Paul R, Watching US Decline

Interests: World politics and history, governmental corruption and incompetence, war lust, and what causes imperial decline.

[Anna Chen @AnnaChenMiaow]

Discussion with the authors about the downgrading of China's part in saving the global economy from America's catastrophic 2008 crash.
The current Foreign Affairs publication rehashes monstering narratives of "warping the world economy" with currency manipulation.
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[KUTUB @KUTUBProduction]

Israel flattened Beirut in 1982.

No Hamas. No Hezbollah. No October 7 to point to then.

Just 17,000 dead Lebanese and Palestinian civilians.

Even US president then Ronald Reagan, who armed Israel, called Begin furious after seeing a photo of a 7-month-old baby with its arms blown off and said “It is a holocaust”.

They killed so many innocent people that the survivors had no choice but to pick up weapons.

Then Israel had the audacity to keep using “Self-Defense” excuse every decade.

Israel didn’t stumble into endless war. Israel built it. Brick by brick.

Own it.

[Ryan Dawson @RyLiberty]

"Israelis sniped a 4 year old child, and then wait for the grief striken parents to come, and murder them too. They are demonic."

- Ex Green Beret, Captain Joseph

[Paul R, Watching US Decline @datroot19]

@DanielLMcAdams He, Lindsey Graham, the congressman who wears the Israeli uniform, Fine, and others.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 MASSIVE DEVELOPMENT: Rep. Thomas Massie announces he is introducing legislation to force the declassification of all records regarding the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty!

He demands Washington finally prioritize American lives over the Zionist regime's massive coverup!

[Anna Chen @AnnaChenMiaow]

1) Everything about Albania's Sazan island tells you everything you need to know about what the elites have in store for us. Those 3,600 nuclear bunkers are going to make the most luxurious underground city anywhere. Theatres, cinemas, schools, >>>
https://t.co/A4VLb2J9gH

[Paul R, Watching US Decline @datroot19]

@AnnaChenMiaow Incredible. I hope the whole thing backfires.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

When our political-media establishment chant "stand with Ukraine", it means boycotting diplomacy and finance the kidnapping of Ukrainian men to use them in a campaign to weaken Russia as a strategic rival. If the majority of Ukrainians had a say, there would not have been a regime change in 2014, the 2015 Minsk agreement would have been implemented, the 2019 peace platform would not have been reversed, the 2022 Istanbul agreement would have been signed, and there would now be negotiations about the pan-European security architecture. However, the US and EU run Ukraine, and men are hunted on the streets to fight to the last Ukrainian in NATO's proxy war.

[Muhammad Mazen @mhmd_s09]

One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been exposed.

This video shows three young men trying to help an injured person, but Israel bombs them with a missile, killing them all.

A moment the world must never forget.

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

10 MOST EMBARRASSING HEADLINES IN THE BIOLABS SCANDAL
The world was told repeatedly that no US biolabs existed in Ukraine—such claims were “disinformation” from Russia, China, and from right-leaning people in the US.

That's what NBC, BBC, AFP, AP and others told the planet repeatedly.

But this week, US spy chief Tulsi Gabbard admitted that there WERE biolabs in Ukraine and elsewhere, they WERE US-funded, and they WERE experimenting with deadly viruses like ebola and sars.

Russia, China, and the US rightwingers had been right all along.

Also, as it became apparent that they existed, many media companies switched to a highly imaginative narrative saying that the Pentagon was funding overseas biolabs experimenting on killer viruses for “peace and health” reasons.

Because everyone knows that the Pentagon is all about peace and health, right? (sarcasm alert)

Check out these 10 headlines that media companies are surely praying have been forgotten!

[Nury Vittachi @NuryVittachi]

"We are on fire and sinking, please help!" BREAKING NEWS: U.S. attacks 3rd Indian ship in a week: sailors release audio of their emergency call

[David Stockman @DA_Stockman]

So what was the point of the whole war? The SOH was already open; they already didn't have a nuke; they already weren't seeking one; the 400kg of 60% HEUs was already designed to trade for sanctions relief, etc, etc.

Likewise, they had self-defense missiles and still do. They had alliances with other Shiite regimes and still do. The regime supposedly signing the deal wasn't replaced and hasn't changed.......except there is a younger Ayatollah who is pissed because Bibi/Donnie blew off his chin and left leg and killed his father, mother, wife and niece, among other family members and close associates.

So its status quo ante plus sanctions relief and a return of the tens of billions the US stole from Iran in the first place. Oh, and the hard-pressed taxpayers of Flyover America get to pay $100 to fill their gas tank and send $300 billion of reconstruction money to compensate Iran for the damage caused by $50 billion of US bombs and missiles since Feb. 28th.

The Art of the Deal (apparently) works in wondrous ways!

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

🇺🇸🇺🇦 US Intel Declassifies Files on American Biolabs in Ukraine Researching Dangerous Pathogens

Outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard — set to leave her post at the end of the month — has published a tranche of declassified documents detailing the activities of US-funded biological laboratories in Ukraine.

"Many of these US government-funded biolabs were conducting research on dangerous and highly contagious pathogens, in some cases including gain-of-function research, with virtually no oversight or supervision," the Office of the DNI stated.

Gabbard added: "Despite the obvious potential for catastrophic global consequences that research on dangerous pathogens can have, policymakers and so-called medical officials — such as Dr. Fauci — along with figures in the Biden administration's national security team lied to the American people about the existence of US-funded and supported biological laboratories, and threatened those who tried to expose the truth. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence will continue to work closely with partners across government to determine where these labs are located, what pathogens they contain, and to put an end to dangerous gain-of-function research that threatens the health and wellbeing of the American people and people around the world."

The declassified documents reference several such facilities — including centers in Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Lvov, Vinnitsa, and Chernigov — where research was conducted on anthrax, tularemia, swine flu, Marburg fever, Ebola, plague, and other pathogens.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israeli lawyer Ben Marmarelli says Palestinian prisoners he represents beg him not to visit because they're raped each time he is due to meet them.

This is a scene from Al Jazeera's shocking new documentary on Israel's systematic use of rape.

[Paul R, Watching US Decline @datroot19]

Women Who Fled Iran Are to Be Deported to Central African Republic, Lawyers Say https://t.co/6bjfPS4P1b

[Paul R, Watching US Decline @datroot19]

This is serious commentary but also classic satire.

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[Mises Caucus @LPMisesCaucus]

Israeli media is now vindicating the "panicans" who warned all along that the Iran war would never be "days, not weeks" or "weeks, not months" by openly declaring it will last for the rest of Trump's presidency.

No more war with Iran. Vacate the Middle East.

[The Anarchist Chef 🧑‍🍳🏴 @Hortysir]

Anyone else notice that when a bill is beneficial to US, it takes hearing after hearing and infinite committee meetings to maybe pass the house

But when it's for Israel or Ukraine, it's passed before any of us even knew there was a bill

[Paul R, Watching US Decline @datroot19]

Israeli has deployed white phosphorus, an incendiary substance that can be extremely harmful, over populated areas in Lebanon in its battle against Hezbollah, according to experts, aid groups and visual evidence collected by The New York Times. https://t.co/k6ZRiQ3fWk

[Paul R, Watching US Decline @datroot19]

Ukraine targets St. Petersburg again as Putin’s Davos wraps up https://t.co/Hvdi3lMEJ2