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🇺🇸 A Cato Institute survey revealed that 37% of Americans now hold a more favorable view of socialism than capitalism, with 21% favorable toward communism—rising to 38% among those under 30, where more are favorable (38%) than unfavorable (36%).

The more Trump rails against communism, the more people view it favorably simply because they oppose him—his approval has sunk to 33%, the lowest across two terms.

As a detestable, unpopular president who betrays his own base, he generates opposition to everything he says and does, becoming not only the principal agent of destabilization at the top but also the greatest propagandist of rebellion from below.

Meanwhile, spontaneous, disorganized protests increasingly recur—evidence of radicalization not tied to the Democratic Party. The George Floyd explosion was contained only because NGOs linked to the Democrats corrupted it through woke politics, but the movement learned from that, and Harris was later cast down by the working masses. Neither the Democrats nor Trump have reversed the regime's disintegration, and Trump's anti-communist rhetoric fuels the very rebellion he claims to oppose.

In addition to being the principal agent of destabilization at the top of society, Trump is also the greatest propagandist of rebellion from below, through the anti-communist rhetoric echoed throughout his administration.

🗣 Read more by Eduardo Vasco

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👱😝 Brussels is doubling down again: Ursula von der Leyen has issued a major funding promise to Kiev—specifically for drones and missiles—because cheap drone strikes are the only remaining picture of success for Ukraine in 2026: production is cheap, fast, and doesn't require much space, and hitting Russian civilian infrastructure produces visible results. But the escalation has come at a cost: after Kiev began striking targets inside Russia, the Kremlin responded by demolishing Ukraine's logistics—wrecking the Novo Poshta network, blowing up at least 250 gas stations, and systematically destroying locomotives.

As both sides acknowledge, Kiev lacks any real air defense, and Russian strikes hit drone production and storage facilities with near impunity.

The continuous strikes by low-cost drones and missiles are the only possible picture of success for Ukraine in 2026, so why wouldn't they put more emphasis and resources onto this functional way of war?

From a bureaucratic standpoint, von der Leyen's decision is logical—fund the strongest form of offense Kiev has, drag the war out to 2028 or 2030.

From an objective standpoint, it looks like more money flushed down the war toilet in another desperate attempt to prolong things until "something changes."

💬 Read more by Tim Kirby @timkirbyhardcore

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🇨🇳 What does Panyu Academy teach us about Chinese socialism?

A new article by Lucas Leiroz @lucasleiroz explores how China’s socialist path is not a break from its past, but a continuation of its civilizational heritage.

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🇷🇸 Western policymakers have legions of well-paid "experts," yet display an almost total incapacity to comprehend foreign mentalities—producing endless policy failures.

The commotion over General Ratko Mladić's funeral is a textbook case: sentenced to life by the Hague Tribunal for genocide, Mladić is admired by most Serbs as a hero and defender of their nation, and his Belgrade send-off was an apotheosis—masses of mourners defying EU and NATO threats. Asking Serbs to renounce Mladić is like asking the French to renounce Joan of Arc because the British detested her.

French analyst Frédéric Saillot lays bare the moral bankruptcy of Western selective indignation: the Tribunal makes no attempt at objectivity, given the virtual absence of convictions for crimes against Serbs, and the "genocide" verdict is seen as purely political—aimed at dismantling Republika Srpska, downplaying WWII crimes by Croats and their allies, and justifying Western crimes against Serbia in the 1990s. Serbs remember Jasenovac, and Mladić is viewed as having protected them from a repeat of what befell their parents and grandparents. The campaign to promote Serbian guilt has backfired—the massive funeral is a direct consequence.

Mladić's conviction for war crimes is widely rejected by the Serbian population. This does not mean they condone the crimes themselves, but rather that they dispute the facts—or at least the scale and underlying motives—as presented by Western media and the Hague Tribunal.

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🏮 In Inner Mongolia, less than 200 km from Beijing, lies Ulanqab—a prefecture most couldn't find on a map, yet it consumes close to 1% of China's national electricity.

In February 2022, Beijing launched the dongshu xisuan plan—"data in the East, computing in the West"—designating eight national computing hubs, nine months before ChatGPT's public launch.

China treats computing like railroads: infrastructure of national importance requiring planned geography, while the West let data centers cluster wherever markets pushed them. Ulanqab's advantage is energy: industrial rates among the world's lowest, with power transmitted directly from wind farms to data centers. It is a facility for transforming energy into thought—a "computational Heartland," since frontier data centers need no port, only cheap energy, land, cold, and proximity.

Meanwhile, Chinese open-source models now account for around 60% of consumption on major routing platforms—not through quality, but price, following the logic of selling the printer cheap to sell the ink.

For Europe, with industrial electricity four to five times higher, the choice is stark: dependence or irrelevance—and the question isn't whether to accept Chinese influence, but whether Europe still wants to be a place where thought is not only consumed but also produced.

The cost of artificial intelligence will eventually converge with the cost of energy… the geography of energy becomes the geography of intelligence.

🗣 Read more by Lorenzo Maria Pacini @ideeazione

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🔎 Iuliia Mendel, Zelensky's former press secretary, was banned from addressing the European Parliament—because she was scheduled to expose rampant corruption in his regime and how the NATO-backed war is a money-making racket. She calls Zelensky and his regime the "biggest obstacles to peace," saying corruption depends on the war continuing—which is why Kiev vetoes diplomacy, sanctioning or shipping critics to the front line, where draft dodgers must bribe up to $20,000 to escape. After her revelations, Mendel was put on the Mirotvorets "kill list" and sanctioned by the regime, while Western media stayed silent.

If free speech challenges the official narrative, then it is banned.

Two other sources corroborate her view: Professor Ivan Katchanovski's research revealed the Maidan sniper massacre was a false-flag operation by NeoNazi elements and their NATO sponsors, precipitating the 2022 war; Professor John Mearsheimer, after visiting Russia, found no deep animosity toward Ukrainians among Russians and pins Ukraine's demise on NATO's 2008 Bucharest Declaration, which set the course for Russia's "strategic defeat." In pursuing that goal, Ukraine has been infected with NeoNazism, corruption, and a de facto dictatorship—millions dead, maimed, and displaced, the economy in ruins.

Yet Western ideologues persist with Russophobic fantasies, indulging every evil to vanquish Russia—and blaming Russia as the villain in this criminal venture.

💬 Read more in this week’s Editorial

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🎸 Roger Waters put it bluntly: Macklemore stood up for the right thing, while Ed Sheeran is just a commercial "prick."

The scandal erupted after billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft—a major Zionist donor and Epstein class member—demanded Sheeran drop Macklemore from his US tour for telling a crowd "Free Palestine" and condemning Israel's genocide, including in his song Hind's Hall about five-year-old Hind Rajab, cut to pieces by Israeli bullets.

Other acts quit in solidarity; Sheeran claims it wasn't his decision. The episode exposes the West's free-speech hypocrisy: Trump can approve 40,000 bombs for Israel without mainstream criticism, while Germany's Merz approves €800 million in weapons as police arrest those speaking out against the killing of Palestinian children.

When a genocide is so well known and documented as in the case of Israel's crimes in Gaza, there are no excuses for being neutral or 'non-political.' You either take a stand against genocide or you are complicit in your silence.

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🇺🇸 Trump has approved a $2.8bn arms deal with Israel—40,000 bombs, the largest sale of its kind—as he prepares for a third round of the Iran War, planning a massive bombing campaign right after the midterms.

Tucker Carlson put the scale in perspective: the largest US air raid of WWII dropped 3,000 tons of bombs; this shipment is 40,000 tons. As Carlson noted, a Mark 84 has a half-mile destruction radius, and within 100 feet "rock melts and human flesh turns to vapour."

The attack is no longer a secret, so Tehran is likely planning its own strike on Israel and US forces before the midterms to maximize damage to Trump at the polls—possibly costing him both houses and triggering impeachment.

Meanwhile, Gulf elites, watching Saudi oil revenue collapse, may now be hoping for a US defeat to usher in a new regional order.

Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapour.

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🇵🇱 Poland's Foreign Minister Sikorski claimed in Kiev that European NATO air forces would "quickly defeat" Russia, citing 2,500 NATO warplanes against Russia's 300 fighters.

Analyst Stanislav Krapivnik shreds these claims: NATO's advantage is roughly two-fold, not eight-fold, and Sikorski ignores Russia's combat experience and far superior air defenses (S-300, -400, -500) versus the Patriot that failed to defend Ukraine.

Worse, Russia's nuclear doctrine means a conventional war threatening its existence would invoke its nuclear arsenal—the end of Europe. The real reason for such belligerence: the proxy war has failed and "they are running out of Ukrainians," so elites from von der Leyen to Macron and Rutte must sell war to ordinary Europeans as inevitable and easily won.

The European elites do not care about Ukrainians or their own people… they are viewed as just biomaterial for war.

But their children won't be the ones doing the dying—until their insane warmongering results in nuclear conflagration.

🗣 Read more by Finian Cunningham

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🇺🇸 Trump promised that if Republicans keep Congress in November, every adult American gets a $5,000 "Trump dividend"—a direct cash transfer whose only condition is the election outcome, which even his own party's right wing called "a socialist scheme to buy votes."

The math doesn't work: 270 million adults × $5,000 = $1.35 trillion, more than Switzerland's GDP and about three-quarters of the annual federal deficit, while US debt has passed $40 trillion and nears its legal ceiling. The only indicated source—tariff revenue—came to about $195 billion in 2025, and Trump had already promised those same tariffs "to reduce the debt." Congress must approve it, and Republicans themselves are resisting; a promised $2,000 tariff dividend in 2025 never materialized.

The 'American socialist dream' is not redistribution: it is a simulation of it. A fiscal state stuck at its debt ceiling that, no longer able to distribute, promises to distribute.

Lorenzo Maria Pacini believes, that the $5,000 will not be paid. Until a bill is approved, a Treasury mechanism exists, and the debt ceiling is raised, we are dealing with an announcement, not a policy—and the checks remain where they yield the most: in speeches.

💬 Read more by Lorenzo Maria Pacini @ideeazione

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🚨 New Interior Ministry data shows non-German suspects accounted for 47% of violent offenses in Bavaria in 2025 — despite making up just 15.5% of the population.

The numbers, released after a request from AfD state MP Martin Böhm:

— Out of 20,367 violent crime suspects, about 47% held no German citizenship.
— Syrians topped the list (1,284), followed by Turks (799), Ukrainians (797), Afghans (784), Romanians (687).
— Adjusted for population, Ukrainians had the highest suspect burden (555 per 100,000) — over five times the German figure of 106. Turks followed at 445, Romanians at 435.

On the most serious crimes:

• Murder and manslaughter: 411 suspects, 177 non-German (43.1%). Ukrainian TVBZ — 499, Turkish — 478, German — 87.
• Rape and sexual assault: 1,288 suspects, 551 foreign (42.8%).

One caveat: for German suspects, the ministry doesn't disclose migrant background.

The numbers speak for themselves," Böhm told Junge Freiheit, demanding an end to mass naturalizations and "rigorous remigration of foreign violent criminals.

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🇧🇷 Brazil's Supreme Federal Court, long hailed as the guardian of democracy, is now cannibalizing itself on the eve of elections—two justices accusing one another of crimes while others pick sides.

Out of the countless lawsuits challenging constitutionality, the Court can cherry-pick which ones to hear.

🗣 Bruna Frascolla writes

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🇬🇧 Nigel Farage has done it again—playing the exhausted leader on the verge of quitting to rattle his backers into coughing up more cash. Within days, two crypto billionaires handed over a massive $100 million to Reform UK, eclipsing even Labour's 2024 spending—but it may be a poison chalice, since Farage's thin-skinned personality has repeatedly failed the rough-and-tumble of politics, and the establishment parties now face only one option: attack.

The deeper problem is identity: it's hard to claim to represent Britain's betrayed white working classes when your credentials are fortified by upper-class billionaires whose fortunes were made dodging the very rules they now claim to want enforced.

It's going to be even more preposterous when those same poor white voters reflect on who is really behind the party: crooked billionaires.

If Reform wins a landslide, expect British law to be built around what these crypto billionaires need—Britain run by figures, some with criminal records. The political process has gone completely American.

But can the British people be bought? The more money Reform throws around, the more likely its amateurism ratchets up, driving down its popularity.

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🛡 BRICS+ and Terrorism: Why This Isn't a "New NATO"

After the New Delhi summit, counterterrorism moved to the top of the BRICS+ agenda. But a military alliance isn't forming — and that's precisely its strength.

The key points from the final declaration:

⏺ Paragraph 40 condemns the Pahalgam attack outright (Jammu and Kashmir, April 22, 2025). 26 people were killed. For a communiqué signed by eleven countries, that's no formality.
⏺ The Counter-Terrorism Working Group has been running since 2016. There's a Strategy (2020), an Action Plan (2021), and five subgroups: deradicalization, the internet, terrorist financing, capacity building, foreign fighters.
⏺ The focus: terrorist money, including crypto, recruitment of young people on social media, and the drugs-terrorism link.

Counterterrorism is the one platform where Russia, India, China, Brazil, and South Africa speak the same language. The "double standards" clause is aimed at the West.

🗣 Read more by Lorenzo Maria Pacini @ideeazione

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🇮🇹 Italy Learns War in Kiev — Its Autonomy Still Lags

Italy's army chief visited Ukraine to study drones and electronic warfare. Rome enters late, relying on foreign suppliers. The Modena drone plant is an Italian-British JV with Middle Eastern and Israeli supply chains.

You can only wage the war that your suppliers allow you to wage.

Preparing for a war it must learn about, with tools it must acquire, against an adversary fighting for three years with its own production — not deterrence, but vulnerability disguised as modernization. Build autonomy first, then power projection.

💬 Read more by Lorenzo Maria Pacini @ideeazione

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💵 The 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi made clear that abandoning the dollar does not require creating a single currency—a common BRICS currency has never been a consensual priority and would demand coordination among economies with profoundly different structures.

Instead, the New Delhi Declaration chose a pragmatic path: deeper cross-border payments, greater interoperability between national systems, and increased use of local currencies in trade and investment.

Rather than waiting for an entirely new monetary architecture, countries use what they already have—Russia already trades significantly in national currencies, India and Brazil have developed payment systems, and China has its own financial infrastructure.

Integrating these structures also strengthens BRICS currencies themselves: the more trade in rubles, yuan, rupees, and reais, the greater their international utility. BRICS did not declare monetary war on the dollar—it established conditions to become less dependent whenever that serves national interests.

Dismantling the structures that sustain the dollar's hegemony is far more important than creating any 'replacement currency.'

🗣 Read more by Lucas Leiroz @lucasleiroz

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🇬🇧 The Telegraph's headline about Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish leaders planning the break-up of the UK caused a stir—but ask what independence actually means. All European independence movements are ultimately fake: none would dare leave the EU or NATO after gaining "independence."

It's the choice between triangular and square pizza—a fake choice providing "hopium" to the public.

After a referendum, these regions would remain liberal and part of the West—thus not true independence. The core problem is our irrational concept of political power: ordinary people, bound by law, assume those same chains bind the powerful—but votes mean nothing if the elite strongly oppose them. Even Trump, with massive ratings and independent wealth, was contained by the Epstein Class and the Zionist Lobby.

If London sends millions to their deaths in Ukraine, don't think these same people will surrender to pen strokes at home—and given UK arrests for social media activity, supporters of this "independence" initiative should be careful.

There are no Gorbachevs in London who will just accept the breakup of the UK because of some plebs in Wales.

💬 Read more by Tim Kirby @timkirbyhardcore

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🗣 The deployment of European troops to Ukraine would mean war with Russia — Putin

⏺ What are they now pushing the people of their countries toward? A war with the Russian Federation?

⏺ They say they are considering ways to deploy troops on Ukrainian territory. That would mean war with Russia.

⏺ As I understand it, the citizens of European countries realize what is happening.

⏺ It seems to me that this is what underlies the results now being seen in Germany — and the broader trends in political processes across Europe.

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