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guid: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/huckabee-embraces-genocide
title: Huckabee Embraces Genocide
author: ;John J. Mearsheimer
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<div><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/k3ioQHvJrcs" data-sanitized-class="ff-og-image-inserted"></div><p>On 24 April, I talked to Judge Napolitano about the Ukraine war and Israel’s wars in the Middle East. We discussed how far apart the Ukrainians + the Europeans are from the Russians regarding how best to settle the Ukraine war. This gulf effectively means there is no meaningful deal to be had. We also discussed Israel’s wars, Iran’s nuclear weapons, and the Gaza genocide. What I found most striking was a stunning clip the Judge played of Mike Huckabee, the US Ambassador to Israel, supporting the genocide in Gaza. More evidence of the moral bankruptcy of the West as its leaders stand idly by and watch the Israelis starve the Palestinians.</p>
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title: China Smells Blood: U.S. Weakness Exposed in Ukraine and the Middle East | Mark Sleboda
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title: Liberal Leader Mark Carney promises to protect economy amid Trump tariffs – April 26, 2025
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title: Élections fédérales de 1968 : la « Trudeaumanie » à son apogée
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title: NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh addresses supporters at campaign office in London, Ont. – April 26, 2025
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title: Yves-François Blanchet s'entretient avec des journalistes, à Val-d'Or – 26 avril 2025
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guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=884904
title: Ascensão e queda do colonialismo e do imperialismo europeu
author: ;A A
link: https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/04/26/ascensao-queda-colonialismo-imperialismo-europeu/
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tags: #Português #Caribbean #Colonialism #Imperialism #Latin America #United Kingdom
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<p><strong><em>Os povos do mundo continuarão se levantando, agora de forma mais radical e igualmente violenta, para enterrar de uma vez por todas toda a história precedente de exploração e opressão do homem pelo homem.</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>Existe um movimento recente entre as ex-colônias britânicas do Caribe para exigir compensações financeiras pelo saque realizado contra elas durante séculos. Somados, o conjunto dos países pede mais de U.S.$ 30 trilhões em indenizações da Inglaterra. Embora pareça muito, isso na verdade é um valor irrisório se comparado a todo o progresso proporcionado ao <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/01/04/um-imperio-em-decadencia-parasitario/">imperialismo britânico a partir da exploração</a> desses seus antigos territórios.</p>
<p>O sistema capitalista existe graças à espoliação da maior parte dos povos do mundo desde pelo menos o século XV. “Seria bom que países europeus que fizeram fortuna por meio da colonização peçam perdão aos povos indígenas e africanos”, disse o presidente boliviano Evo Morales em 2023. Dez anos antes, no entanto, os europeus continuavam tratando a Bolívia como uma colônia. Em 2013, a Comissão Europeia exigiu compensações pela expropriação de empresas espanholas pelo Estado boliviano.</p>
<p>Ora, não foi a prata de Potosí a matéria-prima utilizada para cunhar as novas moedas que se produziam na Holanda, impulsionando como nunca os bancos europeus e, portanto, o primitivo capital financeiro imperialista?</p>
<p>A ascensão da burguesia exigia não apenas a derrota do feudalismo, como também a construção de Estados nacionais baseados nas leis do comércio burguês e a sua expansão para atender às necessidades naturais da produção e da circulação de mercadorias. Veneza, Florença e os antigos Estados italianos navegaram pelo Mediterrâneo. Os portugueses e espanhóis demonstraram a sua superioridade explorando os mares do mundo todo. Encontraram, em suas expedições, as fontes colossais de desenvolvimento econômico que seus patrocinadores tanto ansiavam.</p>
<p>Antes da descoberta da grande indústria a vapor, das máquinas e da eletricidade, o trabalho dos escravos africanos era a energia criadora que fazia progredir a Europa com a acumulação primitiva do capital, a extração intensiva das riquezas naturais da África, América e Ásia e os novos empreendimentos conquistados graças à globalização embrionária.</p>
<p>Os bancos, que hoje dominam todas as relações econômicas e, portanto, sociais, financiaram o tráfico de escravos e as expedições coloniais. Mesmo a Suíça, um pequeno país espremido entre as grandes nações europeias, embora nunca tenha tido colônias, é um país capitalista desenvolvido graças à atuação de seus bancos durante todo o período de acumulação e desenvolvimento capitalistas.</p>
<p>Mesmo após sua independência, as colônias continuaram impedidas de seguir o desenvolvimento das antigas metrópoles. Um dos exemplos mais significativos é o Haiti, que ousou seguir o espírito da Grande Revolução de 1789 e foi esmagado pela burguesia francesa alçada ao poder. Hoje, continua sendo o mais miserável dos países latino-americanos devido à imposição da dívida eterna, à obrigação de pagar indenizações aos antigos proprietários de terras e de escravos. Os juros substituíram o chicote.</p>
<p>Somente o desmoronamento do novo sistema criado pelos antigos escravocratas, o capitalismo imperialista, foi capaz de possibilitar uma brecha para a libertação dos escravos modernos. A necessidade de se livrar da exploração começou a desferir os primeiros golpes de rebelião contra a necessidade dos exploradores de manter a exploração. Revoluções de caráter anticolonial e anti-imperialista varreram a Ásia e a África na esteira da destruição da Europa pela II Guerra Mundial. Franceses, ingleses e belgas tiveram de apelar para o terrorismo puro e simples a fim de segurar seus ex-escravos pela gargalheira. Na impossibilidade de manter a propriedade formal sobre aqueles territórios, o controle do seu sistema financeiro, das empresas que extraem os recursos naturais, das forças armadas e dos governos pelo dinheiro foram fundamentais para preservar as bases da espoliação.</p>
<p>Os revolucionários não foram capazes de derrotar os novos mecanismos. A economia dos países africanos, primitiva, apenas de extração e exportação de matéria-prima, não permitia qualquer possibilidade de verdadeira independência política.</p>
<p>Mas os ventos continuam soprando em direção à liberdade desses povos. Nem mesmo as formas modernas de submissão já estão mais funcionando como antes. As revoltas populares vitoriosas no Sahel são reflexo dessa situação, bem como a persistência de governos nacionalistas na América Latina e a ascensão da China e da Índia.</p>
<p>A nova crise sistêmica em que o modo de produção capitalista está sendo jogado, representada pelas ações tarifárias de Donald Trump, sinaliza a aproximação da morte desse sistema, embora as grandes potências busquem uma reação através do rearmamento e da guerra – reação, seguramente, sobretudo contra as nações semicoloniais.</p>
<p>No entanto, não deve restar a menor dúvida: apesar de violenta, essa reação é inútil. Os povos do mundo continuarão se levantando, agora de forma mais radical e igualmente violenta, para enterrar de uma vez por todas toda a história precedente de exploração e opressão do homem pelo homem e seu reflexo geopolítico: a opressão da nação rica sobre a nação pobre. Afinal, como comprovada a história da humanidade, o homem rico só existe porque impõe a pobreza sobre os outros demais e a nação rica só é rica porque explora e mantém na pobreza a maioria das nações.</p>
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title: Homily at Pope Francis Funeral Mass
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title: NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh attends Unifor rally in Windsor, Ont. – April 26, 2025
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title: Pierre Poilievre holds rally in Delta, B.C– April 26, 2025
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author: ;Lucas Leiroz de Almeida
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Les militaires français exigent des réponses sur l’implication de leur pays dans le conflit ukrainien

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<p>L’implication massive de mercenaires français dans le conflit ukrainien provoque des tensions au sein même de l’armée nationale. <a href="https://www.mondialisation.ca/resolution-citoyenne-relative-a-lengagement-militaire-et-financier-de-la-france-en-ukraine-signifiee-par-huissier/5698021?doing_wp_cron=1745540407.5786519050598144531250">Dans une lettre commune</a> récente, les anciens combattants français ont demandé aux responsables politiques locaux de surveiller de plus près les activités …</p>

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title: Yves-François Blanchet fait campagne à Val d'Or – 26 avril 2025
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title: Yves-François Blanchet fait campagne à Mont-Laurier – 26 avril 2025
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title: Liberal Leader Mark Carney addresses supporters in Mississauga, Ont. – April 26, 2025
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title: Pierre Poilievre visits martial arts studio in Surrey – April 26, 2025
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title: MN Book discussion: Al-Muqaddimah (Part 1)
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Augmentation des niveaux d'eau de la rivière des Outaouais à prévoir : la Ville de Gatineau demande aux riverains du secteur d'Aylmer de se préparer

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Augmentation des niveaux d'eau de la rivière des Outaouais à prévoir : la Ville de Gatineau demande aux riverains du secteur d'Aylmer de se préparer

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title: Infolettre: La libération encore à conquérir…
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<h2><strong>Sélection d’articles :</strong></h2>
<div data-sanitized-class="alignleft"><a href="https://www.mondialisation.ca/la-liberation-encore-a-conquerir/5698142"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://www.mondialisation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Capture-decran-le-2025-04-25-a-22.48.07-51x46.png" alt="" width="51" height="46" data-sanitized-class="attachment-featured_thumbnail size-featured_thumbnail wp-post-image alignleft"></a></div>
<p><strong data-sanitized-class="title"><a href="https://www.mondialisation.ca/la-liberation-encore-a-conquerir/5698142">La libération encore à conquérir</a></strong></p>
<p><em data-sanitized-class="date">Par <span data-sanitized-class="author"><a title="Articles par Manlio Dinucci" href="https://www.mondialisation.ca/author/manlio-dinucci">Manlio Dinucci</a></span>, 26 avril 2025</em></p>
<p><i>La page historique du nazisme et de ses atrocités ne s’est pas refermée avec la défaite de l’Allemagne nazie il y a 80 ans. Le </i>…</p>


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title: Yves-François Blanchet fait campagne à Sainte-Thérèse, au Québec – 26 avril 2025
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François : «Le pape de Washington»? Le cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio et «la guerre sale» d’Argentine

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Le conclave du Vatican a élu le cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio comme Pape François 1er. Bergoglio fut “provincial” d’Argentine pour la société de l’ordre de Jésus. Bergoglio durant la dictature militaire menée par le général Jorge Videla (1976-1983).

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title: We Are Trapped In A Dystopia That Is Ruled By Lunatics
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*CJpN1jDquWwEiIfEKudL_Q.png"></figure><h4><strong>Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix</strong></h4><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSDCWEh-Png"><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%2FZSDCWEh-Png%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DZSDCWEh-Png&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FZSDCWEh-Png%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/0f7e65747bdc3619998c9598adb3dbe6/href">https://medium.com/media/0f7e65747bdc3619998c9598adb3dbe6/href</a></iframe><p>❖</p><p>We really need a name for the mental illness that comes with obscene amounts of wealth. Elon Musk’s <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/elon-musks-children-ashley-st-clair?srsltid=AfmBOoqR2wrB_LlnGXHEl7se8QiEeko12JdP9JVnT9EXI9Yn-20fpvb0">bizarre progeny obsession</a>. All the weird shit Michael Jackson did. The stories you hear about rich families making their servants clean their toilets after every use or throw away plates after every meal.</p><p>Call it rich-brain or something. That psychological phenomenon where extreme wealth causes people to lose their mental moorings and spin off into deep space because there’s no one in their lives telling them “no” or holding them to any standards of normal human behavior. Where their ability to shape their day to day lives however they want with no limitations lets them fly off into uncharted psychological territory where they’ll have whole teams of people orchestrating elaborate scenes and projects to accommodate their debilitating neuroses.</p><p>We need a good label for this phenomenon because these are the individuals who are shaping our world. Many people suffering from psychological disorders will come up with unhealthy ideas for how society ought to be run, but they don’t have the means to turn their vision into a reality. The people who are made insane by obscene amounts of wealth are not restricted in this way. Their mental illnesses can actually directly influence how human civilization plays out on this planet.</p><p>As billionaires take more and more control over our world, we are finding ourselves increasingly led by those least qualified to lead us. We are trapped in a dystopia that is ruled by lunatics. We should probably do something about that.</p><p>❖</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?type=text%2Fhtml&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;schema=twitter&amp;url=https%3A//x.com/caitoz/status/1911958077202632854&amp;image=" width="500" height="281" 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/c632ee69388f091015d2af1832a01f85/href">https://medium.com/media/c632ee69388f091015d2af1832a01f85/href</a></iframe><p>❖</p><p>They’re <a href="https://x.com/richimedhurst/status/1915693736060756409">ripping kids in half</a> right in front of us and telling us we need to be mad at <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/counter-terror-police-assessing-kneecap-concert-video-13354451">Kneecap</a> and <a href="https://newrepublic.com/post/193746/pro-israel-group-attorney-general-bondi-investigate-ms-rachel">Ms Rachel</a>.</p><p>❖</p><p>A Palestine supporter witnesses new footage every day of children being mutilated, shredded and burned to death by Israel. An Israel supporter spends every day avoiding looking at that same footage. This one fact tells you very clearly who is on the wrong side of history here.</p><p>❖</p><p>When you witness an injustice you can either oppose it, look away, or make up some reason why the injustice is okay. Only the first option can lead to the cessation of the injustice. Ignoring the Gaza holocaust looks different from justifying it, but both yield the same result.</p><p>There are people opposing the genocide and there are people justifying it, but the largest group by far are those standing in the middle and shrugging. These people may tell themselves that they are morally superior to the ones actively cheerleading a mass atrocity, and at first glance this may appear to be the case, but in practice both are choosing an option that allows the mass atrocity to continue. One is just more photogenic than the other. It allows a certain type of person to feel nice about themselves while still facilitating an active genocide.</p><p>This is almost everyone with the loudest and most influential voices in our society today, by the way. The celebrities. The people with the largest platforms. Most of them are not actively supporting the Gaza holocaust, they’re just sitting there watching it happen, like a psychopath sitting back watching a toddler drown to death in a swimming pool. They know something terrible is happening, but they know they’ll pay a professional price if they oppose it, so they avail themselves of the many distractions afforded to the wealthy and keep their attention fixed on the insignificant.</p><p>And the end result is that this nightmare continues. Day after day. Month after month. Year after year. Because too many people, when faced with history’s first live-streamed genocide, have chosen to do nothing.</p><p>❖</p><p>It would be a mistake to view the Chinese people’s skyrocketing quality of life as miraculous or extraordinary. Beijing made some very clever decisions over the years, but ultimately it’s just doing the <strong><em>normal</em></strong> thing: spending the nation’s wealth on the public instead of on war.</p><p>❖</p><p>When capitalism simps want to shit on China they call it communist. When they want to dismiss its accomplishments they say it only happened because China became capitalist. When you ask why your country can’t do what China is doing in order to share those same accomplishments they circle back around to “No, that’s communism!” again.</p><p>❖</p><p>And meanwhile the war in Ukraine rages on, for no reason other than the fact that under our psychotic status quo it is much easier to start a war than to end one.</p><p>The risk of nuclear war is far lower than it was in the early months of the conflict, but Ukrainian lives are still being thrown into a proxy war to no one’s benefit but the war profiteers. NATO’s never going to directly enter the war, and without a massive escalation on that level it’s inevitable that this thing ends with a peace deal where Ukraine has to give up a fair amount of land. At this point it’s just a bunch of men killing each other and blowing each other’s limbs off for no good reason while they wait for that conclusion to arrive, because a bunch of corrupt bureaucrats far away from the fighting keep postponing it.</p><p>It’s so, so ugly and so, so stupid. Such a pointless, idiotic thing for all this suffering and dying to be happening for. This whole nightmare could have been avoided with a little diplomacy and a few low-cost concessions from the US empire, but they decided to provoke a war to move a few pieces around on the grand chessboard for the advancement of their goal of planetary domination instead.</p><p>The world is ruled by sociopaths.</p><p>❖</p><p>I keep meaning to mention that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@antiwarnews">watching</a> or <a href="https://antiwarnews.buzzsprout.com/">listening</a> to Dave DeCamp’s half-hour <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@antiwarnews/videos">show for Antiwar News</a> every day is the easiest way to cultivate a lucid understanding of what’s going on in the world. Just put it on over breakfast or on your way to work or whatever and you’ll always understand what the empire is up to from day to day.</p><iframe src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2Ful4KB-IKSkc%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dul4KB-IKSkc&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2Ful4KB-IKSkc%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/dee81cb830ba3cc6f1734de7a2c1f978/href">https://medium.com/media/dee81cb830ba3cc6f1734de7a2c1f978/href</a></iframe><p>Other good resources include:</p><p><a href="https://antiwar.com/">Antiwar.com</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@BreakThroughNews">Breakthrough News</a></p><p><a href="https://consortiumnews.com/">Consortium News</a></p><p><a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/">Drop Site News</a> and its quality <a href="https://x.com/DropSiteNews">Twitter account</a></p><p><a href="https://www.wsws.org/">World Socialist Website</a></p><p><a href="https://electronicintifada.net/">Electronic Intifada</a></p><p><a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/">Mintpress News</a></p><p><a href="https://thegrayzone.com/">The Grayzone</a></p><p><a href="https://thecradle.co/">The Cradle</a></p><p><a href="https://www.moonofalabama.org/">Moon of Alabama</a></p><p><a href="https://responsiblestatecraft.org/">Responsible Statecraft</a></p><p>I’ve also got a public <a href="https://x.com/i/lists/1007131677552857088">Twitter list</a> of individuals whose commentary I find helpful if anyone’s looking for people to follow on there.</p><p>The other day I <a href="https://x.com/caitoz/status/1911551085640392953">asked my Twitter followers</a> for some recommendations of good leftist podcasts and YouTube shows with an emphasis on foreign policy which yielded a lot of good responses if you want to check that out as well.</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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<p><strong><em>Lo scorso 21 aprile è arrivata a Kabul una delegazione kazaka di alto rango, guidata dal Vice Primo Ministro e Ministro dell’Economia Serik Jumanğarin.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Durante gli incontri con i funzionari dell’Emirato Islamico dell’Afghanistan, la delegazione ha discusso delle opportunità di investimento e dell’espansione della cooperazione economica, commerciale, di transito e ferroviaria tra Kabul e Astana.</p>
<p>Jumanğarin ha dichiarato: “Questa è la nostra quarta visita in Afghanistan e la delegazione kazaka ormai si reca in questo Paese annualmente. Abbiamo avuto incontri costruttivi con il Ministro del Commercio e la fiera commerciale afghano-kazaka si terrà in Afghanistan. Auspichiamo un aumento degli scambi commerciali. Abbiamo anche preparato un importante accordo commerciale, che verrà presentato durante l’incontro con il Vice Primo Ministro per gli Affari Economici”.</p>
<p>Nel frattempo, Nooruddin Azizi, Ministro ad interim dell’industria e del commercio di Kabul, ha affermato che l’obiettivo è quello di aumentare il commercio bilaterale da 1 miliardo di dollari a oltre 3 miliardi di dollari. Egli ha aggiunto che una parte significativa del fabbisogno dell’Afghanistan è soddisfatto dal Kazakistan e che sono in corso sforzi per espandere le esportazioni di prodotti industriali, minerali e ortaggi verso Astana. Azizi ha osservato: “Le comunicazioni commerciali tra i due Paesi continueranno. Come concordato, il nostro volume commerciale raggiungerà i 3 miliardi di dollari. Ma non ci fermeremo qui: entrambi i Paesi hanno la capacità di andare oltre”.</p>
<p>In un incontro con il Vice Primo ministro per gli affari economici di Kabul e altri funzionari dell’Emirato Islamico, Jumanğarin ha discusso una tabella di marcia per la cooperazione nei settori economico, commerciale, bancario, dei trasporti e politico e ha annunciato che il Kazakistan investirà 500 milioni di dollari nei progetti ferroviari afghani.</p>
<p>In un incontro separato con il Ministro degli Esteri in carica Amir Khan Muttaqi, Jumanğarin ha definito l’Afghanistan un partner regionale inseparabile e ha sottolineato che Astana ha costantemente lavorato per mantenere forti legami politici ed economici con Kabul.</p>
<p>Hamdullah Fitrat, vice portavoce dell’Emirato islamico, ha dichiarato a sua volta: “Il mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar Akhund ha affermato che da quando l’Emirato islamico è tornato al potere, i legami commerciali tra i due Paesi sono cresciuti quotidianamente e che è stata recentemente sviluppata e firmata una tabella di marcia per la cooperazione da 3 miliardi di dollari tra Kabul e Astana”.</p>
<p>Il giorno successivo (22 aprile) a Kabul si è tenuta la mostra congiunta e la conferenza sulla connettività commerciale tra Afghanistan e Kazakistan, con la partecipazione di oltre 400 commercianti e investitori di entrambi i Paesi. Astana è infatti interessata ad investire in progetti infrastrutturali nei settori industriale, minerario ed energetico dell’Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Già dalla fine del 2023, la Corte Suprema di Astana ha rimosso l’Emirato islamico dall’elenco dei gruppi le cui attività sono vietate nel suo territorio. Secondo gli analisti politici kazaki: “I governi prendono decisioni basate sui loro interessi nazionali a livello internazionale. Gli interessi nazionali del Kazakistan richiedono che l’Afghanistan non rappresenti alcuna minaccia per il Paese e per le nazioni limitrofe. Allo stesso modo, anche i Talebani hanno bisogno di legittimità”.</p>
<p>Questa apertura è stata naturalmente subito colta a Kabul, dove si è ribadita più volte la disponibilità ad instaurare relazioni diplomatiche ufficiali con i Paesi dell’Eurasia, Russia e Cina in primis; il Kirghizistan, in effetti, è stato il primo Paese a seguire l’esempio kazako in tal senso.</p>
<p>L’Afghanistan è uno degli elementi chiave per la sicurezza e la stabilità nella regione dell’Asia centrale. Per questo motivo, il Kazakistan ritiene che l’Afghanistan rappresenti più un’opportunità per la stabilità e la sicurezza in Asia centrale che una minaccia. Da parte sua, alcuni analisti politici afghani hanno sottolineato che “il Kazakistan è un Paese popoloso e potente con cui si possono intrattenere rapporti commerciali e rafforzare i legami politici e culturali. Considerati i rapporti storici con l’Afghanistan e la guerra in corso tra Russia e Ucraina, questa partnership è un’opportunità che entrambe le nazioni possono sfruttare a proprio vantaggio”.</p>
<p>I Talebani hanno inoltre dichiarato di aver condiviso una bozza di accordo con la delegazione kazaka volta a istituire un centro di coordinamento congiunto tra quattro Paesi: Afghanistan, Iran, Kazakistan e Turkmenistan.</p>
<p>Il mullah Baradar ha chiesto l’avvio di voli diretti tra Kabul e Astana, la semplificazione del rilascio dei visti per i commercianti afghani e la partecipazione attiva dell’Afghanistan ai forum economici regionali. Citando Serik Zhumangarin, i Talebani hanno aggiunto che il Kazakistan creerà una società di logistica e trasporti a Herat per facilitare l’attuazione del progetto ferroviario Torghundi-Herat-Spin Boldak, un investimento di 500 milioni di dollari. La linea Torghundi-Herat è considerata un corridoio ferroviario fondamentale per l’Afghanistan, collegandolo all’Asia centrale, alla Russia e alla Cina e tale iniziativa verrà affiancata dalla creazione di una società operativa afghana per la gestione del commercio ferroviario regionale, che sarà presto introdotta in Kazakistan.</p>
<p>Il Vice Primo Ministro kazako ha poi espresso la disponibilità del suo Paese a sostenere l’estensione dell’infrastruttura Internet all’Afghanistan a prezzi accessibili, il che potrebbe tradursi in un accesso alla Rete più conveniente per il Paese.</p>
<p>La delegazione kazaka ha quindi confermato la volontà di rilasciare visti ai commercianti afghani, di avviare voli diretti tra i due Paesi, di rafforzare la cooperazione bancaria e di collaborare su iniziative nei settori della sanità, dell’istruzione, dei trasporti e del commercio bilaterale.</p>
<p>In seguito alla visita in Afghanistan di una delegazione pakistana di alto livello, sono aumentate le speranze di un maggiore impegno anche tra Kabul e Islamabad; la promessa è di prendere misure serie per rispettare gli impegni, in particolare per quanto riguarda la risoluzione della questione dei rifugiati e l’affronto delle loro lamentele per la difficile situazione al confine tra i due Paesi.</p>
<p>Tuttavia, l’aspetto più interessante riguarda la parallela collaborazione avviata nel settore dei trasporti: la costruzione della ferrovia trans-afghana, che dovrebbe collegare l’Asia Centrale con i porti del Mare Arabico, è prevista per il 2025, con un costo stimato di quasi 5 miliardi di dollari (Islamabad lo valuta superiore agli 8 miliardi). Questo progetto, che coinvolge Uzbekistan, Afghanistan e Pakistan, è un importante corridoio logistico che dovrebbe facilitare il commercio e il trasporto di merci (circa 20 milioni di tonnellate all’anno) tra diverse regioni, perché dovrebbe migliorare le connessioni tra l’Unione Europea, la Russia, l’Asia Centrale, il Pakistan, l’India e il Sud-Est asiatico. Anche organizzazioni internazionali e istituzioni finanziarie hanno espresso la loro disponibilità a sostenerlo, ragion per cui la stessa U.E. si è affrettata ad intensificare il proprio partenariato strategico con i Paesi dell’Asia centrale, riconoscendo il formato ormai multipolare delle attuali relazioni internazionali.</p>
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<p><strong><em>The Savings and investment union announced by Ursula von der Leyen is a fundamental political choice about the future of Europe and its peoples.</em></strong></p>
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<p>In recent months, we have all heard the pressure from European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to accelerate the creation of a Savings and investment union (SIU). Initially presented as a tool to mobilize financial resources for the benefit of European citizens and to promote the green and digital transition, the most concerning aspect of this campaign lies, once again, in the uncritical, passive, and submissive acceptance of the Commission’s intentions and decisions.</p>
<p>Under closer scrutiny, this is yet another agenda. How many agendas has von der Leyen presented to us, only for things to keep getting worse? That agenda was designed to benefit the usual suspects: the most prominent private and corporate interests (elsewhere referred to as “oligarchs”), at the expense, as always, of collective interests, public welfare, and the national interests of many member states.</p>
<p>To fully grasp the intentions behind this SIU, we must first understand what it is. Theoretically, the SIU is presented as: “an initiative aimed at integrating the financial markets of member states to boost investment, economic growth, and financial stability.” In this framework, the SIU is ostensibly intended to facilitate access to cross-border financial products for “citizens and businesses,” while promoting long-term savings and investment. A marvel, indeed. In the EU, there is a vast amount of money in term deposits (€10 trillion) and even more in public, mutual, and associative funds whose contributions could be diverted toward other types of solutions, luring beneficiaries with the siren song of easy money from venture capital.</p>
<p>According to the European Commission, this union could improve long-term savings options, encourage products like individual pension plans (PEPP), and promote “sustainable” investment funds linked to the EU’s energy and climate agendas. All of those funds are private, just as those people like it. A fundamental characteristic of any EU agenda is relegating the state to a secondary, minimalist role – except when it comes to footing the bill.</p>
<p>This union also intends to create broader and more integrated mechanisms for investor protection, ostensibly by strengthening transparency and regulation to ensure financial products are safe and suitable for risk profiles. Finally, this aggregated, mobilized, and circulating capital will supposedly foster business financing, theoretically facilitating SMEs’ access to alternative funding sources like crowdfunding and capital markets. SMEs are always used as justification, but rarely end up as the ultimate beneficiaries of these proposals.</p>
<p>There are already planned measures, such as the aforementioned PEPP (Pan-European Personal Pension Product), a private pension product that can be offered across the EU, free from the burden of intergenerational solidarity that characterizes public pension systems; the revision of legislation to “improve” investor protection and market transparency; the regulation of fintech and crowdfunding (technological financing and public fundraising platforms like Patreon), creating harmonized rules for collaborative financing platforms; and the introduction of fiscal incentives by member states to stimulate savings and investment. All this promises greater product diversification and “investment” solutions, higher financial returns (since, in theory, there will be more competition), and enhanced security, as common rules supposedly reduce the risks of fraud and financial malpractice.</p>
<p>Do not mistake the Savings and investment union for a component of the Banking Union. No, the SIU is, at most, complementary. The SIU and the EU’s Banking Union share the goal of integrating financial markets but differ in scope, mechanisms, and associated risks.</p>
<p>Let’s compare their stated objectives:</p>
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<p>The Banking Union aimed for centralized supervision (ECB), common rules for bank insolvencies, and a focus on financial stability. The SIU, on the other hand, seeks to attract savings and investment toward risk through the harmonization of financial products, fiscal incentives for cross-border investments, and a heightened focus on profitability and “strategic priorities” like defense and the green transition.</p>
<p>As the saying goes, “once bitten, twice shy,” and from von der Leyen’s Commission, Europeans can expect nothing but pretty words upfront and knives in the back. The real problems of the SIU lie in its “associated risks” and “unspoken intentions.”</p>
<p>Contrary to what the EU claimed, the Banking Union, launched in 2014 as a response to the euro crisis, also promised greater competition, stability, and depositor protection. In practice, however, it only solidified the dominance of big banks, reducing the diversity of Europe’s financial sector – the opposite of what was promised.</p>
<p>Banking concentration increased, driven by a wave of mergers and acquisitions. In Spain, the number of banks fell from 55 in 2008 to 10 in 2023. In Germany, regional banks (<em>Landesbanken</em>) lost relevance to giants like Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank. By 2023, the 10 largest banks in the EU controlled around 70% of financial assets (ECB, 2023). As we can see, the myth of “too big to fail” did not hold, and if the largest banks collapse, states will still have to bail them out.</p>
<p>With this capital concentration – the Banking Union should be renamed the “Banking Concentration Union” – competition decreased, and big banks benefited from the new rules, while small institutions faced higher regulatory costs and greater difficulties competing on a transnational scale. The result is felt daily in our wallets: higher fees for customers, fewer credit options for SMEs, and less financial innovation. The exact opposite of what was promised. A <em>déjà vu</em> of the privatization processes in Portugal and Europe.</p>
<p>The truth is that, like all EU regulations, the Banking Union also favored only the big players. The regulatory system, heavier and more complex (e.g., Basel III), demands resources only available to large banks. The ECB supervises only the big banks, leaving smaller ones under national authorities, creating asymmetries – for example, in access to credit. The largest banks can finance themselves (sometimes at negative rates) through the ECB, while small banks must secure funding at higher rates. Capital concentration led to political power concentration and lobbying capacity, further widening the gap between big and small, rich and poor.</p>
<p>It is therefore only fair to predict that the same will happen with the SIU. Both initiatives reflect a problematic logic: the Banking Union socialized banking risks (with strict rules for banks but no debt mutualization), producing what we can now call “socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor,” a modern version of the medieval “sin of greed,” which only affected the poor because the rich were already wealthy.</p>
<p>The SIU, meanwhile, aims to socialize financing for political projects (like defense), transferring risks to citizens. In other words, it wasn’t enough to have socialism for banks and big clients – now, the EU will focus on socialism for large financial funds. The intention is clear, reflecting the submissive, passive, and docile state of member states and their leaders.</p>
<p>If the Banking Union, with all its neoliberal implications, required a financial crisis as justification, the SIU doesn’t even need that. The consensus for war is so deep that even external propaganda fell short of the usual, with the war in Ukraine serving as enough justification.</p>
<p>The big winners of the SIU will be major asset managers (BlackRock, Allianz), which will dominate the new savings markets. Standardized products (like PEPP) will favor global players, not small investors, transferring risks to citizens, workers, and their families while profits flow to the financial elite, just as happened with the Banking Union.</p>
<p>The result is simple: more centralization and, consequently, less financial democracy, further widening the already enormous and growing gap between rich and poor. The truth is that every time von der Leyen signs one of her “acts,” our incomes suffer, our living conditions decline, and the idle oligarchy that leeches off European growth grows fatter, year after year.</p>
<p>Just as the Banking Union failed to deliver a diversified and competitive system, instead increasing the power of big banks, the SIU is heading for the same fate. If the EU does not impose limits on capital concentration and market share and demand real guarantees for small savers (which would limit the intention of attracting the touted €800 billion), “financial integration” will be nothing more than a euphemism for more private control over the money of European citizens.</p>
<p>Is it worth trusting a structure that, in practice, always benefits the same giants?</p>
<p>This question takes on another dimension when we consider that BlackRock, the American asset manager, will be one of the biggest beneficiaries – and most prominent promoters – of this union. The ties between German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and this company are anything but coincidental, just as it is no coincidence that von der Leyen, also German, is pushing so decisively for yet another fiasco.</p>
<p>And to make matters worse, this one has neocolonial overtones. It’s not enough that we’ve handed over our defense, energy strategy, and academia to the U.S. – now, we’re going to hand them the meager savings of European workers.</p>
<p>But don’t be fooled into thinking the potential harms of the SIU stop there. At first glance, the idea of a SIU seems appealing: centralize and manage Europeans’ savings, allowing them to be invested in strategic projects like green infrastructure, innovative technology, and other priority areas. However, when we look at who the main proponents of this initiative are and what the recent trends in European economic policy have been, we realize that this project has all the makings of further crushing our living conditions, opening the door to the savagery that already reigns in the U.S., where the working classes have been conditioned into the childish belief that their stability depends on some form of “passive income” and a supposed “financial literacy” that competes with that of the system’s owners. After the U.S., it’s now time to aggressively target the incomes of workers meant for solidarity-based safety nets.</p>
<p>It’s no coincidence that the SIU announcement also comes amid intensifying pressures to privatize historically public or mutualist sectors. From state pension funds to social security systems and mutual insurers, there is a clear trend of transferring assets and responsibilities from the public domain to private hands. This process, often disguised as “modernization,” “transparency,” “rationality,” or “efficiency,” directly erodes social rights and increases inequality. Just compare the returns of a public pension system with those of a private individual system to understand why big corporations attack the former. There’s a lot of money going to the “wrong hands,” they must think.</p>
<p>As we will see, once the SIU is implemented, the urgent calls for “social security reform,” the imperatives of “letting everyone choose their pension,” and the demographic emergency of “pension system reform” will follow. All for one thing and one thing only: to reduce funds allocated to social security and increase those available for SIU financial products – in other words, for BlackRock and friends. The pressure on centrist liberal, social liberal, social democratic, or reactionary conservative governments will be absolutely brutal, almost certainly leading to the justification that “the EU made us do it.”</p>
<p>In the outdated 18th-century theory, the invisible hand works wonders. By concentrating European citizens’ savings in a unified system, governments and financial institutions would gain access to vast resources currently dispersed across national or regional systems. However, in a completely unbalanced, biased, and skewed system, these resources will be captured by large financial conglomerates and corporations, who will use them to fund their interests.</p>
<p>A clear example of this dynamic is what happened with pension funds in several European countries. In the 1990s and 2000s, many states adopted individual capitalization models, transferring part of the state’s responsibilities to private funds, also in an attempt to free up capital for investment, or so they claimed. The result was higher management fees, less transparency, and, in some cases, the collapse of systems that were once robust and solidarity-based. The SIU will replicate this model on a continental scale, accelerating the transformation of public systems into mechanisms controlled by financial markets. Given what we know today, we can no longer claim that this isn’t the intention.</p>
<p>Moreover, the proposal raises doubts about its ability to ensure equity and social justice. Who will decide where the funds are invested? Will projects that directly benefit citizens, like affordable housing or public healthcare, be prioritized, or will large industrial and financial conglomerates be favored? Recent experiences show that, without rigorous and democratic regulation, capital tends to flow where profits are highest, regardless of the real needs of populations.</p>
<p>The financing of militarism is the other side of the coin and constitutes one of the strongest political appeals of the proposal. In addition to all the systemic and political risks already mentioned, it will also add the danger of military confrontation. Armed to the teeth, what do we think people like Merz, von der Leyen, or Macron will do? Once the plundering of the working classes is complete, where will the next project of plunder be directed?</p>
<p>The EU faces a familiar dilemma: how to finance massive investments in defense without violating budgetary rules (like the Stability and Growth Pact)? This is where the SIU comes in! Mobilizing private capital, facilitating long-term investments in strategic sectors like defense through specialized investment funds (e.g., critical infrastructure or dual-use technology funds); issuing adapted green/social bonds (like “defense bonds” for sustainable energy security and military projects); or encouraging institutional savings, directing part of pension savings (PEPP) or pension funds toward defense assets with an adequate risk profile – there are many strategies that will be used to attract the necessary resources.</p>
<p>Another option under the SIU is the creation of a “defense capital market,” harmonizing rules to facilitate IPOs, capital increases, or debt issuance by defense companies. Finally, fiscal obstacles could be reduced – some countries tax investments in weapons, but exceptions could be made for European projects, making private investment in defense-related products more attractive due to lower tax burdens. In other words, European taxpayers will pay out of pocket to face an ever-greater risk of war.</p>
<p>Currently, the European Defence Fund (EDF) is financed by the EU budget, but its scope is limited. With a more integrated monetary union, strategies based on public-private partnerships could be implemented, such as the issuance of defense-backed bonds by investment banks (like the EIB). What was never done for housing or railways will now be done for war, always leaving the necessary <em>royalties</em> for private interests. Ideas like defense crowdfunding, attracting small investors’ funds to the much-touted cybersecurity or drone startups, later bought by big corporations, are another possibility in the minds of these people. As we can see, the SIU opens up a universe of possibilities, none of which benefit the people of Europe.</p>
<p>This scenario is not mere speculation. The fact is that the SIU proposal explicitly includes defense sector financing at a time when the EU is betting on a new rearmament cycle and the creation of a reinforced European Defence Fund. The Draghi Report, which underpins part of this initiative (it was part of the mandate), identifies defense as a priority area for absorbing European private capital. Thus, the SIU not only enables the diversion of savings to the military sector but could also make citizens unwitting accomplices in strengthening the European military-industrial complex under the pretext of securing better returns for their savings.</p>
<p>Another consequence of this exploitation will be the diversion of resources that would otherwise go to priority social areas, further entrenching a militaristic mindset that threatens peace and international cooperation. In concrete terms, it will delay by decades any real possibility of understanding between the EU and the Russian Federation – if it doesn’t make things even worse.</p>
<p>The European Commission insists that citizen participation will always be voluntary and that there are no plans for any form of savings confiscation. However, institutional pressure to “diversify” investments and the promise of higher returns may, in practice, marginalize traditional savings options and push European citizens toward financial products aligned with Brussels’ strategic objectives. The rhetoric of free choice thus hides a profound reconfiguration of the role of the welfare state and the fate of popular savings.</p>
<p>While “security” and “defense” are touted, the devastating impact of militarism on communities, both within and outside Europe, is neglected. Resources that could be used to fight poverty, social exclusion, and the climate crisis are instead wasted on weapons and war technologies.</p>
<p>Given this scenario, it is urgent to question the true nature of the Savings and investment union and resist its implementation. Nothing is more dangerous than merging corporate greed with the adrenaline of war. When big capital moves from profiting from war to investing in war, we will all be in danger.</p>
<p>The Savings and investment union announced by Ursula von der Leyen is not just a technical or financial issue – it is a fundamental political choice about the future of Europe and its peoples. If this path is followed, in the future, every one of us will be nothing more than a foot soldier in a permanent war economy.</p>
<p>How many times will European citizens need to be surprised by the same mistakes?</p>
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title: Marching for peace in Moscow this May 9th
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<p><strong><em>Although Russia recently offered an Easter truce, not only did Ukraine continually break it but <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/20/europe/ukraine-easter-ceasefire-violations-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> and the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/apr/20/ella-baron-vladimir-putin-easter-ceasefire-ukraine-cartoon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guardian</a> both mocked it.</em></strong></p>
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<p>When troops from Azerbaijan, Belarus, Serbia, Tajikistan and North Korea <a href="https://www.intellinews.com/who-is-going-to-moscow-may-9-victory-day-parade-376955/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">join Russia’s armed forces</a> marching past the leaders of Brazil, China, India, Russia, Serbia and Slovakia on Moscow’s review stand this May 9<sup>th</sup>, they will be sending the world a clear message that their adversaries in Kiev and Berlin are stupidly amplifying. That message is that, though Russia is prepared to discuss peace in Ukraine, it is more than ready for more war should NATO force its hand. The solidarity of Serbia, Slovakia and the other countries, China in particular, shows that, if Russia falls, it will not fall alone.</p>
<p>Although Moscow’s first parade is for the Russian military to salute their forebears’ victory over the combined forces of Nazi Germany, Finland and Italy, and the second, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortal_Regiment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March of the Immortals</a>, is more a personal salute by relatives of those Russians, whose arms prevailed over 80 years ago, current events in Ukraine make those sacrifices by tens of millions of long-dead Russians of critical and immediate consequence.</p>
<p>That is because the last year has seen Russian civilians in Kursk and other oblasts being abused in the same dastardly manner that the Nazi invaders treated their forebears more than 80 years ago. That is not something the Russian Armed Forces should allow to be brushed under the carpet after they march through Moscow’s streets this May 9<sup>th</sup>.</p>
<p>And nor should they allow the West Europeans or anyone else to try to enforce <a href="https://eutoday.net/finland-intensifies-maritime-measures-against-russia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the Finns’ mooted naval blockade</a>, as that would amount to a declaration of war, to which Russia’s Armed Forces would have to forcefully respond. Although Russia can overlook <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/04/19/german-parliament-excludes-russia-from-ceremony-marking-victory-over-nazis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the provocations of German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock</a> barring Russia from commemorating Russia’s 1945 defeat of her <a href="https://azertag.az/en/xeber/germany_039s_foreign_minister_baerbock_confronts_grandfather_039s_hidden_nazi_past-2916775" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grandfather Waldemar</a> and his fellow Nazi fanatics, just as it can overlook the pathetic <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/kyiv-ask-eu-officials-may-9-visit-counter-vladimir-putin-victory-parade/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">counter-march Zelensky and his fellow Nazis</a> are planning for May 9<sup>th</sup> in Kiev, further direct military threats necessitate a further resounding military reply.</p>
<p>That is the long and the short of it. Frankly, though I am not a big one for parades, pageants or pomp and circumstance, if Moscow’s May 9<sup>th</sup> marches send the West a message they understand, they will have done the state some service. But, not only does the West refuse to negotiate with Russia in good faith, but it feels it can get its own way, just as it did in Syria, Iraq and Libya.</p>
<p>Just as with those Arab countries, so also has there been a long lead up time to the current Ukrainian crisis.The West has been undermining Ukraine at least since the 24th January 2005 appointment of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yulia_Tymoshenko" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Julija Tymoshenko</a> as Prime Minister of Ukraine, when she was undermined by the same underhanded tactics we have more recently seen employed in Romania, France and most anywhere else in NATO’s cross hairs. NATO has allowed its Ukrainian vassal state to degenerate to such an extent that it is largely run by hard-core Nazis, who openly worship, idolise and emulate those who wore the Wehrmacht’s grey of Waldemar Baerbock and similar psychopaths. Not only can Russia not tolerate that for historical reasons but, as the ongoing massacres of Russian civilians show, they cannot tolerate it for practical reasons either. Quite simply, because the current Nazi regime in Kiev presents an existential threat to Moscow, its disbandment is a precondition for meaningful talks. That, too, is the long and the short of it.</p>
<p>Although Russia recently offered an Easter truce, not only did Ukraine continually break it but <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/20/europe/ukraine-easter-ceasefire-violations-intl/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> and the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2025/apr/20/ella-baron-vladimir-putin-easter-ceasefire-ukraine-cartoon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Guardian</a> both mocked it proving, if proof were needed, that NATO disdains peace and can act neither with honour nor with plain, common sense.</p>
<p>Trump has a number of choices available to him. He can walk the United States away from the Ukrainian morass and let big-mouthed Estonia step up to the plate there. He can watch as the Russian Armed Forces destroy the rump Ukrainian Reich just as they destroyed the much bigger Finnish and German ones 80 years ago, or he can bolster Zelensky’s defences and then walk away, just as the Yanks did in South Vietnam all of fifty years ago and in Afghanistan in more recent years. Either way, short of going head to head with Russia and her allies in a fight he cannot win, Trump should issue an ultimatum to Zelensky to negotiate in good faith or to abandon the field.</p>
<p>As for Putin’s Russians, they can be happy with themselves despite the huge sacrifices their armed forces continue to make for, behind their shield, a new world is emerging, which is evident not only in the madcap dancing of<a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/02/11/soy-boys-sigma-boys-and-the-collapse-of-natos-eastern-front/"> Betsy and Maria Yankovskaya</a> but further afield in China, where <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyDjhF9b0jg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teachers like Zhang Pengfei are inspiring </a>his charges (and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tKFPjEd4LQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">even their siblings and guardians</a>) to interact and think the world anew in different ways, and all without any Western involvement or deciding influence. Those Russian and Chinese kids have all slipped the leash and flown the coop and NATO will have to say do svidaniya and sayonara to any chance of ever brain washing them or their likes again.</p>
<p>For my part, I would prefer to see Russian, Japanese and Chinese kids dancing rather than marching off to war but, until Baerbock and her fellow antiChrists are put back in their box, wars and needless deaths are unavoidable. And, for Russian President Putin’s part, though he will be at both Moscow parades this May 9<sup>th</sup>, his door is open for the no less important role of brokering a lasting peace in Ukraine, should NATO’s warmongers come to their senses and wish to avail of it.</p>
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title: Russia from sea to sea
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<p><strong><em>Only a tellurocracy that has fully realized its continental vocation can truly face the waves of the seas.</em></strong></p>
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<p><strong>The three seas of the world</strong></p>
<p>Russia, late 19<sup>th</sup> century: a highly decorated geographer, explorer, and statistician named Pyotr Petrovich Semenov Tjan Shansky established one of the most original definitions of nascent Russian geopolitics. For the adventurous researcher, Russia had to be read and understood as ‘what lies from sea to sea’, codifying an interesting interpretation of the geography of the then great Russian empire.</p>
<p>In a direct and coherent manner, he drew on the political geography and anthropogeography of Friedrich Ratzel, the great German ethnologist and geographer. Semënov, whose work On the Power of Territorial Possession in Relation to Russia can be considered one of the first fully-fledged geopolitical works in Russia, proposed his own hypothesis on the geopolitical structure of the world, which we can briefly summarize as follows: civilizations form around the three seas of the world, the Mediterranean (together with the Black Sea), the East and South China Seas (together with the Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea), and the Caribbean basin (including the Gulf of Mexico). From these areas, culture spreads in different directions, eventually covering the entire planet, in different phases of history but linked to the three seas.</p>
<p>This gives rise to the theme of ‘power’: those who manage to establish political control over the entire coastline adjacent to one of the three seas of the world then gain dominion over all the adjacent territories.</p>
<p>No sooner said than done. This is not an assist to Halford Mackinder’s thalassocratic geopolitics, which he did not know, but a providentially specular reading, denoting an interest in the power of the seas on the part of Russia, at a time and in a context that make this topic extremely intriguing.</p>
<p>Throughout history, the consolidation of dominion over the seas has given rise to three specific configurations of ‘power of possession’, each corresponding to different coastal morphologies. In the context of the European Mediterranean, a ring-shaped model based on continuous coastal control has emerged. A second paradigm emerged during the colonial era in Western Europe, characterized by the establishment of fragmented forms of possession on archipelagos and disjointed portions of continental territory, scattered along ocean routes and interconnected by regular military and commercial shipping. This configuration was defined by Semënov as “leopard-spot.” The third model, developed by the same author, is the ‘sea-to-sea’ model, which can be traced back in the classical geopolitical tradition to the continental or telluric paradigm. This latter concept represented a crucial moment in the development of Russian geopolitical theory and, had the revolutionary events of 1917 and the imposition of Marxist-totalitarian ideology by the Bolshevik regime not interrupted its development, Semënov’s studies could have given rise to a veritable Russian school of political geography and geopolitics.</p>
<p>Russia, in all this, has a unique position: it is geographically surrounded by several seas and, due to its enormous size, has the ability to control and influence the development of several seas and the powers located there. This change of perspective allows us to view Russia from a thalassocratic point of view, not defining it as a primarily thalassocratic power, but in a secondary sense, as a sort of “indirect thalassocracy,” given its tellurocratic breadth.</p>
<p>Semënov historically concretized the cultural and economic bases of colonization, when, according to him, there were various bases of cultural and economic colonization in Russia. These focal points, spreading their light in all directions, truly maintain the strength of the state territory and contribute to its more uniform settlement as well as to its cultural and economic development. If we look at European Russia, we see four specific Russian areas that arose at different times: a first nucleus was formed in the area of Galicia and Kiev-Chernihiv; the second in the land of Novgorod and Petrograd, the third in Moscow, and the fourth in the Middle Volga. The nuclei in Galicia and Novgorod had to face Western enemies and went into complete decline for a long time, only to rise again like a phoenix from its ashes. The lands of Moscow and the Middle Volga, which occupied an internal geographical position, grew almost uninterruptedly, without experiencing long periods of decline. Thanks to these four cultural nuclei, the Russians were able to entrench themselves firmly within the coasts of the four seas, managing to become a world power.</p>
<p>His theory proved fundamental in dictating Russia’s Eurasianist line: having realized its continental nature and accepted its Eurasian character, Russia would look at the world and the processes developing in world politics with a completely new perspective.</p>
<p>Russia, therefore, was capable of managing three seas, or perhaps even more. A whole new perspective.</p>
<p><strong>A lesson that still holds true</strong></p>
<p>In a sense, Semënov’s lesson is still relevant today and, more than a theory, has become a fait accompli.</p>
<p>Russia has proven that it can manage the three seas, at least by protecting itself from attacks that could come through them.</p>
<p>The Mediterranean has become ‘distant’ in recent years due to sanctions and the West’s withdrawal, although it cannot be abandoned as a water basin representing an important source of resources and access to the Middle East and Africa. But it is also the sea of ancient trade, of the first and second Rome, of the millennial history of Europe from which part of the Russian people originate. It is an ethnosociologically indispensable area. Sooner or later, Russia will return to establish commercial or military dominance there.</p>
<p>The East China Sea has become an area of equilibrium with China and, in general, with the powers of the Far East. Russia has established a large part of its port market and fleet there, establishing important partnerships. The solid chain of allies in the region guarantees stability.</p>
<p>As for the Caribbean, it is clear that Russia does not have purely geographical interests there. It has partners such as Cuba, a real outpost to balance the overwhelming power of the thalassocrats. This was historically very important during the Cold War, a real ‘inside job’. The Gulf of Mexico is extremely distant and has no direct influence on Russian territory, but it is rather one of the faces of Anglo-American thalassocratic power and, moreover, a fundamental trade channel, with Panama and its surroundings still undergoing major changes. On the other hand, the US and the UK are the two thalassocratic powers par excellence and exploit that basin as a ‘safe haven’ between the two great oceans.</p>
<p>Therefore, in order to maintain its stability and confirm the realization of its continental vocation, Russia must keep at bay all the actors interacting in the three seas and ensure the strengthening of the Rimland, the security belt that separates it from the direct influence of the sea powers. And this seems to be exactly what Russia is doing.</p>
<p>In the eastern sea, its military presence is stable and it has excellent relations with all its neighbors. In the Mediterranean, it is easy to imagine that a situation of non-blackmailability and non-aggression is easier to manage than an internal conflict and, as we have seen in recent days, provocation in the Black Sea continues with the disputes over Crimea. With regard to the Caribbean, strengthening the network of partners and consolidating existing relations are the preferred way to prevent the US from gaining total control over the passage between the two oceans.</p>
<p>Russia from sea to sea, not only between its geographical borders, but above all between the seas of the world. Because only a tellurocracy that has fully realized its continental vocation can truly face the waves of the seas.</p>
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title: Are Americans Still Americans?
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<p>Are Americans Still Americans?</p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>This question came to mind from reading Edward Curtin’s essays, “At the Lost and Found,” (Clarity Press, 2025), in which he shares with readers his intellectual encounters with the rising criminality of the governments of the United States since the 1960s. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> Edward Curtin is a decent person with a sense of justice and a moral conscience, traits more common in his time than today.  I found his moral responses reassuring, and wonder if recent generations would respond in the same way.</span></p>
<p>Curtin, I suspect, was a member of the old moderate left, which was concerned with fairness and pushing a reform here and there.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Today this left remains only in its elderly remnants.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The modern left is not reformist.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It is revolutionary, committed to using law, government, and media to overthrow traditional society and replace it with a Sodom &amp; Gomorrah Tower of Babel in which merit is regarded as a white racist tool.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Today the left, as epitomized by the Biden regime, pushes DEI over merit, sexual perversity over love between a man and a woman, sexualization of young children, demonization of white people as racists, and ideology over truth. Today for the left the truth resides in the ideological agenda, not in facts.</p>
<p>Despite the digital revolution, the Internet, social media, email, and texting, the acquisition of truthful information has become ever more difficult.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The reason is that for almost all parties concerned, it is the agenda that is important, not the facts.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>A consequence is that, unlike in the past, today we live in narratives orchestrated to serve agendas. As Curtin puts it, “we are living in a pretend society” in which truth is not present.</p>
<p>Curtin’s essays, like my own, vary in quality, but every decent person will enjoy escape from social media into thought about what is happening to us.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I am not going to attempt to organize Curtin’s essays around a theme.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>I am going to limit my comments to two of his essays.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The first is about what has become of Christmas.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>As my readers know, for several decades it has been my habit to republish my Christmas essay, “The Greatest Gift of All,” to remind people that Christianity gave us freedom and meaning in our lives.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>In the Massachusetts town in which Curtin and his wife live, Christmas fireworks are a feature.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>As he and his wife inside their home sit holding and trying to calm the family dogs, “sentient animals with deep feelings,” who are quaking uncontrollably, Curtin thinks of “children in Gaza quivering in fear as the Israelis bomb them night and day in savage attacks” and thinks of “the visceral sense of what those Palestinians<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>must be feeling as they hold their trembling children” who are declared by Israel’s leader to be “useless objects.” <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>It is America’s shame that the entire government of the United States, including President Trump, the media, and the brainwashed and indoctrinated hapless American population  accept the destruction of a people, even enable it with weapons and money and deportation of persons with sufficient moral conscience to protest the genocide of a nation.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Curtin has every right to raise the question, what kind of people have Americans become?</p>
<p>The second essay is about Curtin’s “Known Knowns,” which consists of the massive lies that the US government has based its rule upon, regardless of whether Republican or Democrat, since the 1960s.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>In a mere 8 pages Curtin presents the history of the US government’s degeneration into evil kept in power by lies.</p>
<p>He begins with the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and goes on to Allan Dulles who engineered slaughter of one million Indonesians, the orchestrated Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal orchestrated by the CIA to drive Nixon from power, the neoconservatives’ Iran-Contra scandal, the orchestrated Persian Gulf War, the Clinton regime’s bombing of four countries in four months –Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq, and Yugoslavia, the 9/11 false flag attacks on the World Trade Center, the George W. Bush regime’s fake “war on terror,” used to strip Americans of civil liberties and to attack Afghanistan and Iraq, President Obama who institutionalized the warfare state and bombed seven countries, Trump who allowed the deadly Covid vaccine to be imposed on us and subjects the conscience of America to the support of Israel’s genocide of Palestine, and Biden who engineered the anti-Russian coup in Ukraine, renewed war with Russia, and imprisoned American citizens for exercising their constitutional rights.</p>
<p>From the standpoint of the American Establishment, the problem with Curtin’s indictment is that it is true. <span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>In today’s America, to tell the truth is becoming an indication of treason for which whistleblowers, allegedly protected by federal law, are being imprisoned. This is not changing under Trump.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Instead, it is expanding.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>If you criticize Israel, you are deported.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Thus, under the Trump regime, if you speak the truth about Israel, you are considered an enemy of the state.</p>
<p>Americans really do need to think about how they arrived at this position.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Curtin’s essays will help you.</p>
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<p>It is White Liberals Like This One Who Are the Problem for America</p>
<p>They believe that they are the government, not the elected government.</p>
<p><a href="https://x.com/OKeefeMedia/status/1915176201053970607">https://x.com/OKeefeMedia/status/1915176201053970607</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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title: Is Trump With Us, or Is the New Boss same as the Old Boss?
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<p>Is Trump With Us, or Is the New Boss same as the Old Boss?</p>
<p>“Trump is allowed to greenlight more egregiously unconstitutional assaults against our liberties than even Obama.”</p>
<p>“Donald Trump has commissioned uber Zionists Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem with the task of expunging the First Amendment protection of the freedom of speech for those who are vocalizing opposition to Israel’s genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza—or any other murderous policy emanating out of Tel Aviv, for that matter.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/04/chuck-baldwin/trumps-fourth-greatest-betrayal-so-far-and-pete-hegseth/">https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/04/chuck-baldwin/trumps-fourth-greatest-betrayal-so-far-and-pete-hegseth/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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title: America’s auto jobs are not coming back
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<p><strong><em>By Wolfgang MUNCHAU</em></strong></p>
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<p>At the White House Rose Garden press conference with which he let loose this month’s whirlwind of tariffs, Donald Trump brought to the lectern a retired car industry worker from Detroit. Up came Brian Pannebecker of the United Auto Workers trade union. “I have watched plant after plant after plant, in Detroit and in the Metro Detroit area, close,” said Pannebecker. Trump’s policies, he said, would bring those plants back to life.</p>
<p>Pannebecker represents a key part of Trump’s coalition, and his observation of the death of industry is entirely correct. Where he goes wrong is the idea that Trump will fix the problem. Trump’s policies will surely attract companies back to the US. Yet these won’t be companies United Auto Workers members will work in, or will want to work in. Manufacturing will return — but not Pannebecker’s kind of manufacturing.</p>
<p>What happened in places like Detroit is the consequence of one of the most powerful ideas of economics going horribly wrong: David Ricardo’s theory of comparative competitive advantage. The simplified version of his idea is that countries should voluntarily give up doing things they are good at for things they are better at. This is how the US and the UK got out of manufacturing. It is how Detroit lost car plants, and how China and Germany gained them.</p>
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<div data-sanitized-id="google_ads_iframe_/154725070/unherd/misc/article/midcontent1_0__container__">There is one big problem with this idea. It is people like Pannebecker. Ricardo was right in aggregate: the winners of globalisation won more than the losers lost. But what matters for politics is that there are more losers than winners. In the language of statistics: economists care about average incomes, or total incomes. Politics cares about median incomes. It is the median voter who swings elections.</div>
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<p>While the diagnosis of what went wrong with hyper-globalisation is not difficult to make, it is harder to think about what comes next. We live in a world created by a nine-year period of trade agreements that began with the North American Free Trade Agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico in 1992; continued with creation of the World Trade Organization in 1995; and was concluded by China’s accession to the WTO in 2001. Worldwide, these changes brought a massive expansion of global trade. In the US, they triggered industrial off-shoring. This was over 20 years ago, and the world of industry has since changed beyond recognition.</p>
<p>What old industry used to do is take delivery of raw materials like steel or plastics — the “product” referred to by Pannebecker — and work them into a finished product. Plants employed thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of workers. If you live in Scunthorpe, in north-eastern England, chances are that you are a steelworker, or that you have a steelworker in your family. If you lived in Detroit in the Sixties, you were either in the auto business or into music.</p>
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<p>Globalisation did not only push companies out of the US and the UK. It changed the way industrial companies work. Modern manufacturing companies are quite unlike those industrial plants of old. It is best to think of them as global supply chain networks rather than companies with a plant and a workers’ canteen. West European manufacturers get their raw materials from China, and recently also from Russia. They get their intermediate goods, which are used in the production process, from eastern Europe and other parts of the Eurasian continent. Many of the plants you see in Germany are final assembly plants. The main job of these plants is to put the Made-in-Germany stamp on the finished product.</p>
<p>Where, after that press conference in the Rose Garden, does that leave European car makers, such as Jaguar, Land Rover, Audi, and Porsche, that sell cars in the US but do not have production plants there? To nullify the tariffs, they would have to build factories in the US, thus reinventing their entire supply chain. Some will do this, but many will not.</p>
<p>The supply chain revolution was the big event in industry in the last 30 years. But there will be another big industrial revolution soon: Industry 4.0. Version number one was the industrial revolution in the late 18th century. Number two was the invention of mass production. Then came the digital revolution. Industry 4.0 is about the digitalisation of industry, and it will be epitomised by smart factories.</p>
<p>To understand the concept of the smart factory, recall the Internet of Things. That is the term for the bringing together of physical items into a digital network. Think about the refrigerator that knows the sell-by date of everything that’s inside it. Now apply this idea to a factory. Smart factories will be operated by robots, and they will be full of sensors that will be in constant communication. They will still need raw materials to make stuff, but they will be less reliant on complex global supply chains. This is why everybody in the world, not just Trump, is focused on securing supplies of critical raw materials like lithium and rare earth metals.</p>
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<p>But what really distinguishes Industry 4.0 from its predecessor is the reliance on massive volumes of data, which will be stored and processed in energy-hungry data centres of the kind only China and the US currently have the capacity to develop at scale. It will take another generation of mobile communications, 6G, to be able to transmit the data from the factory sensors to the data centres. The data centres will be powered by cheap energy and supervised by a digitally literate workforce. These factories will still employ people, but these employees will have an educational background closer to that of tech workers in Silicon Valley than that of Pannebecker and his former co-workers.</p>
<p>Of all countries in the world, none is better placed for Industry 4.0 than China. The US might get there too. But we Europeans are hopelessly behind. While we struggle with our rollout of 5G mobile communications, the Chinese are already developing 6G. The Chinese government has just approved the construction of a massive hydropower dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet. The expected output of this dam will be 60 gigawatts, which is about the average annual electricity consumption of Germany. The output will be roughly three times that of the Three Gorges Dam, hitherto the biggest of its kind. The construction of the dam will affect local populations, displace entire villages and submerge ancient monasteries. It will also impinge on the livelihoods of communities that live downstream in Bangladesh and India. But its biggest impact will be on how industry works.</p>
<p>There is no way that a Net Zero focused Europe can compete with this. Germany, for example, was one of the big winners of the global supply chain revolution. But it does not have cheap energy, especially after the closure of its nuclear power stations and the stoppering of its supply of cheap gas from Russia. Nuclear fusion could change the picture, but this is still decades away. Industry 4.0 is not going to wait that long. It will come soon, and it will be powered by dams, American fracking, nuclear power, and gas. If there is one Western country capable of exploiting the commercial advantage of Industry 4.0, it is Trump’s America.</p>
<div data-sanitized-class="su-pullquote su-pullquote-align-left">“Of all countries in the world, none is better placed for Industry 4.0 than China.”</div>
<p>I see a lot of wishful thinking among the macroeconomists and other commentators who keep telling us that Trump’s policies are bound to fail. The German poet Christian Morgenstern once wrote: “For, he reasons pointedly / That which must not, can not be.” I keep an open mind on whether Trump will fail or succeed. But if he succeeds, I am absolutely certain it will come as a total shock.</p>
<p>The most likely avenue for Trump to succeed is through Industry 4.0. It is a scenario that few of his critics have on their radar. This goes especially for economists who are primarily focused on the effect of tariffs on GDP. Their focus might lead us into drawing the wrong conclusions. I myself understood the economics of Brexit when I saw an obscure statistic, published by the Department of Work and Pensions in the UK, according to which the median British voter had suffered a fall of real disposable income in the 10 years leading up to the 2016 referendum. If you stared only at GDP, unemployment and the usual official metrics, you would not have seen this. The Ricardo-indoctrinated economics fraternity did not see Brexit coming, nor did it see the backlash to globalisation.</p>
<p>Trump may well underestimate the difficulty of disentangling global supply chains. His tariffs are crude. But I think he is onto something. So was Joe Biden with his misleadingly-named Inflation Reduction Act, a large subsidy programme to lure global industries to relocate to the US. Some companies will relocate to the US. Apple has already announced that it will step up production in the US. So has TSCM, the world’s largest manufacturer of semiconductors, based in Taiwan, and Eli Lilly, the pharmaceutical company. What will not come back is old industry, with its unionised shop-floor workers.</p>
<p>One of the 20 ex-colleagues Pannebecker took with him to Trump’s Liberation Day jamboree was Chris Vitale, a third-generation auto worker. He told the Detroit News that de-industrialisation had hollowed out his community. This is why Trump got elected. But even if he succeeds in bringing industry back, I fear Vitale’s community may remain hollowed out.</p>
<div data-sanitized-class="authorfootnote"><em>Original article:</em> <strong><a href="https://unherd.com/2025/04/americas-auto-jobs-are-not-coming-back/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">UnHerd</a></strong></div>


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title: New German priority: Trans ideology first, justice second
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<p><strong><em>The incident of a failed asylum seeker identifying as transgender exposes the dangerous absurdity of Germany’s self-identification law and its broken asylum system.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>By Sabine BEPPLER-SPAHL</em></strong></p>
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<p>Aheadline in Germany’s left-liberal <em><a href="https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/potsdam-wachmann-in-fluechtlingsunterkunft-getoetet-mehr-als-zwoelf-jahre-haft-a-b515c3b0-b7c8-42cb-b6b8-f5a198d141f9" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Spiegel</a></em> magazine couldn’t be more misleading: “Woman stabs man in a refugee shelter—more than twelve years’ prison sentence.” The “woman” in this case is actually a man. This bizarre and tragic incident involving a South African failed asylum seeker who identifies as transgender exposes the dangerous absurdity of Germany’s self-identification law and its broken asylum system.</p>
<p>The Potsdam District Court sentenced 38-year-old <a href="https://www.bild.de/regional/berlin/potsdam-prozess-wachmann-killer-zu-ueber-12-jahren-haft-verurteilt-67ff40f40c382a037950f7e0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Hilton J.</a> to 12 years and 8 months for manslaughter this April. The perpetrator arrived at hearings in women’s clothing, headscarf, and heavily painted lips. The victim? A 33-year-old Syrian refugee who came to Germany in 2015 and worked as security at a shelter housing primarily Ukrainian women.</p>
<p>Germany’s knife crime epidemic continues unabated—over <a href="https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/1471312/umfrage/messerangriffe-in-deutschland/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">29,000 incidents</a> in 2024 alone, with nearly 10,000 causing grievous bodily harm. The depressingly familiar pattern repeats: perpetrators who should <a href="https://www.nius.de/kriminalitaet/news/potsdam-kleopatra-hilton-g-frauen-jva-transkiller/9f1b52a9-f81f-422f-a46b-6b3f87d926ef">have been </a><a href="https://www.nius.de/kriminalitaet/news/potsdam-kleopatra-hilton-g-frauen-jva-transkiller/9f1b52a9-f81f-422f-a46b-6b3f87d926ef" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">deported</a><strong> </strong>long ago remain to commit violent crimes. (The <a href="https://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/asylpolitik-scholz-kritisiert-fehler-vor-angriff-in-solingen/100064558.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Solingen</a> attacker who stabbed three people last summer, the <a href="https://www.br.de/nachrichten/bayern/verdaechtiger-von-aschaffenburg-hat-bayern-abschiebung-versaeumt,UanhdU5" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Aschaffenburg</a> perpetrator who killed a child in January, and the man who killed another man in the <a href="https://www.bild.de/regional/berlin/berlin-u-bahn-killer-haette-in-u-haft-sitzen-muessen-67fe50a4ba5a92148b2b1d19" rel="noreferrer noopener">Berlin underground</a> this April —all were supposed to have been deported from the country.)</p>
<p>But this case stands out for exposing how identity politics creates dangerous blind spots in the system. Hilton J.’s status as a black transgender person allowed authorities to view him not as the dangerous criminal he was, but as a victim of racism and transphobia. This misguided perspective enabled his placement in women’s shelters despite his extensive history of violence.</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="has-drop-cap">Court testimony revealed that Hilton J. had <a href="https://www.maz-online.de/lokales/potsdam/wachmann-in-potsdam-erstochen-millionendiebin-belastet-angeklagte-und-spricht-von-todesliste-YQFHHZWTGZGGZHFZGQC2JL2HWY.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">terrorized multiple shelters</a>—threatening women, spitting at them, and even injuring a Ukrainian woman with a knife before the fatal attack. Yet the system kept accommodating him. The Syrian security guard, who took his duty to protect women seriously, paid with his life after multiple targeted stabs to the chest. Authorities clearly prioritized trans ideology over the safety of vulnerable women and staff.</p>
<p>Transgender identity has captured Germany’s elite institutions. The country’s radical self-identification law, implemented last year, allows anyone 14 and older to <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-moves-closer-gender-change-easier-sel-determination-act-law/#:~:text=German%20lawmakers%20voted%20Friday%20in,251%20against%20and%2011%20abstained." target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">change their legal gender</a><strong> </strong>by mere declaration—and threatens those who ‘misgender’ them with <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/germany-self-id-gender-law-protests-women-b2639713.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">€10,000 fines</a><strong>.</strong> Although this law wasn’t yet in effect when Hilton J. was arrested, the underlying ideology had already permeated law enforcement. Most tellingly, authorities initially placed Hilton J. in a women’s prison after his arrest—a shocking decision that demonstrates how deeply transgender ideology had already taken hold within the system, even before the self-identification law formalized these practices.</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, Hilton J continued to torment female prisoners while in custody. The court heard testimony from a <a href="https://www.bild.de/regional/berlin/potsdam-prozess-wachmann-killer-zu-ueber-12-jahren-haft-verurteilt-67ff40f40c382a037950f7e0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">female prisoner</a> who said he had threatened her by saying “You’re not going to get out of here alive, I’m going to beat you to death.” He also bullied inmates’ children and sexually exposed himself.</p>
<p>Yet activist groups still campaign for <strong>“</strong><a href="https://www.tagesspiegel.de/potsdam/landeshauptstadt/wachmann-prozess-in-potsdam-psychiatrisches-gutachten-zur-trans-angeklagten-fuhrt-zu-protest-13461955.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Justice for Cle</a><a href="https://www.tagesspiegel.de/potsdam/landeshauptstadt/wachmann-prozess-in-potsdam-psychiatrisches-gutachten-zur-trans-angeklagten-fuhrt-zu-protest-13461955.html">o</a><strong>” </strong>(the perpetrator’s preferred name), claiming: “Cleo is a black transmigrant. She has been in prison for 10 months—without evidence. Because she is black. Because she is a trans woman. Because she is a migrant.”</p>
<p data-sanitized-class="has-drop-cap">More concerning is the German media’s continued promotion of transgender ideology. Outlets like <em>Spiegel</em> and <em><a href="https://www.facebook.com/100064302865032/posts/1081100540710031/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Berliner Zeitung</a></em><strong> </strong>and others<strong> </strong>persistently refer to the perpetrator as a woman named “Cleopatra”—a courtesy unlikely extended to a non-transgender killer of a Syrian refugee.</p>
<p>The Potsdam court thankfully delivered a commonsense ruling, declaring that Hilton J. belongs in a men’s prison “and that’s where he’ll remain.” Yet it’s tragic that it took a killing for basic common sense to reassert itself.</p>
<p>Among the many broken promises of the conservative CDU following February’s narrow election victory is their failure to abolish the self-identification law. The new CDU-SPD coalition merely pledges to “<a href="https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/queerspiegel/schwarz-roter-koalitionsvertrag-vollig-unterbelichtet-in-sachen-queerpolitik-13515691.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">evaluate</a>” the law before summer 2026—a cowardly capitulation to the trans lobby that shows Germany remains firmly in the grip of woke ideology. Because of this law, biological men will continue to be placed in women’s prisons and shelters.</p>
<p>While other European countries have begun to <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg7pqzk47zo" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">reverse course</a> on transgender policies after numerous incidents compromising women’s and children’s safety, Germany stubbornly clings to an ideology that elevates subjective identity claims over objective biological reality—and ultimately, over public safety itself.</p>
<p><em>Original article: </em><a href="https://europeanconservative.com/articles/commentary/new-german-priority-trans-ideology-first-justice-second/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>europeanconservative.com</strong></a></p>

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<p><strong><em>La visita di Giorgia Meloni alla Casa Bianca del 17 aprile 2025 è stata presentata dalla stampa nazionale come un momento di grande rilievo diplomatico, ma nella sostanza si è trattato di un gesto più simbolico che concreto, spesso persino dannoso per gli interessi nazionali. </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>Ironia politica</strong></p>
<p>La visita di Giorgia Meloni alla Casa Bianca del 17 aprile 2025 è stata presentata dalla stampa nazionale come un momento di grande rilievo diplomatico, ma nella sostanza si è trattato di un gesto più simbolico che concreto, spesso persino dannoso per gli interessi nazionali.</p>
<p>È vero, è bastato poco per ammaliare il cittadini medio: all’arrivo della Meloni alla Casa Bianca, il Potus ha esaltato la premier con parole affascinante, definendola “one of the best”, una delle migliori. E, in effetti, bisogna riconoscere che poche donne sono state fino ad oggi tanto obbedienti quanto lei.</p>
<p>Sul piano commerciale, Meloni ha cercato di proporsi come interlocutrice privilegiata tra Trump e l’Unione Europea, ma l’incontro non ha portato ad alcun accordo significativo: Trump ha ribadito la sua posizione protezionista, rifiutandosi di fare concessioni sui dazi che penalizzano l’export italiano, mentre l’Italia è rimasta in una posizione subordinata, incapace di tutelare la propria struttura produttiva. Semplicemente aumenteremo le importazioni dagli USA, anche se si tratterà di peggiorare la questione prezzi e salari in Italia.</p>
<p>In politica estera, le divergenze sono state evidenti. Meloni ha confermato il pieno sostegno all’Ucraina, allineandosi con NATO e Bruxelles, mentre Trump ha sollevato dubbi sulla leadership di Kyiv e ha lasciato intendere un possibile disimpegno. Invece di cogliere l’occasione per affermare una linea autonoma e diplomatica, Meloni ha scelto di ribadire un’adesione acritica, mostrando l’assenza di una strategia indipendente.</p>
<p>Sul fronte della difesa, la premier ha confermato l’aumento della spesa militare al 2% del PIL, accogliendo le richieste degli Stati Uniti senza imporre condizioni né ottenere contropartite politiche o industriali a favore dell’Italia. In un momento di difficoltà economica e con un sistema sanitario in sofferenza, destinare nuove risorse alla difesa appare più una scelta ideologica che un atto di sovranità.</p>
<p>Nel campo energetico, l’Italia si è impegnata ad accrescere l’importazione di gas naturale liquefatto dagli USA e a promuovere investimenti pubblici per 10 miliardi nell’economia americana. Anche qui, Roma si è comportata più da cliente che da partner: nessuna riduzione dei costi, nessuna apertura concreta a investimenti statunitensi nel nostro Paese.</p>
<p>Il risultato è un legame sempre più sbilanciato a favore degli USA, che penalizza la diversificazione energetica e limita l’autonomia industriale italiana. Il tentativo di Meloni di proporsi come mediatrice tra Washington e Bruxelles si è rivelato vano: percepita come debole dalle capitali europee e poco credibile oltreoceano, non dispone degli strumenti necessari per incidere sulle scelte dell’UE.</p>
<p>Il vertice si è così concluso con una serie di immagini ufficiali, ma senza alcun risultato efficace e spendibile politicamente. La retorica sovranista è rimasta lettera morta, mentre la pratica diplomatica ha evidenziato una piena adesione alla linea atlantista, priva di visione e senza contropartite. Un’opportunità mancata o, forse, peggio: un arretramento mascherato da diplomazia.</p>
<p><strong>Un arretramento che lascia spazio all’UE</strong></p>
<p>Nel frattempo, Ursula von der Leyen procede senza esitazioni, ignorando sia il parere legale del Parlamento europeo sia il voto contrario espresso dalla commissione giuridica (JURI), e conferma: la proposta legislativa “Safe”, parte integrante del piano ReArm EU finalizzato a istituire prestiti fino a 150 miliardi di euro per rafforzare l’industria della difesa europea, sarà approvata unicamente dalla Commissione e dal Consiglio, escludendo il coinvolgimento diretto dell’Eurocamera. Una scelta che rischia di innescare un duro scontro istituzionale tra la Commissione europea e il Parlamento di Strasburgo, massimo organo rappresentativo dell’Unione.</p>
<p>L’annuncio è stato dato durante il consueto briefing di mezzogiorno del 24 aprile dal portavoce della Commissione, Thomas Regnier, che ha ribadito la volontà dell’esecutivo europeo di fondare la proposta sull’articolo 122 dei Trattati. Questo articolo prevede la possibilità di bypassare il parere del Parlamento in situazioni eccezionali, quando “uno Stato membro si trovi in difficoltà o sia seriamente minacciato da gravi difficoltà”. Regnier ha sottolineato che “ci troviamo di fronte a una minaccia concreta alla nostra sicurezza, motivo per cui la Commissione ha avanzato questa proposta: permetterà agli Stati membri di effettuare acquisti congiunti in ambito difensivo”. Ha inoltre ricordato che la presidente von der Leyen ha sempre sostenuto l’utilizzo dell’articolo 122 solo in casi straordinari, come quello attuale.</p>
<p>A niente sono servite le contestazioni. La Von der Leyen ormai agisce indisturbata, in barba al Parlamento, senza rendere conto a nessuno eccetto i suoi sovrani.</p>
<p>Eppure, questa interpretazione viene fortemente contestata dall’ufficio legale del Parlamento europeo, che ha giudicato la scelta non solo infondata, ma anche “priva di adeguata motivazione”. Nonostante ciò, la Commissione conferma la sua linea. La proposta è stata presentata e ora spetta agli Stati membri trovare un accordo.</p>
<p>Insomma, la “democrazia à la carte”, che viene scelta e messa in pratica quando fa comodo ai leader delle élite, ancora una volta si conferma vittoriosa. Non c’è spina dorsale nei politici, e a quanto pare nemmeno nel popolo che continua a godersi la primavera sorseggiando cocktail e aspettando il campionato di calcio.</p>
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guid: https://strategic-culture.su/?post_type=article&amp;p=884922
title: A distopia judicial britânica
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<p><strong><em>Essas contradições põem em cheque as reivindicações democráticas de Londres, bem como permitem descartar as suas críticas aos sistemas políticos de outros países.</em></strong></p>
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<p>No mês de março, o Conselho de Sentença do Reino Unido – responsável por emitir diretrizes de sentenciamento para as cortes britânicas – divulgou novas orientações procedimentais a serem adotadas pelos juízes antes de darem suas sentenças. Segundo o Conselho, os juízes teriam que solicitar relatórios contendo informações pessoais e familiares dos acusados para levar este conteúdo em consideração na hora da sentença.</p>
<p>Mas a maneira pela qual esse conteúdo deveria ser levado em consideração, nesse novo procedimento que seria obrigatório, seria no sentido de tomar como “atenuante” do comportamento criminoso o pertencimento do acusado a “minorias” étnicas ou religiosas.</p>
<p>Em outras palavras, diante de um mesmo crime cometido nas mesmas circunstâncias objetivas, um membro de uma “minoria” receberia uma sentença menor que um “homem branco”.</p>
<p>O anúncio dessa nova diretriz foi tão polêmico que o Conselho de Sentença não teve alternativa senão voltar atrás. Críticos dessas mudanças apontavam que isso poderia transformar o sistema judicial britânico em um “sistema de dois níveis”, em que diferentes pessoas receberiam penas diferentes única e exclusivamente com suas características identitárias – com isso, poder-se-ia dizer que alguns cidadãos até mesmo virariam cidadãos de segunda classe. As novas orientações passariam a valer a partir de abril, mas foram canceladas para serem revisadas e rediscutidas.</p>
<p>Perigo evitado? O problema é que a noção de que o Reino Unido possui um sistema judicial de dois níveis já era tema comum de discussões muito antes desse anúncio do Conselho de Sentença. Poderíamos dizer que a mudança de diretrizes simplesmente oficializaria de forma explícita uma práxis jurisprudencial comum no país, o que ficou claro no caso das gangues de estupradores de origem imigrante.</p>
<p>Tornou-se famoso o caso das gangues de imigrantes baseadas principalmente em Rotherham que se engajavam na prática de abuso sexual (inclusive de crianças), tráfico de mulheres, cárcere privado, etc., e que vitimaram mais de 1500 crianças ao longo de pelo menos 3 décadas. E por que demorou-se 3 décadas para desvendar e desbaratar esse esquema de abuso sexual voltado especificamente contra meninas nativas? Basicamente porque a polícia britânica conscientemente fechava os olhos para o caso ignorando denúncias por medo de ser acusada de “racismo”.</p>
<p>A situação fica ainda pior considerando-se que até agora houve apenas algumas dezenas de condenações, com vários dos culpados já tendo sido liberados por terem tido sentenças suspensas. Enquanto isso, o Reino Unido rotineiramente prende cidadãos por supostos crimes de “racismo” praticados na internet, e eles são tratados de forma muito mais dura e menos leniente do que estupradores. Entenda-se, aliás, que quando se fala em “prisão por racismo” no Reino Unido, estamos falando de comentários tão simples quando reclamar de “excesso de imigração”.</p>
<p>O jornal britânico The Times noticiou no início de abril que a polícia britânica estava realizando, em média, 33 prisões por dia por causa de postagens “ofensivas” em redes sociais. Se extrapolarmos essa média para 1 ano – caso ela permaneça neste patamar ao longo do ano – teremos mais de 12 mil pessoas presas por postagens no X ou no Facebook. Em 2019, para efeito de comparação, o humorista britânico Konstantin Kisin revelou que ao longo de 2018 3300 pessoas haviam sido presas por postagens em redes sociais. Ou seja, em 7 anos o número de prisões triplicou. Na época, o humorista havia comparado estes números com os números russos de 2018, os quais segundo ele eram de aproximadamente 400 pessoas. Levemos ainda em consideração que a população russa é o dobro da britânica. Mas, segundo a mídia ocidental, a “autocracia” é a Rússia…</p>
<p>Em um desses vários casos, o qual acabou viralizando, policiais de Hampshire prenderam um homem por fazer uma comparação, na internet, entre o movimento LGBT e o nazismo. Aliás, a pessoa que filmou a prisão também foi presa, por “obstrução”. Caso famoso também é o de Sam Melia, condenado a 2 anos de prisão por colar stickers em postes com frases como “Seremos minoria em nossa pátria até 2066”, criticando a imigração em massa.</p>
<p>Enquanto isso, essa semana o departamento policial de Yorkshire anunciou que estaria suspendendo temporariamente o recrutamento de homens brancos, com o objetivo de ampliar a diversidade e a inclusividade de suas forças de segurança. Isso demonstra que trata-se de algo institucional, e não de uma situação ocasional.</p>
<p>E como se a polêmica do Conselho de Sentença não tivesse sido o bastante, o Ministério da Justiça publicou novas diretrizes sobre fiança nas quais se orienta a que se dê preferência a minorias étnicas na concessão desse benefício.</p>
<p>Engana-se, porém, quem acredita que todo esse cenário distópico se resume às controvérsias sobre imigração, racismo e substituição demográfica. Militantes antiaborto também enfrentam medidas draconianas na Grã-Bretanha.</p>
<p>Em 2023, por exemplo, Livia Tossici-Bolt foi condenada a 2 anos de prisão por estar parada perto de uma clínica de aborto com um cartaz escrito “Aqui para conversar, se você quiser”. Em 2023, por sua vez, Adam Smith-Connor foi detido por orar em silêncio nos arredores de uma clínica de aborto. Ele não teve que enfrentar uma pena de prisão, mas foi condenado a pagar custas de quase 12 mil dólares. Este ano mesmo aconteceu um caso semelhante, com uma senhora de 74 anos de idade sendo presa por estar parada perto de um hospital universitário em Glasgow, o qual oferece o “serviço” de aborto, com um cartaz escrito “Coerção é crime, aqui para conversar, apenas se você quiser”.</p>
<p>Quando cidadãos percebem que a lei não é aplicada igualmente, a legitimidade do sistema judicial é questionada. A seletividade na aplicação da lei, com condutas relativamente leves e triviais sendo perseguidas e punidas de forma draconiana, e crimes atrozes sendo tratados com leniência – tudo com base em uma tábua de valores progressista – leva inevitavelmente a uma perda de confiança na justiça.</p>
<p>Ademais, essas contradições põem em cheque as reivindicações democráticas de Londres, bem como permitem descartar as suas críticas aos sistemas políticos de outros países, não raro acusados de “ditaduras”, “autocracias” e epítetos semelhantes.</p>


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<p><strong><em>En este momento se ha producido un nuevo bajón en la degeneración. La Unión Europea ha prohibido el homenaje a aquellos que derrotaron al nazismo.</em></strong></p>
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<p>La Unión Europea le está advirtiendo a los líderes europeos no asistir al 80º aniversario del Día de la Victoria el 9 de mayo en Moscú.</p>
<p>De manera ostensible, la razón para semejante prohibición es que se dice que Rusia está librando una guerra contra Ucrania y amenazando al resto de Europa, según la Unión Europea. Esa es una de las maneras de verlo.</p>
<p>Otra manera de ver la situación es que el conflicto en Ucrania es una guerra por encargo patrocinada por la Unión Europea y la OTAN para derrotar a Rusia, ocho décadas después que la Alemania Nazi fracasara en su intento. Las oligarquías europeas que han logrado dominar el quehacer político, comparten esta misma mentalidad fascistoide. Por supuesto entonces que ellas están en contra de asistir al evento por el 80º aniversario en Moscú el próximo mes. Necesitan manchar el evento como una manera de ocultar su política despreciable.</p>
<p>El evento que marca la derrota de la Alemania Nazi y al fascismo en Europa es una fecha histórica masivamente importante para el mundo entero. Hace ochenta años. El 9 de Mayo de 1945 el Ejército Rojo Soviético aplastó al régimen nazi en Berlín, en consecuencia poniendo fin a la más horrible guerra en la historia de la Humanidad.</p>
<p>Más de 27 millones de ciudadanos soviéticos –probablemente más—entregaron sus vidas en la épica lucha para derrotar a la Alemania Nazi y a sus aliados fascistas europeos incluyendo a la Francia de Vichy, Italia, Hungría, Finlandia y a los estados Bálticos de Estonia, Latvia y Lituania.</p>
<p>De Rusia es el honor de haber liberado a Europa del maligno fascismo. En comparación, los otros aliados antifascistas como Estados Unidos y Gran Bretaña perdieron menos del cinco por ciento de los caídos que sufrieron los ciudadanos de la Unión Soviética.</p>
<p>Es oportuno que muchos líderes internacionales estén asistiendo a la Parada del Día de la Victoria en Moscú este año. Ellos incluyen a Xi Jinping de China y a Narendra Modi de la India.</p>
<p>No obstante, muchos otros no estarán en Moscú lo cual es lamentable. El presidente estadounidense Donald Trump y el Primer Ministro inglés, Keir Starmer deberían hacerse presente y rendir respeto a los soldados y los civiles que sacrificaron sus vidas. Es deplorable que la intoxicante política que ha envenado las relaciones entre los estados occidentales y Rusia, haya conseguido hacer que eso no sea posible.</p>
<p>Sin embargo, lo que es todo aún más asombroso es la explícita prohibición a los líderes europeos para asistir a la celebración en Moscú.</p>
<p>Esta semana Kaja Kallas, la Comisionada de la Unión Europea para Asuntos Extranjeros <a href="https://www.euronews.com/2025/04/16/slovakias-fico-insists-on-attending-moscows/victory-day-parade-despite-eu-warnings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emitió</a> una advertencia que cualquier político que fuera a Moscú enfrentaría severas consecuencias.</p>
<p>Kallas, que anteriormente fue primera ministra de Estonia, pequeño estado del Báltico, fue nombrada el año pasado como la más antigua funcionaria de la Unión Europea en política exterior.</p>
<p>Uno de aquellos que desafían sus órdenes es el Primer Ministro de Eslovaquia, Robert Fico, quien <a href="https://tass.com/world/1944525" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rechazó</a> a la Kallas por atreverse a señalarle a él, líder de una nación soberana hacia donde puede o no puede ir. Además agregó: “Iré a Moscú a rendir mi respeto por los miles de soldados del Ejército Rojo que murieron por la liberación de Eslovaquia.”</p>
<p>Fico fue elegido dentro de una plataforma que plantea relaciones amistosas con Rusia y el fin de la guerra por encargo de la OTAN en Ucrania. Consecuentemente se opuso al envío de más ayuda militar al régimen de Kiev. El año pasado Fico sobrevivió a un intento de asesinato en el cual fue tiroteado por un pistolero al servicio de la política ucraniana.</p>
<p>Es particularmente notorio que las sanciones de la Unión Europea contra los políticos que asistan a la Conmemoración del Día de la Victoria estén apuntando contra los estados candidatos que conforman un bloque de 27 postulantes. Kallas amenazó que su postulación podría ser cancelada. El bloque incluye a los países balcánicos de Albania, Montenegro, Macedonia del Norte, Bosnia &amp; Herzegovina y Serbia como también Moldavia y Georgia.</p>
<p>Sin embargo, el presidente serbio, Aleksandar Vucic <a href="https://tass.com/world/1944631" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declaró</a> que él irá a Moscú a pesar de la inmensa presión de parte de Bruselas. “Estamos orgullosos de nuestra lucha contra el fascismo y esa fue la razón principal por qué yo acepté la invitación,” dijo Vucic. No obstante se refirió a la intensa y siniestra presión sobre su gobierno.</p>
<p>“A mí me parece que el cielo me va a caer encima debido a la presión que rodea al viaje a Moscú.” Dijo el presidente serbio, quien agregó que su país estaba siendo desestabilizado por agitadores extranjeros.</p>
<p>La indecorosa controversia sobre la Parada del Día de la Victoria en Moscú sirve para destacar las crecientes y malévolas tendencias de la Unión Europea.</p>
<p>La creciente centralización del poder político del bloque se está tornando más autoritaria y hostil hacia Rusia. Cualquier diferencia entre los miembros de la Unión Europea que cuestione el apoyo del bloque a la guerra por encargo en Ucrania es violentamente suprimida con amenazas de sanciones políticas y económicas.</p>
<p>El liderazgo de la Unión Europea bajo autócratas rusófobos como la presidenta de la Comisión Europea, Ursula von der Leyen y Kaja Kallas está implicado en la supresión de las elecciones en Rumania, Moldavia y Georgia para bloquear a partidos que están clamando por el fin de la guerra en Ucrania y por mejores relaciones con Rusia.</p>
<p>El reciente y dudoso proceso en Francia contra la política nacionalista Marine Le Pen, que ha criticado la guerra por encargo de la OTAN, es otro y lastimoso ejemplo de cómo la Unión Europea se desplaza hacia la supresión de la crítica.</p>
<p>Resulta asombroso cuanto ha llegado a hacer la Unión Europea para actuar como un bloque fascista.</p>
<p>Las decisiones políticas en torno al financiamiento del régimen neonazi en Ucrania para librar una guerra por encargo contra Rusia, son adelantadas por las oligarquías rusofóbicas sin ninguna democrática rendición de cuentas.</p>
<p>La Unión Europea que ha otorgado el Premio Nobel de la Paz el año 2012 se ha transformado en un eje militarista en el cual la economía civil está siendo subordinada a un exorbitante esfuerzo de guerra supuestamente para enfrentar la agresión rusa.</p>
<p>Durante varios años, la Unión Europea ha estado derivando hacia estas nefarias manifestaciones. El bloque está siendo manejado por gente como la von der Leyen cuyo padre político alemán tenía afiliaciones nazis. Los estados bálticos que están erigiendo monumentos a los colaboradores nazis, están ahora sobre representados en las oficinas donde se elaboran las políticas de la Unión Europea.</p>
<p>Resulta apropiado –aunque aborrecible—que el bloque esté actualmente aliado con el régimen neonazi de Kiev que honra a fascistas ucranianos como Stepan Bandera y Roman Shukhevych y muchos otros que colaboraron con el Tercer Reich en el exterminio de millones de personas ocho décadas atrás.</p>
<p>Vergonzoso hito significó el pasaje de una resolución en el Parlamento europeo el año 2019 comparando a la Unión Soviética con la Alemania Nazi en el supuesto inicio de la II Guerra Mundial. Rusia condenó semejante revisionismo político.</p>
<p>Actualmente, un nuevo bajón en la degeneración ha sido alcanzado. La Unión Europea está prohibiendo el homenaje a aquellos que derrotaron al Nazismo.</p>
<p><em>Traducción desde el inglés por Sergio R. Anacona</em></p>
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<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*slVwfyDUxj5tz4lmCs9UKw.png"></figure><h4><strong>Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix</strong></h4><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTNhl0_mRQw"><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%2FoTNhl0_mRQw%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DoTNhl0_mRQw&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FoTNhl0_mRQw%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/7c2a49d78ce84139a5b6600096f60f41/href">https://medium.com/media/7c2a49d78ce84139a5b6600096f60f41/href</a></iframe><p>❖</p><p>The main reason more people don’t just go all in with opposing the US empire and rejecting all its propaganda about enemy states is because they can’t handle working through the heavy cognitive dissonance which comes with recognizing that everything you’ve been taught is a lie.</p><p>Most people recognize to some extent that the US and its allies do bad things, but those who take it all the way into a clear understanding that this power structure is responsible for most of our world’s ills are a small minority in the west. Even the relatively awake ones will try to cling on to this or that imperial propaganda narrative about nations like China, North Korea, Iran and/or Russia. Most try to at least keep a foot in the door of their imperial indoctrination, so they don’t have to experience the psychological discomfort of letting it close completely.</p><p>But that’s where the truth is. Coming to a lucid understanding of the world necessarily means abandoning all untruths for truth on every level. If you can work up the courage to really do this, the entire mainstream western worldview gets flushed right down the toilet.</p><p>❖</p><p>Israel is a bad country full of bad people. They are not bad because of their religion, they are bad because they live in a genocidal apartheid state whose existence depends on indoctrinating its people into seeing genocide and apartheid as good. It’s the system.</p><p>It’s always the system. Western countries are full of shitty people with shitty beliefs who do shitty things to each other all the time. This isn’t because westerners are inherently shitty, nor because humans are inherently shitty. It’s because here in the western empire we live under capitalism, which encourages selfish behavior and cutthroat competition against each other, and because we are indoctrinated into accepting the tyrannical white supremacist propaganda of western imperialism.</p><p>Nobody is inherently bad. We are all the products of our conditioning, and the systems under which we live play a large role in shaping our conditioning. That’s what mass media propaganda and the indoctrination of western schooling are: streamlined systems for determining what our conditioning will be. These systems can have as much of an effect on our view of the world as other forms of conditioning like trauma.</p><p>The powerful understand that humans are an easily conditioned animal, and so vast resources are poured into determining what our conditioning shall be. As soon as we are old enough to start learning about the world our minds are trained to shape us into good cogs in the imperial machine. Good employees and gear-turners for capitalism. Good soldiers and police officers. Good citizens who would never do anything to inconvenience our rulers.</p><p>We are funneled through carefully crafted factories of conditioning by the malignant systems under which we live. As long as those malignant systems exist they will keep churning out malignant people, and goodness will struggle to find any purchase. This is true whether you are talking about capitalism, imperialism, or Zionism.</p><p>❖</p><p>I’m the least religious person I know but some westerners are getting so obnoxious about Islam and Muslims that I sometimes think about converting, just to piss them off.</p><p>❖</p><p>Had a medical incident in my family the other day. It’s funny what a reminder of human mortality can do to dispel all the little resentments and dramas that can build up between loved ones over the years and cause all the old grievances to be seen for the insignificant mind fluff that they are.</p><p>And right now I feel sorrowful that it so often takes a major health scare or accident to remind us of this. We all know we’re all going to die, but we let the small stuff come between us anyway. We let the little quibbles in our heads stop us from touching hands and experiencing intimacy with each other during our fleeting time on this beautiful planet.</p><p>In the play Waiting for Godot, Beckett writes that our mothers “give birth astride of a grave,” and it’s just so true.</p><p>“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more,” the character Pozzo laments.</p><p>The line resonates because that really is what the human experience feels like. We get a short time here, and then we’re gone.</p><p>How bizarre is it, then, that we still find time to hate each other? That we still have time for grudges and resentment? That our mothers give birth astride of a grave, and we punch and kick each other on the way down?</p><p>Bukowski said, “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.”</p><p>It’s about the weirdest thing you could possibly imagine.</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>. All my work is </em><a href="https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/reminder-all-my-work-may-be-freely"><em>free to bootleg and use</em></a><em> in any way, shape or form; republish it, translate it, use it on merchandise; whatever you want. 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<p><em>Nous, citoyens algériens et maliens, </em></p>
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<p><strong><em>La questione chiave del MAGA non è la politica estera, ma come riequilibrare strutturalmente un paradigma economico in pericolo di estinzione.</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>Trump è chiaramente nel mezzo di un conflitto esistenziale. Ha ottenuto un mandato schiacciante. Ma è circondato da un fronte interno nemico risoluto, sotto forma di una “preoccupazione industriale” intrisa dell’ideologia dello Stato profondo, incentrata principalmente sul mantenimento del potere globale degli Stati Uniti (piuttosto che sul risanamento dell’economia).</p>
<p>La questione chiave del MAGA, tuttavia, <em>non è</em> la politica estera, ma come riequilibrare strutturalmente un paradigma economico in pericolo di estinzione. Trump ha sempre affermato chiaramente che questo è il suo obiettivo primario. La sua coalizione di sostenitori è convinta della necessità di rilanciare la base industriale americana, in modo da fornire posti di lavoro ragionevolmente ben retribuiti al corpo del MAGA.</p>
<p>Trump può avere per ora un mandato, ma il pericolo è estremo, e non solo da parte dello Stato profondo e della lobby israeliana. La <em>bomba del debito </em>di Yellen è la minaccia più esistenziale. Essa minaccia il sostegno di Trump al Congresso, perché è destinata a esplodere poco prima delle elezioni di medio termine del 2026. Le nuove entrate derivanti dai dazi, i risparmi DOGE e persino l’imminente ridimensionamento del Golfo sono tutti incentrati sul raggiungimento di una sorta di ordine fiscale, in modo che oltre 9.000 miliardi di dollari di debito a breve termine, in scadenza a breve, possano essere rinviati a più lungo termine senza ricorrere a tassi di interesse esorbitanti. È il piccolo ostacolo che Yellen e i democratici hanno posto all’agenda di Trump.</p>
<p>Finora, il contesto generale sembra abbastanza chiaro. Tuttavia, sui dettagli di come riequilibrare esattamente l’economia, come gestire la “bomba del debito” e fino a che punto DOGE dovrebbe spingersi con i tagli, sono presenti divisioni all’interno del team di Trump. Infatti, la guerra dei dazi e il braccio di ferro con la Cina mettono in campo una nuova falange di oppositori: ovvero coloro (alcuni a Wall Street, oligarchi, ecc.) che hanno prosperato enormemente grazie all’era dorata della creazione di denaro a flusso libero e apparentemente illimitato; coloro che si sono arricchiti proprio grazie alle politiche che hanno reso l’America succube dell’incombente “campana a morto” del debito americano.</p>
<p>A complicare ulteriormente le cose, due degli elementi chiave del “riequilibrio” e della “soluzione” del debito proposti da Trump non possono essere nemmeno sussurrati, figuriamoci pronunciati ad alta voce: uno dei motivi è che comportano una svalutazione deliberata del “dollaro che avete in tasca”. In secondo luogo, molti altri americani perderanno il lavoro.</p>
<p>Non è esattamente una “vendita” popolare. Probabilmente è per questo che il “riequilibrio” non è stato spiegato bene all’opinione pubblica.</p>
<p>Trump ha lanciato lo “shock tariffario” della liberazione con l’intenzione apparente di avviare una ristrutturazione delle relazioni commerciali internazionali, come primo passo verso un riallineamento generale dei valori delle principali valute.</p>
<p>La Cina, tuttavia, non ha accettato le restrizioni tariffarie e commerciali, e la situazione è rapidamente degenerata. Per un attimo è sembrato che la “coalizione” di Trump potesse frammentarsi <a href="https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/trumps-additional-50-tariff-against-china-and-chinas-tit-for-tat-retaliation-trump-own-goals-himself-into-where-china-would-want-him.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sotto la pressione</a> della crisi concomitante del mercato obbligazionario statunitense, causata dalla controversia sui dazi che ha scosso la fiducia.</p>
<p>La coalizione, infatti, ha tenuto; i mercati si sono calmati, ma poi la coalizione si è frammentata su una questione di politica estera: la speranza di Trump di normalizzare le relazioni con la Russia, verso un grande reset globale.</p>
<p>Una componente importante della coalizione di Trump (oltre ai populisti del MAGA) è costituita dai neoconservatori e dai sostenitori della politica “Israel First”. All’inizio Trump avrebbe stretto una sorta di patto faustiano attraverso un accordo che prevedeva la presenza di numerosi sostenitori della politica israeliana all’interno del suo team.</p>
<p>In parole povere, l’ampiezza della coalizione che Trump riteneva necessaria per vincere le elezioni e realizzare un riequilibrio economico comprendeva anche due pilastri di politica estera: in primo luogo, il reset con Mosca, il pilastro su cui porre fine alle “guerre infinite” tanto disprezzate dalla sua base populista. Il secondo pilastro era la neutralizzazione dell’Iran come potenza militare e fonte di resistenza, su cui insistono sia i sostenitori della politica israeliana che Israele stesso (e con cui Trump sembra perfettamente d’accordo). Da qui il patto faustiano.</p>
<p>Le aspirazioni di “pacificatore” di Trump hanno senza dubbio contribuito al suo successo elettorale, ma non sono state il vero motore della sua schiacciante vittoria. Ciò che è diventato evidente è che questi diversi programmi – estero e interno – sono interconnessi: una battuta d’arresto in uno di essi ha un effetto domino che accelera o rallenta gli altri. In parole povere: Trump dipende dalle “vittorie” – vittorie immediate – anche se questo significa precipitarsi verso una “vittoria facile” senza riflettere se dispone di una strategia (e della capacità) per raggiungerla.</p>
<p>Tutti e tre gli obiettivi dell’agenda di Trump, a quanto pare, sono più complicati e divisivi di quanto lui forse si aspettasse. Lui e il suo team sembrano affascinati da <a href="https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/what-is-this-war-of-which-you-speak?utm_source=post-email-title&amp;publication_id=841976&amp;post_id=161371649&amp;utm_campaign=email-post-title&amp;isFreemail=true&amp;r=8qe6&amp;triedRedirect=true&amp;utm_medium=email" target="_blank" rel="noopener">supposizioni</a> radicate in Occidente, come ad esempio che la guerra in genere avviene “là”, che la guerra nell’era post-guerra fredda non è in realtà una “guerra” nel senso tradizionale del termine, ma piuttosto un’applicazione limitata della forza schiacciante dell’Occidente contro un nemico incapace di minacciare “noi” in modo simile; e, in terzo luogo, che la portata e la durata di una guerra siano decise a Washington e dal suo “gemello” del Deep State a Londra.</p>
<p>Quindi, coloro che parlano di porre fine alla guerra in Ucraina attraverso un cessate il fuoco unilaterale imposto (cioè la fazione di Walz, Rubio e Hegseth, guidata da Kellogg) sembrano supporre allegramente che anche i termini e i tempi per <em>porre fine alla guerra</em> possano essere decisi a Washington e imposti a Mosca attraverso l’applicazione limitata di pressioni e minacce asimmetriche.</p>
<p>Proprio come la Cina non crede alle “chiacchiere” sui dazi e sulle restrizioni commerciali, nemmeno Putin crede alle “chiacchiere” sull’ultimatum: (“<em>Mosca ha settimane, non mesi, per accettare un cessate il fuoco</em>”). Putin ha cercato pazientemente di spiegare a Witkoff, l’inviato di Trump, che la presunzione americana secondo cui la portata e la durata di qualsiasi guerra dipendono esclusivamente dall’Occidente semplicemente non corrisponde alla realtà odierna.</p>
<p>E, in modo analogo, coloro che parlano di bombardare l’Iran (tra cui Trump) sembrano anche dare per scontato di poter dettare il corso e il contenuto essenziale della guerra; gli Stati Uniti (e forse Israele) possono semplicemente decidere di bombardare l’Iran con grandi bombe bunker buster. Tutto qui! Fine della storia. Si presume che questa sia una guerra facile e che si giustifica da sé, e che l’Iran debba imparare ad accettare che è stato lui a causarla sostenendo i palestinesi e altri che rifiutano la normalizzazione con Israele.</p>
<p><em>Aurelien</em> <a href="https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/what-is-this-war-of-which-you-speak" target="_blank" rel="noopener">osserva</a>:</p>
<p><em>“Quindi abbiamo a che fare con orizzonti limitati, immaginazione limitata ed esperienza limitata. Ma c’è un altro fattore determinante: il sistema statunitense è riconosciuto come tentacolare, conflittuale e, di conseguenza, in gran parte impermeabile alle influenze esterne e persino alla realtà.</em> <em>L’energia burocratica è dedicata quasi interamente alle lotte interne, che vengono condotte da coalizioni mutevoli nell’amministrazione, al Congresso, nel mondo degli opinionisti e nei media. Ma queste lotte riguardano, in generale, il potere e l’influenza [interni] e non i meriti intrinseci di una questione, e [quindi] non richiedono alcuna competenza o conoscenza effettiva”.</em></p>
<p><em>“Il sistema è così vasto e complesso che è possibile fare carriera come ‘esperto dell’Iran’, ad esempio, all’interno e all’esterno del governo, senza aver mai visitato il Paese o parlato la lingua, semplicemente riciclando la saggezza convenzionale in modo da attirare il patrocinio. Si combatteranno battaglie con altri presunti ‘esperti’, all’interno di un perimetro intellettuale molto ristretto, dove solo alcune conclusioni sono accettabili”.</em></p>
<p>Ciò che diventa evidente è che questo approccio culturale (il <em>Think-Tank Industrial Complex</em>) induce pigrizia e prevalenza di arroganza nel pensiero occidentale. Si <em>presume</em>, secondo quanto riferito, che Trump <em>presumesse</em> che Xi Jinping si sarebbe affrettato a incontrarlo, dopo l’imposizione dei dazi, per implorare un accordo commerciale, perché la Cina sta attraversando una fase di difficoltà economica.</p>
<p>Anche il contingente Kellogg presume banalmente che la pressione sia la condizione necessaria e sufficiente per costringere Putin ad accettare un cessate il fuoco unilaterale, un cessate il fuoco che Putin ha ripetutamente dichiarato di non voler accettare fino a quando non sarà stato concordato un quadro politico. Quando Witkoff riferisce il punto di vista di Putin all’interno del team di Trump, si pone come un contrarian al di fuori del “discorso autorizzato” che insiste sul fatto che la Russia prende sul serio la distensione con un avversario solo dopo essere stata costretta a farlo da una sconfitta o da una grave battuta d’arresto.</p>
<p>Anche l’Iran ha ripetutamente affermato che non si lascerà privare delle sue difese convenzionali, dei suoi alleati e del suo programma nucleare. L’Iran <a href="https://thecradle.co/articles/the-us-and-iran-march-to-war-or-a-backroom-deal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">probabilmente ha le capacità</a> per infliggere danni enormi sia alle forze statunitensi nella regione che a Israele.</p>
<p>Anche in questo caso il team di Trump è diviso sulla strategia da adottare: in parole povere, negoziare o bombardare.</p>
<p>Sembra che il pendolo abbia oscillato sotto la forte pressione di Netanyahu e della leadership istituzionale ebraica negli Stati Uniti.</p>
<p>Poche parole possono cambiare <em>tutto.</em> Con un voltafaccia, Witkoff è passato dall’affermare il giorno prima che Washington si sarebbe accontentata di un limite all’arricchimento nucleare iraniano e non avrebbe richiesto lo smantellamento dei suoi impianti nucleari, a <a href="https://x.com/SE_MiddleEast/status/1912141949932298432" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pubblicare</a> sul suo account ufficiale X che qualsiasi accordo avrebbe richiesto all’Iran di “<em>fermare ed eliminare il suo programma di arricchimento nucleare e di armamento… Un accordo con l’Iran sarà concluso solo se sarà un accordo</em> di Trump”. Senza un chiaro cambiamento di rotta da parte di Trump, siamo sulla strada della guerra.</p>
<p>È evidente che il Team Trump non ha valutato i rischi insiti nei propri programmi. Il loro primo “incontro di cessate il fuoco” con la Russia a Riyadh, ad esempio, è stato un teatro di <em>facile</em>. L’incontro si è tenuto partendo dal presupposto semplicistico che, poiché Washington aveva deciso di ottenere un cessate il fuoco immediato, allora “doveva essere così”.</p>
<p><em>“Come è noto”,</em> <a href="https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/what-is-this-war-of-which-you-speak" target="_blank" rel="noopener">osserva</a> Aurelien con stanchezza, <em>“la politica della Clinton in Bosnia era il prodotto di feroci lotte di potere tra ONG americane rivali ed ex attivisti per i diritti umani, nessuno dei quali conosceva la regione o vi era mai stato”.</em></p>
<p>Non è solo che il team è incurante delle possibili conseguenze di una guerra in Medio Oriente. È <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/us/politics/trump-israel-iran-nuclear.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prigioniero</a> di supposizioni manipolate secondo cui sarà una guerra facile.</p>
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<p><strong><em>All of Kellogg’s underlying assumptions lacked any basis in reality. Yet Trump seemingly took them on trust.</em></strong></p>
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<p>Political warfare in Washington is endemic. But the body count at the Pentagon has started to rise precipitously. Three of Secretary of Defence Hegseth’s top advisors were placed on leave, and then <a href="https://apnews.com/article/caldwell-pentagon-investigation-leaks-hegseth-344d480e47cf4c04e0b2c510bd333b02" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired</a>. The war continues, with the Secretary now in the firing line.</p>
<p>Why this matters is that the Hegseth attrition comes amid fierce internal debates in the Trump administration about <em>Iran policy</em>. Hawks want an definitive elimination of all Iran’s nuclear and weapons capabilities, whilst many ‘restrainers’ warn against military escalation; Hegseth reportedly was amongst those warning against an intervention in Iran.</p>
<p>The recent Pentagon dismissals have all been <a href="https://unherd.com/newsroom/hegseth-leaks-expose-deepening-iran-divide-in-trump-cabinet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">identified</a> as restrainers. One of the latter, Dan Caldwell, formerly Hegseth’s Top Adviser and an army veteran, wrote a post slamming the ‘Iran Hawks’ – and subsequently was fired. He was later <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg9rKJGlieM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviewed</a> by Tucker Carlson. Notably, Caldwell describes in scathing terms America’s wars in Iraq and Syria (“<em>criminal</em>”). This adverse sentiment concerning America’s earlier wars is a rising theme, it seems, amongst U.S. Vets today.</p>
<p>The three Pentagon staffers essentially were fired, not as ‘leakers’, but for talking Hegseth <em>out of</em> supporting war on Iran, it would appear; the Israeli-Firsters, have not given up on <em>that</em> war.</p>
<p>The inflamed fault lines between hawks and traditionalist ‘Republicans’ bleed across into the Ukraine issue, even if the faction membership may alter a tad. Israeli-Firsters and U.S. hawks more generally, are behind both the war on Russia and the maximalist demands on Iran.</p>
<p>Conservative commentator Fred Bauer <a href="https://unherd.com/newsroom/hegseth-leaks-expose-deepening-iran-divide-in-trump-cabinet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">observes</a> that when it comes to Trump’s own war impulses, they are conflicted:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Influenced by the Vietnam War of his youth … Trump seems deeply averse to long-term military conflicts, yet, at the same time, Trump admires a politics of strength and swagger. That means taking out Iranian generals, launching airstrikes on the Houthis, and boosting the defence budget to $1 trillion”.</em></p></blockquote>
<p>Hegseth’s potential exit – should the campaign for his removal succeed – could cause the struggle to grow fiercer. Its first casualty is already apparent – Trump’s hope to bring a quick end to the Ukraine conflict is over.</p>
<p>This week, the Trump team (including both warring factions, Rubio, Witkoff and General Kellogg) met in Paris with various European and Ukrainian representatives. At the meeting, a Russian-Ukrainian unilateral ceasefire proposal was mooted by the U.S. delegation.</p>
<p>After the meeting, at the airport, Rubio plainly said that the ceasefire plan was ‘a take-it-or-leave-it’ U.S. initiative. The various sides – Russia, Kiev and the European members of the ‘coalition of the willing’ – had only <em>days</em> to accept it, or else the U.S. was ‘out’, and would wash its hands of the conflict.</p>
<p>The framework presented, as reported, is almost (maybe 95%) unadulteratedly that previously proposed by General Kellogg: i.e. it is his plan, first aired in April 2024. It appears that the ‘Kellogg formula’ was adopted then as the Trump platform (Trump was at the time in mid-campaign, and unlikely to have been following the complicated minutiae of the Ukraine war too closely).</p>
<p>General Kellogg is also the likely source for Trump’s optimism that the ending to the Ukraine war could come with a click of Trump’s fingers – through the limited application of asymmetric pressures and threats on both belligerents by Trump – and with the timing decided in Washington.</p>
<p>In short, the plan represented a Beltway consensus that the U.S. could implement a negotiated end-state with terms aligned to U.S. and Ukrainian interests.</p>
<p>Kellogg’s implicit assumptions were that Russia is highly vulnerable to a sanctions threat (its economy perceived as being fragile); that it had suffered unsustainably high casualties; and that the war was at a stalemate.</p>
<p>Thus, Kellogg persuaded Trump that Russia would readily agree to the ceasefire terms proposed – albeit terms that were constructed around patently flawed underlying assumptions about Russia and its presumed weaknesses.</p>
<p>Kellogg’s influence and false premises were all too <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/01/28/is-trump-positioning-for-no-deal-with-russia-or-not/">evident</a> when Trump, in January, having stated that Russia had lost one million men (in the war) then went on to say that “Putin is destroying Russia by not making a deal, adding (seemingly as an aside), that Putin may have already made up his mind ‘not to make a deal’”. He further claimed that Russia’s economy is in ‘ruins’, and most notably said that he would consider sanctioning or tariffing Russia. In a subsequent Truth Social <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113872782548137314" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a>, Trump writes, “<em>I’m going to do Russia – whose Economy is failing – and President Putin, a very big FAVOR</em>”.</p>
<p>All of Kellogg’s underlying assumptions lacked any basis in reality. Yet Trump seemingly took them on trust. And despite Steve Witkoff’s subsequent three lengthy personal meetings with President Putin, in which Putin repeatedly stated that he would <em>not accept</em> any ceasefire until a political framework had been first agreed, the Kellogg contingent continued to blandly assume that Russia would be forced to accept Kellogg’s détente because of the claimed serious ‘setbacks’ Russia had suffered in Ukraine.</p>
<p>Given this history, unsurprisingly, the ceasefire framework terms outlined by Rubio this week in Paris reflected those more suited to a party at the point of capitulation, rather than that of a state anticipating achieving its objectives – by military means.</p>
<p>In essence, the Kellogg Plan looked to bring a U.S. ‘win’ on terms aligned to a desire to keep open the option for continuing attritional war on Russia.</p>
<p>So, what is the Kellogg Plan? At base, it seeks to establish a ‘frozen conflict’ – frozen along the ‘Line of Conflict’; with no definitive ban on NATO membership for Ukraine, (but rather, envisaging a NATO membership that is deferred well into the future); it places no limits on the size of a future Ukrainian army and no restrictions on the type or quantity of armaments held by the Ukrainian forces. (It foresees, contrarily, that after the ceasefire, the U.S. might re-arm, train and militarily support a future force) – i.e. back to the post-Maidan era of 2014.</p>
<p>In addition, no territory would be ceded by Ukraine to Russia, save for Crimea which alone would be recognised by the U.S. as Russian (the unique sop to Witkoff?), and Russia would only ‘exercise control’ over the four Oblasts that it currently claims, yet only up to the Line of Conflict; territory beyond this line would remain under Ukrainian control (see here for the ‘<a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheFrenchHistoryPodcast/posts/us-special-envoy-for-ukraine-and-russia-keith-kellogg-proposed-to-divide-ukraine/1205173144947092/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kellogg map’</a>). The Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant would be neutral territory to be held, and managed, by the U.S. There is no mention made of the cities of Zaporozhye and Kherson that have been constitutionally incorporated into Russia, but lie beyond the contact line.</p>
<p>Nothing about a political solution apparently was outlined in the plan, and the plan leaves Ukraine free to pursue its claim to all Ukraine’s former territories – save for only Crimea.</p>
<p>Ukrainian territory west of the Dnieper River however, would be divided into three zones of responsibility: British, French and German zones (i.e. which NATO forces would manage). Finally, no American security guarantees were offered.</p>
<p>Rubio subsequently passed details of the plan to Russian FM Lavrov, who calmly stated that any ceasefire plan should resolve the underlying causes to the conflict in Ukraine as its first task.</p>
<p>Witkoff flies to Moscow this week to present this ‘pig’s ear’ of a plan to Putin – seeking his consent. The Europeans and Ukrainians are set to meet next Wednesday in London to give their riposte to Trump.</p>
<p>What’s next? Most obviously, the Kellogg Plan will not ‘fly’. Russia will not accept it, and likely Zelensky will not either, (though the Europeans will work to persuade him – hoping to ‘wrong-foot Moscow’ by presenting Russia as the essential ‘spoiler’). Reportedly, Zelensky already has rejected the Crimea provision.</p>
<p>For the Europeans, the lack of security guarantees or backstop by the U.S. may prove to be a killer for their aspiration to deploy a tripwire troop deployment to Ukraine, in the context of a ceasefire.</p>
<p>Is Trump really going to wash his hands of Ukraine? Doubtful, given that the U.S. neo-conservative institutional leadership will tell Trump that to do so, would weaken America’s ‘peace through strength’ narrative. Trump may adopt supporting Ukraine ‘on a low flame’ posture, whilst declaring the ‘war was never his’ – as he seeks a ‘win’ on the business front with Russia.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that Kellogg has not well-served his patron. The U.S. needs effective working relations with Russia. The Kellogg contingent has contributed to Trump’s egregious misreading of Russia. Putin is a serious actor, who says what he means, and means what he says.</p>
<p>Colonel Macgregor <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGEYOPVQnt0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sums it</a> up thus:</p>
<blockquote><p><em>“Trump tends to view the world through the lens of dealmaking. [Ending the Ukraine war] is not about dealmaking. This is about the life and death of nations and peoples. There’s no interest in some sort of short-fused deal that is going to elevate Trump or his administration to greatness. There will be no win for Donald Trump personally in any of this. That was never going to be the case”.</em></p></blockquote>
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<p><strong><em>Di fronte alla minaccia di un blocco marittimo occidentale, Mosca potrebbe utilizzare le sue infrastrutture militari nell’Artico e il potere deterrente del suo arsenale nucleare per garantire la sovranità e rispondere a qualsiasi escalation.</em></strong></p>
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<p>La retorica ostile dell’Occidente nei confronti della Russia ha assunto toni sempre più aggressivi, rivelando uno sforzo coordinato per isolare Mosca in tutti i settori, compreso quello marittimo. Il consigliere presidenziale russo Nikolay Patrushev ha recentemente affermato che l’Unione Europea e il Regno Unito stanno preparando un blocco navale contro la Russia, una misura che costituisce una chiara violazione del diritto internazionale e segnala un’escalation senza precedenti delle tensioni geopolitiche.</p>
<p>Più che un gesto simbolico o diplomatico, un simile assedio navale equivale a una dichiarazione di guerra economica e strategica. Patrushev ha avvertito che la Russia dispone di mezzi più che sufficienti per rispondere a qualsiasi provocazione di questo tipo. Ha chiarito che, in caso di fallimento diplomatico, la Marina russa sarebbe autorizzata ad adottare tutte le misure necessarie per proteggere il trasporto marittimo del Paese.</p>
<p>In primo luogo, è necessario capire che tipo di “blocco” l’Occidente intende imporre. Negli ultimi tempi, i Paesi occidentali hanno minacciato le navi russe in varie zone dell’Oceano Atlantico, in particolare nel Mar Baltico, che la NATO considera sempre più come un proprio “lago”, ignorando la roccaforte militare di Kaliningrad. Le navi russe hanno anche subito pattugliamenti e minacce nei pressi dei porti e delle acque territoriali delle nazioni europee, una situazione che sta diventando sempre più preoccupante.</p>
<p>Tuttavia, sebbene non vi siano ancora informazioni sufficienti per determinare le reali intenzioni dell’Occidente, è essenziale considerare la possibilità di una strategia di accerchiamento fisico su larga scala. Sebbene chiaramente impossibile in modo diretto e frontale, tale idea potrebbe essere perseguita progressivamente attraverso provocazioni navali su piccola scala lungo più rotte vicine alle coste russe. In questo contesto, due pilastri fondamentali definirebbero la strategia difensiva della Russia: l’Artico, dove Mosca ha costruito una delle più grandi infrastrutture militari del mondo, e la colossale capacità nucleare della Russia.</p>
<p>Negli ultimi decenni, la Russia ha trasformato l’Artico in un bastione strategico. Oggi ospita non solo basi navali e aeree altamente attrezzate, ma anche rotte commerciali alternative e corridoi di proiezione di potenza, come la rotta marittima settentrionale, che sta diventando sempre più praticabile con lo scioglimento delle calotte polari. La flotta settentrionale russa, dotata di sottomarini nucleari di nuova generazione e incrociatori armati con missili a lungo raggio, è strategicamente posizionata per garantire la sovranità marittima del Paese e impedire qualsiasi tentativo di strangolamento logistico.</p>
<p>Più che una zona difensiva, l’Artico funge ora da piattaforma offensiva che consente alla Russia di proiettare il proprio potere non solo attraverso l’Atlantico settentrionale e il Mare di Barents, ma anche lungo le coste europee, se necessario. Il tentativo occidentale di circondare la Russia non tiene conto di questo fattore critico: Mosca non è vincolata dalle rotte tradizionali, né dipende dalla buona volontà dei porti europei: la sua capacità di rompere i blocchi è reale e già operativa.</p>
<p>Parallelamente, Mosca sta portando avanti un ambizioso programma di modernizzazione navale, che comprende sistemi autonomi, nuove dottrine operative e una posizione strategica che evita la trappola della corsa agli armamenti ma garantisce la superiorità regionale. La Russia non cerca lo scontro diretto, ma è pronta ad affrontarlo in diversi ambiti, compreso quello strategico.</p>
<p>Ed è qui che entra in gioco la deterrenza nucleare, un elemento che l’Occidente insiste a ignorare o a minimizzare nella sua propaganda, ma che rimane il principale garante della sicurezza russa. La dottrina nucleare della Federazione Russa è chiara: di fronte a una minaccia esistenziale, anche se non sotto forma di attacco nucleare diretto, la risposta può arrivare fino all’uso delle armi nucleari. Non si tratta di una minaccia vuota, ma di un pilastro della stabilità globale, lo stesso che ha impedito il conflitto diretto durante tutta la Guerra Fredda.</p>
<p>I sottomarini strategici di pattuglia russi, molti dei quali operano da basi artiche, mantengono una capacità di secondo colpo costante. Le loro testate, disperse e ben protette, garantiscono che qualsiasi aggressione occidentale possa essere contrastata con una forza devastante. Pertanto, un blocco navale non è solo una provocazione, ma un rischio globale che potrebbe scatenare un conflitto di portata imprevedibile.</p>
<p>Alla luce di ciò, spetta all’Occidente riflettere sulle conseguenze delle proprie azioni. Londra e Bruxelles possono credere di soffocare la Russia con misure unilaterali, ma ignorano deliberatamente le realtà militari e geostrategiche del XXI secolo. La Federazione Russa non è uno Stato vulnerabile, ma una potenza pienamente capace, pronta a difendere i propri interessi vitali a qualsiasi costo.</p>
<p>L’illusione di un assedio navale riuscito la dice lunga sull’arroganza occidentale più che sulla debolezza russa. Alla fine, qualsiasi tentativo di blocco non sarà altro che un altro fallimento strategico dell’Occidente, che continua a sottovalutare un avversario storicamente abituato a resistere e a vincere quando è circondato.</p>
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title: Zelensky played his last card with the Crimea stunt. Now what?
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<p><strong><em>It is Zelensky who plays the role of the fake negotiator, who is unable to negotiate anything.</em></strong></p>
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<p>It would appear that the Ukrainian president has slammed the door firmly shut on the peace talks currently ongoing between himself, Russia and the U.S. In recent days, leaking his narrative to the Financial Times and publicly stating on TV that Crimea can never be accepted as Russian territory is revealing. It demonstrates two points quite openly for those who are exhausted with the charade of these so-called negotiations. One, that Zelensky is the joker in the pack who is entertaining everyone, not least of all western media, with his tricks, games and dance routines in that he is simply not in a position to negotiate anything – largely that he fears for his life in Kiev if he concedes regions like Crimea to Russia; and two, that the talks are merely a way of wasting time in the hope that they might create a window where both sides might pause the fighting so that Ukraine can regroup its military and restock its arsenal.</p>
<p>Surely now, the cat is out of the bag and we can all see the light.</p>
<p>In recent days, Russia played the international media at its own game and came out on top. Recent reports, prior to the FT leak, suggested that calls from both J D Vance and Marco Rubio that Russia might have to give up some areas of land it held in the four Russian speaking regions might be considered by Putin. This was then revealed later that those concessions would be land that the Russian army was about to take and so this subject is still murky at best. Yet there are some western analysts who believe Putin could give up parts of the four key regions which Russian soldiers hold, both in part and totally, as they are not so important to Russia as was initially believed. Dr Gilbert Doctorow, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYactL5y58E&amp;t=469s" target="_blank" rel="noopener">during an interview</a> with Professor Glenn Diesen claims that Russia took these four regions and rolled out referendums in the autumn of 2022 as a matter of course, for them to be later used in a bigger negotiation. He claims that Putin is ready today to consider giving some concessions and trade them, in part, for a peace deal in the Ukraine.</p>
<p>But it is Zelensky, who plays the role of the fake negotiator, who is unable to negotiate anything as he demonstrated with the absolute point blank refusal to accept Crimea as Russia. The American academic who holds a PhD in Russian history and made a living advising U.S. companies in Russia, claims that the cards that Russia has been playing with Zelensky have resulted now in him putting himself in a position where it will be clear now that neither Trump nor Putin can waste any more time with him. This, he claims, is a PR masterstroke by Moscow as for Trump to “walk away” from the talks would mean that all U.S. financial support plus arms would have to be halted – throwing all the weight of responsibility on Europe. Most experts, like journalist Aaron Mate, don’t believe for one moment that the EU combined, even if all 27 member states came up with a plan and a budget, could match what the U.S. was delivering. In reality, the support that Ukraine is getting, on paper at least, is only from the UK, France and Denmark, when we talk about the big plan of the EU getting a super defence budget. Looking even more critically at what is being offered, in practical terms, does not look like it can halt the might of the Russian military advancing – especially given that most of the provisional offers from a few “giants” in the EU cannot be materialized quickly but are scheduled for at least 12 months time.</p>
<p>Even on an EU level, it would seem that starry-eyed Ursula von der Leyen will have to accept that the EU federalist wet dream of having an EU army is going to have remain just that – a moist area on the bedsheets. The reality is that grandiose plans of an 800 bn euro defence pact, which was expected to come out of national EU budgets rather than Brussels and to include UK, France, Denmark, Poland and Germany is already blown. This has recently been downgraded to merely UK, France and Denmark and has been watered down to a miserly 170bn USD and is being held up by London which wants to renegotiate a better UK-EU fishing rights deal, due to end in 2026 before it signs off on a defence pact. By the time all this happens of course, Zelensky will be living in Florida in exile and a new president will be in power in Kiev who has negotiated peace with Russia.</p>
<p>But one has to ask the obvious question, would Trump simply “walk away”? How important is a peace deal in Ukraine to him, beyond simply the allure of being nominated for a Nobel Peace prize? It’s more important than we think. Trump sees it as a formidable bond to tie him and Putin closer, given that he believes the Russian leader will play a critical role in both giving a new Iran deal a gilt edge, but also in overseeing its implementation on a daily basis. Zelensky’s juvenile ruse in recent days has now made it crystal clear that there is no more time to waste on the court jester and there needs to be a Plan B in Ukraine. Zelensky has positioned himself as the key obstacle to peace and now it must be likely that Vance, Rubio and Trump must be looking at the practicalities of having him replaced with someone that they can do business with. Expect something quite dramatic from Trump shortly starting with the cash sluice being firmly closed. One option Trump has is to end all financing to Kiev and allow Russia to advance until it arrives at the periphery of the capital before a new round of talks could begin. In this scenario, Trump wouldn’t even need to replace Zelensky with a coup d’etat, neither with military support nor a velvet revolution costing him 5bn USD in fake media, Nuland style. Putin would then be expected to pay back this gesture to Trump, probably with the Iran deal or even with resolving the China crisis. As Trump likes to say ‘all options are on the table’.</p>
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title: Pope Francis leaves a mixed legacy
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<p><strong><em>The impact of Bergoglio’s papacy can be viewed on two levels, Stephen Karganovic writes.</em></strong></p>
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<p>The departure of the Roman Pontifex Maximus will lead to a re-examination of his legacy and, more broadly, intense speculation about the reversibility of Roman Catholic communion’s further decline, which was accelerated during his reign. Will the College of Cardinals, eighty percent of whom consist of Bergoglio’s carefully chosen and ideologically compatible appointees, have the objectivity and moral courage to select from their ranks as his successor anyone, if such there be, who is not a doctrinal replica of the man to whom they owed their <em>berettas</em>?</p>
<p>The path to the enthronement of Bergoglio is now, in retrospect, plain to see. The purpose of his elevation was to put finishing touches to the protracted process of decomposition of the Vatican and of that part of the Western world which historically drew from it its spiritual and cultural sustenance. The project to complete the induced collapse of the Western church as a recognisably Christian institution has been nurtured for far too long and has been executed with extreme discipline and precision. With success within grasp, the consummation of the intramural <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/11168813-a-nation-can-survive-its-fools-and-even-the-ambitious" target="_blank" rel="noopener">plot of Ciceronian fiendishness</a> and complexity cannot be left to the vagaries of chance.</p>
<p>And so it won’t be if we can take seriously, as we should, Russian <a href="https://biblio.co.uk/book/chetverikova-olga-treason-vatican-popes-conspiracy/d/1605750240" target="_blank" rel="noopener">historian Olga Nikolaevna Chetverikova’s meticulous exposition</a> of the process of hostile infiltration of the Roman Catholic church which goes back for at least a century and a half and long precedes its most visible recent manifestation, the Second Vatican Council. The chief goal and purpose of that nefarious process was to capture the grand institution from within, to obliterate the remnants of doctrinal truth and cohesion it had still managed to preserve for nearly a millennium after the <a href="https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-great-schism-between-the-east-and-western-churches.html#:~:text=The%20Great%20Schism%20permanently%20divided,of%20Christians%20in%20the%20world.">Schism</a> and to morally disorient and debilitate the vast civilisation that had grown around it.</p>
<p>The impact of Bergoglio’s papacy can be viewed on two levels. One is the manner in which it fits into the general movement to restructure the Roman Catholic church since at least the Second Vatican Council, when that process was launched publicly and visibly, although Chetverikova amply documents in her book that, discretely, it had actually started considerably before. The second level concerns the personal stamp which Bergoglio put on his papacy, a subject that is no less interesting.</p>
<p>The <em>aggornamento</em> announced by Pope John XXIII, which as even many committed Catholics argue, found its destructive expression in the Conciliar dispositions, was perfected in the wide departures from the core elements of traditional Christianity which were unabashedly implemented during Bergoglio’s reign. Up to Bergoglio’s installation in the Papacy the doctrinal and liturgical transformation of the Roman Catholic church followed a zig-zag path, always having to take into account the sentiments of traditional Catholics and stopping short of of plunging into excessive modernism, for appearances’ sake at least. With the arrival of Bergoglio such restraints were notably dropped.</p>
<p>What in earlier pontificates was being done gingerly, testing the waters, as when in 1986 the Vatican organised the <a href="https://onepeterfive.com/remembering-the-sacrilege-of-assisi-i-thirty-years-later/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spiritual Babylon known as the interfaith gathering for world peace</a> in the basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, under Bergoglio was imposed and promulgated <em>urbi et orbi</em> in the form of the blasphemous affirmation that all religions constitute valid paths to God, a notion equally abhorrent to traditional Catholicism and to the perennial teaching of the Christian faith. That notion, to the consternation of many Catholics, not to speak of other Christian believers, was proclaimed at the Amazonian synod in the Vatican in 2019 with the introduction of the indigenous pagan deity Pachamama as a legitimate object of quasi-adoration, in the presence of the highest authorities of the Roman Catholic church and Pontifex Bergoglio himself.</p>
<p>Bergoglio was insistently harping <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240914013636/https:/www.catholicworldreport.com/2024/09/13/pope-francis-concludes-apostolic-journey-with-elderly-and-youth-of-singapore/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">on this key syncretistic theme</a> up to a week before his demise. In his address to Catholics and followers of other religions in Singapore he dismissed the exclusive claims of his own faith, boldly asserting instead that “religions are seen as paths trying to reach God… they are like different languages that express the divine … like languages that try to express ways to approach God. Some Sikh, some Muslim, some Hindu, some Christian.”</p>
<p>The equalisation of all religions and denial of primacy to any of them expresses in a nutshell the doctrine and spirit of the New Catholicism which has been unfolding gradually during the Post Conciliar decades, of which Bergoglio was an insistent articulator and most conspicuous <em>porte-parole</em>.</p>
<p>The Bergoglian “church” is designed to be stripped of its distinctive characteristics and watered down to the point where it can comfortably be merged with the secular <em>milieu</em> surrounding it. It is an emerging system in which the Pontifex, Bergoglio or his successor, shall be content to be demoted from infallible Vicar to manager of the system’s religious desk, in return for a seat and a few crumbs from the globalist table.</p>
<p>The role of all creeds in such a world reordered in accordance with principles not yet fully disclosed, but which may be anxiously suspected, is to become the spiritual indoctrination department for the elitist masters and a pacifier for the helot masses, enabling them to endure the rigours of their slavery.</p>
<p>On the personal level, the Bergoglian legacy is no less problematic. It is epitomised best perhaps by his platitudinous encyclical <a href="https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20201003_enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>Fratelli tutti</em></a>, which upon its author’s passing, and to the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQPm0sNX2yY" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rightful consternation of traditionalist Catholics</a>, was singled out for effusive praise precisely by the most sinister of the secret societies, whose principles had obviously inspired the encyclical’s thoroughly secular concerns and rhetoric.</p>
<p>It would seem that much of what passed for the public persona of Bergoglio, the carefully cultivated image of a humble and approachable servant of the Almighty, was no more than a veneer. His <a href="https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/06/26/inquisition-redux-at-the-vatican/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vindictive treatment of Archbishop Vigano</a>, the most relentless critic of his pontificate, bears that out. Not a shred of fraternal love or patience were demonstrated to soften the persecution of the gadfly Archbishop whose incessant missives deconstructing the errors of Bergoglio’s reign must have rankled unbearably. On the other hand, the kind-hearted patience and tolerance Bergoglio showed for the perversities of Cardinal MacCarrick and other malefactors in the highest echelons of the Vatican was in striking and shameful contrast to the shabby treatment he meted out to his righteous brother, Archbishop Vigano.</p>
<p>Nor, <a href="https://sonar21.com/is-the-catholic-leadership-in-rome-pontificating-on-world-crises-or-actually-taking-meaningful-action/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">as Larry Johnson points out</a>, had there ever been a hint on Bergoglio’s part, beyond pro forma words and even those markedly restrained, of meaningful action in solidarity with the martyred population of Gaza, much less of support for his presumed <em>fratelli</em> in the faith, the persecuted Orthodox Christians of Ukraine.</p>
<p>“Of the dead nothing but good” is a noble injunction but in the present case it is perhaps not suitable for universal and uncritical application. Without intending to be judgmental, in conclusion it must be said that Bergoglio will not be remembered as either a Good Shepherd or as an effective keeper of the doctrines and traditions of his troubled communion.</p>
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<p>British Government Holds British People in Subservience to Israel</p>
<p>The British Government, Like Every Other Western Government, Is Totally Owned by Israel</p>
<p>“Zionism is the single greatest threat to free speech in the western world today. ”</p>
<p>“Nothing is eroding people’s rights to free expression faster than the support that western governments have for the apartheid state of Israel and the atrocities it is committing.”</p>
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title: Whatever happened to Morality in the Western World?
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The Great Moral Democratic Western World Finances and Supports Diplomatically the Israeli Extermination of Palestine in a Real Holocaust

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<p>The Great Moral Democratic Western World Finances and Supports Diplomatically the Israeli Extermination of Palestine in a Real Holocaust</p>
<p><a href="https://israelpalestinenews.org/gaza-reaches-most-critical-malnutrition-level-war-on-gaza-day-566/">https://israelpalestinenews.org/gaza-reaches-most-critical-malnutrition-level-war-on-gaza-day-566/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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title: UK intel behind Ukraine’s disastrous Krynky invasion, leaked documents reveal
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<p><strong><em>Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone reveal that a blueprint for Ukraine’s failed effort to capture the village of Krynky was assembled by Project Alchemy, a secret military-intelligence cell created by the British Ministry of Defence which sought “at all costs” to “keep Ukraine fighting.” The Krynky plot led to a bloodbath that remains one of the war’s biggest disasters.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>By Kit KLARENBERG, Wyatt REED</em></strong></p>
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<p>On the morning of October 30 2023, dozens of Ukrainian commandos on small boats glided across the Dnieper River to control of Krynky, a village in Russian-occupied Kherson. They had spent the prior two months in remote areas of the British isles with similar terrain, running drills under the watchful gaze of UK generals. Now, they believed their hard work was about to pay off. Both British and Ukrainian officials were convinced the operation would turn the tide of the war, creating a beachhead allowing Kiev’s forces to march on Crimea and all-out victory.</p>
<p>Instead, the British-trained Ukrainian marines were led like lambs to the slaughter. The catastrophically planned effort saw a seemingly endless stream of heavily overloaded Ukrainian boats attempt to reach Krynky without air cover, under relentless fire by Russian artillery, drones, flamethrowers and mortars. Marines that made the journey were ill-equipped, resupplying those troops proved virtually impossible, and evacuating them was out of the question.</p>
<p>As the promised missile cover failed to materialize in the ensuing weeks, it became clear the effort had amounted to a disaster. Yet for the next nine months, wave after wave of British-trained Ukrainian marines were dispatched to almost certain death to Krynky. The decision to let the costly quagmire drag on, at a human and material cost no NATO military would ever allow, has come to be seen as one of the worst tactical mistakes of the war — and it appears top British generals are to blame.</p>
<p>Leaked documents reviewed by The Grayzone expose how the British not only presided over the training of the Marines involved, but built from scratch the “Maritime Raiding Force” which would ultimately be sacrificed over the course of the Krynky suicide mission.</p>
<p><b>British spooks convince Kiev to invade Sevastopol</b></p>
<p>The origins of the stillborn amphibious landing operation in Krynky can be traced back to a leaked file produced just months after the Russia-Ukraine proxy war erupted by a secret British Ministry of Defence-created military-intelligence cell called Project Alchemy. The Grayzone <a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2024/11/16/uk-plot-keep-ukraine-fighting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">previously exposed</a> Project Alchemy as a hybrid public-private military partnership between top British academics and military strategists with the stated goal of working “at all costs to keep Ukraine fighting.”</p>
<p>In a June 2022 document titled “Building a Ukrainian Maritime Raiding Capability,” the Alchemy planners proposed a “new Maritime Raiding Force” to “be trained specifically to the operational area of the southern coastal area of [Ukraine] to the Kerch strait.”</p>
<p>Alchemy forecast the Ukrainians being given “high-speed RIBs,” [rigid inflatable boats] along with “autonomous vessels and aerial drones and Swimmer Delivery Vehicles [SDVs]… specially designed for attacks against the ports, submarines and surface warships.” After their training in the UK, Ukrainian marine commandos would “target radar stations and air defence assets on Crimea and support regular units fighting in Kherson through attacks from the Dnipro River,” with certain units being “specially trained in mountain warfare and cliff assault.” The end goal, they stated, was “to grind down [Sevastopol’s] defences… with a view to conducting a large-scale commando assault of the missile complex.”</p>
<p>“The hostile environment dictates a highly mobile raiding force at its core operating at night conducting hit and run operations to avoid detection,” Alchemy declared. The cell determined that in the area spanning “from the Romanian border to the Kerch Strait,” Ukraine’s “coastal areas” had yet to be sufficiently “exploited.”</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/krynky1.png?resize=1024%2C388&amp;ssl=1" alt="" width="1024" height="388" data-recalc-dims="1" data-attachment-id="131082" data-permalink="https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/23/uk-intel-ukraines-krynky-invasion/krynky1/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/krynky1.png?fit=3405%2C1290&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="3405,1290" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="krynky1" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/krynky1.png?fit=300%2C114&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/krynky1.png?fit=1024%2C388&amp;ssl=1" data-sanitized-class="alignnone size-large wp-image-131082"></p>
<p>In addition, Russian forces “don’t see a risk of an attack from the sea or riverine areas along the coast,” claimed Alchemy. Internally, the group lamented that Sevastopol’s ports, upon which the Russian navy was “totally reliant,” had suffered “very little direct action” since the proxy war’s inception.</p>
<p>Due to Ukraine’s “lack of capability and/or resources… to conduct such missions,” it fell upon British military and intelligence veterans to provide them with what they needed. Accordingly, “a joint, inter-agency operational campaign planning team will run concurrently while training is being conducted,” Alchemy explained. The group “will contain serving and former service people with specialist knowledge in their given fields including experts from UA [Ukraine] to undertake planning and target analysis of the RU [Russian] coastal assets,” they noted.</p>
<p>For the technical details, they decided that “academics should also be included, using the latest technology resources to ensure the success of raids conducted especially in terms of the destruction of key infrastructure.” Therefore, “a formal request” to the British Ministry of Defence “on the latest intelligence imagery and plans” regarding Crimea’s heavily-fortified underground complex “will need to be planned in extreme detail.”</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/kyrnky2.png?resize=1024%2C309&amp;ssl=1" alt="" width="1024" height="309" data-recalc-dims="1" data-attachment-id="131084" data-permalink="https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/23/uk-intel-ukraines-krynky-invasion/kyrnky2/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/kyrnky2.png?fit=3385%2C1022&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="3385,1022" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="kyrnky2" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/kyrnky2.png?fit=300%2C91&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/kyrnky2.png?fit=1024%2C309&amp;ssl=1" data-sanitized-class="alignnone size-large wp-image-131084"></p>
<p>Britain’s obsession with <a href="https://thegrayzone.com/tag/kerch-bridge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wresting Sevastopol</a> from Moscow’s grasp dates back to the Crimean War of 1853-1856, but the leaked documents clearly show the city’s seizure is still considered a vital, and achievable, objective from London’s perspective. Though Project Alchemy described the military port as home to the world’s “largest concentration of anti-ship missiles” and a bunker complex “immune to air or missile strike,” the group’s operatives still believed the area to be “vulnerable to commando forces.”</p>
<p>An investigation by <a href="https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/2024/11/18/7484985/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ukrainska Pravda</a> confirmed that Britain – “perhaps Ukraine’s most active and determined ally” – had been pressuring Kiev to use marines “for waterborne operations and deceptive manoeuvres” since the proxy conflict began. However, these proposals reportedly “did not resonate” with then-Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi or President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.</p>
<p>This changed in early 2023, when Britain dispatched a senior delegation to meet with Zaluzhnyi in Kiev, where London’s contingent promised to provide the Ukrainians with anything and everything they needed to conduct the “waterborne operations” the UK had so far avoided. According to Ukrainska Pravda, this came to pass in May 2023, when “the British team persuaded Zaluzhnyi, and he said: that’s it, we’re creating the Marine Corps.”</p>
<p>What followed was precisely foreshadowed in the leaked Project Alchemy files. In the leaked documents, the British cell foresaw Ukrainian marine commandos being “ready to deploy on operations” in just three months. Accompanying tables laid out how many Ukrainian marines would be trained, where, in what field of warfare, and for how long. “If our training program is approved,” the British Defence Ministry “must give us priority on Otterburn and other training areas outlined.”</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-18-145053.png?resize=1024%2C495&amp;ssl=1" alt="" width="1024" height="495" data-recalc-dims="1" data-attachment-id="131086" data-permalink="https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/23/uk-intel-ukraines-krynky-invasion/screenshot-2025-04-18-145053/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-18-145053.png?fit=3405%2C1645&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="3405,1645" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="Alchemy Krynky Table" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-18-145053.png?fit=300%2C145&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Screenshot-2025-04-18-145053.png?fit=1024%2C495&amp;ssl=1" data-sanitized-class="alignnone size-large wp-image-131086"></p>
<p>“Candidates chosen for specific branches” would receive “a further 4 weeks of continuation training,” Alchemy wrote. These forces would consist of 60 “Mountain Leaders,” 20 ‘snipers/ spotters,” a 40-member mortar squadron, 20-member air defense, anti-tank, and gunner squadrons, 70 demolition engineers, 36 combat signallers, 16 pilots for the submersible crafts needed to deliver divers, 124 combat swimmers, 10 members of a coxswain raiding squadron, 10 gunners and 10 navigators to pilot Swedish-built CB90-class fast assault boats, 40 combat medics, and 20 clandestine special operations executives.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/table1.png?resize=1024%2C552&amp;ssl=1" alt="" width="1024" height="552" data-recalc-dims="1" data-attachment-id="131088" data-permalink="https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/23/uk-intel-ukraines-krynky-invasion/table1/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/table1.png?fit=3392%2C1830&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="3392,1830" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="Alchemy Krynky Table 2" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/table1.png?fit=300%2C162&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/table1.png?fit=1024%2C552&amp;ssl=1" data-sanitized-class="alignnone size-large wp-image-131088"></p>
<p>The Brits noted that “UA currently bans men of fighting age leaving UA,” so “it is likely that we will need the Kiev authorities to relax this rule for our program to assist us [in] recruiting the target number of 1,000 recruits to start training.” In addition, “the recruitment of UA nationals will have to be cleared through [the] UK Home Office,” they explained.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/krynky3.png?resize=1024%2C289&amp;ssl=1" alt="" width="1024" height="289" data-recalc-dims="1" data-attachment-id="131085" data-permalink="https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/23/uk-intel-ukraines-krynky-invasion/krynky3/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/krynky3.png?fit=3385%2C955&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="3385,955" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="krynky3" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/krynky3.png?fit=300%2C85&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/krynky3.png?fit=1024%2C289&amp;ssl=1" data-sanitized-class="alignnone size-large wp-image-131085"></p>
<p>The Ukrainians were to be trained at a variety of sites in Britain including remote battle camps dotted across the Scottish wilds, including <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/aug/24/tributes-paid-to-soldier-killed-in-otterburn-live-firing-exercise" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Otterburn</a>, <a href="https://canmore.org.uk/site/160634/garelochhead-military-training-camp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Garelochhead</a>, <a href="https://secretscotland829724255.wordpress.com/2022/07/28/loch-long-torpedo-range/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Loch Long</a>, and <a href="https://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/CapeWrath" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cape Wrath</a>, Britain’s most north-westerly point. All practice raids were to be “carried out at night”, and once the program was complete, “it will be decided if certain recruits are suitable for commando training due to injuries or other factors.”</p>
<p>Alchemy’s training scheme appeared to be confirmed by Ukrainian fighters dispatched to Krynky, who told Ukrainska Pravda that “the British gave us the same kind of area to train in as the one where we actually ended up performing the tasks.” There, they “realised they were being prepared for something big and different from their previous tasks.” In <a href="https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/news/2023/08/11/7167399/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">August 2023</a>, British and Ukrainian officials announced almost 1,000 marines had “completed training…to conduct small boat amphibious operations, including beach raids.”</p>
<p>Project Alchemy declared that the effort “could be the tip of the spear to a larger offensive with an aim of retaking Crimea… something deemed impossible by many including [the] Kremlin, that may be their undoing.”</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" src="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/kyrnky-last.png?resize=1024%2C376&amp;ssl=1" alt="" width="1024" height="376" data-recalc-dims="1" data-attachment-id="131090" data-permalink="https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/23/uk-intel-ukraines-krynky-invasion/kyrnky-last/" data-orig-file="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/kyrnky-last.png?fit=3410%2C1252&amp;ssl=1" data-orig-size="3410,1252" data-comments-opened="0" data-image-meta='{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}' data-image-title="kyrnky-last" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/kyrnky-last.png?fit=300%2C110&amp;ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/thegrayzone.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/kyrnky-last.png?fit=1024%2C376&amp;ssl=1" data-sanitized-class="alignnone size-large wp-image-131090"></p>
<p><a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2023/06/19/files-british-natos-secret-terror-armies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Previous reports</a> by The Grayzone on Project Alchemy’s clandestine activities have revealed how much of the cell’s plotting was informed by deluded conceptions of perceived historic British military glories, such as the World War II-era Special Operations Executive, a forebearer of CIA/MI6-run Operation Gladio. Given the belligerent bravado with which Project Alchemy approached its Ministry of Defence-endorsed projects, it is all too easy to envisage its members filling the heads of London’s Ukrainian trainees with fantasies of recreating D-Day through the Krynky operation.</p>
<p><b>British bunglers create Krynky killzone</b></p>
<p>Beginning in October 2023, poorly-trained and ill-equipped Ukrainian marines began to be ferried <i>en masse </i>to Krynky. Per Ukrainska Pravda, “almost immediately, the operation’s biggest flaw – its planning – began to work against” the invasion force. Two months later, a participating commando described the <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67565508" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nightmare situation</a> that awaited Kiev’s forces there to the BBC. They spoke of “constant fire” throughout river crossings, with boats carrying their “comrades” sunk and “lost forever to the Dnipro river”:</p>
<p>“We must carry everything with us – generators, fuel and food. When you’re setting up a bridgehead you need a lot of everything, but supplies weren’t planned for this area. We thought after we made it there the enemy would flee and then we could calmly transport everything we needed, but it didn’t turn out that way. When we arrived…the enemy were waiting. Russians…were tipped off about our landing so when we got there, they knew exactly where to find us.”</p>
<p>Elsewhere, Ukrainska Pravda documented vital supplies and life jackets being airdropped by hexacopter to heavily wounded Ukrainian marines. Other injured commandos were forced to float back to Ukrainian territory using “car tires” due to a lack of available boats, “drinking water directly from the Dnieper due to a lack of logistics.” Some even resorted to “committing suicide because there was no evacuation.”</p>
<p>Among the “seriously injured”, one soldier in his early 40s “sustained an injury to his arm in December 2023,” and “attempted to leave Krynky by boat twice,” with Russian FPV drones blocking his path. He managed to escape “swimming with just one arm,” then spent “then spent six hours walking back and forth on the shore” of a nearby island, “soaking wet…to avoid freezing to death.” While ultimately escaping to safety, “he lost his arm.”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, another British-trained marine reported: “Each time our battalion entered [Krynky], the situation got worse and worse. People got there, only to die. We had no idea what was going on. Everyone I knew who was deployed to Krynky are dead.”</p>
<p>The onset of winter was “when the situation [in Krynky] started to really deteriorate,” a Ukrainian source stated. The Russians, they said, transferred significant assault forces to the area, used glide bombs “to destroy a large part of the village,” and  “figured out how best to target Ukrainian forces’ river routes, especially at the turns, where the boats had to slow down, and landing points.” The resulting artillery onslaught left Krynky “cratered like the moon.”</p>
<p>So it was, “some” Ukrainian marines “intentionally got lost” to avoid landing in the Krynky killzone. At least two survivors of the operation consulted by Ukrainska Pravda “received orders to set up positions…closer to the Russians,” but “refused to act…as doing so would have been suicidal.” Come winter, Kiev’s forces began “to gradually withdraw.” By May 2024, the situation “was a disaster,” although the last surviving marines were withdrawn two months later:</p>
<p>“Most people we spoke to…are convinced that the operation dragged on for at least several months longer than it should have. ‘We had to withdraw in spring at the latest, during the foggy season. We could have got all of our soldiers out at that point. It would’ve saved people’s lives. But instead we waited until nothing could be done any longer. Until the very last moment,” one marine officer lamented.</p>
<p>As major legacy media outlets now <a href="https://www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/article/the-untold-story-of-british-military-chiefs-crucial-role-in-ukraine-3j2zpgrxg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dissect</a> Kiev’s military failures in forensic detail, the reporting consistently underlines the British Ministry of Defense’s pivotal role in planning some of the war’s biggest disasters. Each of these setbacks left many thousands of Ukrainians dead or wounded, yet no one in London appears to have faced any professional consequences. To the foreign officers who sent them into the kill zone, those who lost their lives were nothing more than proxies.</p>
<p><em>Original article: </em><a href="https://thegrayzone.com/2025/04/23/uk-intel-ukraines-krynky-invasion/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>thegrayzone.com</strong></a></p>

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<p>Federal Law Requires American Taxpayers to Pay for Health Care for Illegal Aliens</p>
<p><em>The Democrats have dumped on Americans the cost of health care for 30 million immigrant-invaders.  Who does Congress represent?  Clearly not Americans.  It is no longer our government.  </em></p>
<p><em>Why did Congress impose this law on American citizens’ pocketbooks?</em></p>
<p>“The Texas Health and Human Services Commission has released its first round of data under an executive order issued by Gov. Greg Abbott, revealing that hospitals in the state incurred over $121 million in health care costs in a single month for people not lawfully present in the United States.</p>
<p>“The data, covering November 2024, shows that Texas hospitals reported 31,012 visits from illegal aliens, with total costs amounting to $121,779,579. The largest portion of the cost—over $62 million—came from inpatient discharges for non-Medicaid and non-CHIP patients. Emergency room visits accounted for more than $36 million combined.</p>
<p>“The report follows the implementation of an executive order issued by Gov. Abbott in August 2024 that mandates quarterly reporting by hospitals on the cost of providing care to people in the country illegally.</p>
<p><b>“Under the executive order, hospitals are required to inform patients that their responses to questions about legal status will not affect their care, as required by federal law.</b></p>
<p>“While this initial release covers just a single month, HHSC plans to release full quarterly data going forward. The first annual report, covering the full year of data, is set to be released on January 1, 2026.</p>
<p>“Abbott has previously said the purpose of the reporting is to “hold the Biden-Harris Administration accountable” and to demand federal reimbursement for the state’s growing costs due to illegal immigration.</p>
<p>“In 2021, Attorney General Ken Paxton estimated that Texans were already paying between $579 million and $717 million per year in uncompensated care for illegal aliens.</p>
<p>“With the first month’s data already topping $121 million, the new reports could put the annual figure even higher.”</p>
<p>Texas Scorecard, April 27, 2025</p>

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<p>The Democrat judges are determined to prevent President Trump from enforcing US law<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>And this is considered heroic.</p>
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<p><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">Democrat  </span>Arizona state official arrested for smuggling Mexicans into the US<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Democrats have ceased to be Americans and have become traitors.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/katie-hobbs-arizona-agriculture-employee-arrested-alleged-human/">https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/katie-hobbs-arizona-agriculture-employee-arrested-alleged-human/</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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title: Two Anti-American Democrat Judges Who Thought They Were Above the Law Have Been Arrested
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<p>Two Anti-American Democrat Judges Who Thought They Were Above the Law Have Been Arrested</p>
<p><a href="https://www.westernjournal.com/pam-bondi-reveals-truly-horrific-actions-wisconsin-judge-arrested-fbi-not-gonna-believe/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=elliance-patriot-update&amp;utm_campaign=CAN&amp;utm_content=2025-04-25">https://www.westernjournal.com/pam-bondi-reveals-truly-horrific-actions-wisconsin-judge-arrested-fbi-not-gonna-believe/?utm_source=email&amp;utm_medium=elliance-patriot-update&amp;utm_campaign=CAN&amp;utm_content=2025-04-25</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>

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<p><b>Yet another Disastrous Consequence of the Digital Revolution</b></p>
<p>Paul Craig Roberts</p>
<p>The nerds who brought us the digital revolution did so without any thought to the obvious consequences.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Americans addicted to scrolling their cell phones and enjoying social media are suffering from the numerous threats that the digital revolution brings to them.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Not just government spying on them and, if government wishes, setting them up for prosecution.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Not just from being dispossessed of their identity and left with massive bills.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Not just from theft of their bank and retirement accounts. The digital revolution allows thieves to steal our homes.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Assuming it is not another hoax, the Daily Mail provides the FBI’s account of how it works:<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/real-estate/article-14567729/fbi-warning-scam-victims-24-hours-save-home.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/real-estate/article-14567729/fbi-warning-scam-victims-24-hours-save-home.html</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>To protect yourself from the easy theft of your home, you should sign up for a notification alert at the registry of deeds, which will alert you when a document is recorded for your property.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>You are most vulnerable if your property is debt free with no mortgage.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>If you have no mortgage, take out a small one as your property cannot be transferred from your ownership until the mortgage is paid, if my understanding is correct.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>So having to clear a mortgage provides you with a warning that your home is in the process of being stolen.</p>
<p>The digital revolution is the worst thing except for nuclear weapons that humans have ever devised. The Tech morons who gave us this disaster failed to anicipate the disastrous consequences of their work.</p>
<p>Read the report:<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space">  </span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/real-estate/article-14567729/fbi-warning-scam-victims-24-hours-save-home.html">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/real-estate/article-14567729/fbi-warning-scam-victims-24-hours-save-home.html</a><span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>PUBLISHED: 18:27 EDT, 26 April 2025 | UPDATED: 02:04 EDT, 27 April 2025</p>
<p><b>Urgent FBI warning about cruel scam suffered by thousands that leaves you with just 24 hours to save your home</b></p>
<p>The FBI is sending an urgent warning to homeowners to be aware of ‘title theft,’ the latest of various moves fraudsters make in order to steal a property owner’s identity and sell their land out from under them.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The land theft is on the rise, with the FBI saying the scammers tend to prey on the elderly.</p>
<p>‘Our elderly population [are more at risk] because they are more likely to own vacant pieces of land that they have had for quite some time, and they are also more likely to own homes without any mortgages on them,’ FBI Special Agent Vivian Barrios told CBS.</p>
<p>‘Because those have the biggest benefit to the criminal actor.’</p>
<p>In Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island, 2,301 victims lost more than $61.5 million from 2019 to 2023.</p>
<p>According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, nationwide, from 2019 through 2023, 58,141 victims reported $1.3 billion in losses relating to real estate fraud.</p>
<p>In the Boston Division – which includes all of Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island – during the same period, 2,301 victims reported losing more than $61.5 million. In Maine 262 victims lost $6,253,008. In Massachusetts, 1,576 people lost $46,269,818. In New Hampshire 239 people lost $4,144,467. In Rhode Island 224 people lost a combined $4,852,220.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Time is of the essence and as soon as a victim finds out this has happened, they need to report it, ideally within 24-hours. That makes it easier for the feds to get the money back to the victims.</p>
<p>Plymouth, Massachusetts resident John Grimes got a call from a local attorney about his ‘sale.’</p>
<p>Title pirates got Plymouth, MA, resident John Grimes, who nearly lost his home after he found out it was for sale.</p>
<p>Grimes bought his home six years ago but in September 2024 got a call from local attorney Alan Sharaf informing him his home was for sale. Grimes was shocked.</p>
<p>He filed a fraud report with the FBI. He also signed up for a notification alert at the registry of deeds. That alert is free and will let him know when a document is recorded for his property.</p>
<p>Sharaf said he was looking at a purchase and sale agreement that was supposedly signed by Grimes. He wanted to make sure he was actually selling the home to the ‘buyer,’ who was located in Montreal and had made an all cash over. No one ever answered the phone number listed for the buyer.</p>
<p>Grimes loves his home, which backs onto a cranberry bog, isn’t selling it, and never signed sale papers.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>‘I got a phone call from a lawyer just outside of Boston and he had gotten a request asking him to facilitate a closing with an e-signature. And everything was all set. But it wasn’t my real signature,’ Grimes told the Daily Mail.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Grimes said if he hadn’t gotten that call, it would have been too late. The lawyer told him that another attorney would have shown up at the registry of deeds, filed a record of a fraudulent deed by Grimes, and he would have had his house taken away. He would have gotten it back but only after months of fighting and tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>‘He advised me to check my credit, contact the FBI, which I did immediately and I had to give them a bunch of detailed information,’ Grimes says.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>‘The bank looks, oh you’ve got a deed, it’s been recorded at the registry as a sale,’ Grimes says.</p>
<p>Once the sale was flagged as fraudulent, the ‘buyers’ disappeared.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The FBI explained to Grimes how exactly these scammers pull this off. Because most contracts today are done electronically, it’s easy for thieves to do.</p>
<p>First they target a property in the US at random. They send a fake deed they’ve made electronically to a local lawyer they ‘hire’ to ‘close’ on the sale.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>If they’re lucky the lawyer will do business as usual, easily sign off on it, and send them back a purchase and sale agreement. The scammers then claim to the bank that they rushed to pay all cash in competition with other buyers, and now want to take out a loan, which often gets approved because the house is an asset they now ‘own.’ Then they run away with the loan cash, which oftentimes is hundreds of thousands of dollars.</p>
<p>‘You’re the owner. They get a loan and take off with the money. And then I would get a notice that there’s an overdue loan on my property,’ he added.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>The FBI has since sent out a note to realtors and homeowners about the scam, and told elderly people especially to be aware.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>Lisa Vesperman Still, a title underwriter and past president of the New England Land Title Association, said the scammers are so sophisticated with technology it’s become easy to dupe lawyers who are bogged down with work or in a rush.</p>
<p>‘Seller impersonation fraud by title pirates is happening quite a bit now, and unfortunately a landowner doesn’t often know until the deed from the fraudster to the innocent purchaser gets recorded,’ Still told the Daily Mail.</p>
<p>‘The fraudsters also impersonate vacant land owners, owners of empty vacation rentals or second homes that are mortgage free, using fake identification and information combed from public websites, and reach out to unsuspecting real estate agents wanting to sell “their” property.’</p>
<p>She adds they state it all has to be done remotely, that they can’t meet or appear on a video chat – and certainly can’t come to the closing.<span data-sanitized-class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p>
<p>‘Any ID they provide is a very well done forgery, there are often features on the fake ID that are slightly off from an authentic one, but so slightly off that one has to very closely examine every feature. They need their money wired, and want the property sold quickly, almost always at a price well below market value,’ she added.</p>
<p>Seller impersonation fraud and title piracy are just two of the types of real estate fraud included within those statistics.</p>
<p>The National Association of Realtors has offered tips to help real estate agents and homeowners avoid getting caught in this scam.</p>
<p>Avoid remote closings, if possible, they advise. Ask for in-person identity checks. Request copies of documents that only the property owner would have, including a copy of the most recent tax bill, utility bill, or survey from when the property was purchased, in addition to the individual’s ID.</p>
<p>Send a certified letter to the address of record on the tax bill. Look up the phone number by reverse search or through the phone carrier. Call to verify the public notary and confirm he/she attested to the documents.</p>
<p>They also suggest homeowners sign up for a notification alert at the registry of deeds, which will alert someone when a document is recorded for their property.</p>

link:
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/04/28/yet-another-disastrous-consequence-of-the-digital-revolution/


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<p>This is the first of a three-part series on the history of NATO and US European Command military exercises with Ukraine. This shows how the West, acting like a camel, slipped its big nose under the Ukrainian tent as part of a long-term strategy to defeat Russia. While many of these exercises were touted as <em>peacekeeping</em> in nature, the real purpose was to train and equip Ukraine with the ultimate goal of fighting and defeating Russia. In July 1998, for example, NATO’s <em><strong>Sea Breeze</strong></em> maritime exercise included <em>anti-submarine warfare</em>. WTF??? That ain’t peacekeeping. That is preparation to fight Russia in the Black Sea.</p>
<p>The process of making Ukraine a de facto member of NATO started in 1992, one year after the collapse of the Soviet Union. 1994 marked the first year that Ukrainian forces participated in NATO exercises, although these were held in Poland and the Netherlands. The following year, 1995, witnessed the creation of Ukraine’s Yavoriv military base as the NATO training center, although this was not formalized until 1999.</p>
<p>1999 was no coincidence… it was the year that NATO expanded to the East by accepting the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland as new members on March 12, 1999. This provoked alarm in Russia because it obliterated the promise of former US Secretary of State James Baker, that NATO would not move one inch to the East. President Bill Clinton broke that promise.</p>
<p>Part 2 will cover the period, 2000 – 2010. Part 3 will cover 2011 – 2021. The plan to use Ukraine as a proxy to weaken Russia was born in the 1990s and matured into war in 2022. I hope you find this informative.</p>
<p>I did a podcast today with Garland Nixon. That is posted at the end of this article.</p>
<p><strong>1992</strong></p>
<p>NATO-Ukraine Relations in 1992 — In 1992, Ukraine formally established relations with NATO by joining the North Atlantic Cooperation Council (NACC) in March 1992. The North Atlantic Cooperation Council (NACC) was established by NATO in December 1991 as a forum for dialogue and cooperation between NATO member states and the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, including the former Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact states, in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War.</p>
<p>The NACC ostensibly was created to foster political consultation and build confidence between former adversaries, reflecting NATO’s “hand of friendship” to the newly independent and transitioning states of Central and Eastern Europe, which also included Russia. The NACC’s activities paved the way for deeper cooperation, notably leading to the launch of the Partnership for Peace (PfP) program in 1994, which allowed for more practical and individualized cooperation between NATO and partner countries.</p>
<p>In 1997, the NACC was succeeded by the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC), which expanded the partnership framework to include more countries and provided a more sophisticated forum for dialogue and cooperation, reflecting the evolving security environment and the deepening relationships between NATO and its partners. Russia also joined EAPC, but was suspended from the organization in 2014 after the people of Crimea voted to reunite with Russia.</p>
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<li>Ukraine’s cooperation with NATO began in March 1992 when it joined the newly established NACC, marking the start of formal relations and opening the door for future military cooperation .</li>
<li>The first concrete participation of Ukraine in a NATO-linked military exercise did not occur until September 1994, when Ukraine joined the Partnership for Peace (PfP) program and participated in joint training exercises such as “Cooperation Bridge” in Poland .</li>
</ul>
<p data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>1993</strong></p>
<p>In 1993, Ukraine began its military cooperation with the United States and NATO, although it had not yet joined NATO’s Partnership for Peace (which happened in 1994). The most significant development in 1993 was the initiation of the U.S.-Ukraine State Partnership Program (SPP), established between the California National Guard and Ukraine. This program laid the groundwork for ongoing joint training, military exchanges, and exercises.</p>
<p>The U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) advocated for establishing a Military Liaison Team (MLT) in Kyiv as early as 1993, but the deployment was delayed due to diplomatic considerations. Nonetheless, military cooperation and engagement activities were ongoing under the Defense Attaché Office. The cooperation in 1993 set the stage for more formal and larger-scale military exercises such as “Peace Shield” and “Sea Breeze,” which began after Ukraine joined the Partnership for Peace in 1994.</p>
<p><strong>1994</strong></p>
<p><strong>Cooperative Bridge 94</strong></p>
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<li>In September 1994, Ukraine participated in its first NATO Partnership for Peace (PfP) joint training exercise,<br>
“Cooperative Bridge 94,” held at the Biedrusko military training area near Poznan, Poland, from 12 to 16 September 1994 .</li>
<li>This exercise involved approximately 600 soldiers from 13 NATO and Partner nations, including Ukraine, and focused on basic unit and individual peacekeeping tasks and skills.</li>
<li>The aim was to share peacekeeping experience, develop a common understanding of operational procedures, and improve interoperability among NATO and Partner military forces .</li>
<li>The exercise was conducted under the supervision of NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) and was jointly planned with Polish military authorities.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Spirit of Partnership</strong></p>
<p>Later in 1994, a Ukrainian air-mobile unit participated in another PfP training exercise called “Spirit of Partnership,” held in the Netherlands.</p>
<p><strong>1995</strong></p>
<p><strong>Peace Shield 1995</strong>:</p>
<p>The primary NATO/USEUCOM military exercise conducted with Ukraine in 1995 was “Peace Shield,” a joint US-Ukrainian exercise held at the <strong>Yavoriv</strong> training area near Lviv from May 23 to May 27, 1995. This exercise was part of the Partnership for Peace (PfP) program, which aimed to increase interoperability and cooperation between NATO and partner countries, including Ukraine.</p>
<p><strong>Autumn Allies 95</strong>:<br>
Another notable exercise was “Autumn Allies 95,” which involved approximately 400 U.S. Marines and 200 Ukrainian soldiers. The exercise focused on promoting interoperability in peacekeeping operations and was conducted later in 1995.</p>
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<p>The Partnership for Peace program was central to these activities, providing a framework for joint exercises, training, and defense planning between Ukraine, NATO, and USEUCOM.</p>
<p><strong>1996</strong></p>
<p><strong>Cossack Step-96</strong>:</p>
<p>In 1996, Ukraine hosted a military exercise called “Cossack Step-96” in cooperation with Great Britain. This exercise was conducted “in the spirit of Partnership for Peace (PfP),” NATO’s program for building trust and interoperability with non-member countries, including Ukraine at the time. The exercise involved approximately 140 participants from Ukraine and Great Britain.</p>
<p>During this period, Ukraine was actively increasing its military cooperation with NATO through the PfP framework, which included joint training and exercises aimed at enhancing Ukraine’s ability to participate in multinational operations with NATO forces. The U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) was involved in<br>
developing security cooperation with Ukraine, focusing on familiarization activities, military professionalism, and closer ties to NATO.</p>
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<p data-sanitized-class="wp-block-heading"><strong>1997</strong></p>
<p><strong>Cooperative Neighbor-97</strong>:</p>
<p>In July 1997, Ukraine hosted the Cooperative Neighbor-97 joint exercise at the Yavoriv training grounds in western Ukraine. The exercise involved approximately 1,200 soldiers from the United States, Greece, Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, and Macedonia. Cooperative Neighbor-97 was conducted under NATO’s Partnership for Peace (PfP) program, which aimed to build<br>
trust and interoperability between NATO members and partner countries. The exercise focused on joint training and cooperation, and was observed by U.S. Defense Secretary William Cohen and Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksandr Kuzmuk.</p>
<p><strong>Sea Breeze 1997</strong>:</p>
<p>Sea Breeze 1997 was a multinational maritime exercise cohosted by the United States and Ukraine in the Black Sea region. The exercise included U.S. Marines and Ukrainian forces and was initially planned to simulate an intervention in a fictional ethnic conflict, but the scenario was changed due to Russian sensitivities. The revised scenario focused on providing humanitarian aid after an earthquake. The land-based segments were moved from Crimea to the Ukrainian mainland to avoid local protests and Russian opposition. While conducted “in the spirit of NATO’s Partnership for Peace,” NATO itself maintained a hands-off approach, with only Turkey among NATO members sending ships to participate directly.</p>
<p><strong>Significance</strong>:</p>
<p>Both exercises were part of the broader NATO-Ukraine cooperation established by the Charter on a Distinctive Partnership, signed in July 1997, which set the framework for ongoing military and political collaboration. These exercises marked early steps in Ukraine’s integration into Euro-Atlantic security structures and were designed to enhance interoperability, readiness, and mutual understanding between Ukraine, NATO, and U.S. European Command forces.</p>
<p><strong>1998</strong></p>
<p><strong>Cossack Express 1998 (May 1998)</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Location:</strong> Ukraine (multiple sites).</li>
<li><strong>Participants:</strong> Ukraine, U.S., and other PfP nations.</li>
<li><strong>Focus:</strong> Disaster response, humanitarian aid, and crisis management.</li>
<li><strong>Significance:</strong> Aimed at improving civil-military coordination in emergencies.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Peace Shield 1998 (June 1998)</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Location:</strong> Yavoriv Training Area, Ukraine (near Lviv).</li>
<li><strong>Participants:</strong> Ukraine, U.S., and other Partnership for Peace (PfP) nations.</li>
<li><strong>Focus:</strong> Command post exercise (CPX) focused on peacekeeping operations, crisis response, and interoperability with NATO standards.</li>
<li><strong>Significance:</strong> Part of the <strong>“Peace Shield”</strong> series, which began in 1995 to prepare Ukrainian forces for potential NATO-led peacekeeping missions.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Sea Breeze 1998 (July 1998)</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Location:</strong> Black Sea (near Odesa, Ukraine)</li>
<li><strong>Participants:</strong> Ukraine, the U.S., and other NATO partners.</li>
<li><strong>Focus:</strong> Maritime security, search and rescue (SAR), anti-submarine warfare (ASW), and naval interoperability.</li>
<li><strong>Significance:</strong> Part of the annual <strong>“Sea Breeze”</strong> series (started in 1997), enhancing Ukraine’s cooperation with NATO in Black Sea operations.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Cooperative Nugget 1998 (September 1998)</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Location:</strong> Hohenfels Training Area, Germany (part of the <strong>Cooperative Partner</strong> series).</li>
<li><strong>Participants:</strong> Ukraine, U.S., and other NATO/PfP countries.</li>
<li><strong>Focus:</strong> Peacekeeping operations, joint command structures, and multinational coordination.</li>
<li><strong>Significance:</strong> Helped Ukrainian forces train alongside NATO troops in a simulated UN/NATO-style peacekeeping mission.</li>
</ul>
<p>The U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) and other U.S. military entities were actively engaged in planning and executing military-to-military contacts and exercises with Ukraine in 1998, focusing on familiarization, confidence building, and demonstrating U.S. commitment to Ukraine’s sovereignty . The annual planners’ conference for military contacts was held in April 1998 in Stuttgart, Germany, to develop the 1999 plan, indicating ongoing and planned engagement. The transition of responsibility for U.S. military engagement in Ukraine from the Joint Staff to USEUCOM was underway in 1998, further institutionalizing these activities. The establishment of a Regional Training Centre at the Yavoriv training area in Ukraine was discussed as a future initiative for multinational training and exercises.</p>
<p><strong>1999</strong></p>
<p><strong>Peace Shield 99 (May 1999)</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Location:</strong> Yavoriv Training Area, Ukraine (near Lviv)</li>
<li><strong>Participants:</strong> Ukraine, NATO members (including the U.S.), and Partnership for Peace (PfP) countries.</li>
<li><strong>Focus:</strong> Command post exercise (CPX) focused on <strong>peacekeeping operations</strong>, interoperability, and crisis response.</li>
<li><strong>Significance:</strong> One of Ukraine’s major annual multinational exercises under the PfP framework.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Cooperative Partner 99 (June–July 1999)</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Location:</strong> Ukraine (Odesa and Myrhorod regions)</li>
<li><strong>Participants:</strong> Ukraine, U.S. (USEUCOM), and other NATO/PfP nations.</li>
<li><strong>Focus:</strong> <strong>Maritime and air operations</strong>, including search and rescue (SAR), anti-submarine warfare (ASW), and naval interoperability.</li>
<li><strong>Significance:</strong> Part of the <strong>Cooperative Partner</strong> series, enhancing Black Sea security cooperation.</li>
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<p><strong>Sea Breeze 99 (July–August 1999)</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Location:</strong> Black Sea (Odesa and Crimea)</li>
<li><strong>Participants:</strong> Ukraine, U.S. Navy (6th Fleet), NATO allies (including Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria), and PfP countries.</li>
<li><strong>Focus:</strong> <strong>Maritime security, amphibious operations, and crisis response</strong>.</li>
<li><strong>Significance:</strong> Part of the annual <strong>Sea Breeze</strong> series, which began in 1997 and continues today.</li>
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<p><strong>Cossack Express-99 (September 1999):</strong></p>
<p>Held at the Yavoriv training grounds in Ukraine starting September 18, 1999, this NATO-sponsored exercise involved British and Ukrainian motorized infantry units of battalionsize. The exercise focused on rehearsing joint actions in UN authorized peacekeeping operations under NATO command, modeled after operations in the Balkans.</p>
<p><strong>Cossack Steppe-99:</strong></p>
<p>Conducted at the Nowa Deba training range in Poland beginning September 20, 1999, this exercise included company-sized motorized infantry units from Ukraine, Poland (a new NATO member at the time), and Britain. It also rehearsed joint peacekeeping operations under NATO command, with participation from the Ukrainian-Polish joint battalion.</p>
<p><strong>Black Sea Partnership-99:</strong></p>
<p>From September 20–25, 1999, the Ukrainian navy’s flagship <em>Hetman Sahaydachny</em> participated alongside NATO and partner country warships in this exercise, which was held mostly in Turkish waters. The aim was to practice joint naval operations and naval support for NATO-led peacekeeping operations on land.</p>
<p><strong>CONCLUSION:</strong></p>
<p>I spent 23 years scripting military exercises for US Special Forces. While I was not involved in the scripting of any of these NATO/US military exercises, I understand the purpose and process of them. These were not harmless games. They were designed to train and equip the Ukrainian military to fight Russia, potentially with NATO’s direct involvement. We have seen that come to fruition since the start of the Special Military Operation in 2022. It is no coincidence that Russia hit the Yavoriv NATO military facility on March 13, 2022.</p>
<p><em>Original article: </em><a href="https://sonar21.com/the-road-to-war-in-ukraine-the-history-of-nato-and-us-military-exercises-with-ukraine-part-1/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><strong>sonar21.com</strong></a></p>

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<p><strong><em>Las rabietas geopolíticas de Estados Unidos en las últimas semanas…reflejan los verdaderos “síntomas morbosos” de un viejo orden moribundo. Es hora de dar paso a un orden internacional verdaderamente multipolar y justo.</em></strong></p>
<p><strong><em>By Jeffrey SACHS</em></strong></p>
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<p>En su celda como preso político en la Italia fascista tras la Primera Guerra Mundial, el filósofo Antonio Gramsci declaró la famosa frase:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>La crisis consiste precisamente en que lo viejo muere y lo nuevo no puede nacer; en este interregno aparecen una gran variedad de síntomas morbosos. </em></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Un siglo después, nos encontramos en otro interregno y los síntomas morbosos están por todas partes. El orden liderado por Estados Unidos ha llegado a su fin, pero el mundo multipolar aún no ha nacido.</p>
<p>La prioridad urgente es dar lugar a un nuevo orden multilateral que pueda mantener la paz y el camino hacia el desarrollo sostenible.</p>
<p>Nos encontramos al final de una larga ola de la historia de la humanidad que comenzó con los viajes de Cristóbal Colón y Vasco da Gama hace más de 500 años.</p>
<p><strong>Esos viajes dieron inicio a más de cuatro siglos de imperialismo europeo que alcanzó su apogeo con el dominio mundial de Gran Bretaña desde el final de las guerras napoleónicas (1815) hasta el estallido de la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914). </strong></p>
<p>Tras la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Estados Unidos se proclamó nuevo hegemón mundial. Asia quedó marginada durante este largo período. Según estimaciones macroeconómicas ampliamente utilizadas, Asia producía el 65 % de la producción mundial en 1500, pero en 1950 esa proporción se había reducido a solo el 19 % (frente al 55 % de la población mundial).</p>
<p>En los 80 años transcurridos desde la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Asia recuperó su lugar en la economía mundial.  Japón lideró el camino con un rápido crecimiento en las décadas de 1950 y 1960, seguido por los cuatro <em>“tigres asiáticos”</em> (Hong Kong, Singapur, Taiwán y Corea) a partir de las décadas de 1960 y 1970, y luego por China a partir de 1980 y la India a partir de 1990.</p>
<p>En la actualidad, Asia representa alrededor del 50 % de la economía mundial, según estimaciones del FMI.</p>
<p><strong>El mundo multipolar nacerá cuando el peso geopolítico de Asia, África y América Latina se equipare con su creciente peso económico.</strong></p>
<p>Este necesario cambio geopolítico se ha retrasado debido a que <strong><em>Estados Unidos y Europa se aferran a prerrogativas obsoletas integradas en las instituciones internacionales</em></strong> y a sus mentalidades anticuadas.</p>
<p>Incluso hoy en día, Estados Unidos intimida a Canadá, Groenlandia, Panamá y otros países del hemisferio occidental y amenaza al resto del mundo con aranceles y sanciones unilaterales que violan flagrantemente las normas internacionales.</p>
<p><strong>Asia, África y América Latina deben permanecer unidas para alzar su voz colectiva y sus votos en la ONU con el fin de instaurar un nuevo sistema internacional justo.</strong></p>
<p>Una institución crucial que necesita una reforma es el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, dada su responsabilidad única en virtud de la Carta de las Naciones Unidas de mantener la paz.</p>
<p><strong>Los cinco miembros permanentes del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU (el P5): Gran Bretaña, China, Francia, Rusia y Estados Unidos, reflejan el mundo de 1945, no el de 2025.</strong></p>
<p>No hay puestos permanentes para América Latina ni África, y Asia solo tiene uno de los cinco puestos permanentes, a pesar de que alberga casi el 60 % de la población mundial.  A lo largo de los años, se han propuesto muchos nuevos miembros permanentes potenciales para el Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas, pero los cinco miembros actuales se han aferrado firmemente a su posición privilegiada.</p>
<p>La reestructuración adecuada del Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU se verá frustrada durante los próximos años.</p>
<p><strong>Sin embargo, hay un cambio crucial que está al alcance de la mano y que beneficiaría a todo el mundo. Según cualquier criterio, la India merece indiscutiblemente un puesto permanente en el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU.</strong></p>
<p>Dada la destacada trayectoria de la India en la diplomacia mundial, su admisión en el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU también elevaría una voz crucial para la paz y la justicia mundiales.</p>
<p>En todos los aspectos, la India es una gran potencia. La India es el país más poblado del mundo, habiendo superado a China en 2024. La India es la tercera economía más grande del mundo medida en precios internacionales (paridad de poder adquisitivo), con 17 billones de dólares, por detrás de China (40 billones) y Estados Unidos (30 billones) y por delante de todos los demás.</p>
<p><strong>La India es la economía importante que más rápido crece del mundo, con un crecimiento anual de alrededor del 6 %. Es probable que el PIB (PPA) de la India supere al de los Estados Unidos a mediados de siglo.</strong></p>
<p>La India es una nación con armas nucleares, innovadora en tecnología digital y un país con un programa espacial puntero. Ningún otro país mencionado como candidato a miembro permanente del Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas se acerca a las credenciales de la India para ocupar un puesto.</p>
<p>Lo mismo puede decirse del peso diplomático de la India. La hábil diplomacia de la India quedó patente en su magnífico liderazgo del G-20 en 2023.</p>
<p>La India gestionó con destreza un G-20 enormemente exitoso a pesar de la amarga división en 2024 entre Rusia y los países de la OTAN.  La India no solo logró el consenso del G-20, sino que hizo historia al dar la bienvenida a la Unión Africana como nuevo miembro permanente del G-20.</p>
<p>China ha retrasado su apoyo a la sede permanente de la India en el Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas, protegiendo su posición única como única potencia asiática en el P5.</p>
<p>Sin embargo, los intereses nacionales vitales de China se verían favorecidos y reforzados por el ascenso de la India a un puesto permanente en el Consejo de Seguridad de las Naciones Unidas.</p>
<p>Esto es especialmente cierto si se tiene en cuenta que Estados Unidos está llevando a cabo un esfuerzo desesperado y despiadado, mediante aranceles y sanciones, para bloquear el auge económico y el avance tecnológico que China ha logrado con tanto esfuerzo.</p>
<p>Al apoyar a la India para el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, China establecería de manera decisiva que la geopolítica se está rehaciendo para reflejar el verdadero mundo multipolar.</p>
<p>Si bien China crearía un par asiático en el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, también ganaría un socio vital para superar la resistencia de Estados Unidos y Europa al cambio geopolítico.</p>
<p>Si China pide la membresía permanente de la India en el Consejo de Seguridad de la ONU, Rusia se pondrá inmediatamente de acuerdo, mientras que Estados Unidos, Reino Unido y Francia también votarán a favor de la India.</p>
<p>Las rabietas geopolíticas de Estados Unidos en las últimas semanas —abandonar la lucha contra el cambio climático, atacar los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible e imponer aranceles unilaterales en contravención de las normas fundamentales de la OMC— reflejan <strong><em>los verdaderos “síntomas morbosos” de un viejo orden moribundo.</em></strong> Es hora de dar paso a un orden internacional verdaderamente multipolar y justo.</p>
<p><em>Publicado originalmente </em><a href="https://www.other-news.info/giving-birth-to-the-new-international-order/"><u><em>Other News</em></u></a><em>.<br>
</em><em>Traducción: </em><a href="https://observatoriodetrabajad.com/2025/04/24/el-nacimiento-del-nuevo-orden-internacional-jeffrey-sachs/"><u><em>Observatorio de trabajadores en lucha</em></u></a></p>


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<p>This morning, images of the worst of the worst criminal illegal immigrants arrested since President Donald J. Trump took office were <a href="https://whitehouse.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=dace49741569f7585670378b3&amp;id=1f38682b58&amp;e=40024b103d" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">placed on the lawn of the White House</a> for the world to see — highlighting the Trump Administration’s unprecedented effort to secure our homeland and send these vicious criminals back where they belong.</p>
<p><strong>Meet the worst of the worst:</strong></p>
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<p><strong><em>La Cina sta usando la sua moneta per ridurre la dipendenza dal dollaro americano</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>Lo scorso ottobre, la People’s Bank of China ha <a href="https://www.asean-cn.org/index.php?m=content&amp;c=index&amp;a=show&amp;catid=202&amp;id=4343" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attestato</a> che, tra gennaio e agosto del 2024, i pagamenti e le entrate transfrontaliere in valuta cinese erano aumentati del 21,1% su base annua, raggiungendo i 41,6 trilioni di yuan (5,94 trilioni di dollari). Il cuore pulsante del processo di avanzamento della della valuta cinese è indubbiamente rappresentato dall’Asean, le cui banche erogano fin dal 2009, anno in cui la Cina annunciò il programma di “internazionalizzazione dello yuan-renminbi”, servizi di conto e rimessa in yuan-renminbi, oltre ad aprire conti correnti denominati in valuta cinese. Nel 2023, le entrate e i pagamenti transfrontalieri regolati in yuan-renminbi per gli scambi di merci tra Asean e Cina hanno <a href="https://www.bochk.com/dam/investment/bocecon/SY2024035(en).pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">superato</a> per la prima volta i 2 trilioni di yuan, con un aumento del 47,8% su base annua. L’afflusso netto di yuan-renminbi nel commercio di beni è stato pari a 51,46 miliardi di yuan, in linea con il surplus commerciale realizzato dalla Cina nei confronti dell’Asean.</p>
<p>Nonostante gli indubbi progressi realizzati, il 21 aprile le autorità di Pechino hanno <a href="https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3307472/china-rolls-out-plan-promote-its-own-payment-system-us-trade-war-simmers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">annunciato</a> un progetto volto a imprimere una ulteriore accelerazione al processo di diffusione dello yuan-renminbi, attraverso il potenziamento del Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (Cips). L’obiettivo fissato da governo, consiglio d’amministrazione della People’s Bank of China e agenzie preposte alla regolamentazione finanziaria consiste nell’alleggerire ulteriormente, alla luce dell’offensiva tariffaria sferrata dall’amministrazione Trump, la pur declinante dipendenza nazionale dal dollaro statunitense, avvalendosi del Cips come vettore per espandere la rete globale del commercio cinese e promuovere l’impiego dello yuan-renminbi con il Paesi del “Sud globale”.</p>
<p>La linea d’azione proclamata dai vertici istituzionali cinesi <a href="https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/chinas-plan-facilitate-cross-border-financial-services-more-important-amid-2025-04-23/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contempla</a> inoltre il rafforzamento del Multi Central Bank Digital Currency Bridge (m-Bridge), istituito dalla Bank for International Settlements ed esteso in origine soltanto alle Banche Centrali di Cina, Hong Kong, Thailandia ed Emirati Arabi Uniti. L’Arabia Saudita si è <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/saudi-arabia-joins-bis-led-central-bank-digital-currency-trial-2024-06-05/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unita</a> in un secondo momento, mentre altre 23 Banche Centrali – più Banca Mondiale e Fondo Monetario Internazionale – hanno <a href="https://www.bis.org/innovation_hub/projects/mbridge_brochure_2311.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">iniziato</a> a monitorare l’iniziativa conferendole una dimensione prevalentemente asiatica. Il circuito collega direttamente le valute digitali dei Paesi aderenti in un’unica infrastruttura tecnica garantendo sicurezza, immediatezza, economicità e accessibilità universale ai pagamenti transfrontalieri.</p>
<p>Mentre lo Swift impiega tra i 2 e i 5 giorni per eseguire i mandati di pagamento transfrontalieri, il “ponte” cinese abbatte i costi e riduce i tempi di compensazione a meno di 10 secondi perché evita l’intermediazione bancaria. Lo si evince dai risultati del primo test <a href="https://www.intfiba.com/services/currency-transfers/cbdc-payments/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">condotto</a> tra Hong Kong e Abu Dhabi, nel cui ambito un fornitore emiratino ha ricevuto in tempo reale un pagamento inviato da un’impresa cinese localizzata presso il “porto profumato”, che ha a sua volta sostenuto commissioni del 98% più basse rispetto a quelle contemplate da Swift. Sempre grazie a m-Bridge, la Industrial Bank cinese ha <a href="https://slguardian.org/this-isnt-a-trade-war-its-strategic-containment-trump-style/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">completato</a> un pagamento transfrontaliero verso l’Indonesia nell’arco di 8 secondi riducendo i costi di intermediazione del 75%.</p>
<p>La tecnologia blockchain impiegata da mBridge non si limita a comprimere al massimo – fin quasi ad azzerarli – tempi e costi di gestione delle transazioni, ma le rende automaticamente tracciabili e conformi alle norme antiriciclaggio senza coinvolgere il dollaro, né lo Swift né il sistema bancario occidentale.</p>
<p>Una caratteristica fondamentale, che ha indubbiamente concorso la Russia ad avvalersi di m-Brige per bypassare il regime sanzionatorio occidentale. In particolare per regolare gli scambi con l’India, che nel corso del 2022 ha beneficiato degli sconti applicati da Mosca sulle forniture di greggio per incrementare il volume giornaliero di petrolio importato dalla Russia di ben 33 volte (da 36.255 a 1,2 milioni di barili). I pagamenti sono stati effettuati presso la piazza di Abu Dhabi in yuan-renminbi, dollari di Hong Kong e dirham emiratini50. Valute, cioè, che possono essere scambiate contro yuan-renminbi attraverso m-Bridge. La sua strutturale funzionalità all’aggiramento delle sanzioni ha indotto la Bank fo International Settlements a <a href="https://www.thebanker.com/content/5f4ee360-b2ce-55d8-af9e-544d8eb773a3" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ritirare</a> il proprio patrocinio al circuito, di cui la Cina si tuttavia continuando a servirsi per accrescere la propria influenza geopolitica. Tramite M-Bridge, Pechino ha infatti <a href="https://africanpropertymagazine.com/2025/03/25/chinas-digital-rmb-revolution-the-end-of-dollar-dominance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">trasformato</a> lo yuan-renminbi digitale nel vettore tecnico per la realizzazione della Belt &amp; Road Initiative, ancorandolo a progetti infrastrutturali come le linee ferroviarie transnazionali Boten-Vientiane e Jakarta-Bandung e integrandolo con il sistema di navigazione satellitare Beidou.</p>
<p>L’avanzata di m-Bridge come veicolo per la diffusione dello yuan-renminbi digitale sembra destinata a produrre effetti dirompenti anche a livello di consumi individuali. Fino a pochi anni fa, un turista cinese in visita a Bangkok si sarebbe avvalso quasi sicuramente di dollari statunitensi o di una carta di credito emessa da Visa o Mastercard per acquistare un bene e/o un servizio in loco. Attualmente, attraverso m-Bridge, può espletare la pratica scansionando un codice Qr sul proprio telefono, che garantisce in via istantanea l’addebito in yuan-renminbi sul proprio conto e il corrispondente accredito in baht al venditore.</p>
<p>L’impiego yuan-renminbi digitale sta insomma registrando una crescita costante, candidandosi non a detronizzare il dollaro, ma a fungere da strumento principale per la ridefinizione delle regole che disciplinano un sistema monetario e finanziario internazionale ormai anacronistico, perché fondato sui rapporti di forza del 1945.</p>
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Trump’s Approval Rating Drops to 80-Year Low; IMF Says U.S. Tariffs Now Exceed the Highs During the Great Depression

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<p>By <a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/about-3/about/">Pam Martens and Russ Martens</a>: April 28, 2025 ~</p>
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<p>Common sense voters in the U.S. didn’t need an economics degree or a crystal ball to predict that putting Donald Trump in the Oval Office for a second term – a man unanimously convicted of 34 felony counts by 12 members of a U.S. jury <em>prior to</em> his election – was not going to produce a shining moment in history for the United States.</p>
<p>Trump’s first 100 days in office in his second term arrives this week, and it comes on the wings of this headline: “<a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-lowest-100-day-approval-rating-80-years/story?id=121165473">Trump has lowest 100-day approval rating in 80 years</a>.” That data comes from a new ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll showing that only 39 percent of poll respondents approve of how Trump is performing as President. A solid majority, 55 percent, said they disapprove.</p>
<p>Even more alarming for the U.S. economy – where two-thirds of GDP depends on spending by a confident consumer – is the poll result showing that 72 percent of respondents believe that it’s very or somewhat likely that Trump’s economic policies will deliver a recession in the near term. (Consumers tend to curtail spending in the face of economic uncertainty, adding to economic woes.)</p>
<p>The number crunchers at the highly respected GDPNow at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta are currently reporting <a href="https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow">their estimate of a negative GDP of -2.5 percent</a> for the first quarter of this year. The actual GDP advance estimate from the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) will be reported this Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. ET.</p>
<p>Adding to economic jitters, Americans are also watching in horror as Trump becomes ever more un-presidential, <a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/2025/03/trump-administration-gives-all-clear-to-laundering-money-through-shell-companies-and-bribing-foreign-officials/">repealing laws to thwart corruption</a>, <a href="https://wallstreetonparade.com/2025/03/trumps-attacks-on-big-law-universities-and-the-media-have-a-common-goal-silence-dissent-against-authoritarian-rule/">threatening his perceived enemies with executive orders</a>, and hurling invectives at anyone who dares to take an independent stand or defy him.</p>
<p>Under assault by Trump last Monday was the Chairman of the U.S. Central Bank, Jerome (Jay) Powell, whom <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114376239725335883">Donald Trump called “a major loser ”</a> on his propaganda blog ironically known as “Truth Social.” The stock market, rating agencies, and sophisticated Wall Street investors want a U.S. Central Bank (a/k/a Federal Reserve) that functions independently from the political baggage and erratic whims of this President. The Dow Jones Industrial Average <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Business/stocks-slide-trump-escalates-criticism-fed-chair-powell/story?id=121015931">reacted harshly last Monday to Trump’s insults against Powell by selling off to the tune of 971 points</a>.</p>
<p>The Dow had <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/04/investing/stock-market-dow-tariffs/index.html">experienced a 2,231-point crash on April 4 over Trump’s tariff chaos</a>. Despite holding a degree from Wharton, Trump does not appear capable of understanding that a terrified consumer who is watching his 401(K) plunge in value is not going to boost growth in the U.S. economy via an uptick in personal spending.</p>
<p>The Wall Street Journal reported the following last week:</p>
<p>“There are some early warning signs. Consumers are holding off on nonessential splurges such as vacations. Executives at American Express and Citigroup said that travel and entertainment spending lost momentum in the first quarter, while spending in less discretionary categories picked up. The share of cardholders making only the minimum payment is running above prepandemic levels, Capital One said Tuesday.”</p>
<p>The global economic outlook is also darkening. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) <a href="https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2025/04/22/the-global-economy-enters-a-new-era">reported last Tuesday</a> that “The US effective tariff rate surged past levels reached during the Great Depression while counter-responses from major trading partners significantly pushed up the global rate.” The same IMF report noted the following:</p>
<p>“Dense global supply chains can magnify the effects of tariffs and uncertainty. Most traded goods are intermediate inputs that cross borders multiple times before being turned into final products. Disruptions can propagate up and down the global input-output network with potentially large multiplier effects, as we saw during the pandemic. Companies facing uncertain market access will likely pause in the near term, reduce investment and cut spending. Likewise, financial institutions will reassess borrowers’ exposure. The increased uncertainty and tightening of financial conditions could well dominate the short term, weighing on economic activity, as reflected in the sharp decline in oil prices.”</p>
<p>Adding to the U.S. consumers’ anxiety is the growing acknowledgement that Donald Trump endorses a law-less administration. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/opinion/trump-constitution-rule-of-law.html">Today, the New York Times has published quotes (paywall) from a wide swath of legal scholars</a> on Trump and the rule of law. A sampling follows:</p>
<p>“More important than any specific example of unconstitutional conduct is the overall pattern. The depth and breadth of this administration’s disregard for civil liberties, political pluralism, the separation of powers and legal constraints of all kinds mark it as an authoritarian regime. That is the crucial thing to see.”<br>— <em>David Pozen, Professor, Columbia Law School</em></p>
<p>“They seek a massive increase in presidential power, which if fully achieved would potentially undermine most of the constitutional separation of powers and create an elective monarchy or a quasi-authoritarian state. If they prevail, it would be terrible for the rule of law and liberal democratic values generally. But they can be stopped, and hopefully will be.”<br>— <em>Ilya Somin, Professor, Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University</em></p>
<p>“The disregard for law is itself part of the agenda. They do not seem to care whether they violate the Constitution and statutes, make mistakes, do irreparable harm. That recklessness itself sends a message.”<br>— <em>Jody Freeman, Professor, Harvard Law School</em></p>

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<p><strong><em>Quantas vezes os cidadãos europeus precisarão ser surpreendidos pelos mesmos erros?</em></strong></p>
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<p>Nos últimos meses todos ouvimos a pressão que a presidente da Comissão Europeia, Úrsula von der Leyen, tem feito para acelerar a criar de uma União de Poupanças e Investimento (UPI). Apresentada, inicialmente, como um instrumento para mobilizar recursos financeiros em benefício dos cidadãos europeus e promover a transição verde e digital, o factor mais preocupante desta campanha tem a ver, uma vez mais e sempre, com o normal acriticismo, amorfismo e submissão com que se aceitam as intenções e decisões da Comissão Europeia.</p>
<p>Sob um olhar mais crítico, esta trata-se de mais uma agenda – e quantas agendas já Von der Leyen nos apresentou para estarmos cada vez pior – destinada a beneficiar os mesmos de sempre, ou seja, os interesses privados e corporativos mais proeminentes (noutras paragens sendo designados como “oligarcas”), em detrimento, como sempre, dos interesses colectivos, do interesse público e do interesse nacional de muitos estados membros.</p>
<p>Para se perceber, na devida extensão, as intenções que se escondem por detrás desta UPI, imposta, primeiro que tudo, saber o que ela é. Teoricamente a UPI apresentada como</p>
<p>uma iniciativa que visa integrar os mercados financeiros dos Estados-membros “para impulsionar o investimento, o crescimento económico e a estabilidade financeira”. Neste quadro, a União de Poupanças e Investimento destina-se, à partida, a facilitar o acesso dos “cidadãos e empresas” a produtos financeiros transfronteiriços, promovendo, no caminho, a poupança e o investimento de longo prazo. Uma maravilha, portanto. Na EU existe muito dinheiro em depósitos a prazo (10 biliões) e ainda mais, em fundos (públicos, mutualistas, associativos) cujas contribuições podem ser atraídas para outro tipo de soluções, iludindo os seus beneficiários sob o canto da sereia do dinheiro fácil dos capitais de risco.</p>
<p>Segundo a Comissão Europeia, esta união poderá melhorar as opções de poupança a longo prazo, incentivar produtos como planos de pensões individuais (os PEPP) e fundos de investimento “sustentáveis”, ligados às agendas energéticas e climáticas da UE. Tudo privado como aquela gente gosta. Uma característica fundamental de qualquer uma das agendas da EU é o deixar ao estado sempre um papel secundário, minimalista, excepto quando haja de pagar.</p>
<p>Esta união também tem a intenção de criar mecanismos mais alargados e integrados de protecção dos investidores, nomeadamente através do que diz constituir o reforço da transparência e da regulamentação para garantir que os produtos financeiros sejam seguros e adequados aos perfis de risco. Por fim, este capital agregado, mobilizado e em movimento, permitirá fomentar o financiamento das empresas, teoricamente facilitando o acesso das PMEs a fontes de financiamento alternativas, como o crowdfunding e os mercados de capitais. As PME servem sempre de justificação, quase nunca figuram entre os beneficiários finais das propostas.</p>
<p>Existem já medidas previstas, tais como o atrás referido PEPP (Pan-European Personal Pension Product), um produto de reforma privado que pode ser oferecido em toda a EU, sem o fardo da solidariedade transgeracional que caracteriza os sistemas públicos de pensões; a revisão da legislação com vista à “melhoria” da protecção dos investidores e a transparência dos mercados; a regulação do fintech e crowdfunding (financiamento tecnológico e captação de fundos do público do público (Patreon e outros)), criando regras harmonizadas para plataformas de financiamento colaborativo; e o lançamento de incentivos fiscais pelos Estados-membros para estimular a poupança e o investimento. Tudo isto prometendo maior diversificação de produtos e soluções de “investimento” e mais retorno financeiro, uma vez que, em teoria haverá mais concorrência e ainda segurança reforçada, pois as regras comuns supostamente reduzem riscos de fraudes e más práticas financeiras.</p>
<p>Não se pense que a União de Poupanças e Investimento é uma componente da União Bancária. Não, a UPI é, quanto muito, complementar. A União de Poupanças e Investimento (UPI) e a União Bancária da UE partilham o objectivo de integrar mercados financeiros, mas diferem em escopo, mecanismos e riscos associados.</p>
<p>Vejamos os objectivos enunciados de uma e outra:</p>
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<p>A União Bancária (UB) visava a Supervisão centralizada (BCE), como as regras comuns para insolvência bancárias, focando-se na estabilidade do sistema financeiro. Já a UPI, visa atrair as poupanças e investimento para o risco, através da Harmonização de produtos financeiros, Incentivos fiscais para investimentos transfronteiriços e aumentar o foco em rentabilidade e nas “prioridades estratégicas”, como a defesa e a transição verde, por exemplo.</p>
<p>Como “gato escaldado de água tem medo”, já dizia o meu avô, e da Comissão von der Leyen os europeus não podem esperar senão palavras bonitas pela frente e facadas por detrás, será nos “riscos associados” e nas “intenções inconfessadas” que se escondem os inúmeros problemas que trará a UPI.</p>
<p>Ao contrário do que a EU defendia, a União Bancária da UE, lançada em 2014, como resposta à crise do euro, também prometia maior concorrência, estabilidade e protecção aos depositantes, mas, na prática, apenas consolidou, de forma definitiva, o domínio dos grandes bancos, reduzindo a diversidade do sector financeiro europeu. Ou seja, o inverso do que se prometeu.</p>
<p>A concentração bancária aumentou, sendo impulsionada pela onda de fusões e aquisições. Em Espanha, o número de bancos caiu de 555 em 2008, para 10 em 2023. Na Alemanha, os bancos regionais (<em>landesbanken</em>) perderam relevância para gigantes como Deutsche Bank e Commerzbank. Em 2023, os 10 maiores bancos da UE hoje controlam cerca de 70% dos activos financeiros (Fonte: ECB, 2023). Como se vê, o mito do “too big to fail” não prevaleceu e se os maiores bancos falharem, os estados continuarão a ter de os “salvar”.</p>
<p>Com a concentração de capital – a União Bancária deveria passar a chamar-se de “concentração bancária” – a concorrência diminuiu e os grandes bancos beneficiaram das novas regras, enquanto pequenas instituições enfrentaram custos regulatórios mais altos e maiores dificuldades para competir à escala transnacional. O resultado sentimo-lo todos os dias na nossa carteira: taxas mais altas para clientes, menos opções de crédito para PMEs e menos inovação financeira. Tudo ao contrário do prometido. Um <em>déjà-vu</em> do processo de privatizações em Portugal e na Europa.</p>
<p>A verdade é que, como em todas as regulações da União Europeia, também a União Bancária favoreceu apenas os grandes. O sistema de regulação, mais pesado e complexo (p.e. Basel III) exige recursos apenas à disposição de grandes bancos. O BCE supervisiona apenas os bancos grandes, deixando os pequenos sob a autoridade nacional, criando assimetrias, como, por exemplo, no acesso ao crédito. Os maiores bancos podem financiar-se (às vezes a taxas negativas) junto do BCE, ao passo que os pequenos têm de se financiar a taxas mais elevadas. A concentração de capital conduziu à concentração de poder político e capacidade de lobby, acentuando ainda mais a assimetria entre grandes e pequenos, ricos e pobres.</p>
<p>Daí que seja no mínimo justo que, no caso da UPI, prever que também vá suceder o mesmo. Ambas as iniciativas reflectem uma lógica problemática: a União Bancária socializou perigos da banca (com regras rígidas para bancos, mas sem mutualização de dívida), produzindo o que hoje podemos designar como “o socialismo para os ricos e o capitalismo para os pobres”, uma espécie do que na idade média constituía o “pecado da ganância”, que apenas afectava os pobres, porque os ricos já o eram.</p>
<p>Já a UPI, pretende socializar o financiamento para projectos políticos (como defesa), transferindo os riscos para os cidadãos. Ou seja, já não bastava o socialismo para a banca e os maiores clientes, agora, a EU vai-se concentrar no socialismo para os grandes fundos financeiros. A intenção é clara, e representa este momento submisso, amorfo e dócil em que se encontram os estados-membros e os seus principais governantes. Se, para efectuar a União bancária, com tudo o que significou em termos de aprofundamento do modelo neoliberal, mesmo assim, foi necessário usar como justificação a resposta a uma crise financeira, com a UPI, não existe necessidades sequer de justificar. O consenso pela guerra é tão profundo que até a propaganda para fora ficou aquém do habitual, bastando a produzida para a guerra da Ucrânia.</p>
<p>Quem poderá ganhar muito com a UPI serão as grandes gestoras de ativos (BlackRock, Allianz) que passarão a dominar os novos mercados de poupança. Os produtos padronizados (como o PEPP) favorecerão <em>players</em> globais e não os não pequenos investidores, transferindo os riscos para os cidadãos, trabalhadores e suas famílias, enquanto os lucros ficarão com a elite financeira, tal como sucedeu com a União Bancária.</p>
<p>O resultado é simples, mais centralização e, consequentemente, menos democracia financeira, agravando ainda mais o enorme e crescente fosso entre ricos e pobres. A verdade é que, de cada vez que Von Der Leyen saca da caneta e assina um dos seus “actos”, são os nossos rendimentos que sofrem, as nossas condições de vida que diminuem e engorda a ociosa oligarquia que suga o crescimento europeu, ano após ano.</p>
<p>Tal como a União Bancária não cumpriu sua promessa de um sistema diversificado e competitivo, aumentando o poder dos grandes bancos, a UPI caminha para o mesmo destino: se a UE não impuser limites à concentração de capital e quota de mercado e exigir garantias reais sobre os investimentos dos pequenos aforradores (o que limita a intenção de atrair os tais 800 mil milhões de euros), a “integração financeira” será só um eufemismo para mais controle privado sobre o dinheiro dos povos europeus. Vale a pena confiar numa estrutura que, na prática, sempre beneficia os mesmos gigantes?</p>
<p>Esta questão ganha outra dimensão quando constatamos que a norte-americana Blackrock será amplamente beneficiada – e a mais proeminente das promotoras – por esta união. As ligações de Merz – chanceler alemão – a esta empresa serão tudo menos coincidência, como não será coincidência a também germânica von der Leyen avançar tão decididamente para mais um descalabro. Ainda por cima, mais um de contornos neocoloniais. Já não basta entregarmos a nossa defesa, estratégia energética e academia aos EUA, agora, vamos entregar-lhes as parcas poupanças dos trabalhadores europeus.</p>
<p>Mas desengane-se que os potenciais danos da UPI ficam por aqui. À primeira vista, a ideia de uma UPI parece sedutora: centralizar e gerir as poupanças dos europeus, permitindo que sejam investidas em projectos estratégicos como infra-estruturas verdes, tecnologia inovadora e outras áreas prioritárias. Contudo, ao analisarmos quem são os principais defensores desta iniciativa e quais têm sido as tendências recentes na política económica europeia, percebemos que este projecto tem tudo para esmagar, ainda mais, as nossas condições de vida, abrindo porta à selvajaria que já hoje reina nos EUA, onde as classes trabalhadoras foram formatadas no pensamento pueril de que a sua estabilidade está dependente de um qualquer “rendimento passivo” e de uma suposta “literacia financeira” que compete com a dos donos do sistema. Depois dos EUA, está na hora de atacar determinadamente os rendimentos dos trabalhadores que se destinam a formas solidárias de segurança perante os imprevistos.</p>
<p>Não é por acaso que o anúncio da UPI surge também num contexto de intensificação das pressões para privatizar sectores historicamente públicos ou mutualistas. Desde os fundos de pensões estatais até aos sistemas de segurança social, passando pelas seguradoras mutualistas, há uma clara tendência de transferência de activos e responsabilidades do domínio público para mãos privadas. Este processo, frequentemente disfarçado de “modernização”, “transparência”, “racionalidade” ou “eficiência”, tem como consequência directa a erosão dos direitos sociais e o aumento da desigualdade. Basta comparar o retorno de um sistema de pensões público, quando comparado com um sistema privado individual, para percebermos o porquê das grandes corporações atacarem os primeiros. Existe muito dinheiro a ir para “as mãos erradas”, pensarão.</p>
<p>Como se observará, concretizada a UPI, logo virão as urgências absolutas de “reforma da segurança social”, os imperativos de “cada um poder escolher como quer a sua reforma” e a emergência demográfica de “reforma do sistema de pensões”. Tudo isto para uma coisa e uma coisa apenas: reduzir os fundos destinados à segurança social e aumentar os que podem estar destinados aos produtos financeiros da UPI, ou seja, da Blackrock e companhia. A pressão junto dos governos do centrão liberal, liberal social, social democrata ou conservador reaccionário, será absolutamente brutal, dando origem, quase certamente, à justificativa de que “foi a EU que mandou”.</p>
<p>Na teoria ultrapassada do século XVIII, a mão invisível funciona que é uma maravilha. Ao concentrar as poupanças dos cidadãos europeus num sistema unificado, governos e instituições financeiras ganhariam acesso a vastos recursos que, actualmente, estão dispersos em sistemas nacionais ou regionais. Contudo, num sistema absolutamente desequilibrado, enviesado e inclinado, estes recursos serão capturados por grandes conglomerados financeiros e corporações, que os utilizarão para financiar seus próprios interesses.</p>
<p>Um exemplo claro dessa dinâmica é o que aconteceu com os fundos de pensões em vários países europeus. Na década de 1990 e 2000, muitos Estados adoptaram modelos de capitalização individual, transferindo parte das responsabilidades do Estado para fundos privados, também numa tentativa de libertar capitais para o investimento. Diziam eles, pelo menos. O resultado foi um aumento nas taxas de gestão, menor transparência e, em alguns casos, o colapso de sistemas que antes eram robustos e solidários. A UPI irá replicar esse modelo em escala continental, acelerando a transformação de sistemas públicos em mecanismos controlados pelo mercado financeiro. Com o que sabemos hoje, não podemos continuar a dizer que não é essa a intenção.</p>
<p>Além disso, a proposta levanta dúvidas sobre a sua capacidade de garantir a equidade e a justiça social. Quem decidirá onde serão investidos os fundos? Serão priorizados projectos que beneficiem directamente os cidadãos, como habitação acessível ou saúde pública, ou serão favorecidos grandes conglomerados industriais e financeiros? As experiências recentes mostram que, sem uma regulação rigorosa e democrática, o capital tende a fluir para onde os lucros são maiores, independentemente das necessidades reais das populações.</p>
<p>O financiamento do armamentismo é a outra face da moeda e constitui um dos mais fortes apelos políticos da proposta, a qual, comportando todos os riscos sistémicos e políticos atrás referidos, ainda lhe adicionará o perigo de confrontação militar. Carregada de armas, o que pensam que fará gente como Merz, von der Leyen ou Macron? Terminada a pilhagem das classes trabalhadoras, para onde se dirigirá o próximo projecto de pilhagem?</p>
<p>A UE enfrenta um dilema conhecido: como financiar investimentos maciços em defesa sem violar as regras orçamentais (como o Pacto de Estabilidade e Crescimento)? É aí que entra a UPI! A mobilização de capital privado, facilitando investimentos de longo prazo em sectores estratégicos, como defesa, através de Fundos de investimento especializados (ex.: fundos de infra-estrutura crítica ou tecnologias dual-use); a emissão títulos verdes/sociais adaptados (como “títulos de defesa” para projectos sustentáveis de segurança energética e militar); ou, incentivando a poupança institucional, direccionando parte da poupança reforma (PEPP) ou fundos de pensões para activos de defesa com perfil de risco adequado; são muitas as estratégias que serão usadas para atrair os necessários recursos.</p>
<p>Outra hipótese ainda, também ao abrigo da UPI, consiste na criação de um “mercado de capitais para defesa” que passe pela harmonização de regras para facilitar o lançamento de aquisições e reforços de capital ou emissões de dívida por empresas de defesa. Por fim, ainda se podem reduzir obstáculos fiscais, pois alguns países taxam investimentos em armas, mas poderiam incentivar-se excepções para projectos europeus, o que atrairia a preferência pelo investimento privado em produtos ligados ao sector da defesa, pois o retorno pagaria menos impostos. Ou seja, os contribuintes europeus pagarão do seu bolso para enfrentarem um risco cada vez maior de guerra.</p>
<p>Actualmente, o Fundo Europeu de Defesa (EDF) é financiado pelo orçamento da UE, mas seu alcance é limitado. Com uma união monetária mais integrada, poderão ser implementadas estratégias assentes em parcerias público-privadas, traduzidas na emissão de títulos lastreados em projectos de defesa pelos Bancos de investimento (como o BEI). O que nunca foi feito para a habitação, ferrovia, será agora feito para a guerra. E sempre deixando o necessário <em>royalty </em>aos interesses privados. Ideias como o crowdfunding de defesa, atraindo os fundos de pequenos investidores para as tão propaladas <em>startups</em> de cibersegurança ou drones, mais tarde compradas pelas grandes corporações, é outra das hipóteses que vai na cabeça desta gente. Como se vê, a UPI abre um universo de possibilidades e nenhuma dela beneficia os povos europeus.</p>
<p>Este cenário não é mera especulação. O facto é que a proposta da UPI inclui explicitamente o financiamento do sector da defesa, numa altura em que a União Europeia aposta num novo ciclo de rearmamento e na criação de um reforçado Fundo de Defesa Europeu. O relatório Draghi, que fundamenta parte desta iniciativa (fazia parte da encomenda), identifica a defesa como área prioritária para absorver o capital privado europeu. Assim, a UPI não só viabiliza o desvio de poupanças para o sector militar, como pode tornar os cidadãos cúmplices involuntários do reforço do complexo militar-industrial europeu, sob o pretexto de obterem melhores rendimentos para as suas poupanças.</p>
<p>Outra consequência deste aproveitamento, será o desvio de recursos que de outra forma iriam para áreas sociais prioritárias, consolidando, ainda, uma mentalidade belicista que ameaça a paz e a cooperação internacional. No caso concreto, adiará por várias décadas qualquer possibilidade real de entendimento entre a EU e a Federação Russa, se não for ainda mais grave.</p>
<p>A Comissão Europeia insiste que a participação dos cidadãos será sempre voluntária e que não há planos para qualquer tipo de confisco de poupanças. No entanto, a pressão institucional para “diversificar” investimentos e a promessa de rendimentos superiores podem, na prática, marginalizar as opções de poupança tradicional e empurrar os cidadãos europeus para produtos financeiros alinhados com os objectivos estratégicos de Bruxelas. A retórica da liberdade de escolha esconde, assim, uma reconfiguração profunda do papel do Estado social e do destino das poupanças populares.</p>
<p>Ao mesmo tempo que se fala em “segurança” e “defesa”, negligencia-se o impacto devastador que o armamentismo tem sobre as comunidades, tanto dentro quanto fora da Europa. Os recursos que poderiam ser usados para combater a pobreza, a exclusão social e a crise climática acabam desperdiçados em armas e tecnologias para a guerra.</p>
<p>Tendo em vista este cenário, torna-se urgente questionar a verdadeira natureza da União de Poupanças e Investimento e resistir à sua implementação. Não existe nada mais perigoso do que fundir a ganância corporativa com a adrenalina da guerra. Quando o grande capital passar de lucrar com a guerra, para investir na guerra, todos estaremos em perigo.</p>
<p>A União de Poupanças e Investimento anunciada por Úrsula von der Leyen não é apenas uma questão técnica ou financeira; é uma escolha política fundamental sobre o futuro da Europa e dos povos europeus. A prosseguir-se o caminho traçado, no futuro, todos e cada um de nós não passará de um soldado raso de um sistema económico de guerra permanente.</p>
<p>Quantas vezes os cidadãos europeus precisarão ser surpreendidos pelos mesmos erros?</p>
<p></p>

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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>Since President Donald J. Trump took office, he and his administration have ushered in the most secure border in modern American history — and he didn’t need legislation to do it. President Trump has made good on the promises he made on the campaign trail to usher in an unprecedented era of homeland security.</p>
<p>Here are a few of those promises:</p>
<p><strong>PROMISE MADE:</strong> “We will close the border. We will stop the invasion of illegals into our country.” <em>(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xguaneoZ5A&amp;t=4624s">10/12/24, Aurora, CO</a>)</em></p>
<p><strong>PROMISE KEPT:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>Illegal border encounters are <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1916836225131958670">down</a> by 95%.</li>
<li>Illegal immigrant “gotaways” — the top threat to public safety — are <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1916838346413818234">down</a> by 99%.</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1898065170850562277">Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin</a>: “If Fox were to send me down there right now, I would have trouble finding a single migrant on camera.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1898863171231785399">CBS immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez</a>: “Typically, when we go to the U.S./Mexico border, we at least see one group of people who are trying to cross into the U.S. illegally. We did not see a single migrant.”</li>
<li><em><a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/mexico-border-crossing-numbers-6b2ddf34">The Wall Street Journal</a></em>: Border Crossings Grind to Halt as Trump’s Tough Policies Take Hold</li>
<li><em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/world/americas/mexico-trump-migration.html">The New York Times</a></em>: How Trump’s Hard-Line Tactics Are Driving Down Migration</li>
<li><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/illegal-crossings-plunge-to-levels-not-seen-in-decades-amid-trump-crackdown/">CBS News</a>: Amid Trump crackdown, illegal border crossings plunge to levels not seen in decades</li>
<li><a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/03/04/illegal-border-crossings-february-decline-trump">Axios</a>: Border crossings plunge to lowest levels in decades: New data</li>
<li><em><a href="https://nypost.com/2025/04/21/us-news/northern-border-sector-previously-overrun-by-illegal-migrants-sees-dramatic-drop-in-crossings/">New York Post</a></em>: Northern border sector previously overrun by illegal migrants sees dramatic drop in crossings: ‘We haven’t seen anyone since November’</li>
<li><em><a href="https://www.thetimes.com/us/american-politics/article/mexico-border-el-paso-immigration-trump-g57gb5fdd">The Times</a></em>: This city was a border flashpoint. Now the only migrants are quail</li>
<li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/migrant-arrests-us-mexico-border-march-lowest-ever-recorded-2025-04-01/">Reuters</a>: Migrant arrests at US-Mexico border in March lowest ever recorded</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1907879027009888714">Bloomberg</a>: US-Bound Migration Plunges 99% Along Panama Jungle Route</li>
<li><em><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/21/trump-border-catch-release-dropped-9999-worst-biden-month/">The Washington Times</a></em>: Under Trump, border catch-and-release has dropped 99.99% from worst Biden month</li>
<li><em><a href="https://t.co/zAfYvk3cB6">Los Angeles Times</a></em>: California-Mexico border, once overwhelmed, now nearly empty</li>
</ul><hr data-sanitized-class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"><p><strong>PROMISE MADE:</strong> “We will expel every single illegal alien gang member and migrant criminal operating on American soil and remove the savage gang, Tren de Aragua, from the United States.” <em>(<a href="https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-speech-political-rally-washington-january-19-2025/">1/19/25, Washington, D.C.</a>)</em></p>
<p><strong>PROMISE KEPT:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>President Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/designating-cartels-and-other-organizations-as-foreign-terrorist-organizations-and-specially-designated-global-terrorists/">designated</a> Tren de Aragua, MS-13, and other vicious gangs and cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/27-members-or-associates-tren-de-aragua-charged-racketeering-narcotics-sex-trafficking">Department of Justice</a>: 27 Members or Associates of Tren de Aragua Charged with Racketeering, Narcotics, Sex Trafficking, Robbery and Firearms offenses</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/Sec_Noem/status/1915559976229052564">Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem</a>: “Under President Trump, we have arrested over 150,000 aliens — including more than 600 members of the vicious Tren de Aragua gang.”</li>
<li>The Trump Administration <a href="https://x.com/AGPamBondi/status/1905229078614995199">directed</a> the successful apprehension of a key MS-13 gang leader — an <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1905237189211926621">illegal immigrant</a> living in Virginia and operating as one of the top three MS-13 leaders in the U.S.</li>
<li>The Trump Administration <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1908137235251114207">directed</a> the successful arrests of three illegal immigrant MS-13 gang members in Florida, wanted on first-degree murder charges, and <a href="https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1907574404105605594">another high-ranking MS-13 member</a> in New York, linked to 11 murders.</li>
<li>ICE <a href="https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/1904211354304893254">arrested</a> 370+ illegal immigrants as part of a major operation in Massachusetts — many of whom have serious criminal convictions and charges, including murder, child rape, fentanyl trafficking, and armed robbery.</li>
</ul><hr data-sanitized-class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"><p><strong>PROMISE MADE:</strong> “On Day One … We will begin the largest deportation operation in the history of our country.” <em>(<a href="https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-speech-campaign-rally-concord-north-carolina-october-21-2024/#108">10/21/24, Concord, NC</a>)</em></p>
<p><strong>PROMISE KEPT:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><a href="https://nypost.com/2025/04/22/us-news/trumps-mass-deportation-raids-result-in-655-spike-in-arrests-of-terrorists-roaming-us-including-one-of-indias-most-wanted/">New York Post</a>: Trump’s mass deportation raids result in 655% spike in arrests of terrorists roaming US — including one of India’s ‘most wanted’</li>
<li>Since President Trump took office, there have been <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1916840980700971135">139,000 deportations</a>.
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>In President Trump’s first 50 days, ICE <a href="https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1900277423658209281">arrested</a> 32,809 illegal immigrants — nearly 75% of whom were accused or convicted criminals — virtually the same number of arrests over the entirety of Biden’s final year in office.</li>
</ul></li>
<li><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/immigration-enforcement-operations-rcna189353">NBC News</a>: Immigration enforcement operations ramp up in cities across the U.S.</li>
</ul><hr data-sanitized-class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"><p><strong>PROMISE MADE:</strong> “I will immediately end the Biden border nightmare that traffickers are using to exploit vulnerable women and children.” <em>(<a href="https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-vlog-death-penalty-for-human-traffickers-agenda47-july-21-2023/#7">7/21/23</a>)</em></p>
<p><strong>PROMISE KEPT:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>The number of unaccompanied illegal immigrant children <a href="https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/04/04/exclusive-number-unaccompanied-children-arriving-border-reaches-record-low-under-trump/">reached</a> a record low.
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>At its peak under Biden, 4.6% of illegal border crossings were unaccompanied minors — many of whom were victims of trafficking. In the first two weeks of March under President Trump, just <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1901701247377252421">0.4% of illegal crossings</a> were unaccompanied minors.</li>
</ul></li>
</ul><hr data-sanitized-class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"><p><strong>PROMISE MADE:</strong> “Under my leadership, we will seal it up and expand that wall until we have total control.” <em>(<a href="https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-speech-2023-cpac-convention-national-harbor-maryland-march-4-2023">3/4/23, National Harbor, MD</a>)</em></p>
<p><strong>PROMISE KEPT:</strong></p>
<hr data-sanitized-class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"><p><strong>PROMISE MADE:</strong> “You have the gotaways. You know what the gotaways are? It’s the people that don’t want to be looked at at all. So, they’re worse than the people we’re seeing that’s why they don’t want to be looked at.” <em>(<a href="https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-speech-campaign-rally-macon-georgia-november-3-2024/#91">11/3/24, Macon, GA</a>)</em></p>
<p><strong>PROMISE KEPT:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1916838346413818234">Border Czar Tom Homan</a>: “Known gotaways — people we knew crossed the border … weren’t apprehended, weren’t fingerprinted, weren’t vetted. Average day under Joe Biden? More than 1,800 gotaways. Yesterday? 38 — 38 too many, but we’ll get that to zero. We went from 1,800 [per day] to 38.”</li>
<li><a href="https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/1900205690830151818">Fox News’s Bill Melugin</a>: “Border Patrol’s nationwide recorded gotaways have plummeted to a stunningly low daily average of just 77 over the last 21 days, according to internal CBP data we’ve reviewed. President Biden averaged 1,837 gotaways per day in fiscal year 2023 at the height of the crisis, totaling 670,674 for the year.”</li>
</ul><hr data-sanitized-class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"><p><strong>PROMISE MADE:</strong> “I will ban all welfare and federal benefits for illegals, and then they won’t come.” <em>(<a href="https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-speech-campaign-rally-allentown-pennsylvania-october-29-2024/#149">10/29/24, Allentown, PA</a>)</em></p>
<p><strong>PROMISE KEPT:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>President Trump <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-ends-taxpayer-subsidization-of-open-borders/">signed</a> an executive order to ensure taxpayer resources are not used to incentivize or support illegal immigration.</li>
<li>The Trump Administration <a href="https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/04/24/usda-ensures-illegal-aliens-do-not-receive-federal-benefits">ended</a> food stamps for illegal immigrants.</li>
<li>The Trump Administration “<a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/new-york-city/dhs-agency-clawing-back-59-million-fema-funding-for-nyc-migrant-stays/6147415/">clawed back</a>” tens of millions paid to house illegal aliens in luxury NYC hotels and <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/02/26/doge-millions-of-taxpayer-dollars-were-poised-to-drive-social-and-behavior-change-in-uganda-developing-socially-responsible-behaviors-in-colombia/">ended</a> a $40 million contract to “improve … inclusion of sedentary migrants.”</li>
<li>The Department of Education <a href="https://x.com/usedgov/status/1905293722067009691">revoked</a> waivers that allowed certain colleges to divert federal funds intended for low-income students and students with disabilities to illegal immigrants.</li>
</ul><hr data-sanitized-class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"><p><strong>PROMISE MADE:</strong> “I will end catch-and-release.” <em>(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xguaneoZ5A&amp;t=4570s">10/12/24, Aurora, CO</a>)</em></p>
<p><strong>PROMISE KEPT:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li>Since taking office, the Trump Administration has <a href="https://x.com/Sec_Noem/status/1915758735680540914">arrested</a> 150,000+ illegal immigrants, deported <a href="https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status/1916840980700971135">139,000+ illegal immigrants</a>, and <a href="https://x.com/RealTomHoman/status/1907574940246880739">released</a> just nine illegal immigrants into the U.S. — a staggering 99.99% decrease over the same period last year under Biden.</li>
<li><em><a href="https://nypost.com/2025/01/21/us-news/trump-administration-orders-border-patrol-agents-to-send-migrants-awaiting-immigration-hearings-back-to-mexico/">New York Post</a></em>: Trump orders Border Patrol to immediately stop setting illegal migrants free in the US: ‘Catch and release is ended’</li>
<li><em><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/apr/21/trump-border-catch-release-dropped-9999-worst-biden-month/">The Washington Times</a></em>: Under Trump, border catch-and-release has dropped 99.99% from worst Biden month</li>
</ul><hr data-sanitized-class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"><p><strong>PROMISE MADE:</strong> “My administration will deliver justice for every family whose loved one has been stolen from them by migrant crime, including Laken Riley, Rachel Morin, Jocelyn Nungaray, Kayla Hamilton, and every other precious American soul that we have lost to these animals. Their memories will live in their hearts forever and our hearts forever, and we will never, ever forget them.” <em>(<a href="https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-speech-political-rally-washington-january-19-2025/">1/19/25, Washington, D.C.</a>)</em></p>
<p><strong>PROMISE KEPT:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-signs-laken-riley-act-law-first-legislative-victory-new-administration">Fox News</a>: Trump signs Laken Riley Act into law as first legislative victory in new administration</li>
<li><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/laken-riley-act-mother-thanks-president-trump-2023142">Newsweek</a>: Laken Riley’s Mom Says Trump Didn’t Forget Her Daughter as Bill is Signed</li>
<li><a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5113714-trump-signs-laken-riley-act/">The Hill</a>: Trump signs Laken Riley Act, marking first legislative win of second term</li>
</ul><hr data-sanitized-class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"><p><strong>PROMISE MADE:</strong> “I will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. Think of that. 1798, this was put there. 1798 — that’s a long time ago, right? To target and dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil.” <em>(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xguaneoZ5A&amp;t=3599s">10/12/24, Aurora, CO</a>)</em></p>
<p><strong>PROMISE KEPT:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/invocation-of-the-alien-enemies-act-regarding-the-invasion-of-the-united-states-by-tren-de-aragua/">The White House</a>: Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua</li>
<li><em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/article/alien-enemies-act-trump.html">The New York Times</a></em>: Trump Invoked the Alien Enemies Act to Speed Up Deportations</li>
</ul><hr data-sanitized-class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"><p><strong>PROMISE MADE:</strong> “Kamala’s app for illegals will be shut down immediately — within 24 hours.” <em>(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xguaneoZ5A&amp;t=3232s">10/12/24, Aurora, CO</a>)</em></p>
<p><strong>PROMISE KEPT:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/trump-shuts-cbp-one-immigration-app-dashing-migrants-hopes-entering-us-rcna188448">NBC News</a>: Trump shuts down immigration app, dashing migrants’ hopes of entering U.S.</li>
<li><em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/20/us/politics/trump-shuts-down-migrant-entry-app-cbp-one.html">The New York Times</a></em>: Trump Shuts Down Migrant Entry App, Signaling the Start of His Crackdown</li>
<li><a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/up-1m-migrants-who-used-bidens-cbp-one-app-ordered-deport-trump-admin">Fox News</a>: Up to 1M migrants who used Biden’s CBP One app ordered to deport by Trump admin</li>
</ul><hr data-sanitized-class="wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity"><p><strong>PROMISE MADE:</strong> “Today, I am announcing a new plan to end all sanctuary cities in North Carolina and all across our country… and we will bring down the full weight of the federal government on any jurisdiction that refuses to cooperate.” <em>(<a href="https://nypost.com/2024/09/21/us-news/trump-vows-to-end-all-sanctuary-cities-in-america-boost-law-enforcement-in-regions-that-dont-cooperate-with-ice/">9/21/24, Wilmington, NC</a>)</em></p>
<p><strong>PROMISE KEPT:</strong></p>
<ul data-sanitized-class="wp-block-list"><li><a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/20/trump-targets-sanctuary-cities-00205108">Politico</a>: Fresh executive order targets sanctuary cities, federal aid for undocumented migrants</li>
<li><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-administration-criminally-probe-officials-who-resist-immigration-actions-2025-01-22/">Reuters</a>: Trump steps up immigration crackdown, warns city, state officials against interference</li>
<li><em><a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-plans-to-withhold-all-federal-funding-from-sanctuary-cities-f2ce7387">The Wall Street Journal</a></em>: Trump Plans to Withhold All Federal Funding From Sanctuary Cities</li>
<li><a href="https://news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/trump-directs-death-penalty-for-police-killers-illegal-migrants">Politico</a>: Trump administration sues New York over sanctuary policies for undocumented immigrants</li>
<li><a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-chicago-arrests-sanctuary-immigrants-enforcement-df278eba554406c6703bb362d9b09844">AP</a>: Trump administration sues Chicago in latest crackdown on ‘sanctuary’ cities</li>
</ul>

link:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/04/promises-made-promises-kept-border-security-achieved-in-fewer-than-100-days/


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<p><strong><em>Nemmeno a Pasqua è stato possibile avere un po’ di tregua, perché, alla fine, nessuno in Occidente vuole davvero la pace.</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>Strategia non fa rima con ipocrisia</strong></p>
<p>Il presidente della Federazione Russa, Vladimir Vladimirovič Putin, aveva indetto la “tregua di Pasqua” in occasione della solennità liturgica, celebrata quest’anno in coincidenza in tutto il mondo cristiano. Un segnale di forte attenzione alla dimensione umana della guerra, troppo spesso dimenticata in favore delle narrazioni giornalistiche e dell’utilità dei politici che lucrano sul sangue dei giovani che muoiono al fronte, ma anche una ulteriore prova della volontà della Russia di trovare soluzioni sensate e razionali per il conflitto. Soluzioni che, anche questa volta, sono state manipolate e sfruttate dal nemico. Non c’è pace nemmeno a Pasqua.</p>
<p>È avvenuto infatti che l’Ucraina ha approfittato della tregua indetta per girare a proprio favore la narrativa mediatica. L’attacco è stato molteplice:</p>
<ul>
<li>Sul piano mediatico, per prima cosa l’Ucraina ha accusato Mosca di affermare falsità e, una volta iniziata effettivamente la tregua (solo dalla parte russa), ha accusato ripetutamente la Russia di aver proseguito con gli attacchi, violando ripetutamente la tregua indetta.</li>
<li>La vicenda è servita per insabbiare e far dimenticare il più possibile gli avvenimenti di Sumy, ovvero di Bucha edizione 2025.</li>
<li>Strategicamente, i soldati ucraini hanno cercato di rifornire alcune postazioni al fronte e di sfondare in alcuni punti sensibili, non riuscendovi, ma di fatto perpetrando il fuoco contro il nemico pur sapendo che si trattava di una pausa nel conflitto.</li>
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<p>Nello<em> Jus in bello</em>, il diritto in stato di guerra, una tregua è una sospensione temporanea delle ostilità, concordata dalle parti. Quando è indetta unilateralmente, da una sola parte, non è di solito considerata giuridicamente vincolante, ma può avere comunque delle implicazioni pratiche e legali.</p>
<p>La Convenzione dell’Aia del 1907, all’Art. 36, definisce la tregua come «La sospensione delle operazioni di guerra fra le parti belligeranti per un periodo determinato, concordata da esse direttamente o tramite mediatori». Dunque, quando c’è una sola parte a indire la tregua, non c’è vincolo giuridico internazionale, ma c’è comunque un forte valore morale e politico, che genericamente manifesta una chiara volontà di rispettare e tutelare le esigenze e la sicurezza dei civili, nonché tentare vie di negoziazione. C’è sempre e comunque un rischio militare aperto.</p>
<p>È proprio il carattere politico della vicenda ad essere strategicamente interessante. Kiev ha deliberatamente sabotato la tregua di Pasqua perché è interessata a continuare il conflitto militare. Il Ministero della Difesa russo ha riferito di oltre 50 attacchi all’interno delle zone di confine con vittime civili, tra cui una bambina di 2 anni nella regione di Belgorod. Oltre al bombardamento delle postazioni dell’esercito russo, sono state attaccate anche aree civili a Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, Donetsk e Lugansk.</p>
<p>Sulla scena politica globale, il presidente permanente non-eletto Zelensky ha dimostrato una grande ipocrisia, cercando di manipolare la buona volontà di Putin, senza però riuscirci. Il risultato è una dimostrazione di infamia bellica, di mancanza di umanità.</p>
<p><strong>Il giorno dopo</strong></p>
<p>Dopo la scadenza della “tregua di Pasqua”, le truppe russe hanno attaccato la zona industriale dell’istituto di ricerca “Storm” a Odessa. Il Ministero della Difesa russo ha inoltre segnalato la detonazione di un deposito di munizioni nella zona di Kirzhach a causa della violazione delle norme di sicurezza. In direzione di Sumy, le truppe russe continuano la loro offensiva e hanno liberato il monastero di Gornalsky, avanzando anche nei campi in direzione di Oleshnya. In direzione di Dzerzhinsky, le truppe russe si sono mosse per combattere alla periferia di Dachnoye , circondando parzialmente le unità delle Forze armate ucraine nel villaggio. I combattenti del 68° reggimento carri armati delle forze armate russe avanzano a nord di Valentinovka e cacciano il nemico dalla maggior parte di Sukha Balka.</p>
<p>Per la politica internazionale, invece, è interessante portare l’attenzione su quanto era stato annunciato da Donald Trump, che aveva pianificato di fermare la guerra entro Pasqua, o di ottenere una tregua di almeno 30 giorni. Niente di tutto ciò ha funzionato. Gli USA si confermano ancora una volta distanti dalla reale capacità di intervento e influenza sul conflitto russo-ucraino.</p>
<p>Sulla scia degli eventi, Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114388111141848447" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ha invece attaccato Zelensky</a> (non è la prima volta) per le sue dichiarazioni riguardo la Crimea:</p>
<p>« Il presidente ucraino, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, si vanta sulla prima pagina del Wall Street Journal che “l’Ucraina non riconoscerà legalmente l’occupazione della Crimea. Non c’è niente da discutere su questo punto”. Questa affermazione è molto dannosa per i negoziati di pace con la Russia, in quanto la Crimea è stata persa anni fa sotto gli auspici del presidente Barack Hussein Obama, e non è nemmeno un punto di discussione. Nessuno sta chiedendo a Zelenskyy di riconoscere la Crimea come territorio russo ma, se vuole la Crimea, perché [l’Ucraina] non ha combattuto per essa undici anni fa, quando è stata consegnata alla Russia senza sparare un colpo? L’area ospita anche, per molti anni prima del “passaggio di consegne di Obama”, importanti basi sottomarine russe.</p>
<p>Sono dichiarazioni incendiarie come quelle di Zelenskyy che rendono così difficile risolvere questa guerra. Non ha nulla di cui vantarsi! La situazione per l’Ucraina è terribile: può avere la pace o può combattere per altri tre anni prima di perdere l’intero Paese. Non ho nulla a che fare con la Russia, ma ho molto a che fare con il voler salvare, in media, cinquemila soldati russi e ucraini alla settimana, che muoiono senza alcun motivo. La dichiarazione fatta oggi da Zelensky non farà altro che prolungare il “campo di sterminio”, e nessuno lo vuole! Siamo molto vicini a un accordo, ma l’uomo che “non ha carte da giocare” dovrebbe ora, finalmente, FINIRLA. Non vedo l’ora di poter aiutare l’Ucraina e la Russia a uscire da questo PASTICCIO Completo e Totale, che non sarebbe mai iniziato se fossi stato Presidente!».</p>
<p>Questo va di pari passo con la maleducazione diplomatica di Zelensky che a Londra, durante il vertice fra i capi della politica estera di USA, UK, Francia, Germania e Ucraina, ha dimostrato incapacità di negoziazione, mostrando una forte aggressività politica. Il motivo del rifiuto di recarsi in Gran Bretagna, in particolare da parte del Segretario di Stato americano Mark Rubio, come sostengono fonti dei media occidentali, è la forte riluttanza del leader ucraino a discutere di un fatto già compiuto: l’appartenenza della Crimea alla Russia. La giunta di Kiev si rifiuta di riconoscere la realtà e l’inevitabilità della sconfitta.</p>
<p>Dal lato UE/NATO, Kaja Kallas <a href="https://www.kyivpost.com/post/51259">ha bacchettato</a> gli USA dicendo che non hanno usato strumenti efficaci per fare pressioni sulla Russia, affermando che «Hanno strumenti nelle loro mani da usare, in realtà, per fare pressione sulla Russia. Non hanno usato quegli strumenti» e riconoscendo che la Russia sta vincendo la partita. Ha detto che l’UE, da parte sua, non riconoscerà mai la penisola come russa «La Crimea è Ucraina. Significa molto per coloro che sono occupati che gli altri non riconoscano questo come russo».</p>
<p>L’UE vuole dunque la guerra-senza-fine con la Russia sotto il cappello di Washington, perché è consapevole che l’Europa, da sola, non sarebbe in grado di sopravvivere un solo giorno.</p>
<p>Nemmeno a Pasqua è stato possibile avere un po’ di tregua, perché la pace, in fin dei conti, in Occidente non la vuole veramente nessuno.</p>
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link:
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/04/29/la-tregua-di-pasqua-il-doppio-gioco-politico-dellucraina/


