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This one is gold.

Also, I've been reading some news about Turkey and Serbia considering joining BRICS. There's a cultural clash between Turkey and the EU, and it may get a better fit in there. BRICS started with China, Russia, India, and Brazil in 2006, and was followed by South Africa a year later. Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) were invited to become members with effect from 1 January 2024. I think Argentina was going to as well, but obviously Milei has other bosses, so that fell apart. Wrong move, if you ask me. All this is a huge deal and can change the power correlations in the world.

@BlueOak It's a very complicated region, indeed, and quite interesting. I'm not an expert by any means, but I've recently learned a bit about it. They are all ex-Soviet countries. Armenia is a Christian-majority country and Azerbaijan is a Muslim one. Nagorno Karabaj is the disputed land between the two and there have been many wars and a lot of deaths over it, but I think Russia had been mediating between them last decades, I'd say in favor of Armenia. I don't think Nagorno Karabaj has oil, it's Azerbaijan itself. So that means money, trade with Turkey at least, and they got to build a better army in recent years, then they got the upper hand in the conflict, and Russia has problems on its own at the moment to get involved in this. Even more if Armenia willingly cuts its relations with Russia, then they are on their own. About Georgia, Russia is the main buyer of the things that they produce, it is a fertile land. If they turn their back on them in favor of their enemies, Russia's logical response will be to buy those goods elsewhere. Europe is already well provided for those too, they are not interested in buying more, so I don't think they can take the place of Russia and maintain Georgia's economy.

As soon as Armenia left the Russian wing, Azerbaijan used the chance and took the disputed land of Nagorno Karavaj. It also helped them that Azerbaijan discovered good oil reserves and if I'm not wrong they are on good terms with Turkey. And didn't the Iranian president die visiting them? So them too. Armenia needed Russia more than Russia needed Armenia, that's how it looks to me. Obviously, Russia has all its efforts on Ukraine now, but its economy is far from breaking, it got better after the Western sanctions. Only oligarchs had huge amounts of money out of Russia, the West took it, and now those oligarchs are even more dependent on Putin. Now Russians can't trust the $ or €, so they keep their money in instead of out, it's not them who have lost. They can't commerce with Europe? China and India filled that void too. Georgia dodged a bullet by not electing a NATO and West puppet that got poured some money. It's crazy they are being criticized for passing laws to stop foreign interference like all Western countries have, that's a clear double standard. Their economy depends on Russia, no way Europe would or could take that role.

Israel is having problems on many fronts. The IDF is eating good lead provided by the Gazan tunnel warriors that pop up and disappear again right after shooting. And unlike those, they are pussies not willing to die, like Westerners like me, and I don't blame them for that. Yemen is disrupting their sea commerce and the USA kind of tried to stop them, but haven't been successful at that. Hezbollah has totally disrupted life in the North, which has been evacuated of civilians. That's another military and also economic problem added to the others. There's also Iran, which doesn't want a war, but in case it happens, and without any nuclear weapons, they have a very modern ballistic system that not even the Iron Dome could defend from. The international pressure is increasing against them too. I don't think I'm exaggerating if I say Israel is the most hated country in the world right now. Maybe North Korea? France? Some would say Russia, but the world is more than the West, and those are nurturing good alliances with China, India, Brazil, and many more, so that's a no. The only country in the world that didn't support Palestine in the UN was the USA, which used its veto power.

I hear some Trumpists complaining that this is some kind of persecution that he has been convicted for something as petty as falsifying hush money payments to hide an affair with a porn star. Okay, although what he did is illegal, I can admit it's not the most important case in the world. What I can't buy is those Republicans playing innocent, because many of us remember the Monica Lewinsky case, in which they went with all they got against Bill Clinton, he was impeached for lying under oath, if I remember right, which is illegal too. So basically Republicans are fine about giving punches, but when they receive them back, they cry like the babies they are. They are also trying to get President Biden and his son Hunter Biden with anything they can find. Hunter Biden has indeed been processed for owning an unregistered gun that was seen in his laptop pictures and evading taxes. For the rest, they all have been unproven accusations and talks about whistleblowers who haven't provided anything. One supposed proof was a phone call between a son with his father without any illegal substance in it. The way the son-in-law of Trump multiplied his wealth while serving in office as a supposed public servant smells worse, if you ask me. There are more important cases pending, like falsifying the value of his properties to evade taxes, using his own hotels with highly increased prices for public purposes, with public money of course, hiding and not giving back confidential documents when asked, trying to commit election fraud, there's a phone call where he asks an official to find 11.000 votes, the exact number he needed to win in that state, or conspiracy to commit a cue, he did ask Mike Pence not to certify Joe Biden, which was a requirement in the process. I also don't buy that this is happening because he is a candidate. He would have been prosecuted the same for all this even if he wasn't. In fact, he has probably been treated better than any other citizen, no judge would have allowed comments about the jury like he has been doing, who usually take that kind of behavior way more seriously and are put in prison for the duration of the process. But I understand they didn't do it for the sake of this loony country that has lost its way. However, Trump has a good chance to win. Joe Biden needed every vote he could get, but his Palestine situation could be too much for many, I'm afraid, even if Trump is worse in that matter and others.

There's also this fun fact that Trump was on the Epstein pedophile island visitor list, something that Republicans like to have this selective amnesia, for some reason. Yeah, Bill Clinton and others too, of course.

She sounds nice. Pro-Palestine jew, pro-LGTBI+ rights, and left-leaning. She hasn't been elected for being a woman, which she is, and the first to get this high, and this fact can be considered significant and relevant. She has been elected because the people in Mexico like her, and have considered that she's capable for the job better than her competitors. If you had put an unlikable and incompetent woman in her place, wouldn't have won. I don't expect any miracle, but way better than any far right-wing economic system that further deep in corporate greed and cause avoidable poverty and inequality.

They bombed a refugee camp of tents that the IDF told them it was safe to be. Many died in the explosion, many died burned alive because the fire spread fast in the tents. Most of them women, including pregnant and children. and It's not the first one, but there's very graphic footage of this one, so it got more repercussions. Why the fuck did they tell them that place was safe and then killed them? This is how the IDF has been operating, they are targeting and killing innocents on purpose. There's the mass grave beside the hospital with people handcuffed and shot dead. There's the six-year-old girl who called from a car surrounded by her dead family asking for help, Palestinians informed the IDF they were going to rescue her, and then they killed the girl and the two medics who volunteered to go and save her. What the fuck was that? There are reports of Palestinians who say how their clearly non-combatant family members have been shot. They have shot at hungry civilians asking for flour to eat. They bombed vehicles full of people that were moving from their homes to the South because they told them that would be safe. Now they attacked Rafah in the South, which was supposed to be a red line for Egypt and even the US, because they don't want to leave oven one spot in Gaza standing. This is a genocide, you don't need the perpetrators admitting they are doing it with this exact word, although they have referenced genocidal passages, so there's that. Of course, they would prefer if they had left to Egypt, but since that's not happening, it's happening what we are seeing. The objective is the same, to get the land for themselves, and make it Israel, because they believe it belongs to them, some because of the Bible, others because they have been educated in the Zionist ideology, whether they are religious or not. There are so many disturbing images that the IDF soldiers take of themselves destroying buildings, they are claiming the land with the Torah in hand, they are looting the valuables they find, and disrespecting previous inhabitants belongings. The soldiers don't see Palestinians as their own, in fact they see them as their enemy, because it's clear in the long run they will never agree to live as second-class citizens whose lives don't matter, as they shouldn't. It doesn't hold up that they are just targeting Hamas and rescuing the hostages for many reasons. They destroyed so much infrastructure necessary to live, homes, hospitals, and everything. They are not allowing necessities like water, food, and medicines, so starvation is suffered by the civilians. The Israelis are stopping trucks with food, that's disgusting to new levels never seen before. So it's the government, the army, and the civilians, they are on the same page. They are on it and they will continue as much as they are allowed to.

Israel has developed with a huge Western influence, they have culturally more in common with Europe and the US than with anything beside them and what was before they came. That's because that is where they were coming from, and so their funding. One of the things that has been lost is the particularities of arab-Jews from Palestine and jews from other arab countries who moved there, who assimilated a more Western-like culture and identity.

You gotta be kidding me. All that bullshit about heritage, but so many prominent Zionists changed their last names to Jewish. I'm not saying they are not Jewish, but they are full of shit. Benjamin Netanyahu's inherited last name would be Mileikowsky and Ariel Sharon's Scheinerman, but seems to be quite a common trend they had. I say this as a person whose last name doesn't fit with his born and living place heritage, which I consider mine, but I would never change my last name or hide it, because it's also part of who I am and where I come from.

Huge news. It could be an accident, but if it's not, suspect number one is Israel. Just writing my thoughts. I hope it's the first option because the second could ignite an ugly war. They are probably dead either way. Crazy times!

I keep hearing that huge difference in casualties in this propaganda war. At some points the Russians probably had it higher, right now, it's the other way around. Russians have enough men to replace or rotate, Ukranians don't. Russians have their military industry working like a clock now, so they are not low on weapons and munition, and they have time to train the men they send to the front. There's also the evident fact that one side is advancing and the other is losing land. While Russia was patient, Ukraine lost more than it could afford in the counteroffensive of 2023, gaining absolutely nothing. They also lost men unnecessarily for not knowing when to withdraw from Bakhmud and Avdiivka, mostly in the second. Russia is making advances, it may seem slow, but as time goes by, it's accelerating. Ukrainian men are tired and have no replacements, while Russians can rotate and send large numbers of reinforcements when needed, but they are not going suicidal either, they are taking the time they need. It's a war of attrition, one side could afford some erosion, but the other could not. The one that could not, is having more deaths on their side right now. I have used words like soon, because I'm talking about the future. There's a limit to how precise I can be, but with soon I mean within this year, next months, but it's already happening. When I say likely, because I'm not in the war Cabinet of Russia, I can't tell for certain what they are going to attack next, but Kharkiv is currently happening, so are Donetsk and Zaporizhia at their own pace, and Odessa just makes so much strategic sense. Ukraine has no chance of winning, the best they could do is surrender, spare lives and kind of negotiate something if they went in good faith and said a credible bye to NATO. The other route is probably the collapse of their army at some point. Russia knows this, so they don't care, Ukraine can decide the route it prefers. I'm very sorry for the Ukrainians, NATO got them into this mess, this war didn't need to happen. I hope the Ukrainians get to keep as much land as possible, but they gotta see that NATO was not working in their interest and that Zelensky was working for them. He will probably die old and fat in his Miami mansion.

Well, do the job and bring us the quote or the part that he admits it, at least. He often talks about this, because it's often brought up to him, whatever you say he said, that's not his position. He is not a secret right-winger and passing left-leaning views for success. He is just a left-winger sharing his views and doing it successfully.

No, I don't know in what context he may have admitted something like that, maybe you can provide the quote. The thing is, I watch his videos and he often talks about these grifting accusations and he says he maintains the same positions from before he was successful, which he does. He indeed worked for his uncle in TYT, he didn't do a bad job, I've watched some of his videos from back then. He does not hide this, but it's also true he went on his own when Twitch streaming was not very big and he built his viewers with consistent work, entertaining content, and pretty good values. That's on him, he took a route and a risk, and it worked well for him. He has some bad takes, like the cracker thing. I don't think it's the same as a slur that has another history in society of oppression. Nevertheless, cracker refers to white men who used to lash with whips black people's backs, so unless you are telling this to a white supremacist racist, I don't think it's an appropriate word to use lightly, like he does. I can give you that.

Why? Because they cannot ban speech in favor of Palestine and hide the carnage that Israel is causing to an innocent group of people in Gaza and other parts of the occupied territory as much as they want and they do in other ones. They also want a successful platform for their monetary interests for themselves, but it's mostly the information and propaganda war. Not only about the cited issue, but this ignited the rapid government action, which is usually slow to desperation.

He's not a grifter, he has been pretty consistent in his views since he was poor and now that he's rich. Was he supposed to change his views once he became a successful streamer and made big money? People can change and some views can too, but this is not what happened. He has an expensive house, LA is expensive anyway, but more than average people, no doubt about that. But he is not litching others buying houses and renting them, that is something he denounces frequently. He lives from his work and that's fine for the left. He does acknowledge he is privileged but speaks in favor of those who are on the bottom. He still defends his core beliefs like public social safety networks, a better housing system, universal healthcare, a fair tax system, and a better expenditure of these taxes, among other left-leaning socioeconomic issues. He's been very vocal in defending Palestine, he was doing that before too, not as much, but he was. This has cost him sponsors and opportunities. He is funny and well-educated about many issues. He has also a big mouth and sometimes hurts the feelings of the right-wingers mostly, but that's part of his charm. I don't watch him live, just the clips that are uploaded on YouTube. You don't agree with his views and want him canceled? Well, he didn't break Twitch and YouTube rules, so he can stay. I'm surprised because others have been demonetized on YouTube for being critical of Israel and journalists have been fired from mainstream media like Mehdi Hasan even an actress like the girl from Scream, who was as both-sided as you can be on this issue, but not good enough. So there's something going on, but they still want Hasan in their platforms, for now.

The last aid approved by the US and EU countries is not going to help Ukraine win, whose major problem is they have no replacements for the fight. I mean soldiers to use those weapons. The situation is desperate for Ukraine right now, it's useless they are given fighter planes for which long term training is needed. They don't have that time. Ukraine has lost, Zelensky and NATO refused all previous negotiation opportunities, now they can only surrender or drive more of their men to death. Russia is right now easily advancing in Kharkiv, and they'll complete Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson at some point soon, likely will get Odessa too to control the sea and also the Dnipro river in the South part at least. They'll advance as much as they want, they don't need to rush it, because the Ukrainian army is being defeated hardly. Russia will decide the terms of the end of the war, the negotiation time is gone. I think there are chances they let some part of the North-West independent, but in any case they won't allow them to play with NATO anymore. That will be signed, as it was before.

Israel wants Gaza for themselves, so what they are doing is as much harm as the international community lets them get away with, which is a lot, sadly. All hospitals gone, basic supplies restricted, medics, aid workers and journalists targeted, more than half of the buildings gone, and civilians killed by thousands. The thing is, the IDF is effective in destroying buildings from the air and killing unarmed civilians, but not so much finishing with Hamas, who has weapons. The armed resistance is holding better than everyone thought and the IDF just left the North, Hamas is in control in one day. Hamas adapted well to fight surrounded by ruins, surfacing from the tunnels when they want, and they are able to cause quite harm to the IDF. Now they are destroying Rafah, because that's the only thing they can do, which is a shame. They want Gaza as unlivable as possible for Palestinians, that's the vision of Netanyahu, and his country is following him into this madness.

The man has a history of lying, confusing what he wants to achieve, to where he really is. Like with the self-driving cars, where they released footage of a remotely controlled vehicle like it was a self-driving one, and we all ate it with chips in the side and ketchup. Also, the semi-trucks or the robo-taxis. He has nothing. I wouldn't mind if he said he is working on those things and that he hopes they will be available someday. So I don't take his word anymore, he is more a compulsive liar than a genius.

@Nivsch Why would I be disappointed if the bombing stopped? But I'm sorry over 10.000 people died in the previous weeks, children and adults too. I'm still concerned about the people who are dying of the lack of basic supplies and is in the Israeli government's hands to stop this, let them water, food, and medicines to survive. This wouldn't be accepted if any other country in the world did that to any group of people. It would be totally condemned and seen as inhuman behavior. Which would be accurate.

An American nurse got out of Gaza, she has witnessed what's going on there, apart from the constant bombing, the lack of food and water is killing innocents too. Before he mentions it, I also thought about how a girl like this wasn't like gang-raped in there. I don't think it's my twisted mind, this image of savages is sold about Palestinians. The main thing is that Israel should stop doing mass terrorism and ethnic cleansing and displacement, which is what they are doing right now. Hasan's comments are on point. Palestinian civilians are not human shields, they are people who decide not to evacuate because they know they won't be allowed to return. Israel's excuse to bomb anything in there is just false. Words of the US congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, Palestinian people are not disposable. They are human beings like anyone else. The apartheid state is a shame. There are a lot of complexities, I won't deny that, but if an ethnic group has much better treatment under the law than another, plus the daily coercion, violence, and abuse perpetrated by the enforcement and judicial systems, and even by armed civilians from one group over the other, this is very simple to understand. It wasn't acceptable in the US, in Europe, in South Africa, and it isn't in the state of Israel.

What the Israel government is doing is an ethnic cleansing and displacement of arab Palestinians from Gaza. That involves making this area as unbearable as possible, if it wasn't hard before, now get some bombs and mass killing of innocents. They don't want them there, they want them in Egypt or wherever, but they are Palestinians from Palestine, they are not Egyptians. Hamas is the excuse Israel nurtured to be as it is, which Netanyahu generously funded during the 2000s and further, this is documented. The weapons Hamas has been using are NATO sourced, from the US. Some people are being so naive about this conflict, forget the colors. After Gaza, the West Bank would be next, very naive to think it's not a Zionist goal to purge that piece of land too. Actions speak louder than words. Israel governments have been showing what they are and where they are moving to for 70 years, believe them. Both sides have to stop killing innocents. Israel can't bomb buildings and ambulances, they have to only target Hamas militants. Those can't target Israeli Jewish civilians either, but they are allowed to defend themselves against armed soldiers though, if they can. If both sides have the right to have a state, then the two-state solution is the best. The approach of Israel is, why should we concede any land, we have an army, and Palestinians don't. This is the core of what's happening.

Maybe we can establish if both sides in this conflict have the right to defend themselves, or neither of them. Maybe then we can start the real talk.

I'm sharing Piers Morgan's debate with Hasan Piker. Both are taking sides, I don't think that's bad. There are some darts, but I like they allow each other to talk and explain. About the Hospital, in further examination of two separate video captures of what Israel has pointed to be a misfired rocket falling, analysts say it looks more to be a rocket being intercepted by the Iron Dome and exploding in the air. If something caused 500 deaths, that wasn't it. More questions I have. What's that damage in the parking? Could a hit on the parking alone cause 500 deaths? What about the building? Was it hit? Again, what caused over 500 deaths? Has that number been verified?