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♨️ As things currently stand, NATO’s Syrian satrapy is working like a charm, Declan Hayes writes.
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☦️ Both Christian and atheist apologists have adopted a Nietzschean version of ancient history: the Greeks and Romans were heroic and ruthless warriors, until Christianity emerged as a counterforce to these civilizations and imposed compassion for the weak.
It is no surprise that the followers of new Christianity serve as pawns for atheists who want to plot a clash of civilizations, or for Jews who want to commit genocide in the Middle East with impunity.
💬 Bruna Frascolla writes
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🔊 Trump should tackle the media sanctions against Russia as soon as he gets into the Oval office as they were part of a swamp of corruption which dragged us into the Ukraine war in the first place.
💬 Read more by Martin Jay
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🇮🇷🦅 The signs are that Iran is going to face intensified hostility from the U.S. over the next year for regime change.
The sudden fall of Syria and the isolation of Hezbollah in Lebanon – Iran’s regional allies – have made Tehran look vulnerable.
Anti-Iran hawks in the U.S. are cock-a-hoop about the prospect of regime change in Tehran.
A new American president and a new Middle East configuration have brought Iran back into the crosshairs for regime change with an intoxicating vengeance.
💬 Read more by Finian Cunningham
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🇪🇺🏮 Crime in the European Union: Sexual violence
This infographic shows the rates of sexual violence across the European Union in comparison with the United States.
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🇺🇸 This peculiar State, which does not care about the well-being of its citizens, does care about its military power.
💬 Bruna Frascolla writes
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🦅 The Syria story, it seems, is not so simple as ‘President Assad fell’ and the ‘technocratic Salafists’ rose to power.
At one level, the collapse was predictable. Assad was known to have been influenced by Egypt and UAE for some years past. They had been urging him to break with Iran and Russia, and to shift to the West. For some 3-4 years he had been incrementally signalling and implementing such a move. Iran especially faced increasing obstacles over operational matters in which they were co-operating with Syrian forces. His shift was meant as a message to Iran.
The financial situation of Syria – after years of U.S. Caesar sanctions, plus the loss of all agricultural and energy revenues seized by the U.S. in occupied north-east Syria – was catastrophic. Syria simply had no economy.
💬 Read more by Alastair Crooke
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🇵🇸 If we review the hard powers resisting Israel’s Gazan turkey shoot, the first thing we notice is that almost all of these have been armed by Iran or its proxies, with the major exception being the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and its derivatives, which were headquartered in the former Syrian Arab Republic, whose new rulers are literally spreading their hind cheeks to accommodate Israel’s expansionist designs. When we consider that Turkey and its Azeri client state have been the main suppliers of oil to Israel, we can recognise corporate Sunni opposition to Israel for the hypocritical paper tiger that it is.
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🗽🪖 As the inauguration of the U.S. President-elect Donald Trump approaches, one of the most debated topics in countries modifying their security strategies within the U.S./NATO framework—particularly in the Baltic and Eastern European nations—is whether Trump will continue to protect Europe “against Russia.”
The countries expressing this new European concern most openly are Latvia, Estonia, and Finland.
In their statements, the leaders of Latvia, Estonia, and Finland emphasized the need to end the “endless debates” on how to respond to the “threat from Russia” and strengthen European defense.
This long-standing “necessity” now includes the message, “NATO cannot protect Europe from Russia without the U.S.,” due to uncertainties surrounding the Trump era.
The vicious cycle of economic hardships, social unrest, and political polarization could become a threat that undermines Europe’s unity as a whole.
💬 Read more by Erkin Oncan
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₿ The transformation of society also passes through certain experiments. In economic matters, something interesting is happening in the U.S. that deserves to be understood.
💬 Lorenzo Maria Pacini writes @ideeazione
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💢 As Europeans ring in the New Year, they can look forward to the misery of crippling energy costs and their economies tanking further – all thanks to the NeoNazi regime in Ukraine that elitist Euro leaders deem to be a priority cause for ceaseless hand-outs.
So much for the traditional greeting of “peaceful and prosperous.”
NATO’s Ukrainian puppet leader Vladimir Zelensky – the sweaty T-shirt guy who gets a privileged seat at every EU summit – is cutting off the last supply route to Europe of Russian gas on New Year’s Eve.
This act of sabotage is being done openly and brazenly – with the support of Euro “leaders” who are so deranged by Russophobia and Western imperialist arrogance, that they expect European citizens to endure it for a “war effort” against Russia.
The criminality of the Kiev regime knows no bounds. It is mind-boggling. But the putrid reality is covered up by the Western media which indulges the fantasy of “noble Ukraine defending Europe from Russian aggression.”
💬 Finian Cunningham writes
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♨️ Young Alawite men are being hunted down and beheaded and Christians are being forced to convert at bayonet point. Welcome to liberated Syria.
💬 Declan Hayes writes
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Happy New Year, dear readers! 🇷🇺
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🎉 2024 has been a year full of surprises. The latest (probably) is the ‘threat’ that Donald Trump, president-elect of the United States of America, addressed to NATO when he was still on the campaign trail and reiterated a few days after his trip to Europe and the fall of Ba’athist Syria: pull the United States out of the Atlantic Treaty. But is this really possible?
Year 2025 will open with some surprises, we hope nice one. Let us hold on tight.
💬 Lorenzo Maria Pacini writes @ideeazione
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🇱🇧🇮🇱 The Shia, who predominate in South Lebanon and Iran, seem to have forgotten key pillars of their religious inheritance, Declan Hayes writes.
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🛑 Finally, energy cooperation between Russia and Europe is (almost) completely over. After nearly three years of sanctions and sabotage, the bilateral Moscow-EU energy partnership suffered its greatest historical blow. Kiev fulfilled its promise not to extend its contract with Gazprom, which was allowing the arrival of Russian gas to Europe, then creating an extremely uncomfortable energy insecurity situation for its own “partners” in the European Union.
With the ban on the flow of Russian gas to Europe through Ukrainian territory, little remains before the absolute economic and social collapse of the European continent.
💬 Lucas Leiroz writes @lucasleiroz
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📢 Western propaganda made of distortion and manipulation has a new face of the month: Cecilia Sala. Spotlights on, cameras on, last reading of the script and… we’re off!
💬 Lorenzo Maria Pacini writes @ideeazione
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☦️ What happens to society’s most vulnerable after the Christian ethos is gone?
💬 Evie Solheim writes
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🇺🇸🇨🇦 Trump has not yet taken office in the White House and is realDonaldTrump/posts/113546215051155542">already threatening 25% duties on all products entering the U.S. from abroad.
Canada plays a decisive role in the import of indispensable raw materials. But can the U.S. really get by without this trade?
💬 Lorenzo Maria Pacini writes @ideeazione
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🕊️ Although the collapse of the secular Syrian Arab Republic should give Western Christians pause for thought, clear-headed thought and moral bravery in the face of genocide have never been their strong cards. Those are traits that have always been outsourced or marginalised by those, who talk the talk of Jesus’ martyred Apostles, but who have always been wary of walking the road to martyrdom that the Christians of Greater Syria have been forced to walk for the last 2000 years.
Although peace with justice might seem like an unachievable dream, all things are possible to those who believe.
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💢 This new year began with a new era that presages Europe sliding irrevocably into economic darkness and abject suzerainty under U.S. dominance.
Uncle Sam has won a decades-long ambition to dominate Europe entirely, thanks to the help from a NeoNazi regime in Ukraine and the pathetic European politicians who hail the slavery of Europe as some liberation.
The people of Europe are facing a foreboding period of economic hardship. We can confidently say that because the most fundamental of economic inputs – fuel energy – is about to become more expensive and precariously supplied for the European Union.
Russia’s decades-long energy relations with Europe are now severed. It seems an astounding final act of reckless self-harm.
Russia will not suffer. The victims are the European citizens who are being plunged into wretched economic hardship due to the machinations of American capital, its Banderite tools, and Euro fools.
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🧊 During 2024, the race for northern routes intensified. The Northern Corridor project promoted by Russia and China has reopened interest in the Arctic and the Poles, prompting the newly-elected US President Trump to take up the issue immediately. Let us try to understand the reasons for a possible ‘Arctic War’.
💬 Lorenzo Maria Pacini writes @ideeazione
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🇪🇺🔪 Crime in the European Union: Homicide
This infographic shows homicide rates across the European Union in comparison with the United States.
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🇬🇧 The foreign policy of the United Kingdom, particularly in regions like the Middle East, Latin America, and the Asia-Pacific, continues to exhibit characteristics of a veiled neocolonialism, where London’s economic and strategic interests surpass any attempt to promote true and mutually beneficial cooperation with the countries of these areas. Despite its apparent diplomatic and “multilateral” stance, the British government’s actions demonstrate a continuous pattern of resource exploitation, political interference, and the imposition of economic models that favor its own interests, often at the expense of the nations it seeks to establish agreements with.
In the Middle East, the United Kingdom has a long history of imperial involvement, dating back to the period of the British Empire, and even today its actions in the region follow a similar line. Deep ties with Israel and the Gulf powers are a way to establish a solid base for Western presence in the region, resulting in political intervention in the most vulnerable Middle Eastern countries as well as in strong military, economic, and diplomatic pressure in favor of Western interests.
The question of whether the United Kingdom is capable of offering true, equal, and mutually beneficial cooperation becomes clear when observing its practical actions and underlying interests.
💬 Read more by Lucas Leiroz @lucasleiroz
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💰 Ian Proud proposes that Russia gives up its $300bn in frozen assets to Ukraine in return for Ukrainian recognition of its claims on lands that Russia has incorporated.
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🎊 2025: A second Renaissance, or chaos?
From Renaissance Florence, one of the – few – peaks of humanity, now living in memory, tread carefully across this flame-filled 2025.
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🇷🇺🦅 In times of war and with the threat of nuclear conflict, it is important to reflect on the future of the countries involved in the main geopolitical disputes. Western propaganda often tries to reinforce a narrative suggesting that Russia could be destroyed, but the geopolitical reality is very different. Many in the West believe that, in a nuclear war scenario, Russia would be vulnerable, but this view disregards the country’s unique resilience, its vast territorial expanse, and the historical and cultural factors that sustain its ability to survive. In a potential “post-apocalypse” scenario, even a large-scale nuclear war would not be enough to irreversibly destroy Russia. The complexity of Russia’s geography, along with its self-sufficiency and the resilient mindset of its people, ensures its survival, regardless of the severity of the destruction.
The West, which has a global hegemonic ambition, sees Russia as a threat because of its own physical presence in the Heartland.
💬 Read more by Lucas Leiroz @lucasleiroz
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https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/12/31/2025-second-renaissance-or-chaos/
My final column of 2024.
From Florence.
I wish you an appropriately humanist 2025.
🇷🇸 New Year’s is coming to Serbia, as everywhere else, but it may not just yet give that country the fresh start it yearns as it did in Cuba in 1959, when dictator Batista did his nation a huge favour by leaving. Serbia’s Batista is unlikely in the remaining few days to make a similarly magnanimous gesture, at least not before the turmoil that is currently sweeping that Balkan country intensifies by a few more notches.
The situation that is developing in Serbia brings to mind a different yet eerily similar upheaval in Tunisia in 2010.
💬 Stephen Karganovic writes
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📍 Although the French love to paint the U.S. as a rudimentary country compared to European nations (especially France), France itself served as a representation of European cultural decadence at the Olympics. The Last Supper with an obese smurf and transvestites spoke for itself.
We don’t have to believe, however, that the French are generally woke. This horror show can easily be explained by the capture of political institutions in France, as well as in Western Europe in general.
The State allows popular causes and opinions to reach their audience without needing the approval of big business.
💬 Bruna Frascolla writes
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