“In this lecture, Professor Jiang Xueqin explains the strategic logic behind escalation in modern warfare. Jiang explores how conflicts between powerful states and regional powers evolve once certain thresholds are crossed…”
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“Shifting goals, unclear timelines and a flimsy pretext: at times, the US-Israel campaign against Iran carries curious parallels of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.”
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“The war has disrupted global travel, stranded foreign nationals and families, and spiked global commodity prices. Meanwhile, the number of civilian deaths and casualties in Iran and Lebanon is climbing.”
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“US and Israeli leaders have issued confident pronouncements that Iran’s military has been battered and is on the back foot, with nearly 2,000 targets struck. But Iranian missiles and drones keep coming, targeting American assets across the region.” 👇
“Israel and the US have launched fresh waves of intensive attacks across Iran on the second day of their military campaign to overthrow the country’s government…”
— by Jason Burke, in Jerusalem
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“How do understand the war with Iran?
Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States.”
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“If the death toll is confirmed, the school bombing would be the largest mass casualty event of the US-led attack so far.”
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Today marks the 1,462nd day of the full-scale war that has changed the fate of millions of people
#Ukraine has come a long way in our fight against evil -Putin’s Russia
▪️Day 1 -Putin announces the start of the "special military operation."
▪️Day 2 -Russian airborne forces are destroyed in Hostomel⤵️
“Giuffre alleged she was trafficked to Andrew and raped, starting when she was 17 years old. He has always denied ever meeting her.
Now on Thursday, his 66th birthday, he has been arrested at the King’s Sandringham estate in Norfolk, where he was residing…”
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What does the US withdrawal from the IPCC mean? Marc Morano of ClimateDepot joins James Corbett to discuss this crucial issue and the radical shift in public opinion on so-called 'global warming' and globalization over the past year.
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"Rubio’s speech at Munich was a massive free dose of fentanyl to an addict desperate not to get clean. And it worked. Europe is full of suckers,” as Phillips Payson O’Brien, author, historian and professor of strategic studies, put it.
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3▫️How do they still trust the excrement coming from the mouth of these snakes after everything they were supposed to have learnt?
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2▫️ Have they not yet grasped the very simple rule of thumb that if the mainstream media is selling them a story and the algorithm is making it go viral, it is by definition fake, a distraction and should be dismissed out of hand?
I despair for those who call themselves ‘awake’ but fall for every single media hoax slopped up to them, the latest being the Epstein three million file psyop. I want to shake sense into them. The hour is late. What is wrong with them? ⤵️
Russia has committed every war crime and crime against humanity, including relentless, indiscriminate attacks against civilians, systematic torture, mass rape, and the forced transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia.
— by Emily Mullin | Genocide Watch
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Neo-Nazi, expansionist, terrorist, and genocidal RuSSia is striking everything in its path in Ukraine: hospitals, schools, residential areas, museums, zoos, and even a dog shelter in Zaporizhzhia. At least eight dogs have been killed and many others injured.
Kyiv metro… This is a genocidal war. The Russian government has set out to intentionally destroy the Ukrainian nation, as Emily Mullin points out. Russia has committed all the acts of genocide listed in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
3/ ….and hesitancy from Nato countries could allow Moscow to gain total control over the Baltic within days, using an initial force of only 15,000 troops.
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2/ ….in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad to seize the Lithuanian city of Marijampole to its east, a key conurbation through which the road linking Russia and Belarus runs.
The scenario, which plays out in October 2026, suggests that an absence of US leadership…. ⤵️
A new wargame simulating a Russian incursion into Lithuania, carried out by ex-Nato and German officials, concluded that Moscow would “achieve most of its goals” within days.
The exercise envisaged a scenario where the Kremlin used bogus claims of a “humanitarian crisis”…. ⤵️
France has the power to freeze Elon Musk’s financial assets and could even jail him for foreign election interference under their laws.
— The London Economic | 2025-12-10
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"A search is being conducted today at the French premises of the X platform," the prosecutor's office said in a statement.
French prosecutors also said they had summoned X owner Elon Musk for a "voluntary interview" as part of the investigation.
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French cybercrime authorities & Europol conducted a raid today, Feb 3, on the French offices of the social network X, the Paris prosecutor's office announced. This operation is part of an investigation to determine whether X's algorithm was used to interfere in French politics.
A 15-minute city (FMC) “is a smart-city development within a predefined urban zone that uses frontier technology to socially engineer the population’s adherence to global policy agendas.”
— by Iain Davis
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A Moscow resident has been fined for spreading “LGBT propaganda” over a photograph he posted online showing members of the rock band Queen dressed in women’s clothing while filming the music video for their song I Want to Break Free, Verstka reported on Saturday.
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“The Left has suddenly rediscovered the value of free speech. After years of supporting clampdowns through the preposterous phenomenon of ‘hate speech’, now left-wing activists are having their wings clipped for allegedly hateful protests and social media posts.”
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➡️ “….figured out the LLMs are not as useful as advertised and they can’t improve with more data; in fact, they tend to become more brittle and overtrained.”
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“The some 5,000 existing/planned data centers in the US are not going to be used to allow LLMs [Large Language Models, aka AI chatbots] to replace human workers. The data centers will be our digital prison. They are building them like mad right now because a lot of people have already….” ⤵️
Based on this analysis by @brynntannehill.bsky.social , “regardless of how people vote, the chances of a Democrat government coming to power in 2029 is virtually nil.”
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"The gap between what you feel and what you’re told creates unbearable cognitive dissonance."
"The world’s made trusting your felt sense unbearable. We’re in an epidemic of neurological collapse."
— by Brian Maierhofer
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