I think the reporter from Gaza has reliable insight in what is happening on the ground and it is consistent with UN reports and the information Liebermann, whose deeply Zionist himself, made public to attack Netanyahu.

I agree. However i chose to post this article, because it was one of the first outlets reporting on it and they did embed the video.

This will probably be the calmest year of the years to come.

Russia, the US and EU are failing slowly, with Russia and the US kicking around in the process. The EU doesn’t really know what to do except follow suit to the US, no matter the stupidity.

Aside from these three China seems to be emerging for now, but is running into huge demographic issues that the others already have.

Neoliberal Capitalism is destroying the very foundations of society and leading to a new rise of Fascism as it is ideologically way too deeply entrenched to overcome itself and the mantra of eternal growth and eternal capital accumulation at the top.

On top of all this the climate catastrophe is picking up intensity every year and the effects will cause more and more disruption.

Meanwhile any attempts at spearheading a better world, one of sustainable economies and basic human rights are disrupted by the forces of old, who employ ever more gruesome weapons and tools of mass surveillance while refusing any social innovation.

To answer your question: Yes it is overwhelming and it will probably get a lot worse.

Ich denke der Preis wird am Montag definitiv anziehen. Danach, wer weiß?

Ich halte es aber für naiv zu glauben, wie der Artikel schreibt, dass die USA die Straße von Hormus schnell wieder öffnen könnten. Die USA haben sich schließlich mit den Houthis auf einen Waffenstillstand geeinigt, weil ihre Kampagne zu teuer wurde. Die Houthis sind sehr viel kleiner als Iran. Die Saudis und Golfstaaten sind militärisch auch weitgehend nutzlos und mussten ihre Kampagne gegen die Houthis ebenfalls beenden, trotz US Unterstützung.

I seriously don’t know. So far anything i came across had links to dubious economic or political interests.

When it comes to broader analysis of what is going on, i like to listen to John Mearsheimers presentations and interviews. Mearsheimer is a professor in Chicago and a “Realist” in foreign policy. However i doubt him to have the insight into such details as to who can outspend who.

Problem in this particular case for instance is:

The researchers conducted a detailed analysis of military procurement data from Germany, Poland, the UK, and France to understand broader European trends. They found that production still lags, and the volume of military hardware being acquired “remain low compared to Cold War periods or Russian numbers.”

That is fundamentally something where you need to be given access to the detailed information. Why would a military or ministry of defense give such information if conclusions they might not like, could be published?

As for the Kiel institute they have a long lasting academic history which gives them credibility imo.

The Bruegel however was founded 20 years ago and were run by the following guys:

Bruegel’s former chairs Leszek Balcerowicz and Jean Claude Trichet are honorary chairmen of Bruegel. Mario Monti is the founding chairman of Bruegel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leszek_Balcerowicz#BELLS

During the Eurozone crisis Balcerowicz has been an outspoken supporter for fiscal discipline and has been frequently dubbed the anti-Bernanke for his scorn of distortionary fiscal stimulus. In various articles he has developed a comparison between the fiscally-profligate PIGS (Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain) and the fiscally-disciplined BELLs (Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania).[38] Responsible fiscal policy brings about better growth outcomes, claims Leszek Balcerowicz.[38] He has many followers among East European economists, most prominently Simeon Djankov, Deputy prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Bulgaria between 2009 and 2013.[39]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude_Trichet#Controversy

In January 2003, Trichet was put on trial with eight others charged with irregularities at Crédit Lyonnais, one of France’s biggest banks. Trichet was in charge of the French treasury at that time. He was cleared in June 2003, which left the way clear for him to move to the ECB.[31] A parliamentary inquiry found no wrong-doing by Trichet, other civil servants or the three finance ministers in office during the critical period.[32] 2009 banking crisis

Within the European Central Bank, Trichet strongly resisted any contemplation of Greece defaulting on its debt. It was only in October 2011, with the end of his term imminent, that consensus was reached to allow a 50% cut in the value of Greek bonds.[33] Trichet during the WEF 2010 Hypo Alpe Adria bailout

As part of a 2015 investigation launched by Austria’s parliament into defunct lender Hypo Alpe Adria, then opposition party NEOS named Trichet among 200 people it wanted to question.[34] At the time of Austria purchasing Hypo Alpe Adria from BayernLB in late 2009, Trichet had lobbied for the deal.[35]

Trichet has been criticised for the ECB’s response to the Great Recession, which emphasised price stability over recovery and growth.[36][37] He was also criticized when he refused to answer a question about a possible conflict of interests concerning his successor’s involvement at Goldman Sachs before taking charge as head of the ECB.[38]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Monti#Labour_market_reforms

On 20 January 2012, Monti’s government formally adopted a package of reforms targeting Italy’s labour market. The reforms are intended to open certain professions (such as taxi drivers, pharmacists, doctors, lawyers and notaries) to more competition by reforming their licensing systems and abolishing minimum tariffs for their services.[40][41] Article 18 of Italy’s labour code, which requires companies that employ 15 or more workers to re-hire (rather than compensate) any employee found to have been fired without just cause,[42][43] would also be reformed. The reforms to Article 18 are intended to make it easier for companies to dismiss or lay off employees, which would hopefully encourage companies to hire more employees on permanent rather than short-term renewable contracts.[43] The proposals have been met with strong opposition from labour unions and public protests.

So we have neoliberals, some involved in shady and possibly criminal activities, leading a thinktank mainly partnering with mayor banks, fossil energy companies, big tech companies and the usual suspects from the consulting sphere.

From that environment we can always expect conclusions in the space of:

1. Lower taxes on companies
2. Increase taxes on individuals and remove social security systems
3. Government austerity except for military spending
4. Using the military to serve the corporations interests abroad. Remain an economy centered around fossil fuels and slow down any renewable enegery.

The democratic election platform accused Trump of being weak for not using the military enough and praised examples of Bidens use of military threat and force against Iran. See my other comment.

So if it was Biden in power now, would you defend Trump as “didn’t bomb them”?

The claim was that everything was copied horizontally, which is evidently not the case in the picture. Also as i have linked the widest “freeway” in the US has even more lanes.

Thank you for posting the article. As you can read in the article they prove the fact that the image is altered by pointing out the number of lanes being wrong, not by “suspicious patterns” in the cars.

The claim that the image was just doubled horizontally simply does not check out. There was more effort put into creating the fake.

This is the Democratiic parties election platform 2024 (see P82/P83):

Through aggressive diplomacy backed by U.S. military power, the Administration has worked alongside our allies and partners to deter and defend against Iran and its terrorist surrogates. President Biden has postured U.S. military forces in the region and authorized precision airstrikes on key Iranian-linked targets tied to attacks against U.S. troops to deter further aggression by Iran. President Biden has also continued to protect the American people from terrorism, authorizing military strikes that took out ISIS emirs and the leader of Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri. In response to brazen attacks by Iranian-linked Houthi forces against international commercial shipping, U.S. naval vessels in the Red Sea, and Israel, President Biden ordered military strikes, alongside key allies, against Houthi targets and organized Operation Prosperity Guardian, a coalition of more than 20 nations committed to defending international shipping and deterring Houthi attacks.

When Iran launched more than 300 missiles and drones against Israel in April 2024, President Biden led an unprecedented defensive coalition – together with partners from Europe and across the Middle East – to defeat the attack, protect Israel, and stop the spread of a wider war. Through direct defensive action by the U.S. military and its partners, Iranian munitions did not cause significant damage, demonstrating both America’s ironclad commitment to the security of Israel and our unrivaled ability to leverage growing regional integration among U.S. partners to counter Iranian aggression.

All of this stands in sharp contrast to Trump’s fecklessness and weakness in the face of Iranian aggression during his presidency. In 2018, when Iranian-backed militias repeatedly attacked the U.S. consulate in Basra, Iraq Trump’s only response was to close our diplomatic facility.

They are literally calling Trump “weak” for not engaging militarily enough.

Raimond Scheirich (* 21. März 1990 in Temeschburg, Rumänien) ist ein deutscher Politiker (AfD). Seit 2025 ist er Mitglied des Deutschen Bundestages.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temeschburg

In der Zwischenkriegszeit bemühten sich deutschnationale Kreise der Namensvariante Temeschburg mehr Gewicht zu verleihen.[14] Mit dem Erstarken der nationalsozialistischen „Erneuerer“ im Königreich Rumänien gegen Ende der 1930er Jahre,[15] die von 1940 bis 1944 in der alleinigen, gleichgeschalteten Vertretung der Rumäniendeutschen durch die „Deutsche Volksgemeinschaft in Rumänien“ mündete, setzte sich diese Bezeichnung im offiziellen deutschen Sprachgebrauch dieser Zeit durch.[16] In der Nachkriegszeit behielt der Name seinen nationalsozialistischen Nachklang in der deutschsprachigen Diaspora[A 1][13] und galt als verpönt.[17] Zwar war Temeschburg in Deutschland lange Zeit eine der offiziellen Varianten[17][18] (so fand der Name bei der Geburtsortnennung in bundesdeutschen Ausweisen des Öfteren Anwendung),[13] jedoch war Temesvar spätestens ab 1948 im öffentlichen rumäniendeutschen Sprachgebrauch die geltende Norm.

Im Jahr 1154 wurde Temeschburg erstmals durch den arabischen Geographen al-Idrisi urkundlich erwähnt. Nach der Zerstörung durch die Tataren im Jahre 1241 rief der ungarische König Béla IV. deutsche Siedler in das entvölkerte Land, welche die Stadt wieder aufbauten.[27] Unter Karl Robert I., der im Jahre 1311 den ungarischen Thron bestieg, war das damalige Temesvár schon eine bevölkerungsreiche und befestigte Stadt.

Die Stadt wurde seit Jahrhunderten vom friedlichen Zusammenleben verschiedener Nationalitäten geprägt. Die ethnische Zusammensetzung der Stadtbevölkerung änderte sich wegen der wechselnden Staatszugehörigkeit häufig, auch die Magyarisierung spielte hierbei eine Rolle. In der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts gab es noch eine deutsche und ungarische Mehrheit und einen sehr hohen serbischen Bevölkerungsanteil. 1910 lag der Anteil der rumänischen Bevölkerung unter zehn Prozent.[42] Bis ungefähr 1944 bildeten die Deutschen die größte Bevölkerungsgruppe.

Nach dem völkisch-nationalistischem Verständnis der AfD schon. Vermutlich ist damit auch implizit verbunden, diese rigendwann wieder “Heim ins Reich” zu holen.

Where?

We are certainly not their prey and without modern urban sprawl forcing animals into urbanized areas they would avoid humans as much as possible and this has been true for thousands of years.

Humans are the ones wielding fire after all.

Equating Iran and Al-Qaeda and more generally categorizing all “brown people” as more or less the same is like saying Guatemala is “they” with the US because they are on the same continent.

This is the Democratiic parties election platform 2024 (see P82/P83):

Through aggressive diplomacy backed by U.S. military power, the Administration has worked alongside our allies and partners to deter and defend against Iran and its terrorist surrogates. President Biden has postured U.S. military forces in the region and authorized precision airstrikes on key Iranian-linked targets tied to attacks against U.S. troops to deter further aggression by Iran. President Biden has also continued to protect the American people from terrorism, authorizing military strikes that took out ISIS emirs and the leader of Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri. In response to brazen attacks by Iranian-linked Houthi forces against international commercial shipping, U.S. naval vessels in the Red Sea, and Israel, President Biden ordered military strikes, alongside key allies, against Houthi targets and organized Operation Prosperity Guardian, a coalition of more than 20 nations committed to defending international shipping and deterring Houthi attacks.

When Iran launched more than 300 missiles and drones against Israel in April 2024, President Biden led an unprecedented defensive coalition – together with partners from Europe and across the Middle East – to defeat the attack, protect Israel, and stop the spread of a wider war. Through direct defensive action by the U.S. military and its partners, Iranian munitions did not cause significant damage, demonstrating both America’s ironclad commitment to the security of Israel and our unrivaled ability to leverage growing regional integration among U.S. partners to counter Iranian aggression.

All of this stands in sharp contrast to Trump’s fecklessness and weakness in the face of Iranian aggression during his presidency. In 2018, when Iranian-backed militias repeatedly attacked the U.S. consulate in Basra, Iraq Trump’s only response was to close our diplomatic facility.

They are literally calling Trump “weak” for not engaging militarily enough. There is no indication the DNC would not have bombed Iran after Israel initiated the war of aggression. Senior democrats like senate leader Chuck Schumer praised Israels “self defense” ffs.

Specifically Iran says: “We want diplomacy, but we cant negotiate while being bombed.”

Also note that Israel prides itself in having assassinated multiple negotiators that were engaged in “negotiations” with Israel or the US in 2024 and 2025 and the US has previously lured an Iranian negotiator into an assassination under the pretext of negotiations in 2020.

The politicians running the show and most of their voters are old enough to remember. Young people play less and less of a role in western politics.

The people in Iran are old enough to remember a time before the current regime and the liberty they enjoyed.

Before the Islamic revolution Iran was ruled by the Shah, who the US and UK couped into power against Irans last democratically elected president in 1953. The Shah terrorized his people with the support of the aforementioned and Israel, murdering, torturing and disappearing tens of thousand of people, which is why the whole revolution took off.

Claiming Iranians used to enjoy liberty under the Shah is peak apologism. That doesn’t mean that Iranians are enjoying many freedoms under the current regime, but there is no indication that the US would bring any “liberty” like they did not bring “liberty” to any place they intervened. Instead the go to are Fascist dictators mass murdering their own people like Pinochet, the Contras, the Shah…

Meanwhile a regime change forced by the US and Israel in Iran will not lead “back into the world community”. It will lead to another puppet dictator at best and more likely to the “balkanization” of Iran, so the destruction of the nation and creation of a system of eternally warring regional rulers like it was organized in Libya and Syria.

Who is “they”? the 9/11 attack was committed by mostly Saudi nationals under leadership of the (former) CIA assets Osama bin Laden (also Saudi).

You know which country the US didn’t attack in its “war on terror”? Saudi Arabia.

Instead the US attacked / attacked in: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Yemen, Somalia, Libya

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Major_military_operations_of_the_War_on_Terror.svg

Warum Treffer in den Kopf? Eine Schusswunde irgendwo im Bereich der Organe dürfte für so einen Fisch tödlich sein. Anders als bei Tieren an Land, kann die Wunde im Wasser schlecht durch Blutgerinnung geschlossen werden.