The Potsdam conference prohibits Japan of Germany from EVER remilitarizing again. Russia will intervene in Europe if this happens, and the Chinese will prevent Japan from ever being a hostile state again. US foreign policy is leading the world down a very dangerous path
Germany obtaining nuclear weapons is completely unacceptable. Completely illegal. An absolute breach of the surrender terms of 1945. Any or all of the victor nations of WW2 have the right indeed obligation to intervene if necessary by force to stop this crime from happening.
I asked Piers what the UK would do if Russia and China were arming violent militants to attack police stations across Britain in a bid for regime change
That's exactly what Iran faced last January at the hands of Mossad and CIA-armed rioters
He quickly pivoted
With all due respect, this is an unintelligent take, but since you wonât care to look anything up, let me use my time for two reasons.
First so you donât go around spilling this nonsense to the younger generation because you watch too much American TV, secondly because if I donât, you never will.
Russia, more than any other superpower, has stood by Africa:
âąBacked liberation movements directly, MPLA in Angola, FRELIMO in Mozambique, PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau, plus support for ANC fighters in South Africa and independence movements in Algeria, Namibia and Zimbabwe
Signed cooperation treaties with 37 African countries and helped build around 600 factories, plants and enterprises across the continent
Built the Aswan Dam in Egypt, still central to its agriculture and power supply
Built the Capanda hydroelectric dam, which powers most of Angola today
Trained thousands of African students on scholarship, including at Lumumba University, named after the Congolese independence leader
Cancelled $20 billion in African debt in 2019
But before Russia ever supported us, they built their own house first. Across 8 industries:
Space, Sputnik in 1957 and Gagarin in 1961, the foundation of the entire satellite age
Nuclear energy, Obninsk 1954, the first nuclear plant in the world to power a civilian grid
Medicine, Pavlovâs work on physiology, the Ilizarov bone fixation method still used in orthopedic surgery worldwide
Mathematics, producing some of the sharpest minds in modern computing theory and cryptography
Education, near universal literacy and a rigorous science pipeline that still exports engineers and physicists globally
Computing, WinRAR and the RAR format came out of Russia and are still used everywhere
Energy infrastructure, one of the largest oil and gas networks on earth, supplying half of Europe for decades
Aerospace engineering, Soyuz rockets still fly astronauts to the ISS today
And saying âall they do is produce missilesâ only shows you donât understand what missile making actually requires. It takes real depth in:
Physics, chemistry, metallurgy, aerodynamics, guidance systems and control theory, materials science, thermodynamics, and advanced mathematics. You donât stumble into that. That is a nation with serious scientific infrastructure, not a useless one.
Anyways, like I told you earlier, you are an elder, youâre not supposed to be making unintelligent statements. Donât fall your hand, sir.
U.S. soldiers were sent to die in the Middle East for Israelâs wars.
Meanwhile, the families of the people who pushed those wars are enjoying the World Cup from luxury seats.
The ruling class gets the view.
Ordinary families get the coffins.
Hereâs a bombshell global famine analysis you havenât heard anywhere else:
For each day that the war with Iran continues, about 400 million people will face a day with no food in the 2027-2028 time frame. (I will show you the math.)
Even more shockingly, MOST of the starvation and food desperation will occur in nations that have no involvement whatsoever in this war.
Thus, the current casualties on the ground, of U.S. soldiers, Iranians or Israelis, will be absolutely dwarfed by the number of famine casualties around the world (largely concentrated in SE Asia, Africa and some Middle Eastern countries such as Somalia).
Hereâs the math:
It is broadly understood by most food scientists and agricultural analysts that synthetic fertilizers currently feed about half the worldâs population: roughly 4 billion people.
If you conduct deep research on the percentage of synthetic fertilizer that comes out of the Persian Gulf, mostly via natural gas extraction and the Haber-Bosch process to create nitrogen-based fertilizers, you come to find that Persian Gulf fertilizer production accounts to 8% - 12% of the worldâs total fertilizer production. (Most fertilizer is produced and consumed domestically and isnât traded on international markets, so even though Persian Gulf exports as much as one-third of globally TRADED fertilizer, it only accounts for 8% - 12% of global fertilizer production.)
If we settle on 10% here, then we realize that Persian Gulf fertilizer exports keep about 400 million people alive around the world. Thus, end to end, one day of halted fertilizer exports results in around 400 million people not having food for one day, in the end. (The pipeline is long and convoluted due to growing seasons, food harvests, stored food supplies, and so on.)
Similarly, 10 days of continued closure means roughly about 400 million people having nothing to eat for 10 days. Now, we have to account for the fact that people donât starve instantly. They can survive some period of time without food. This is typically limited to a few weeks. Few people can survive past 45 days without food. So unless food is redistributed from the food-abundant nations to the food-scarce nations, just 45 days of closure of the Strait of Hormuz creates an âair pocketâ in the fertilizer supply chains that puts the lives of up to 400 million people at risk due to food scarcity, in its simplest form. But reality is more complex...
Especially when hungry, people are resourceful and most will take steps to avoid starving. Thereâs the cannibalism factor when people start eating each other, for example. That can keep some groups fed for a while longer, although the people they eat obviously wonât survive. Similarly, there will be much more local hunting of animals (even rats), dumpster diving, the eating of zoo animals, the neighborâs cat, etc. When hungry, people will eat shoe laces, leather, tree bark, cardboard and all sorts of other things they normally wouldnât eat, and when you see this behavior, you know things are bad.
There are also resourceful people who will refuse to die from starvation because they will hunt, kill and eat a variety of animals, or they will steal from grocery stores, hijack food delivery trucks, etc., in order to survive. And some food-abundant nations will make efforts to contribute food to those nations where famine is worsening. So I donât think anywhere near 400 million people will actually die from starvation. The number might be much smaller, perhaps just one-tenth: 40 million. But even then, that number is shockingly far higher than any number currently in the minds of anyone in the mainstream media, the White House, the Pentagon, or even the UN.
Almost nobody realizes the long-term mass famine repercussions of this ongoing war, and how Trumpâs actions are in effect risking the lives of potentially tens of millions of people IN THE FUTURE (next year, mostly), because of the long pipeline of energy â fertilizer â food. The energy is cut off today, the fertilizer runs out soon, and the famine kicks in not long after that.
This isnât just a question of food costing more. Itâs an issue of the food simply not existing because itâs not being grown due to the lack of fertilizer. Or crops that are grown produce far lower yields because of the lack of fertilizer. In a worst-case scenario, around 5% of the total global population could face high risk of famine in 2027-2028, or even longer if this war continues.
Put another way, Trump isnât simply waging war on Iran. His war of choice is actually a war against the human race, and itâs a war against the innocent civilians and children in marginalized nations like Bangladesh, Somalia, Yemen, and even nations like India and Egypt where food security is dicey even in a good year. If not halted, Trumpâs war could quite literally end up killing far more humans than the Holocaust of World War II. Multiples of that.
Thatâs the path we are currently on. Spread the word. Do your own research on this. Tell me why Iâm wrong if you think Iâm wrong. Tell me where the food is going to come from if the fertilizer doesnât flow out of the Persian Gulf.
Because you can do all the research in the world, and it doesnât change the facts on the ground. If the strait stays closed, the world begins to starve, and the starvation escalates dramatically in 2027 to the point where easily tens of millions of people will face the risk of dying from famine.
I will cover this in more detail in tomorrow's broadcast.
Yeah thatâs proper. I have a problem with them telling us unless we practice Islam the way they want us to, itâs incorrect. But our people didnât collaborate with the colonizers when they came, we fought against them. Theirs got co-opted and exported by the British then the Americans
@Abubaka41965675 Not everybody has the option to prove when itâs in the country with the highest levels of extreme poverty in the world. The choice is accept Saudi help or get none
If this education empowers the youth in skills necessary for development absolutely. But if they are funding salafist madrassas that make these impoverished children prime subjects for jihadist recruitment itâs an issue that already exists. How many almajri students end up being taken advantage of by well funded extremists? Itâs a serious problem and only one ideology harbors it, and it comes out of Saudi
Anything funded by the government of Saudi Arabia is not in the interests of Africans and is a tool of western imperialism. There was no terrorism until Salafism became the main school of thought. Used as a weapon by US foreign policy. We had no problem preserving Islam for 1000+ years before the Saud family got their kingdom
It is related to Saudi Arabia because for 50+ years they have supported TAKFIRI mercenaries like the leader they helped install in Syria with their indoctrination. We did not have a terrorism problem in West Africa until Wahhabism was exported within our borders. They will not support the development but will fund extremist madrasas on behalf of the west that are foreign to our continent
@Abubaka41965675 ????? Traore isnât battling an insurgency in his country? There are rebels receiving assistance Ukrainians and NATO to re establish French control again.
Here you have a Malaysian advocating that Traore be killed by the same terrorists he is trying to protect his country from. Africans must beware of âglobal southâ solidarity. As soon as an anti imperialist leader wants to combat radicalism, the âummahâ disowns him. These are not your friends
A Nigerian Marxist book-quoting genius will be along shortly to explain why I share an "international proletariat struggle" with this fellow and I should "unite" with him because something something itsnotaboutrace something something working class solidarity.
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