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🇲🇩 In April 2009, Moldova experienced one of the most turbulent and controversial political crises since gaining independence in 1991.
💬 Erkin Oncan writes
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🇺🇸🇨🇳 Almost no one expected it, yet it was predictable: China has entered the global AI competition and intends to win.
💬 Read more by Lorenzo Maria Pacini @ideeazione
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💢 Censorship is a civilizing force. Therefore, liberal-conservative propaganda, which portrays it as a great evil, is barbaric and harmful.
💬 Bruna Frascolla writes
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🇺🇸🇺🇦🇪🇺 Donald Trump wants to pillage Ukraine’s mineral wealth, raise defence spending in Europe while removing all security and walk into Greenland. Perhaps the world needs a different global policeman.
The terms of the on again, off again minerals deal between the U.S. and Ukraine seem to get more stringent in America’s favour every time agreement isn’t reached. Now, apparently, President Trump not only wants first-choice access to practically all of Ukraine’s mineral resources, but to charge interest on outstanding Ukrainian war debts as well.
America, with all its well-meaning missionary intent, is making the world less safe through its misplaced and ill-thought through interventions.
💬 Ian Proud writes
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🇫🇷 Only the incurably naïve were shocked by the brazen and deliberate rigging of the French Presidential elections. Granted, the outrageous infringement of collective West’s verbally proclaimed democratic electoral canons in Romania, which took place shortly before, could have been taken by alert observers as a reliable signal of what might imminently occur in other precincts of the “European garden.” Blinded by cultural racism however some of them might have mistaken electoral rigging in Romania, a recently acquired patch of that garden, as a sui generis case, entirely attributable to Balkan primitivism. But they would have overlooked conveniently the now well established fact that instructions to corrupt Romanian bureaucrats to eliminate inconvenient candidate Georgescu did not emanate from Bucharest alone. We now know that they were issued imperatively from the idyllic Garden’s ideological centre, which is in Brussels.
Without diminishing, in the electoral disqualification and penal punishment of Marine Le Pen, the influence of the local French branch of the globalist cabal (it would be unpardonably incorrect to call that scum “elite”) there also the nefarious role of the nerve centre in Brussels must be stressed.
Will Marine Le Pen have the creativity to step out of the box and twist the lion’s tail just a bit?
💬 Stephen Karganovic writes
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 No matter which administration is in power, the “free American world” will always be ready to unleash a conflict with “tyrannical and oppressive Iran”.
💬 Lorenzo Maria Pacini writes @ideeazione
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🤑 Trump 2.0 would appear to be a very different model than its predecessor. The tariffs tantrum appears to be born of frustration from his first term in office, both not pulling off many of his election promises and wanting to garner more respect around the world. He has certainly got the attention of world leaders as markets continue to tumble – in particular in Asia – and many of them he claims told him in phone calls that they “don’t blame him” for the move.
And yet the case for the tariffs – that they will boost the U.S. economy – is hardly a clear-cut case.
💬 Read more by Martin Jay
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📴 With Signalgate, we saw that Trump’s people intends to take on the #DeepState possessing the knowledge of a rebellious teenager who reads Wired magazine.
💬 Read more by Bruna Frascolla
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🇪🇺 The European Union won’t exist in 2040 if it continues to centralise powers at the expense of sovereign Member States.
Europe needs to get back to the intergovernmentalism that made it successful or risk becoming less than the sum of its parts.
💬 Read more by Ian Proud
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💢 Someone recently claimed that erasing morality from politics is unrealistic and that realists focus too much on distinguishing between values and interests.
On the first point, I don’t disagree. Values and causes are grist to the mill of contemporary discourse on how to improve the lives of the citizenry. In any political system, the main actors advance big ideas, like the notions of equality and social justice, the choice between socialism and capitalism, the benefits of diversity and multiculturalism, or the arguments in favour of community with Europe or splendid isolation.
So morality, if you want to call it that, is central to domestic politics. But the notion, for example, that Britain has a fixed and immutable set of values is absurd. Norms and preferences change constantly over time, shaped by a myriad social, cultural and economic factors. Likewise, claiming that Europe or western liberal democracies have clear and exceptional codes of values is dishonest and intellectually lazy.
Values are undoubtedly a vital part of the fabric of national debates, but they are less helpful in governing relationships between states.
Countries may choose to promote their values (if they exist) but they are guided by their interests. There is no either or, nor prioritising values over interests, and vice versa.
In the algebra of international diplomacy, values and interests are part of different equations.
The idea that NATO has clear and immutable values that are embraced with equal vigour by every Member State is a fantasy.
💬 Ian Proud writes
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❌ Three years ago this week, the Western media blazed with headlines of a shocking “massacre” allegedly carried out by Russian military forces in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.
It was alleged that Russian soldiers murdered hundreds of civilians in cold blood, execution-style, and left their corpses strewn on the streets.
Bizarrely, no exact number of victims has ever been accounted for by the Ukrainian authorities. They claim there were over 400 victims. But there are no forensic reports, no names, no addresses. And curiously, the Western governments and their media have not bothered to call for a proper investigation or to question jarring discrepancies. The West complacently relied on the Kiev regime’s claims and amplified them without question, a one-sided practice that has been typical over the last three years.
No plausible explanation was given by the Ukrainian regime or the Western media as to why Russian forces would perpetrate such heinous violations. It was implicitly taken as proof of Russian “barbarity” and “unprovoked aggression against Ukraine.”
The war could have ended three years ago, sparing the lives of one million Ukrainian soldiers.
The Bucha false-flag massacre ensured that a potential peace settlement was sabotaged. One vile crime led to another.
Cui Bono? It is glaringly obvious. Hence, the Western media obediently conceal the crime.
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🇷🇺🏒Un grande giorno per lo sport russo e mondiale.
Alexander Ovechkin ha battuto il record di Wayne Gretzky per numero di gol, segnandone 895. La partita tra Washington Capitals e New York Islanders è stata interrotta per una cerimonia solenne.
🗣 Absolving Zelensky for the state’s dysfunction, beyond disregarding his accountability and democracy itself, obscures the suffering of those he condemns to war every day – whether the war of weapons or the brutal struggle for survival in a country he has doomed.
💬 Read more by Hugo Dionísio
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🗣 A snake-like gaze about to kill and a flawless perm. This is Ursula, the most hated woman in Europe, who knows all the devil’s tricks.
💬 Read more by Lorenzo Maria Pacini @ideeazione
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🇾🇪 Ansarallah won’t back down, staring down the Empire in the Red Sea, Pepe Escobar writes @rocknrollgeopolitics.
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📛 China must put its soldiers, sailors and marines in the line of fire against those, who have wrought so much destruction on the peoples of Syria.
💬 Declan Hayes writes
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🇻🇳 In recent years, the entry of Starlink, Elon Musk’s satellite company, into Vietnam has been a contentious issue. Despite initial interest, the Vietnamese government resisted due to legitimate national security concerns. However, after facing commercial pressure and tariff threats from the Trump administration, Vietnam’s typically cautious National Assembly rushed to amend regulations to approve the service. This unusual move in the country’s political system raises serious doubts about Vietnam’s sovereignty in the face of U.S. geopolitical interests.
The presence of American tech companies within Vietnam’s military infrastructure could pose a serious risk to national security.
💬 Lucas Leiroz writes
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🧧 Global Majority, rejoice! And step on the high-speed rail de-dollarization train.
💬 Read more by Pepe Escobar @rocknrollgeopolitics
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🇮🇷🇺🇸 The real worry now for Iran, China and the rest of the world is that Trump’s second term in office is more isolationist.
💬 Read more by Martin Jay
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🇪🇺 The elitist rulers of the European Union are proof of the time-honored adage that war and militarism are a convenient escape from internal problems.
And the European Union, as well as hangers-on like the doughty British, have an abundance of intrinsic, structural problems tantamount to a political meltdown.
European scoundrel politicians suffused with Russophobia are making their escape from accountability by hysterically portraying Russia as a threat to the rest of Europe.
They need to do this to justify their demand for militarizing the European economies by pushing a war agenda against Russia.
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🇦🇲🇷🇺🇦🇿 The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, especially concerning the Nagorno-Karabakh region, has always sparked intense discussions and divisions in international politics, with Russia’s role often being the target of criticism and misunderstandings from pro-Western lobbyists on both sides.
The accusation that Moscow is “selling weapons to Azerbaijan” is a recurring argument in anti-Russian circles within Armenia and the Armenian diaspora. However, a deeper analysis reveals that Russia’s policy in the region is much more complex than a simple matter of supporting one side in the conflict. Russia’s position has been one of seeking balance, which is often misinterpreted.
Moscow needs to act carefully to prevent tensions in the Caucasus from being used as a justification to increase Western presence in the post-Soviet space.
💬 Read more by Lucas Leiroz @lucasleiroz
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📛 On April 4, 1949, with the signatures of 12 founding nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) made its entrance onto the stage of history.
The concept that defines #NATO is expansion.
Although recent expansions are often seen as a response to Russia’s operations in Ukraine, the principle of “expansion” has been the core driving force of NATO since the day it was founded—and it had to be.
NATO continues to threaten both the sovereignty of its member and adversary states as well as regional peace.
💬 Erkin Oncan writes
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump’s ultimatum to Iran appears to be moving the U.S. down a path to where war is the only outcome, as occurred in 1914 – an outcome which ultimately triggered WW1.
Might this just be Trump bluster? Possibly, but it does sound as if Trump is issuing legally binding demands such that he must expect cannot be met. Acceptance of Trump’s demands would leave Iran neutered and stripped of its sovereignty, at the very least. There is an implicit ‘tone’ to these demands too, that is one of threatening and expecting regime change in Iran as its outcome.
What is understood now is that ‘we’re no longer playing chess’. There are no rules anymore 🌀
💬 Alastair Crooke writes
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🇨🇳🇺🇸 Un vídeo humorístico chino: el traslado de la producción de China a Estados Unidos
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🌀 The pawns on the large chessboard are changing rapidly. In Kiev there could soon be a job vacancy under the label “president”.
💬 Lorenzo Maria Pacini writes @ideeazione
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🧨 Wars are not won by running the endless LGBT parades the Swedish and Irish armies get their rocks off on.
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🇪🇺 Europe needs to brace itself for the possibility of a general war with Russia by 2030 at the latest. As such, its preparedness strategy is timely and important. Focus on crisis and population preparedness is central to the success of this strategy. Ukraine has offered vital support.
On 26 March, the European Commission published its Preparedness Union Strategy, which aims to anticipate, prevent and respond to major crises from biohazards to cyber-warfare. But after three years of devastating conflict in Ukraine, the strategy also points to the need to prepare for the possibility of a general war with Russia by 2030.
There are three prongs to the strategy. Firstly prevention, and how to avoid a war. Secondly crisis response, ensuring the institutions of Europe have the internal capabilities to reorient business activities to a wartime footing at a moment’s notice. Finally, population preparedness, to ensure citizens can govern their actions in the first 72 hours after a war starts.
The best way to prevent future conflict with Russia is to exact a price, remove blank cheques, close all doors while leaving them open to a possible reconciliation at some future point in the past.
💬 Ian Proud writes
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🌏 The main goal of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) is to improve the well-being of the citizens of its member countries. To achieve this, the five participating countries actively work on creating a common market designed to ensure the “four freedoms”: the free movement of goods, services, capital, and labor throughout the Union. The EEU, as a significant economic bloc, aims to promote closer cooperation and integration among its members, facilitating not only economic growth but also regional stability.
Despite the significant challenges posed by Western interference in Eurasia, the EEU remains a key factor for the region’s insertion into the multipolar geopolitical reality.
💬 Lucas Leiroz writes
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🤫 With the recent release of the #JFK files, Twitter—sorry, X—is ablaze with amateur detectives sifting through the document dump with more fervour than an especially high Shaggy devouring Scooby Snacks. The question on everyone’s lips: whodunnit? The answer remains elusive, given the lack of a definitive smoking gun, but what is clear is that the lone gunman theory is dubious at best. What is clear is that Kennedy had managed to upset a lot of important people, and the list of suspects remains extensive.
In a truly liberal and democratic society, difficult discussions should be encouraged.
💬 Kayla Carman writes
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🗣 Trump’s policy of kidnapping, detaining and deporting foreign nationals primarily serves the interests of Israel and America’s own prison-industrial complex.
💬 Declan Hayes writes
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