Armand R. Ballesteros 🇵🇭🤝🇨🇳🇷🇺🇮🇷🇵🇸👊💚

Retired Salesperson & Trainer...Anti-Globalist...Truth Seeker.

[Rebecca Chan @RebeccaYChan]

Japan’s Money Is Collapsing because Japan is America’s carry trade bitch and must do what is good for America. Andre Jikh lays out the series of events from 2020 but it has been happening ever since Japan was forced by its American overlord to be its carry trade bitch.

https://t.co/Omb08imM8R

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

Media: North Korea has announced plans to sign a defense pact with Iran.

North Korea has stated its intention to sign a defense agreement with Iran. If finalized, this move could lead to a deepening of military cooperation between Pyongyang and Tehran.

This potential agreement is being discussed against the backdrop of ongoing tensions between Iran, the United States, and Israel, and could add a new dimension to security cooperation and military relations between North Korea and Iran.

The finalization of such an agreement could have consequences beyond the bilateral relationship, and could impact the regional security balance, as well as the reaction from Washington and Tel Aviv.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

Jay Tarriela talking about “trust” is fucking comedy.

Let’s restore the part of the timeline Manila desperately wants erased.

In 1999, the day after China was in national mourning for the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade and the killing of three Chinese journalists, the Philippines deliberately grounded the BRP Sierra Madre on Ren’ai Jiao.

Chinese blood was barely dry.

Manila stepped on China’s wound, occupied Chinese territory, promised to tow the ship away, lied for 27 years, and then turned every subsequent provocation into camera theater.

Twenty-seven years later, that rusting hull is still sitting there, repackaged as “sovereignty,” while Manila lectures Beijing about “trust.”

Spare me.

You do not get to exploit the moment China was mourning its dead, plant an occupation prop on Chinese territory, break your own promise to remove it, preserve that provocation for decades, and then pretend history began when China finally pushed back.

That was opportunism written on Chinese blood.

China has every right to defend its territory.

The assurance given in 1995 was based on restraint and respect toward the Philippines.

You destroyed that trust with your own hands in 1999.

Ren’ai Jiao is Chinese territory.

Tow away the warship,

or we blow it up.

The Philippines spent 27 years proving that China’s restraint was wasted on it.

[ChineseEmbassyManila @Chinaembmanila]

American soldiers showing up at Sanjia Steel factory and attempted to “conduct an inspection” of the compound? This is disturbing news.

If true why is American military personnel taking the role or "inspecting" companies in the Philippines? Isn't it proof that the raid of Sanjia Steel, led by DND Secretary Teodoro, was part of discriminatory and selective law enforcement campaigns targeting Chinese nationals out of political considerations? Does the raid have anything to do with the American plan to convert the 3,000-hectare Phividec Industrial Estate into a giant American fuel hub?

Link: https://t.co/zHMSeFRyb5

——Spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy Ji Lingpeng

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

They will say: but the West has also done good. Ended slavery. Built international institutions. Developed medicine. Produced science. Democracy. Human rights law.

Yes.

Slavery was ended, in most cases, by enslaved people making it untenable and by abolitionists fighting the established order, not by the spontaneous moral awakening of those who profited from it.

The international institutions were built in a way that preserved Western dominance.

The medicine and science developed in Western universities often used knowledge extracted from colonized peoples without acknowledgment or compensation, conducted experiments on colonized bodies without consent, and was initially distributed in ways that prioritized Western lives.

Democracy was practiced at home while denied abroad, sometimes violently denied, as in Vietnam, Iran, Guatemala, Chile, and dozens of other countries where democratic outcomes were reversed because they produced governments that would not comply.

Human rights law was written with exceptions built in for the conduct of its authors.

None of this erases the genuine achievements.

It locates them.

It asks: who were these achievements for? Who was included in the definition of humanity that human rights law was designed to protect?

The answer, historically, was partial.

The West did not invent civilization.

It invented a story about civilization in which it was always the protagonist, always the standard, always the measure against which everyone else was found wanting, while the evidence of what it actually built, across five continents and six centuries, was buried in archives, in unmarked graves, in the broken genetics of children whose grandparents were sprayed with chemicals, in the foreign debt of nations that were rich before the ships arrived.

The evidence is not gone.

It is just waiting for everyone to stop being polite about it.

[Rebecca Chan @RebeccaYChan]

How China destroyed US sanctions against Iran, Russia, and North Korea

SWIFT Takes 1-5 days to process and costs 3-5%
CIPS takes seconds to minutes to process and costs <1%

CIPS is the way to go. Once Americans can no longer bomb countries to enforce SWIFT, few will choose it.

https://t.co/EfVoIFFfbJ

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

14 years ago: “Most crippling sanctions in history.” Failed.

8 years ago: “Maximum pressure.” Failed.

5 months ago: “Unconditional surrender.” Failed.

Today: “Most crushing economic operation ever.” Bound to fail.

We have seen this movie before. Same bull. Different bullies.

[𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 @SprinterPress]

THE REAL WAR OF WESTERN ELITES: BREAKING CHINA, RUSSIA, AND BRICS BY TARGETING IRAN

Pepe Escobar:
The deeper story is much bigger. Western ruling elites are not primarily fighting against Tehran. They are fighting against the growing power structure that is forming around China, Russia, and BRICS. Iran is at the center of that system, and that is precisely why it is under pressure.

THE REAL GOAL

➡️ The war against Iran is a war against Russia, China, BRICS, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the entire project of Eurasian integration.

➡️ American ruling elites see Eurasia as an organic system that connects East, West, North, and South.

➡️ This system is the key vector of 21st-century geopolitics, and it represents an absolute anathema to them.

➡️ They are determined to break up Eurasian integration at all costs.

IRAN AS A KEY NODE

➡️ Geography and history place Iran at a crucial crossroads of connecting corridors.

➡️ The Caspian Express is being built from Astrakhan to Bandar Anzali, connecting the International North-South Transport Corridor.

➡️ The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor reaches Gwadar, and then freely crosses into Iran with virtually no obstacles.

➡️ These routes allow China, Russia, and Iran to trade outside of American maritime control and sanctions.

STRATEGY OF DISRUPTION

➡️ Western elites know that if these corridors mature, a multipolar power centered in China, Russia, and BRICS becomes much harder to contain.

➡️ They will try to break the system.

➡️ One method that is already visible is the use of proxy cells in Pakistani Balochistan to create constant instability along the Iranian border.

THE ESSENCE
Iran is a visible target. The real mission is to disrupt the growing power of China, Russia, and BRICS before the new Eurasian architecture solidifies. The elites are not improvising. They are following a long-term strategic imperative: to prevent the emergence of a coherent Eurasian system at all costs.
This is a war within a war.

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

🚨Colonel Douglas Macgregor explains why the globalists are hell bent on destroying Russia and replacing Putin:

🚨"Their agenda is to destroy Russia. Why? They would like to replace Putin because Putin presides over the last major power in Europe that has a national identity, a national language, a national culture that rests on the foundation of orthodox Christianity. That makes Russia the enemy of the globalists. What have the globalists done to us?

🚨They flooded our countries with non Europeans with a specific goal of diluting us, destroying our national identity, eliminating our culture. Expunging any remaining power that Christianity may wield culturally inside the west and they want to do that to Russia.

🚨They want to do that to Russia because Russia has enormous resources, mineral, agricultural, oil, gas and rare metals. If you can remove Putin, you can strip of its resources and enrich yourselves. That's why Russia has to go. Russia is holding out."

[Robert Bruce @24_70xu]

🔥 What Iran has achieved in this war is something no one could have imagined before it began. 👏

Today, 🇺🇸 US Navy aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has left the war theater.

I still remember when 🇺🇸 Pete Hegseth said that the US had the world’s strongest Navy and would destroy Iran within just a few days.

Fueled by that confidence, they deployed two aircraft carriers around Iran — the first was 🇺🇸 USS Gerald R. Ford, and the second was 🇺🇸 USS Abraham Lincoln.

USS Gerald R. Ford left the theater long ago after a laundry fire, and now today USS Abraham Lincoln has also left.

Now another aircraft carrier — USS George Washington — is coming. Let’s see how long it lasts. 😂

And the funniest part is that US naval forces are still stationed around 300 km from the Iranian coast because of the fear of Iranian missiles. 😂🔥

🇮🇷 Iran has proven in this war that the US Navy is nothing more than a paper tiger. 🙌

[𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗮𝗿𝗮 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 @SankaraDispatch]

It’s now impossible to watch Hollywood movies about American soldiers “saving the world” without laughing at the propaganda.

The myth of the U.S. being the “good guys” has been thoroughly debunked by history.

From the My Lai Massacre to the senseless Minab massacre, the U.S. has never protected the world.

In fact, the world has for decades needed protection from the U.S.

[Maya Majueran @MayaMajueran]

The U.S. national debt just hit $40 trillion . Annualized interest expense is now $1.376 trillion - the 3rd largest budget item, surpassing defense . With inflation risks and the debt-to-GDP ratio at 122%, this is a structural collapse waiting to happen. Karma indeed.

[Truth_teller 🇷🇺 @Truthtellerftm]

Who was the real Mother Teresa? Was she in fact one of the biggest child traffickers in the world laundering money for the Vatican?

Mother Teresa believed the sick must suffer like Christ on the cross".
But she got preemptive care for her heart problems.

What was THE CALCUTTA OPERATION?

Between 1962 and 1997, Teresa's Missionaries of Charity processed over **3 million orphans** through 517 homes in 100+ countries.

Exposed records show:

•Babies taken from mothers who were told their children **died at birth.**
•Adoption papers signed by nuns with **no government oversight.**
•Children shipped to wealthy families in Europe and America for **$15,000–$50,000 each.**
•Estimated annual revenue: **$50 to $100 million.** Tax-free. Unaudited. Untraceable.

She didn't save those children. **She sold them.**

What’s really in the **THE VATICAN VAULT**?

In 2017, Indian police raided a Missionaries of Charity home in Ranchi.

They found nuns **selling babies for $1,800 each.**

The Vatican's response?
Silence and:

Pope Francis **fast-tracked Teresa's sainthood** in 2016 — one year BEFORE the raid. They canonized her to make her untouchable.

The Vatican Bank processed **$8 billion in anonymous donations** through Teresa's network between 1970 and 1997. No receipts. No records. No questions.

Where did the money go?
Where did the children go?

THE EPSTEIN CONNECTION**

Haiti → Dominican Republic → Virgin Islands.

This was Epstein's route. But it was Teresa's route **30 years earlier.**

The orphanages she built became the **supply chain** for what came after.

Brunel used her agencies. Maxwell used her contacts. Epstein used her infrastructure.

**She built the machine. They just turned it on.**

And then she was rewarded with a Nobel prize, sainthood, global admiration and more!

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

China’s message is basically:
If you can compete, compete. Stop whining.

The West spent decades enjoying globalization while hollowing out its own manufacturing base and calling it efficiency.

Now that Chinese products are more competitive, suddenly we hear:
“China shock.” “China squeeze.” “Overcapacity.” “Unfair competition.”

Translation:
We were allowed to deindustrialize ourselves. China is not allowed to industrialize successfully.

And the hypocrisy goes far beyond China.
China does not only export finished goods.
It exports machinery, components, power equipment, solar panels, batteries, industrial systems and the tools that allow poorer countries to build factories in the first place.

For much of the Global South, industrialization is not an academic debate.
It begins with one brutally practical question:
Can we afford the machines?

Chinese manufacturing lowered that threshold.

So when Western governments demand that China “make room” by weakening its own industries, they are not merely trying to protect Western companies.

They are also trying to make industrialization more expensive for countries that are still trying to escape poverty.

If Europe and America want stronger industries, build them.
Compete. Invest. Innovate.

You do not get to ask the world to stop moving forward just to protect Western corporate giant babies that spent decades growing fat on cheap labor, cheap resources, and the underdevelopment of poorer countries.

The world does not owe your complacency a subsidy.
And development is not something the West gets to ration.

[david kersten @davidkersten]

There is nothing to indicate America ever intends to, nor has the means to, pay this down.

Other than printing and stealing.

That's bankruptcy. Plain &amp; Simple.

Everything else is criminality the world will only suffer for so long.

[Jason Smith - 上官杰文 @ShangguanJiewen]

Chinese manufacturing of textiles has reached Star Trek status.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

The US national debt just passed $40 trillion

Congratulations.

[Maya Majueran @MayaMajueran]

Nobody wants U.S. Treasuries anymore.

So the Treasury is buying back its own debt.

When the world stops funding your deficit, you become your own buyer.

That's not strength - that's a red flag.

[david kersten @davidkersten]

Even Australians prefer China to the USA.

[Richard D. Wolff @profwolff]

Wolff Responds: "Say Goodbye To The American Dream" Dated August 19, 2026