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[Parody Jeff @Parodyjeffx]

🚨 ISRAELI SETTLERS BURN PALESTINIAN VILLAGES IN REVENGE FOR TRUMP-IRAN PEACE DEAL.

Israeli settlers just torched multiple villages in the West Bank.

This is how they act when diplomacy and peace threatens their blood-thirst wars.

[The Rose🌹☮️🕊💙💙💙 @melindadenson1]

@Acyn @JuneHowell1

[The Iran Spectator @IR_Media24]

🇺🇸Professor John: "From 1971 to 2022, America killed 38 million people. They are the origin of terrøŕiśm."

“And this is the very same U.S. that now wants to ‘liberate’ Iran.”

BRUTAL REALITY CHECK 🔥

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

🚨🚨🚨WAKE UP EUROPE 🛎️🛎️🛎️

If You Still Believe That Russia Started This Conflict in 2022, Then You Are Ignorant, or Brainwashed.

The END to NATO.
https://t.co/s5tJ2LoHUm
The Ukraine war, which I will argue was provoked by the West and especially the United States.

This war will be settled on the battlefield where the Russians are likely to win an ugly victory.

Settling the war diplomatically is not possible because the opposing sides have irreconcilable differences.

Instead, it's likely to be, as I said, an ugly victory, where Russia ends up occupying somewhere between 20 to 40% of pre-2014 Ukraine, while Ukraine ends up as a dysfunctional rump state covering the territory that Russia does not conquer.

Ukraine has effectively been wrecked. It has already lost a substantial portion of its territory and is likely to lose more land before the fighting stops.

Russian leaders recognized that the Ukrainian army, which was larger than the invasion force, I want to emphasize this, the Ukrainian army was larger than the Russian invasion force, it was armed and trained by NATO, and it was becoming a de facto member of NATO.

Immediately after the war began, Russia, not Ukraine, Russia reached out to Ukraine to start negotiations to end the war and work out a modus vivendi between the two countries. This move is directly at odds with the claim that Putin wanted to conquer Ukraine and make it part of greater Russia.

Negotiations between Kiev and Moscow began in Belarus just four days, four days after the Russian invasion. And that Belarus track was eventually replaced by an Israeli as well as an Istanbul track. The available evidence indicates that the Russians were negotiating seriously and were not interested in absorbing Ukrainian territory, save for Crimea, which they had annexed in 2014, and possibly the Donbass region.

The negotiations ended when the Ukrainians, with prodding from Britain and the United States, walked away from the negotiations, which were making good progress at the time. The Russians did not walk away from the negotiations.

In the months before the war started, Putin tried to find a diplomatic solution to the brewing crisis. On 17 October 2021, remember the war begins February 2022, this is 17 December 2021, Putin sends letters to both President Biden and to NATO Chief Jens Stoltenberg proposing a solution to the crisis based on a written guarantee that does three things.

Number one, Ukraine would not join NATO, number two, no offensive weapons would be stationed near Russia's borders, and number three, NATO troops and equipment moved into Eastern Europe since 1997 would be moved back to Western Europe.

Whatever one thinks of the feasibility of reaching a bargain based on Putin's opening demands, it shows he was trying to avoid war.

The United States, on the other hand, refused to negotiate with Putin. It appears it was not interested in avoiding war.

In fact, the United States and its European allies provoked the war.

Bringing Kiev into the European Union and promoting a color revolution in Ukraine, you all remember the Orange Revolution, which was designed to make Ukraine a pro-Western liberal democracy, are the other two prongs of the policy.

Russian leaders across the board said repeatedly before the war. that they considered NATO expansion into Ukraine to be an existential threat that had to be eliminated.

Putin made numerous public statements laying out this line of argument before 24 February, 2022.

Other leaders, including the defense minister, the foreign minister, the deputy foreign minister, and Moscow's ambassador to Washington also emphasized the centrality of NATO expansion for causing the crisis over Ukraine.

Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister, made this point succinctly at a press conference on 14 January, 2022.

Lavrov says "'The key to everything is the guarantee "'that NATO will not expand eastward.'

Substantial number of influential and highly regarded individuals in the West recognized before the war that NATO expansion, especially into Ukraine, would be seen by Russian leaders as a mortal threat and eventually would lead to disaster.

William Burns, who was recently Joe Biden's head of the CIA, but he was the American ambassador to Moscow in April 2008 when the decision was made to bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO, wrote a very famous memo that I'm sure some of you are familiar with to then Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. This is a quite remarkable memo, and I'm going to quote extensively from it. "'Ukrainian entry into NATO is the brightest "'of all red lines for the Russian elite, not just Putin. "'In more than two and a half years of conversations "'with key Russian players, from knuckle draggers "'in the dark recesses of the Kremlin "'to Putin's sharpest liberal critics, "'I have yet to find anyone who views Ukraine and NATO "'as anything other than a direct challenge "'to Russia's interests.' "'NATO,' he said, quote, "'would be seen as throwing down the strategic gauntlet. "'Today's Russia will respond. "'Russian-Ukrainian relations will go into a deep freeze. "'It will create fertile soil for Russian meddling "'in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine.'"
This was written by Bill Burns in 2008. Burns was not the only Western policymaker in 2008 who understood that bringing Ukraine into NATO was fraught with danger.

Both Angela Merkel, who was then the German chancellor, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy adamantly opposed moving forward to bring Ukraine into NATO.

Merkel said, "'I was very sure that Putin is not going "'to just let that happen."'From his perspective, that would be a declaration of war.'"

Putin saw Ukraine joining NATO as a mortal threat that could not be allowed and was willing to go to war to prevent it from happening, which he did, of course, in February of 2022.

Relations between Europe and Russia will not only be poisonous, they will also be dangerous. The possibility of war will be ever-present.
In other words, the threat of a major European war will not go away when the fighting in Ukraine stops.

Russian victory in Ukraine, would be a stunning defeat for Europe. Or to put it in slightly different words, it would be a stunning defeat for NATO, which has been deeply involved in the Ukraine conflict since it started.

The political fights, some will question the future of NATO, given that it failed to check Russia, the country that most European leaders describe as a mortal threat.

Threats to the EU aside, the great reduction in the flow of gas and oil to Europe since the war started has seriously hurt the major economies of Europe and slowed down growth in the overall Eurozone.

General Observations
The Ukraine war has been a disaster.
It has had catastrophic consequences for Ukraine.
It has poisoned relations between Europe and Russia for the foreseeable future.
It has made Europe a more dangerous place.
It has also caused serious economic and political harm inside Europe, and badly damaged transatlantic relations.
Most European leaders, and I'm sure most people in the various European publics, will blame Putin for causing the war, and thus for its terrible consequences. But they are wrong. The war could have been avoided if the West had not decided to bring Ukraine into NATO, or even if it had backed off from that commitment once the Russians made their opposition clear.
Had that happened, Ukraine would almost certainly be intact today within its pre-2014 borders, and Europe would be more stable and more prosperous. Crimea would still be part of Ukraine. ***Professor John J. Mearsheimer, the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago and a globally recognized expert in international relations.

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

EPSTEIN BLACKMAIL: ‘Netanyahu will SABOTAGE a US-Iran deal by releasing the most DAMAGING Epstein files.’

—Former Israeli Intelligence Officer Ari Ben-Menashe on Going Underground in 2025

Not only is Netanyahu attempting to sabotage the US-Iran peace deal by claiming the agreement will not stop Israel from bombing Lebanon…

Donald Trump runs the risk of Netanyahu ordering Mossad to release the worst horrors of the Epstein Files which implicate him.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[CashDeplorable @gjscash]

@WallStreetApes

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

The conspiracy theorists were right

A new FDA data mining report shows they knew the Covid vaccine had 25 major side effects and they all conspired to hide it from the public

Senator Ron Johnson’s Senate PSI Majority Staff Interim Report has been released on FDA data mining and the March 2021 analysis by Dr. Ana Szarfman

There was a “masking” in the standard FDA system, where signals from Pfizer and Moderna reportedly cancelled each other out

Meaning they lied and hid the side effects from the public and told you it was 100% safe and effective

I have compared the whole list for you:

Neurological & Dysautonomia

• Bell’s palsy (Suppressed Signal)
• Paraesthesia ear (Suppressed Signal)
• Bradykinesia (Suppressed Signal)
• Basal ganglia stroke (Suppressed Signal)
• Cerebral artery occlusion (Suppressed Signal)
• Thalamic infarction
• Sinus rhythm abnormality
• Agonal rhythm
• Diaphragmatic spasm
• Dementia (Pfizer)

Cardiac

• Sudden cardiac death (Suppressed Signal)
• Acute left ventricular failure (Suppressed Signal)
• Diastolic dysfunction (Suppressed Signal)
• Ejection fraction abnormal (Suppressed Signal)
• Hypertensive emergency (Suppressed Signal)
• Blood pressure systolic changes (Suppressed Signal)
• Aortic stenosis (Suppressed Signal)
• Cardiac failure chronic
• Acute myocardial infarction (Pfizer, Moderna)
• Cardiac telemetry abnormal (Pfizer) (Suppressed Signal)

Vascular & Pulmonary

• Pulmonary infarction (Suppressed Signal)
• Embolic stroke
• Ischaemic stroke
• Aortic aneurysm rupture
• May-Thurner syndrome
• Hypomagnesaemia (Suppressed Signal)

Other

• Cholecystitis acute (Suppressed Signal)
• AST/ALT ratio abnormal
• Mastoid disorder
• Cardiac assistance device user
• Brain natriuretic peptide increased
• Asymptomatic COVID-19 (Pfizer) (Suppressed Signal)

The FDA’s standard analytical method allegedly masked “obscured” statistical safety signals in the data

Aka they lied

[Jim Heath @JimHeath2001]

@PeterCronau Yep. And judging by the Replies, @NEDemocracy bought a lot of US "support" for the students already.

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Oh gee, another coincidonk!!

Just after Indonesia says ‘NO’ to US military flight access over Indonesian territory, guess what, US funded student groups start up street riots again.

Just like clockwork.

This time the theme colour is YELLOW — for this latest in orchestrated US-sponsored Colour Revolutions!

Watch for more reporting of the ‘chaos’ in Indonesia, until the US gets its own way and gets its flight access — so it can squeeze the Malacca Strait closed to choke Chinese trade.

https://t.co/E6P5y96hRn @abcnews

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇰🇵For those who thought the Trump admin "closed down" the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)...

Here is a jobs listing from just a month ago...

(link: https://t.co/NlzN0QeV22 )

It is for "East Asia/Multiregional Grants" and claims:

"In 2025 [the year Trump supposedly closed NED], NED made 1,552 grants totaling $271 million to support the work of nongovernmental organizations advancing democratic goals in more than 90 countries..."

Then toward the bottom under "Qualifications" it says:

"Chinese or Korean language proficiency desired."

Obviously because by "supporting freedom around the world" the NED means, freedom for Wall Street to do what it wants - mainly by removing governments that refuse to be subordinated - and in East Asia that is primarily China and North Korea.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

Trump, a billionaire, did a meme coin rug pull to his own supporters, transferring $600-700 million of wealth from the MAGA base to his already wealthy family.

Argentina's right-wing President Javier Milei did the same to his supporters, promoting the Libra crypto pump-and-dump scheme.

They don't care a bit about their supporters. They see them as stupid losers -- which, honestly, they are, if they still support these crooks.

[Jedi @dhe3g]

Seven hours. All children.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Thousands of protesters breach police barricades in the Philippines as they march on the US Embassy in Manila to condemn US military presence in their country.

The protesters demand that all US troops be kicked out and oppose the expansion of US military bases in their country.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Rep. Thomas Massie confirms Washington intentionally hid 28 pages of the 9/11 report. He reveals Saudi officials and spies directly helped the hijackers!

The establishment kept this secret and blocked victims from suing to protect foreign allies. Treason!

[Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil @ivan_8848]

🇨🇳☭ Ministry of Foreign Affairs of People's Republic of China:
— "The US has 336 labs in 30 countries under its control, including 26 in Ukraine alone.

It should give a full account of its biological military activities at home and abroad and subject itself to multilateral verification."

[Cotton Lyndal Hill @ColonelHill]

@YourAnonOne LMAO 🤣 😂
🤡 🌎

Probably has a few more kinks to work out before chipped humans obtain those "God-like powers". 🥴

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Those are good examples to raise, but I think they actually support the original point rather than undermine it, depending on what we mean by "empire."

China has had unbroken civilizational continuity for thousands of years, yes. But not as one empire.

The Han fell.
The Tang fell.
The Song fell to the Mongols.
The Yuan fell.
The Ming fell to the Qing.
The Qing collapsed in 1912 after a century of humiliation, foreign occupation, and internal collapse.

What persisted was a civilization, a writing system, a cultural continuity, not a single unbroken imperial structure.

Each dynasty rose, expanded, became rigid, faced internal contradiction or external pressure, and fell. Then something new was built on the ruins, sometimes by outside conquerors who were themselves absorbed.

That's not a counterexample to "empires end."

That's the pattern repeating itself for three thousand years, with remarkable consistency.

Persia is the same story.

The Achaemenid Empire fell to Alexander.
The Parthian Empire fell to the Sassanids.
The Sassanid Empire fell to the Arab conquest in the 7th century, one of the most total imperial collapses in history.

Then Safavid Persia, then Qajar, then Pahlavi, then the 1979 revolution.

Iran as a continuous cultural and linguistic identity is real and remarkable. But it has been through more total imperial collapses than almost anywhere on earth.

The Ottoman Empire, six centuries, collapsed completely after World War I, redrawn entirely by outside powers.

India: the Mughal Empire, one of the largest empires in human history, was reduced to a figurehead by the British East India Company and formally ended in 1858. Before that, the Maurya, the Gupta, dozens of regional empires, all rose and fell.

So I'd actually push back gently: I don't think these examples show empires lasting forever.

I think they show something more specific: civilizations can persist for millennia through cycles of imperial rise and collapse, often by absorbing their conquerors, rebuilding, and continuing under new political forms.

Which is actually a more interesting point than mine, because it suggests the relevant question for the American case isn't just, "Does the empire end?"

It almost certainly does. Nothing has shown otherwise.

The real question is:

What civilizational continuity, if any, persists through that ending, and what gets built on the other side?

China, Iran, and India all have answers to that second question that go back millennia. They had deep cultural, linguistic, religious, and institutional continuities that outlasted any individual dynasty or empire.

Does the United States have an equivalent?

Does it possess a civilizational core that exists independently of the imperial structure, one capable of surviving its end and rebuilding into something else?

That is a much harder question than, "Will the empire end?"

And I think it's the more important one.

[Ron Paul @RonPaul]

Trump's Continuing War Is Against His Own Miscalculation of Iran

...while the bills and burdens on the American people only continue to rise.

[TPV Sean @tpvsean]

Leaked Mossad Docs Expose Israel Hiring Illegals to 'Slaughter White People' in Western Nations

Official Mossad documents have just been released by Iranian hackers, exposing Israel's calculated plan to destroy the West through unchecked immigration and forced multiculturalism.

Israel wants blood on the streets of every Western capital. They want chaos in every city. Beheadings, mob violence, pedophiles operating in plain sight. You name it. They want Western civilization torn apart.