International Relations and Geopolitics hobbyist. Realist. Political independent, just trying to apply common sense and remain sane. Non-elite runner.

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The Post-War European Security Architecture Is Beginning To Take Shape (link below)
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This is 255 seconds of the US President speaking in explicitly homoerotic terms—including simulated fellatio and ass-grabbing—about a candidate for Senate. It’s difficult to watch—like a car accident. Try and read it. “I said, wait a minute. You got to be kidding. He's like, very quiet. And I never really looked at him because it's never been my thing to look at men, but I like men, but I've never been particularly attracted. Sorry. And what I do is I call like, I'm going to call Ken up, say a couple of words and he'll say a couple of words. So I called John up and again, John Gruden just, in fact, he said something that was amazing because he's such a fine man. John used that is as the Senator, but he's running for reelection against a real sleazebag who got thrown out years ago, defeated by Bernie Marino, who's a great Senator, but he was defeated. So he was thrown and now he's running again against John. And I called John up, but John Gruden said one thing that got me and I couldn't believe it because you know, it's such a high quality person. He said in the football games, he would rip people's heads off when he tackled them. He was so tough. He would just, I said, was he the best? He said he was the best player on the team. And that's why I'm here. I was surprised to see him. I said, what do you do there? I'm here to be with my teammate. John Husted. He said, yeah, he was the best. He was an all American. And a few people understood that when I started talking about him, guy shot. He was an all American, sir. And so, but he was, he's a humble guy. So he didn't talk about it. So I brought him up and he started speaking. Thank you very much. Very much. And you know, he said a few words and I was standing right here and I'm studying him because John Gruden is a great coach. One of the best said that this guy's one of the best players he's ever been associated with. Best player on a championship team, all America. And I never knew he even played football. So I'm studying him. And I made the mistake of saying that I started off by studying his ass. I just want to say. And then I looked at his feet and they were massive. Then I looked at his hands, see these hands. He's a nice head. They're fine. He had fingers like sausages. I looked at his hands. I said, look at it guys. And then I patted him on the shoulder. I said, great job, John. He said a few words. I said, great job. And I hurt my hand. It was like I was hitting steel, but I made the mistake of studying his anatomy and explaining it to the audience and the audience loved it. By the way, he went up 12 points that day. He went from being down to being up. Maybe I should do that with Ken Paxton, but I'm not sure your body is going to qualify. I'm going to do it with Ken. No, but I would say so what happens is so John leaves. I told us everybody had fun, you know, but the people appreciate it because they didn't know. A lot of them didn't know. 95% didn't know. And the fake news did it to me. They only covered the ass part. They said, they said, this is news cable freaks. And I think ABC fake news, one of the worst. And they said, what the hell was Trump doing talking about a man's anatomy? What, what's his problem? What's why is he doing this? And I explained it. He was talking about his ass and his feet. What was he doing? You know what I was in and they know, but they actually had me and they'd only say I studied his ass after that. It was to see where the power came from because he was a violent tackler anyway, but they did it to me beautifully. That's no different than walking into walls and saying, Oh, my wife said, Oh my, are you okay, darling? So no, they're fake news. That's why I came up with that term. That was my term. We have a lot of good terms. I could give you a lot of them. Pocahontas.”
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A Historic Embarrassment for the Pentagon Senator Tammy Duckworth asked Pete Hegseth: "Name one country that is a member of ASEAN." 🗣️ Hegseth: "South Korea, Japan, and Australia." 🗣️ Duckworth: "None of those are members of ASEAN. You might want to brush up on your geography."
I’m sure Vladimir Putin would like a word …. 😂
BREAKING: President Trump says that Venezuela could become the 51st state of the United States of America. Trump also declares US intervention in Venezuela as the "greatest oil victory in history." Hawaii was the last state added to the US in August 1959.
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I have always been more interested in solving mysteries and accomplishment than making money as if that is somehow magnanimous. Many think accomplishment is to add zeros. That does not make you more important than someone else at the end of your time.
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I lived through Yeltsin, and Trump's behavior mirrors him so precisely it's disturbing. The same clownish performance. The same promises. The same destruction of a country while the leader talks nonsense and dances. Dear Americans, good luck.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump says Iran was 2 weeks away from a NUCLEAR missile when he launched the war "I don't feel we had a choice. They were 2 weeks away from having a nuclear missile." He then pivoted to Operation Midnight Hammer, the June 2025 B-2 strikes on Fordow and Natanz that he says "obliterated" Iran's program, eight months before this war began. That leaves a hard question hanging... If the program was obliterated in June, how was Iran two weeks from a nuclear missile by February? Writer: Daniel
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Pompeo once against lost in the hallucinogenic haze of #TheImaginaryWar. In the poetic words of Esmaeil Baqaei: "Between the illusion of victory and the reality of the battlefield there lies a vast chasm."
The Islamic Republic is in its death throes - and as Director Clayton's recent memo shows, an evil regime that has been cornered can become even more dangerous. Let's finish the job so that the world can no longer be threatened by this monstrous dictatorship, and the Iranian people have a chance at freedom.
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It remains to be seen what will come of this initial impulse to find a peaceful balance of powers and interests in West Asia — absent the overruling presence of a western hegemon. But this meeting tacitly acknowledges Iran's strategic victory and stature as a great power rising.
‼️ The House of Saud Bends the Knee in Tehran Türkiye and Pakistan are just there to console the Saudis in their moment of humiliation. Meanwhile, somewhere in the great beyond, Ali Khamenei and Qasem Soleimani are sharing a triumphant high five.
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Maybe. It could be a gambit to maximize demands with a view to forcing Ukrainian neutrality at a minimum. But I don't think so. The correct framing of this is that there will only be no NATO troops in those countries - other than the militaries of those countries themselves - which means in essence US troop withdrawal to those lines. But those countries will otherwise remain members of NATO. Given Witkoff's statements, Trump's NATO bearishness, general US desire to reduce NATO commitments, it may be a possibility. If one frames it as an alternative to a possible Ukrainian collapse or a pan-European war - of one accepts the premise of either of those being possible - then politically this looks like it could be saleable. Especially if Putin is willing to trade back on some of his Ukraine specific demands, which he should be as his primary security concern will have been addressed. I don't think it's all that far fetched. Not that I think it has a very high likelihood either.
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‼️ ‼️ This is really big. I have said many times that this was coming - but I did not expect it now already. Putin obviously believes that he has the necessary leverage now and it seems from what has been reported about Witkoff saying the European security architecture should be reviewed, that the US supports it.
Moskau holt Europa an den Verhandlungstisch, um dort den Abzug von NATO-Truppen aus Polen, Estland, Lettland, Litauen und Finnland zu verlangen. Nach Informationen aus diplomatischen Kreisen soll Putin in der nächsten Gesprächsrunde fordern, die NATO auf den Stand von 1997 zurückzuführen. Die Erweiterung des Bündnisses nennt er die „Grundursache" des Krieges. Für die Menschen in Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Warschau und Helsinki hieße das, dass ihre Länder ohne Bündnistruppen dastehen. Neben ihnen läge Russland mit seiner Armee. Putins Berater Uschakow sagte, mit den USA allein komme kein Abkommen zustande, weil Europa die Ukraine voll unterstütze. Deshalb müsse Europa mit am Tisch sitzen. Trumps Sondergesandter Witkoff hatte Putin in Sankt Petersburg angeboten, über den „breiteren Kontext" der Sicherheit in Europa zu sprechen. NATO-Generalsekretär Rutte weist den Truppenabzug zurück. Über die „Bedenken" Moskaus will das Bündnis trotzdem reden. Die europäischen Diplomaten sagen, ihre Haltung sei so fest wie im Februar 2022. Dieselben Forderungen hatte Russland im Dezember 2021 aufgestellt. Wenige Wochen später begann der Überfall auf die Ukraine. Quellen: The Telegraph, Focus .ua, Echo FM
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BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg. Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible. This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.
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This goes way beyond general national defense preparedness. This has the earmarks of something urgent and much, much larger scale than anything previously contemplated. Preparations of this nature and magnitude would only be envisioned for an attack on America from a major global power as part of a world war. Given the urgency with which Pentagon officials are announcing this initiative, I’m worried that they know something is coming and they’re not telling us…
🚨Update: Massive Power Outage Coming! War Department prepares major U.S. milıtary bases to operate for 90 days without outside support, including civilian power grids and global supply chains! - Fox News
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This refers to the Pentagon's 'FORTRESS' plan for military bases to operate without civilian power or supply chains if a future conflict disrupts infrastructure. It is not an announcement of an imminent power outage and does not involve the civilian grid. foxnews.com/politics/insid… ibtimes.co.uk/pentagon-90-da…
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🚨🇷🇸Belgrade, Serbia, at 1 AM. Students are celebrating their election victory. Flags of Jesus Christ, Archangel Michael and Orthodox Christianity are waving everywhere. Not a single EU flag in sight.
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Somehow I don’t hear the western governments encouraging the people on the street to rise up and take back their country …… I guess that’s reserved for Iran only ….
The Worlds most powerful man, Vladimir Putin, has instructed 800,000 French people to take to the streets. Kremlin operatives are also on the streets of Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Belgium, Austria, and Albania Its all Russias fault.
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This one is too good to miss. "What is love?"
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Oomfies in America you need to enjoy Pythagoras day as much as you can. (24)^2 + (10)^2 = (26)^2 This will be the final one in this century, the next one is in 2103.
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🚨MAJOR BREAKING: The Rothschild dynasty has been handed the keys to Ukraine's banking system. On Friday, October 23, 2026, Ukraine's Ministry of Finance signed three-party agreements with the state-owned banks Ukrgasbank and Sense Bank and London-based N.M. Rothschild & Sons Limited, part of the Rothschild & Co group. The firm, hired in consortium with Ukrainian investment bank FinPoint, will not buy the banks — it will prepare and run their sale to foreign investors. Ukrgasbank is roughly 95% state-owned; Sense Bank was nationalized from Russian-linked Alfa Group in 2023. Both are profitable, and both sit among Ukraine's ten largest lenders. It happened this way because the process was engineered from outside. Rothschild was chosen through a competitive tender, but the framework was laid down step by step: the Cabinet approved privatization preparations on October 1, 2025, approved the adviser-selection rules on October 29, 2025, and opened the tender on March 31, 2026. The real spur is Ukraine's repeated commitment to the IMF to engage an adviser for exactly these two banks, with sales slated to begin around 2027. Rothschild's role will be to value the assets, package them for investors, market them abroad and organize the tender. The beneficiaries are the foreign financial groups that end up buying in, plus Rothschild itself, which earns a fixed fee and a success fee of up to 3% of proceeds either way. Ukraine benefits in the short term by raising budget cash while the hryvnia sits at an all-time low of 45.20/$ and the IMF projects a $50–55bn financing gap for 2027–28 — but it pays for that by offloading income-producing assets during a war, at a moment when it is forced to be a seller rather than a holder.
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‼️ Ukraine War Casualty Truth Ian Proud @proud_diplomat has hosted an interview with Alexander Grable @GAWL7014 which is a powerfully revealing corroboration of the massively disproportionate casualty ratio in the Ukraine War. * HIGHLY RECOMMENDED * youtube.com/watch?v=61-4uxfw…
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🚨🇫🇷This is Paris, France right now! Hundreds of thousands of protesters in the streets against Macron!
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