I expect NATO’s Ukraine project to collapse within the next year or so, and possibly much sooner than that. The EU will keep trying the same thing on some other front until the Russians parade down the Champs Elysées, as they did just over two hundred years ago. The EU doesn’t

Zayıf kişilikli insanlar kötülüğün taşıyıcısıdır.

AI has no notion of "truth" -- and cannot have one -- other than popularity. And popularity specifically within a closed informational bubble permeated by American-led state propaganda.

21 sıktıysa 6. yüzyıla göz atalım. nisanyan.substack.com/p/6-yuzylda-bi… (Affınıza sığınarak, Hierokles bazında bu kadar ayrıntılı bir Bizans idari haritası görmemiştim.)

A map of Roman/Byzantine administrative divisions in the territory of modern Turkey, shortly before 536 AD. (Full town list in Excel document at nisanyan.substack.com/p/6-yuzylda-bi…)

The sheer Orwellian state of France right now. Sylvie Retailleau is France's Minister of Education. Here she's publicly calling for "sanctions" against a university professor for telling his students that a genocide was happening in Gaza and that an article in The Lancet had

No intelligent person believes the US is a democracy. It's an oligarchy with strong fascist-authoritarian tendencies. That's a technical description.

So Stalin and FDR and Alexander the Great did not crate wealth? Stupid adage for a stupid age.

🇲🇾ANWAR IBRAHIM: "Russia is not just a strategic and economic reality that commands attention. Indeed, as a cultural, intellectual and scientific force, Russia’s prominence on the global stage transcends the confines of commerce and geopolitics, reaching deep into the very

"The neoliberal (‘free market’) ideology that had dominated the world since the days of Thatcher and Reagan was really the opposite of what it claimed to be: it was really a political project dressed up as an economic one."

Honest but far too wishful. It will not happen without a major strategic defeat. French R happened not because of barricades but because the royal treasury went broke. Russian R happened because of war fatigue. Chinese R because of Japanese occupation.

Totally brilliant.