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 Posted: 19 Apr 2025 at 8:51pm |
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Iran talks;
BRICS+ position is Iran has every right for its nuclear energy program. Iran has a right to have defense forces. BRICS+ will welcome a nuclear weapon free Middle East. ..trump may be under pressure by his "donors/owners" to replace the UKraine war with a US war with Iran. -The UKraine war still is NOT over...the US has "limited room" to get out of that (US made) war... -US/USrael are VERY isolated if they would attack Iran (now)... -BRICS+ has Iran as a "strategic member" and will NOT accept any major military action by US/USrael... In the economic war the US is losing the tarif war...In the PR-war "Chinese peasants" backfired...It is very easy to dislike the present US fascist regime...
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Posted: 19 Apr 2025 at 9:04pm |
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DJ, Maybe most remarkable may be the Chinese PR-war victory...Even Judge Napolitano playing short Chinese video's explaining on why China is now in such a strong position.
YES China did accept low pay jobs from the US moving to China 30-40 years ago...YES China did make money from it.. The reason why China is now the global #1 is China invested in education, infrastructure, production capacity and diplomacy; creating "win-win-situations" around the globe... Like the EU also BRICS+ may disagree on lots of issues...may not even have one currency..But that position offers flexibility and safety... Countries were able to make deals with a EU-member to see it "balanced" by other countries...Making a "deal" with the US brings the US "much to close"... The EU wasted its international position by NOT having their own foreign policy agenda any longer...Hiding behind the US -a "united west"- made the world a worse place... So BRICS+ replaced the EU...and keeps growing for now. "The west" underestimated BRICS+ and western "sanctions" only made BRICS+ bloom... DJ-It is in the interest OF THE WEST !!!! to stop its confrontation/exploitation neo-colonialism and racism...The "rest" only is increasing joining forces... DJ-The EU/Europe may be in a better position to "work" with BRICS+ then the (arrogant "#1") US. In my view high speed growth of both NATO and EU destabilized both organizations... It is in the interest of NATO to develop into a global disaster relief organization...Saving people not killing people...
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According to former Assistant Secretary of Defense Chas Freeman (one of the rare senior US officials that I admire), the Trump administration couldn't even explain to the Japanese negotiating team what they were looking to achieve with the tariffs.
Here's what Freeman said: "The Japanese have just been in Washington. Their experience apparently was they went to talk to the American leadership on this matter, and the American leadership said 'what are you offering?' And the Japanese said 'well, what is it that you want?' And the Americans could not explain what they wanted."
Freeman also noted, correctly, that "the United States [broke] virtually every agreement it has agreed to in recent decades including the replacement for NAFTA with proposed tariffs on Canada and Mexico that was negotiated by Mr. Trump in his first term."
Which doesn't exactly encourage countries to make a deal with Trump: what's the point?
Which is why Freeman believes that China won't go for negotiations and has instead decided to "wait [America] out".
As he puts it: "What is [China's] incentive to negotiate with the US when the US has no stated objectives that make sense and no record of compliance with its own agreements? I think the Chinese have decided they will wait us out and see how Americans like Walmart and Amazon denuded of products."
Fundamentally and somewhat paradoxically, that's the thing Trump the self-anointed "dealmaker" obviously doesn't get: at the end of the day dealmaking is built on credibility and consistency, and America has now neither. DJ, Even Japan, South Korea can not do any deals any longer with this US... Based on "economic statistics" US has up to 30% of global consumer demand..."so every country needs to do bussiness with the US"...However a few problems; The US "pays with debts"...In more realistic GDP-PPP US market may be closer to the 4% of global population... Transport costs make deals with the US extra costly. Asia has 70% of the global population. EurAsAf (Europe-Asia-Africa) over 80%...and a lot of transport may be done at lower costs...
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Posted: 20 Apr 2025 at 9:58pm |
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DJ, Maybe a trend ? Western wars turning inside-after losing "outside"wars for decades ?
So blame Muslims & Migrants for bad politics...Of course the old style blame Russia/all mighty Putin and China still also goes on...Tariffs as a "new wonder weapon"... -Will the UK/France -at a zelenski invitation- move thousends of troops/navy into Odessa ? To do what ? Enable "more UKraine forces" to get killed on the frontlines ? Of course "Russia now helped by North Korean/Chinese soldiers"..."because Russia is running out of soldiers".... DJ-A main problem is western media continuing utter stupidity; "Based on UKraine info" Russia is shelling itself at the Zaporizia Nuclear Power Plant..Western media still follow the goebbels propagandaplan, repeat non-sense over and over...Most people will follow it... DJ, "CoViD" is over, measles, H5N1 "stopped by natural immunity"...Climate collapse a "Chinese hoax"...Most people love to live in phantasyland... Of course there is a price to pay... --- US-Iran talks...The US idea was to tell Iran it can not have nuclear energy or an army..."or else"...When the Obama US government reached an Iran deal Iran was "weak and isolated"...trump ended that deal... Iran in 2025 is integrated in EurAsAf-trade...it is the US that finds itself more and more isolated... Yesterday in Rotterdam over 10,000 people held a pro-Palestine demonstration.. In the "west" the corrupt political elite may be out of contact with reality...
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Posted: Yesterday at 12:02am |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq38nLeKclo&t=1s or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq38nLeKclo&t=1s ;
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Posted: 15 hours 40 minutes ago at 10:10pm |
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DJ, Not that correct video (US$ share in global trade is under 70% !) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-JPLTjdbS4 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-JPLTjdbS4 ;
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Posted: 15 hours 19 minutes ago at 10:31pm |
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Two very good <10 minutes videos of World Affairs in Context/Lena Petrova/LP-USA;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4vNcOcG8YM or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4vNcOcG8YM ;
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Crusade or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Crusade ;
American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free is a non-fiction book written by American television presenter Pete Hegseth (later the United States Secretary of Defense) published in 2020. In the book, Hegseth calls for an "American crusade", writing against what he believed to be America's enemies including leftists and Islam. The book gained sustained attention after Hegseth was nominated to be the Secretary of Defense by US President-elect Donald Trump. - Hegseth says he believes there are "irreconcilable differences between the Left and the Right in America leading to perpetual conflict that cannot be resolved through the political process". He furthermore calls for an "American crusade"; he says the "hour is late for America. Beyond political success, her fate relies on exorcising the leftist specter dominating education, religion, and culture – a 360-degree holy war for the righteous cause of human freedom".[3] Central to the theme of the "American Crusade" is that there is something called "Americanism", which The Guardian describes as essentially being right-wing populism. Hegseth characterizes "Americanism" in being opposition to forces like feminism, globalism, Marxism and progressivism and says either "Americanism" will prevail or "death" will.[4] DJ, There have been several studies on "politicians and mental health"...A general conclusion may be some politicians may need "to rebalance"... The US-war NEVER only was with other countries...US "crime" is exported-but is a basic US internal issue since the start of the US. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/05/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-us/ or https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/05/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-us/ ;Nearly 47,000 people died of gun-related injuries in the United States in 2023, according to the latest available statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). While the number of gun deaths in the U.S. fell for the second consecutive year, it remained among the highest annual totals on record. - On a per capita basis, there were 13.7 gun deaths per 100,000 people in 2023. That was down from 14.2 per 100,000 in 2022 and 14.6 per 100,000 in 2021, and well below the peak of 16.3 per 100,000 in 1974. - Those with the lowest gun murder rates included Hawaii (1.5), Utah (1.8), Nebraska (1.8), Idaho (1.8) and Massachusetts (1.8). Rate estimates are not available for New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming. The places with the highest gun suicide rates in 2023 included Wyoming (19.0 per 100,000 people), Montana (17.6), Alaska (16.0), Idaho (15.1) and Oklahoma (13.6). - The U.S. gun death rate was 10.6 per 100,000 people in 2016, the most recent year in the study, which used a somewhat different methodology from the CDC. That was far higher than in countries such as Canada (2.1 per 100,000) and Australia (1.0), as well as European nations such as France (2.7), Germany (0.9) and Spain (0.6). But it was much lower than in El Salvador (39.2 per 100,000 people), Venezuela (38.7), Guatemala (32.3), Colombia (25.9) and Honduras (22.5). Overall, the U.S. ranked 20th in its gun fatality rate that year, the study found. DJ, Some parts of the US seem to be in a never ending civil war...Another outcome over 0,5%/2 million+ US citizens in prison...Somewhere between 1/4 and 1/5 of ALL people in prison worldwide are in US prisons... The US is producing chaos&crime and exporting it...(as far as there are "good" statistics; "very christian US" is also the major porn producer...Drug-related deaths record high...). An unhealthy society not only creating violence inside its borders but spreading it around the globe...The US HAS TO DO BETTER !!!!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhE_wg_Cu4o or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhE_wg_Cu4o ;
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOm9aaiDa9g&t=6s or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOm9aaiDa9g&t=6s Danny Haiphong;
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