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Incredible scenes at Bishkek Arena during the opening ceremony of the 6th World Nomad Games on Kyrgyz Republic Independence Day, with SCO heads of state in attendance—including Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, Narendra Modi, Masoud Pezeshkian, and host President Sadyr Japarov. The ancient cultures of Eurasia are coming together to shape a new era of cooperation, development, and sovereign national cultures.
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Flávio Bolsonaro won 155 of Brazil’s 200 most evangelical municipalities. His father won 130 in 2022. The Christian Zionist political machine is expanding. British imperial policy in the 1840s promoted Protestant institutions and Jewish restoration in Palestine. John Nelson Darby’s dispensationalism helped shape the prophetic worldview that later influenced Anglo-American Christian Zionism. Since 1977, Likud’s Revisionist Zionists made a strategic priority of partnering with Christian fundamentalists. The theology came first. The political alliance came later. That theology has been turned against the Sermon on the Mount. Love of neighbor has been replaced with hatred of Muslims, and reason with prophecy. Flávio’s promise to move Brazil’s embassy to Jerusalem and align the country with Israel against Iran gives that mobilization a geopolitical direction. The pastors mobilize the faithful. The Chicago Boys write the policy. Wall Street and Washington collect the resources. Lula won today. The machine lost the election, but not its personnel, its funding, or its plan. The pastors still have their congregations, and the congregations are still clamouring for the rapture and speaking in tongues.
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The Chinese film Once Upon a Time in the Middle East is now at select theaters across the US and Canada. It tells the Iraq War from a Chinese restaurant kitchen instead of a general’s command center. A chef trying to keep people fed while the empire bombs the city around him. No American hero saving the world. Just survival, and the quiet refusal to let war swallow everything. Hollywood has spent decades selling the story of the noble American soldier. This film doesn’t even bother with the lie. The Americans are an occupying sledgehammer, and the people caught underneath are the story. China’s official Oscar entry. Now showing in North America. United States: City of Industry, CA Milpitas, CA San Jose, CA Flushing, NY New York, NY Plano, TX Bellevue, WA Monterey Park, CA Orange, CA Santa Clara, CA Lawrenceville, GA Brooklyn, NY Stafford, TX Canada: Calgary, AB Vancouver, BC Winnipeg, MB Markham, ON Mississauga, ON Richmond Hill, ON Toronto, ON Montreal, QC
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Jeffrey Sachs: a president stood at the UN and claimed the right to annihilate a civilization. Congress said nothing. That is the constitutional order collapsing in public. “I shuddered then, and I shudder now that a president of the United States can stand at the podium of the UN General Assembly speaking to world leaders in a language of annihilation of other countries and of sending them to hell. It was ghastly, unprecedented, totally disgusting, disgraceful for the United States. But I would also say a measure of how broken the constitutional order of the United States is. Trump basically said, like a madman, which I think arguably he is, that he and he alone will decide the survival of Iran. He said that he has a big, big choice to make. Maybe Iran will be a great country. Maybe Iran will be annihilated. Maybe Trump will send it to hell. And not only was the language vulgar in a way that I certainly could never in my lifetime have imagined coming from a president of the United States or anybody standing at the UN podium—because what Trump said was odious and completely in violation of every religious, moral, ethical, and legal standard that we have in this world—it was also a measure of the brazen collapse of our Constitution. Is there a political system where one man decides the fate of another civilization? Is that how the American system works? Of course the answer is no. The founding fathers who rebelled against a mad King George III were very explicit in the Declaration of Independence, celebrated this year 250 years after its issuance. We’re in the 250th anniversary, one that Trump says is about our freedom. It was explicitly that King George arrogated, took on the authority to put the military above civil rule. And when the founding fathers wrote the US Constitution, they assigned specifically the power to declare war not to the commander-in-chief, but solely and exclusively—and not by choice, not if they care about it or want to or want to delegate it or not, but solely—to the United States Congress. And Trump said yesterday he doesn’t care what the public thinks. He doesn’t care what the vote is. He says it doesn’t even cross my mind. And he said earlier this year, when he was asked, well, are there any limits on your power? He thought about it. He said Yes, my morality, but it’s my will. It’s what I want to do. Otherwise, no, there are no other limits. What did our Congress do on that occasion? I can tell you, as we know, that the majority party in both houses simply remained silent. That is a violation of their sacred oath of office, which is to uphold the Constitution. Trump yesterday said he’s going to have the difficult choice of whether to annihilate, by the way, one of the most ancient civilizations in the world, 5,000 years old, twenty times older than the United States of America. And what did our Speaker of the House say? Well, he said nothing, of course. What did our Senate majority leader say? He said, of course, nothing. What did all of the party of the president of the United States say, the members of Congress? They said, of course, nothing. This is worse than the Roman Empire. There was a Senate that actually still said something. Our Senate says nothing. We are so broken that not only do we have a madman in power, but there is no respect for our constitutional order. And the president can make statements as he made yesterday, unprecedented in the chamber of the General Assembly in front of the world leaders, speaking like the worst tyrant or gangster imaginable, and not a murmur from the Republican Party which dominates the House and the Senate. You know, I am not partisan. And a Democratic president who dared to be as absolutely mad and deranged as this president would probably find subservience in that party too. So I’m not even making a partisan point. I’m making a point about the collapse of our constitutional order. Have we come to a point where one man, who I happen to think is utterly incompetent, utterly sociopathic, actually—when people are killed under his order, not a moment of reflection or remorse when 150 schoolgirls are murdered, and he knows the truth. He says, yeah, the Iranians probably did it. We’ll find out. No, not any control at all in our system of government. So for me, you asked how I feel. I shudder at the last 24 hours, both at what the president said. It made my skin crawl. I was sitting there in the chamber listening to this madness. I mean it really, psychopathic madness, speaking in this way, with a vulgarity that is unimaginable. But then I’ve shuddered since then at the lack of response by the leaders, the majority leader of the US Senate, the Speaker of the House, Supreme Court justices, anybody to say no. In our system of government, it’s not one person who decides on the fate of another civilization. We are a country, we say, first of all, of representation, and the American people are aghast at this. They oppose it overwhelmingly. They do not support this war of Netanyahu and Trump, which is a two-person war of murder and destruction and assassination of leaders of another country. They do not support it. And the constitutional order is that we are a representative government, and our representatives have an oath of office that only they can declare war. So where are they standing up to say No, you don’t have a penny to spend on this? We control the power of the purse. The tens or hundreds of billions of dollars that Trump has wasted of American income in this flagrant war of whim. Where is Congress to say you have no authority whatsoever to spend that because only we can decide on the spending and only we can declare war. So this is the grim fact. It wasn’t just the awful statements. That was my first reaction. But then I thought, what have we come to when one person can make a statement like this and then remain essentially unchallenged in the United States system of government?” Annihilation is not diplomacy. Congressional silence is not restraint. A constitutional republic cannot survive if one man claims the power to decide whether another civilization lives or dies.
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Alastair Crooke (Alastair Crooke): Saudi Arabia is a pillar for one family. If it is no longer oil wealth for Wall Street and the petrodollar, there is nothing there. MBS had Trump as his security. That is gone. The reserves went into NEOM. He cannot deal with Ansar Allah because Washington runs the state. “Saudi is a pillar that rests on one person, one family—one family that gerrymandered the succession so that they can become king. Don’t forget Salman changed the succession. It’s supposed to go from brother to brother to brother, and he changed all of that. He has alienated most of the family. It rests on a very fragile pillar. Unless they are seen as the source of oil wealth for Wall Street, for the petrodollar, for Washington—if that cannot be sustained—then what is there to Saudi Arabia? Nothing. There’s nothing there beyond that. This is a huge humiliation in terms of Saudi culture. MBS had Trump on his side. This was his security. This was his basis for going ahead. And suddenly it’s clear to all the rivals, all those people in his own family. You recall the Ritz-Carlton episode, where he literally imprisoned them in a hotel and hung them upside down until all the money came out of their pockets. They were just literally humiliated. Some of them have disappeared. Some of them have been humiliated. And there are the tribes that have been largely dispossessed of their income. So what’s going to happen? Well, there’s no money. The reserves that were built up. No one’s getting paid at the moment. Contracts, building sites—nothing is being paid. There is no money to pay anything. There’s no money to buy people out. There was a big reserve built up of cash, but most of that has gone on these big projects like the NEOM hotel and these other projects, and there’s none of that left. So bin Salman is on his own there, with everyone looking and wondering. This is the end of a colonial structure. The colonial structure is collapsing in the Gulf, and the Saudis are the lynchpin of that. Why doesn’t he just do a deal with the Yemenis? The answer is he’s just too embedded in the United States structures. He can’t do it. He’s always been wholly embedded with US presidents, with the US military structures, down to the last element. They run the state for him, and he just cannot do it. He cannot make a deal with the Houthis. The consequences are huge. Saudi Arabia is not selling oil. It doesn’t have money. It’s not allowed to sell its treasuries. It’s been trying to sell shares, but even its allies in the Gulf don’t want to buy them except at a huge discount, because they’re not sure that Saudi will be there as we know it tomorrow or the next day, or next month. There’s a great reluctance, even from Gulf allies, to come and help him out. We’re seeing a huge shift. All of these post-colonial states are hanging by a thread, because Saudi Arabia and its connections with Israel—and its use by Israel as an Israeli platform over many, many years—have been the pivot for the whole Gulf region. Everyone is watching that. At the same time, Iran is mobilizing a million people into these self-sacrifice battalions of a thousand people each. A million! This isn’t to defend against some expeditionary force from the United States coming and landing on the other side of the Hormuz. I don’t think that’s even possible. I don’t think it’s likely to happen. I don’t think they can go; where would they launch from? How would they arrive? What would be the transport? Who would supply them? How would they fight? What would be the purpose of it? I think in Washington and the Pentagon, everyone came to the conclusion to pursue this, to go on with war against the Houthis, who have effectively won against Saudi Arabia. It seems pointless and would end badly, end much worse, because it might widen and become a much wider regional war involving Iraq. If I were Bahrain or Kuwait seeing the Iranians mobilizing a million men, I would be very frightened indeed. I’m sure they are. This was the bedrock of Israeli policy, the big gamble: to isolate, defame and undermine Iran and to base everything on the Gulf states and Saudi Arabia as the means to assimilate itself into the Middle East—into the region. Now that is visibly shaking before their eyes. Inflation is everywhere. It has gone global. The crisis that was coming has come. It’s arrived. Inflation everywhere is going up because everything moves by diesel in Europe and in America. That’s the delivery system. The trains, often the boats, survive on diesel. So everything is going up. Prices are going up everywhere. Airfares are going up.” The City built the Gulf on oil, garrisons, and a dollar ledger. The physical economy is sending the bill.
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Alastair Crooke (Alastair Crooke) describes a long-running project to establish a single Western-led world order, one that requires severing people from family, community, and national sovereignty. He traces its modern form through the neoconservative movement and Zionism, and argues that the wars in Ukraine, Iran, and Yemen are not separate conflicts, but instruments of the same design. Alastair Crooke: “And it’s a design for world government. And it would be led by Western civilization. When Rubio spoke in Athens, he said what we have to do is we have to get back. The West has to dominate. It has to be the civilization that sets the rules, that sets the template for a world order. All the values we thought we had, law, morality, all of these things, rectitude in business, all just eliminated. But nonetheless, it goes on, the idea that it’s inconceivable that there could be a world in which the West does not give it its orders. It started off partly with the Enlightenment. It started off with the founding of the Illuminati. It started off with Sabbatai Zevi. It started off with Freemasonry. It started off with the Hellfire Clubs. All of these movements and others converged together on the idea of a single government. We had to move away from the connections people had with family, with their community, with their country, and sever all of those things. It was very clear. Rousseau made this very clear in the Enlightenment: we had to do away with religion. We had to do away with connections to family, those things that held us in their sway, with community, with all of those organizations. We had to do away with those and become one element in this. And he said our religion is now going to be that of mechanical reasoning. Eventually, partly in the 1890s, it moved to America and became the neocon movement. It moved to Europe. It moved to the Middle East as Zionism. All these wars we’re facing, apparently separate, distinct individual wars, Ukraine, Iran, in Yemen, are actually part of a single structure, a single attempt. The grand design wishes to use these to impose that one world order. Why on Iran? Why on Russia? Because they were civilizational states. But because the West was in the leadership in business and in money affairs, it would be run by the oligarchs combined with the political leadership of that time to control us all.” Judge Napolitano: “As you point out in this article, as far back as 1846, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, Benjamin Disraeli, said the world is governed by hidden forces, and nothing’s changed.” Alastair Crooke: “Exactly. Exactly. And nothing has changed. And he made this warning several times to Parliament and said there are movements that are coalescing together that intend to impose this on us, and of course they have huge resources. The only thing that’s changed since that time was, you remember, at that time, in the sort of early 19th century, around about Disraeli’s time, the family financial structures of Europe became impossibly rich. They made fortunes out of the war against Napoleon. They made fortunes out of supporting the war in America on both sides. They financed the war of Japan against Russia. All of these things were there, and they made lots of money. They were more powerful than the state. The Round Table by Lord Milner, was established about that time and effectively wrote the Balfour Declaration establishing Israel. It wasn’t written by the government, but by Balfour. He had nothing to do with it. It was this group of extremely wealthy people who had access to intelligence and to the defense system, who were operating above the government and dictating the government’s foreign policy. And all of this is part of the grand design, if you like, to weaken those forces that are opposed to Western domination, a Western world government, with the ultimate aim being, of course, China.” The alternative to oligarchical rule is a world of sovereign nations cooperating for peace, scientific progress, and economic development. No nation has the right to dictate humanity’s future. The choice is between perpetual geopolitical confrontation and a new order based on mutual development.
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Alastair Crooke (Alastair Crooke): Iran is no longer firing warning drones. It is hitting engine rooms. Tankers have been out of the circuit for months; the cost of chartering a supertanker from the U.S. Gulf to China has reportedly reached $80 million, diesel inventories are severely depleted, and Saudi oil infrastructure has come under attack. The replacements are not off-the-shelf. “Iran, I think, attacked six vessels yesterday or the day before in one day. Some of them are on fire, badly on fire. Some of them seem to have struck mines. I’m not sure exactly where, but these are big vessels. One of them is a container ship from the UAE. And what is different this time is that Iran is aiming for the engine room. Before, they fired drones that did a certain amount of damage, but it was quite often superficial, and it was intended to be a warning message: turn around or else. Now they are attacking the engine rooms. And this changes things in a very great way because when the engine room is taken out like that, those vessels are not going to be repaired anywhere near that site. They’ll probably have to go to Malaysia or India or somewhere and go into a dockyard for repairs, taking them out of commission for many months probably. So this has had a big effect on the shipping costs. Even if you take it away from Hormuz separately, I saw statistics that at the moment to hire a big tanker, one of these very large tankers for a voyage from America to China, is now costing about 80 million. Huge amounts. It’s actually costing more than launching one of Elon Musk’s rockets into space, which is slightly cheaper, and probably about the price you could have bought a vessel like that before. This is rather ignored in the calculus by a lot of the commentators. The shipping is becoming really problematic. The losses are high. The owners don’t want to risk them. It’s hard to get shipping, and it’s becoming hugely expensive. And so those trading firms that do trade and have commission vessels are passing on the costs of this to, for example, the container owners, and the contents of those containers are going to cost very much more by the time they reach a shop. Because this is what’s happening. I think Maersk has already put a special levy on containers now. Nothing to do with the oil question. This is to do with the fact that shipping has become so expensive. So we have all of that taking place. It’s increasing inflation, and the figures have just come out in the United States, and it’s heading towards 4%. And we will see the bond market reacting to that, I imagine, later today or tomorrow. So all of this is creating a bigger crisis, and the other crisis is really that there is no diesel. It’s not just that there have been vessels stopped and there’s been a squeeze on Hormuz in the Middle East and middle distillates, which is what you need for diesel or kerosene. But it is also because much of that is either in the wrong place, or refineries that need a particular type of distillate cannot get it, or there is no shipping to bring it to the place. So there really is, the amount of diesel in inventory is really low, if not nonexistent. And I think a diesel crisis has been called for Europe. What that’ll mean, we will have to see, but in Europe everything moves by diesel. In terms of delivery of goods to shops, of foodstuffs and things like that, they are all moved by diesel-powered vehicles. So it’s getting worse in terms of the economy. But the tensions are growing. What’s happening in Saudi Arabia is very serious. The infrastructure of Saudi Arabia is being destroyed. Its biggest field has been attacked: one of the eastern fields, part of the large field that supplies 30%, perhaps, or used to supply 30% of Saudi oil, has been attacked. So all of these things come together, because that infrastructure is not going to be replaced cheaply or quickly. There are bits of it you can replace quickly, for sure, but some of it is not something that you can buy off the shelf. In the complex structures of refineries and so on, you can’t just order one, and it’ll come by courier the next day. It’s not like that. They have to be made to order, and they have to be custom-made. So those will take perhaps a couple of years to supply, maybe longer. And the cost of all this is going to be very high. So for Gulf states and for a country like Saudi Arabia, the cost of replacing this is going to be, if they have the money, going to be very high indeed.” The petrodollar system rests on the physical movement of oil and the industrial capacity that makes that movement possible. When ships are disabled, fuel supplies are disrupted, and specialized industrial infrastructure is damaged, financial claims cannot make the missing capacity reappear. The empire can issue paper claims on the world’s wealth. It cannot print the ships, diesel, or industrial machinery required to produce that wealth and move it to market.
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Alastair Crooke (Alastair Crooke) names what the empire will not: the West has lost its economic foundations, interest payments on US debt exceed the defense budget, the financial system must be ripped up by its roots and largely started again, its wars are lost, and the political class has no language for telling its own people the truth. “The West, including the United States, is in a period of severe decline. Everyone outside of the West can see that. Some people in Europe, our leaders, still think that nothing’s changed; everything can go on just as before. They will see that. But is the United States, is the West ready to start adjusting, explaining to their own electorates and their own people that the West is no longer going to be supreme, is not going to be primus inter pares? It is going to be one amongst a number of powers. Are they going to manage this? How are they going to manage it? Because the second part of this is precisely why I said the architecture is collapsing: there’s no answer to the contradictions in the economy. The economy has these basic contradictions which produce this binary economy of a huge increase in wealth, ostentatious wealth for a certain group at the top in the financial world, and then penury, precarity, as I put it, living on the edge for the rest of the world. And how do you change that? You’d have to rip up the financial system by its roots and largely start again, because it’s not going to be killed by just trying to go back. That era before 2008 and from 2008 onwards is gone, where you had zero interest rates, anyone could borrow money, credit was being pushed by the banks, and what it’s ended up as is a mountain of debt and the inability even really to pay the interest. The interest on that debt in the United States is more than the entire cost of the defense budget. I mean, it’s become huge. That’s just the interest; that’s not repaying the debt. And much of that debt has to be rolled over and then refinanced, as you do on a mortgage at the end of a period. You have to start refinancing, and they’ll say, well, sorry, you had it at a very favorable rate before, but now it’s going to cost you a lot more. And that’s happening in Europe and certainly in the United States. So that structure, that whole architecture is broken by these three wars. And the answer to your question is: is the West psychologically capable of, first of all, understanding that, accepting it, and then finding the way to get out of that and to prepare their people for the sense that this is lost, this is a disaster, and that we have to find a way. Which means capitulation to Russia. It means capitulation in the Gulf States. And also perhaps waving goodbye to much of the Gulf architecture which was previously an American prerogative.”
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Alastair Crooke (Alastair Crooke): What happened in Yemen is a revolution, not a tit-for-tat over a blockade. Ansar Allah spent seven to nine years preparing it. The fight is with the Saudi state the British and Americans built on a narrow Wahhabi pillar. “What happened in Yemen is not just a sort of tit-for-tat against Saudi Arabia or about a certain blockade. It is a revolution. I think it should be understood as a revolution. It has been planned for at least 7 years, more like 9 years. They have been working on this. It is thought through by Ansar Allah, who are always deprecated in the West because they’re barefooted tribesmen and things, but it has been well planned. And so Saudi Arabia, if it goes down the path of conceding to Ansar Allah, it means they’ll have to return the three provinces that they stole in the 1930s. In 1934, they stole three provinces of the Yemenis. And the Houthis have strong tribal connections with those provinces, which are now generally sort of assumed to be within Saudi Arabia, but they will want them back. They will want an end to the blockade, and they will also want payments which were due to them on certain transactions. And they will demand the end of the UAE and the Saudi forces in the south. In fact, they are being destroyed anyway. They’ve been literally driven out because they’re mercenaries. They’re not Saudi forces; they’re mercenary forces. And the mercenary forces have all been fleeing as the Houthis have used ballistic missiles against them. And you can see they’ve just fled from the area. There’s a slight interaction: actually, the UAE mercenaries are not letting the Saudi mercenaries pass at the moment until they pay them. But I mean, they’re both mercenaries, and the Houthis will drop a few ballistic missiles on them just to make up their mind more quickly. So why do I say it’s a revolution? Because really it goes back to: what is Saudi Arabia? Saudi has been imposing on Yemen really for all these years since the founding of Saudi Arabia, trying to change its style of Islam, which is an esoteric either Ismaili or Zaidi type of Islam, but it’s an esoteric type of Islam. I’m not talking sectarianism. I’m just talking about the nature of Islam in Yemen being much more esoteric. It’s much more inwardness rather than the literal extremist Puritan idea of the Wahhabi of the Najd form of Islam that was weaponized by Abdulaziz and by Ibn Saud in the 1930s. They were a Puritan sort of militia that ran amok through the Middle East. They attacked Mecca; they attacked Karbala; they killed thousands—tens of thousands in Karbala. And eventually Abdulaziz was forced to try to contain them and to stop this because, first of all, it was the beginnings of the petrol—the fuel oil bonanza taking place in Saudi Arabia and he wanted to convince the British and the Americans that it could become a state. But that movement was never entirely retired. It was just put on standby. But this was the sort of incompatibility, the contradiction that takes place in Saudi Arabia. It claims to represent all of Sunni Islam. But actually it is based on the very narrow pillar of this very violently Puritan component—desert Islam—that regarded any change from their tradition as bid‘a, as heresy by innovation. And that anyone who did not subscribe to their view of Islam deserved death. This was the progenitor of ISIS, just to make clear. What’s the difference between this Wahhabism from the desert and ISIS? Nothing. They were the same. It was just a different formulation of them. So what happened with this was that eventually he had to take on these people because they were threatening the whole of the project of building a Saudi power that would be acceptable to Britain and to the United States and the outside world. So the British machine-gunned them for him. And they killed most of them. But the point is they never represented the main tribes of Saudi Arabia, who also were attacked and destroyed. And then Ibn Saud then married all their wives—married a wife from each tribe that he had defeated. So he ended up with 22 wives. Because he thought this was a way of preventing them from attacking him further. But they’re still there. And they still remain resentful of the sort of one-family formula which guides Saudi Arabia, because that’s what it is. There were old sort of traditions that riches had to be spread in some sort of way that was fair between the tribes, that their territories and their perquisites were respected. Some of the tribes, like the Shammar, have more than a million members. They’re not just tiny little militias. These are big tribes. They extend beyond the boundaries of Saudi Arabia. All the finance, all the money, all the essence of the Saudis’ kingdom project was all focused in one family. And so the resentment still continues about that. So the idea that Saudi Arabia is a sort of a strong modern political state is, to a certain extent, a myth. Yes, it had money. It doesn’t today. But also, it either makes concessions to the Houthis and risks the revolution gaining more oxygen and becoming bigger and spreading to Iraq and to other parts, which is happening. There is a real sense, a feeling in the air of revolution in the Middle East at the moment. Because a small group of people have just taken over and shown the hollowness of Saudi power, much as Iran has shown the hollowness of US power during this period. And of course this is animating people. And don’t forget Iraq. We’ve had Iran; now the shoe has dropped in Yemen. And remember that when the last supreme leader was assassinated by Israel, the funeral that followed in Iraq, millions turned out there in Karbala, even in Najaf, which is more conservative. Millions turned out. Across Iran, people walked miles to pay their respects to this. So what we’re playing with is revolutionary fire. I’m emphasizing it because it all tends to be viewed from the Western perspective that this is all about Saudi relations and Gulf relations with the United States, and it’s all about oil, and are we going to have to pay so much for diesel. But actually, what is happening is there’s a big reversion taking place. The whole region is sort of on the cusp of reverting to the old power paradigm that used to exist until the fall of the Shah, in which the big civilizational powers historically have always been Mesopotamia and Persia/Iran, whatever you want to call it. But these were real powers in the real sense. I mean, functional, functioning powers with big populations and riches, and were the powers in the region really until, first of all, the Clean Break document, which was written by Richard Perle and David Wurmser in ’96, recommended this inversion. We’re going to change the whole power structure, and the new pillars of American energy dominance and power are going to be Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states, and all of the allies of Iran are going to be eliminated, and this new power structure would then also be the basis for normalization with Israel, i.e. the beginnings of the Abraham Accords. And then in 2006, after the war of Israel against Hezbollah in Lebanon, Dick Cheney was complaining bitterly that the war was supposed to weaken Iran and instead it strengthened Iran. And he was talking with Prince Bandar, who was then the intelligence leader, and we have the details of this meeting exactly because John Hannah, who was the aide of Cheney wrote it and even published it. And what Bandar said was, listen, the king believes that the weak point of Iran is Syria. Syria is the pipeline, their emergency routes. We take out Syria, and Iran is weakened, if not lost. And Cheney, at that point, said, well, hold on. Hold on. How are you going to take out Syria? And Bandar replied to him with one word: Islamism, extreme Islamism. And that was the Wahhabis coming back in. And what Cheney was doing was legitimizing the use of this extreme current of Najdi Islam, Wahhabism, which then transformed into the various components of ISIS and Nusra and everything else as a sectarian tool to weaken Iran and to complete the power shift that now the Sunni Gulf states were the pillar of power and the pillar of Israeli substance in the region and Iran was kicked out. And that’s why this thing is so important, because what we’re seeing with Iran and now with the Houthis, and we may see more components to this happening, is a complete turnaround back to the old system. Iran has power and the Houthis have power.” The City and Washington built a garrison on a desert militia and called it a pillar of order. Ansar Allah is treating that construction as what it was: colonial. The exit is development and a settlement the dollar cannot switch off. More garrisons will not restore 1934.
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Jeffrey Sachs delivers a stark warning against the drive toward war with Russia and China. Europe’s political leadership is sacrificing peace, sovereignty, and economic development to preserve a collapsing geopolitical order. From Ukraine to Iran, the refusal to challenge military escalation threatens humanity with catastrophe. The alternative is diplomacy among sovereign nations, grounded in mutual security and economic cooperation. “Stop trying to force Russia into a ‘humiliating defeat.’ Above all, avoid that because that is a death wish. You want some stupid American general saying, ‘We could take Kaliningrad, no problem.’ And then when Putin says, ‘We’ll use all means to defend it.’ Then having all these stupid pundits saying, ‘Oh, he’s just bluffing.’ I’m so sick of these pundits. Is the idea really humiliation? So, what is this arming to go to war with Russia? They have 1,600 actively deployed nuclear weapons. Are you kidding? What are you thinking? Europe is not standing up for Ukraine. Europe is killing Ukraine. This is not about a ceasefire. This is about a European politician standing up and saying, ‘Mr. Putin, NATO will not enlarge to Ukraine or to Georgia. Now, let’s stop the war.’ Sit down and talk. We are nearly at war with China. Why? Because China has grown up again. In fact, they have an unbelievable temerity to have a larger economy than the United States. How dare they threaten American hegemony? This is insane. How many wars do we need in this world? And by the way, I didn’t hear Europe speak a murmur about America’s attack on Iran. That is a brazen, murderous violation of every single international standard we have. The day of the attack, the Security Council met that afternoon. And I was asked to testify. And I sat there in growing absolute shock. The Bahraini ambassador was the first to open the meeting and said, ‘We are meeting here today to condemn the unprovoked attack by Iran on Bahrain.’ Okay, I thought, ‘That’s a little weird. Unprovoked?’ But it went on the whole session this way. The French ambassador, the British ambassador, the Greek ambassador, nobody in Europe said the United States should not have started a war against Iran. My view is there is no reason for a war with Russia. There is no reason for a war with China. There’s no reason for a genocide in Gaza. For God’s sake, honestly, I love Europe, but not this political leadership right now. I don’t understand it.” Humanity cannot survive a geopolitical order built on imperial hegemony and permanent war. The alternative is dialogue among sovereign nations, mutual security, and cooperation for peace and economic development rather than nuclear catastrophe.
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Catholics were 93% of Brazil in 1950. Evangelicals were 26.9% by the 2022 census, with 97 deputies in the incoming Congress and more than 109,000 churches. “For Brazil’s Catholic majority, the question is no longer whether they will lose their dominance, but how quickly.” — CBN News That’s the Christian Broadcasting Network. Pat Robertson built it into a prophecy-focused media empire and warned of a “tightly knit cabal whose goal is nothing less than a new order for the human race under the domination of Lucifer and his followers.” He also made support for Israel a central political commitment, and after Begin’s 1977 election, Likud deliberately cultivated American evangelical leaders to mobilize support for its agenda. CBN became part of that machinery. The neo-Pentecostal movement carries the End Times theology that helped shape Anglo-American Christian Zionism. Darby developed the dispensational worldview. Shaftesbury promoted Jewish restoration in Palestine as a British strategic interest. The theological movement and the political alliance converged to make evangelical support for Israel a powerful political force. Flávio promised to move Brazil’s embassy to Jerusalem, called BRICS “highly ideological,” and attacked Lula’s relationship with Iran. The objective is clear: mobilize the faithful behind a project to align Brazil with Washington and Israel, break its strategic ties with BRICS, and bring its resources into the Western camp. Flávio lost. The machine didn’t. If that machinery remains intact, the next candidate won’t need to lose.
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Seyed Mohammad Marandi: If they want to destroy Iran’s key infrastructure, that’s a possibility. But then Iran will destroy all key infrastructure in this region—everything. All the oil and gas installations in the Persian Gulf region and in the Caucasus will be gone, finished. They won’t be damaged; they’ll be destroyed. And that will mean that the key infrastructure of the United States will collapse. The world will collapse because we will enter a severe global economic depression. If that’s what the United States wants, that’s what it will get. But the world will know that it’s the United States that did this. It will know that the Zionists did this. It will know that Netanyahu did this. Because Iran does not want war. Iran does not want to expand the war. We want to live in peace. We want the rights of Palestinians, the Lebanese, and the people of Syria to be restored.
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Chas Freeman: Trump read the spirit of the age as genocidal. The room stayed silent. He respects power and blackmail. The Israeli lobby and the Epstein files are why Freeman says the threat has to be treated as real. “I think Donald Trump has correctly sensed the zeitgeist, the spirit of our age, which is genocidal. Basically, he’s stating an intention to commit genocide against the people of Iran. And people sit there, and they say nothing. Why do they say nothing? First, they may regard him as a comic character, a tragicomic character who has the habit of blustering and not following through. So they may not take him seriously. But I think there is every reason to take him seriously, because I think Donald Trump is a bully who respects only two kinds of people or nations. One is the powerful, and he faces in the United States a very powerful Zionist lobby which remains committed to the destruction of Iran. And he is enthralled to that lobby, to donors from that lobby who take their cues, their direction, from the fascist government in Israel. And the second kind of person he respects is those who can blackmail him, and the Israelis apparently have the ability to do that. The Epstein files are one of the reasons—several reasons—that Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, prematurely adjourned the House until after the midterm elections. The other reason was that it looked very much as though Thomas Massie’s introduction of a bill of impeachment with eight counts of impeachment against the Secretary of Defense, self-styled Secretary of War, Hegseth, was going to pass. The Epstein files were part of this. So were several other issues. You can see that the Speaker of the House, who probably is the least independent such person in our history, is nonetheless aware that Trump’s control of the Republican slight majority in the House and the larger majority in the Senate is slipping away. We’re in an age where open genocide is not just committed but boasted about by Israel in Palestine. The same thing is now happening in Lebanon. Who’s doing anything about any of this? People aren’t even wringing their hands about it. They’re just sitting there silently tolerating it. The intolerable has become tolerable, and Donald Trump is the avatar of the intolerable. So what will Donald Trump do? What does he do when confronted with an intolerable reality that he chooses to deny? There’s lots of evidence that he’s capable of a volte-face and abandoning the threats that he made. But there’s also evidence that he will carry out the threats. Look at the decapitation of Venezuela, the invasion of that. Look at the two wars begun by Trump against Iran in partnership with Israel—one last year in June, one this year on February 28th. So I can’t rule out the possibility. What I will say is I think there will be enormous opposition to this from the US military—whether it’s sufficient to produce a sit-down strike, in effect passive resistance, or mutiny of some sort, or a stimulated coup d’état, I do not know. The US military, despite Pete Hegseth’s efforts to politicize it and turn it into an arm of white nationalism, Christian nationalism, remains deeply indoctrinated in constitutionalism and dedicated to the notion that illegal orders must be resisted. So I don’t know what would happen, but I don’t think you can rule out the possibility that Donald Trump’s threats are both sincere and intended to be implemented.” The Western zeitgeist not only tolerates but boasts of committing genocide. London, Brussels, Washington and the old Atlantic club are already finished. They will not speak.
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Jeffrey Sachs names the driver of the wars: Washington and Europe still believe they run the world. That hegemonic mindset is at work in Ukraine, Gaza, Iran, and Venezuela—and it is now dragging the West into decline. “The reason we’re in these wars is basically because the United States and Europe are determined to maintain their hegemonic prerogatives. For centuries, the West—so-called, mainly the empires of Europe and from the late 19th century the United States—judged that they effectively ran the world. Mr. Bessent, our Treasury Secretary, who is a sheer vulgarian, the worst imaginable that we’ve ever had, basically says in the Financial Times today, ‘We run the world. We determine who does what. We determine who trades. We will destroy whichever countries we want.’ That’s the mindset. That mindset is at work in Ukraine. It’s at work in the genocide in Gaza. It’s at work in the war against Iran. It was at work, of course, in the kidnapping and confiscation of Venezuela’s oil revenues earlier this year. The mindset is we run the world. Yes, it’s a little bit nasty because there are these pesky wannabe challengers like Russia, Iran, or China that don’t want us to run the world, but effectively we run the world, and we’re going to tell the world what to do. That’s the mindset. It’s so out of date, so absurd, so delusional that it drives a set of policies—not only the war, but trade measures, protectionism, and so forth—that are leading the West into not only relative decline as these other places rise, but perhaps serious absolute decline at some point, because all of the claims that are made for hegemony and all of the overreach are leading to a buildup of burdens fiscally, in terms of debt, in terms of claims on trade, in terms of cutting off economic linkages around the world, including now the trade war between the United States and Canada, for God’s sake, which was launched just two days ago, that I think will put both Europe and the United States into very serious economic crisis in the coming years. Again, Europe is in a crisis right now. The United States is in what I would regard as a massive financial bubble due to the AI valuations and the stock market, which keep things afloat for the moment. But it’s a bubble that I think is going to burst.” Hegemony is not strength. It is overreach. The wars, the sanctions, and the bubble are the same system eating itself.
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![Jeffrey Sachs: Netanyahu goes to the UN to accuse the world of antisemitism while Israel faces an ICC arrest warrant over its conduct in Gaza. Trump’s answer is to attack the court itself. “Every speech [Netanyahu] has given at the UN has been deranged, and I listen to the Israeli speeches in this chamber, and they are deranged. They are just accusations. 'The world is antisemitic.' No. The world watches Israel’s slaughter of the Palestinian people. They watch the genocide taking place in Gaza. They watch these lawless, bigoted so-called leaders who are Netanyahu’s partners in murder and crime, like Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, and how they taunt and torture the Palestinian people, and how they encourage confiscations of their land and the simple murder of farmers and their families, which is happening in the West Bank to top off what has happened in Gaza. And then this man comes and has the audacity to talk about, 'oh, the great danger of the world is Iran,' and spews hate instead of looking for a way to make peace in the midst of his complete criminality and lawlessness. And when he speaks from the podium, he will be the person who has an arrest warrant for him from the International Criminal Court. And incidentally, because the International Criminal Court identified Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders as criminals, Trump said yesterday that not only is the United States sanctioning the International Criminal Court because the Israel lobby told him to do so, but he called on the international community to leave and dismember the International Criminal Court. In other words, we will just not have justice. We will have annihilation if he decides. That’s what Donald Trump told the world yesterday.” No justice and no law—only annihilation if Trump decides.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2103319810465804331/amplify_video_thumb/2103319666357846016/img/n12PmUS081MAK9cP.jpg)
Jeffrey Sachs: Netanyahu goes to the UN to accuse the world of antisemitism while Israel faces an ICC arrest warrant over its conduct in Gaza. Trump’s answer is to attack the court itself. “Every speech [Netanyahu] has given at the UN has been deranged, and I listen to the Israeli speeches in this chamber, and they are deranged. They are just accusations. 'The world is antisemitic.' No. The world watches Israel’s slaughter of the Palestinian people. They watch the genocide taking place in Gaza. They watch these lawless, bigoted so-called leaders who are Netanyahu’s partners in murder and crime, like Smotrich and Ben-Gvir, and how they taunt and torture the Palestinian people, and how they encourage confiscations of their land and the simple murder of farmers and their families, which is happening in the West Bank to top off what has happened in Gaza. And then this man comes and has the audacity to talk about, 'oh, the great danger of the world is Iran,' and spews hate instead of looking for a way to make peace in the midst of his complete criminality and lawlessness. And when he speaks from the podium, he will be the person who has an arrest warrant for him from the International Criminal Court. And incidentally, because the International Criminal Court identified Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders as criminals, Trump said yesterday that not only is the United States sanctioning the International Criminal Court because the Israel lobby told him to do so, but he called on the international community to leave and dismember the International Criminal Court. In other words, we will just not have justice. We will have annihilation if he decides. That’s what Donald Trump told the world yesterday.” No justice and no law—only annihilation if Trump decides.
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Jeffrey Sachs says Mossad is in charge—Israel’s premier assassination unit has effectively dictated U.S. foreign policy for decades, and Trump is just the latest to fall in line. The deep state—CIA, Mossad, MI6—calls the shots, not presidents. Ukraine’s strike on Russian bombers and Israel’s attack on Tehran? Same tactics, same authors, same drones. Mossad was behind both. And the CIA? Of course it knew—it’s neck-deep in it. America doesn’t have an “America First” foreign policy, Sachs says. That’s a convenient illusion. What it has is an “Israel First” policy—reckless, delusional, and decades in the making. The U.S. sacrifices trillions, countless lives, and global trust to serve an extremist Zionist agenda that treats American interests as expendable. Jeffrey Sachs: Certainly, Mossad is in the lead. It’s assassination and murder unit number one, but Mossad has effectively determined U.S. policy for decades, and Trump is falling into line. It’s quite amazing to see one president after another fall into line with Murder Incorporated, led by Israel. We don’t know exactly what happened between then and now. In one sense, I think President Putin, in 2017, expressed something that we all come to learn. He knew it in 2017, in an interview with Le Figaro. He said, “I’ve dealt with many American presidents. They come into office with ideas, but then men in dark suits and briefcases, wearing blue ties, show up and explain to them the world the way that it will be. And so you never hear of those ideas again.” I can’t peer into the inner thinking of Trump, but everything he’s saying and doing today violates what he said last month. In the end, we know that our foreign policy is governed by a deep state apparatus—the CIA, Mossad, MI6, as you said—and we know that the actions that occur—for example, Ukraine’s attack on Russia’s strategic nuclear bombers—had the same provenance, that is, the same authors, as Israel’s attack in Tehran last week. Same methods, same crates carrying drones inside a country to make a decapitation strike or a strategic strike. Mossad was involved in both the Ukraine operation and the Tehran operation last week. We’ve discussed in recent weeks: what did Trump know? I have no idea. What did the CIA know? Of course, it knew. It was involved in all of this. Who leads all of this? Mossad. I would say—it’s strange, but it’s actually true—America does not have an America First foreign policy. Despite what Donald Trump says, America has an Israel First foreign policy. It happens that Israel’s foreign policy is completely reckless, dangerous, and delusional. And it has been that way for decades. I was going to say for 30 years—that’s the time span of Netanyahu, who is currently the most despicable person on the planet, in my view, because he’s the greatest war progenitor of them all. But it actually goes back beyond 30 years. This is a long-term plan for Israel to have its way in the Middle East. The way Netanyahu has explained it, repeatedly, for 30 years—for anyone who cares to read his books and articles or watch his speeches—is painful, but worth doing, because he tells you what his modus operandi is. And the modus operandi is this: we will do what we want in the Middle East, and if any government in the region objects, we will overthrow that government. But when he says “we,” he’s being very nice. It’s his U.S. allies who will do it. The U.S. will spend trillions of dollars, lose lives, and destroy the world’s trust in the United States to carry out this extremist Zionist agenda. And Netanyahu has been right. The U.S. has done his bidding up until now. We know there was a plan hatched decades ago, but revealed to former NATO commander General Wesley Clark in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, which outlined seven wars in five years. Those seven countries were Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, and Iran. The U.S. has now been engaged in six of those seven. It’s a long-term plan—delayed, by the way—because each one turned into a complete debacle compared to what Bibi always promised: how wonderful these wars would be. And now we’re in the seventh war, finally. Donald Trump has completely fallen into line as of today. It’s amazing to watch. It’s terrifying to watch. It would be nice if we had an America First foreign policy.
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Larry Johnson (Sonar21): Right now, the Iranians have the advantage. They only have to hit a total of nine targets over and over and over in order to force the United States to abandon its presence in the Persian Gulf: the two bases in Kuwait, the Fifth Fleet headquarters in the airfield in Bahrain, Al Udeid Air Force Base in Qatar, Al Dhafra Air base in the United Arab Emirates, and Prince Hassan and Muwaffaq Salti air bases in Jordan. If Iran basically destroys those bases, makes them uninhabitable and unusable, the reality is the only thing left for the United States is to withdraw its combat air forces into Israel. And then, all of a sudden, Israel is in the trick box. Now Iran is using third-generation Beidou targeting. Beidou is the global positioning satellite system, the Chinese replacement for GPS. And the West has expressed surprise, shock, and alarm over the accuracy of the Iranian missiles. Can you point to me one damn agreement anywhere that the United States has made with Russia, China, or Iran that it has not broken? You cannot. The United States, as Sergey Lavrov has frequently said, is agreement-incapable.
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Alastair Crooke (Alastair Crooke): There is no world order left to restore. The West knocked legal and moral norms aside. What remains is dollar coercion and the bomb. Eurasia can build a defensive order first: escape from the dollar and from sanctions, not a concert of powers. “Yes, the world order, well, there is no world order now. It’s been completely trashed. I think that underlying this is the fact that, particularly in the West, we’ve lost the sense of moral values. We’ve let them go. We have only fragments of them. And so when you have no moral values—none of the values which came historically to us from what it means to be human, from what our civilizations told us, those narratives, those myths, those stories that gave the moral architecture to life and to society—we live by those narratives. They formed us and shaped us, and now they’re mostly gone, and we live in a rather crassly material, mechanically rationalist world, and those values are no longer present. It’s all about power and coercion. And so we have a world order that values nothing: legal norms, the norms of morality, the civilizational structures that used to attach to the West are now replaced by bombing of civilian areas, by threatening financial ruin on societies, by actually threatening even to annihilate civilizations. How do you have a world order in this construct? It’s very difficult, because the underpinning commonality of values is just not there anymore. The Russians believe they have values held in common. It’s also an Orthodox Christian state. But quite clearly it’s no longer the case. Those values and those underpinnings have gone. And so what the other states—China, Russia, Iran, India and others—can do is really not to have a proper multipolar order. The best they can do, probably, is to have a deterrence, a defensive order: an order whose prime purpose is to escape from the hegemony of the dollar, to escape from the hegemony of sanctions, to escape from all of those elements. So we are left, therefore, in a world of geopolitical confusion and immorality, with no morals, no sort of final hurdles to clear. They’ve all been cleared. All of the legal norms have been just knocked aside. Moral norms knocked aside. Children, women being killed en masse didn’t matter. All of these things have really made the possibility of having some sort of concert of powers come into existence almost impossible to imagine beyond the sort of defensive element. And that, of course, is where kinetic defense comes into play: to have enough missiles, to have enough means of projecting power. You need these to compensate for the fact that there’s no common language, no common basis for a multi-global order. So the old order is definitely gone, and the new one is probably going to take shape, but it won’t come smoothly. It won’t flow into a new world order, because I think it’ll be very disruptive. We’ve got to go through a process of catharsis, constructive destruction first. And so the destruction is taking place in the Middle East, with Iran changing the whole global order in the Middle East, and with Russia and China changing the global order in Eurasia. So yes, we’re getting there, but it’s going to take some time before that happens. What are the conditions to make that happen? Well, really, either there has to be some form of economic implosion in the West that deprives it of its dollar hegemony and its ability to sanction people, to coerce people through the financial system, or else there’s going to be a geopolitical collapse in the West. But that is still going to mean we’re going to have to move through a rather difficult, turbulent geopolitical process which will be very dangerous and very concerning for people, because it may produce all sorts of unexpected and dangerous outcomes.” The concert is finished. Settlement outside the dollar is the first architecture that can exist. The physical economy will settle the rest.
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🇦🇪 Pepe Escobar: Dubai’s CIA Hub and Money-Laundering Paradise Collapses They paralyzed the port of Jebel Ali, which is one of the largest cargo ports on the planet, and they paralyzed Dubai Airport, so Dubai as a business model is dead and is not going to recover. And they attacked CIA cells in Dubai. Everybody knows there are CIA cells in Dubai. I saw them myself years ago during the Taliban era. Dubai is not a country to start with or part of an emirate. Dubai is an enormous special free zone, tax-free, offering immense money-laundering opportunities and, until today, safety and security. This has totally collapsed. They focused on Dubai specifically because it’s one of the key nodes of US intel in the whole of West Asia.
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John Mearsheimer explains why the liberal international order promised at the end of the Cold War has collapsed. The shift from unipolarity to multipolarity, the failure of forever wars, and Western complicity in the destruction of Gaza have stripped the political West of both its strategic dominance and its moral authority. What remains is a self-defeating policy that cannot produce peace or development. “There was always a very important moral dimension to the Fukuyama argument because the idea is that liberal democracy is a positive end and liberal democrats or countries that are liberal democracies are the good guys and everybody else is the bad guys. We have moral virtue on our side. That was the basic underpinning logic behind the end of history. The good guys won. We are morally superior to the rest. But after what happened in Gaza, where the West basically is complicit in a genocide and this is certainly true of the United States, it’s hard to make the argument that the West is morally superior to the rest. It’s not a serious argument. So in a very important way, it’s not only these structural changes that take place going from unipolarity to multipolarity, fighting forever wars during the unipolar moment that then carry over into the multipolar world. Think of the Ukraine war that started during the unipolar moment. 2014 is when all the trouble started during the unipolar moment and it’s carried over to the present day, it’s carried over into the multipolar world. And then finally, in addition to the carryover of the forever wars and in addition to the fact that you went from unipolarity to multipolarity, you have the simple fact that the West is complicit in a genocide which undermines its claims to being morally superior. Now, it’s very important to understand that for the first time in American history, and I mean the first time in American history, Europe is no longer the most important area of the world strategically for the United States. East Asia is the most important area of the world. And this is what the pivot to Asia was all about. Relations between Russia and Europe have been poisoned for the foreseeable future. One cannot underestimate how much animosity there is in Russia towards the Europeans, nor can one underestimate how much animosity there is in Europe towards the Russians. What the Europeans are doing now is they’re pursuing a policy, in my opinion, that’s guaranteed to result in a devastating defeat, not just for Ukraine, but for the Europeans and for NATO more generally. That’s the direction that we’re heading in. The problem that people have in the West, and I don’t have to tell you this because you know very well, is that they don’t understand that from Russia’s point of view, what’s going on in Ukraine is an existential threat. Once you realize that, you understand that the Russians are not going to lose this war. They cannot afford to lose this war. They are facing an existential threat and they will go to enormous lengths to remove that threat. Do you realize that we waged a 40-day intense bombing campaign and it failed? How could anybody possibly believe that a three-day bombing campaign is going to do what a 40-day bombing campaign couldn’t do? And if you look at what the Iranians are doing in the Strait of Hormuz, in the Persian Gulf, and in the Gulf of Oman, you just sort of say to yourself, this situation is terrible for the international economy. And it’s only going to get worse. And we, the United States, don’t seem to have any way to shut down either one of these wars in the Middle East or the war in Ukraine. Anyway, it’s all very depressing, Glenn. I mean, when you think about Ukraine, you think about Iran, you think about the war between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia, and we haven’t even talked about Gaza. Gaza’s kind of been pushed aside as a result of these three big conflicts, but if you look at what the Israelis are doing to the Palestinians, it’s genuinely sickening.” The old order is finished. A durable alternative requires a new security and development architecture based on cooperation among sovereign nations rather than permanent war and financial extraction.
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