So this French international market reseatch company, Ipsos, publishes stuff regularly - most likely we are all familiar with these in one way or another.
They published their Global Trustworthiness Monitor - I think the second such - about people's trust in various stuff. Very nice diverse publication. Many topics. Just a couple of screenshots, the rest is in the pdf - available from their site ipsos.com.

Now check the last one, how the trust in the pharma Jew plummets with age, but how the vaccination rate grows, to the dismay of the marketeer of Ipsos who noted this:
"Creating an interesting dichotomy that those who are most willing to get vaccinated are also the least likely to trust the industry creating the vaccines. Does vulnerability to the virus lead to this trust in the product, despite believing those behind its creation to be relatively untrustworthy? Or are the older generations more resistant to sway in their opinions on the pharmaceutical industries despite their efforts in tackling the pandemic? Being more aware of the unethical historical behaviour by the sector, their deep-rooted scepticism towards the pharma industry could also explain this gap in generational attitude. The older generation know they need medicines and are willingly taking them to stay healthy – however they still distrust the industry which is developing them."
Well... How about: they were fucking mandated to take the jab??!! Many in the older generations, in nursing homes for example had to take the vaccine. And people due to their work had to take it, mandated by their employers.

It's really nice they make this trustworthiness monitor. But who trust in Ipsos, how many and how much?

https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-68-putins-challenge-to
Adam Tooze's notes on the Russo-Ukrainian situation. He notes Russia's ability to accumulate foreign exchange reserves, the incompetence of Ukraine's ruling class over the past decades and the unlikelyhood of Putin seeking external action for internal motives:
>It is sometimes suggested that Putin needs a war scare for domestic political purposes. The annexation of Crimea in 2014 earned him a huge popularity bump. That has dissipated. There is little evidence from Lavarda polling data to suggest that the Russian population would welcome a new war and particularly not one with Ukraine.
>It is true that since 2014 the gloss has come off Russia’s economy. Putin’s regime can no longer offer a good news story of an improving welfare bargain. In 2018 it raised the pension age, further undermining morale. As analysts at the Carnegie center have remarked, the Putin-era social contract - “you provide for us and leave our Soviet-style social handouts alone, and we’ll vote for you and take no interest in your stealing and bribe-taking” - has worn thin. In the autumn elections to the Russian parliament the legacy Communist party gained strength. But, again, that hardly provides a good reason for a sudden escalation to the current level of military tension.

He sees Russia's actions in 2008 and 2014 as reactive and interprets the present situation as a reaction to an anti-Russian turn by Zelensky since 2021.

>>46228
>Indeed a country cannot invade itself.
Invasion is a military reality, if it's justified then it's a good invasion. If Somalia conducted a military campaign to reclaim Somaliland, that'd be an invasion, a disturbance of the local balance of power and a war between two countries. There's no point in claiming the Somaliland Armed Forces are actually just "rebels", that the Somaliland government is "self-proclaimed" or that Somalia can't invade itself. Good or bad, Somaliland and Taiwan are real countries, Western Sahara only exists beyond the Berm, the Crimea is Russian, the Golan Heights are Israeli, the Donbass is not Ukrainian and any military operation to change these realities is a disturbance of the local geopolitical balance. One day Taiwan will belong to the Chinese Communist Party and Westerners will cry about it, but until it happens, complaining that it rightfully belongs but some local insurgent group called the KMT occupies it is useless.

Taiwan negotiating its autonomy is useless in the long run because the CCP will still want its power to be as monolithic as possible and autonomy wouldn't last long. On the other hand the safest way to prolong its independence as long as possible is to become some sort of harmless isolationist backwater, but the Taiwanese might not love their independence enough to accept this.

>>46232
>Putin needs a war scare for domestic political purposes
If that were the case, then what should we say about Biden and Zelensky, both of with are hovering around 35% approval
>2008 and 2014 as reactive and interprets the present situation as a reaction to an anti-Russian turn by Zelensky since 2021
This is not an original observation. For example, back in September 2021 the US/NATO-affiliated (!) RAND corporation published an analysis of Russian military interventions, concluding that:
>“Changes on the ground in post-Soviet Eurasia, particularly in Ukraine, that create an external threat or the perception of a rapid change in the regional balance or Russia’s status in ways that contradict Russian interests should be seen as potential triggers for Russian military action. Moscow will not hesitate to act, including with force, in its immediate neighborhood. Second, Russia does seem to act in ways consistent with a desire to avoid losses when it comes to regional power balances. Moscow has intervened when it perceived regional balances to be shifting away from a status quo that was favorable to Russian interests. … In short, prevention of imminent loss could push Russia to act.”
and
>“if we examine all of Russia’s interventions that meet the threshold described in this report, it becomes clear that the majority occurred before Putin’s rise to power … most importantly, there is broad consensus today among Russian elites on foreign policy matter … [there is] little firsthand evidence to suggest that Putin’s personal predilections are a primary driver of Russia’s interventions.”
As you can imagine, coming from RAND, and thus presumed by everyone to be more anti-Russian/anti-Chinese/anti-Iranian tripe, the author of this article drew a lot of "friendly-fire" flak (as you would guess, such flak came from other lobby organizations funded by US military contractors, but interestingly also Ukrainian media ;-)
Publication: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA444-3.html
Commentary by Robinson: https://irrussianality.wordpress.com/2021/09/28/what-motivates-russian-military-intervention/
>Invasion is a military reality...
Thanks, but you can save your peroration on realpolitik for someone else. It was a sarcastic quip cued on his whimsical use of "China" and "China". (A country cannot invade itself because to invade is to forcibly intrude into another country's territory.)
>but some local insurgent group called the KMT occupies it is useless.
Today you can find KMT people which are in some respects politically closer to the CCP than to the DPP. On the other hand the DPP seems to be wholly west-liberal in its convictions (or maybe one should say pseudo-west-liberal, like the Japanese LDP)
>negotiating its autonomy is useless in the long run
I know that such a political autonomy will be circumscribed by the realities of the surrounding security apparatus. But still, you don't know this for sure, you don't know how useless it would be for them (notice that I said "politicians in Taipei", I did not say DPP [as things stand today, some of them may have to flee or be prosecuted if/when a re-unification happens], and as I mentioned there are other political forces that can find more common ground with the CCP, including some in the KMT), and you don't know how long the "long run" coud be. So, no, I still believe that the best course is not to burn bridges and eventually seek negotiation.

>>46259
There are other issues with his take: ukraine is indeed little more than a fake state, notwithstanding the vigorous ukranization policies and accompanying creationing myths of the last several years; he nonchalantly name-drops the "attack on Navalny", which is a deliberately ambiguous reference to either the alleged poisoning of which Germany never provided evidence, or his imprisonment for breaching the bail, in which case the term is tendentious; he says that the donbass rebels were "unleashed" by Russia and slides in the suggestion that the ceasefire violations came only from donbas, which is false; when discussing policies of ukraine unfriendly to russia, I think he forgot to mention a significant one in the language regulations which attack russian while exempt, for example, english or language of EU, like italian or dutch or basque; he calls Yakunovich corrupt but doesn't say anything about Yushchenko's NED-related windfall; and I could mention other nitpicks too.
But ok, while I don't really know him, I'd guess his subscribers might be some mix of US and Europe-based independents or anti-wars or non-establishment dissident types from left and right, so he basically mixes some redpills with some bluepills to try and satisfy most of his paying readers
But to me the really glaring hole in his analysis is the weapons race/control situation (I hinted at this above): In recent years US has unilaterally withdrawn from several bilateral military treaties, which have de-facto ushered an incipient arms race. Also us has made overtures towards the deployment of what they call "defensive" missile systems in eastern europe including the ukraine. Obviously this raises eyebrows in russia. Also, at the moment russia seems to have a slight advantage in the development of hypersonics, but it's quite likely that this won't last long, and considering the vast size of USA's economy and military budget it's almost certain that when they do catch up they will also overtake. This means that russia has a limited window of opportunity for leveraged negotiations in this respect.
I'm pretty sure all that hinges together with the nato-expansion negotiations and the usa-china-russia trilateral balancing act (russia and china are not allies, which means this also becomes a point of negotiation wrt usa's designs for the world)

>>46255
Are you superstitious? Couple of weeks ago there was windstorm over the ukraine
Pics related

Putin has called Ukraine a fake country and recognized the Donetsk and Luhansk republics. As the temperature continues to rise, let's look at an unrelated event in Moscow earlier on: Bolsonaro's visit on the 16th. He was received warmly, unlike Macron who had to sit on the opposite side of a long table to meet Putin. Officially this is because Bolsonaro accepted all Covid tests demanded by the Russians, but I wonder if there was an intended message. Bolsonaro's international trip has some internal motives, he went to Russia to secure access to fertilizer (imports and the promise of a Russian factory in Mato Grosso do Sul) for his agrobusiness base and then to Hungary to meet Órban and talk about "God, Fatherland, Family and Freedom" to please his ideological base.
The US State Department complained that the visit happened at the worst possible moment and that Bolsonaro declared his solidarity (vague, nonspecific, feel-good diplomatic solidarity) with Russia. National media has agreed with this and condemned him for meeting with Putler and Orbanolini, though it wasn't a scandal as it is just one point in the continuous criticism he receives. CNN Brazil interviewed Temer's former Foreign Minister, who said the visit to Russia was a sensible move and the decision to not cancel or delay it was correct, as otherwise Brazil would be picking a side (Ukraine's). Temer also defended the visit.
Bolsonaro missed the opportunity to gain from diplomacy with Russia earlier on, this was a good move but came late.

Here's the part of Biden's talk I was referring to: >>46614
This is really in sharp contrast with Trump's behaviour in this other press conference. Maybe it's just how is, but I suspect the staff prepares him with a bunch of lines he can throw in to gain a few seconds of breathing room, and maybe they consciously try to make it different than Trump was. Trump in position of power humiliated that journalist making many people feel for her. On the other hand Biden shows this type of humility makes him the one to feel sympathy for. I can imagine very well as a propaganda tactic.
It's liek when Kennedy was elected previously he had an appearance on the telly with Nixon, and he got the advise from his campaigner advisors to wear X color of shirt because that makes his face lighter on the black and white telly they had at the time, and it gained him percentages. These things matter.

>>46663
>feel sympathy for
eh... maybe if he was my own elderly grandpa, but nah.

>>46804
Same was in France. "Suddenly" nobody cares anymore now that there is a new agenda to blast 24/7 into the NPCs skull, even though still ~200 people were dying every day. Mostly the vulnerable fatsos and sick, as usual, but nothing really changed except for the chip in the head of the NPCs

Other news:
- Ukranian refugees already enjoying rich western societies
- Pentagon proposes spend $27.4 billion to surround China with missiles along what they call "the first island chain", which includes Taiwan
- Best Korea test-launches large new ICBM (4 nukes, apparently can reach anywhere in USA), releases meme-tire media clip. If this is recent footage, it seems Kim has put on weight again. Foolish.
- Poland knocked down a monument to the fallen soldiers of the ussr during ww2. It said: "Eternal glory to the heroes of the Soviet Army, fallen for the freedom of nations in 1945."
- The demon Albright is dead. A McBurger at torture-famous Guantanamo base lowered the national burger flag in honour of the passing demon. Apparently cancer. Unfortunately not inside a prison cell.
- Biden live in Poland: "Putin cannot remain in power". White House tries to walk it back: "The Teleprompter's spokesman did not mean regime change"

>>47065
>Who controls the Teleprompter controls the World.
Accurate, lol.
>>47066
>Remind me of the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop?
Well, apart from dickpics, drugs, and some naked sluts (among which an alleged minor, i.e., alleged pizza). There are some emails related to his business dealings, including lobbying to his powerful father in exchange of large sums, and his position in the board of the Ukrainina gas company Burisma. Recently, it was also published that he was arranging funding for (and investing himself in) a Pentagon contractor called Metabiota which deals with biological research of "pandemic-causing pathogens". This company had dealings in Ukraine too, possibly related to some of the many US-funded biolabs in that country. Metabiota was a longtime partner of EcoHealth Alliance, the company linked to Fauci that funded coronavirus research. https://archive.today/VjJqY
Also:
>At least one of the documents suggested that Metabiota’s interest in Ukraine went beyond research and money-making. An executive with the contractor, Mary Guttieri, explained in an April 2014 memo to Hunter Biden of “how we can potentially leverage our team, networks and concepts to assert Ukraine’s cultural and economic independence from Russia and continued integration into Western society.”

No Pakistani PM has ever completed his term (!)
Imran Khan could not break the curse: lost a confidence vote and a new coalition replaced him.
He claims that this was instigated by the US. Members of his governing coalition abandoned him around the time when US state dept. official Donald Lu communicated to the Pakistani ambassador in the US that "relations with Pakistan cannot improve" as long as Khan remains in power but that US would "forgive its mistakes" if he were replaced. Then allies of Khan in the Pakistani parliament canceled the no-confidence motion organised by the opposition, citing foreign interference (USA's). Khan then decided to call general elections and dissolved the parliament. However, the opposition got a court to revert the cancellation of the no-confidence vote and the subsequent dissolution of parliament. Khan then lost that vote.
The new PM is said to be closer to the Pakistani military and is expected to be more pro-US, less pro-Russia (a US representative is already going to Islamabad to pass on the new orders)
In the last few weeks there have been several massive rallies in support of Khan

Sri Lanka has been in crisis for some weeks. Its economy was already struggling and then the pandemic-related travel restrictions hit its tourism sector. Then nu-cold war, money-printing, huge inflation. Couple of weeks ago it announced it was defaulting on "all external debts". And then it was taking yet more debt from the IMF.
The president dismissed all ministers. There have been curfews and bans of the Silicon Valley subversion networks to try to contain protests and riots. Kazakhstan vibes.

Economic war, energy/food prices rising, potential food shortages... Pakistan, Sri Lanka... signs of a "South-Asia Spring"?

There is news of a "security agreement" signed between Solomon Islands and China. Australia mad. USA mad. US has like >700 military bases around the world, has just expanded its militarism in the region through the Sukau, yet it's whining about an agreement that is not a military alliance and that apparently doesn't include bases either, just logistic transfers. People seem to have conveniently forgotten the riots that took place there last year, which in part targeted ethnic chinese, setting fire to a "chinatown" and such. And doesn't AU/NZ also have some kind of "security agreement" with Solomon? I think i remember them sending in security personnel sometime after the riots. So China can now do that too, at the request of Solomon, big whoop.
Australia previously sent some suits to Solomon, apparently to try and disuade them. Some media are apparently calling for regime-change/invasion lmao. Now a US suit is going there to get them to tear down the agreement. Btw, US has had its Solomon embassy closed for nearly 30 years. Fucking clowns
To be clear, given the circumstances, China probably should try to get bases, in Solomon or elsewhere in the SEA/Pacific

>>47060
As anticipated, the UK court issued an extradition order to transfer Assange to the USA, where he will be prosecuted for disclosing war crimes and other dirty deeds.
The final decision now falls on UK interior minister, currently a woman called Pitri Patel (name sounds Indian). Last month this woman was prank-called by a pair of famous russian pranksters. They mentioned Assange. They got her to basically call herself a treacherous bitch or something. Full vid: https://rutube.ru/video/a110abfc133cbdfa4b3772a1f7bb973d/

Btw, they also caught Benjamin Wallace the fucking UK defense minister (!). Among other things he says that Kiev should "just be very careful" about pursuing nuclear armament, because "we can be seen to be doing that" (!). Full vid: https://rutube.ru/video/2e3a2631dec32df3a3401f4be4187f8a/

Previously they had also prank-called Boris Johnson (!).

Slava Vovan and Lexus.

>Modern barbarians who have killed millions of people, unleashed world wars, crafted weapons of mass destruction, dropped atomic bombs, exchanged slaves, and displayed people in zoos.
(Erdogan's press secretary and chief foreign policy advisor Ibrahim Kalin reacting to certain statements by Biden)

Death to Italy: Gay court in Italy ruled that children should be given the mother's surname in addition to the father's.

There was terrorist attack (suicide bombing by a woman) in Pakistan targeting a "Confucius" university in some place called Karachi. Killed 4 people: 3 chinese teachers and 1 Pakistani driver. Outlawed militants called "Balochistan Liberation Army" claimed responsibility. Not the first time chinese are targeted (e.g. just last year
a bus was blown up in another terrorist attack killing and injuring chinese citizens and local pakistanis including children)

Assad wins again.

>>47321
>The final decision now falls on UK interior minister, currently a woman called Pitri Patel (name sounds Indian). Last month this woman was prank-called by a pair of famous russian pranksters. They mentioned Assange. They got her to basically call herself a treacherous bitch or something.

Took longer than expected, but said bitch has approved the extradition to US
Death to the GAE

There was very large protest in Uzbekistan about some constitutional amendments. Specifically in a province called approximately Karasomethingpakistan. It seems that, as part of those amendments, the central govt wanted to withdraw some rights from this largely-autonomous region (for one, the right to hold a secession referendum). There were some police clashes or rioting (unclear) which resulted at least in wounded people and perhaps killed too.
The govt has offered to backtrack and those contentious amendments and imposed a long curfew.

In other news, this roller coaster is getting out of control, I would like to get off please

Usa had national anti-British anniversary. In some place called Ilinois they celebrated with traditional event. At least 6 killed, dozens wounded.

Photos of the suspect show a skinny soy sporting both faggy pink hair and Pepe iconography. I'm not discounting yet that burgers really are getting psyopped hard into giving away their guns. (The one livestreamed from Buffalo last May was really suspicious.)

(Celebratory shootings also took place in at least 2 other places, but it seems this was the most deadly.)

There was/is farmers protest in the Netherlands. The govt wants to close down some farms under the pretext of complying with some EU regulations that are supposed to make that swedish autist happier. Actually, I've heard they might in fact be more interested in repurposing that farmland for housing and other things.

Speaking of swedish retards, the Sweden and Mongol Sweden have signed the nato incorporation protocols. Thus becoming Rightful Burger Clay. Congratulations.

I wonder if there was any way for Russia to prevent it. I think Sweden joining wasn't so important for Moscow: ok, they have an actual military-industrial complex that will be added to nato, but the main utility for nato vis-a-vis russia of these norther territories is countering russian ICBMs targeting North America (and perhaps UK) as well as threatening the opposite against Russia/Belorussia and that role is already fulfilled well-enough by Norway. Finland however matters because of the large shared border and proximity to rus capitals. Nothing would have stopped the atlanticists in US/UK, for the same reason that they didn't stop in the case of the Ukraine (sacrificing the prospective new nato members in a proxy war against the designated adversary is fine too). But suppose Moscow promised and publicly and legally committed ahead to nuke finnish capitals in the event of nato incorporation or attempt to effectivise it, would that have had any effect in finnish policies? I'm not sure, after all they have a fucking wyman as head of state.
Anyway, this is important for the Baltic sea and Kaliningrad. They will be completely surrounded by Nato. Really brittle situation.
It is also important for Putin's legacy as a Russian statesman. If he had retired after returning the Crimea he would probably have been remembered with a very positive reputation. But now, to positives like successfully finishing the Chechen wars, GDP growth (specially in the early years, even under economic warfare), and the Crimea, one needs to add: the very questionable decision to not solve the Donbass issue back in 2014/15 when it would have been relatively easy (from a militarily PoV, although it may have been harder economically); we might even say that waiting until 2022 was a mistake and, if it really had to be done, it should have been done no later than winter of 2021, during the 1st of the "scares" in that year (before the planeloads of western weapons that followed); also the less-than-stellar performance in this war that has costed, surely, more lives than expected; the possibility of at least western ukraine becoming another nato outpost; expansion of nato to sweden and finland; the economic uncertainty of coming years due to economic war and usa pushing the world into another "cold war" split into 2 blocs. Without a good result in this war (which to me means securing at least the whole of Novorossiya, which includes Odessa) his record will be mixed at best.

>>48167
>Photos of the suspect
Oh he also looks some kind of East-Asian metis
>livestreamed from Buffalo last May
Those 2 pics are about that, not this newest one

The UK govt has seen a bunch of officials resign in the last day or two. By some count it is a record rate. Boris Johnson refused calls from his ex-ministers to step down. Then he resigned. Or "resigned". His administration is said to be on borrowed time but he vowed to continue in charge at least for a few more months when his party will decide who to put in his place. Apparently they will not call elections.
I bet they will try to replace him with that deranged warmonger woman FM Trus

Iran has announced that a number of foreign diplomats were arrested after being caught "taking soil samples from a restricted area". A desert region where allegedly missiles are tested. Among those detained is a deputy ambassador of the UK and the husband of a woman diplomat working at the embassy of Austria. Video related also shows Polish documents.

Crisis in Sri Lanka continues. In some places there has been breakdown of public security and, according to claims, enraged mobs lashed out against "wealthy people".

OPEC's secretary general has died of "unknown causes" just "hours after meeting nigeria's president and speaking at an energy-related meeting". Hmm. Context: for months the usa (mainly) has been pressuring them to lower petroleum prices, e.g. by increasing production

>>48173
I loled

Beware of petroleum/gas higher-up suits or workers trade-union bosses dying of "unknown causes" around the world

Shinzo Abe was assassinated.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20220708_39/

>>48210
>Was he still close to power?
Lol. He and his own have never been far from power. Since imperial times.
I believe he was a congresscritter, and in any case he remained the most prominent politician of the LDP, the main political entity in post-ww2 Japan (the other parties are secondary). People like Kishida and his predecessor (whatever was his name) are mostly figureheads that the LDP rotates whenever there's a crisis that affects approval ratings (in the case of Kishida's predecessor it was the handling of the pandemic post summer olympics). But through such surface-level reshuffles, Abe remained very influential in LDP, and therefore in jap govt.

Interestingly, Abe had recently made some counter-western-mainstream statements regarding the ukrainian conflict: He blamed the clown of kiev for not negotiating the autonomy of Donetsk and Lugansk, as stipulated in the Minsk accords, and for not stopping the Nato drive. He suggested that this should have been done through pressure by washington or other countries under USA's influence. Which is the exact thing Russia had been requesting of Germany and France, guarantors of Minsk 2: pressure Kiev into finally implementing the signed agreement. (And, though I can't remember exactly who, maybe it was Mearsheimer or Tooze, but probably others did too, people had suggested that some of the statements coming from the clown back in early and mid 2021 [remember, in washignton Biden was then coming on to office] seemed to be pleads for "someone" to remove from his shoulders the weight of making the decision to acquiesce to the russian demands regarding Nato/neutrality. He was basically saying then: "kiev had committed to nato membership in the past, but if nato doesn't want us, *wink wink nudge nudge*, then it's out of our hands", and specifically out of *his* hands, which is probably what really mattered to him, so that he could hope to not being lynched by the radicals)
Also, in opposition to the western propaganda which portrays Putin as madman, a second Stalin, literally Gitler, afflicted by a new terminal illness every month, Abe instead described him as "a realist"

Nonetheless, all jap politicians are ultimately just retinues for their Us masters. Despite those counter-msm statements he still expressed support for kiev and opposition to moscow in the practical matter of this war. That is: using the ukraine as proxy to inflict the greatest damage possible on the russia. He also supported economic warfare against russia. Wrt china he was among the most hawkish. He would pay lip service to every single bit of anti-china propaganda and destabilisation effort coming from imperial sources: tibet separatism, trump's tariffs on chinese imports, xinjiang separatism, muh yogurts, hong-kong separatism, taiwan separatism, south china sea, ban on xinjiang exports, semiconductors trade war, you name it. He supported changing the constitution away from its current "pacifist" format, so that it japan could focus on militarily confronting china. He also had rubbished the many accusations of war crimes committed by japan during the invasion of china in ww2 and had repeatedly visited the Yasukuni shrine where some ww2 war criminals are honoured (something which always pisses off beijing). Not surprising, though, when he's a descendent of one.

Oh, he also wanted Assad gone. His fate was thus sealed.

I agree that this a weird event. But japan is weird. This also reminds me of the assassination of Asanuma Inejiro. The photo of that event is famous in the political chans. Edgy "right-wing" morons will jerk off about 17-years-old Yamaguchi stabbing that darned gommie without understanding that Asanuma was in fact a nationalist of a sort. Abe would be classed as a "nationalist" too, but he was in fact happy to be just a neoliberal viceroy under the thumb of usa. Asanuma wanted the yank out.

>>48196
>I bet they will try to replace him with that deranged warmonger woman FM Trus
Just discovered that she used to be a critic of brexit. This might lower her appeal in the eyes of a certain group of spooks (including ex MI6 chief Richard Dearlove) that have been conspiring to put in office a "hard brexiter". Boris Johnson was in fact their chosen man some time ago, as revealed by a tranche of leaked emails
If this woman is not their choice, perhaps another woman is: Patel the one who signed off the extradition of Assange. It was unsuspected until some days ago that she could have intentions to replace Johnson, but Dearlove himself revealed/claimed in one email that she was "preoccupied with a leadership bid" (which is brit language meaning leadership of the ruling party and by extension premiership)
It's interesting that this craven woman was asking for a head pat from Washington after approving Assange's extradition. Perhaps to raise her "leadership" profile?
"A very british coup d'etat" is a series of articles analysing said emails. Very interesting to see how 3LAs and their adjacencies labour to "influence" (being charitable with terminology) the "democratic process". (Intelligence agencies and their domestic operations are one of the 1st implications that came to my mind when I read that post about the "patriot's dilemma". Are these spooks serving their fatherland? Themselves? Their subterranean group of MIIC insiders? A similar group at the other side of the Atlantic?)
https://archive.is/SsLld

>>48225
>Why lol?
Because I found it funny. I'm sensing unnecessary defensiveness again. I wasn't mocking you, if that's what vexes you for some reason
>Why should I know
No reason why you should. Maybe there is a misunderstanding. Sometimes I quote and reply to someone because I find it opportune to say something relevant, for anyone who might find it interesting. And then I feel free to digress into related topics. I'm not necessarily addressing all that to you in particular or implying you should have known it.
>Good job of strawmanning. I did not talk about his party.
I want to lol again ;) It's not a strawman: I did not for a moment think that you talked about his party, I simply decided to expanded the scope of the discussion. Also, by "his own" I actually mean his family/extended family.

Increased activity on the taiwan proxy-war project again:
- Some days ago washington announced the 5th weapons-sale deal to taipei of the biden govt.
- Yet another us delegation visited taipei to provoke beijing and embolden the separatists. This time there were, among others, the us ex military chief Mark Esper, a very senior suit in the nato mouthpiece Atlantic Council, and a former nato representative from Italy. Esper gave a speech in which he, like Pompeo before, openly advocated for tearing down usa's one-china policy and pushed the island to militarise and die for the GAE. Pic related
- Usa's acting congressional speaker, that geriatric reptilian Pelosi, announced a visit to taipei in august. This comes after she cancelled an analogous trip some months ago (officially due to catching C19, but possibly backing down after warnings from beijing). Like the last time, beijing responded by demanding the visit be cancelled. Biden has claimed that the pentagon has disavowed the reptile's trip, calling it "not a good idea right now". If it happens, it might be one of the final nails in the usg's adherence to one-china policy

More on the topic of proxy wars. I came across this interview with John Lander, a retired australian diplomat. It matches closely a lot of what I have been posting about since last year:
- Aus foreign policy is made in the imperial centre, for the benefit of the imperial centre.
- Malcom Fraser: "Aus need Usa alliance for its defence but Aus only needs defending because of its Usa alliance". The same can be said of the countries gobbled up by nato in its expansion towards russia.
- Aukus is a tool for Usa to project power into the indo pacific and against china. Defending aus not a primary goal.
- Excuses about "freedom-of-navigation operations" are worthless for china who sees them as preparations for potential naval blockade.
- War in ukraine and potential war in taiwan are proxy war project by usa. Usa wants these wars because it seeks to use them in order to economically, militarily, diplomatically, and financially undermine its designated adversaries, while avoiding a direct confrontation that could easily escalate to nuclear exchanges.
- Cold War 2, Yellow Peril 2. The same propaganda is rehashed to again split the world into two blocs (either "with us" or "against us").
- Etc.

On the topic of japan's military agenda (>>48071 >>48260). The japanese govt penned an article in which, following the lead of the master (demonstrated for example in the latest nato strategy document), they whine about russia and china in connection to ukraine and taiwan. As usual, they ignore the context of provocations (nato expansion, taiwan secession). They speak about the "threats" that they perceive as coming from these two countries while totally ignoring their own collusion with nato (org aimed against russia) in the most recent summit in spain and the subsequent "informal expansion" of aukus (org aimed against china) into new zealand and japan called Pacific Partners Something Something.
Of course, what they are really doing here is just building up a record which they can later offer as justification for the constitutional-amendment/military-expansion/GAETO agenda.

>>48196 >>48239
It's looking like my guess will be proven correct and they will install the dumb hawkish blond. A less likely option is an Indian oligarch called Sunak.

Hilarious, shit just made the front page of Politico.
https://www.politico.eu/article/nazi-talk-orban-adviser-trashe-mix-race-speech-dramatic-exit/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/27/outrage-in-hungary-after-orbans-pure-nazi-speech
Our PM in his speech said something liek, the Hungarian people became from the mix of autochthon people, but we don't want to become mixed race. There are obvious implications, but it is apparently about lgbt and holocaust.

>>48378
>Just because the US govt aren't the good guys it doesn't mean those can be found in Moscow and Beijing.
Yeah, I'm not 12 or USian, I'm not interested in finding "the good guys".
For the rest of your reply, I'm going to interpret it as principally referring to this bit:
>Malcom Fraser: "Aus need Usa alliance for its defence but Aus only needs defending because of its Usa alliance". The same can be said of the countries gobbled up by nato in its expansion towards russia.
(That's a former aussy PM, btw) Well, I think my comment ("the same can be said...") is correct. In particular, this was/is literally the narrative peddled, for example, in the case of the Ukraine or Finland: "b-bu-but don't you know they need to invite the military apparatus of a far-away power to the borders of its designated enemy because of the threat posed by the latter?" conveniently ignoring that they are bringing about such threat by that very act.
>Also being neutral for small(er) countries just doesn't work.
It has worked for many decades. But anyway I'm not really talking about small countries. I'm talking about the geopolitical power balance, which mostly involves major countries.
>Russia has the same imperialist mindset as the US does.
>It's either naive to think that Russia would leave alone the small guys
Well, there are some differences (possibly inherent) between thassalocratic empires like the British, from whence the US empire follows, and a more typical tellurocratic empire (e.g. the Roman, Persian, Russian), but as I said, I'm not concerning myself with "the small guys". We can worry about them the day the exceptionalist empire goes back to mind its own business in its own corner of the world. And, as he >>48379 mentioned, it will be, then, arguably better for them in a hypothetical multipolar international arrangement, as they will be freer to pursue their promiscuous "multivectoring" to their hearts' content ;). Because the Russia today simply doesn't have the capability to do to "the small guys" in Europe what US can. Russia has demonstrated it will choose war rather than outright losing the "satellites" Bielorussia and Ukraine (which were more than once part of the same state and are populated by very close people) but all the propaganda about "the Russians are coming" that we hear from Atlanticist sources (e.g. both Sunak and Truss in their UK premiership pseudo-campaigns) is just that: war-time propaganda.
>if the US won't provoke her by making those into her clients
This framing is somewhat misleading. The term "client" or "client state" is typically used to describe economic dependence. By extending its military apparatus onto the borders of its designated adversaries, the US did/does something much more dangerous and threatening than simply "intrude" into "spheres of influence".
>so I rather assume the first situation in case of you.
Well, you would be wrong in either case. I have been explicit in previous discussions about the reason for my support for Moscow or Beijing in the geopolitical matters that involve them and Washington: in short, I want the sick global US hegemony replaced with a multipolar international arrangement that will provide us (Europe in general but my country in particular) with greater opportunity to exercise independence. (Of course, apart from that, I think supporting those two in their struggle to keep the Great Satan at bay also happens to be the historically-informed morally-correct position.)
>Same with China, and with the "separatists".
Among the "great powers", China is probably the farthest thing from a thassalocratic empire like the Britain and later USA. Ming China actually stopped itself from going on transoceanic conquest of colonies when it very much had the means.

Due to dry weather the water level of the Danube is quite low. A shipwreck got the surface, they think it's a WWII soviet riverine gunboat.
https://index.hu/belfold/2022/08/17/masodik-vilaghaborus-hajoroncs-vamosszabadi-duna-alacsony-vizallas/

Sabotage on the Russo-German pipelines. Not yet confirmed to be sabotage, but I'm sure. Either the Russians or Americans did it, I could see either but Americans doing it makes more sense. Russia needs a stick (gas shortages) and a carrot (easing the shortages in exchange for concessions in Ukraine), attacking the pipelines can do the stick part but rules out the carrot.

>>48793
>Lörs opinion?
Why worry?

Gonna just wish a way better 2023 für Bernd here. The year of the rabbi.

>>49569
Pele too? Fuck.

>>49571
Indeed. I can't even open it from my hdd.

>>49572
Condolences.

>>49573
It's quite good.

Deaths/1mil population comparison between Hungary and India.
First is from 2021 August I think, at least from the timestamp of the file.
Second is from today 2023 February 20.
We are over 5000 died per million population. Climbed up from about 3000. While India is hilariously low still. That went up too, and with a lot proportionally to itself, but way less proportionally to our "gain", not from 300 to 500. The number of cases per million is also low.
We had rigorous vaccination, mask mandates, social distancing, restrictions for the unvaxxed, what have you. Meanwhile in India you have crowd, bad hygiene, and they literally smear cow dung all their bodies against covid. I doubt their medical facilities would be that better. And it is a modern enough country to provide relatively reliable data.
Is it because their society is young (the proportion of the younger generation is larger)? The median age of the dead globally is around 80.

Hungary is the country of inventors. After the mountainless highway tunnels here is the canopyless canopy walkway. Financed by the European Union. I bet those in Brussels did not expect this however.
It's built near a village on the steppes. The tender was contended in 2018 by a local entrepreneur who had a piece of woodland. In 2019 he became the mayor of the village, then in 2021 won the tender. 2022 he cut all the trees on his land. His defense: the tender did not say how high should be the trees - or if any trees are necessary -, plus he did it for he needed the money to build the walkway because Brussels was late to send the gibs.
From the photos I can see that the trees were planted in lines, it is a land specifically used in forestry for producing wood. He very well had known he'll cut the trees, when they are matured enough, although with these type of lands it is planned to reforest them. But why would anyone build such walkway in a place that has no "wild"/"natural" vegetation?
Btw yes, he belongs to the Fidesz. If it matters, like the other guys wouldn't pull such a hücpe/chutzpa.

>>50092
It's simple theft as I see it. They are making money on EU tenders by overpricing a project. Sometimes they even build less than promised, or build it very bad quality. For example this project above, they promised some additional recreation facilities, and with that comes a pair of toilets. The wooden "sheds" are there but there is no toilet in them - while the official papers say the project is finished.
It was a cashgrab.
There is another project in the same area on the name of the local parliamentary delegate Fidesz which looks the same but at least it has trees around.
Previously they built five lookout towers around that village. One you can see on the second image >>50089
There are good looking and useful projects. Probably done from way higher budget tho. Check this (there should be 83 photos):
https://szallas.hu/programok/lombkorona-setany-mako-p5102
Was opened in 2012.

>>50095
Kek.
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=4ipx43bgyDI
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4ipx43bgyDI [Embed]
(Translation in the description.)

News Time, Bernd!

So Orbán orchestrated an assassination of a 17 yo Algerian kid, to make all the muzzies riot in France and let it spread to Brussels, so he can act smug on the EU summit, while discussing the recent migrant measures of the EU which would spread all the migrants equally throughout the EU member states.
Essentially the masses are pulling a George Floyd, 45K police were mobilized - which isn't really big considering the size of France and that they have to work in shifts. Most of the large cities in France get their fair share of mostly peaceful destruction demonstration, and as I wrote it spread to Belgium too, into Brussels (where said law is getting enacted right on these days).
For some reason it's impossible to find and good shots of the mostly peaceful protesters, all photos are seem to be about meek white people, cute grills raising hands, and armored intimidating police. Some burning vehicles and brave firefighters.
https://www.politico.eu/article/france-arrest-nearly-1000-rioters-fourth-night-violence-nahel-m/
https://www.dw.com/en/france-riots-over-1300-arrested-nationwide/live-66088335
I could have found better sources, but cool contrast between the two articles: "nearly 1000" vs. "over 1300" arrested. Well 1300 is nearly 1000, no? And DW isn't even some right-wing news outlet.

Here's DPA butchering English and French names at the same time:
https://invidious.protokolla.fi/watch?v=t7SPf5iDwIY
>looting
>gangsters shooting with AKs
>Macron blames tiktok
>emergency security meeting on Elton John concert
His video was made only on the 3rd day, and we are now on the 4th.

Moved this thread here.
This one with Italian IP posted about this on other boards because an absolutely inconsequential event noone actually cares about has to be hyped during EU elections campaigns, even on imageboards.

Wake up babe, they tried to assassinate Trump during a rally.

>>52203
Who do you call babe?
>vidrel
Bodyguardess #2 fumbling with her gun, can't holster it back.
And that operator in camo is like:
>hey that camera is on me, better act like I do something
And that redneck flipping off the camera.
So many details just in a short footage.

Sleepy Joe is on the roll.