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Big guest in Bad Hasbara, Gabor Mate. Talks about Jewish trauma then and now, and total rejection of the current genocide of Palestinians and all that has been done to them for decades.

Thanks man, I read your comments with interest too!

Antagonizing all the countries in the world seems like a bad idea if you want to maintain hegemony. Trump backed off because it was a disaster, but some harm was already done, weakness and unreliability have been exposed. Still continuing the tariffs for China, that's a bad idea too, as the USA is not sufficiently industrialized and needs to buy China's products more than China needs them as buyers. China has a lot more market out there to sell, it's going to be fine. US internally, big companies will endure the losses, but a lot of more small businesses that needed trade with China will just close. Shops importing products from China can't hold three months of this, and farms selling things like soy to China are in trouble. Inflation is unavoidable, many who thought they were safe from inequality will soon join the other side. Bye job, bye healthcare, by the way. China is developing at an excellent rate, compared to how it was 40 years ago. Progress, modern infrastructures, industrial innovation, and quality of life are palpable in its advanced cities. Sometimes we hear about India being on that route too, but they are not even close to that success, and I don't see them making the same moves to be there in a few decades like China did. America is in decline, it has the potential to be more than fine, but not electing right-winger anarcocapitalists at worst, center posing neocons incapable of conceding even crumbs from the top to the bottom at best.

There has been a lot of development in this ongoing war. Russia successfully recovered the land of Kursk and weakened their opponent's army doing so, there were thousands of soldiers there. This was a bad idea from the start, Ukraine could have used this power to defend its territory, and Russia may open a new front in Sumy now. They may use that to do the exchange that Ukraine was willing to do with Kursk in future negotiations. Meanwhile it keeps advancing in the Ukrainian territory. The diplomatic route has not been great, but at least it exists now. After the resounding White House meeting, Europe said they would take over, but they've already changed their mind, and now they are talking about a ceasefire. A 30-day ceasefire agreed upon by the US and Ukraine, the only problem is that Russia had no say in that. Putin rightfully asked what would the terms of that ceasefire would be, because otherwise, it has the momentum on the battlefield, and no incentive to go along with that. There is some acknowledgment from Western leaders that some territory concessions will have to happen, but Zelensky rejects them in their totality. So there we are now.

Seems that the ceasefire has ceased. There was a good amount of hostage exchange on both sides, and some temporary relief for the Palestinians, at least the murdering of civilians in Gaza significantly reduced, although it never stopped. The aid was not getting in the agreed amount at first, not at all later. The Zionist land grab, home destruction, and murdering of people moved to the West Bank, there is no Hamas there. Also to the Syrian territory, with a new friendly government with this Al Qaeda man as head letting them do so, as he was engaging in his own ethnic minority cleansing himself. Last week Yemen's forces decided to resume their blockade on Israel's sea commerce, remember though they have not killed a single soul in these two years, although they have victims produced by Israel and the US themselves. Seeing Israel was not willing to let the aid in Gaza, they resumed their blockade to pressure Israel. Then there is Trump, totally aligned with Netanyahu, who was his first guest, and how he offered the chair to him was a sign of what was to come. He offered the solution of the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt and Jordan, which is the dream of the Zionists, but this is not happening. He is now going against protestors, kidnapping this man who has not committed any crime, he just has a political position not aligned with Zionism. Finally he ordered a new strike in Yemen, like Biden didn't do that before. Trump wants to increase pressure apparently, but that road can go both ways, so the situation continues to be volatile as Hell.

A great video by Noah Samsen. Although the title says it's about YouTubers on this issue, it also covers many more aspects like the traditional media's partial coverage of the conflict or the Israel society's complicity.

Those negatively affected directly will. First ones were Latinos for Trump. They were like, you're gonna expel us too, we thought you were gonna expel the other Latinos. It's the case for example the right-wing Latino immigrants from Venezuela or Cuba that were getting permits, that they thought for some reason that they were not on the broad immigrant group that would be targeted. All the rhetoric about DEI, I think black people are getting tired of having fingers pointed at them by racists, when they are not the principal recipient of those programs in the first place. Related, veterans and rural Americans are too, they're getting cuts, and they don't like it. They thought this wasn't about them. Thousands of federal workers fired, now they can apply at Burger King, McDonalds, or whore themselves in Las Vegas. The private sector doesn't need to hire them, in fact, it's good for them that more people compete for jobs and they can lower the wages, because more desperate people are in need. But indirectly a lot of private businesses notice it when more people are poor and jobless, because they their services or products are not bouthg, so this goes with them too. The private sector and the public sector need each other, none of them are evil, but there needs to be a balance. Again in the rural America, apparently some USAID programs were about buying crops from American farmers and sending the food to poor countries. Cut. Now they have to sell their farms, vulture corporations will buy them cheaply. Bye idyllic life in the prairie which was dependent on government public aid, hello shitty life in the city where most of your wage will go to the landlord, if you get a job. Instant vote regret. Trump is benefiting the richest class and the biggest corporations. Inequality in America will rise, and won't be reversed. Still, the boomer generation is wide and still untouchable because they hold the numbers. I think America is screwed, they'll rig the system to continue in power.

The press conference started fairly well. Trump praised Ukraine and Zelensky, he wanted the deal signed. Before the discussion started, the least diplomatic thing Trump said was that it was difficult because Zelensky hates Putin and vice versa, which is true. Zelensky was willing to sign the deal, too. At some point, when he lists the presidents, he tells him, "Thank God you were elected again." But they are two big egos incapable of diplomacy. We all know that's true for Trump. It's also true for Zelensky, who has had ovations, hero treatment, and zero challenges of his positions from Western leaders and the media for three years. He rejected any possibility of a diplomatic route with Russia, which was what Trump and Vance were proposing, and he did it in front of the press. His side of the story is the only valid one and he won't accept anything out of that narrative. But Russia's side has many valid points too, the way CIA, NATO, and Ukraine's most nationalists have been messing the situation, including Trump's Javelin missiles. Merkel, who Zelensky cites as witness of Russia's deceptions, admitted that the Minsk Accords were a mere tactic to give Ukraine time to arm itself. But Zelensky doesn't want talk, he wants war, his problem is he can't win it. Any future deal proposal from Russia will be worse than today. Russia will pay a price of continuing the war with blood, both sides will, but Russia will charge that price with more land in the end. Trump was right in questioning the idea that Russia will become a menace to the peace of the USA. Russia can't militarily take, and even less maintain, much more than it has in its vicinity. But it can with Eastern Ukraine, who are culturally Russian in a big part already, and they justify what they are doing as a way to defend these people, and it's not totally out of reason. For now, it's good the mineral deal didn't take off, but Zelensky was willing to go with it, so it's still a menace for Ukraine to lose its economic control and resources. The deal was giving the US half of the revenues obtained from the Ukrainian minerals, and control over the expenditure of the other half, getting good contracts for themselves, the US contractors, obviously. It's pure economic colonialism, at this point they should even consider if Putin is willing to offer a better deal for Western Ukraine, because that was economic suicide. By the way, this deal didn't mean the end of the war by any means, it had nothing to do with Russia. The war continues, Russia is grabbing more land each day, and it's only going to get worse. So what Trump said that he was handing Ukraine a good card was absolutely false.

The mineral deal is off the table right now, and it will be hard to retake after the Oval Office spectacle. I don't think Ukraine owes anything in exchange for Western monetary and weapon aid, as they've already paid such a high price with their lives. I know it's not how the world works in most instances, but I wanted to point it out anyway.

For once Zelensky is confronted in his fake narrative. Yet he should not sign any deal with Trump and sell his country's assets, Trump only wants to take advantage of the situation and make profits for the kleptocratic corporate class of the US to which he belongs. There's no any good alternative for Zelensky though, puppet or not, he chose this path of perdition for his country and men, when he had many opportunities for a better exit.

Okay, I stand corrected about the aid, since that was 5 days ago. Yet, I don't see this going on much longer, considering all other factors, but it's a possibility it does for now, with this huge amount of money going through.

I have not made up anything, I make an analysis based on the information I've got. I don't see anything about what you say in your link, and I didn't find anything about that anywhere either. If the aid continues, it's possible the war does too, I'm not going to dispute that. But reading the room, the diplomatic relations between the US and Ukraine have deteriorated, the US and Russia are talking, and even Zelensky is making offers about his resignation. Things point out that the war is coming to an end sooner than later.

No, the Republican congressmen support Trump, who is the Republican Party's indisputable leader. There is no way they are going to support Zelensky over Trump. Trump smelled some corporate mineral agro deal opportunity and tried to pull something out, I don't think that part is going to work though, fortunately for what's left for Ukraine. He is also trying to exchange some kind of breakup between China and Russia, that's not going to go through either, these two countries have agreements that mutually benefit them. Trump can accept Putin's territorial terms and the ones concerning NATO or not, but what does he earn by continuing to send money to Ukraine? That's the thing, there's nothing to gain anymore, only loss. In the unlikely scenario Trump continues sending money to Ukraine, then the attrition war continues. Zelensky has tried to pull some kind of card, mostly directed to the media, which is a card too, but it's not going to work. He generously offered his resignation, in exchange for a NATO membership for Ukraine. That's off the table, Russia will continue to fight for that, as they've done to this day.

Republicans have control of congress since the last election.

I think it's ending. Even if Trump and Putin don't get into an agreement, the war can't continue without the US sending money to Ukraine. Zelensky bit the hand that was feeding him, which was Trump's. But we'll see.