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Ukrainians are the firewood that we will throw into the stove of the anti-Russian rebellion. —Lord Palmerston, prime minister of Great Britain, 1855–65
What Ukrainian Nazis?!
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🇨🇦Canadian soldiers are complaining that residents of Daugavpils, Latvia, which is 50 km from the border with Russia, treat them poorly and sometimes even insult them. According to NATO representatives, drones are increasingly flying over their positions, filming them. Source: Военный обозреватель ➖➖➖➖ I still remember fight between NATO soldiers and hookers in Ventspils, Latvia (that is the coast of the Baltic sea) back in the beginning of 2000... People generally dislike NATO. 😂😂
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🚨 WARNING: SOMETHING EXTREMELY BAD JUST HAPPENED Japan has dumped $160 BILLION in U.S. Treasuries after its stock market crashed 8% in just a few hours. This is the largest treasury sell-off in decades. They've officially hit the PANIC button. Japan is sitting on a massive ¥30 TRILLION in bond losses. And it's getting worse by the minute. Over ¥21,000,000,000,000 has been wiped from Japan's stock market today. This is NOT a normal market correction. Something much bigger is happening behind the scenes. Japan is aggressively selling U.S. Treasuries to stabilize the yen and prevent a total collapse. Meanwhile, its gold reserves have climbed to an ALL-TIME HIGH. Japan is reducing its exposure to dollar-based assets while continuing to accumulate gold. And there's a clear reason behind it. Japan is fighting to protect its currency. The Bank of Japan is deploying its enormous foreign exchange reserves. And U.S. Treasuries remain one of the largest and most liquid assets available. But Japan isn't alone. China is following a remarkably similar strategy. China continues reducing its U.S. Treasury holdings while its gold reserves reach new ALL-TIME HIGHS. Two of the world's largest economies are now moving in the same direction. → Japan is dumping U.S. Treasuries → Japan is expanding its gold reserves → China is dumping U.S. Treasuries → China is expanding its gold reserves This is a major shift away from traditional dollar-based reserves. And it's not necessarily because countries don't want dollars. It's because they have NO OTHER OPTION. The AI bubble is collapsing, and foreign markets are dumping every day. China's AI stocks have collapsed nearly 50% in 3 months. And this will extend far beyond Japan and China. Japan has to save its own market and defend the yen. China also wants to save its own market and gain financial independence. And GOLD is becoming a central part of both strategies. This is where the situation becomes extremely dangerous. If Japan continues selling Treasuries, additional pressure will build across bond markets. And China's selling will add even more pressure. → Increasing Treasury liquidations → Growing pressure on U.S. bond markets → Aggressive currency intervention → Accelerating gold accumulation → Declining dependence on the U.S. dollar Japan isn't deliberately trying to destroy global markets. They're trying to prevent a much larger financial crisis. But those actions will create consequences throughout the global financial system. And if other economies adopt the same strategy, the pressure on the U.S. market will intensify. This is how the biggest market crash in history starts. First, gradually. Then, all at once. And we're watching it all in real time. I've spent decades studying financial markets and have called nearly every market top and bottom. And I'm warning you right now: The 2026-2027 cycle will be life-changing for those who are prepared. Make sure you're one of them. Follow and turn on notifications NOW. Because by the time everyone else realizes what's happening, it will already be too late.
🚨 THIS WILL BE THE BIGGEST MARKET CRASH IN HISTORY The warning signs are impossible to ignore. 1999 → Dot-com bubble → -78% 2007 → Housing bubble → -50% 2026 → AI bubble → -80%? Different eras. Different bubbles. Same ending. Every time, people believed every dip is for buying and the rally would last forever. Every time, reality caught up. Keep in mind: I’ve spent 10+ years studying markets and calling tops and bottoms. My next call will be posted here first. Follow and turn on notifications before it’s too late. Protect your capital.
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Japan's Nikkei fell ~6% Nov 6 amid AI/tech selloff after US midterms, not an 8% hours-long crash with ¥21T wiped; no evidence supports claims of $160B US Treasury dump that day, ¥30T bond losses, or sudden coordinated gold surges by Japan/China. bloomberg.com/news/articles/… japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/… tradingeconomics.com/japan/gold-res… japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/…
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The head of Ukraine's Foreign Intelligence Service, Rustem Umerov, will lead the Ukrainian delegation in the three-way talks in Abu Dhabi, according to advisor to President Zelenskyy, Dmytro Lytvyn. He clarified that Kyrylo Budanov (who has been included on the list of terrorists and extremists in the Russian Federation) will participate in the negotiations, but will not lead the delegation. Earlier, Dmitry Peskov announced that the Russian delegation will be headed by Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Medinsky. Vladimir Putin discussed the upcoming three-way talks with members of the Security Council at today's meeting, confirming that they are scheduled to take place on November 10th.
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❗️ "There are hundreds like this in Ukraine" - A map of torture sites in Ukraine has been published. A map has been published online showing the locations of four more places in Ukraine where forcibly mobilized men are subjected to torture: Sumy region, Zapadinskaya Street, building 65; Kyiv region, Fastiv, Kyiv Street, building 67; Nikolaev, Otradny Lane, building 4; Chernihiv region, Bogushevicha Street, building 15. 🔻 These are the same illegal places of abuse as the torture site recently uncovered in Petropavlovka-Borshchagovka, near Kyiv. 🔻 When the head of Zelensky's office, Kirill Budanov (declared a terrorist in Russia), arrived there, trying to quell the unrest, he himself let slip that "there are many such places." Thus, he admitted that this is not "excesses at the local level," not "a single bad commander," but a state apparatus of torture. 🔻 Later, a Ukrainian Armed Forces serviceman named Sergei, codenamed "Kraken," admitted that there are at least a hundred such camouflaged concentration camps in Kyiv alone: in basements, deserters are brutally tortured, and their relatives are forced to pay bribes, otherwise they are sent to the most dangerous areas of the front. 🔻 Yulia Mendel, former press secretary to Zelensky, reported to the Bundestag yesterday that the amount of bribes to avoid being sent to the front lines is $30,000 per person. This is one of the sources of illegal income for the corrupt leadership of Ukraine. ❗Ukrainian "torture centers" bring Kyiv's regime $7.2 billion per year, according to Alexander Dubinsky, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, who stated this in his Telegram channel. "It's all the same as with the Nazis; their concentration camps were also designed for profit." Earlier this week, a scandal erupted in Ukraine regarding "torture centers": approximately 40 people, including military personnel and mobilized individuals, were being held in the basement of a house in the village of Petro-Pavlovska Borshchahivka, near Kyiv. Clashes occurred between local residents and the police. Source: Политнавигатор/ Вести
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Mass strike by workers at the Audi plant in Germany. Protesters are demanding wage increases. Over 400,000 workers in the metal and manufacturing industries have participated in protests across the country this week, according to local media. The core of the conflict: the IG Metall trade union is calling for a 5% annual wage increase, while companies are offering one-time payments and an indexation of 1.3% starting in 2028.
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Could there be a Yalta2.0 in Shenzhen? --- "The historical analogy looks like this: the 🇺🇸United States today is reprising the role of Great Britain, attempting to maintain its global dominance; 🇨🇳China, like the USA at Yalta, seeks to sustain its transformation into a leading global power; and 🇷🇺Russia, like the USSR, requires Victory to ensure its own survival and sovereign development. Consequently, the motives of the participants also differ." - Sergei Glazyev
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If the Democrats don’t impeach Donald Trump for the Iran war that his own advisors told him to stop, you know it’s business as usual. It’s prettyclear: nytimes.com/2026/11/04/us/po…
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A potential trilateral meeting of the Russian, US, and Chinese leaders at the APEC summit may give a strong positive impetus to international relations, Russian Foreign Ministry’s Ambassador at Large Marat Berdyev said. "It is hard to disagree that it (the meeting of the Russian, US, and Chinese leaders - TASS) could send a powerful positive signal," he told the Izvestia daily. According to Berdyev, "amid the challenging geopolitical situation in the world, provoked by Western globalist elites," such an impetus would be very useful. "The key parameters of such a dialogue will need to be clarified through close preliminary consultations, in which China, as the host, will play a special role. However, in my view, a meeting of this scale will focus on the most pressing international challenges that require collective responses from the key global powers of today," he stressed.
Could there be a Yalta2.0 in Shenzhen? --- "The historical analogy looks like this: the 🇺🇸United States today is reprising the role of Great Britain, attempting to maintain its global dominance; 🇨🇳China, like the USA at Yalta, seeks to sustain its transformation into a leading global power; and 🇷🇺Russia, like the USSR, requires Victory to ensure its own survival and sovereign development. Consequently, the motives of the participants also differ." - Sergei Glazyev
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My friends over at Ehang in Guangzhou have this amazing new advanced drone fire-fighting solution. They will be producing more technical capabilities, but the company thinks the California fire departments would be very interested about this product. Maybe even wildfires! Here is the thing: This is part of what is known as "Low altitude economy" The low-altitude economy soars as China's new growth engine. Notably, the global expansion of China's low-altitude sector has shifted from simple product exports to delivering a comprehensive package of its technology, standards, infrastructure and business models. The popularity of China's low-altitude economy products is closely tied to its increasingly sophisticated industrial chain. This is particularly evident in the UAV sector, where China has a complete and cost-competitive industrial chain, allowing for rapid responses to international market demands. The seventh China Helicopter Exposition witnessed the signing of 21 aviation industry projects. The low-altitude economy will boost the entire industrial chain, advance multidimensional transport and logistics systems, and facilitate more efficient flow of production factors, injecting new momentum into China and the global economy. @ehang @LIFTAircraft
Followup on the Canton Fair in @Guangzhou_City After the fair I had a chance to visit E-Town (The Beijing Economic Technological Development Area). This area is the brainchild of the mayor-- who happens to be a PhD engineer. We got to get in there and see how the autonomous driving programs are created--- and it is EXACTLY how it should work: the city builds ALL THE SENSORS and EXPENSIVE TECH into the city infrastructure--- that way the the companies who are building EVs or autonomous driving don't have to do it--- thus their cars can be cheaper but better because the company gets to focus on the thing that makes their innovation worth using. Contrast to WayMo which has all the tech ON THE CAR. Therefore the per-unit cost of each vehicle is MORE. An ounce of government participation, yields a pound of private initiative and enterprise. Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area is also called Beijing E-Town. It is the only national-level economic-technological development area in Beijing and an important window for reform and opening up of the capital city. It's about 250 sq km of cool technological developments! Four key industries lead the way in innovation, namely the next-generation IT, high-end automobiles and new-energy vehicles, biotech, health and wellness, as well as robotics and smart manufacturing. The area brings together more than 26,000 corporations from over 40 countries and regions with a total investment of exceeding $100 billion. Mercedes Benz, GE, Bayer and altogether over 90 Fortune 500 companies have invested in more than 130 projects. #VisitChina @guangzhou_daily
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Ukraine is unlikely to be able to regain the territories lost during the conflict with Russia. This statement was made by the Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte. The head of the North Atlantic Alliance also expressed confidence that such conflicts always end with the conclusion of a peace agreement, which implies a certain compromise. As a reminder, the conditions for ending the Ukrainian conflict will be discussed in a trilateral format on November 10-11 in Abu Dhabi. The Russian delegation will be headed by Presidential Aide Vladimir Medinsky.
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🇺🇸🐘🫏A good provocative election thread here. @ZaharisJason makes the point that unfortunately can also be said about the Republican Party in a slightly different fashion: The political parties in the United States are both mouthpieces for the same Epstein class criminals. There was a reason Franklin Roosevelt was called a traitor to his class. 🔥🚬He was well aware that his maternal grandfather, Warren Delano Jr. chief of operations for Russell & Company in China, where he made a large fortune in the opium trade. 🇬🇧He was well aware and said as much, that his cousin Teddy Roosevelt was in league with the Anglo-American banking establishment—- — it wasn’t tangentially, it was direct. — FDR knew that his family was the family of treason: Theodore Roosevelt’s uncle, James Dunwoody Bulloch was a high-level Confederate States of the US intelligence agent stationed in London! Franklin Roosevelt stood up against it all. Henry A. Wallace, who was vice president end supposed to replace Franklin Delano Roosevelt as the next president was edged out by the treason faction. He was critical to improving agriculture and industry in America. Trump said he was gonna do the same thing. He was going to be his version of the same battle for Americans and against the establishment. He was for the underdog. This is the reason why Donald Trump has such low support in the population. But it’s also the reason why the US Congress has the lowest support across the board in history. Trump didn’t do it and the Democrats are even worse. (by the way, there’s a very good film in 1997 called the Opium War that was produced in China 🇨🇳 ) So this is a good intro and then follow the rest of the threads: 🇺🇸🧵 PROGRESSIVES USE FDR’S NEW DEAL AS PROOF VOTING WORKS — IT’S ACTUALLY PROOF TO THE CONTRARY The Lies and Deceit of the Liberal Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ran for their respective seats in Congress on populist messaging of creating an economy that benefits all Americans, rather than the interests of a wealthy few, while dialing back American militarism abroad. Zohran Mamdani promised to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he ever came to New York City. Instead, Bernie and AOC turned their back on healthcare activists during Force The Vote, crushed a railroad strike and became the most aggressive advocates of NATO expansion and genocide in Gaza, while Mamdani arrested pro-Palestine protestors and engaged in regime change propaganda against Venezuela and Cuba. Bernie endorsed Hillary Clinton with zero concessions despite the 2016 primaries being rigged and Abdul El-Sayed engaged in war propaganda in Ukraine and Iran. Betrayal after betrayal, the progressive left tells you that you must keep voting in order to “push the Democrats left.” However, every time, it seems that the DNC party machine and its network of corporate donors and NGOs always push the progressives in the direction that is most beneficial to their interests. Progressives run on populist messaging and then George Soros, Jamie Dimon and Alex Karp walk into the room. Follow the thread 🧵 👇
🇺🇸🧵 PROGRESSIVES USE FDR’S NEW DEAL AS PROOF VOTING WORKS — IT’S ACTUALLY PROOF TO THE CONTRARY The Lies and Deceit of the Liberal Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ran for their respective seats in Congress on populist messaging of creating an economy that benefits all Americans, rather than the interests of a wealthy few, while dialing back American militarism abroad. Zohran Mamdani promised to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu if he ever came to New York City. Instead, Bernie and AOC turned their back on healthcare activists during Force The Vote, crushed a railroad strike and became the most aggressive advocates of NATO expansion and genocide in Gaza, while Mamdani arrested pro-Palestine protestors and engaged in regime change propaganda against Venezuela and Cuba. Bernie endorsed Hillary Clinton with zero concessions despite the 2016 primaries being rigged and Abdul El-Sayed engaged in war propaganda in Ukraine and Iran. Betrayal after betrayal, the progressive left tells you that you must keep voting in order to “push the Democrats left.” However, every time, it seems that the DNC party machine and its network of corporate donors and NGOs always push the progressives in the direction that is most beneficial to their interests. Progressives run on populist messaging and then George Soros, Jamie Dimon and Alex Karp walk into the room. Most importantly, though, the example that the progressive left will invoke to trick you into voting for Democrats is Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. However, what they do not understand is that this example falls flat on its face when you realize that it is actually proof that voting absolutely does not work. And the reason why is because change is not a result of the great man theory. It’s not a result of individual will on the part of one President or elected official. It’s a direct result of collective organization, discipline and working class pressure outside the structures of bourgeois democracy. FDR’s Administration was a product of the times he was in. Now this is by no means an attack on FDR because he achieved many victories for the working class and showed great leadership during the World War II. However, the facts of the New Deal must be taken seriously. The New Deal was not a result of the fact that FDR came into the White House promising reform. In fact, Wall Street and big business were aggressively opposed to any reform despite the aftermath of the 1929 crash and Hoover’s disastrous hands-off approach to the Great Depression. The decisive factor that ultimately drove the victories of the New Deal (expanded rights for labor unions, wages, farm subsidies, Social Security, Glass-Steagall, public works) was the role of organized labor. Most importantly, the struggle of organized labor for the reforms of the New Deal was not led by anyone inside the Democratic Party. It was led by none other than the Communist Party USA under Chairman William Z. Foster. In 1932, with Foster and James W. Ford on the ticket, the Communist Party had received its best result in its history as socialist and left-wing politics were now starting to become more popular in this new era of monopoly capitalism. We witnessed it once with the turnout for Eugene V. Debs of the Socialist Party in 1912 and again with the results for Robert M. LaFollette in 1924. Slowly but ever so surely, the masses were becoming far more politically conscious and it was only a matter of time before a revolution was inevitable. In 1932, Foster had just written his book Toward Soviet America which outlined the goals of the Communist Party. And as the Great Depression unraveled, FDR had proved to be the one person standing between the capitalist class on one side and the working masses with their torches and pitchforks on the other.
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so I guess we are going to rename the "Gulf of America" back to the "Gulf of Mexico" 😂
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🇺🇸It’s time for America to realize that the biggest enemy we have is not outside our borders. 🇨🇳America’s biggest enemy is not China. 🇷🇺America’s biggest enemy is not Russia. 🇮🇷America’s biggest enemy is not, most definitely, is not Iran. America’s biggest enemy is the transnational financial establishment ensconced in our financial and policy-making centres. It’s time to return to the good neighbor policy. It’s time to focus inwardly and fix ourselves.
If there are still those who entertain the slightest hope that the hegemonic system may change behavior or shifts in its political parties may bring about change, or that by making concessions to the US, they can persuade it to abandon its hostility, they're gravely mistaken.
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🇨🇳🇺🇸In China I was able to meet with some diplomats and businessmen from various African countries who were staying in my hotel. They were there for Agriculture conferences in Beijing. We got into big discussions about the state of the world economy, the wars and they stated saying, “you can’t be from the United States, because you think more like us”. Interesting indictment of how Americans typically think (focus on the elections yesterday: Americans voted for Trump to fix the economy and end wars, 2 years and we are still there. So Americans vote against Trump for not doing what he said he would do— they didn’t look at California and suddenly say that that’s what they wanted🤣.) 🇰🇪Back home in Texas, my neighbor is from Kenya and in IT. He had an interesting observation: when he goes to Kenya, he sees how China has TRANSFORMED his birth nation’s roads and infrastructure— he considers it a miracle transformation. He also travels to India and his comment: “India should ask China to build their highways.” Observationally, that is why BRICS and all the alternative banking-for-infrastructure projects that are rapidly coming into existence. That’s why no one wants to be part of the IMF and World Bank system, that’s why multipolarity. Europe and the USA only partially get it at the level of the population. Leadership doesn’t get it at all. We get the leadership that reflects the population. So we have to educate the population quickly.
🇺🇸🇨🇳On October 26, 2026 in Beijing, China I was very happy to be honored to have a discussion with a group of PhD students and Professors on how we can improve relations between the people of China and the people of the United States. We met at the Communication University of China. What a sense of kindness and humor-- we were presented with the "finisher" medal won by "Lightning"--- the robot developed by Chinese smartphone maker Honor, that blazed through the 13-mile race in just 50 minutes, 26 seconds, besting all 12,000 human competitors and even surpassing the human world record for a half-marathon, set by Ugandan long-distance runner Jacob Kiplimo in Lisbon last month, by nearly seven minutes.
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Oh yeah, it’s not just a 14-year-old boy that the Ukrainians are committing crimes against. It’s part of the policy of the security services of Ukraine. And what’s really shocking is that he and his parents have been added to the Myrvorets hit list too! #NSFW 🇺🇦 —— The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has declassified information revealing that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the police assisted a criminal group in kidnapping, beating, and torturing people in Ukraine and Europe. The video shows fragments of attacks by the group, which was protected by Ukrainian security forces. Currently, SBU General Sergei Duka has already been detained. He is the first deputy head of the SBU's Department for the Protection of National Statehood.
They drugged the 14- year-old boy. That was in the Azov torture chamber. That’s what having a 🇺🇦 flag in your bio is all about.
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Troll Adam Kinzinger is telling you what will become one of the primary goals of the Democrat-controlled congress: War with Russia. ...and funny thing...housing cost is the #1 issue for young voters in the USA...not Russia, China, Iran, or saving democracy
Oh yeah, it’s not just a 14-year-old boy that the Ukrainians are committing crimes against. It’s part of the policy of the security services of Ukraine. And what’s really shocking is that he and his parents have been added to the Myrvorets hit list too! #NSFW 🇺🇦 —— The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has declassified information revealing that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the police assisted a criminal group in kidnapping, beating, and torturing people in Ukraine and Europe. The video shows fragments of attacks by the group, which was protected by Ukrainian security forces. Currently, SBU General Sergei Duka has already been detained. He is the first deputy head of the SBU's Department for the Protection of National Statehood.
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Nicely said by a Brit living in Ukraine. Only Russia wants peace. ---- I am from Kharkov (Kharkiv in Ukrainian). Just last night, there was another powerful explosion nearby-only about 1-2 kilometers away. It was a rough night; we were without electricity for several hours, and there were constant outages throughout the day. Men are afraid to go outside because of the brutal mobilization tactics. No one wants to go and die for the thieves and murderers in our government offices. I myself haven't left my home or the city at all since the war began. I can't say my life is bad-I almost always have water, electricity, and high-speed internet, and I have enough money to get by-but 4.5 years of war is simply too long. I no longer have any faith that this will ever come to an end. I believe that our side takes a more uncompromising stance, and that things could have turned out differently-were it not for the fact that our leadership is so corrupt: they trade away our lives, exchanging them for bags of cash in U.S. dollars and the furnishing of their own private palaces.
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I was thinking of title for this post: “ Ukraine is for freedom of speech” But also, it could be titled: “ like Nazi Germany, Ukraine is consuming its own” But it just shows you what a chaotic mess that country is. There was never going to be a solution for Ukraine that was good for them. —— The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the Office of the Prosecutor General have charged Yuliya Mendel, former spokesperson for Vladimir Zelensky, with high treason in absentia. "The charges have been filed under the following provisions of the Ukrainian Criminal Code: high treason committed under martial law and justification of the actions of the Russian Federation against Ukraine," the SBU said in a statement posted on its Telegram channel. According to the statement, investigators argue that Mendel had used public statements and social media posts to discredit Ukraine on the international stage. As she is currently outside the country, comprehensive measures are being taken to bring her to justice, the SBU added.
Oh yeah, it’s not just a 14-year-old boy that the Ukrainians are committing crimes against. It’s part of the policy of the security services of Ukraine. And what’s really shocking is that he and his parents have been added to the Myrvorets hit list too! #NSFW 🇺🇦 —— The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has declassified information revealing that the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the police assisted a criminal group in kidnapping, beating, and torturing people in Ukraine and Europe. The video shows fragments of attacks by the group, which was protected by Ukrainian security forces. Currently, SBU General Sergei Duka has already been detained. He is the first deputy head of the SBU's Department for the Protection of National Statehood.
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When in a single week you split the West, devastate half of Europe with hybrid warfare, stage a coup in Poland, seize Bulgarian government, and set up torture prisons in Ukraine, but still need to make it to the US elections on time.
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🇷🇺🇨🇳🇺🇸For a Yalta2.0, Russian Academician Sergei Glazyev says: "The issue now is not the division of a post-war world, but rather its preservation—specifically, agreement on rules for the peaceful coexistence of states within the emerging multipolar system." Here is the interesting part: "The historical analogy looks like this: the 🇺🇸United States today is reprising the role of Great Britain, attempting to maintain its global dominance; 🇨🇳China, like the USA at Yalta, seeks to sustain its transformation into a leading global power; and 🇷🇺Russia, like the USSR, requires Victory to ensure its own survival and sovereign development. Consequently, the motives of the participants also differ. Trump is in the most difficult situation, in that he is not backed by a national consensus. It is now known that at Yalta, Churchill was harboring a grudge—the treacherous scheme Operation “Unthinkable”: to accept a separate surrender from Germany and, in alliance with the remnants of the Wehrmacht, launch an assault on the USSR to destroy our country. This would have been a repeat of the attempt made after the First World War, when the former Entente allies launched an armed intervention aimed at dismembering Russia into spheres of influence. Trump, driven by the idea “Make America Great Again,” has similar motives: to strengthen the U.S. position in its rivalry with China, at the expense of Russia and Europe. He is spurred on both by the historical precedent of the U.S. economic surge that was fueled by a massive influx of capital and talent from Europe during the world wars of the last century, and by the current crisis in the American economy, where the depreciation of fixed assets is outpacing their replacement due to a lack of productive investment. The American ruling elite has traditionally sought to overcome such trends by inciting wars abroad, to secure an influx of resources from the war-ridden nations."
We are on the eve of the US midterm elections, but we don't really know what America we have now or will get afterwards. Russian economist and academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Sergei Glazyev, who lived through the dissolution of the Soviet Union, has observed, in an article published October 27 entitled : “Yalta 2.0: Why Russia, the U.S., and China Need to Agree on New Rules for The World Order.” “The contemporary world order is undergoing a systemic crisis, driven by the shift in technological and world economic paradigms. Not only is the old architecture of international security collapsing; the economic centers of power, the financial system, the technological leaders, and the very principles of international engagement are all changing. The transition from an imperial to an integral world economic paradigm began with the dissolution of the USSR and is now culminating in the collapse of Pax Americana.” "The old international institutions are no longer capable of providing stability, while new ones are taking shape amidst a struggle between the old and the new centers of power. During the previous shift of world economic paradigms, this struggle was mediated by the First and Second World Wars—conflicts instigated by Great Britain in an effort to hold on to its global dominance. Although Britain achieved its objectives in the First World War, the Second World War resulted in the disintegration of its colonial empire, and the world transitioned to a bipolar imperial world economic paradigm with centers in the USSR and the United States. The current transition is likewise unfolding through a world war, during which the ruling elite of the United States seeks to preserve the global hegemony it established following the collapse of the USSR. Although this is a hybrid war, in which the main front lines run through cognitive-informational and economic-financial space, its flare-ups may transition at any moment to the conflagration of a nuclear war. Military actions Ukraine and Iran, the systemic crisis in Europe, financial and trade wars, the erection of technological barriers, and an arms race involving artificial intelligence may appear to be isolated problems. But in reality they are interconnected by the overall process of the shift of world economic paradigm. This is precisely why there is now a historical necessity for a new “Yalta,” whose historical agenda should not be carving up the world among a few powers. Its task, rather, is to agree upon rules for peaceful coexistence in the polycentric world that is taking shape." The idea here is not geopolitical advantage—this is not a Yalta seeking to divide the world. The idea here is mutually assured, durable human survival, through the creation of a new security and development architecture. 🇨🇳China, a civilizational nation, is a technological and economic powerhouse. It is seeking to assist, using the ideas discussed in President Xi Jinping’s Global Governance Initiative, in bringing about peace in Southwest Asia and the Horn of Africa. English Translation: eir.news/p/8eed372b-68a0-4fc… original: vedomosti.ru/opinion/columns…
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