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Blog personal sobre #geopolítica e ideas. Sociología en la UCM. El eje del mal no pasa por donde te han dicho. Salí huyendo de los telediarios. Opino con datos.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

The West restricted chips, lithography machines, EDA tools, AI GPUs, cloud access, and entire technology supply chains against China.
That was called “national security.”

China restricts rare earth exports.
Suddenly it is “endangering $6.5 trillion of Western industry.”

Perfect.

When the West weaponizes supply chains, it is defending freedom.
When China controls the materials it actually produces, it is threatening the world.

The lesson is very simple:
They never had a problem with economic coercion.
They had a problem with China learning how to use leverage.
They wanted China to remain the mine, the factory, the cheap labor, and the obedient supplier.

But China built the refining capacity, the processing chain, the industrial ecosystem, and the leverage.

Now the empire is discovering that supply chains have two ends.

And China is no longer willing to be the silent end.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING: Israeli settlers are burning Palestinian homes and farmland in the village of Susya, occupied West Bank — in the middle of the night.

Families are watching their homes burn.

This is organized terror. Pure and simple.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Trump’s strikes also targeted a railway station and telecommunications tower in Bandar Abbas, as well as a civilian airport in Iranshahr, southeastern Iran.

Critical civilian infrastructure is being deliberately hit.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

US bombs targeted the Kahuristan Bridge and Gariweh Bridge in Iran’s Hormozgan Province, killing and injuring civilians.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Trump is dropping bombs on vital bridges that connect communities and cities across Iran — while civilian cars are still driving across them.

These are not military targets.

These are essential infrastructure, roads and lifelines used by ordinary people.

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

George Soros wrote an article in 1993 about NATO's potential to serve as the basis of a new world order, which included using manpower from Eastern Europe to "reduce the risk of body bags for NATO countries".
https://t.co/hB0TLP93ch

[Mick Wallace @wallacemick]

How pathetic to see the 'so called' European Leaders line up to embrace the Fascist from Ukraine. Just saying thanks for throwing over a half a million Ukrainians into the meat grinder to further #NATO interests...

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Utterly shocking but not a surprise. Impunity breeds hubris.

All states and people who care for Freedom must rise up in defense of the ICC and int'l justice now, before it's too late.

It's rule of law or barbarism.

[Mirando el mapa @mirandoelmapa]

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[Mirando el mapa @mirandoelmapa]

#Netanyahu contesta afirmativamente cuando la periodista le pregunta si ha habido una "fusión" de los ejércitos de #EstadosUnidos e #Israel, y añade que ambos han pasado de la ayuda a la asociación. Lo que confirma lo expuesto en mi último artículo.
https://t.co/YnFgA79IOq

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

American media and politicians claim that new legislation does NOT merge the U.S. and Israeli militaries. Meanwhile Netanyahu, who has taken credit for proposing the measure, clearly says it does:

“Will that drawing down of foreign aid be compensated by the proposal to have a merging of some sort between our Pentagon and your military?"

"Yeah, I'm calling it, 'From aid to partnership.’”

He then lays out what it would look like:

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

EXPLOSIVE! An arrest warrant should be promptly issued against this self-confessed war criminal.

The more Israeli leaders get away with their crimes, the more the system meant to protect us all gets irreparably destroyed.

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

On Thursday, the European Parliament “adopted” the extension of Chat Control 1.0. This is the temporary suspension of the EU’s ePrivacy rules that allows tech platforms to mass-scan citizens’ private communications, ostensibly to detect child sexual abuse material. “Adopted” is placed in quotation marks here because the word implies something that conspicuously failed to happen: a majority of MEPs voting in favour. In fact, 314 MEPs voted to reject the text, against 276 in favour. And yet it passed anyway.

This was made possible through a procedural sleight of hand worthy of Brussels at its most cynical. The file was rammed through under an “urgency procedure”: European Parliament President Roberta Metsola unilaterally reopened a dossier that MEPs had already rejected in March, and the Council conveniently bounced it back at the start of the summer recess, when securing attendance is hardest. Rejecting it a second time would have required not a simple majority but an absolute one: 360 votes. The law was therefore approved despite a majority of MEPs voting against it. The regulation will now remain in force until April 2028, buying time for negotiations on its even more ambitious successor, Chat Control 2.0.

As German MEP @FabioDeMasi noted following the vote, Chat Control is a “legislative zombie” — a measure the European Parliament has rejected multiple times, revived again and again until the desired outcome emerges. This episode should give pause to those who insist that the EU’s democratic deficit could be cured by handing more power to the European Parliament. Here is that very institution’s president working with the Council to resurrect a file the Parliament itself had buried. If this is how the Parliament operates, empowering it further would only deepen this democratic deficit, lending a thicker veneer of legitimacy to what remains, at bottom, an executive-bureaucratic machine that treats votes as obstacles to be engineered around.

Continue reading here: https://t.co/yxWOZ07vTA

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Stop calling them “settlers.”

They’re illegal occupiers engaging in pogroms and terrorism to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their land.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is burning forests and civilian homes in South Lebanon.

Not military targets.

Houses. Entire ecosystems.

These are war crimes — carried out during a so-called “ceasefire.”

[Mirando el mapa @mirandoelmapa]

#EstadosUnidos e #Israel planean integrar sus ejércitos.
Nuevo artículo en el blog de #geopolítica Mirando el mapa.
https://t.co/ArRkAGqBxl
El Senado también plantea incrementar el trasvase de inteligencia hacia Tel Aviv, dificultando impedir su flujo.

[Eva Karene Bartlett @EvaKBartlett]

If Iran, Russia, or China had abducted a pediatrician from a hospital, held him in worse than Guantanamo conditions, starved and tortured him to the point that he himself is predicting he will soon die, the outrage and demand for action from Western politicians and media would be front page 24/7.

The Israeli terrorists are imprisoning and torturing @HussamAbuSafiya, a courageous and beloved Palestinian physician who put his life on the line, literally, to help Palestinian civilians injured by Israeli bombings.

You can't make it make sense. It does not.

https://t.co/S52Pda97bC

And since the pro-Zionist trolls will comment with their copy-paste NYPost & BBC lies, Dr. Hussam is a beloved doctor, not a colonel in Hamas.
https://t.co/NnnV7wl9bq

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

He was abducted from a hospital by Israeli forces. In the normal world, we call this a HOSTAGE.

[Reza Nasri @RezaNasri1]

Trump said "Right now their people are very hungry." Marco Rubio declared that he knows of "no other country where there's a bigger difference between the people who lead the country and the people who live there." Scott Bessent stood at Davos and boasted: "This is economic statecraft, no shots fired." Pete Hegseth thought he could send ground troops into Iranian soil.

They all had a theory. Bomb their infrastructure. Collapse their currency. Starve them into desperation. And when they are broken enough, they will rise against their own government and deliver the country to Washington on a platter.

Look at these images.

These are not the images of a broken people. This is one of the largest human gatherings on earth. It's a civilization expressing itself in full, with all its grief, its pride, and its cohesion. These are millions who chose, freely and defiantly, to pour into the streets to mourn their leader on their own terms.

The policy did not radicalize them against their government. It did not hollow them out. It did not manufacture the desperation Washington needed. Four decades of sanctions, two wars in the region, maximum pressure, currency warfare, and a Secretary of Defense openly threatening boots on the ground, and this is what it produced: a people more visibly unified than almost any nation on earth can claim to be.

This is the bill coming due for decades of strategic arrogance; the assumption that Iranians were simply a pressure point to be managed, a population to be weaponized against its own state.

Washington never understood what it was dealing with.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Israeli soldiers are reportedly torturing Dr Abu Safya --a pediatrician, for God's sake!

Without strong pressure on Israel, these may could be his last hours.

@ICRCPresident
@DrTedros

[Eva Karene Bartlett @EvaKBartlett]

"This is the end."

From inside an underground Israeli detention facility, with his features barely recognizable after severe beatings, Palestinian doctor Hussam Abu Safiya said he had been transferred to another prison in preparation for his murder.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) must visit Dr. Abu Safiya immediately and ensure his safety. The world must not allow yet another doctor to be killed!
https://t.co/uVp0HuVoJk