The unipolar era is ending. @NakedHedgie & @HarleySchlanger from @LaRoucheOrg join me to discuss the slow rise of a multi-polar world - USA, Russia, China, BRICS, and the shifting balance of power.
We cover Putin, Trump, Witkoff, Israel, Iran, Turkey, India, tariffs, Obamagate, Gabbard, and the Epstein files.
Watch the full deep-dive and see the patterns behind the headlines.
There are new times in the world when even the leaders of small countries should make clear decisions. One does not need organizations that permanently, with zero right, interfere in countries' domestic & foreign policies.
Yugoslavia did not accept Stalin; why should it accept a diktat from his former compatriot @kajakallas?
Нови Велики Петак
Духовно подивљала руља, као и на Велики Петак, ових дана тражи главу и крв нашег Патријарха Порфирија, јер је у Москви рекао истину о обојеној револуцији. Као да није Васкрс већ нови Велики Петак јер полудели Срби масовно хвале Вараву а осуђују Христа - Истину, и масовно вичу - крв Његова на нас и на децу нашу.
Но, ко ће побеснелој, разулареној, исквареној и плиткоумној руљи објаснити да иде у сопствену пропаст? Нико, до пропаст сама, која ће јој доћи изненада. Али тада ће многима бити касно.
Јован Калуђеровић
Ovde ne govorim o ekstremnom krilu drugosrbijanaca - koji ionako u pomenutim destrukcijama ne vide nikakav problem, već kod mnogih koji su ideološki na potpuno suprotnim pozicijama.
@Shoppinghauer Pa i ovi što su protiv da se ide kao zbog Putina, su u stvari protiv zbog tih 27 miliona.. if you know what i mean. Ne smeta njima Putin, nego podsećanje na čijoj su im strani bili preci pre 80 godina.😉
Ретки господин са Универзитета, поред Чеде Антића који је у стању да сагледа наш проблем са ширег аспекта. Потврдио је оно што сам већ писала а то је да је у најмању руку чудан моменат свих ових протеста. Тренутак када се на међународној сцени, у најмању руку, ломе копља, када је неизвесност правца међ. политике очигледна и када је Република Српска у тешкој ситуацији.
Људи су склони да се поведу за онима који у јавном простору изражавају фрустрације и бес које и сами осећају на онај начин на који би то и сами исказали. Везују се за личности у којима препознају себе и своја осећања. Добар слоган вреди им више од доброг програма. Програме 👇
Ови протести, блокаде образовања и блокаде нормалног живота...без јасног циља и смисла имају уствари само један полускривени циљ који нико не изговара наглас а то је да Александар Вучић да оставку и да непознатим лицима преда власт. То би по мени било сасвим ок да особе које стоје иза свега тога, а истуриле су студенте и малолетну децу у прве редове, који не знају ни да се плаћају режије а камоли шта друго, имају храбрости да изнесу неки план и програм вођења ове земље, њеног унутрашњег и спољног правца, начина сузбијања корупције, рада институција, и тако даље. Они верују да се то ради у ходу и да ће долазак неких других на власт све то променити. Инфантилно у најбољем случају.
Yea, it's a class war and when class wars hot up, the ruling classes always cry, 'barbarians at the gates!!' Then they send all the fighting age males to war to be slaughtered en masse. It's a revolutionary pressures release valve. As a bonus it leaves masses of fatherless children and vulnerable women behind.
Cinjenica da vlast nije dobra i da se ne moze smeniti na izborima (jer uvek pobedjuje, tj. ima vecinu) nije legitiman razlog za proteste koji mogu dovesti do gradjanskog rata.
@BrankoMilan Cilj je da dođe do takve političke krize, koja bi izazvala strano posredovanje i stavljanje ove države pod protektorat EU. Znači da postanemo nešto kao BiH ili BJR Makedonija.
EU, or rather one part of the EU establishment, wants to fight a real war against Russia, a war of values against the US, and a war of democracy against China. In the meantime, they keep on fighting a war against immigration from Africa and many poor countries.
I see many people commenting that the US is trying to pull a reverse Kissinger, wooing Russia away from China, completely missing the obvious truth right before their eyes: if there's a split happening, it's a Euro-US split.
That's a common flaw in human nature, we're often incapable to conceive that the status quo we've lived with our entire lives has fundamentally changed. We look to patterns from the past, seek to refight the previous war; it's far easier and more comforting to believe you're still in the box even when the box has disappeared.
Russia isn't going to split again from China, there is not a single chance in hell, it learned that lesson the hard way... Putin, as a famously keen student of history, understands how much damage that did.
And why would he? What benefit would Russia possibly derive from this? The world has changed: as we've seen during the Ukraine war the West unleashed its entire economic arsenal against Russia, only to demonstrate its own impotence. Russia last year was Europe's fastest-growing economy even when completely cut off from Western markets. So if the West's maximum pressure amounts to so little, its maximum friendship isn't worth much more.
It's utterly delusional to think that the two torch bearers of the Global South would split just as the emergence of the long sought multipolar order is finally coming true, all in exchange for a return of Western trade which they now know is dispensable, and an end to sanctions which they now know don't hurt much.
Also, kind reminder that Kissinger didn't actually split Russia and China: he took advantage of an already existing split. Geopolitically speaking, it's incredibly hard to split powers - especially great powers, but it's much easier to leverage an existing split. And looking at the landscape, those that are already split - or rather splitting - aren't Russia and China, but very much the U.S. and Europe.
A Euro-US split was bound to happen sooner or later, as the cost of the alliance increasingly outweighed the benefits on both sides. Especially with the rise of the Global South, China in particular, which initiated a profound identity crisis: suddenly you had countries "not like us" being far more successful, taking over an unsurmountable lead in manufacturing, and increasingly science and technology.
At some point there are three choices in front of you: join them, beat them, or isolate yourself from them and slowly decay into irrelevance. The West has been trying the "beat them" approach for the better part of the past 10 years and we've seen the results: an increasingly desperate series of failed strategies that only accelerated Western decline while strengthening the very powers they meant to weaken.
It also tried the "isolate yourself" approach with the various plans of "friend-shoring", "de-risking", "small yard, high fence", etc. That wasn't much more successful and the West undoubtedly sees the writing on the wall: the more you isolate yourself from a more dynamic economy, the further behind you get.
This leaves us with "join them", and here Trump's calculation seems to be that if the U.S. does so first, it undoubtedly can negotiate much better terms for the U.S., much like China did with Kissinger back in the late 1970s when it joined what was at the time still the U.S.-led international order. With Europe, like the Soviet Union back then, left with no choice but to accept whatever crumbs remain.
The situation of course isn't exactly similar. We're outside the box, remember... For one the U.S. isn't remotely in the same conditions as those of China back then and, unlike the Soviet Union, Europe lacks both the military might to resist this new arrangement and the economic autonomy to chart its own course. Which means that in many ways, geopolitically speaking, the U.S. is in better conditions and with more leverage than China had (and therefore able to get itself a better deal), and the EU ends up in worse conditions than the Soviets.
Still, the fundamental reality remains that Trump, for all his faults, seems to have understood earlier than Europeans that the world has changed and he'd better be the first to adapt. This was clear from Rubio's very first major interview in his new role as Secretary of State when he declared that we're now in a multipolar world with "multi-great powers in different parts of the planet" (https://t.co/dyHpStHPsO).
As a European though, I can only despair at the incompetence and naivety of our leaders who didn't see this coming and didn't adapt first, despite all the opportunities and incentives to do so. They foolishly preferred to cling to their role as America's junior partner, even as that partnership was increasingly against their own interests, something which I've personally warned about for years.
Turns out, strangely, that the Europeans were in fact in many ways more hubristic and more trapped in the delusions of Western supremacy than the Americans. The price for this hubris will be very steep, because instead of proactively shaping their role in the emerging multipolar order, they will now have to accept whatever terms are decided for them.
🚨🇺🇸🤖 TECHNOFEUDALISM: Meet America’s New Oligarch Ruling Class
Pepe Escobar joins us to discuss how the US Deep State created Big Tech, why China's technological innovation model is superior, and Trump’s obsession with AI dominance.
(01:42) What is technofeudalism?
(14:29) US Deep State and Silicon Valley
(20:04) Debunking globalist arguments on AI
(26:52) Why Big Tech is going to war against Deep State
(29:41) Chinese tech model
(38:35) Why Big Tech defected to Trump