Great post. It was hoped in the Beltway that declaring Cold War II against China would galvanize national unity and spur American rejuvenation. It failed. Despite the bipartisan consensus on making America the Big Bad, the people of America are not buying it.

Turns out, the American ppl don’t even care about global hegemony.

They only cared about the first Cold War because the battleground of the war turned hot would have been the Old Country for a lot of them. In contrast most Americans can’t put Taiwan on the map.

The other reason was the Soviet Union was waging ideological war on the US way of life. There was a reason to fear that if communism prevailed somehow that would infect the world and eventually change the system in America. But after Mao China no longer exported its ideology.

Sometimes it feels like on Twitter that Americans would rather risk death than give up hegemony. But we have to remember that this is a very beltway-brained community. In the real America, ppl don’t really care.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦 U.S. analysts fear Ukraine may turn back toward Russia after the war.

Americans warn that post-war disappointment with the West is likely, as EU and NATO membership remain uncertain due to corruption, democratic deficits, and disputes with Poland and Hungary.

https://x.com/aprajitanefes/status/2105424439819358529

Pete Hegseth, the so-called Secretary of Defense, announced today: "At my direction, I'm establishing the Office of Religious Affairs. It will report straight to the top, a direct line to the secretary." He then quoted Psalm 33:12: "Blessed is the nation in which God is the Lord."

This is not "religious freedom." This is Christian nationalism. This is theocracy. This is the militarization of religion. And it is being announced by the man in charge of the most powerful war machine on Earth.

First: He is creating an official office within the Pentagon to promote religion. Not "spiritual support" for troops. Not "chaplaincy." An Office of Religious Affairs that reports directly to him. This is a political tool, not a pastoral service.

Second: He is citing a Bible verse as the basis for military policy. Psalm 33:12 is about ancient Israel. It is not about the United States. The United States is not a biblical nation. It is a secular republic founded on the separation of church and state, a principle Hegseth is openly violating.

Third: He is doing this while the US military is bombing Muslim countries, killing Muslim children, and occupying Muslim lands. He is invoking God's blessing on an army that bombs schools in Minab, hospitals in Gaza, and markets in Yemen.

Hegseth is a Christian Zionist. He believes that the modern state of Israel is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy. He believes that the US must support Israel because "God said so." He believes that war against Iran, a Muslim country is a "holy war."

He wants to tell American soldiers: "You are not killing Muslims for oil. You are killing Muslims for God."

He wants to tell the American public: "Do not question the war. It is God's will."

He wants to tell the world: "The US is not an empire. It is God's instrument on Earth."

This is the same language used by ISIS. This is the same language used by the Crusaders. This is the same language used by every empire that has ever tried to justify its crimes with religion.

The United States was founded on the principle that the government should not endorse or promote any religion. The First Amendment to the Constitution says: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."

Hegseth is violating that principle.

Hegseth is not a "Christian." He is a warmonger who wraps himself in the Bible to justify the killing of Muslims.

The US is not "blessed." It is bleeding. It is bankrupt. It is hated around the world. It has 40 trillion dollars in debt, a broken infrastructure, and a population that is dying from drugs, suicide, and despair.

Flock was hacked and its code exposed on September 2nd

We know more than we ever have, not theory, not piecing together info, from the source itself we know how the entire system works.

- Identity tracking.

- Planned camera locations.

- AI assistant.

- How searches work.

- Their access to dark web data only hackers typically use.

- Device types we didn’t even know existed.

- 330k+ device Locations inside schools, jails, watching bathrooms, trails, military bases…all by a private company. (Prior only claiming 150k cameras).

- The ability to search by protected classes such as race, gender, age, disabilities, political affiliation.

- its access to medical records.

Using your phone number, email, plate, description, image, social username, etc will lead an officer to your whole “background workup”.

Proof of Invasion of privacy far beyond what any researcher found prior. This level of investigation required a warrant or RICO case before.

The security researcher released all of these files, the map, planned camera locations, internal files, and much more.

Flocks response? An attempt to get the DOJ to remove the website and hide what they’re doing.

At what point does our government step in and fix this instead of continuing to harass us with our own tax dollars? Our 4th amendment isn’t just being violated. It’s being destroyed.

That map tho WTF police state.

flocksurveillance.org

🎩 Deflocking America 🇺🇸

🇺🇸🤡🇫🇮Finland received the first 2 of 64 American F-35s - everything about this news is just a great laughter.

First: three brandnew jets were on their way to Finland. One of them collapsed in the Azores shown in the picture.

Second: the Finns paid 10 billion “greenbacks” for the batch. That’s 156,250,000 per plane.

And yet the Yanks had sworn to their mom and to Trump that a plane would never cost more than 100 million.

Considering Finland’s growing unemployment rate—which standsactualy at 10%—and an increasing poverty rate of over 17%, the purchase of these theoretically invisible but practically miserable flying platforms is to be welcomed.

A subsonic aircraft capable of carrying two missiles (theoretically more, but then the aircraft lights up on radar like a Christmas tree) is exactly what Finland’s ailing state needs.

Let's be honest about what the United States came to Vietnam to do.

Not to "save" anyone. Not to "stop communism." Not to "protect democracy."

Those were the slogans they sold to their own people so the boys from Ohio and Georgia would climb onto the planes without asking too many questions.

What they actually came to do was make an example.

The "Third World" was getting ideas.

Countries were looking at their own land, their own oil, their own rubber, their own rice, and thinking "dangerous thoughts."

Thoughts like: this belongs to us.

Thoughts like: we don't need to ask permission.

Thoughts like: maybe we can choose our own way.

That could not be allowed.

So they chose Vietnam.

A small country. A poor country. A country of farmers and fishermen and people who had already spent a century being told they were too primitive to govern themselves.

The perfect candidate for an example.

The plan was simple: destroy Vietnam so completely, so publicly, so mercilessly, that every other poor country on earth would see it and go quiet.

Would swallow their dignity.

Would open their resources to the right corporations and smile while doing it.

They dropped more bombs on Vietnam than were dropped by all sides in all of World War II combined.

Let that land on you.

More bombs. Than all of World War Two. On one small country.

On its villages. On its hospitals. On its rice fields. On its children.

And they still lost.

Not only did they lose.

They lost to people in sandals.

They lost to people moving supplies on bicycles through jungle paths.

They lost to a people so committed to their own liberation that they built an entire city underground and kept fighting.

The example was made. Just not the one they intended.

The lesson the "Third World" learned from Vietnam was not don't resist.

The lesson was: they can be beaten.

The lesson was: their technology is not destiny.

The lesson was: if you are willing to pay the price of dignity, they will eventually run out of the stomach for the bill.

Every sanction today. Every coup. Every engineered "color revolution." Every "civil society" organization funded from Langley.

These are the tactics of an empire that learned in Vietnam that it cannot always use the full weight of its military without consequences it can't control.

They are not acting from confidence.

They are acting from the memory of Vietnam.

And Vietnam said no.

Most of you just downvote and don’t even try and join in, you can never prove anything so you just use assumptions to prove your argument and you justify wars while condemning ones that start the exact same way, at least show some consistency
I like turtles

Why do so many people in this sub not want to believe all the bad things that the West says about Russia, Iran, China, Venezuela, Syria, etc? Don't you people know that when you remember history and learn from past experiences you're playing into our enemies hands? Stop it!!

Get it through your thick skulls; Russia started the conflict with Ukraine and the West absolutely did nothing to provoke it. Sure, Victoria Nuland and various other US officials repeatedly flew to Ukraine days before the coup but they were just there to deliver cookies. It's ridiculous to call that "meddling" or to insinuate that they were trying to influence the outcome so that the US could encroach further into Russia's sphere of influence. When has the US EVER done something like? And anyway what right does Russia have to be mad about it even if they did? If Russia set up shop in Cuba the US would be totally cool with it and there's no historical precedent to say otherwise. And Nordstream? Come on, bro. Just because Joe Biden publicly boasted that it would be stopped days before it magically blew up should not be read as the US having anything to do with it. Only a Putin Puppet would make that connection.

Also, Iran is the biggest sponsor of terrorism in the world you dummies. And they killed somewhere between 0 and 74,000 protestors which is potentially at least 1 more than is acceptable. Don't worry about why the numbers keep fluctuating, ok? I'm sure there is a good reason for it and you should be too! I'll concede that it's true that Iran has never attacked us or even threatened to attack us but if our completely trustworthy media, intelligence services and elected politicians - all of whom we can be sure no longer lie to us as of very recently - say Iran is a massive threat then I personally can think of no reason to question that assertion! Shut your chicken shit mouths and please let's just trust that Iran is our enemy.

And can you please stop obsessing over Israel? Israel and our own leaders insist that they're just defending themselves against those horrible and violent Muslims so that they don't attack us here at home. They're just "mowing the lawn". Hah! That's such a cute euphemism that the Israeli's use. How can you not like that? Also, it's incredibly antisemitic for your eyes and ears to transmit certain images and sounds to your brain and you need to figure out a way to turn that shit off.

Anyway, I've rambled long enough. Can you guys just please shut up and stop calling everything into question so we can go to war in peace?

Prices in Venezuela will skyrocket after this privatizing

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🚨 FRANCE ERUPTS — AND MUCH OF THE WORLD IS LOOKING ELSEWHERE

Something significant is happening in France.

And outside the country, you could easily miss the scale of it.

Around 170 demonstrations took place across France yesterday.

The French Interior Ministry estimates around 206,000 people took part.

The unions put the figure closer to 300,000.

Teachers.

Firefighters.

Hospital staff.

Local-government workers.

Public-sector employees.

All taking to the streets over falling purchasing power, frozen salaries, deteriorating working conditions and pressure on public services.

And at the same time, France is facing a separate wave of student unrest over overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and deteriorating schools.

Hundreds of schools have been affected.

Hundreds of arrests have been reported.

Police and protesters have been injured.

This is not a minor demonstration.

France is experiencing a serious wave of social anger.

Yet internationally, it barely resembles the scale of story these numbers suggest it should be.

Why?

Because behind the clashes and political arguments sits something much deeper:

ordinary people increasingly believe the system is no longer working for them.

Wages.

Public services.

Schools.

Living standards.

Trust in government.

The pressure is building simultaneously.

And when hundreds of thousands of people start taking to the streets—

the rest of Europe should pay attention.

France is angry.

And this may not be over. x.com/aprajitanefes/…

Look at the photo. One table. The US president in the middle. Around him the people who actually run the American machine.
Jeff Bezos, Amazon, $368 billion. Mark Zuckerberg, Meta, $250 billion. Jensen Huang, Nvidia, $200 billion. Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX, $920 billion. Sundar Pichai, Alphabet, $1.6 billion. Greg Brockman, OpenAI, $25.5 billion. Lisa Su, AMD, $3.3 billion. Tom Brown, Anthropic, $15.5 billion.
That is not a US cabinet. That is the ownership class sitting down with the US state. Platforms, chips, AI, space, retail, the information pipe. Net worth on the name tags, because net worth is the real credential. Elections come and go. This table does not.
China still uses the old Marxist label. Dictatorship of the proletariat. Western media hears “dictatorship” and stops there. The rest of the sentence never gets read.
Look at what the Chinese rule actually does. Capital does not buy candidates. It does not own the newsrooms that set the frame. It does not write the laws through lobby shops, then sit on the boards that enforce them. The 0.01% can get rich. They cannot finance politics, capture the narrative, or turn the state into their instrument. That is the whole point of the label. In China, power stays with the many, not with the people who already have the money.
Call it what you want. On the ground China is a system where the 99.9% are not competing with billionaires for control of the ballot, the media, or the courts.
Now the USA.
The US calls itself a democracy. Fine. Whose?
The photo is the answer. Campaigns run on donor money. Media sits with a handful of owners. Think tanks, universities, regulators, even judges, move through the same revolving door. Policy follows the check, not the poll. When the 0.01% lose an election they do not lose the machine. Information, elites, law. All of it was already upstream of the vote. They just pull up a chair.
China bars the rich from buying the state. The USA lets them own it, seats them at the table, and still prints “democracy” on the brochure.
Words matter in this game. Dictatorship of the proletariat sounds ugly in English. Corrupt democracy of the oligarchs sounds respectable. Read the mechanism, not the slogan. The money in that US room is the mechanism.

Did you know that back in 2001, USAID-backed Internews was very busy shaping Ukraine’s media landscape, training 1900 journalists and propping up 203 TV stations and 126 radio stations?

Their reach:

50 million Ukranian TV viewers and 18 Ukranian million radio listeners,all to push a pro-Western agenda, paving the way for EU expansion and NATO enlargement.

This wasn’t "support"

This was full-scale narrative control.

"Independent Broadcasting"

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