5 cm e 20 missili Essm e Sm-3.</p>
<p>La campagna lanciata da Trump, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/politics/us-strikes-yemen-houthis.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rileva</a> il «New York Times», ha intensificato l’impiego non solo dei Tomahawk, ma anche dei missili a corto raggio Agm-154 (costo: tra i 282.000 e i 719.000 dollari) e Agm-158 (costo: 698.000 dollari). Vettori, cioè, che vengono lanciati dagli F-18, cacciabombardieri da 60/70 milioni di dollari. Due di questi velivoli sono <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/2nd-navy-fighter-jet-truman-aircraft-carrier-lost/story?id=121542299" target="_blank" rel="noopener">andati</a> “perduti” nelle acque del Mar Rosso nel giro di pochissimi giorni. Se la distruzione del secondo aereo andrebbe <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/second-60-million-fighter-jet-lost-us-navy-red-sea-report-2068868" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ricondotta</a> a un malfunzionamento dei sistemi elettronici, l’inabissamento del primo <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-navy-lost-67-million-fighter-jet-sea-fell-aircraft-carrier-rcna203444">sarebbe</a> invece il risultato di una serie di manovre azzardate compiute dalla portaerei Uss Truman per sfuggire a un attacco sferrato dagli Houthi. La perdita degli F-18 va a sommarsi all’abbattimento di 21 droni Mq-9 Reaper (costo: 30 milioni di dollari), sempre ad <a href="https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/houthis-down-21st-u-s-mq-9-reaper-delivering-us735-million-blow-to-americas-aerial-dominance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opera</a> degli Houthi.</p>
<p>Ne consegue che, considerata alla luce del rapporto costi/benefici, molto difficilmente la campagna militare in Yemen può configurarsi come un successo per Washington. Si è rivelata particolarmente impegnativa e gravida di magri risultati, come traspare dalle dichiarazioni <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/7cmxa9ce8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">formulate</a> da Trump in persona in riferimento agli Houthi, i quali «hanno manifestato una grande capacità di resistere alle punizioni. Si può dire che hanno dimostrato molto coraggio. È stato incredibile quello che hanno sopportato. Ora onoriamo il loro impegno e la loro parola».</p>
<p>In buona sostanza, sostiene «The Atlantic», «gli Stati Uniti si sono ritirati dal conflitto senza porvi fine», onde evitare di intaccare le riserve di materiale bellico oltre la soglia critica. Molte delle munizioni impiegate nelle operazioni in Yemen, <a href="https://www.heritage.org/defense/commentary/the-us-navy-running-dangerously-low-munitions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rileva</a> Jim Fein della Heritage Foundation, «risulterebbero cruciali in una guerra contro la Cina […]. Gli Houthi rappresentano una minaccia relativamente piccola, meno avanzata e meno letale della Cina, eppure si sono dimostrati un problema persistente per gli Stati Uniti e i loro alleati. Se servono centinaia di missili per smorzare gli attacchi degli Houthi – con scarso successo – ce ne vorranno ancora di più per affrontare la minaccia cinese».</p>
<p></p>

link:
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/05/11/il-magro-bilancio-della-campagna-militare-usa-in-yemen/


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138968
title: Politico Is a Lie Machine and liberal women Advocate for a Tower of Babel
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<p><a href="https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/17468907558022974134235377597080.png"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/17468907558022974134235377597080-448x388.png" alt="" width="448" height="388" data-sanitized-class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-138969"></a></p>

link:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/05/11/politico-is-a-lie-machine-and-liberal-women-advocate-for-a-tower-of-babel/


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138964
title: Scamming technology outruns the ability to protect
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<p>Scamming technology outruns the ability to protect</p>
<p><a href="https://blog.talosintelligence.com/typhon-reborn-v2-features-enhanced-anti-analysis/">https://blog.talosintelligence.com/typhon-reborn-v2-features-enhanced-anti-analysis/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><a href="https://thehackernews.com/2023/04/typhon-reborn-stealer-malware.html">https://thehackernews.com/2023/04/typhon-reborn-stealer-malware.html</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138966
title: Bill Gates is the Typhoid Mary of our time
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<p>Bill Gates is the Typhoid Mary of our time</p>
<p>Dr. Anthony Phan, a Vietnamese-American doctor says Autism did not exist in Vietnam until Bill Gates introduced his vaccination program</p>
<p><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>“There’s no such thing as autism in 1975, year 2000, year 2001, there’s no such thing — The Gates foundation introduced the vaccination program into Vietnam. Now Vietnam has over a 300% rise in autism”</p>
<p>“When Vietnam signed the WHO, and when Vietnam signed into the International Monetary Fund, the banking system, Bill Gates and the Gates foundation introduced the vaccination program into Vietnam. Now Vietnam has over a 300% rise in autism”</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1921018603488280884">https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1921018603488280884</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138953
title: Democrats Are at Work Setting Up Theft of Mid-term Elections
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<p>Democrats Are at Work Setting Up Theft of Mid-term Elections</p>
<p><strong>Proof of citizenship for voter registration, voter ID fails in Michigan</strong></p>
<p>In America you have to have a Real ID to take a plane flight, but not to vote.</p>
<p>Michigan House Democrats killed a chance for voters to decide on a constitutional amendment that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote and an ID at the polls.</p>
<p>The US has been reduced to a joke.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>No one can respect a country this totally stupid.</p>
<p><a href="https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/proof-citizenship-voter-registration-voter-id-fails-michigan">https://justthenews.com/nation/states/center-square/proof-citizenship-voter-registration-voter-id-fails-michigan</a></p>

link:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/05/11/democrats-are-at-work-setting-up-theft-of-mid-term-elections/


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138944
title: The Jews Rush to the Defense of Their Wicked Industry
author: ;pcr3
link: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/05/11/the-jews-rush-to-the-defense-of-their-wicked-industry/
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<p>Did Big Pharma Make a Large Donation to IPI?</p>
<p> </p>
<p><a href="https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image.png"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image-259x388.png" alt="" width="259" height="388" data-sanitized-class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-138945"></a><a href="https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image-1.png"><img decoding="async" src="https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/image-1-388x388.png" alt="" width="388" height="388" data-sanitized-class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-138946"></a></p>
<p> </p>
<p>Perhaps no industry is under as much pressure today from both Left and Right than the US pharmaceutical industry. But in yet another case of “the seen vs. the unseen,” demonizing the pharmaceutical industry is at best misguided and at worst will cost human lives.</p>
<p>Author, historian, and friend of IPI Tevi Troy has a compelling article in the April 2025 issue of Commentary Magazine entitled “<a href="https://ipi.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=236713c0eb5508a7a8a8c680e&amp;id=4f07beec1d&amp;e=6241cf160d" target="_blank" rel="noopener">In Praise of Big Pharma</a>” that maps out the dangers of demagoguing against the pharmaceutical industry.</p>
<p>Please join IPI on June 17th for this important virtual policy briefing on the issues surrounding the pharmaceutical industry, and why we must not allow runaway populism to endanger one of our most critical industries. Regardless of your views, you will undoubtedly learn something. And we will allow a generous Q&amp;A period for your questions and informed comments.</p>
<p><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9E_74mtbRpKPNpwclk-nHw?mc_cid=ff5465dc4d&amp;mc_eid=6241cf160d#/registration">https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9E_74mtbRpKPNpwclk-nHw?mc_cid=ff5465dc4d&amp;mc_eid=6241cf160d#/registration </a></p>
<p> </p>


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138955
title: A Christian Minister Speaks Out Against Israel
author: ;pcr3
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<p>A Christian Minister Speaks Out Against Israel</p>
<p><a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/chuck-baldwin/israels-fires-a-precursor-to-sodom-and-gomorrah/">https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/chuck-baldwin/israels-fires-a-precursor-to-sodom-and-gomorrah/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138961
title: Can President Trump Free America From Israel’s Control?
author: ;pcr3
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<p>Is the Satanic Israel Lobby Losing Its Iron Grip on America?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/fed-up-with-benjamin-netanyahu/">https://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/fed-up-with-benjamin-netanyahu/</a></p>
<p>With Trump perhaps, but not with the Republican governor of red state Texas, who remains a firm Israeli stooge, as do Republican senators Lindsey Graham, Tom Cotton, and Ted Cruz.</p>
<p><a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-condemns-city-of-san-marcos-antisemitic-resolution">https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-condemns-city-of-san-marcos-antisemitic-resolution</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p><a href="https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/Letter_to_San_Marcos_04.29.25.pdf">https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/Letter_to_San_Marcos_04.29.25.pdf</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Now that Palestine has been destroyed, is President Trump going to give US recognization to a Palestinian state?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-853387?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email">https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-853387?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email </a></p>


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138957
title: Is Justice Finally Coming to the Vilely Corrupt Democrats?
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<p>Is Justice Finally Coming to the Vilely Corrupt Democrats?</p>
<p><a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/james-howard-kunstler/going-around-coming-back-around/">https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/05/james-howard-kunstler/going-around-coming-back-around/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

link:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/05/11/is-justice-finally-coming-to-the-vilely-corrupt-democrats/


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138971
title: Harvard EXPOSED: How Corrupt Elites Destroyed American Education
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<p>Harvard EXPOSED: How Corrupt Elites Destroyed American Education</p>
<p><a href="https://sputnikglobe.com/20250507/harvard-exposed-how-corrupt-elites-destroyed-american-education-1122004575.html">https://sputnikglobe.com/20250507/harvard-exposed-how-corrupt-elites-destroyed-american-education-1122004575.html</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

link:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/05/11/harvard-exposed-how-corrupt-elites-destroyed-american-education/


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138950
author: ;pcr3
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Anyone Who Fails to Understand that Democrats Are Criminally Insane Needs to Confront this Democrat Bill Before the Colorado Legislature

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<p>Anyone Who Fails to Understand that Democrats Are Criminally Insane Needs to Confront this Democrat Bill Before the Colorado Legislature</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>“In Colorado, a bill has been sponsored that would criminalize parents and put them at risk of losing custody of their children for the ‘crime’ of calling their kids by their birth name and gender at birth.”</p>
<p><a href="https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/colorado-bill-criminalizing-parents?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=676930&amp;post_id=163223339&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=dx5km&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email">https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/colorado-bill-criminalizing-parents?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=676930&amp;post_id=163223339&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=dx5km&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>One reason the birthrate among Western white ethnicities is falling is that they are no longer our children. In Colorado a law is pending that parents who refer to their kids by their birth name and gender will be dispossessed of their kids by the government.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>So why go to the expense of raising kids for the state? <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>It is extraordinary to me that there are tens of millions of people who vote for a Satanic political party.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>A country with such a large number of totally stupid people cannot survive.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Alas! It is difficult to say that the Republicans are better.</p>
<p>It is extraordinary to me that there are young men who will join a military to defend a state that is half Satanic.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The problems and threats that are destroying America are entirely internal.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>They are not abroad in Russia, China, and Iran, where conservatives mistakenly locate our enemies. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The United States has essentially been overthrown from inside.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Trump represents the Counter-revolution and it is not going well.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>When Trump fails, the United States will become the worst tyranny yet to appear upon earth.</p>
<p><a href="https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/colorado-bill-criminalizing-parents?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=676930&amp;post_id=163223339&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=dx5km&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email">https://naomiwolf.substack.com/p/colorado-bill-criminalizing-parents?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=676930&amp;post_id=163223339&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=dx5km&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

link:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/05/11/anyone-who-fails-to-understand-that-democrats-are-criminally-insane-needs-to-confront-this-democrat-bill-before-the-colorado-legislature/


guid: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/?p=138948
title: Matt Taibbi Reports on the closure of the inhumane torture of dogs at the NIH
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<p>Matt Taibbi Reports on the closure of the inhumane torture of dogs at the NIH<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>Trusting, loving Beagle dogs were tortured for years at Fauci’s NIH by human monsters who should be tried and given the death penalty.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>How many American taxpayers knew, and would approve of, the extraordinary torture of “man’s best friend” by white-coated criminals using Americans’ tax money?</p>
<p>This is what goes on when government is out of control, as the US government has been since Abe Lincoln.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Even Trump can barely do anything to bring the monster government under control.</p>
<p>The torture of animals by sadists under the cloak of “medical research”–what a joke!–has only been stopped at NIH.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>As Taibbi reports, the NIH, the Department of Defense, the FDA and other agencies are still funding experimentation on dogs and cats outside of their agencies at colleges and universities and private companies across the country.  Clearly, there is no more integrity and humanity in American universities and private companies than at Fauici’s NIH.</p>
<p>People who torture innocent animals in the name of Satanic humans are evil beyond comprehension.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The “research” has never benefitted anyone.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>But it has made inhumane monsters of people who will surely and deservedly burn in Hell.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Big Pharma’s entire approach to medicine is wrong.  The chemical approach must be replaced by nutrition and the use of natural supplements.  But a correct approach to health would depreciate Big Pharma’s investments in treatments that undermine the human immune system.</p>
<p>We have the same problem with the food industry whose additives in processed foods undermine health.</p>
<p>Both Big Pharma and Big Food are entrenched institutionalized interests, and they will continue to kill us.</p>
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title: Enfants autochtones disparus dans les hôpitaux : Anne Panasuk, la digne indignée
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<p>Même retraitée, elle veut continuer d'aider à retrouver les enfants autochtones disparus dans les hôpitaux.</p>

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title: India-Pakistan Ceasefire, And Other Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*pHi34Fy7EunT4q8YH4sDjQ.png"></figure><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl9uYoqgXrM"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FTl9uYoqgXrM%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DTl9uYoqgXrM&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FTl9uYoqgXrM%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/4e5769056a8364e723a2d0988e641602/href">https://medium.com/media/4e5769056a8364e723a2d0988e641602/href</a></iframe><p>❖</p><p>After a few frightening missile and drone strike exchanges and some of the most <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/india-pakistan-125-jets-clash-one-largest-dogfights-recent-history-2069570">large-scale aerial combat</a> that our world has seen in recent history, India and Pakistan <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/india/pakistan-says-three-air-bases-targeted-by-indian-missiles-2025-05-10/">have reportedly agreed</a> to a full and immediate ceasefire.</p><p>So that’s a relief. I was about to publish a piece about this conflict and the risk of nuclear war when the ceasefire was announced, and I’ve never in my life been so happy to have to throw out hours of my work. Things are still tense and the <a href="https://socialistworker.co.uk/socialist-review-archive/kashmir-poisoned-legacy-partition/">grievances of Kashmiris</a> under Indian occupation remain unaddressed, but at least the nuclear brinkmanship is de-escalating for today.</p><p>❖</p><p>In more good news, a judge has <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-orders-release-tufts-university-doctoral-student-ice/story?id=121643343">ordered the release</a> of Rumeysa Ozturk, the Tufts University student who the Trump administration had detained for deportation solely for publishing an op-ed critical of Israel. When dismissing the case the judge actually said “there has been no evidence that has been introduced by the government other than the op-ed — I mean, that literally is the case.”</p><p>Imagine trying to put together a compelling legal argument only to have a judge squint at it, read out your reasoning, and then just say “I mean, that literally is the case” before throwing it out.</p><p>It’s good that Trump’s efforts to criminalize criticism of Israel keep <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/02/trump-immigration-court-losses-00324683">faceplanting in the courts</a>, but in a sense the damage has already been done. Non-citizens in the US are going to be far more reluctant to speak out against Israel’s US-backed crimes for fear of persecution.</p><p>Judges have ordered the release of Ozturk and <a href="https://1310kfka.com/abc-news/u-s-news/05/columbia-student-arrested-during-citizenship-interview-can-remain-free-court-says/">Mohsen Mahdawi</a> in their respective cases, ruling their persecution for political speech unlawful. Other judges have <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/29/lawsuit-deportations-pro-palestine-proceed-00316368">given smaller wins</a> to pro-Palestine activists like Mahmoud Khalil and Badar Khan Suri, but they remain in detention. All of them have spent weeks locked up like criminals for their speech and activism opposing an active genocide.</p><p>That alone would be enough to dissuade many non-citizens from speaking out about the Gaza holocaust while in the United States. A chilling effect has already taken place, because many people are unwilling to risk weeks or months in a cage while the world’s most murderous and tyrannical government works to deport them to another country — even if they might wind up winning in the courts eventually.</p><p>This chilling effect is a theft of the rights of US citizens as well as non-citizens, because it robs citizens of <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/censorship-violates-the-rights-of">their right to hear</a> what these activists have to say. Their government stepped in and hid speech that is critical of US foreign policy from their ears, determining that it would be best if Americans did not consume such wrongthink. If this isn’t tyranny, then nothing is.</p><p>Free speech is being stomped out throughout the western world to protect Israel and its western backers from criticism. There is no greater threat to the right to free expression in our society today. It must be opposed, and opposed ferociously.</p><p>❖</p><p>Haaretz <a href="https://archive.vn/cHTIH">reports</a> that the Israeli military has placed returning the hostages at the very bottom of its list of priorities in Gaza, with items like “concentration and movement of the public” and “operational control of the territory” ranking as more important goals.</p><p>The correct response to anyone who babbles about hostages when you criticize Israel’s actions in Gaza is “Shut the fuck up you lying genocidal sack of shit.” <a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/it-was-never-about-hostages-it-was">It was never about the hostages</a>. Everyone knows it was never about the hostages. It was always about ethnic cleansing.</p><p>❖</p><p>Americans and Israelis have been butchering people throughout west Asia with increasing brazenness and aggression, and yet people will still expect to be taken seriously when they tell you that you should be afraid of Muslims.</p><p>❖</p><p>We’ve been seeing some unexpected voices suddenly coming out and denouncing Israel’s genocide in Gaza and admitting that they were wrong for supporting it, including the <a href="https://archive.is/wH3Am">Financial Times editorial board</a>, Conservative MP <a href="https://x.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1919824826715214159">Mark Pritchard</a>, and Israeli academic <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osJCixlcdzc">Shaiel Ben-Ephraim</a>.</p><p>I don’t want to get anyone’s hopes up, but it would be good if this was a sign of something shifting.</p><p>_______________</p><p><em>My work is </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/05/24/my-experiments-with-hacking-capitalism/"><em>entirely reader-supported</em></a><em>, so if you enjoyed this piece </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/about"><em>here are some options</em></a><em> where you can toss some money into my tip jar if you want to. </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/"><em>Click here for links for my mailing list, social media, books, merch, and audio/video versions of each article</em></a><em>. 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title: It Is Freakish And Insane How Our Society Averts Its Gaze From Gaza
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*z8evsld146JKfEisHPQSQg.png"></figure><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5mwqPwggng"><em>Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley)</em></a>:</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2Fi5mwqPwggng%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Di5mwqPwggng&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Fi5mwqPwggng%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" width="854" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin"><a href="https://medium.com/media/7eefee7edabef365d3b9da4e2e13c628/href">https://medium.com/media/7eefee7edabef365d3b9da4e2e13c628/href</a></iframe><p>It can make you feel like you’re going mad. How phony and superficial it all is. How we’re a year and a half into history’s first live-streamed genocide and our whole society is acting like everything’s peachy.</p><p>We’re murdering kids. We’re starving them. We’re dropping high tech military explosives on them. Blowing their limbs off. Ripping their guts out. Shooting them in the head. This isn’t just being done by “Israel”. It’s being done by the entire western empire which backs these atrocities.</p><p>And yet if you turn on a TV you’ll see famous people laughing and joking about nonsense, expressing political opinions of no more depth and significance than whether or not there should have been a female Ghostbusters movie. Go read the news and it’s dominated by empty fluff about celebrities and politicians and the latest brain fart to come out of Donald Trump’s mouth. Go to a party and everyone’s nattering about vapid gibberish, yelling “No politics!” if you try to say anything about the holocaust-shaped elephant in the room.</p><p>Newer readers might not know this, but I used to have a lot more fun on my platform. Lots of humor. Psychedelic poetry. Spirituality and philosophy. But ever since the Gaza holocaust began, that kind of writing has often felt like it would be irreverent and frivolous. Almost sacrilegious. I would feel like I’m joining in with the madness of mainstream culture by turning my back on all those emaciated bodies and mutilated children.</p><p>So for the last year and a half I’ve mostly just been doing what I feel everyone on earth ought to be doing: pointing to the genocide and saying it needs to stop.</p><p>I used to be a lot more poetical and creative in my ways of pointing to the criminality of the empire, because its depravity was often difficult for people to really grasp, so I was always seeking out new ways to help people see its monstrosity with fresh eyes. Now that they’re just butchering children right in front of us, that’s not really what’s called for anymore. What’s called for is to keep drawing everyone’s attention to the terrible thing that’s staring us all right in the face.</p><p>This task shouldn’t be falling to university activists and obscure antiwar bloggers. Every news outlet in the world should be making this their entire focus.</p><p>If we had a sane and ethical news media, this is what they would be doing. All the leading stories every single day would be about the latest evil thing Israel and its western backers have done in Gaza, clearly stating in every headline our own government’s role in making this possible. Every press conference would be completely dominated with questions asking every western official why we are participating in an active genocide and demanding answers about when it is going to stop.</p><p>Instead we get “Palestinians perish in explosion” passive-language headlines, usually coupled with “…says Hamas-run health ministry” in order to let readers disbelieve the entire story. And that’s on those rare occasions that Israel’s atrocities get reported on at all; normally Gaza is seen as a third or fourth-tier issue of far less importance than some infinitely less egregious grievance in our own country. Palestinian lives are given vastly less weight than western lives, with our own feelings and comforts emphasized far more heavily than the issue of the Palestinian people living or dying.</p><p>And it can just make you feel like you’re going crazy. It’s like if we were all going around physically drenched in human blood, with blood flooding our living rooms and severed limbs strewn about our bedrooms and kitchens — but nobody was talking about it. You try to say “What’s up with all this blood and gore?” and they shush you and tell you it’s impolite to talk about politics. A dark red deluge pours out of your minivan door when you open it to pick up your kid from soccer practice, and everyone looks away.</p><p>This is happening. We know it’s happening. It’s happening right in front of us and we’re acting like it’s not. It’s so maddening and frustrating, and it can make you feel so powerless.</p><p>But we keep pointing at Gaza, because what the hell else are we going to do? The alternative is to join the lunatics acting like it isn’t happening.</p><p>At the very least, it’s a way of preserving our sanity. Preserving our humanity. Even if they do succeed in purging Gaza of all Palestinian life, at the very least we will have prevented the bastards from warping and twisting us into psychopathic freaks like them. Even if we can’t stop them from destroying Gaza, we can at least stop them from destroying our hearts.</p><p>_______________</p><p><em>My work is </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/05/24/my-experiments-with-hacking-capitalism/"><em>entirely reader-supported</em></a><em>, so if you enjoyed this piece </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/about"><em>here are some options</em></a><em> where you can toss some money into my tip jar if you want to. </em><a href="https://caitlinjohnstone.com/"><em>Click here for links for my mailing list, social media, books, merch, and audio/video versions of each article</em></a><em>. 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Most Europeans believe their countries have benefited from EU membership. But there’s a bit of nuance

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title: ¿Por qué el negociador no cierra el trato?
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<p><strong><em>La transformación de Estados Unidos llevada a cabo por Trump tenía como objetivo reconstruir el país bajo el lema «America First» (Estados Unidos primero).</em></strong></p>
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<p>La historia, tanto en Ucrania como en Irán, es que el presidente Trump quiere un <strong><em>“acuerdo”</em></strong> —y ambos acuerdos están disponibles—, pero, sin embargo, parece haberse metido en un callejón sin salida.</p>
<p>Trump presenta a su Administración como algo más duro, más cruel y mucho menos sentimental. <strong><em>Aspira a emerger, aparentemente, como algo más centralizado, coercitivo y radical.</em></strong></p>
<p>En política interior, puede que haya algo de verdad en esta categorización del espíritu trumpista. <em>En política exterior, sin embargo, Trump da bandazos</em>. La razón no está clara, pero el hecho empaña sus perspectivas en los <strong><em>tres ámbitos vitales</em></strong> para su aspiración de <em>“pacificador”</em>: <strong><em>Ucrania, Irán y Gaza</em></strong>.</p>
<p>Si bien es cierto que el verdadero mandato de Trump se deriva del descontento económico y social rampante, más que de sus pretensiones de pacificador, <em>los dos objetivos clave de la política exterior siguen siendo importantes para mantener el impulso hacia adelante.</em></p>
<p>Una posible respuesta es que, en las negociaciones exteriores, el presidente necesita un equipo con experiencia y con los pies en la tierra que le respalde. Y él no lo tiene.</p>
<p><strong>Antes de enviar a su enviado Witkoff a hablar con el presidente Putin, el general Kellogg, al parecer, </strong><a href="https://conflictsforum.substack.com/p/the-kellogg-framework-is-a-disaster" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>presentó a Trump</strong></a><strong> <em>una propuesta de armisticio al estilo de Versalles: una visión de Rusia contra las cuerdas</em> (es decir, el plan se planteó en términos más apropiados para la capitulación rusa).</strong></p>
<p>La propuesta de Kellogg también implicaba que Trump le haría un <em>‘gran favor’</em> a Putin, al condescender en ofrecerle una escalera para que bajara de su percha en el ‘árbol’ de Ucrania. Y esta fue exactamente la línea que siguió Trump en enero:</p>
<p>Tras afirmar que Rusia había perdido un millón de hombres (en la guerra), Trump continuó diciendo que “<em>Putin está destruyendo Rusia al no llegar a un acuerdo</em>”. Afirmó además que la economía rusa estaba <em>“en ruinas”</em> y, lo que es más notable, dijo que consideraría la posibilidad de sancionar o imponer aranceles a Rusia. En una <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113872782548137314">publicación</a> posterior en Truth Social, escribió:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>Voy a hacerle un gran FAVOR a Rusia, cuya economía está fracasando, y al presidente Putin.</em></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>El presidente, debidamente informado por su equipo, pudo haber imaginado que ofrecería a Putin un alto el fuego unilateral y, en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, <em>habría conseguido un rápido acuerdo que se habría atribuido como mérito propio</em>.</p>
<p>Todas las <strong><em>premisas en las que se basaba el plan Kellogg</em></strong> <em>(la vulnerabilidad de Rusia a las sanciones, las enormes pérdidas de hombres y el estancamiento de la guerra) <strong>eran falsas.</strong></em> ¿Nadie del equipo de Trump hizo entonces un análisis exhaustivo de la estrategia de Kellogg? Parece (por pereza) que se tomó la guerra de Corea como modelo, sin considerar debidamente si era apropiado o no.</p>
<p>En el <strong><em>caso coreano</em></strong>, el alto el fuego a lo largo de una línea de conflicto precedió a las consideraciones políticas, que solo llegaron más tarde. Y que siguen vigentes, y sin resolver, hasta hoy.</p>
<p>Al lanzar demandas prematuras de un alto el fuego inmediato durante las conversaciones con funcionarios rusos en Riad, <em>Trump invitó al rechazo</em>. En <strong><em>primer lugar</em></strong>, porque el <strong><em>equipo de Trump no tenía un plan concreto sobre cómo implementar un alto el fuego</em></strong>, simplemente suponiendo que todos los detalles podrían resolverse a posteriori. En resumen, se le presentó a Trump como una “<em>victoria rápida</em>”.</p>
<p>Pero no lo era.</p>
<p>El resultado estaba predeterminado: el alto el fuego fue rechazado. No debería haberse permitido que esto ocurriera, con un equipo competente.</p>
<p><strong>¿Acaso nadie del equipo de Trump había escuchado desde el 14 de junio del año pasado, cuando Putin </strong><a href="https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1957107/?TSPD_101_R0=08765fb817ab200020b1d367e4711f11b2ede878b6afd35fa1d64bff8dcda7938762d8b9bb632930089f5fd0f0143000ad2d624d99a1ebdd96e467701da1aec1d50b4e29c3d1178d7b86d1c4b171d41a7fbf975432e2c0043f0d7f7cbb4a4c8d" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>explicó</strong></a><strong> muy claramente al Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores la posición rusa sobre un alto el fuego? Y que se ha repetido regularmente desde entonces. Al parecer, no.</strong></p>
<p>Sin embargo, incluso así, cuando el enviado de Trump, Witkoff, regresó de una larga reunión con el presidente Putin para informar sobre la explicación personal y detallada de este último sobre por qué debe <strong><em>preceder un marco político a cualquier alto el fuego</em></strong> (a diferencia de Corea), según se informa, el relato de Witkoff fue recibido con la tajante respuesta del general Kellogg de que <strong><em>“los ucranianos nunca estarían de acuerdo”.</em></strong></p>
<p>Fin de la discusión, al parecer. No se tomó ninguna decisión.</p>
<p>Varios vuelos más a Moscú no han alterado la situación básica. Moscú espera pruebas de que Trump es capaz de consolidar su posición y hacerse cargo de la situación. Pero hasta entonces, Moscú está dispuesta a facilitar un <strong><em>“acercamiento de posiciones”,</em></strong> pero <strong><em>no aprobará un alto el fuego unilateral</em></strong>. (Y tampoco lo hará Zelensky).</p>
<p>El enigma aquí es por qué Trump no corta el flujo de armas e inteligencia de Estados Unidos a Kiev y les dice a los europeos que no se metan en sus asuntos.</p>
<p><strong>¿Tiene Kiev algún tipo de poder de veto? ¿No entiende el equipo de Trump que los europeos simplemente esperan frustrar el objetivo de Trump de normalizar las relaciones con Rusia? Deben entenderlo.</strong></p>
<p>Parece que el ‘<em>debate’</em> (si se le puede llamar así) en el equipo de Trump excluyó en gran medida <em>los factores de la vida real</em>. Se desarrolló en un <em>nivel normativo elevado</em>, en el que <em>se dan por sentados ciertos hechos y verdades</em>.</p>
<p>Quizás pesó mucho el fenómeno de los costes irrecuperables:</p>
<p><strong>cuanto más tiempo se sigue una línea de actuación (por estúpida que sea), menos dispuesto se está a cambiarla. Cambiarla se interpretaría como un reconocimiento de error, y reconocer un error es el primer paso para perder el poder.</strong></p>
<p>Y hay un paralelismo con las conversaciones con Irán.</p>
<p>Trump tiene la visión de un acuerdo negociado con Irán que lograría su objetivo de <strong><em>“no armas nucleares iraníes”</em></strong>, aunque el objetivo en sí mismo es una tautología, dado que la <strong><em>comunidad de inteligencia estadounidense </em></strong><a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/us-intel-report-determines-iran-not-building-nuclear-weapon" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong><em>ya ha determinado</em></strong></a><strong><em> que Irán NO tiene armas nucleares.</em></strong></p>
<p>¿Cómo se detiene algo que no está ocurriendo? Bueno, la ‘intención’ es un concepto enormemente difícil de delimitar. Así que el equipo vuelve a lo básico: <em>a la firme doctrina original de la Rand Organisation de que no existe ninguna diferencia cualitativa entre el enriquecimiento pacífico y el enriquecimiento con fines militares del uranio</em>. Por lo tanto, <em>no se debe permitir ningún tipo de enriquecimiento</em>.</p>
<p>Solo Irán tiene capacidad de enriquecimiento, gracias a la concesión de Obama como parte del JCPOA, que lo permitió, con ciertas limitaciones.</p>
<p>Hay muchas ideas sobre cómo resolver este dilema: la negativa de Irán a renunciar al enriquecimiento frente a la <em>‘incapacidad’</em> de Trump para convertirlo en arma. Ninguna de las ideas es nueva<em>: importar a Irán materia prima enriquecida</em>; <em>exportar el uranio altamente enriquecido de Irán a Rusia </em>(algo que ya se ha hecho como parte del PAIC) y <em>que Rusia construya la capacidad de energía nuclear de Irán para alimentar su industria</em>.</p>
<p>El problema es que Rusia ya lo está haciendo también. Ya tiene una planta en funcionamiento y otra en construcción.</p>
<p><em>Israel, </em>naturalmente, también tiene sus propias propuestas: <strong><em>erradicar toda la infraestructura de enriquecimiento y la capacidad de lanzamiento de misiles de Irán.</em></strong></p>
<p>Pero Irán nunca aceptará esto.</p>
<p>Así pues, la elección es entre un sistema de inspección y vigilancia técnica reforzado en un acuerdo similar al PAIC (que no satisfará ni a Israel ni a los líderes institucionales proisraelíes) o la acción militar.</p>
<p>Lo que nos lleva de vuelta al equipo de Trump y a las divisiones internas del Pentágono.</p>
<p>Pete Hegseth envió el siguiente mensaje a Irán, publicado en su cuenta de redes sociales:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>Vemos su apoyo LETAL a los hutíes. Sabemos exactamente lo que están haciendo. Saben muy bien de lo que es capaz el ejército estadounidense, y se les ha advertido. Pagarán las CONSECUENCIAS en el momento y lugar que nosotros elijamos.</em></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Claramente, Hegseth está frustrado. Como ha <a href="https://sonar21.com/us-is-flummoxed-by-yemen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">señalado</a> Larry Johnson:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>El equipo de Trump ha estado trabajando bajo [otra] suposición falsa de que la gente de Biden no hizo un esfuerzo serio por destruir el arsenal de misiles y drones de los hutíes. Los trumpistas creían que podían bombardear a los hutíes hasta someterlos. En cambio, Estados Unidos está demostrando a todos los países de la región los límites de su poderío naval y aéreo… A pesar de más de 600 bombardeos, los hutíes siguen lanzando misiles y drones contra buques estadounidenses en el Mar Rojo y objetivos dentro de Israel.</em></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Así pues, el equipo de <em>Trump se ha metido primero en un conflicto (Yemen) y, en segundo lugar, en una compleja negociación con Irán, aparentemente sin haber hecho los deberes sobre Yemen</em>. ¿Se trata de nuevo de <a href="https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/a-strange-defeat" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pensamiento grupal</a>?</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>En una situación de incertidumbre como la actual, la solidaridad se considera un fin en sí misma y nadie quiere ser acusado de ‘debilitar a Occidente’ o ‘fortalecer a Irán’. Si hay que equivocarse, mejor hacerlo en compañía del mayor número posible de personas.</em></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>¿Dejará Israel pasar esto? Está trabajando sin descanso con el general Kurilla (el general estadounidense al mando del CENTCOM) en el búnker situado bajo el Ministerio de Defensa israelí, preparando planes para un ataque conjunto contra Irán. <em>Israel parece muy interesado en su trabajo.</em></p>
<p>Sin embargo, el obstáculo fundamental para alcanzar un acuerdo con Irán es aún más crucial, ya que, tal y <em>como se concibe actualmente, el enfoque estadounidense de las negociaciones </em><a href="https://strategicreflections.substack.com/p/the-new-iran-deal-misconceptions" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>rompe todas las reglas</em></a><em> sobre cómo iniciar un tratado de limitación de armas</em>.</p>
<p>Por un lado, <a href="https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/nuclear-weapons-who-has-what-glance" target="_blank" rel="noopener">está Israel con una tríada de sistemas de armas nucleares</a> y capacidades de lanzamiento: desde submarinos, aviones y misiles. Israel también ha <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-11-08/ty-article/iran-nuclear-chief-ministers-threat-to-nuke-gaza-confirms-israels-capability/0000018b-aecb-df42-a78f-afcbcbcd0000">amenazado con el uso de armas nucleares</a>, recientemente en Gaza y anteriormente durante la primera guerra de Irak, en respuesta a <em>la capacidad de misiles Scud de Saddam Hussein</em>.</p>
<p>El principio que falta aquí es cualquier mínimo de reciprocidad. Se dice que Irán amenaza a Israel, e Israel amenaza regularmente a Irán. Y Israel, por supuesto, quiere que Irán sea neutralizado y desarmado e insiste en que no se le toque (ni TNP, ni inspecciones del OIEA, ni reconocimiento).</p>
<p>Los tratados de limitación de armas iniciados por JF Kennedy con Jrushchov se derivaron de la exitosa negociación recíproca por la que Estados Unidos retiró sus misiles de Turquía antes de que Rusia retirara los suyos de Cuba.</p>
<p><strong>Trump y Witkoff deben tener claro que una propuesta tan desequilibrada como la suya para Irán no tiene nada que ver con la realidad geopolítica y, por lo tanto, es probable que fracase (tarde o temprano). El equipo de Trump se está acorralando a sí mismo en una acción militar contra Irán, de la que luego se harán responsables.</strong></p>
<p>Trump no quiere eso; Irán no quiere eso. Entonces, ¿se ha pensado bien todo esto? ¿Se ha tenido plenamente en cuenta la experiencia de Yemen? ¿Ha planteado el equipo de Trump alguna vía de salida?</p>
<p>Una forma creativa de salir del dilema, y que podría restaurar al menos una apariencia de tratado clásico de limitación de armas, sería que Trump planteara la idea de que ahora es el momento de que Israel se adhiera al TNP y permita que la AIEA inspeccione sus armas.</p>
<p>¿Lo hará Trump? No.</p>
<p>Entonces resulta obvio por qué.</p>
<p>La transformación de Estados Unidos llevada a cabo por Trump tenía como objetivo reconstruir el país bajo el lema “America First” (Estados Unidos primero).</p>
<p><em>Traducción: </em><a href="https://observatoriodetrabajad.com/2025/05/08/por-que-el-negociador-no-cierra-el-trato-alastair-crooke/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u><em>Observatorio de trabajadores en luch</em></u><u><em>a</em></u></a></p>
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Yemen Just Flipped Trump’s Entire Middle East Strategy | Larry C. Johnson &amp; Col. Larry Wilkerson

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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/image0-1.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>A leading pro-life group has said that the revelation that more than 50,000 abortions had taken place in Ireland by the end of February  was both “horrifying” and a “direct result of the relentless push to focus on abortion as a first solution”, adding that women and babies were being “utterly failed” by the state.</strong></p>
<p>The Life Institute was reacting to information released to Carol Nolan TD by the HSE which showed that at least 10,441 abortions had been carried out in 2024 – while an additional 1,742 abortions took place in January and February of 2025.</p>
<p>Deputy Nolan said that the new figures confirmed that the numbers of abortions that had taken place had exceeded 50,000, and that successive governments had broken promises made in the 2018 referendum that abortion would be “rare”.</p>
<p><strong>2019: 6,666</strong></p>
<p><strong>2020: 6,577</strong></p>
<p><strong>2021: 6,700</strong></p>
<p><strong>2022: 8,156</strong></p>
<p><strong>2023: 10,033</strong></p>
<p><strong>2024: 10,441</strong></p>
<p><strong>Jan/Feb 2025:  1,742</strong></p>
<p><strong>TOTAL: 50,315 </strong></p>
<p>Furthermore, she added the final total for the number of abortions from January 2024 to February 2025 would increase further when the abortions that had taken place in settings other than GP surgeries were accounted for.</p>
<p>Some 200 abortions take place in Ireland each year under sections 9,10 and 11 of the abortion act which are separate categories to the 12-week on demand terminations.</p>
<p>In the parliamentary question submitted to the Minister for Health, Deputy Nolan had asked for information around payments to GPs who were reimbursed for ‘first and second consultations for terminations of pregnancy’ for 2024 and the first three months of the 2025. In their response, the HSE confirmed 12,641 women had an initial consultation with a GP last year, at a cost of €1.9m.</p>
<p>Of that total, the 10,441 returned for a termination and aftercare, which cost a further €3.1m.</p>
<p>Those figures relate to abortions in a non-hospital setting but do not include abortions carried out between nine and twelve weeks , which are typically carried out in hospitals. Abortion on demand is legal in Ireland up to 12 weeks, while late-term abortions are legal if the baby has a life-limiting condition.</p>
<p>Life Institute’s Sandra Parda said that the figures showed that the “profoundly disturbing” trend of a “spiralling abortion rate” was continuing year on year. “Less than 3,000 women travelled to Britain for an abortion in 2018, with perhaps another 1,000 taking abortion pills, so seeing more than 10,000 abortions in one year shows the rate has more than doubled, yet all we hear from the government and the taxpayer-funded pro-abortion NGOs is talk of trying to make abortion even more accessible,” she said.</p>
<p>“We are literally aborting our future, yet most of our TDs are too small-minded and too petty to take any action that might tackle our soaring abortion rate,” she added.  “Like the rest of the world we are facing a collapse in births, and aborting 10,000 babies a year is making that stark reality even worse, yet our ideology-addled TDs in government and in large part of the Opposition are just digging their heads into the sand and wondering if we can make it even easier to get abortions – which will just hike the already appalling rate up further again.”</p>
<p>She said that the natural outcome of the “current fixation on abortion as the primary solution to women in crisis” would “lead to a situation where pro-life families would become in the majority again sooner than anyone might have envisaged in 2018,” but that “women and unborn babies are paying for the social crisis we are seeing reflected in these figures with their lives and their wellbeing.”</p>
<p>“The government is failing women and failing babies and they need to be held accountable,” she added.</p>
<p>Carol Nolan said that successive governments had failed to acknowledge the soaring abortion rate – and added that: ‘Women who regret abortion are ignored. Harms caused are minimised and a society is gaslighted if it dares to question the trajectory of a policy that cheerleads abortion as empowerment.”</p>
<p>‘This has created a silent ruthlessness that is actively harming women while ending the lives of their children,” she said.</p>
<p>“The silence of all those who offered guarantees to voters in 2018 is deafening. It is an abdication of political accountability and engagement that is quite frankly monstrous. Where is the cheering crowd of supporters and their political allies who ushered in this era of mass death? The cowardice is contemptible,” she added</p>
<p>The Department of Health said that their MyOptions service supported individuals “in making an informed decision, and offered “non-directive listening support, counselling and information for people experiencing an unplanned pregnancy.”</p>

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title: A Roma c’è sempre un Papa
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<p><strong><em>Ecco che “padre” Robert si trova davanti una bella città da dover sistemare, e non solo quella di Roma, ma quella dell’intero cattolicesimo, ridotto al ridicolo dal predecessore, che a stento sopravvive ai colpi del tempo. </em></strong></p>
<p><strong><span><span><em>Segue nostro</em></span> <a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegram</a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tlg.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875659"></a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>.</span></a></span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Si sta come Sisto</strong></p>
<p>Il Cardinale Robert Prevost è stato eletto 267° Papa della Chiesa Cattolica. In una piazza San Pietro semivuota, il nuovo pontefice, agostiniano di origine religiosa e statunitense di nazionalità, è salito al soglio pontificio.</p>
<p>A Roma, in fin dei conti, ci vuole per forza un Papa. La storia della Città Eterna è impregnata del potere spirituale e temporale dei successori di Pietro, che ne hanno fatto il bello e il cattivo tempo. Uno di questi, emblematico e quasi burlesco, è senza dubbio Sisto V, l’ultimo Sisto, perché dopo di lui nessuno più ha avuto il coraggio di chiamarsi come lui.</p>
<p>Felice di Peretto da Montalto, poi noto semplicemente come Felice Peretti, salì al soglio pontificio nel 1585, assumendo il nome di Sisto V, e mantenne il pontificato fino al 1590. In appena cinque anni, il papa originario delle Marche si fece notare per una intensa attività riformatrice su vari fronti. Ex inquisitore a Venezia, si impegnò soprattutto nell’accentramento del potere politico e, in modo particolare, nel risanamento delle finanze vaticane. A tal fine adottò una serie di misure economiche piuttosto rigide (di cui parleremo tra poco), tra cui la vendita di cariche pubbliche, il ricorso a prestiti statali e l’intensificazione del controllo doganale.</p>
<p>Grazie alla sua forte intraprendenza politica, economica e urbanistica — sotto il suo pontificato Roma conobbe una profonda trasformazione viaria — Papa Sisto V non passò certo inosservato agli occhi del popolo romano. Secondo una leggenda popolare ancora molto diffusa, il popolo poté toccare con mano la determinazione del pontefice in un episodio curioso e quasi grottesco. Diciamo subito che Sisto V non era tipo da credere facilmente ai prodigi. Così, quando gli riferirono di un’immagine di Cristo da cui sembravano sgorgare lacrime di sangue, volle accertarsi di persona.</p>
<p>Si recò quindi nei sobborghi di Roma. Lì, vedendo una folla vociante riunita attorno all’immagine, si avvicinò e constatò che il dipinto era effettivamente macchiato di sangue. L’uomo che affermava di possedere il terreno su cui si trovava l’immagine pretendeva denaro in cambio della testimonianza del miracolo. Ma dove molti videro un evento sacro, il papa scorse l’inganno. Impugnando un’ascia e sollevandola in alto, esclamò: “Come Cristo, io ti adoro; come legno, io ti spezzo!”.</p>
<p>Il colpo distrusse l’immagine e rivelò il raggiro: una cordicella, tirata di nascosto, strizzava una spugna imbevuta di sangue. Senza esitazioni, Sisto V fece condannare il truffatore a morte e tornò in Vaticano, convinto di aver agito per il meglio, seppur con modi decisamente poco convenzionali. L’episodio divenne parte integrante della tradizione popolare, tanto che Giuseppe Gioachino Belli (1791-1863) gli dedicò un celebre sonetto, intitolato proprio “Papa Sisto” (il testo completo si trova in fondo all’articolo).</p>
<p>E ora veniamo a un’altra curiosità. A Roma ancora oggi si dice: “mejo ‘n morto dentro casa cche ‘n marchisciano fori daa porta”. Il detto risale proprio al tempo di Sisto V, che durante la sua severa riforma economica e fiscale si circondò di fidati ispettori originari delle Marche. Il papa, infatti, non si fidava degli esattori locali, ritenuti troppo indulgenti con alcune fasce della popolazione. Anche questo fatto, come tanti altri, finì per essere assorbito nella sapiente ironia del popolo romano, diventando parte della sua memoria collettiva.</p>
<p><strong>A girar lo spiedo </strong></p>
<p>Un simpatico aneddoto romano viene in nostro aiuto, quello della storia dello spiedo.</p>
<p>La vicenda è ambientata nel cuore di Roma, al Colosseo, in un’epoca in cui la città era funestata dalla presenza di banditi senza scrupoli.</p>
<p>Una notte Sisto V decise di travestirsi da mendicante e, con una bottiglia di vino nascosta sotto il mantello, raggiungere un manipolo di malfattori che usava l’anfiteatro come covo.</p>
<p>Il Papa chiese agli uomini di poter passare la notte lì, e i banditi accettarono a patto che lo straniero cucinasse per loro. Fu così che Papa Sisto si trovò a girare lo spiedo sul quale cuoceva un maialino mentre i criminali bivaccavano senza pensieri. Infastidito dalla loro arroganza, il Pontefice mascherato ripeteva tra sé e sé una frase: “Non può durare in eterno…”</p>
<p>Quando fu il momento di mangiare, il “mendicante” tirò fuori il fiasco di vino e lo offrì ai banditi. Gli uomini ne bevvero in abbondanza e poco dopo si addormentarono profondamente: la bevanda era stata drogata.</p>
<p>Sisto V lasciò quindi il Colosseo e allertò le sue guardie, che catturarono i criminali e li issarono sulla forca il mattino successivo.</p>
<p>Quanto può durare un’ingiustizia? Poco, se a “girare lo spiedo” è qualcuno con un carattere risoluto!</p>
<p>Ecco che “padre” Robert si trova davanti una bella città da dover sistemare, e non solo quella di Roma, ma quella dell’intero cattolicesimo, ridotto al ridicolo dal predecessore, che a stento sopravvive ai colpi del tempo.</p>
<p>Se sarà come Sisto V, un papa mecenate capace di mettere a cuccia anche il Padreterno, allora forse Roma tornerà a riprendere un po’ di grinta. Se sarà, invece, l’americano tipico che va in vacanza fra i Sacri Palazzi, allora possiamo aspettarci un po’ di neoclassico plasticoso, con una tinteggiatura fittizia alla facciata della basilica chiamata Fede.</p>
<p>La reazione del mondo italiano a questa “invasione” americana anche nel cuore della cristianità occidentale, sarà una scuola di stile e garbo all’italiana. Ora è poco ma sicuro: Meloni e i suoi camerati di avventure non potranno opporsi più di tanto ai diktat di Washington, perché l’emissario della Casa Bianca lo hanno direttamente residente sul colle Vaticano.</p>
<p>Una cosa è certa: lo spiedo non durerà in eterno.</p>
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title: Saturday Class - What is a Principle? The Discoveries of LaRouche and Vernadsky - May 10, 2025
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Se souvenir de la fête des mères durant « le confinement COVID-19 ». Votre gouvernement ne vous permettait pas de « serrer votre mère dans vos bras ».

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<p><em>Publié pour la première fois le 9 mai 2020.</em></p>
<p><i>Un an plus tard, en 2021, les mêmes directives oppressantes de verrouillage ou de « règles sanitaires » prévalaient dans plusieurs régions du monde.</i></p>
<p>*****</p>
<h2><strong>Célébrer la fête des mères en </strong></h2>…

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guid: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2164316/reglement-clotures-piscines-securite-2025
title: Comment se conformer au règlement sur les clôtures de piscines?
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<p>Tous les propriétaires d’une piscine devront installer une clôture d’au moins 1,2 m avant le 30 septembre.</p>

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guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=885243
title: Pausa para o café: Hospício armado – A extorsão de defesa dos EUA
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<p><strong><em>By Haig HOVANESS</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><span>Junte-se a nós no</span> <a href="https://t.me/SCF_Portuguese" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><u>Telegram</u></a></strong><strong><u><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Portuguese" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tlg.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875659"></a></u>, <u><a href="https://twitter.com/SCJournalOnline" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a><a href="https://twitter.com/SCJournalOnline" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/twitter.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875661"></a></u><span>e </span></strong><strong><u><a href="https://vk.com/strategicculture/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VK</a><a href="https://vk.com/strategicculture/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/wk.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875662"></a></u>.</strong></p>
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<p>Enquanto o governo Trump se prepara para aumentar o enorme orçamento de defesa dos EUA para mais de um trilhão de dólares, é um momento apropriado para descrever como o setor de armas dos EUA participa de uma estrutura de corrupção normalizada que eu chamo de extorsão de defesa. O Complexo Militar-Industrial, contra o qual o presidente Eisenhower alertou em 1961, cresceu e evoluiu de forma a desperdiçar muito dinheiro, promover conflitos armados e enfraquecer a defesa nacional. Descreverei esse sistema pernicioso de corrupção e oferecerei algumas recomendações para acabar com ele.</p>
<p>Há alguns anos, fiz o diagrama abaixo, que mostra o sistema de circulação financeiro do Complexo Militar-Industrial dos EUA (também conhecido como “The Blob”). Eisenhower originalmente pretendia descrevê-lo como o <a href="https://breakingdefense.com/2021/01/ike-was-wrong-the-military-industrial-congressional-complex-turns-60/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Complexo Militar-Industrial-Congressional</a>, e esse teria sido um termo mais preciso porque os comitês de financiamento do orçamento de defesa do Congresso dos EUA são o coração pulsante do Blob.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://sakerlatam.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/word-image-26856-1.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="338" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-26857"></p>
<p>Não é de conhecimento geral como poucas pessoas dirigem o fluxo das centenas de bilhões que os EUA gastam todos os anos em defesa. Os senadores e representantes dos comitês de Serviços Armados e de Apropriações do Congresso são alvos fáceis para os lobistas das corporações de defesa. Os fabricantes de armas gastam cerca de US$ 70 milhões por ano em lobby em Washington e fazem generosas doações aos membros dos principais comitês que controlam o orçamento da defesa.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://sakerlatam.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/word-image-26856-2.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="355" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-26858"></p>
<p>Os funcionários do comitê responsáveis por aconselhar sobre itens do orçamento de defesa são superados pelos lobistas do setor, que ganham consideravelmente mais e são proficientes nas artes da persuasão. Em 2023<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2023/05/revolving-door-lobbyists-help-defense-contractors-get-off-to-strong-start-in-2023/?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">, havia 708 lobistas ativos em Washington </a>trabalhando para corporações de defesa. A maioria desses lobistas passou pela “<a href="https://www.warren.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/DoD%20Revolving%20Door%20Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">porta giratória</a>” de empregos militares ou governamentais e está intimamente familiarizada com o terreno político.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://sakerlatam.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/word-image-26856-3.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="563" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-26859"></p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://sakerlatam.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/word-image-26856-4.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="524" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-26860"></p>
<p>Os objetivos dos lobistas são duplos: promover o crescimento do orçamento geral de defesa e defender os programas de armas de seus empregadores. Há enormes somas em jogo. Embora nos últimos anos o orçamento de defesa dos EUA tenha consumido cerca de um oitavo do orçamento federal total, ele tem sido aproximadamente a metade do orçamento discricionário. O orçamento discricionário são todos os gastos que não são legalmente obrigatórios e, portanto, estão diretamente sob o controle do Congresso a cada ano.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://sakerlatam.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/word-image-26856-5.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="498" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-26861"></p>
<p>Se os <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/05/02/us-news/trump-budget-calls-for-more-than-1t-in-defense-spending-massive-cuts-to-education-foreign-aid-and-environment/?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cortes nos programas domésticos</a> propostos por Trump e o aumento do orçamento de defesa para US$ 1 trilhão forem aprovados, os EUA gastarão ainda mais do orçamento discricionário em armas e guerra, elevando a participação da defesa para mais de 60%.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://sakerlatam.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/word-image-26856-6.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="530" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-26862"></p>
<p>Como o setor de defesa dos Estados Unidos administra um esquema tão bem-sucedido? Já mencionei sua potente capacidade de lobby. Agora vamos examinar algumas ferramentas de seu comércio.</p>
<p><strong>Inflação de ameaças</strong></p>
<p>Um orçamento de defesa maciço deve ser justificado por ameaças aos Estados Unidos. Se não existem ameaças legítimas, é fácil inventar ameaças imaginárias. Trabalhando com grupos de estudo, contatos na mídia e políticos belicosos, praticamente qualquer entidade estrangeira pode ser transformada em uma séria ameaça aos “interesses” dos EUA pelos lobistas do setor de defesa. Em vários momentos, Cuba, Nicarágua, Afeganistão, Iraque e Líbia foram considerados ameaças militares. Durante 20 anos, o terrorismo islâmico foi a ameaça que justificou os enormes orçamentos militares dos EUA. Com o renascimento do confronto da guerra fria com a Rússia e a China, voltamos a uma ameaça à segurança nacional testada e comprovada. Os trajes mudam, mas o show continua.</p>
<p><strong>Revestimento de ouro</strong></p>
<p>É um artigo de fé na comunidade de defesa dos EUA que o armamento avançado e altamente complexo pode superar o armamento presumivelmente inferior dos adversários em potencial. Essa tendência à aplicação ambiciosa de tecnologias de ponta é benéfica para os fabricantes de armas porque aumenta os custos dos programas de armamentos e justifica os atrasos e as dificuldades na conclusão dos projetos. O resultado é um processo de especificação excessiva dos projetos de armas e resultados decepcionantes no sistema comissionado.</p>
<p>Um exemplo dessa abordagem é o obuseiro M777. Essa arma de campo foi projetada para ser altamente transportável, incorporando peças de titânio e outros componentes leves. No campo de batalha na Ucrânia, o M777 sofreu com a curta vida útil do cano, e a substituição dos canos e de outras peças desgastadas se tornou um <a href="https://sofrep.com/news/whats-happened-to-ukraines-artillery/?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">problema logístico</a>. O B2 Stealth Bomber, a um custo de US$ 2 bilhões por aeronave, teve a rara distinção de custar mais do que seu peso em ouro até 2008. Os preços do ouro aumentaram desde então, mas a produção do B2 foi interrompida em 2001 e apenas 20 aeronaves estão em operação. Outros exemplos de projetos banhados a ouro são os porta-aviões Gerald Ford, o destróier Zumwalt e a aeronave de transporte de rotor inclinavel Osprey.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://sakerlatam.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/word-image-26856-7.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="429" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-26863"></p>
<p>Bombardeiro stealth B2 – a galinha dos ovos de ouro?</p>
<p><strong>Não concorrência</strong></p>
<p>A magia do mercado não tem funcionado a favor dos contribuintes americanos, pois as empresas de defesa se consolidaram em cinco gigantes que gerenciam os maiores projetos de armamentos, como o F35, submarinos nucleares, ICBMs e o sistema de mísseis Patriot.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://sakerlatam.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/word-image-26856-8.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="350" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-26864"></p>
<p>Além disso, algumas das licitações de contratos se tornaram de fonte única. O contrato de US$ 13 bilhões para substituir o arsenal de ICBMs Minuteman lançados do solo dos EUA foi <a href="https://spacenews.com/northrop-grumman-receives-13-3-billion-contract-to-develop-next-generation-icbm/?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">concedido à Northrop Grumman</a> sem qualquer licitação. O que pode dar errado?</p>
<p><strong>Suborno diferido</strong></p>
<p>Oferecer a perspectiva de um emprego lucrativo no futuro não é considerado suborno se não houver uma oferta explícita. Um oficial militar sênior nos EUA pode se aposentar após 20 anos e receber uma pensão de cerca de 50% do salário militar e, em seguida, aceitar um emprego de lobista no setor de defesa ganhando o dobro do salário militar anterior. Esse processo é o que faz a porta giratória girar e faz com que a maioria dos lobistas de defesa de Washington tenha carreiras militares ou governamentais anteriores. Até mesmo representantes aposentados do Congresso podem ganhar dinheiro com o trabalho de lobby se tiverem influência nos principais comitês de financiamento. Assim, as decisões sobre gastos militares estão nas mãos de pessoas que se beneficiam de ações favoráveis a possíveis futuros empregadores, e tudo isso é perfeitamente legal.</p>
<p><strong>Mudança de metas</strong></p>
<p>No desenvolvimento de sistemas de armas complexos e altamente sofisticados, atrasos e custos excessivos ocorrem com frequência. As empreiteiras de defesa raramente são punidas por não cumprirem os requisitos de cronograma e custo. Em vez disso, os cronogramas dos projetos são estendidos e são concedidos financiamentos suplementares. O <a href="https://www.gao.gov/assets/720/715704.pdf?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">programa do caça F35 </a>sofreu um atraso de mais de 8 anos e ultrapassou as expectativas originais de custo em US$ 165 bilhões.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://sakerlatam.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/word-image-26856-9.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="398" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-26865"></p>
<p><strong>Reduzindo a rede</strong></p>
<p>Quando um grande programa de armas tem problemas, as especificações de desempenho às vezes são relaxadas para permitir a continuidade do programa. Os requisitos de manobrabilidade, aceleração e raio de combate do F35 foram todos <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_II_development?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">flexibilizados</a> no decorrer do programa. Uma redução geral dos requisitos de teste de armas também está em andamento nos últimos anos, para o agrado das empreiteiras de defesa.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://sakerlatam.blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/word-image-26856-10.jpeg" alt="" width="600" height="282" data-sanitized-class="wp-image-26866"></p>
<p><strong>O escudo de sigilo</strong></p>
<p>Se ninguém sabe o que você está fazendo, ninguém sabe o que você está fazendo de errado, e essa máxima se aplica aos programas de “orçamento negro” do Departamento de Defesa dos EUA. Considerando os fracassos embaraçosos dos projetos de defesa que são de responsabilidade pública, só podemos imaginar a má conduta que se esconde por trás do manto de sigilo que envolve os programas considerados sensíveis demais para serem divulgados ao público. O <a href="https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2018/02/28/Trump-Administration-Asks-811-Billion-Black-Budget-Largest-Ever?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">orçamento negro</a> de programas secretos não divulgados cresceu para bem mais de US$ 50 bilhões.</p>
<p><strong>O que pode ser feito</strong></p>
<p>Embora seja improvável que o Congresso dos EUA resista ao poder de lobby do setor de defesa, há várias medidas que devem ser tomadas para reduzir os abusos da extorsão de defesa</p>
<p><strong>A exclusão </strong>é a interrupção da elegibilidade comercial de um contratado por má conduta que tenha prejudicado os interesses do governo. Pode ser uma proibição por um período específico ou uma proibição permanente. A exclusão é uma <a href="https://www.acquisition.gov/far/9.406?utm_source=chatgpt.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sanção legal </a>que raramente tem sido usada. Uma maior ameaça de exclusão resultaria em uma diminuição dos prazos não cumpridos e dos custos excedentes.</p>
<p><strong>O bloqueio das portas giratórias </strong>pode ser facilmente realizado por meio de legislação que aumente o tempo necessário entre o fim do serviço governamental e o emprego como lobista. O estabelecimento de um intervalo de cinco ou dez anos reduziria consideravelmente as consequências negativas da contratação de lobistas.</p>
<p><strong>A auditoria do Departamento de Defesa </strong>melhoraria a supervisão das atividades das empreiteiras e forneceria informações gerenciais valiosas sobre os custos do ciclo de vida dos principais programas de armamentos. Infelizmente, o DoD <a href="https://www.cfo.com/news/pentagon-fails-7th-audit-in-a-row-michael-mccord-cfo-dod-pentagon/733313/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">não conseguiu </a>realizar auditorias bem-sucedidas. Até que o Congresso penalize as forças armadas por falhas de auditoria, essa meta provavelmente não será alcançada.</p>
<p><strong>Revisões independentes de projeto e design </strong>ajudariam a evitar muitos fracassos de projetos de desenvolvimento de armas por meio de uma melhor avaliação dos riscos. As empreiteiras que trabalham em um ambiente regulatório permissivo têm incentivos perversos para aceitar os riscos do programa quando não há consequências sérias para o mau desempenho. Os revisores independentes não estariam sujeitos a essas influências.</p>
<p><strong>A nacionalização </strong>é o remédio definitivo para a extorsão no setor de defesa. A nacionalização seletiva de projetos seria apropriada para a produção em massa de armas convencionais confiáveis e eficazes que são consideradas empreendimentos relativamente pouco atraentes pelas corporações de defesa. Ao remover os incentivos de lucro mal direcionados e priorizar a conclusão do projeto dentro do prazo e do orçamento, os incentivos de gerenciamento podem ser alinhados com os interesses dos contribuintes dos EUA, e não com os dos acionistas das empresas.</p>
<p><strong>Conclusão</strong></p>
<p>As corporações de defesa dos EUA conseguiram receber uma enorme parte do orçamento federal discricionário anual, cerca de meio trilhão de dólares, por meio de extorsão legalmente sancionada nos corredores do Congresso dos EUA. Além do desvio de recursos de usos domésticos produtivos, o dinheiro gasto produziu uma série de projetos de armas com falhas graves que enfraqueceram a segurança nacional dos EUA em vez de fortalecê-la. As reformas nesse setor são extremamente necessárias. Essas reformas devem incluir medidas para restringir a influência política das corporações de defesa, melhorar o processo de aquisição de armas e aumentar a supervisão efetiva dos projetos de defesa. Até que essas reformas sejam implementadas, o capitalismo puro e simples do setor de defesa dos EUA continuará sendo uma visão desagradável.</p>
<p><em>Publicado originalmente por: </em><a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/05/coffee-break-armed-madhouse-u-s-defense-racketeering.html"><u><em>Naked Capitalism</em></u></a><em>.<br>
Tradução: </em><a href="https://sakerlatam.blog/pausa-para-o-cafe-casa-de-loucos-armada-a-extorsao-de-defesa-dos-eua/"><u><em>Comunidad Saker Latinoamericana</em></u></a></p>

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guid: https://www.whitehouse.gov/?p=12046
title: U.S. Announces China Trade Deal in Geneva
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<div><img src="https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/WH47-Social-Share-Card.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1921597140784013614">Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent</a>:</strong> “I’m happy to report that we made substantial progress between the United States and China in the very important trade talks. First, I want to thank our Swiss host. The Swiss government has been very kind in providing us this wonderful venue, and I think that led to a great deal of productivity we’ve seen. We will be giving details tomorrow, but I can tell you that the talks were productive. We had the vice premier, two vice ministers, who were integrally involved, Ambassador Jamieson, and myself. And I spoke to President Trump, as did Ambassador Jamieson, last night, and he is fully informed of what is going on. So, there will be a complete briefing tomorrow morning.”</p>
<p><strong><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1921597758911267219">U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Jamieson Greer</a>:</strong> “This was, as the Secretary pointed out, a very constructive two days. It’s important to understand how quickly we were able to come to agreement, which reflects that perhaps the differences were not so large as maybe thought. That being said, there was a lot of groundwork that went into these two days. Just remember why we’re here in the first place — the United States has a massive $1.2 trillion trade deficit, so the President declared a national emergency and imposed tariffs, and we’re confident that the deal we struck with our Chinese partners will help us to work toward resolving that national emergency.”</p>


guid: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/another-report-on-israels-genocide
title: Another Report on Israel&amp;#039;s Genocide. More Silence &amp; Complicity From The Liberal West
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:best,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fmearsheimer.substack.com%2Ftwitter%2Fsubscribe-card.jpg%3Fv%3D-607160551%26version%3D9" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>The UN Human Rights Council has issued a lengthy report titled “Anatomy of a Genocide.” As the title indicates, it describes in detail the ongoing Israeli Genocide in Gaza.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.un.org/unispal/document/anatomy-of-a-genocide-report-of-the-special-rapporteur-on-the-situation-of-human-rights-in-the-palestinian-territory-occupied-since-1967-to-human-rights-council-advance-unedited-version-a-hrc-55/" rel>https://www.un.org/unispal/document/anatomy-of-a-genocide-report-of-the-special-rapporteur-on-the-situation-of-human-rights-in-the-palestinian-territory-occupied-since-1967-to-human-rights-council-advance-unedited-version-a-hrc-55/</a></p>
<p>Despite the abundance of evidence regarding Israel’s savagery, the liberal West not only does virtually nothing to stop it, but is actually complicit in the genocide.</p>
<p>Where are all those liberal academics, activists, journalists, and policymakers who have spent much of their adult life preaching about human rights and the virtues of the liberal international order? They are AWOL in the face of one of the great crimes of modern times.</p>
<p><span>Alex Lo, the distinguished columnist for</span> <em>The South China Morning Post</em><span>, hits the nail on the head in his recent column, which is titled: “The Western World Has Already Dug Its Own Grave in Gaza War.”</span></p>
<p>He goes on to say: “By enabling Israel to unleash its genocidal impulse, most leaders of developed nations have crossed a moral red line that cannot be undone.”</p>
<p>The following three paragraphs from Lo are especially worth considering:</p>
<p>“The most extraordinary censorship is being exercised across many Western countries, but especially in the United States and Germany, to silence anyone who tries to speak out what everyone already knows is going on in Palestine. It is no accident that the two countries that make the most of the Holocaust as universal civic education are the two countries that most actively enable a real-time genocide being committed and shown live on our computer screens and social media pages.”</p>
<p>“Silencing the victims’ cries so the killers can continue with the butchery, and criticism is considered racial hate speech against the killers and their apologists. Who does that?”</p>
<p>“The West cares more about the feelings of the butchers than the lives and limbs of victims. Western ‘civilisation’ now sounds like a contradiction in terms.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3309917/western-world-has-already-dug-its-own-grave-gaza-war?module=top_story&amp;pgtype=section" rel>https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3309917/western-world-has-already-dug-its-own-grave-gaza-war?module=top_story&amp;pgtype=section</a></p>

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guid: https://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5698500
title: Surprise, surprise : Bibi aurait découvert une “installation nucléaire secrète” en Iran
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<p>Voici ce que les médias ne vous disent pas :</p>
<p>L’Iran a persuadé les Houthis d’accepter un cessez-le-feu avec Trump afin de créer une dynamique pour les négociations nucléaires de ce week-end à Oman. Deux responsables iraniens ont indiqué que …</p>

link:
https://www.mondialisation.ca/surprise-surprise-bibi-aurait-decouvert-une-installation-nucleaire-secrete-en-iran/5698500


guid: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2164331/regie-alcool-produits-canadiens-locaux-americains
title: Retrait des vins américains : les ventes de vins ontariens en hausse de 62 % à la LCBO
content: <p>Le 4 mars, la LCBO a officiellement retiré de ses rayons les vins américains.</p>
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guid: yt:video:74SWb1ykFic
title: Shahid Bolsen | The Sufficiency Lectures | Part One: The Captivity Economy
author: ;Middle Nation
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guid: https://gript.ie/?p=330396
title: Attempt at Leftist Cancellation Fails Abysmally
author: ;Theo McDonald
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Theo-McDonaldConf-e1746992940981.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>What was supposed to be a fairly mundane and run-of-the-mill discussion on heightened crime levels in Ireland turned into a jam-packed, censorship-defying night filled with notions of rebellion and fighting the power.</strong></p>
<p>The attempt by an assortment of Trotskyite campus dwellers to cancel an event hosted by ‘Breaking Point’, an organisation dedicated to exploring new ideas not by existing ideologies but rather by merit, failed miserably on Thursday of this week as I, along with Gript Media’s Ben Scallan, Independent election candidate and investigative researcher Nick Delehanty, and UCD Professor Tim Crowley, discussed whether or not modern Ireland is safe for its citizens.</p>
<p>Such a discussion was deemed problematic for the supine snowflakes in UCD’s People Before Profit chapter, who condemned such a discussion taking place in a “multicultural campus” as “shocking”.</p>
<p>The letter went on to say that the event would deploy so-called ‘dog whistles’ ‘with a pre-determined purpose to blame criminality on the most vulnerable groups in Ireland’, namely immigrants and asylum seekers.</p>
<p>How they managed to deduce that a discussion about crime in Ireland would focus solely on immigration and asylum seekers says more about their pre-conceived notions about crime in Ireland than the speakers or the organisers.</p>
<p>Leaving that to one side, as the event was organised on a college campus and open to other members of the public, the opportunity to question the speakers at the Q&amp;A would have allowed those who objected to the sentiments expressed an ability to question them.</p>
<p>However, in modern universities, debate and discussion are not encouraged; it is actively discouraged.</p>
<p>Whether it was the successful attempt to cancel a lecture by feminist activist Mary Kenny in the University of Limerick in 2023, or atheist Richard Dawkins in Trinity in 2020, a recurring theme seems to be that hosting such discussions would jeopardise the “safety” of students.</p>
<p>It appears that in today’s day and age, young student union types listening to views they disagree with could upset their perfectly cultivated worldview they’ve crafted for themselves, with counterpoints potentially upsetting that mindset, thus causing distress. Therefore, the idea of a debate or discussion on a campus with dissenters could be detrimental to perhaps the mental safety of such students, analogous to how teaching a child how to ride a bike could jeopardise their safety but remains necessary for their growth and progression.</p>
<p>This mindset that subjective concerns of “safety” somehow trumps the ability to discuss different ideas was articulated perfectly by the US Lawyer and Free Speech activist Greg Lukaianoff in his seminal book ‘The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure’ when he wrote: “A culture that allows the concept of “safety” to creep so far that it equates emotional discomfort with physical danger is a culture that encourages people to systematically protect one another from the very experiences embedded in daily life that they need in order to become strong and healthy.”</p>
<p>As such, a letter, which called for the cancellation of the event, was sent to UCD President Orla Feely, receiving signatures from over 20 UCD societies and the UCD Students’ Union.</p>
<p>Having previously asserted in an interview with the Irish Times that ‘students must hear alternative views they disagree with’, Feely seems to have caved to the woke mob and allowed for the event to not take place on her campus.</p>
<p>Such a move shows Feely has backtracked on her previous defence of open and honest debate, making a mockery of UCD as an institution of free learning. I hope to be corrected in this view and would invite Feely to comment on the event’s cancellation.</p>
<p>Indeed, while UCD students voted to leave the umbrella organisation Union of Students in Ireland by a whopping 64% in favour in 2013, the internal Students’ Union has managed to cement itself on campus by setting up its own publication.</p>
<p>Bearing all the hallmarks of Pravda, the University Observer covered the cancellation of the event with glee and joy, describing I and my fellow panellists as somehow ‘anti-immigrant’ – an accusation I strenuously deny.</p>
<p>One by one, journalist and deputy editor Lucy Warmington went through the panel listing the thought crimes we are guilty of.</p>
<p>Ben Scallan was described as someone who, in his capacity as a political correspondent, repeatedly shares “homophobic” and “transphobic” views, for referring to the medical transition from male to female and vice versa as “incoherent.”</p>
<p>Tim Crowley’s crime was objecting to “the requirement for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) statements in faculty hiring” which several companies and universities have now abandoned most notably Amazon and MIT.</p>
<p>Nick Delehanty’s show trial charges included his alleged support for the so called ‘anti-immigrant’ Irish Alliance, having attended the ‘National Rally’ in Dublin City on April 26th. Indeed, with tens of thousands of rally goers that day, it seems they all would be denied permitted to enter the sacred halls of Belfield lest they upset some students.</p>
<p>This writer’s alleged crime was representing the political party Aontú during a ‘Mock Dáil’ in DCU last year and airing my objections to the government’s attempted hate speech bill in 2023 in various publications, including The Hill.</p>
<p>How any of these accusations and descriptions would entail a risk to student safety is beyond this writer’s comprehension.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, the event proceeded to take place in a City Centre hotel with the sun glistening into a packed room full of young and old, men and women, Irish and non-Irish, interested in discussing the noticeable uptick in anti-social behaviour and general crime on the streets.</p>
<p>With a fruitful and intellectually stimulating Q&amp;A at the end, where some people who had disagreements aired their views, I left the event feeling more knowledgeable about the topic at hand and felt that a University setting would have been the perfect forum for such a divergence of viewpoints.</p>
<p>Breaking Point’s raison d’être seeks to combat the “stifling culture” that has hindered open discourse and progress with the belief that “Irish political life would benefit from an injection of liberty”.</p>
<p>UCD Students’ Union proved this week that there is a stifling culture that seeks to close, not open debate. On another note, I am using this column to invite any member of the Union to an open debate on whether or not Ireland is safe.</p>
<p>Any time. Any place.</p>

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#Comment Ireland #Featured #Ben Scallan #Breaking Point #cancellation #Free speech #Theo McDonald #UCD


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title: [REACTION] Trump &quot;Russia wants all of Ukraine&quot; : COL Douglas Macgregor
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title: COL. Douglas Macgregor : Does Netanyahu have unconditional backing by the US?
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title: [REACTION] Johnson &amp; McGovern : GEN. Kellogg's facts are soggy!
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guid: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2164377/randonneur-quebecois-disparu-adirondacks-retrouve-mort
title: Le randonneur québécois disparu dans les Adirondacks a été retrouvé mort
content: <p>Son corps a été retrouvé samedi sur le sentier du mont Allen par un groupe de randonneurs.</p>
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guid: yt:video:0-YeUmsVTG8
title: Scott Ritter : Just what is Marco Rubio up to ?
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guid: yt:video:TrJlfwksyXQ
title: Alastair Crooke : My Week in Tehran.
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guid: yt:video:6QeSXW6Vvfc
title: Ray McGovern : My Week in Moscow.
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guid: yt:video:3aQqxQlhOFw
title: Larry Johnson : Does Trump Understand Russia?
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guid: yt:video:eFVggVcrE2A
title: Scott Ritter : Can Trump Resist the Neocons?
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guid: yt:video:WJJuU2psL8k
title: Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Will Trump Dump Netanyahu?
author: ;Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom
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guid: yt:video:h4etVaITSyQ
title: COL. Lawrence Wilkerson : Two Nuclear Powers, Pakistan &amp; India. WHAT IF ???
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guid: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2164353/tatiana-auguste-recomptage-terrebonne-plc-bq
title: « Des montagnes russes » : la libérale Tatiana Auguste célèbre sa victoire dans Terrebonne
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<p>Après un dépouillement judiciaire, la circonscription a finalement été remportée par le PLC par un vote.</p>

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guid: yt:video:KMs6KRf_Oec
title: LtCOL. Karen Kwiatkowski : &quot;...there is still a part of Trump that puts America First..&quot;
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guid: yt:video:bTAqtHNRZHI
title: AMB. Charles Freeman : Is Trump showing signs of fatigue ?
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guid: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2164325/energie-solaire-industrie-habitation-quebec
title: 125 000 toits à énergie solaire d’ici 2035 au Québec : les entreprises sont-elles prêtes?
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<p>« On attendait ça avec impatience, on est très contents », mais l’objectif d’Hydro-Québec reste « ambitieux ».</p>


title: Lion électrique essaie de gagner du temps pour éviter la liquidation
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https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2164352/repreneurs-potentiels-lion-electrique-essaient-gagner-temps-pets

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<p>Un document de cour indique que le Programme d’électrification du transport scolaire serait renouvelé.</p>

link:
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2164352/repreneurs-potentiels-lion-electrique-essaient-gagner-temps-pets

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AW: Sophie Gilbert, &quot;Girl on Girl - How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves&quot;

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title: Col. Jacques Baud: What Russia Really Wants — And Why the West Doesn't Get It
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guid: yt:video:3GVfaqeKHM8
title: Larry C. Johnson: Trump's Bold Move: Is Israel No Longer a Priority?
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guid: yt:video:yT5BLpZDr7o
title: Ray McGovern and John Helmer: Enemies or Frenemies? The U.S. Position on Russia, Iran &amp; China
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title: Picture at an Exhibition
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guid: https://raymcgovern.com/?p=8859
title: Was John McCain Ever Right About Anything?
author: ;Ray McGovern
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<p data-sanitized-class="excerpt">Miraculous change in Russia since I was there for signing of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in May 1972. But, “Russia is a gas station masquerading as a country; it depends exclusively on oil and gas, so economic sanctions are important.” Was John McCain ever right about anything? And many took him seriously? Not to forget that then-President Obama’s parroted…</p><p data-sanitized-class="more-link-p"><a href="https://raymcgovern.com/2025/05/11/was-john-mccain-ever-right-about-anything/" data-sanitized-class="btn btn-default">Read more</a></p>


guid: https://raymcgovern.com/?p=8861
title: The Combined Allied Effort of WWII
author: ;Ray McGovern
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<p data-sanitized-class="excerpt">Putin: “Victory in Europe came via combined Allied effort, after decisive battles on Soviet soil hastened victory. We will never forget the opening of a Second Front in Europe.” So, Putin was snubbed, still gracious ALLY. Take a lesson, Ursula, Kaya et al.</p><p data-sanitized-class="more-link-p"><a href="https://raymcgovern.com/2025/05/11/the-combined-allied-effort-of-wwii/" data-sanitized-class="btn btn-default">Read more</a></p>


guid: https://raymcgovern.com/?p=8863
title: Trust Remains the Coin of the Realm
author: ;Ray McGovern
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<p data-sanitized-class="excerpt">Ray in Russia: Znania Youth Forum (where Putin, Medvedev, Oliver Stone also spoke) sent link to raw English original video of my April 29 talk (sans Russian voice-over). Note: Consortnews title captures the reality that TRUST remains the coin of the realm. WATCH: Ray McGovern on Trust Between Russia &amp; the US</p><p data-sanitized-class="more-link-p"><a href="https://raymcgovern.com/2025/05/11/trust-remains-the-coin-of-the-realm/" data-sanitized-class="btn btn-default">Read more</a></p>


guid: https://raymcgovern.com/?p=8865
title: Mini Eulogy for Ed Lozansky
author: ;Ray McGovern
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<p data-sanitized-class="excerpt">Ed Lozansky PRESENTE! Ed died last week, after faithfully organizing a celebration in Moscow of the 80TH anniversary of the Meeting on the Elbe (where US and Russian troops FINALLY met and dealt with what was left of the Nazis). I did this mini-eulogy.</p><p data-sanitized-class="more-link-p"><a href="https://raymcgovern.com/2025/05/11/mini-eulogy-for-ed-lozansky/" data-sanitized-class="btn btn-default">Read more</a></p>


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title: Tributes to “faithful” Garda, 49, killed at checkpoint
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<div><img src="https://gript.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/IMG_2417.jpeg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p><strong>Dear Reader,</strong></p>
<p>It is a simple statement of fact that if you are looking for diversity of thought in the Irish media, you will struggle to find it. That is why we founded Gript – to serve the gap in the market left by so many of our colleagues, when they decided that the job of journalists was not to challenge consensus thought, but to herd around it, and defend it fiercely.</p>
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Trump Targets Big Pharma: Slashes Drug Prices With 'Most Favored Nation' Rule, Aims To Cut Out Middlemen

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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Trump Targets Big Pharma: Slashes Drug Prices With 'Most Favored Nation' Rule, Aims To Cut Out Middlemen</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Update (1122ET):</strong></p>

<p>Executive order signed. </p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The new NPC narrative <a href="https://t.co/NadxAuiYj5">pic.twitter.com/NadxAuiYj5</a></p>
— Planet Of Memes (@PlanetOfMemes) <a href="https://twitter.com/PlanetOfMemes/status/1921948255186780161?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p> </p>

<p>*   *   * </p>

<p><strong>Update (1047ET):</strong></p>

<p>President Trump will sign an executive order to reduce prescription drug prices. He said the "most favored nation" policy would tie the prices the U.S. government pays for certain medications to lower rates charged in other developed countries.</p>

<p>The president pledged to eliminate middlemen from the drug supply chain to make pricing more transparent and direct for consumers. Additionally, the president said select medications would be imported to help drive prices down further.</p>

<p>Trump warned that, if necessary, his administration would launch investigations into pharmaceutical companies, vowing to confront the pharmaceutical industrial complex and powerful pharma lobby groups.</p>

<p>The order is set to be a major hit to the pharmaceutical industry and ... </p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">If Trump bans pharma ads on TV, half the mainstream media will die overnight <a href="https://t.co/v3sIy1XnBM">https://t.co/v3sIy1XnBM</a></p>
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) <a href="https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1921930447430254990?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>Global pharmaceutical stocks came under pressure in Asia and Europe ahead of President Trump's press conference. However, about an hour into his remarks, the SPDR S&amp;P Biotech ETF (XBI) was up 2.5%. Despite the rebound, the XBI remains down 15% year-to-date.</p>

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<p> </p>

<p>*   *   * </p>

<p><strong>Update (0935ET):</strong></p>

<p>President Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are expected to give a press conference about lowering drug prices via an executive order. </p>

<p>Ahead of the conference, Trump wrote on Truth Social:</p>

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<p><em>DRUG PRICES TO BE CUT BY 59%, PLUS! Gasoline, Energy, Groceries, and all other costs, DOWN. NO INFLATION!!! LOVE, DJT</em></p>
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<p><strong>Live coverage provided courtesy of Right Side Broadcasting Network.</strong></p>

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<p>*   *   * </p>

<p><strong>Update (0755ET):</strong></p>

<p>Pharmaceutical stocks slid globally Monday after President Trump said he would sign an executive order to slash U.S. prescription drug prices by 30% to 80%, aligning them more closely with international prices. The move, unveiled on Sunday on Truth Social, is seen by investors as a direct threat to profitability, raising concerns over pricing power and future earnings growth.</p>

<p>European drugmakers, including AstraZeneca, Roche Holding, and Novo Nordisk, missed out on the global equity rally <a href="https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/us-china-reach-agreement-lower-tariffs-90-day-cool-period" target="_blank">sparked by trade optimism</a> this morning. All three European pharma stocks were down between 3% and 4%. In Asia, the pharmaceuticals subgroup in Japan's Topix Index recorded its largest daily decline since August. In premarket trading in New York, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Eli Lilly, Pfizer, and Merck were down between 2% and 3%. </p>

<p>Bank Vontobel analyst Stefan Schneider wrote in a note, "<strong>This has the potential to be very negative for the industry." </strong>He said the order will probably target Medicare, Medicaid, and hospitals. </p>

<p>Goldman analyst James Quigley and others provided clients with more color on Trump's incoming order this morning and what it means for European pharma stocks:</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>Last night on the social media platform Truth Social, President Trump confirmed that the administration intends to pursue the Most Favored Nation (MFN) Model for drug pricing, which calls for reducing U.S. drug prices to be more in line with international prices. Details of how this will be administered and specifically to which channels (i.e. Medicare Part B &amp; D, Medicaid) will be disclosed in an Executive Order at 9am ET/2pm UK.</em></p>

<p><em><strong>As a broad sensitivity analysis, for illustrative purposes if we assume a 10% reduction in U.S. Medicare Part B and Part D and Medicaid prices, this implies an average -2% impact on revenues across our EU Large cap coverage (assuming a 4-year phase in) and a -6% impact on our DCF valuations, all else equal</strong>. Exposure across Medicare Part B &amp; Part D and Medicaid is fairly balanced across the industry, with Argenx, Astra, Novo and Novartis having the highest exposure (50% for ARGX and 45% of U.S. sales for the others) and Sanofi the lowest exposure (20% of U.S. sales) across these channels. On a channel specific basis, we estimate Argenx and Roche have the largest Medicare Part B exposure vs. Novo, Astra and Novartis with the highest Medicare Part D exposure. At the company level, our broad sensitivity analysis, all else equal and without assuming any costs savings offset, suggests GSK could be most exposed from a DCF standpoint followed by Roche/Argenx.</em></p>

<p><em>We note that EU Large Pharma has underperformed the wider market in Europe by -6%/-17% YTD and since the U.S. election on November 5, 2024, and now trades around 11.4x (11.4x ex-Novo) one year forward P/E, which is an 20% discount vs. the 10-year average multiple of 14.2x (13.5x ex-Novo, c.16% discount ex-Novo). Given this (and acknowledging other sector level concerns and FX), we believe the market is already pricing in some risk of U.S. price reform, but we would expect this to weigh on the multiple until the impact is fully digested in earnings estimates.</em></p>
</blockquote>

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<p>Quigley pointed out the EU pharma stocks with the highest exposure in the U.S. market. </p>

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<p>Evan Seigerman, head of health-care research at BMO Capital Markets, told clients that Trump's plan likely only affects the drugs up for price negotiations under the Inflation Reduction Act.</p>

<p>"Importantly, the government has no power to set prices in the commercial market," Seigerman noted, adding that any effort beyond the executive order could face pushback from House Republicans, limiting the scope of potential legislation.</p>

<p><strong>Trump wrote on Truth Social that he will be signing the order at 0900 ET. </strong></p>

<p>*   *   * </p>

<p>President Donald Trump announced late on May 11 that he would sign an executive order which <strong>would reduce prescription drug prices in the US by 30% to 80% “almost immediately” </strong>while also raising drug prices “rise throughout the World in order to equalize and, for the first time in many years, bring FAIRNESS TO AMERICA!”</p>

<p>To achieve that, Trump would institute what he called a most-favored nation policy “<strong>whereby the United States will pay the same price as the Nation that pays the lowest price anywhere in the World." </strong>Healthcare costs in the US “will be reduced by numbers never even thought of before,” he said.</p>

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<p>Trump’s Truth Social post, which was <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114490623566091525">preceded by an earlier one </a>that promised as one of "most important and impactful" statements he has ever issued, didn’t detail how the order would work. </p>

<p>He also didn’t specify potential limits on the policy, such as whether it would apply only to government programs such as Medicare or Medicaid, if it would be limited to certain drugs or categories of drugs or if the White House sees a way to apply this more broadly.</p>

<p>Asian pharmaceutical companies fell in early Monday trading. Japanese drugmaker Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. dropped as much as 7.2%, the most in a month, with peers Daiichi Sankyo and Takeda Pharmaceuticals losing around 5%. In South Korea, SK Biopharmaceuticals Co., Celltrion Inc. and Samsung Biologics Co. all fell over 3%.</p>

<p>Americans pay the most in the world for medicines, fueling innovation and driving the growth of the pharmaceutical industry. Drugmakers have said revamping the system will slash revenue and stifle the development of breakthrough therapies that have the potential to lengthen and improve lives.</p>

<p>Trump cited the industry’s argument, but said it meant that “the ‘suckers’ of America” ended up bearing those costs “for no reason whatsoever.”</p>

<p>As Bloomberg notes, the US government already negotiates prices for some of the highest-cost medicines used in Medicare health insurance under the Inflation Reduction Act, which passed in 2022 under former President Joe Biden, with more slated to be added every year. The first two rounds of drug price negotiations haven’t included physician-administered drugs, but the next round might.</p>

<p>Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman suggested Trump might have been inspired by an idea he floated on X in March, when he said the best way to reduce US drug prices “is to make it illegal for drug companies to sell the same drugs abroad for lower prices than they sell them for here.”</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The United States has subsidized the world on trade, defense, drugs, ‘NGOs,’ and more. Our global subsidy has contributed to our $37 trillion of national debt. President <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> is the first president in history to rectify the situation. He deserves enormous credit for… <a href="https://t.co/qlkdMr5aQ1">https://t.co/qlkdMr5aQ1</a></p>
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1921707786766885017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The best way to reduce drug prices in the U.S. is to make it illegal for drug companies to sell the same drugs abroad for lower prices than they sell them for here.<br><br>
This will force a globally negotiated price that will be lower than the prices that U.S. consumers pay now and…</p>
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) <a href="https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1765934089473802369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
<p>In his first term, Trump proposed a Medicare pilot program for drugs with no low-cost generic competition that are given in doctor’s offices, saying he wanted to bring prices in line with countries like France and Japan where they cost dramatically less. </p>

<p><br>
That plan, which would have phased in over three years, aimed to ensure Medicare paid the lowest price offered to a group of 22 nations.</p>

<p>The effort was struck down in federal court after drug companies challenged it, claiming the administration hadn’t properly carried out the rulemaking process. The Biden administration didn’t appeal that finding, and instead pursued legislation that led to the Inflation Reduction Act.</p>
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guid: https://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5698508
title: Les États-Unis ont délibérément nui à l’Ukraine – agent de la CIA
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L'ancien chef des opérations de la CIA en Europe et en Eurasie a déclaré que l'administration Biden avait délibérément restreint le soutien militaire à l'Ukraine, craignant le début d'une escalade sans restriction de la guerre. Selon Goff, les autorités américaines ont choisi de laisser l'Ukraine « saigner » plutôt que de chercher une «victoire»...

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guid: https://www.mondialisation.ca/?p=5698521
title: Diplomatie populaire, Concert de la victoire sur le nazifascisme – Spécial Pangea et Byoblu
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<p>À l’occasion du 80e anniversaire de la victoire de l’Union soviétique sur le nazisme-fascisme, qui a coûté la vie à plus de 27 millions de Russes, Byoblu diffuse des morceaux de l’orchestre philharmonique russe de Yakutsk « Sinfonica Artica », …</p>

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Les « relations » de Zelensky avec le président équatorien Noboa. L’intention d’affaiblir le commerce russe en Amérique latine?

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<p>Après s’être entretenu avec le président équatorien Daniel Noboa, le dirigeant ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky a annoncé qu’il cherchait un accord de libre-échange avec le pays latino-américain. Cependant, si les négociations incluent des questions politiques, elles pourraient nuire aux relations avec …</p>

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guid: 4543
title: https://christspiracy.com/introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjoybBsvrP0
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title: Who Won The Latest Indo-Pak Conflict?
author: ;Tyler Durden
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Who Won The Latest Indo-Pak Conflict?</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><a href="https://korybko.substack.com/p/who-won-the-latest-indo-pak-conflict"><em>Authored by Andrew Korybko via substack,</em></a></p>

<p><strong>Opinions are mixed about who came out on top in the <a href="https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/ten-points-to-keep-in-mind-amidst-escalating-indo-pak-tensions">latest Indo-Pak conflict</a>, but one thing is for certain, and it’s that India’s new doctrine is the lasting takeaway. </strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/httpssubstack-post-media.s3.amaz%20%2850%29_2.jpg?itok=pGTwTSpR" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/httpssubstack-post-media.s3.amaz%20%2850%29_2.jpg?itok=pGTwTSpR"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="2fa6bb4f-eec3-4938-b4c5-9ff5bb430a58" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="375" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/httpssubstack-post-media.s3.amaz%20%2850%29_2.jpg?itok=pGTwTSpR" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>According to <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/any-future-act-of-terror-by-pakistan-to-be-considered-act-of-war-sources-8379594/">reports</a>, <strong>India will regard all future acts of terrorism as acts of war by Pakistan,</strong> which will result in cross-border strikes. </p>

<p>That might not deter Pakistan, whose military leadership relies on the unresolved Kashmir Conflict to legitimize its outsized influence, but it could still make them think twice about orchestrating future attacks.</p>

<p>Moreover, the Indus Waters Treaty remains suspended despite the fragile ceasefire/”understanding” between them, which collectively contributes to the new reality in South Asia. <strong>Reports also suggest that it was Pakistan, not India, which asked the US to diplomatically intervene in the latest conflict.</strong> About that, India denied that any mediation took place despite the US’ claims, but the US probably passed along messages from Pakistan to India on Islamabad’s behalf during talks between their officials.</p>

<p><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/10/politics/vance-modi-india-pakistan-intelligence">CNN</a> claimed that Vance called Modi after receiving “alarming intelligence”, which hints that Pakistan told the US that it might use of nuclear weapons in desperation, likely due to India <a href="https://www.livemint.com/news/india/india-launched-eight-precision-strikes-on-pakistan-where-were-they-india-pakistan-conflict-11746872239866.html">bombing multiple bases</a> across the country. <strong>If that’s indeed what happened, then it would imply that Pakistan believed that was losing, thus lending credence to perceptions that India got the best of it.</strong> After all, the aforesaid strikes weren’t intercepted, which shows that India achieved escalatory dominance over Pakistan.</p>

<p><strong>Although some Pakistani drones and missiles hit targets inside of India, Russia’s S-400s were <a href="https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/all-about-the-s-400-defence-system-used-by-india-to-neutralise-pak-missiles-8362623">praised by national media</a> for neutralizing many of the incoming attacks.</strong> Likewise, the jointly produced BrahMos supersonic cruise missiles <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/brahmos-likely-used-in-precision-attacks-on-dozen-pakistan-air-bases-9995462/">were used</a> in India’s successful attacks against Pakistani bases, thus proving that Russian military equipment is truly some of the best in the world. By contrast, Pakistan’s mostly Chinese equipment fell short of some observers’ lofty expectations, which reflects negatively on both.</p>

<p>Nevertheless, many in the <a href="https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/a-review-of-the-most-common-roles-in-the-alt-media-community">Alt-Media Community</a> – including some top “Non-Russian Pro-Russians” – insist that Pakistan defeated India, though there are reasons to suspect that they don’t actually believe this but are driven by ulterior motives in claiming otherwise. Most of these same figures are known for their support of Palestine and/or China, and given that India is close to Israel and at odds with China, supporting Pakistan is “ideologically consistent” with their views and precludes accusations of hypocrisy.</p>

<p>No matter how reliable their takes on Ukraine, Palestine, and whatever else might be, their views on the latest Indo-Pak conflict should therefore be taken with lots of salt. This is important to keep in mind since <strong>Putin and Modi “emphasised the need to uncompromisingly fight terrorism in all its forms” <a href="http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76841">during their call</a> last week,</strong> which isn’t reflected by these top “Non-Russian Pro-Russians” who present themselves as interpreters of Russian foreign policy. </p>

<p>Their support of Pakistan over India contradicts Russian interests.</p>

<p><strong>All told, while opinions are mixed about who came out on top in the latest Indo-Pak conflict, India arguably won seeing as how it punished Pakistan for the <a href="https://thealtworld.com/andrew_korybko/pakistans-military-leader-has-the-most-to-gain-lose-from-the-pahalgam-terrorist-attack">Pahalgam terrorist attack</a> by bombing multiple bases, the Indus Waters Treaty remains suspended, and a new military doctrine has entered into effect.</strong> Pakistan achieved no comparable outcomes despite its supporters’ claims. Even though it lost, Pakistan might not have learned its lesson, so a re-eruption of hostilities at some future time can’t be ruled out.</p>
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            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>It was about one month ago, when as stocks tumbled, economists rushed to catch down to the sliding market by doing what they do best: chasing prices (in this case lower) by slashing their economic forecasts (most notably Goldman Sachs) a move which we mocked at the time, and correctly predicted it would be about a month before these same economists made an "<em>unrecession" </em>their base case once stocks rebounded.</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Will be so slightly awkward when all the banks who made a recession their base case this week, make an unrecession their base case in 1 month.</p>
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) <a href="https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1909598585370415287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>It took less than a month for this forecast to come true, and now that stocks have erased all of their post Liberation Day losses, one of the most closely followed people on Wall Street, Goldman's chief economist Jan Hatzius, said on CNBC on May 2 - just weeks after declaring that a recession was his base case for 90 minutes - that <em>"The most recent information is certainly consistent with the economy not going through a recession right now".</em> </p>

<p>Of course, <strong>the concurrent surge in the Atlanta Fed real-time GDP tracker from -3% (which was dead wrong to where Q1 GDP actually printed) to +2.4% in Q2, </strong>only cemented a non-recession base case...</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Regional Fed GDP tracking update <a href="https://t.co/02r2VVLoXX">pic.twitter.com/02r2VVLoXX</a></p>
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) <a href="https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1917629127206576441?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>... because the technical definition of a recession - two consecutive negative quarters - meant that with Q2 GDP set to print well in the green, the earliest the US could be declared to be in an official recession was some time in early 2026 when the Q4 2025 GDP number would come out.</p>

<p>This was devastating to the liberal wing of the economic profession, not to mention the mainstream media, all of whom had decided that a Trump recession was imminent, and so they had to pivot to something else that would trigger a daily <em><strong>doom and gloom </strong></em>narrative.</p>

<p>That something was the hypothesis that with trade war between the US and China raging, it was only a matter of time before west coast ports were empty, as no Chinese containerships would come to the US, and the result would be a covid-like panic scramble for products (remember the legendary toilet paper runs) amid a historic inventory destocking.</p>

<p>It was as if the media turned on a dime, and with the "looming recession" narrative suddenly left in the dust, it was instead replaced with story after story about the looming port crisis that would, gasp, result in covid-like empty shelves everywhere across America!</p>

<p>"<a href="https://news.sky.com/story/trumps-tariffs-hit-the-wests-busiest-port-with-traffic-down-by-nearly-a-third-13364319">Trump's tariffs hit the West's busiest port - with traffic down by nearly a third</a>" blasted Sky News, "<a href="https://www.inc.com/bruce-crumley/why-u-s-ports-are-emptying-out-before-tariffs-hit-harder/91186697">Why U.S. Ports Are Emptying Out Before Tariffs Hit Harder</a>" asked rhetorically Inc, magazine. "<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-05-07/empty-store-shelves-might-be-coming-sooner-than-you-think">Empty Store Shelves Might Be Coming Sooner Than You Think</a>" cried Bloomberg's unerringly liberal talking heads and Reuters, never one to miss an opportunity to amplify an anti-Trump narrative, no matter how credible, echoed "<a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/shipping-volume-will-plummet-35-next-week-la-port-official-says-cnbc-interview-2025-04-29/">Shipping volume will plummet 35% next week, LA port official says in CNBC interview</a>."</p>

<p>You get the picture. </p>

<p>But that was just the beginning, because the liberal media was only just starting its fearmongering campaign to get Americans to panic and to rush out and start stockpiling toilet paper once again. In other words, the "independent press" was hoping to cause the very catastrophic outcome it was "warning" about.</p>

<p>Nowhere was this more evident than on MSNBC where anchor and former Deutsche Bank bond salesman, Stephanie Ruhle, no longer an expert intimately familiar with Under Armor (<a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/media/under-armour-kevin-plank-stephanie-ruhle-66cb65b5">and especially its CEO</a>), but now a full-blown trade guru, declared that "<strong>Donald Trump has been told look at the cargo ships coming in to Seattle, the port of Los Angeles, pick the port. Those ports are getting fewer and fewer ships with less and less cargo</strong>. And unless he turns this around, three weeks from now, you walk into a store and we're going to have a covid-like supply chain crisis, and Trump is looking for an exit."</p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">"Unless he turns this around, three weeks from now, you walk into a store and we're going to have a covid-like supply chain crisis, and Trump is looking for an exit" -- here's the <a href="https://twitter.com/SRuhle?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SRuhle</a> commentary that triggered a Trump Truth Social meltdown <a href="https://t.co/hzmP9uGTqu">pic.twitter.com/hzmP9uGTqu</a></p>
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1920878476837449764?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>But, as always happens, it was CNN that finally took this "broken telephone" narrative to its absurd conclusion, when the media outlet that has become the butt of all propaganda jokes declared that <strong>"<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/business/zero-ships-china-trade-ports-pandemic">Zero ships from China are bound for California’s top ports. Officials haven’t seen that since the pandemic</a></strong>."</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/zero%20ships%20bound%20to%20california%20ports%20cnn.jpg?itok=iaGalSar" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/zero%20ships%20bound%20to%20california%20ports%20cnn.jpg?itok=iaGalSar"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="4b257359-f6c3-491c-a848-dcd5bb33f497" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="186" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/zero%20ships%20bound%20to%20california%20ports%20cnn.jpg?itok=iaGalSar" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>... an article written by CNN's Business and Politics correspondent, <a href="https://x.com/VanessaCNN">Vanessa Yurkevich</a>, who like MSNBC's Ruhle above, is now a full-blown expert on naval commerce and logistics as a quick scan of her latest articles reveals.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/yurkevich.jpg?itok=s5wQ6kEw" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/yurkevich.jpg?itok=s5wQ6kEw"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="2433a0a1-0dea-4cd2-a0c6-5b2d51796bdf" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="433" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/yurkevich.jpg?itok=s5wQ6kEw" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>So up until this point we had stayed away from this idiotic discussion, which merely demonstrated how little understanding so-called experts actually have of a nuanced and complicated topic as trade and global commerce.</p>

<p>However, CNN's idiocy was the last straw.</p>

<p>But before we go there, a quick look at what has been really taking place.</p>

<p>First, regarding the claim that west coast ports have seen a sharp drop in inbound traffic, there certainly has been a modest decline in February and March inbound traffic, but a decline from a near-record print in January, which in turn was the result of inventory restocking ahead of what most retailers knew would be a trade war. After all, Trump had made it clear about a year ago that he had every intention of restarting trade war with the world, and especially China, and only someone watching CNN would be surprised by the recent sharp spike in tariffs, a move which incidentally was never meant to be permanent but was a strategy meant to inflict max pain and get trading partners to the negotiating table. In any case, the total inbound traffic to California ports shown below is hardly the apocalypse the liberal media has been making it out to be (and even Reuters discusses this in "<a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/near-record-us-container-import-streak-expected-snap-may-due-tariffs-2025-05-08/">Near-record US container import streak expected to snap in May due to tariffs</a>").</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/port%20of%20la%20lb.jpg?itok=H_6zd1s4" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/port%20of%20la%20lb.jpg?itok=H_6zd1s4"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="c2c3c095-b3a1-458a-8fcb-8afbffbb1a31" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="315" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/port%20of%20la%20lb.jpg?itok=H_6zd1s4" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Then, addressing the topic of imminent product shortages, this was another fake news narrative meant to spark panic and chaos, and resulting in just the outcome the media was "warning" about. Because if it hurts Trump, it's great for MSNBC and CNN... and of course China, which begs the question: just how much "ad dollars" and/or sponsorship have these media outlets received from Beijing and Chinese companies in recent months. As the following charts from Deutsche Bank demonstrate clearly, what has been taking place in recent months - and why we are now seeing the reverse - is record prebuying and excess imports...</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/prebuying.jpg?itok=qVSM0Rot" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/prebuying.jpg?itok=qVSM0Rot"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="92280fc7-f8d3-40bb-a63e-a547bc01f2e6" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="356" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/prebuying.jpg?itok=qVSM0Rot" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>... which according to Deutsche Bank has led to precisely the opposite outcome than the one MSNBC and CNN have been blasting: there is excess inventory in the supply channel, enough in fact to last weeks if not months, assuming a full-blown collapse in global trade, which of course would never happen absent a covid-like shock.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/inventory%20buildup.jpg?itok=-96auflx" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/inventory%20buildup.jpg?itok=-96auflx"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="38ace399-c993-464f-9127-5e91185f5416" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="376" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/inventory%20buildup.jpg?itok=-96auflx" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Additionally, if and when retailers end up liquidating these billions in excess inventories they have accumulated just for this contingency, the outcome would be wildly deflationary, and hardly the inflationary shock so many "experts" predict (that's the topic of another post, and we'll get to it eventually).</p>

<p>Going back to the media's favorite topic of dropping cargoes from China, it wasn't just us that countered the popular narrative: so did Standard Chartered's Steve Englander who wrote last week that "<strong>the lurid headlines on the drop in cargoes from China may be misleading." </strong>That's because as we noted above, the volume of laden cargo now being shipped from China to the US is down almost 50% versus mid-April 2025, but <em>the mid-April level was very high<strong>, </strong></em>and while you will never hear this on CNN, <strong>the current level is about on a par with much of 2023</strong>. In fact, Englander said that "the current pace as the low end of normal over the last couple of years." Again, hardly the apocalypse Kevin Plank's favorite media body <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/media/under-armour-kevin-plank-stephanie-ruhle-66cb65b5">(we use the term loosely) </a>portrays it to be.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/laden%20tonnage%20to%20the%20US.jpg?itok=onlFP7_V" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/laden%20tonnage%20to%20the%20US.jpg?itok=onlFP7_V"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="c9a86532-be37-4948-934e-c7456c8df890" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="387" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/laden%20tonnage%20to%20the%20US.jpg?itok=onlFP7_V" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>There's more: another thing you would never hear on MSNBC or CNN is that <strong>if the early-May pace of shipping to the US is maintained though end-June, the cumulative amount shipped in H1-2025 would be 18% higher than in H1-2023 and only 5% lower than in H1-2024. </strong>So far this year, the tonnage shipped to the US is 40% higher than in 2023 and 9% higher than in 2024. Indeed, as noted above, and as Englander observes, "<strong>US importers may have an inventory buffer until tariffs are negotiated downwards."</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/cumulative%20laden%20containers.jpg?itok=mYpH2bzs" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/cumulative%20laden%20containers.jpg?itok=mYpH2bzs"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="6228abfe-1b2c-47ce-92ea-e86fdd2a325d" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="395" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/cumulative%20laden%20containers.jpg?itok=mYpH2bzs" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Taking a step back, if only for the benefit of our CNN and MSNBC readers, the big picture is one that even if the US were to lose all Chinese imports - an outcome which nobody anticipates as it would destroy China's economy as Reuters admitted last week - the outcome to the US would hardly be devastating. Yes, prices would rise, but overall the US would be able to handle it. Here, again, is Englander explaining why:</p>

<blockquote>
<p>US imports from China are about 1.6% of US GDP in value terms. If inbound cargo stays at early-May levels, then H2-2025 imports will be 85% of 2023 levels (in volume terms) and 67% of 2024 levels. <strong>So the import volume shock would be 0.25% of GDP relative to 2023 and 0.5% relative to 2024. </strong>And keep in mind that <strong>there may be substitution from elsewhere. </strong>There may be temporary delays as US importers figure out the practicalities of dealing with the new tariffs, and shipping may be down temporarily because importers stocked up ahead of tariff implementation.</p>

<p>There is little precedent for this kind of tariff shock, <strong>but our judgement is that the US economy can handle it. </strong>We agree that disruption is likely from tariffs and that any benefits are uncertain, <strong>but we don’t think that the US economy will fall off a precipice because of a shock of this magnitude.</strong></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Remarkably, none of the so-called experts predicting doom and gloom in recent days spent even a minute to consider this eventuality. Which is also why the left's attempt to spark widespread panic by focusing on Chinese imports had largely been a dud... and why it forced the media to escalate its claims to ever more ludicrous proportions, until we got the CNN story that there were "<strong>zero ships from China are bound for California's top ports." </strong></p>

<p>And this is where we drew the line because it takes about a 10 second google search on any of the marine tracking websites such as <a href="https://www.marinetraffic.com/">Marine Traffic </a>to find out this is <strong>total bullshit</strong>. And the fact that CNN didn't even consider that not all of its readers are absolute idiots who would accept its lies with zero pushback, is what was most remarkable.</p>

<p>Below is a chart from Bloomberg showing all the Dry Cargo/Container ships that have recently left China, and are currently in the water, headed for Wast Coast ports.</p>
<a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/ships%20headed%20to%20California.jpg?itok=AHUIQjQV" data-link-option="0" href="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/ships%20headed%20to%20California.jpg?itok=AHUIQjQV"><picture><figure role="group" data-sanitized-class="caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images"><img alt="" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="405baba4-8634-4038-8b39-ee8beab89450" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="338" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/ships%20headed%20to%20California.jpg?itok=AHUIQjQV" typeof="foaf:Image" width="500"><figcaption><em>Source: Bloomberg, IMO function</em></figcaption></figure></picture></a>

<p>According to Bloomberg, there are no less than 52 cargo ships currently sailing from China to California and the West Coast, with the full list shown below.</p>
<a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/ships%20from%20china.jpg?itok=sz_2Z6j3" data-link-option="0" href="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/inline-images/ships%20from%20china.jpg?itok=sz_2Z6j3"><picture><figure role="group" data-sanitized-class="caption caption-img inline-images image-style-inline-images"><img alt="" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="c3fbbc79-d247-43a4-95e1-0ab3e61696b9" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="305" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/ships%20from%20china.jpg?itok=sz_2Z6j3" typeof="foaf:Image" width="500"><figcaption><em>Source: Bloomberg, IMO function</em></figcaption></figure></picture></a>

<p>It goes without saying that 52 is quite different from the <em><strong>zero ships headed to the US, </strong></em>as <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/business/zero-ships-china-trade-ports-pandemic">CNN claims</a>, and to put that number in context, here is what the average number of ships heading across from China to the US has been in 2025:</p>

<ul><li>January 59 ships</li>
	<li>February 56</li>
	<li>March 55</li>
	<li>April 55</li>
</ul><p>And now <strong>May is 52. </strong>So that drop - from 55 to 52 - is supposed to be the looming <em><strong>covid-like apocalypse </strong></em>that the mainstream propaganda media is urging Americans to run to their local Walmart and stock up on several years worth of toilet paper?</p>

<p>But it gets worse for CNN, because while we can understand if they don't have access to Bloomberg, or even google as a result of recent cuts in USAID funding, they could have just gone to the Port of Los Angeles website to look at the public Port Optimizer data which shows that contrary to fake narratives of collapsing global trade, <strong>the import volumes for the week of May 18-24 are up 19% from the previous week and up a whopping 56% from a year ago.</strong></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/import%20volumes.jpg?itok=CrvN5aQw" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/import%20volumes.jpg?itok=CrvN5aQw"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="0a4e67ee-eff5-4534-9858-b1d64f9ab50a" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="599" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/import%20volumes.jpg?itok=CrvN5aQw" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>And another way of showing it: here is the total number of container ships sailing from China to the US (in TEUs). The number on May 11 is higher than where it was in 2024 and the same as May 2023. But you won't hear any of that on CNN.</p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/number%20of%20container%20ships%20sailing%20to%20the%20US.jpg?itok=RlXMvV70" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/number%20of%20container%20ships%20sailing%20to%20the%20US.jpg?itok=RlXMvV70"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="56cc91a1-e2f5-467e-a73c-33f8e7548b12" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="252" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/number%20of%20container%20ships%20sailing%20to%20the%20US.jpg?itok=RlXMvV70" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>Instead, this is what you <strong>will </strong>hear on CNN:</p>

<blockquote>
<p><em>"On Friday morning, West Coast port officials told CNN about a startling sight: Not a single cargo vessel had left China with goods for the two major West Coast ports in the past 12 hours. <strong>That hasn’t happened since the pandemic."</strong></em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Only this attempt to spark panic (while evoking the covid pandemic for obvious reasons) is also <em>dead wrong:</em> first, consider that there are currently 52 ships transiting the Pacific from China to SoCal, in line with historic numbers: the trip takes 20 days which means 2.6 ships sailing each day or one ship every 9 to 10 hours. So a 12 hour period is not unusual. And, as Sal Mercogliano points out, while no ships may have set sail for California on Friday, a quick look at Marine Traffic shows that three ships <em><strong>- Cosco Africa, Ever Safety and Ever Mild </strong></em>- are all leaving China for SoCal this weekend. So much for that <em><strong>"startling sight."</strong></em></p>

<blockquote data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">6/The story said 41 ships were scheduled to sail, but on Friday it was zero. This does not mean the 41 are not sailing. A quick look <a href="https://twitter.com/MarineTraffic?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MarineTraffic</a> finds COSCO AFRICA, EVER SAFETY and EVER MILD all leaving for SoCal this weekend. <a href="https://t.co/t35J2I8XgL">pic.twitter.com/t35J2I8XgL</a></p>
— Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴‍☠️ (@mercoglianos) <a href="https://twitter.com/mercoglianos/status/1921308576997351543?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>We could continue but you - unlike CNN - get the picture: transpacific trade may have slowed down, but it is nowhere near the full ground stop observed for a few weeks during covid, not even remotely close.</p>

<p>Meanwhile, the entire discussion about empty ports and empty shelves is completely moot because <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trade-talks-begin-chinese-exporters-prepare-get-goods-moving-us-again-2025-05-09/">as Reuters reported </a>even before the news of this weekend's US-China trade talks breakthrough hit, "<strong>China-based shipping agents have resumed buying container space for goods headed for the United States after a series of U.S. tariff-induced cancellations, </strong>as Beijing and Washington head for trade talks in Switzerland."</p>

<p>And here is <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/trade-talks-begin-chinese-exporters-prepare-get-goods-moving-us-again-2025-05-09/">Reuters confirming </a>what we said several days ago: "<em>Since late April, however, traders have stepped up buying of shipping capacity, locking in space from mid-May, according to two China-based executives with freight forwarding firms." </em></p>

<p>Or precisely what we said <em><strong>a week ago.</strong></em></p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Ships sailing from China to US hits 2 week high. But Long Beach was supposed to be a ghost port <a href="https://t.co/T2Jdi8eJx1">pic.twitter.com/T2Jdi8eJx1</a></p>
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) <a href="https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/1919949493824336170?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>And remarkably, and contrary to anything you may hear on CNN or MSNBC, <strong>shipping from China to the US is actually set for another surge!</strong> According to Dominic Desmarais, chief solutions officer at Liya Solutions which connects small and medium-sized companies with suppliers in China making everything from furniture to titanium products, <strong>prices could go up by $500 per container after May 15 as shipping activity recovers. </strong></p>

<p><em><strong>So much for CNN's fake news.</strong></em></p>

<p>We'll leave readers with another far more critical discussion topic, namely whether tariffs lead to inflation, something about which we will have more to say in the coming days since this has become a focal point of much economic debate in recent months, not just in the political arena but also inside the Fed. </p>

<p>And while Fed Chair Powell appears to be very "confused" once again, claiming that tariffs are inflationary with the same <strong>erroneous conviction </strong>he previously argued "<em>inflation was transitory" </em>- we will instead point you to the recent work of Javier Bianchi, senior research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, who thinks tariffs are not just a negative supply shock, <strong>but also a negative demand shock, </strong>and argues that the optimal monetary policy response to tariffs - which lead not to inflation but threaten recession - <strong>is to cut rates. </strong>For much more on this critical issue read <em>"<a href="https://www.minneapolisfed.org/article/2025/under-a-stiff-tariff-boosting-the-economy-takes-priority-over-inflation-for-a-central-bank">Under a stiff tariff, boosting the economy takes priority over inflation for a central bank</a>", </em>something we are 100% certain neither CNN or MSNBC will ever do.</p>
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guid: 6820be3e038a3200013aba29
author: ;Bill Jones
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/2025/05/Pope_Leo_XIV_on_the_loggia.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>In his first Sunday address to the 100,000 people, Catholic and non-Catholic, gathered at St. Peter’s Square, Pope Leo XIV reiterated his initial call for peace when elected Pope on May 8. “Pope Leo XIV stepped out onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica to thunderous applause and an electric atmosphere, to deliver his first Sunday blessing and an address calling for peace in Ukraine and Gaza,” according to CNN. Flags were flying in the crowd from the United States, Mexico, Brazil, Spain, and other countries. Addressing himself to the leaders of the world, after praying the Regina Caeli, the Pope said, “In today’s dramatic scenario of a piecemeal third world war, as Pope Francis stated many times, I too address the world’s leaders, repeating the ever-timely appeal: ‘Never again war!’”</p>
<p>CNN reported that “He told the crowd he was there to deliver a message of peace and led the faithful in the Regina Caeli (“Queen of Heaven”) prayer for the first time, surprising those gathered by <a href="https://youtu.be/8gDRJrMK0M0?t=573">singing the prayer</a>. The prayer is one of four Marian antiphons, or prayers to the Virgin Mary, which is said throughout the Easter season. (The practice of antiphonal singing—either as “call and response,” interspersed with spoken text—was advanced in the Church of St. Ambrose and St. Augustine in the fourth and fifth centuries, discussed in works like Augustine’s <em>De Musica</em>, and involved all congregants singing, they did in St. Peter’s Square on Sunday.)</p>
<p>After the Regina Caeli, <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/angelus/2025/documents/20250511-regina-caeli.html">Leo called for an end to the conflict</a> in Ukraine—an “authentic, just and lasting peace.” On India and Pakistan, he said, “I have welcomed with satisfaction the announcement of the ceasefire between India and Pakistan, and I hope that through the upcoming negotiations, a lasting accord may be reached soon.” Leo also made a plea in Gaza, “may there be an immediate ceasefire! Let humanitarian aid be provided to the stricken civil population, and let all the hostages be freed.”</p>

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guid: 6820be94038a3200013aba34
title: ‘Three Stooges Plus One’ Meet with Zelenskyy, Demand Ukraine Destruction
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<p>France’s President Macron, Germany’s Chancellor Merz, and Great Britain’s Prime Minister Starmer, together with Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk, traveled to Kiev to meet with failed comedian and acting president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. They tried, unsuccessfully, to upstage the Victory Day celebrations for the 80th anniversary of the defeat of fascism occurring throughout Russia and other nations. They may have hoped to divert attention from coverage of the events in Moscow, or to change the subject by proposing a “Monday morning 30-day ceasefire, or else!!” Few, least of all the Russians, made the mistake of taking them seriously.</p>
<p>For example, Merz, having just squeezed through in election as German Chancellor, announced that he would call Russian President Putin to ask him to accept a 30-day ceasefire. At the same time, he proposed that Putin would also have to be tried for war crimes. As American commentator <a href="https://youtu.be/%E2%80%94V_RqHMHT0?t=43">Lt. Col. Danny Davis</a> said: “They’re putting conditions, even on the talks, that they know that the Russian side will never agree to. Merz, the new Chancellor for Germany, was the most acidic.… [H]e said that any kind of end-of-war negotiations will have to include a war crimes tribunal for Putin. Now, what head of state wouldn’t just embrace the heck out of that? Yes, from a position of strength, I’m going to say, ‘sure, we’ll have end-of-war negotiations on terms you set, that are beneficial to you, and that will include me on the docket after the war is over.’”</p>
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guid: 6820c76a038a3200013aba4a
title: Putin Seeks for Beginning of Peace Negotiations
author: ;Bill Jones
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/size/w1200/2025/05/Gm2EIkctQLJbNxA5epYNGGsRs042JX8w.jpg" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>In the follow-up to the Victory Day celebrations in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin held meetings on May 10 with the leaders of Vietnam, Burkina Faso, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, as well as with the commander of the Libyan National Army.</p>
<p>Then, at the end of their day, on May 11 at 2:00 a.m., he held a <a href="http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76899">press conference</a>. He noted the foreign leaders who attended the Victory Day ceremonies, and particularly thanked those who had attended so despite the pressure from certain countries to boycott the event. He underlined the importance of their visits as a clear indication that Russia is still playing a major role in global affairs. He stressed the meeting he and Chinese President Xi Jinping had held, and the agreements they signed.</p>
<p>Putin also emphasized that the issue of the Ukraine conflict had also been a topic of the discussions. Putin remarked that Ukraine had rejected all the proposals that Russia had put forward: the 30-day moratorium in March on attacks on each other’s energy facilities; the Easter truce; and now, the three-day Victory Day truce. He later pointed out that Ukraine had planned drone attacks on Moscow on Victory Day, but they had been thwarted by Russia’s Aerospace Forces, as were the several attempts by Ukrainian forces to overrun the Russian border in the Kursk and Belgorod regions.</p>
<p>Putin then announced that he was calling for the beginning of peace talks with Ukraine to take place on May 15 in Istanbul, in order to continue what had been interrupted when Ukraine withdrew from them in April 2022. Putin’s move fundamentally undercuts the demand by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Poland’s President Donald Tusk and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a 30-day truce. Putin indicated that the Turkish side had repeatedly said they would be willing to host such talks, and President Erdogan had worked hard on this issue. Putin stated: “Let me reiterate myself: Russia is ready for talks without any preliminary conditions. There are combat actions and war going on now, and we propose to resume negotiations that were not interrupted by us. Well, what’s wrong about it?</p>
<p>“Those who really want peace cannot but support this. At the same time, I would like to express my gratitude once again for the mediation services and efforts aimed at a peaceful settlement of the Ukrainian crisis undertaken by our foreign partners, including China, Brazil, African countries, the Middle East, and recently the new Administration of the United States of America.”</p>
<p>After a call with Putin, Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan began getting on the phone with world leaders to discuss the issue. He said Ankara would do everything possible in organizing and carrying out discussions that could lead to a stable peace.</p>
<p>In contrast to the media hype that U.S. President Donald Trump is supporting the European plan, Trump expressed clear support for Putin’s proposal and told the Ukrainians that they should accept Putin’s proposal “immediately.” <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114490093180275292">Trump wrote</a> today on Truth Social: “President Putin of Russia doesn’t want to have a cease fire agreement with Ukraine, but rather wants to meet on Thursday, in Türkiye, to negotiate a possible end to the BLOODBATH. Ukraine should agree to this, IMMEDIATELY. At least they will be able to determine whether or not a deal is possible, and if it is not, European leaders, and the U.S., will know where everything stands, and can proceed accordingly! I’m starting to doubt that Ukraine will make a deal with Putin, who’s too busy celebrating the Victory of World War II, which could not have been won (not even close!) without the United States of America. HAVE THE MEETING NOW!!!”</p>
<p>Zelenskyy could hardly refuse the demand from the President of the United States, so <a href="https://x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1921642678057635893?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet">he tweeted a “challenge” to Putin</a> to meet him in Türkiye on May 15.</p>

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guid: 6820d810038a3200013aba96
title: ‘Old Europe’ Expresses Support for Putin on Victory Day
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<p>A number of statements by European visitors to the Victory Day celebrations carry particular import, because of their relationship to important historical figures. One was the statement of Pierre de Gaulle, the grandson of French President General Charles de Gaulle, who attended the parade. (Charles de Gaulle had, countered the Cold War narrative, when he called for a “Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals.") “This is a wonderful day and a great joy,” Pierre de Gaulle said. “We celebrate the end of the Second World War together with the Chinese, together with all the former Soviet republics, together with the Russians. This is a celebration for peace, and I hope that we will achieve peace. We all want peace.”</p>
<p>Another comment came from Alexander von Bismarck, the great-grandson of the first Chancellor of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck, who also attended the celebrations. (Otto von Bismarck had kept peace in Europe by maintaining an alliance between Germany and Russia, which successfully prevented British Empire attempts to foment war among the continental powers.). “I think it’s crazy when Brussels says they can’t” negotiate, Alexander von Bismarck said. “Every person from Western Europe can come whenever they want. It doesn’t matter. I invited many Germans to come here, and also to the government. I believe that Germany, especially Germany, could be the best example of how to put diplomacy first, and say, ‘Let’s all sit down at the negotiating table,’” von Bismarck stressed.</p>
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<p>The India-Pakistan ceasefire negotiated with the help of the United States seems to be holding as of Sunday, May 11. <a href="https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2025/05/announcing-a-u-s-brokered-ceasefire-between-india-and-pakistan/?utm_source=homepage&amp;utm_medium=news_bar&amp;utm_campaign=india-pakistan">U.S. President Donald Trump announced</a> the ceasefire on May 10, and today sent a congratulatory message to both Islamabad and New Delhi for “having the strength, wisdom, and fortitude to fully know and understand that it was time to stop the current aggression that could have led to the death and destruction of so many, and so much.”</p>
<p>President Trump said he would increase trade with both countries “substantially,” and he would work with them to achieve some permanent resolution of the Kashmir question. Pakistan praised the mediation role of the United States, although India made little mention of it, and they reiterated their position that they would respond to every Pakistani attack with a counterattack.</p>
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<p>U.S. President Trump’s Special Envoy Steven Witkoff, perhaps speaking on behalf of the President, criticized Netanyahu’s decision to continue the military operations in Gaza. According to Israeli media reports, Witkoff said that he was opposed to Israel’s continuation of the war in Gaza. ““Israel is prolonging the war, even though we do not see where further progress can be made,” <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/witkoff-said-to-tell-hostage-families-israel-pointlessly-extending-war-us-urging-deal/"><em>Times of Israel</em></a> quoted him as saying, citing Israel’s Channel 12 TV. “Still, there is currently a window of opportunity that we hope Israel and all the mediators will take advantage of. We are putting pressure on all the mediators and doing everything to return the hostages.”</p>
<p><em>ToI</em> further quoted Israeli officials as responding: “If there are no agreements by the end of [U.S. President Donald] Trump’s visit to the Middle East [on May 13-15], Israel will launch a ground operation and it will take several weeks until the next ‘exit point.’ Once we have begun the intensified operation, we won’t agree to quickly halt it. Hamas will not determine the timeline.”</p>
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title: Putin&amp;#039;s Late-Night Judo Lesson Not Lost on Intelligent Commentators—Or Trump
author: ;Dennis Speed
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<div><img src="https://eir.news/content/images/size/w1200/2025/05/bd1fad080cc9ada0dcb2f42d5173a07a_1746988827_extra_large.png" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>Those not beholden to the “mainstream media,” and therefore, still capable of thinking, did not fail to recognize the “flank” executed by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the “five stooges” Starmer, Macron, Zelenskyy, Merz and Tusk only hours after their “Monday morning ceasefire” ultimatum. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/HJHvSRv7pO8">Lt. Col. Danny Davis posted</a> Zelenskyy and the EU’s “counteroffer": “‘We propose to Kiev authorities to resume the talks that they stopped in April 2022. I’m referring to direct talks without any preconditions. And we start immediately, next Thursday, on the 15th of May in Istanbul,’ Putin said. So, you had Zelenskyy saying, ‘I demand an immediate ceasefire tomorrow, on Monday.’ And Putin says, ‘hey how about we resume the talks that you stopped, from Istanbul, and how’s about Thursday, that we start that?’</p>
<p>“So I honestly have to give it to Putin on this case, because he’s a lot more composed than I would have been right there. He has the dominant upper hand. I mean he could have just said, ‘hey, you know what? Forget this all. Forget everything we’ve been talking about. Forget about negotiations. We’ll meet you in Kyiv on the battlefront, like we met Germany in Berlin.… But he was <em>unequivocal.</em> There will be no 30-day ceasefire. He has been unequivocal on that from the beginning…. In that same press conference that Putin made there yesterday, he also explained what his intent was—not for a 30-day ceasefire, but to end the war.”</p>
<p>The Duran’s <a href="https://youtu.be/8t2RHKWF5AY?si=o3Fx3RGSCkrxbZ5Y">Alexander Mercouris</a> said on his webcast today: “What we also saw yesterday was what tends to happen when a bunch of amateurs—which is what the leaders of the European states and Volodymyr Zelenskyy basically are—what happens when amateurs who feel very pleased with themselves, and imagine themselves to be extremely clever people, come up against a consummate and massively experienced professional. …</p>
<p>“Over the last couple of days, Putin has been, even by his standards, incredibly busy: Since the 7th of May, he has been hosting a whole large group of world leaders led by the President of China, 29 world leaders in total, as well as various other important foreign guests…. He’s had to engage in long and detailed discussions with President Xi Jinping of China, a leader with an extraordinary mastery of detail, at least the equal of Putin’s own. He’s had to conduct negotiations with the President of Brazil, President Lula, and of course President Lula also came with a very strong delegation. He’s also had to meet other leaders as well, [Serbian President Aleksandar] Vučić and [Slovakian Prime Minister Robert] Fico, and the Presidents of Egypt and Ethiopia, and all sorts of other countries. He’s had to attend a parade in Moscow. He’s had to host leaders and Russian citizens in various ceremonies conducted mostly in the Kremlin. He’s also had to participate, if only for a brief time, in the march of the Immortal Regiment. This is the regiment, the march of Russian citizens, holding pictures of their fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers who fought in the Second World War, the Great Patriotic War.</p>
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title: Port of Los Angeles Hit Hard by Trade War
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<p>In the month of May, the number of shipping containers arriving at the port of Los Angeles is expected to be down by 25% over the same period last year. Los Angeles’ port is the country’s largest, in the volume of shipping containers, and half of the berths for the container ships are presently empty. One in nine jobs, or about 1 million workers in the five counties around Los Angeles, is tied to the port, including freight forwarders, brokers, warehouse workers, truck drivers and dockworkers. About 20% of the ships that were expected to arrive this month have already cancelled, and that figure is anticipated to rise. Consumer spending accounts for 70% of the U.S. economy, and industry leaders warn that those consumers could see empty store shelves within 60 to 90 days.</p>
<p>Vice President Bradi Good of Local 13 of the International Longshoremen and Warehouse Union told the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/11/los-angeles-port-tariffs-trade-tensions/"><em>Washington Post</em></a>: “Under the union contract, full-time dock workers are guaranteed some pay even when there is no work. But some now are working fewer shifts or (at) lower-paying jobs than they normally perform.” These workers usually take advantage of slow periods by repairing or maintaining equipment, but this time there is much more uncertainty. Sal DiCostanzo, the union’s port liaison, said that, instead of showing sympathy for workers hurt by the trade war, President Trump has said that the trade war is “a good thing, not a bad thing,” since it means less “unfair” trade with China. Despite the trade war with the U.S., however, China’s exports rose by 8% in April, with increased shipments to Europe, Southeast Asia and Africa.</p>
<p>Competition in the trucking industry has become fierce, as freight rates are at the level they were a decade ago. Many small trucking companies have filed for bankruptcy, and the larger firms have seen their stock values drop by 20%. Trucking companies have laid off drivers, cancelled new truck orders, and even outsourced jobs to competing companies.</p>


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Russia’s UN Deputy Ambassador Polyanskiy: ‘We Liberated Them, and They Will Never Forgive Us for It’

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<p>In a May 10 discussion with Prof. Glenn Diesen, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9p5O6UxTxs">Dmitry Polyanskiy</a>, Russia’s First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, observed: “There was a bitter joke in the Russian press recently: If Hitler’s suicide had happened today, the headlines would read, ‘Bloody dictator Stalin causes democratically elected leader of united Europe to commit suicide.’ It’s not funny, but it captures the absurdity of how history is rewritten.”</p>
<p>He observed that “it’s extremely important now to have an undistorted picture of what happened 80, 85, 90 years ago, because it’s important for all of us to understand how we got there. For European countries, especially Germany, it’s important to learn the lessons of the past—because Hitler was elected democratically and enjoyed overwhelming support in his country and in some other countries. There were pro-Hitler marches in Europe, the U.K., and the U.S. It was considered normal. Now, Europe is trying to cut important corners of its own history and shift the blame on to Russia…. So they distort history to fit their political agenda. This is dangerous not only for Europe but for the U.S. as well.”</p>
<p>In a particularly telling exchange, Diesen asked number two at Russia’s UN mission: “At this year’s Victory Day celebration, it was interesting to see who attended. A few years ago, we saw Western leaders. Now we saw leaders like Robert Fico of Slovakia, who was under great pressure not to attend, and of course, China’s participation. Does this reflect Russia’s new path, or is that reading too much into it?”</p>
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He Lifeng, the Chinese leader of China-US economic and trade and Vice Premier of the State Council, held a press conference that <a href="https://www.guancha.cn/internation/2025_05_12_775422.shtml">was reported</a> by <em>Guancha</em>. As emphasized in previous media releases, the meeting didn’t involve negotiations; rather, the aim was to establish to proper atmosphere for negotiations. That must be kept in mind as you read the following:  </p><blockquote><p>The high-level economic and trade talks between China and the United States were held in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 10 and 11. He Lifeng, the Chinese leader of China-US economic and trade and Vice Premier of the State Council, said at a press conference held by the Chinese delegation on the evening of the 11th local time that the high-level economic and trade talks between China and the United States were candid, in-depth and constructive, reached important consensus, and made substantial progress. <em><strong>The two sides agreed to establish a mechanism for economic and trade consultations between China and the United States</strong></em>. China and the United States will finalize the relevant details as soon as possible and will release a joint statement on May 12.</p><p>He Lifeng said: Under the current situation, the talks have attracted great attention from the international community. Through the joint efforts of China and the United States, the talks were fruitful, <em><strong>an important step was taken to resolve differences through dialogue and consultation on an equal footing, and the foundation and conditions were laid for further bridging differences and deepening cooperation.</strong></em></p><p>He Lifeng said that China-US economic and trade relations are not only of great significance to the two countries but also have an important impact on the stability and development of the global economy. China is ready to work with the US side to actively implement the important consensus reached in the phone call between the two heads of state on January 17 this year, and<em><strong> in a pragmatic manner to solve problems, engage in frank dialogue, consult on an equal footing, manage differences, tap the potential of cooperation, lengthen the list of cooperation, make the cooperation cake bigger, promote new development of China-US economic and trade relations, and inject more certainty and stability into the world economy</strong></em>. [My Emphasis]</p></blockquote><p>That comes across as a very tall order for Team Trump. The joint statement isn’t available yet, but I can’t imagine there’ll be much deviation with the above. Additional pressure is being applied by California Governor Gavin Newsom as this portion of <a href="https://www.guancha.cn/internation/2025_05_11_775387.shtml?s=zwytt">another report</a> tells us:</p><blockquote><p>On May 10, local time, California Governor Newsom, who is believed to have been keen on "showing up and provocative" in the conservative media, announced that he had placed an "anti-tariff" advertisement on Fox News. In his ad, he warned that the tariffs could "end America's position as the world's largest economy."</p><p>Newsom announced the news on social media X on the 10th. According to him, the ad will air on Fox News "all weekend" and is intended to send a "clear message" to the Trump administration: "stop punishing American families." He said tariff policy was causing "serious damage" to the U.S. economy.</p></blockquote><p>And then there’s this very large issue that’s under the radar because of what it is—the global debt problem, not that of the Outlaw US Empire. Trump’s trade War creates a clear moral hazard that under the law turns those debts odious and thus refutable. Dr. Hudson’s been talking about this issue for years. Trump’s actions have given the deeply indebted Global South nations an opportunity they ought to take. This is from a <a href="https://michael-hudson.com/2025/05/from-clean-slates-to-debt-traps/">recent talk</a>:</p><blockquote><p>Well, if the United States and its tariff policy and its creditor policy prevents other countries from paying their debts by making exports to the United States and using their export proceeds to pay their creditors,<em><strong> then the United States has prevented the debts from being paid. It has turned the international debt system into odious debts.</strong></em></p><p>And there’s a long discussion dating back a century on odious debts and why odious debts must not be paid because they’re odious. And so I think the debtor countries can get together and say, <em><strong>we are suspending our debt obligations now because the United States prevents us from paying</strong></em>. The United States blocks us from exporting not only to the United States by the tariffs, but to China and Asia that are the growing countries.</p><p><em><strong>But if we can’t export, how on earth can we pay our debts except by selling off every acre of land that the government owns, every public utility, every asset that the government owns?</strong></em> And this is itself an odious economic dynamic. And so we are suspending our debt payment with the intention that this suspending will be permanent until such time as we can make a new beginning and use a credit to finance our economic growth and development and economic self-sufficiency in agriculture, in basic consumer goods, in industry. [My Emphasis]</p></blockquote><p>That would be a shocker to the Creditor Class that backs and is part of Team Trump. IMO, the Trade War has opened the door for other issues to be examined and solutions provided. One thing’s certain: The new international system of commerce and finance won’t be made unilaterally; it will be constructed by consensus, which is what’s happening now and is being drowned out by war and genocide. As we read above, once trade negotiations commence, they’ll take weeks perhaps months where even if China’s tariff amount is halved to 72% US importers and the ports their goods land at will be hit by Depression. I’m thinking of all the Dollar Trees, Dollar Generals, and their ilk that are tremendously dependent on China for their merchandise, and all the people employed by the logistics chain. One thing’s certain: Anger in America will increase and those angry people will know who made them angry.</p><p>*<br>*<br>*<br><em>Like what you’ve been reading at Karlof1’s Substack? Then please consider subscribing and choosing to make a <strong>monthly/yearly pledge</strong> to enable my efforts in this challenging realm. Thank You!</em></p><p></p><p data-attrs='{"url":"https://karlof1.substack.com/subscribe?","text":"Subscribe now","action":null,"class":null}' data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton" data-sanitized-class="button-wrapper"><a href="https://karlof1.substack.com/subscribe?" data-sanitized-class="button primary"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p></p><p></p><p> </p>

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<p><strong><em>In ogni caso, nonostante gli scontri armati dei giorni scorsi, caratterizzati da attacchi missilistici, duelli aerei e colpi d’artiglieria, è ancora possibile evitare un’escalation che diverrebbe drammatica tra India e Pakistan.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><span><span><em>Segue nostro</em></span> <a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Telegram</a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img loading="lazy" src="https://strategic-culture.su/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/tlg.jpg" alt="" width="25" height="25" data-sanitized-class="alignnone wp-image-875659"></a><a href="https://t.me/SCF_Italiano" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span>.</span></a></span></strong></p>
<p>Il 18 dicembre 2024, gli Stati Uniti dell’Amministrazione Biden hanno imposto sanzioni a quattro entità pakistane. La dichiarazione rilasciata dal Dipartimento di Stato americano affermava che queste entità avevano contribuito al programma missilistico balistico a lungo raggio del Pakistan. Queste sanzioni, emesse ai sensi dell’Ordine Esecutivo 13382, “mirano” alla proliferazione delle armi di distruzione di massa e dei loro vettori [1].</p>
<p>Il Ministero degli Esteri pakistano aveva reagito con forza all’annuncio degli Stati Uniti, descrivendo le sanzioni come “discriminatorie” e sottolineando che esse non solo “minano la credibilità dei regimi di non proliferazione, ma mettono anche a repentaglio la pace e la sicurezza regionali e internazionali”. In seguito, il Vice Consigliere per la Sicurezza Nazionale degli Stati Uniti, Jon Finer, intervenendo al Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, aveva insistito che la condotta del Pakistan sollevava “questioni concrete” sugli obiettivi del suo programma missilistico balistico: “Sinceramente, è difficile per noi vedere le azioni del Pakistan come qualcosa di diverso da una minaccia emergente per gli Stati Uniti”.</p>
<p>Le sanzioni sono state imposte a National Development Complex (NDC), Affiliates International, Akhtar and Sons Private Limited e Rockside Enterprise con l’obiettivo di congelare tutti i beni statunitensi appartenenti a queste entità, vietando ai cittadini U.S.A. di effettuare transazioni con esse.</p>
<p>Jon Finer ha anche aggiunto che “il Pakistan ha sviluppato una tecnologia missilistica sempre più sofisticata, dai sistemi missilistici balistici a lungo raggio ad attrezzature che consentirebbero il test di motori missilistici significativamente più grandi. Il Pakistan avrà la capacità di colpire obiettivi ben oltre l’Asia meridionale, compresi gli Stati Uniti” [2].</p>
<p>Il Governo di Islamabad ha denunciato subito il carattere discriminatorio e il doppio standard adottato dagli U.S.A. al riguardo. Il vicino del Pakistan, l’India, detiene un programma missilistico molto più esteso e avanzato. L’India sta sviluppando il suo programma missilistico a un ritmo sostenuto e ha condotto diversi test missilistici significativi nel 2024, tra cui l’Agni-P, il missile Agni V, un veicolo di rientro a bersaglio multiplo indipendente (MIRV) con una gittata di 5000 km a marzo, e un test missilistico ipersonico a novembre, che solo una manciata di Stati possiede a livello globale. L’India sta anche sviluppando l’Agni VI con una gittata di 8000 km o superiore.</p>
<p>Realisticamente, la gamma indiana di missili balistici intercontinentali (ICBMS), la tecnologia MIRV e i missili ipersonici probabilmente rappresenterebbero una minaccia maggiore per gli Stati Uniti di qualsiasi missile pakistano. L’India possiede anche sistemi di difesa missilistica balistica, i cui componenti sono derivati ​​dai sistemi di difesa israeliani e hanno richiesto l’approvazione degli Stati Uniti per il trasferimento in un altro Paese. Inoltre, l’India ha acquisito diversi sistemi di difesa missilistica russi S-400; quest’ultimo avrebbe dovuto essere sanzionato ai sensi della legge statunitense “Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act” (CAATSA), che impone sanzioni ai Paesi che effettuano acquisti di difesa dalla Russia. Tuttavia, tali sanzioni non sono mai state applicate all’India, anzi gli U.S.A. hanno revocato le restrizioni sulle entità nucleari indiane per aprire la strada al trasferimento di tecnologia nucleare civile.</p>
<p>Le sanzioni e le accuse statunitensi indicano un cambiamento di atteggiamento nei confronti del Pakistan che non è stato minimamente scalfito dall’Amministrazione Trump. Considerando la percezione più ampia da parte dell’attuale Presidente U.S.A. del Pakistan come un rifugio sicuro per i militanti islamisti (nonostante una recente limitata cooperazione) e il rafforzamento del partenariato strategico degli Stati Uniti con l’India come contrappeso alla Cina, è improbabile che Islamabad sia una priorità a Washington. In questo contesto, le sanzioni statunitensi non hanno fatto altro che incrinare una relazione già fragile, segnata da divergenze nella fase successiva al ritiro degli Stati Uniti dall’Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Nel recente incontro Modi-Trump, entrambi i leader hanno annunciato il COMPACT (Catalyzing Opportunities for Military Partnership, Accelerated Commerce &amp; Technology) tra Stati Uniti e India per il XXI secolo e un nuovo quadro decennale per la Major Defense Partnership tra Washington e Nuova Delhi. L’Amministrazione statunitense ha annunciato l’intenzione di aumentare le vendite militari all’India, inclusa la possibilità di fornire a Nuova Delhi l’F-35, un caccia stealth avanzato di quinta generazione. Le due parti si sono inoltre impegnate ad aumentare gli acquisti di petrolio e gas statunitensi da parte dell’India, a ridurre il deficit commerciale e a negoziare un accordo commerciale.</p>
<p>Tale posizione geopolitica è pienamente comprensibile alla luce del ruolo assegnato all’India dall’Amministrazione Trump, il cui appello allo “scontro di civiltà” in funzione anti-islamica rimane una delle poche carte da giocare alla luce dei fallimenti in Ucraina e contro la Cina. La similitudine tra l’ideologia sionista di Israele e quella indiana dell’Hindutva rappresenta uno dei cardini della potenziale strategia di destabilizzazione dell’area.</p>
<p>La doverosa premessa per spiegare come si sia arrivati a questo punto di rottura, estremamente pericoloso, tra due potenze nucleari facenti parte del continente eurasiatico. E’ davvero assurdo ipotizzare che il commando armato autore della strage dei turisti indiani a Pahalgam, nel Kashmir, risponda ad una di quelle centrali terroristiche messe in cantiere in passato dalla collaborazione CIA-ISI in Afghanistan in funzione antisovietica e ora fuori dal controllo del servizio segreto pakistano ma non di quello statunitense in combutta con gli indiani [3]?</p>
<p>In ogni caso, nonostante gli scontri armati dei giorni scorsi, caratterizzati da attacchi missilistici, duelli aerei e colpi d’artiglieria [4], è ancora possibile evitare un’escalation che diverrebbe drammatica tra India e Pakistan. Nei giorni scorsi, non solo Mosca e Pechino ma anche Teheran, autorevole potenza regionale islamica, ha inviato il Ministro degli Esteri iraniano Abbas Araghchi ad Islamabad per mediare le tensioni e contribuire a ridurre le ostilità indo-pakistane.</p>
<p>Nonostante le reazioni ufficiali – il Pakistan giura vendetta e l’India assicura di rispondere se Islamabad attaccherà – entrambe le parti potrebbero accontentarsi di aver soddisfatto l’opinione pubblica nazionalista e “congelare” di nuovo la situazione.</p>
<p>[1] Ricordiamo che le elezioni statunitensi si erano tenute il 4 novembre 2024 e nel momento dell’adozione delle sanzioni, l’elezione di Trump era già stata ampiamente digerita dal mainstream.<br>
[2] Il discorso di John Finer è avvenuto appena un giorno dopo che il Dipartimento di Stato americano ha annunciato questo ciclo di sanzioni relative al programma di sviluppo di missili balistici del Pakistan, cfr. Ghazala Yasmin Jalil, <em>DISCRIMINATORY U.S. SANCTIONS AND FALLACIOUS ASSERTIONS ON PAKISTAN’S MISSILE PROGRAMME – DYNAMICS AND IMPLICATIONS</em>, ISSIS, 30 dicembre 2024.<br>
[3] Indian Spy Agency Behind Pahalgam False Flag?, “Sri Lanka Guardian”, 2 maggio 2025.<br>
[4] Pochi giorni fa, l’aviazione indiana ha fatto partire l’operazione “Sindoor” bombardando 9 località in Pakistan, tutte secondo Nuova Delhi sedi di basi terroristiche/estremiste. Il Pakistan nega, sostenendo che sono stati colpiti obiettivi civili, tra cui due moschee, con almeno 26 morti tra la popolazione e ha reagito con bombardamenti oltre confine, che secondo gli indiani hanno ucciso 8 civili, e abbattendo 5 aerei indiani, per tre dei quali ci sono informazioni verificate.</p>
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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Germany Is On The Brink Of National Suicide</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em>Via <a href="https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/germany-is-on-the-brink-of-national">VigilantFox.com</a>,</em></p>

<p><em><strong>Victor Davis Hanson opened with a warning... and it wasn’t subtle...</strong></em></p>

<p><a data-image-external-href="" data-image-href="/s3/files/inline-images/AFD.jpg?itok=cWWP3PnU" data-link-option="0" href="https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/AFD.jpg?itok=cWWP3PnU"><picture><img data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="5ffd4934-fd89-4f28-a9bd-4870c7911a6f" data-responsive-image-style="inline_images" height="281" width="500" src="https://assets.zerohedge.com/s3fs-public/styles/inline_image_mobile/public/inline-images/AFD.jpg?itok=cWWP3PnU" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" data-sanitized-class="inline-images image-style-inline-images"></picture></a></p>

<p>This week, Germany’s only major right-wing opposition party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), was officially labeled an “extremist” group by the country’s domestic intelligence agency, the BfV.</p>

<p>The designation sent shockwaves through the political landscape.</p>

<p>AfD immediately challenged it in court, prompting the agency to suspend enforcement while litigation proceeds.</p>

<p>But the damage, Hanson said, has already been done.</p>

<p>This move, he argued, wasn’t about public safety—it was about political control.</p>

<p>“Recently, the German government announced that it is going to label or maybe relabel the Alternative for Deutschland,” Hanson explained.</p>

<p><em><strong>“The conservative party that has an antithetical agenda both to the German government of both liberal and conservative factions, but also to the EU in general.”</strong></em></p>

<p>He said the classification ensures AfD will remain on the outside of political power, regardless of how many people support them.</p>

<p>“It will cement this aura that no government under their parliamentary democracy system will ask them to join to form a majority government,” Hanson said.</p>

<p><em><strong>“So the process of ostracism and demonization of this party continues.”</strong></em></p>

<p>And for what? The real issue, he said, is that AfD simply offers a different vision.</p>

<p><em><strong>“The party is advocating an alternative for the way that Germany is going.”</strong></em></p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Victor Davis Hanson opened with a warning—and it wasn’t subtle.<br><br>
This week, Germany’s only major right-wing opposition party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), was officially labeled an “extremist” group by the country’s domestic intelligence agency, the BfV.<br><br>
The designation sent… <a href="https://t.co/2woennAMK5">pic.twitter.com/2woennAMK5</a></p>
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1920876656639594676?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>So where is Germany going?</p>

<p>Hanson painted a bleak picture—of economic decline, energy failure, and political denial.</p>

<p><em><strong>“If you look at what has become of Germany,” he said, “it has had two years of essentially no growth or negative growth.”</strong></em></p>

<p>He noted the country finally reached its long-delayed NATO defense spending goal, pledging 2% of GDP—something it was supposed to do back in 2014.</p>

<p>But the milestone felt more like a bare-minimum box-check than a serious turning point.</p>

<p>“It just barely did it,” Hanson said.</p>

<p>Meanwhile, Germany has doubled down on green energy while dismantling its nuclear infrastructure, despite the country’s climate not being suited for solar reliance.</p>

<p><strong>The results have been catastrophic.</strong></p>

<p>German electricity costs are now roughly four times higher than those in the United States.</p>

<p>And that’s not just hitting households—it’s pushing away manufacturers and investors who can no longer justify doing business in the country.</p>

<p><em><strong>“You can see what that’s going to do to German investment,”</strong></em> Hanson warned.</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">So where is Germany going?<br><br>
Hanson painted a bleak picture—of economic decline, energy failure, and political denial.<br><br>
“If you look at what has become of Germany,” he said, “it has had two years of essentially no growth or negative growth.”<br><br>
He noted the country finally reached… <a href="https://t.co/2Wgn43UB28">pic.twitter.com/2Wgn43UB28</a></p>
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1920877021225218454?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p><strong>The problems aren’t limited to energy and economics.</strong></p>

<p>Hanson pointed to a deeper crisis—one that strikes at the heart of Germany’s identity.</p>

<p><strong>Open borders and mass migration, largely from the Middle East, has dramatically reshaped the population.</strong></p>

<p>And according to Hanson, the consequences are both cultural and existential.</p>

<p>He estimated that 16 to 18 percent of Germany’s population wasn’t born in the country and has not assimilated.</p>

<p>“These are refugees—or I don’t think they’re refugees,” he said.</p>

<p><strong>“They’re illegal immigrants from the volatile Middle East. Most of them are Muslim. Most of them do not have an intention of assimilating, intermarrying, and integrating fully in German society.”</strong></p>

<p>The government’s refusal to address this, he said, has allowed a demographic transformation to unfold without public debate or accountability.</p>

<p>And that’s a far cry from the Germany that once held Europe together.</p>

<p><strong>“For years, Germany was the powerhouse, the cohesive economic power that kept the EU together,” Hanson recalled. “It’s very tragic.”</strong></p>

<p>Even the German military—a former pillar of NATO—is now little more than a shell.</p>

<p>“During the Cold War, it fielded one of the best NATO armies… well over 400,000 troops,” he said.</p>

<p><strong>“It’s almost literally disarmed.”</strong></p>

<blockquote data-media-max-width="680" data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">The problems aren’t limited to energy and economics.<br><br>
Hanson pointed to a deeper crisis—one that strikes at the heart of Germany’s identity.<br><br>
Open borders and mass migration, largely from the Middle East, has dramatically reshaped the population.<br><br>
And according to Hanson, the… <a href="https://t.co/6hEqyIjLkQ">pic.twitter.com/6hEqyIjLkQ</a></p>
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1920877802255008018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
<p>In a functioning democracy, Hanson argued, this kind of failure would trigger a national reckoning.</p>

<p>There would be debate. Conflict. Reform. Politicians and citizens would argue over energy, borders, military policy, and economic growth. They’d hash it out—then find consensus.</p>

<p>Germany would close its borders. Demand full assimilation. Return to reliable energy. And reassert itself on the global stage.</p>

<p>That’s what you’d expect in a healthy system.</p>

<p>But instead of debating those solutions, the one party calling for them is silenced.</p>

<p>“They would do all of that,” Hanson said. “But instead, when one party is advocating much of what I just talked about, they demonize it because it’s out of the norm.”</p>

<p>Then came the most chilling line of all:</p>

<p>“And the norm, unfortunately in Germany today, is national suicide.”</p>

<p>For Hanson, this isn’t just a German issue.</p>

<p>The collapse of a once-great Western democracy—economically, militarily, and culturally—will have ripple effects far beyond Europe.</p>

<p>“Unfortunately, this is not going to end well for Germany,” he concluded.</p>

<p>“And it’s not going to end well for us. We need a powerful, friendly Germany and we wish it well.”</p>

<p>“But the reaction to needed reform—economic, political, social, cultural, military, diplomatic—is not to essentially ban a political party’s freedom of expression. That shows weakness and fear rather than confidence in the future.”</p>

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<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">In a functioning democracy, Hanson argued, this kind of failure would trigger a national reckoning.<br><br>
There would be debate. Conflict. Reform. Politicians and citizens would argue over energy, borders, military policy, and economic growth. They’d hash it out—then find consensus.… <a href="https://t.co/uBQDfbMmzd">pic.twitter.com/uBQDfbMmzd</a></p>
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1920878689866150127?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
<blockquote data-conversation="none" data-sanitized-class="twitter-tweet">
<p dir="ltr" lang="en" xml:lang="en">Watch the full episode of <a href="https://twitter.com/DailySignal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailySignal</a> with Victor Davis Hanson here: <a href="https://t.co/7bYJxfMn51">https://t.co/7bYJxfMn51</a></p>
— The Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) <a href="https://twitter.com/VigilantFox/status/1920879030774984984?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>After <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Europaea">decades of relative peace in Europe</a> following the end of World War II, with a few notable exceptions, <strong>Russia’s invasion of Ukraine served as a stark reminder that the specter of war is still alive. </strong>Within a few days in February 2022, millions of lives were turned upside down and Europe’s sense of safety was deeply rattled.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/34424/threats-to-peace-in-europe/">As Statista's Felix Richter notes,</a> <strong>the longer the war dragged on, the <a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/34422/concerns-about-armed-conflict-in-europe/">more aware Europeans became of the looming threat</a> that Putin’s Russia poses to European peace,</strong> especially after Donald Trump was re-elected and immediately threatened to withdraw support for Ukraine and questioned the U.S. commitment to NATO, which had effectively shielded Western Europe from Russian aggression for decades.</p>

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<p>According to a new <a href="https://yougov.co.uk/international/articles/52113-many-europeans-and-americans-think-world-war-3-is-imminent">YouGov survey</a>, <strong>many Europeans even consider World War III a possibility, with at least 30 percent of respondents in France, Spain, Italy, Germany and the UK saying that it’s very or fairly likely that there will be another world war in the next 5-10 years.</strong> </p>

<p><a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/34424/threats-to-peace-in-europe/" title="Infographic: Russia Considered the Biggest Threat to Peace in Europe | Statista"><img alt="Infographic: Russia Considered the Biggest Threat to Peace in Europe | Statista" height="501" src="https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/34424.jpeg" width="501"></a> </p>

<p><em>You will find more infographics at <a href="https://www.statista.com/chartoftheday/">Statista</a></em></p>

<p><strong>With respect to Europe, tensions with Russia are seen as the biggest threat by far.</strong> </p>

<p>Around 50 percent of respondents from Germany, France and the UK said that Russia poses a major threat to peace in Europe, while tensions between Europe and the U.S. and between European nations are not perceived as an imminent threat.</p>

<p>It is this feeling of insecurity that has given Europe’s politicians the mandate to ramp up <a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/34367/global-military-expenditure-by-region-since-1992/">defense spending</a> in an unprecedented fashion. </p>

<p>Aside from <strong>national defense budgets rising steeply,</strong> the European Commission is also working on <a href="https://www.statista.com/chart/34051/eu-plan-to-boost-defense-spending/">ways to improve European security</a> and<strong> limiting the continent’s historical reliance on the United States</strong>.</p>
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<p>At 2 a.m. Sunday morning, May 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin, after three full days of non-stop meetings and ceremonies devoted to the commemoration of the Victory against Fascism in Europe, held a press conference and proposed the resumption of full negotiations with Ukraine to put an end to what is actually a NATO war imposed on that nation. Putin proposed that these <a href="http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76899">negotiations restart in Istanbul</a>, Türkiye this Thursday, May 15.</p>
<p>The European leaders who had joined Zelenskyy in Kiev, in direct opposition to the 30 heads of state who had assembled in Moscow for the Great Victory, had demanded a few hours earlier that a 30-day ceasefire begin Monday morning. They were, however, caught sleeping, in more ways than one, by Putin’s 2 a.m. press conference, and his unexpected proposal. “Russia is ready for talks without any preliminary conditions. There are combat actions and war going on now, and we propose to resume negotiations that were not interrupted by us. Well, what’s wrong about it?”</p>
<p>As Putin and others know, it was Ukraine that ceased the discussions that were terminated in Istanbul, Türkiye, in April 2022. Of course, it was then Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Great Britain who had, on April 9 of that year, traveled to Kiev to demand that Ukraine walk away from the already-agreed negotiations with Russia—and Ukraine had done so. To this day, Ukraine’s decree, passed in their parliament in late 2022, forbids any Ukrainian President from negotiating with Russia, so long as Putin remains in power. Ukraine “is still legally prohibited from negotiating with the Russian side,” said Russian Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov in March.</p>
<p>So, although a blustering Volodymyr Zelenskyy later on Sunday dared Putin, “High Noon” Western-style, to “meet him in Istanbul” this Thursday, Ukraine’s unelected leader knows that the Russians are aware that the Kiev decree is still in effect. <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114490093180275292">U.S. President Donald Trump</a>—not one to stand on ceremony, certainly—had advice for Ukraine: “President Putin of Russia doesn’t want to have a Cease Fire Agreement with Ukraine, but rather wants to meet on Thursday, in Turkey, to negotiate a possible end to the BLOODBATH. Ukraine should agree to this, IMMEDIATELY. At least they will be able to determine whether or not a deal is possible, and if it is not, European leaders, and the U.S., will know where everything stands, and can proceed accordingly!” While many have asserted for days that “no one knows where Trump stands” on the matter of Russia and Ukraine, today’s statement is unequivocal: “Ukraine should agree to this, IMMEDIATELY.”</p>
<p>The second notable event Sunday was that newly-elected Pope Leo XIV, appearing in St. Peter’s Square before more than 100,000 people, and unexpectedly leading the open-air assembly in the <a href="https://youtu.be/8gDRJrMK0M0?t=573">singing of the “Regina Caeli”</a> Easter antiphon. Leo, who is the first member of the Augustinian order to be elected to the Papacy, the first native-English-language Pope since Pope Adrian IV of the 12th century, and the first Pope from the United States, also made clear why he chose his name. “In his first meeting with Cardinals on Saturday, the new Pontiff said that he chose his papal name to continue down the path of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/11/europe/pope-leo-vatican-balcony-prayer-intl">Pope Leo XIII</a>, who addressed ‘the social question in the context of the first great industrial revolution.’” CNN reported.</p>
<p>It is known that in 1888, Pope Leo XIII met with Archbishop Patrick John Ryan of Philadelphia (1831-1911) who brought to the Pontiff a copy of the United States Constitution personally gifted to him by President Grover Cleveland. Philadelphia was at that time still the headquarters of the American System of Physical Economy, particularly expressed in the work of Lincoln advisor Henry Charles Carey, and his father, Revolutionary War-era figure Mathew Carey, a staunch opponent of the British East India Company’s Adam Smith. The question of “the harmony of interest” between capital, labor and agriculture seems to have been extensively discussed between them, and it is asserted that the discussions between the Archbishop and the Pope led to the writing of the <a href="https://youtu.be/uiZB4-Gh-t0?t=172">encyclical <em>Rerum Novarum</em></a>.</p>
<p>“100 years ago, <em>Rerum Novarum</em> treated the remedying of the evil, then being run by a ‘devouring usury,’ which, ‘although often condemned by the church, but practiced, nevertheless, under another form by avaricious and grasping men, has increased the evil’ effected by the handing over of workers, ‘each alone and defenseless, to the inhumanity of employers, and the unbridled greed of competitors,’” <a href="https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/1991/eirv18n20-19910524/eirv18n20-19910524_028-on_the_100th_anniversary_of_reru-lar.pdf">wrote Lyndon LaRouche</a>, quoting Leo XIII in the Preface of his <em>The Science of Christian Economy.</em> The Pope on Sunday also spoke about the conflicts in Southwest Asia, India-Pakistan, and Ukraine.</p>
<p>Consider these two very different “flanks” as flowing from one, higher strategy of victory for the human race. War must become obsolete, but that cannot happen unless the cause of war is removed. For that to occur, the world requires <a href="https://schillerinstitute.com/blog/2025/03/01/conference-invitation/">“A Beautiful Vision for Humanity in Times of Great Turbulence!”</a> Such is the subject, purpose, and mission of the May 24-25 conference of the Schiller Institute.</p>


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<span property="schema:name" data-sanitized-class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">"We're Playing A Delicate Game Here": China Pressuring African Nations Over US Trade Deals</span>

            <div property="schema:text" data-sanitized-class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><em><a href="https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/china-pressuring-african-nations-over-us-trade-deals-5852225?utm_source=partner&amp;utm_campaign=ZeroHedge&amp;src_src=partner&amp;src_cmp=ZeroHedge">Authored by Darren Taylor via The Epoch Times</a> (emphasis ours),</em></p>

<p>JOHANNESBURG—<strong>Diplomats and officials from several leading African economies say the United States and China are pressuring them to make an “impossible choice,”</strong> as the superpowers fight a trade war that threatens to erode weak economies further.</p>
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<p>Senior members of African governments, including those of South Africa, Egypt, Kenya and Nigeria, said Beijing has warned them<strong> it will retaliate against countries that sign trade agreements with the United States “at China’s expense.”</strong></p>

<p><strong>U.S. trade partners, including many from Africa, are currently negotiating with President Donald Trump’s administration following his global tariff announcement on April 2.</strong></p>

<p>They’re trying to work out deals that could see the tariffs scrapped or lowered, depending on what they’re able to offer the White House.</p>

<p>Trump imposed some of the highest duties on African imports, ranging in some cases between 30 and 50 percent, arguing these are necessary to correct trade imbalances that take advantage of the United States.</p>

<p>He said <strong>the reciprocal tariffs will increase America’s competitive edge</strong>, protect its sovereignty, and strengthen its national and economic security.</p>

<p>But high taxes on their exports to the United States will cut billions of dollars from budgets already strained by high debt, inflation, the cost of industrializing, and the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, said African nations.</p>

<p>Countries like Lesotho, hit with a tariff of 50 percent on its exports to the United States, which it said could destroy its textile industry, and South Africa (31 percent), have welcomed the chance to talk with the United States.</p>

<p>“But we know that if we do anything that is seen as appeasing Trump, it won’t go down well back east,” a government official in Pretoria told The Epoch Times, speaking anonymously because he didn’t have permission to speak with the media.</p>

<p>“<strong>We’re playing a delicate game here</strong>,” he said. “Because of Trump’s tariffs and the economic hardship they’re going to cause us, we’re trying to form new trade partnerships,<strong> but we know China is not going to be happy with some of those partnerships</strong>, especially if we move economically closer to their biggest enemy. Part of our strategy is to do even more trade with China, but then Trump is going to see that as a betrayal. We cannot win. It’s an impossible choice.”</p>

<p>Kenyan and Nigerian diplomats, who requested anonymity for the same reason, said Chinese officials had warned their governments not to give in to what Beijing has described as “bullying” by the Trump administration.</p>

<p>The Nigerian envoy told The Epoch Times that “the Chinese made it clear they expect Africans to be on their side” in this trade war.</p>

<p>“<strong>They said their government will strike back against anyone that signs anything with the United States that hurts [Beijing],</strong>” the Nigerian official said.</p>

<p>China’s Ministry of Commerce recently issued a statement in a vein similar to the comments made by the African officials.</p>

<p>“<strong>China firmly opposes any party reaching a deal at the expense of China’s interests</strong>,” the ministry said. “If this happens, China will never accept it and will resolutely take countermeasures in a reciprocal manner.”</p>

<p>Ina Gouws, political scientist at the University of Free State in South Africa, told The Epoch Times that China’s threat to retaliate has brought African countries to a “crossroads.”</p>

<p>“We now have the world’s two biggest economic powers involving the rest of the world, and particularly Africa, where China has held sway for decades, in their spectacular trade war,” she said. “What does Africa now do? It can’t please two masters. African countries cannot afford to lose trade with either America or China. They have always been adamant that they need trade with both. But Trump and [Chinese leader] Xi [Jinping] have forced them into a corner, and there seems to be no good way out of this for Africa.”</p>
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