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Patrick Devaney retweeted
They struck the school to kill the girls and then waited for their parents and rescue workers to arrive and struck it again. Third Temple Pete Hegseth took the page straight out of the IDF terrorists' playbook.
Socialism with Chinese characteristics – at Shanghai, People's Republic of China
Breaking News: China’s trade surplus surged past $1 trillion in the first 10 months of this year, eclipsing last year’s record-setting pace. nyti.ms/4zxsXYB
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I find a good bench mark in life is how people treat animals. This is Russell Brand recounting his cruelty to the family dog as a child in his 2009 biography
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Former New York Times bureau chief and veteran foreign correspondent Stephen Kinzer claims US intelligence agencies began sending armed operatives into Soviet Ukraine during the early Cold War to foment an anti-Moscow insurgency.
Speaking on Steve Bannon's War Room, Kinzer alleged that these operations marked the beginning of a 75-year American effort to draw Ukraine into confrontation with Russia, continuing after Ukrainian independence in 1991 and culminating in the 2014 change of government.
"Russia's the aggressor and Ukraine is the victim," Kinzer said, while also insisting that the invasion was the culmination of decades of US policy.
He also suggested that the war might have been avoided had Washington explicitly ruled out Ukrainian NATO membership.
Patrick Devaney retweeted
BREAKING: REP. THOMAS MASSIE ON US ATTACK ON MINAB CHILDREN'S SCHOOL
"There's no fog of war on the first day! You've had months to identify these targets, yet they picked a school building on a school day with kids in it"
Patrick Devaney retweeted
In his book “Boiling Point,” historian Stephen Kinzer writes, “The US and NATO, not Russia, are primarily responsible for the war in Ukraine.” Beginning in the late 1940s, "the US trained anti-Soviet Ukrainian partisans - parachuting them into the country to foment rebellion."
For decades, through dissident media and later nonprofits, Americans funded all manner of oppositionist activity. In the 1950s, the CIA backed a radio station that broadcast from Germany into Ukraine and partnered with a New York publisher, whose pamphlets were dropped into Ukraine by balloon.
Much of this was driven, Kinzer argues, by zealous Eastern European refugees or their descendants, like the billionaire philanthropist George Soros, and the former US ambassador to NATO, Victoria Nuland, who, according to Kinzer, had “imbibed anti-Russia passion with her mother’s milk.”
Kinzer writes, by the time Putin intervened in the Donbas civil war, the country was a “fully compliant proxy of the US.” Kinzer also stresses NATO enlargement as the taproot of hostility between Russia and the West. Since the end of the Cold War, the alliance had welcomed 16 new members, most of them former Warsaw Pact counties in Eastern Europe.
By 1999, Kinzer concludes, "No one in the Kremlin could avoid recognizing that Russia’s ultimate security nightmare - Ukrainian membership in a hostile military alliance - was beginning to become real.” In Kinzer’s view, it was this intolerable possibility, and the West’s cavalier disrespect for Russia’s “security concerns,” that compelled Putin to finally attack #Ukraine on 24 February 2022.
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Israel to release body of Palestinian teen who died malnourished in prison haaretz.com/west-bank/2026-1…
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В 1999 году Югославию бомбили США, Британия, Франция, Германия, Италия, Канада, Бельгия, Дания, Нидерланды, Норвегия, Португалия, Испания и Турция. Ни одна из этих стран не была отстранена от международных спортивных соревнований. Ни в футболе. Ни в хоккее.
I’ve warmed here, for years now, that companies and technology considered vital to Communist China are relentlessly targeted by them. I know this from firsthand experience. They try takeovers, they try money or other comp to key people, they try honey traps, they try intimidation, then if or when none of that works, they will come at you in other ways. In my case over 200 legal actions. No operation that they thinks matters is immune to them. As I have also said here, Western governments are still not at all sufficiently on top of this.
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This is why Dave Chappelle said he feels better about Charlie Kirk being gone btw
The fact that conservatives think they can ban jokes about a guy who used to joke about genocide is peak hilarity. You guys forever lost the culture, just take the L
Patrick Devaney retweeted
An American professor asked when China last voted.
Answer: right now. A billion people are choosing 2.6 million local representatives.
He blocked me after I replied.
HOW CHINA'S ELECTIONS WORK:
Patrick Devaney retweeted
I would go so far as to call China's meritocracy a genuine democracy, and that what we in the West call 'democracy' is nothing more than a farcical publicity stunt designed to secure the true hidden power behind a smokescreen of superficiality. Sound and fury signifying nothing.
Patrick Devaney retweeted
China has avoided alliances, but what the United States is doing to Iran and Palestine leaves Beijing little choice. The Dengists are losing internally and this is giving way to a whole new wave of Maoists inside the Chinese political system. They are young, (fashionable,) and they are done with trying to appease US imperialism.
Kyoto University Symposium 2026: "Geopolitics in the Time of Monsters"
Presentation 8: Sheng Zhang
Sheng Zhang examines the competing traditions shaping China’s Middle East policy, contrasting Maoist solidarity with Dengist economic priorities. Using Palestine and Iran, he explores Beijing’s political commitments, trade relationships, public opinion and diplomatic constraints. He argues that regional conflict is challenging China’s balancing strategy and strengthening Iran’s strategic importance. The discussion considers boycotts, Gulf investment, energy security, generational differences and strategic patience, asking what might push Beijing toward a clearer position as regional power shifts and tensions with Washington deepen.
Sheng's Links:
Sheng's Article on China-Iran Relations: muse.jhu.edu/article/991335
Association for Global Political Thought profile: globalpoliticalthought.hsite…
Neutrality Studies Links:
Neutrality Studies Substack: pascallottaz.substack.com
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Time Stamps
00:00 China’s competing foreign-policy traditions
04:43 Xi Jinping and the Middle East
06:37 Gaza and Chinese public opinion
13:43 Trade with Israel and the Haifa dilemma
15:48 Iran, Gulf trade and diplomatic tensions
18:54 War and China’s reassessment of Iran
28:57 Discussion: boycotts, Gaza and Gulf investment
44:11 Energy, younger generations and strategic patience
#China #Geopolitics #Iran #Imperialism #Neutrality
Patrick Devaney retweeted
🚨A motion at the Fine Gael ard fheis in UCC has affirmed the party upholds Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era
University has signed a deal with Beijing university that provides training courses to propaganda workers in Tibet and Xinjiang. Read: irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/…
“Killing him again”
Yes, you can kill a person twice.
More great facts and logic from the right wingers at the University of Fucking Dunces.
No wonder they lost Texas lol
NEW: Cash App has severed ties with the 'I've Had It' Podcast after hosts Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan laughed uncontrollably at the thought of digging up Charlie Kirk's corpse and killing him again.
Cash App says they are no longer a sponsor of the show.
Just 20 minutes before the women cracked up at the thought of assassinating Charlie Kirk again, Welch had read an ad for Cash App.
Surprising anyone would want to sponsor this show in the first place.
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Not only are China's Private Enterprises incredibly well subsidised by China's State Owned Enterprises; its POEs increasingly operate *like* SOEs - like singular all-in-one units (free from competition/exchange)
China's PoEs are progressing towards being 1 giant, integrated SoE
Some of China’s most successful tech firms are renowned for their aggressive vertical integration: BYD, DJI, Unitree.
But it’s not just about costs. It’s also about greater performance and efficiency through customization and co-design.
My full piece: highcapacity.org/p/chinas-te…
