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JennyStokes's avatar

Well at least NO sane Country will ever trust the USA again.

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gerald f dobbertin's avatar

Ms. Stokes, you might be interested in John Mearscheimer's book WHY LEADERS LIE. He points out that national leaders are more likely to lie to their own people than the leaders of other nations. This is why the lies Hitler told, especially to Neville Chamberlain were so universally denounced. It is why Stalin's lies to the world's leaders were so denounced. Leaders rarely lie to one another. It is far more dangerous in the long run, to lie to national leaders than to one's own people. Machiavelli talks about the same thing in THE PRINCE in 1532 AD.

Machiavelli was a pivotal point in the intellectual development of social studies. He was the first thinker to treat the subject of politics in an objective manner; devoid of moral or religious sentiments. He is certainly the father of what we now call Political Science. I think of him as the Isaac Newton of the social sciences. John Mearscheimer is the most important American political scientist alive.

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JennyStokes's avatar

I 100% agree with you BUT when Mearsheimer begins to talk about China. I cut off.

He is a Chinaphobe and an American!

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Zachary Guadamour's avatar

What the Fuck ever happened to true diplomacy. This only helps to desroy the little respect the US has with the rest of the world. Israel has attacked almost everyone of their neighbors. A UN peace keeping force need to go into Israel and remove all Israelis from illegally occupied territory. But, of course, this won't happen because the US will veto it. The UN needs to reinvent itself so no country has veto power, make it much more democratic.

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gerald f dobbertin's avatar

Mr. Norton, I am old enough to remember when Truman became the first head of state to recognize the new state of Israel. He did it the same day The Zionists announced their independence as a nation. Truman did it so the US would have a base from which to launch an attack against the USSR from the direction of its soft underbelly. Now it is still serving as a base from which to launch attacks in the region of the oil-producing countries. "Unsinkable aircraft carrier" is an apt term. Keep up the great work. You bolster my faith in America's next generation.

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Ade's avatar

There’s a variety of factors, but I believe every aspect of the Israeli/American aggression towards Iran stems from the People’s Revolution in 1979. They simply cannot abide any nation that frees itself from Western imperialism. It goes beyond simple islamophobia — Iran being a sovereign country put the entire imperial system in jeapordy. This is why one should never deal with the West as one would deal with a fellow nation. They are not like the rest of of us. They are evil to the core.

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rakyat kecil's avatar

Ade hegemons do these things, fools paradise is for those who trust the US or G7 governments and thought Trump was anything but a treacherous thief.

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Julie Anne's avatar

The deranged Trump boast " the United States makes the best and most lethal military equipment anywhere in the World, BY FAR ..." is matched with the self imagined moral superiority of US and Israel. Both nations project this onto the planet with their imperialist violence and religions. Israel's claim for a god ordained Greater Israel and the return of Jesus and a "prophesied" Christian 1000 year reign by the Project 2025 cult, are indoctrinated political aims. Religion is political. It deserves much more criticism for its negative forces hiding behind male supremacists gods.

Iran has one of the world's largest oil deposits. Initial discoveries were around 1908. The Balfour Declaration giving Israel claim to Palestine was signed in 1917. Both UK and Israeli oil interests were involved in this lobbying.

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Kojo's avatar

Russia and China need to be paying attention: the zionist axis forces constantly engage in fake "negotiations".

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Eric Arthur Blair's avatar

So Trumpty Dumpty admitted, indeed boasted, that he merely pretended to negotiate for peace with Iran to lull the Iranians into complacency.

https://podbay.fm/p/multipolarista-146684/e/1749897527

It was all a sham, just as Minsk 1&2 were shams, just as Istanbul was a sham, just as ALL so-called agreements between the USA and native Americans, between the USA and other nations, have all been shams. As Putin previously stated, the USA is not agreement capable. That is also true for US servile lapdogs Perfidious Albion, Germland and Froggyland.

Trump's election platform was peace, no new wars, but he had zero intention of actually doing so, it was just a ploy to get elected. More fool the MAGA morons. Harris would have been equally war mongering but more honest. The only real peace President would have been Dr Jill Stein, a true blue Jew, not a fake Jew like the filthy Zionazis. Just as Mexican President Dr Claudia Scheinbaum is a true blue Jew, a sparkling gem of humanity.

Trump gave SatanYahoo the green light to attack Iran, even as SatanYahoo fled like the coward he is to Greece, to escape the return fire.

Pepe Escobar, adopting a wider view, says that this so-called Israel-Iran war is actually a war between the collective West and the BRICS, now a hot war.

https://www.youtube.com/live/TTUpoY-vWA8

The greatest risk to humanity is nuclear exchange which will absolutely occur if the West launches any nukes pre-emptively.

The BRICS have superior quality and quantity of conventional weapons and will never use nukes except in retaliation. So beware of false flags fabricated by the CIA/MI6/Mossad.

The BRICS must soldier on, hold the course, manage the inevitability of being hit by conventional strikes, but must hit back much harder and stronger and longer with their superior armaments and industrial production capacity.

Israel needs to be turned into the same hellscape that the Zionazis inflicted upon Gaza, a proper, fair and just outcome. Extermination / eviction of the foreign invasive deceitful non-Semitic AshkeNAZIs will eventually allow the ancestral indigenous rightful owners of the land, the Semitic Palestinians, to reclaim and rebuild their land.

China and Russia will be able to rebuild all infrastructure, hospitals, schools, houses etc in Palestine within 2 years and give everything to the long suffering Palestinians for FREE. Why? Because China and Russia are on the side of moral righteousness whereas the warmongering USA / ZioEurotrash are fucking murderous cunts.

In a protracted West vs BRICS war, western armaments, already in short supply, will quickly deplete, while BRICS weapon production will multiply without limit.

All the trump cards are held by the BRICS, not Trump.

China was previously reluctant to sell off its US treasuries because a fire sale will cause their value to tank. In the big scheme of things that no longer matters, all $770 billion of Chinese owned US TBills must be dumped cheap, even written off, which will force Japan to also dump their $1.1 trillion of US Tbills and all other foreign holders to follow suit in a frenzy akin to a run on a bank, causing the US bond market to crash. No foreigners will EVER buy US treasuries again once it is revealed they are actually WORTHLESS IOUs, never intended to be redeemed in good faith by the USA, only meant to be rolled over endlessly by electronic printing.

All trade between non-US countries must bypass the US dollar using systems such as those already operating between China and the 10 ASEAN and 6 GCC states, between China and Russia and between India and Russia. If certain European countries like Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia etc wish to join such trade, they will be warmly welcomed, they will be embraced by the BRI, they will be embraced by the BRICS.

China must block all rare earth and high tech exports to the USA.

Russia must stop all fertiliser, oil, gas and uranium exports to the USA. The USA is UNABLE to produce affordable fertiliser and fossil fuels, their super-expensive production was only made possible by the freeloading US dollar parasitic privilege as international reserve currency, which must be abolished NOW.

All these measures will cause horrific hyperinflation in the USA.

Gasoline costing $20 a gallon, eggs costing $30 a dozen, with far worse to come. Mortgages will default, "neoliberal" capitalism will enforce widespread evictions and the US epidemic of homelessness will skyrocket.

Collapse of the US economy will destroy their ability to support the Zionazi terrorists (not to mention UkroNazi and Jolani type ISIS terrorists) leading to the EVAPORATION of the state of Israel.

It will spark severe unrest in the USA which will cause their so-called civilization to implode into Mad Max barbarism. Crowds will riot and stores will be plundered and trashed.

USAnians armed with shotguns and assault rifles will shoot at the militarised police who will mow down the crowds using APC mounted 50 cal machine guns.

It will be the Hobbesian war of all against all.

Mayhem within the USA that the USA itself had historically sowed in other countries via regime change operations conducted by the CIA and it's cutouts USAID and the NED.

Just desserts for an empire of genocide, slavery, endless foreign interference / invasions / mass murders and nauseatingly deceitful hypocrisy.

All those events entirely avoidable if only western leaders could have behaved like mature reasonable adults, to keep their word, to live and let live, rather than behave like filthy lying knuckledragging deceitful Mafia gangsters and bullies.

Fuck Israel.

Fuck the Fascist States of America.

Pity ordinary Americans and Europeans who only wanted peaceful quiet lives, who opposed the genocide by Israel. If such people wish to migrate to Russia, even if they do not speak Russian, they will be welcomed and given land for free. The promises of Russia can be trusted unlike the USA. This is not a genetic trait, the differences are entirely cultural. The boastful, deceitful, belligerent, thuggish assholery of USAnians (and Blighties and Froggies and Germs) can be expunged by educating the next generation how not to be cunts.

Failing that, human extinction is guaranteed, entirely due to the cultural psychopathy of less than 10% of humanity.

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Eric Arthur Blair's avatar

The trend to bilaterally settle international transactions bypassing the USD is going ballistic

https://youtu.be/L-Ui0e4d3CY

The USA is blind to these events, is unable to monitor them and can do nothing about it.

Death by a thousand cuts for the global reserve currency status of the USD, now being turbocharged.

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Bertiz Benhamid's avatar

Hit the nail on its head'

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Charles Kelly's avatar

Zeroing in on the current situation, over the past 18 months I have warned a Yiddish acquaintance about the danger of attacking Persia. Within 36 hours a Persian missile made a direct hit on the IOF HQ. Separately, the BBC showed the destruction of a TA suburb. So much for the Iron Dome!

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NZ Global Economics Context's avatar

Why So Much Focus on War?

Apologies if it seems like I'm harping on about war lately.

But I believe war today is not just about borders or ideology, it’s about money, power, and profits. And too few people realise how deeply financial systems drive global conflict.

I suggest we are witnessing a worldwide economic war, cloaked in geopolitics and media spin. At its heart lies a global push by what I call the Euro-American Private Banking Empire, a cartel that insists the world stop using sovereign public credit and instead borrow their money, created by them, for profit, as interest-bearing debt.

In short: they want you to pay rent on your own money and thank them for the privilege.

The nations resisting this debt-based domination, those still trying to run Treasury-centric or sovereign credit systems, are being targeted, destabilised, or outright invaded. It’s not a coincidence.

It’s a pattern.

This cartel has been playing the long game since the end of legal slavery. They lost the whip but found a way to enslave nations through debt, austerity, and financial dependency instead of chains.

In the case of Britain, the British subjects were even forced to borrow money from them to buy the slaves' freedom, if it was to happen. The final repayment on those loans was made in 2015.

And now, emboldened by centuries of wealth extraction and captured institutions, they’re escalating: from subtle economic warfare to open threats. “Join our system or else.”

It must not be forgotten that what I call the Euro-American Private Banking Empire uses the same tactics to exploit their own kind, as any other kind :

Trump Vows To Protect The Dollar As Reserve Currency

👉 https://youtu.be/eRx6jK7PPDM?si=_8WUlvPBVNvDAXSr

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Bertiz Benhamid's avatar

Trump speaks with a forked tongue'

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Tatjana's avatar

Thank you, Ben! Your reports are so precious, not only because of excellent analysis and sticking to facts, but also because we can learn from you and use the knowledge to fight the empire. Humanity has the unique opportunity to dismantle the western empire once and for all, and we are all needed in this fight!

P. S.: It is becoming clearer and clearer why globalists tried so hard to stop Trump from being elected. Trump keeps spilling the beans! Humanity can now see very clearly what this Western "democracy" is all about!

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Hanan Stanley's avatar

Also the UK and France

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Blind Faith's avatar

This isn’t news. It was obvious from the get go. He was and will always be scum that needs to be wiped clean from people’s rose glasses.

It is a wonder how people were fooled into voting for the genocidal scum. They should have voted third party. But people in this country are too stupid and lazy to think and care.

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7thSignSoul's avatar

Time to call MSM exactly what it is Regime-Stream Media.

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7thSignSoul's avatar

▪️IsraHell is a TERRORIST CARRIER for DCs ZioNaziPENTAGON

▪️Time to call MSM exactly what it is Regime-Stream Media

▪️What MORE PROOF does DC require to discern the fact that farrrrr too much money is dumped into

the Free-Loading ZioNaziTERRORIST STATE of israHell than Epstein's Pedophile-Isle❓

▪️israHELL is WHY the U.S. Pentagon never passes a forensic Audit, which needs to be conducted QUARTERLY

by a Emergency Managers at EVery U.S. Base and Contractor site, UNTIL ThePentagon funding scheme is

fully transparent at every step of the supply chain

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Tracie McBride's avatar

There are no words left

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