Israel has nukes and uses them to threaten the US and get the US to do what they want? Do you even hear yourself? Are you for real? Your evidence (some guy on the internet said so!) Russia has nukes. CHINA has nukes. Many times more nukes added together than the US and Israel COMBINED. Does the US do what Russia and China want? No. Russia and China even have actual much more economic leverage against the US while Israel has ZERO. The US still doesn't do what Russia or China want! What makes Israel's "nukes" special? If the US wanted to - it could pull its support for Israel - Israel could use ALL of its nukes on the US - the US would still have much of itself left - but Israel would permanently and forever cease to exist - the US has the ability to erase it in an afternoon. The US has been doing horrible things around the world for generations before Israel ever even existed - it does it today including creating and using Israel - and it would continue to do it into the future if Israel was ever erased. Stop repeating infotainment fiction and please join me in reality where Israel is not capable of doing anything, including acquiring nuclear weapons - without full and constant US support.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 WARNING!!! US Media is Setting up the "Israel Did It!" or "Israel Made the US Do It!" Narrative Regarding Attacks (including NUCLEAR attacks) on Iran Tucker Carlson, who has played cognitive infiltrator/manipulator like his US government-employed father before him, claims "Israel" is pressuring the US to nuke Iran and is sharing intel with the US on Iran. This is a dangerous means of trying to distance/absolve the US of its own crimes worldwide and fits into STATED US policy regarding shifting blame for US wars of aggression against Iran specifically. "Israel did it" or "Israel made us do it!" Here is reality: 1. Israel depends 100% on the US to exist day to day, and to conduct any major military operation. If the US stopped supporting Israel, it would cease to exist. Conversely, the US has pursued empire and war worldwide before Israel ever existed and will continue to so even if Israel disappeared tomorrow; 2. Israel depends on US intel capabilities ONLY the US has, not the other way around. Israeli intel - like Ukraine's - is an extension of US capabilities; 3. Israeli lobbying in Washington accounts for less than 1% of all US lobbying, used to launder political blame in the same way Israeli armed aggression does so militarily - it does not have the ability to pressure or manipulate the US into doing anything anymore than one's hand can pressure or direct the actions of one's mind and body; 4. Carlson mentioned Israel's meaningless elections as a "factor" - no, no matter who won, just like in US elections, nothing would change, least of all Israel's role as America's forward operating base in the region (just as it hasn't changed this entire 21st century); 5. US policy papers have explicitly laid out strategies to use Israel to both provoke and take the blame/retaliation for AMERICAN war on Iran. The 2009 Brookings paper "Which Path to Persia" has a whole chapter dedicated to this strategy! 6. If the US attacks or nukes Iran or anyone else - it's because the US wanted to and it will use all its proxies to either help and/or take the blame - do NOT fall for the propaganda used to facilitate this STATED strategy! 7. And no, just because the US is 100% responsible for its actions AND the actions of its proxies, it does not absolve any of its proxies - including Israel - for their roles in US crimes against humanity. If a man uses his hand to commit a crime, his whole body, including his hand, goes to jail for it. Finally - whether Carlson is doing this to deliberately assist with stated US policy for shifting blame for its own global crimes against humanity, or he is doing this out of pure incompetence and/or ignorance - the outcome is exactly the same - misleading his huge audience and selling them a lie US policymakers themselves have admitted they are telling the public.

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🇺🇸🇷🇸NEW VIDEO: US CIA and US State Department Behind Serbia's "Student List" Media N1 and Nova S (United Group) On YouTube: ▪️US government-funded pro-opposition outlet BIRN through its Media Ownership Monitor Serbia project admits the central Student List media channels - N1 and Nova S - were created by former US director of the CIA David Petraeus via KKR and former US Ambassador to Serbia Cameron Munter; ▪️The parent United Group was acquired and the media platforms built up from 2013-2014 onward as the center of opposition media in Serbia opposing Serbia’s existing leadership and institutions, and playing a central role in both “student protests” last year and the “Student List” movement this year; ▪️United Group was only recently (earlier this year) acquired by Alpac Capital, but KKR still maintains an undisclosed amount of shares with the move a likely an attempt to distance US involvement in the media network; ▪️When “leaderless” and “decentralized” protests are praised in the Western media, scroll down in the article where they eventually admit who the leaders and organizations are behind them, perform a simple internet search to identify the key people and investments making them possible to determine whether a movement is indigenous or the product of foreign interference; *A special thanks to the audience member who pointed this connection out to me.

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🇺🇸🇷🇸NEW VIDEO: US Fingerprints on Serbia's "Student List" & Why it Doesn't Make Vucic Automatically the "Good Guy" Watch on YouTube: ▪️US government funding is behind groups directly involved in Serbia's "Student List" movement through media, legal aid, "human rights" cases, and even providing physical spaces for press conferences; ▪️The previous Serbian government also cooperated with US-funded organizations like USAID and corporate-funded foundations like Open Society while simultaneously being accused of obstructing their work inside Serbia; ▪️This leaves 2 possibilities. 1). the previous Vucic government was pragmatically avoiding a direct confrontation with the US by cooperating with US organizations while quietly trying to uproot it and "Student List" will now ensure unobstructed access for US interference in the future, or 2). both the Vucic government and "Student List" are compromised leaving Serbians no real choice just like the rest of the collective West under US primacy; ▪️Movements, parties, and politicians must be judged on the money and associations they depend on, not political promises they make to the public; ▪️If the public is incapable of following money and associations instead of campaign slogans, they are not capable of informed political participation and are themselves being used as tools of political capture and control;

🇺🇸🇷🇸More "Arguments" that Serbia's "Student List" Protest Aren't US-backed... CLAIM: "BRIAN!!! Vucic met with Soros!!! Therefore "Student List" are the good guys. You're WRONG!!!" REALITY: Do analysis by actual facts and figures, not handshakes and headlines. You can find a picture of President Xi Jinping shaking hands and meeting with horrible people in the West - does that mean these people run China or influence it? No. Does it mean the groups the US ACTUALLY funds in China aren't opposed to President Xi Jinping and the CPC despite meeting with and even making concessions for the West? No again. In Serbia - you have only 2 realistic options to choose from: 1. Vucic was pragmatically balancing between East and West and made concessions including tolerating US-backed NGOs and meeting with their representatives - but now Student List is going to tilt the balance further West; 2. Both sides of Serbia's politics have already been completely compromised and elections are meaningless - just like in the rest of the EU and the US itself; Notice there isn't a 3rd option where "Student List" are the good guys. We KNOW for 100% fact the NED was supporting, promoting, and protecting Student List. I showed this evidence in previous posts. So "Student List" is at least as bad as people are claiming Vucic is for simply being in the same picture with a Soros. They say Vucic was backed by US NGOs - and yet his government was attempting to undermine and uproot the NGOs to the point US-funded (including Soros-funded) NGOs were complaining about it: Real analysis is much more involved than finding a picture and posting it with 2 people shaking hands. Anyone making decisions on such basic, incomplete information is just proving ordinary people are INCAPABLE of understanding politics let alone "organically" organizing entire movements to change its course. These people🇷🇸 are making a further argument against the myth of "Student List," not for it. Sources: 1. 2. 3.

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇵🇭NEW ARTICLE: The US is Turning the Philippines into the “Ukraine” of Southeast Asia (NOTE: Because Musk, like Dorsey before him, blocks NEO links on X in cooperation with the US State Department, I am producing the whole article in its entirety below). For decades the United States has attempted to prevent the economic, political, and military rise of China within its wider stated goal of preventing any global rival from emerging. Framed as a means of preventing an “aggressive” and “revisionist” power from disrupting peace and stability worldwide, the US is - in reality - simply attempting to preserve its own actual unwarranted primacy over the globe and specifically over Asia, ironically at the cost of global peace and stability while doing so. This has manifested itself through outright US military occupation and war inside China before and after the World Wars as well as proxy wars (the Korean War and the Vietnam War), and the arming and backing of a separatist administration on the Chinese island province of Taiwan - all aimed at containing China’s rise during and following the Cold War. This is in addition to the economic war the US has waged on China attempting to disrupt its development at home and its trade worldwide. This is achieved through restrictions, sanctions, and tariffs, as well as high profile provocations like the arrest of Chinese citizens and Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou in 2018, but also the outright disruption of maritime shipping and attempts to undermine China’s economy through the targeting of global energy supplies. These efforts continue today - targeting China both directly and indirectly. The US is Already at War with China The US proxy war on Russia in Ukraine is aimed at overextending and collapsing one of China’s closest strategic allies. The US has also targeted China’s largest source of imported energy - West Asia - with US war being waged on Iran directly and the predictable fallout of the conflict affecting energy exports from the rest of the region’s energy exporters. Before launching the US war of aggression against Iran in West Asia, the US violently overthrew the government of Venezuela, ceasing energy exports to China and instead repurposing the nation’s energy resources to bolster US “energy dominance” as leverage over China. The disruption of energy exports to China from Latin America to Eurasia has not only impacted China’s own energy resources but that of wider Asia which comprises China’s largest and most important trading market. By undermining the economic stability of China’s trade partners, the US is indirectly undermining China’s trade with its trade partners. As part of a more direct campaign of aggression against China - the US currently backs a number of non-state actors across Eurasia including terrorists in Pakistan’s Baluchistan region and Myanmar implementing a stated US strategy (and here) of cutting China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) which includes severing alternative land routes for energy exports to China meant to circumvent potential US naval blockades in and around Asian waters. These US-sponsored attacks have damaged or destroyed Chinese investments and killed Chinese citizens, including one attack that even targeted China’s ambassador to Pakistan in 2021. As this multidomain war is waged against China politically, economically, and militarily worldwide, the US is preparing to expand operations even further still. The Philippines: The “Ukraine” of Southeast Asia For years the US has attempted to prevent China from militarily deterring the threat of US containment and aggression - particularly through potential blockades - in and around the South China Sea by contesting China’s maritime claims and attempting to disrupt China from fortifying the region against US encroachment and aggression. To do so, the US has invested deeply in politically compromising or capturing the governments of claimants in South China Sea territorial disputes - especially the Philippines - and transforming what are isolated points of bilateral contention (contention not only between Southeast Asian claimants and China, but also among all of these claimants themselves) - into potential regional or global conflicts. This includes creating entire institutions dedicated to creating and influencing narratives regarding South China Sea disputes as well as expanding both the US military’s presence in the Philippines and the military capabilities of the Philippines itself. While the US pushes a narrative across the Philippines’ captured information space that “China” poses a threat to Philippine sovereignty - it is the Philippines’ own former colonial master the United States (1898-1946) occupying Philippine territory with US troops - not “China.” This mirrors the multi-year process the US undertook in politically capturing and transforming the Eastern European nation of Ukraine into an armed battering ram now being destroyed in proxy war with neighboring Russia. The US seeks to continue its many points of pressure against China worldwide along with threatening or triggering a more direct major armed conflict with China itself just as it has done with both Russia and Iran. In order to sell such a conflict with China, the US funds and uses organizations like Sealight and the institutions which created it to shape the self-destructive policies of confronting China for the Philippines and the global media narratives used to sell such policies to the wider global public. The US Government-Funded Fronts Pushing the Philippines Toward US Proxy War Sealight claims on its “About” page that it, “uses commercially available technology to shed light on the maritime “gray zone”—that is, things that happen at sea that someone would rather the public not know about.” However it is exclusively fixated on China and China alone - with a clear mandate to create the political pretext required to spend more on military power in the United States vis-a-vis China and for US proxies in Asia to not only spend more specifically to confront China, but to surrender more of their own territory and national resources to an expanding US military footprint within their borders. As critics have pointed out Sealight’s obvious politically-motivated agenda and its US government-funding to pursue it, Sealight has attempted to cover up its funding and true intentions. In a post on its website last year written by Sealight director Ray Powell himself, it was claimed: “For nearly three years, China's state propagandists and its proxies have been working hard to frame SeaLight (and its predecessor, Project Myoushu) as a well-funded instrument of America's military-industrial complex. These charges have been especially amusing to our all-volunteer cadre, many of whom must by now be wondering where I'm hiding all those defense and intelligence dollars.” It should be noted that Powell never actually denies the fact that Sealight is a well-funded instrument of America’s military-industrial complex. He simply jokes in a way as to imply this isn’t true, but even a cursory look into Sealight’s background reveals the project to be exactly a product of US government - and specifically military - influence. Sealight also claims on its “About” page, “SeaLight was started by a team of volunteers at Stanford University’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation, which uses entrepreneurial methods to solve difficult defense and security challenges.” The Stanford University’s Gordian Knot Center was itself created by the US government and through the US Navy specifically, according to the US Navy’s own official website in an announcement titled, “Unraveling ‘Knotty’ Problems: ONR Helps Launch New Academic Center for National Security Innovation,” admitting: “Recognizing the modern need for bold answers to complex naval challenges, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has sponsored the creation of Stanford University’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation (GKC)—a new academic center dedicated to helping the U.S. government re-envision its approach to national security issues.” The Gordian Knot Center - with US government - and specifically US Navy funding - has helped shape continued US efforts to encircle, contain, and confront China within its own borders in the Asia-Pacific, and specifically stood up Sealight as part of doing so. The US Naval Institute in a 2023 article titled, “Lighting Up the Maritime Gray Zone,” refers to Sealight specifically as an answer to solving the US government and military’s “security dilemma” - not off the coasts of US territory - but in the South China Sea off China’s coasts. The same article reveals the actual objective of Sealight is to generate media headlines and shape social media narratives - not only across the Western media but targeting and manipulating the information space of the Philippines itself. All of these headlines and narratives are then utilized by the rest of the US government, including during US Congressional hearings, by US foreign policy think tanks, and of course by the whole weight of US government-funded propaganda in the Philippines including US-funded outlets like Rappler which has an entire section of its website dedicated to “Philippines-China Relations” filled entirely with articles promoting confrontation with Beijing over the South China Sea and specifically citing (and here) Sealight while doing so. In other words - every aspect of this supposed “Philippine” national security issue is being shaped and directed in Washington D.C., not Manila - and to serve US interests at the Philippines’ expense in exactly the same way the US shaped the current war in Ukraine ravaging Ukraine’s economy, stripping it of its territory, driving out its population, and risking its very existence. The narratives are created and perpetuated by US-based US government-funded organizations and institutions, amplified within the Philippines domestic information space by likewise US government-funded outlets like Rappler to mislead the Philippine public into an otherwise unnecessary confrontation with China - the Philippines’ largest and most important trade partner - and at the expense of Philippine-Chinese cooperation in regards to desperately needed modern infrastructure. Beyond that, the threat of conflict undermines regional peace and stability both China and the Philippines require to prosper. The Philippines is already paying a steep cost for its subordination to and use by the United States as a proxy in the region. Despite having a population of 117 million+ people to Thailand’s 71 million people (45 million more people) - the Philippines has a much lower GDP than Thailand (GDP Per Capita (Nominal) Philippines $4,619, Thailand $8,372, GDP Per Capita (PPP) Philippines $11,794, Thailand $27,724). Thailand enjoys a much closer relationship with China including immense trade, tourism, joint-infrastructure projects, joint defense training and military industrial production, and greater internal political stability and quality of life than the Philippines specifically because the US’ many attempts to politically capture Thailand have failed where it has succeeded in the Philippines. As the window of opportunity for the US to reassert primacy over the world and prevent the irreversible surpassing of the US by China closes - the US and its proxies continue speeding toward the cliff of a Ukraine-style proxy war in the Asia-Pacific with the Philippines and the Chinese island province of Taiwan the two most likely epicenters of such a conflict. It is a conflict that will not only destroy these US proxies and undermine China, it will destablize and destroy the Asia-Pacific region just as Europe is in terminal decline amid the US proxy war with Russia in Ukraine. Understanding who is behind growing Philippine-Chinese tensions and why - that it is a wholly US conflict engineered by and directed from and for Washington - is the first step toward informing both the Philippine population and the wider global public. Failing to do so invites more US war - war that will harm the entire world immensely - just as the globe has suffered from other US proxy wars and outright wars in Eastern Europe and West Asia - all of which are part of US efforts to cling to primacy and contain China in the process. Brian Berletic is a Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer.

"Brian! Just because the NED is funding organizations promoting and protecting "Student List" in Serbia, doesn't mean that the US and the NED are behind the protests!!!" Yes, actually it does! There is literally no other reason they would support and protect the protests. Demands that I show you printed receipts of money amounts paid to specific student leaders when the US already admitted in previous interference SPECIFICALLY in Serbia they secretly met with and used bank accounts in third-party countries to pay protest leaders to conceal US involvement - is just a desperate attempt by delusional people to avoid accepting a truth they simply don't want to hear. And a truth the US already admitted to and showed you their own receipts for (see below)! The bottom line - the US openly seeks to control Europe and all nations within it, including Serbia. Who was behind "Student List" who had more power and influence and organizational capabilities than the US and its EU proxies to beat them in an election? Show me those names and receipts. At best, this was US interference targeting a government they have less control over and replacing it with one they have more control over. At worst it is the US playing the same political theater in Serbia it does elsewhere across the West where it literally doesn't matter who you vote for, both parties are compromised. By the way, this is the closest thing to a counter-argument made by "Student List" supporters I've heard besides blanket insults and curses. These are people who have demonstrated no understanding of who they support or reason for their support besides their emotions. Reminds me of MAGA and the 2024 elections... Source: NYT - Who Really Brought Down Milosevic? (2000):

On Protests/Elections in SERBIA Here is KRIK - US National Endowment for Democracy-funded Serbian propaganda, promoting and celebrating the "Student List" victory... I provide a screenshot from NED's own official website admitting KRIK's NED funding and its US government-backed directives: Again, stop doing analysis by ideology, by emotional euphoria, by headlines and handshakes, and FOLLOW THE MONEY. If you didn't follow the money, you know nothing about what is actually happening except what you "think" you heard.

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🇺🇸🇷🇺🇨🇳NEW VIDEO: US “Project Meridian” — A Symptom of American Decline, Not a Solution On YouTube: "At face value, the initiative serves as a further symptom of the US’ terminal decline rather than any sort of path toward “long-term military superiority” or “absolute technological dominance.” The necessity of the project itself is an oblique admission of current and growing US military weakness — increasingly on display amid US wars and proxy wars worldwide in which US weapons are both falling behind in capabilities and quantities."

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Elon Musk's Non-Opposition to US War on Russia in Ukraine ▪️SpaceX founder Elon Musk is pretending to oppose war in Ukraine and claims Starlink is not to be used offensively but has himself admitted Starshield IS for use offensively and IS being used against Russia offensively! ▪️In other words Musk/SpaceX who created and maintain Starsheild are directly involved in the war in Ukraine while pretending to oppose it, and confirms just how crucial and absolute US involvement is in the war, simply laundered through Ukraine as Musk himself admits Starsheild is ultimately controlled by the US military, not simply a service Ukraine also has access to; ▪️Again, Starsheild is controlled by the US military but built and maintained by SpaceX, not the US military, which means Musk himself is directly involved not only in the war in Ukraine, but SPECIFICALLY in strikes on Russian territory - does Musk just hope no one notices?; ▪️Stop falling for the theater and listen to what is actually being said and done. Both Starlink and Starsheild rely entirely on Musk's SpaceX for continuous operation including launches to maintain or expand constellation capabilities, software updates, maintaining the orbits of actual satellites, etc - it's not like the US military "bought" and runs Starsheild independently of SpaceX. Pretending to deny Ukraine Starlink while claiming the US military's use of Starsheild against Russia doesn't involve SpaceX is not some sort of principled position, it's simply another lie and another example of corporations distracting attention away from themselves and onto puppet politicians and proxies.

the world should reciprocate - citing US policy itself- and ban/uproot all US government-funded activities within their borders including US National Endowment for Democracy-funded opposition groups, media platforms, fake NGOs - all of which are as guilty in reality of what Hegseth accuses China of in fiction...

🇺🇸🇨🇳NEW ARTICLE: Why the US Can Never Match Chinese Shipbuilding (NOTE: Because X blocks NEO links I will publish the full text of the article below) In a recent Business Insider article and accompanying video regarding the US’ $66 billion plan to “beat China’s shipbuilding empire,” it is revealed that US plans ultimately amount to unlikely solutions to what are deep, systemic problems with little political appetite to face, let alone address - a microcosm of the US’ wider terminal decline relative to the emerging multipolar world. In the video, an American shipyard worker is seen wearing a helmet with a sticker saying, “Go Navy, Beat China,” China - a nation that has never attacked the United States - and instead has been subject to US encroachment, occupation, and war both before and after the World Wars - exemplifying the delusional belligerence US interests encourage among the American public and specifically those among the US military and across its military industrial base. Detached even further from reality is the notion of the US “beating China” in the realm of shipbuilding where China is reported to build between 1,000 to 1,700 ships a year while the US builds ships in single digit numbers. While the video discusses plans by the US to invest in shipbuilding through expanding the workforce with training programs, improve worker retention, and through the use of new technology to produce more with less, and even plans to have US proxies build ships for the US - no plans were announced to address the systemic problems creating this disparity in shipbuilding capacity in the first place. The problems stymying US shipbuilding (and all other productive industries in the US) are problems no amount of investment or technology can solve until the root causes themselves are addressed. US-China Shipbuilding Gap is a Symptom of Bigger Problems The atrophy of US shipbuilding has not taken place in a vacuum or overnight. It has been in decline alongside all other major productive American industries and for generally the same reasons. The US has spent decades prioritizing shareholder primacy (the pursuit of perpetually expanding profits) at the expense of all other considerations - including industrial capacity, national infrastructure, American education, and the workforce the US educational system is tasked with creating. The US - in pursuit of perpetual profits - has reorganized its economy from a global industrial leader, to a financialized ponzi-economy building wealth across ledgers rather than upon factory floors. The US educational system reflects this reprioritization - not only in redirecting students from productive vocations to better serve the ponzi-economy - but also in the form of maximizing profits to access the education system itself. This has been done through expanding privatization across primary and secondary education, and across all forms of higher education. Young adults find themselves faced with tens of thousands of US dollars in debt before starting their first step in any chosen career. This has created not only a critical shortage of workers for the US industrial base, it has created a systemic obstacle that must be removed before that critical shortage of workers can even be addressed. Reforming US education alone, is a process that could take a generation to solve. An atrophied workforce is only one of several systemic problems the US faces. The other takes the shape of national infrastructure, including transportation, energy production and distribution, and the very facilities at which shipbuilding and other forms of industrial activity take place. Because the US functions as a for-profit system where the “private sector” is responsible for all of the above - and because profits are always easier to make through financialization and/or legacy industrial processes (making money by doing or selling the same thing over and over again) - the chances of the “private sector” investing in the infrastructure and facilities required to even expand US shipbuilding significantly, let alone meaningfully close the gap with China, are next to non-existent. Shortcuts have been proposed, including private and government-funded training programs to rapidly expand the pool of qualified workers for jobs across the US military industrial complex, and specifically in the realm of shipbuilding. But even with the proposed training programs to expand the US workforce - another systemic problem exists preventing the efficient use of this workforce. The cost of training and retaining American workers will always be astronomically more expensive than in China precisely because of the for-profit financialized nature of the US ponzi-economy in all aspects beyond (including directly upstream from) shipbuilding. In the United States, any particular American laborer requires a wage capable of paying for the exorbitant cost-of-living in the US, including not only their own education/training, but also their rent, food, utilities, transportation, and healthcare. Even with healthcare provided by the shipbuilding industry - the corporations themselves must pay astronomically higher costs for that healthcare than in China. This is because - in addition to the shipbuilding sector itself attempting to maximize profit in exchange for minimal effort or purpose - the US workforce is preyed upon by similar profit-maximization across all other sectors of US economic activity. The pharmaceutical industry alone uses US tax-funded research and development to produce medication - then charges many times its production costs for access to it. China’s government does vastly better in subordinating pharmaceutical production to national interests - rather than the other way around as it functions in the US. This means that regardless of whether a company, an insurance policy, or an individual patient in China is paying the costs for healthcare, it will always be cheaper overall than in the United States. This example applied across other costs of living - whether it is food, electricity, Internet access, or rent - plays out in a similar way. Chinese workers consistently enjoy cheaper prices, accessible services, and better infrastructure because the Chinese government places the purpose of production and the livelihood of those involved above the maximization of profits. This means China’s private sector, state-owned enterprises, and combinations of the two are free to pursue profit maximization as long as it doesn’t undermine collective national interests including the welfare of the Chinese population. The US system, when compared to China's, could be best equated to a troop of chimpanzees stripping bare fruit trees across the forest they live in (and taking that of other nearby troops) versus farmland carefully and sustainably cultivated by a family of farmers. Both approaches ultimately satisfy hunger. Only one approach does so reliably and sustainably by emphasizing long-term planning over short-sighted and immediate satisfaction. Beyond a more humane economic and political system, China’s is also a more efficient system. The maximization of profits not only comes at the cost of the vast majority of any population within a system doing so - it also comes at the cost of any other objective besides maximizing profits - including the quality of and accessibility to services, and the quality and quantities of manufactured goods - in this case - ships. The Chinese government’s overall approach to economics and governance ensures sound fundamentals in terms of infrastructure and workforce, but also ensures that the shipbuilding process in China itself serves the purpose of actually making ships to serve specific national priorities - both in the realm of commercial commerce and national defense - in addition to simply making money (which they also do). In order for the United States to even meaningfully close the gap with China - it would need to address all of these systemic problems plaguing its shipbuilding industry and all the upstream economic activity that makes shipbuilding possible - including cost of living for workers, supply chains, and the infrastructure facilitating both. If the US Cannot Compete, it Will Try to Delete Even if the US were to shift over to an entirely purpose-driven socioeconomic model - it would still fall far short of matching Chinese shipbuilding solely because of the disparity in scale between the US and China. China’s population is vastly larger, as is its overall industrial base, education system, and its national infrastructure. Because of the US’ inability to outcompete directly with China and other productive nations around the globe - it will increasingly seek the use of asymmetric methods of undermining and disrupting productive forces. This includes the US’ current regional war in West Asia - targeting Iran and its allies - Hezbollah in Lebanon and Ansarallah in Yemen, but also the targeting of supposed US “allies” like Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and Kuwait whose energy production and exports have been likewise targeted and disrupted amid the ongoing US aggression. The disruption of energy exports from West Asia to the rest of Asia - including China - is meant to undermine and roll back Chinese industrial production and economic prosperity as a substitute for the US’ inability to compete with China directly. The US has recently begun striking at data centers across Russia - the opening shots in a planned global asymmetric strategy to stop multipolar artificial intelligence development from permanently surpassing the US in the same manner production, military, and other technological capabilities have begun to do. The US is also increasingly threatening waterways worldwide - both directly and by proxy - through a combination of outright wars and associated blockades, the seizure of ships “sanctioned” by the US and its European proxies, and the use of maritime drones (attributed to US proxies like Ukraine) to physically strike at and attempt to destroy the shipping of targeted nations. While it is primarily Russian shipping being targeted now - Chinese shipping has been affected with the likelihood of wider and more deliberate targeting expanding in the near future. Together with the US effectively banning Chinese-built ships from US ports through targeted fees and the likelihood the US will force its proxies worldwide to follow suit - the US is attempting to target Chinese industry, including shipbuilding, from a multitude of economic, political, administrative, and military vectors. Beyond these methods - the US continues political interference worldwide, in attempt to both disrupt global peace and stability and thus economic progress among the multipolar world, but also to politically capture targeted nations and transform them into proxies the US can use as armed and dangerous geopolitical “battering rams” against nations like China as the US has done with Ukraine and Georgia (from 2003-2008) vis-a-vis Russia, and the Philippines and the island province of Taiwan the US is using against the rest of China. The combination of these approaches constitutes a multidomain war on multipolarism - which is both an admission of the failure of US power and primacy, but still an existential threat to global peace, stability, prosperity, and human progress. In the realm of shipbuilding in particular, the US seeks to use the industrial capacity of nations like South Korea and Japan to compensate for its own failing industrial base, attempting to both boost America’s ability to put to sea additional warships, but also maintain and repair those already at sea. Unfortunately for the US - the combined shipbuilding capacity of itself and its proxies fails to amount to even half of China’s shipbuilding capacity alone. The notion the US will leverage “new technologies” to more efficiently build, maintain, and repair ships fails to acknowledge the fact that China will just as easily use these “new technologies” to further enhance its current advantages over the US. The only real means by which the US could close the gap in terms of shipbuilding vis-a-vis China would be to cripple or undermine China’s industrial base, and by doing so, its shipbuilding capacity - precisely through targeting the energy empowering China’s industry as well as the economic prosperity underpinning China’s national policies including continued improvement of and investment in its industrial base (including shipyards). In other words, if the US cannot outcompete China, nor attack China’s industrial base directly, it seeks to asymmetrically target the global factors China’s growing economic might is being built on - energy and trade - both of which require peace and stability to thrive. Only through asymmetrically sabotaging China’s ability to outproduce the US can the US ever hope to narrow the gap in shipbuilding or any other of a vast and growing number of metrics in which China matches or has far surpassed the US in. The fear in Washington continues to be that even if the collective remaining power of the US is fully and radically leveraged toward this asymmetrical aggression - it might not only not be enough - it could supercharge China’s efforts to both overcome this asymmetrical aggression - and also collectively unite an increasingly multipolar world in purpose against the US’ pursuit of unwarranted global power. Shipbuilding is only one of several metrics in which China has seemingly irreversibly surpassed the US. The fact the US continues seeking the means to reassert its primacy worldwide, especially against China, is not evidence necessarily that the US can succeed - but that through its efforts to attempt to do so - the US continues to pose the greatest danger to peace, stability, prosperity, and human progress on Earth today. Not only does China and other productive forces on Earth today need to prevent the US from successfully reasserting unipolar primacy over the planet, it must also successfully prevent the US from destroying the planet in a failed effort to do so. Brian Berletic is a Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer.

🇺🇸🇵🇭🇨🇳US Turning the Philippines into the "Ukraine" of Southeast Asia vs. China The US is preparing the Philippines to become the "Ukraine" of Southeast Asia - complete with treasonous Philippine politicians like Terry Ridon in government eagerly pushing the Philippines toward the wood chipper of proxy war with China - just as Ukrainian puppets have done vs. Russia destroying Ukraine almost to the last brick, man, woman, and child. It's not that these US puppets haven't "learned." They know exactly what they're doing. They know China isn't a threat to the Philippines - that the US literally colonized the Philippines and US troops STILL militarily occupy Philippine territory - not Chinese troops. They believe they will be immune to the consequences of what they're doing and that they have a free ticket to the West when the Philippines is turned into a burning wasteland.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱/IRAN - NEW VIDEO: US Preparing for More Strikes on Iran: Using "Leave it to Bibi" to Pass the Blame On YouTube: ▪️The Western media is once again attempting to sell the notion that Israel, not the US, is pushing for war with Iran and bringing a "reluctant" US along unwillingly; ▪️This is a deliberate policy published in papers as early as 2009 discussing the use of US proxy Israel to start a war with Iran and ultimately absorb most of the blame and retaliation for doing so; ▪️The US has repeatedly used this strategy under the previous Biden and now Trump administrations - and even repeatedly under the current Trump administration; ▪️The notion the US is planning strikes on Iran around "elections" is betrayed by the material reality elections do not effect US foreign policy and especially not policy regarding Iran - as continuity of agenda has continued against Iran for 26 straight years regardless of who controlled Congress or sat in the White House; ▪️And no, just because Israel is a proxy of the US doesn't mean it is not JUST as guilty as the US itself for the crimes its government, military, intelligence services, and their civilian supporters commit as proxies of US power;

This is childish - but of course a very popular view. China and Russia are "weak" - even bad for maintaining relations of any kind with the US and its Israeli/European proxies. Their solution? To be exactly like the US and its European/Israeli proxies - place sanctions on everyone - collectively punish entire populations - and wage relentless, uncompromising war - in violation of the very international law they accuse the US and its proxies of violating. Irony is lost on these people because they have long since abandoned logic, reason, and strategy and submitted fully to their narrow spectrum of emotions. You are not going to create a new or better system by doing more of the same that created the current system. A nation is not its government. It is millions of people and interests - most of which have been manipulated or exploited - but have the potential to be constructive members of this planet. You win them over to an alternative system by building bridges to them while resisting and displacing the small handful of interests currently misleading the US and its proxies. "Alon's" solution of perpetual indiscriminate hatred and violence - and more over - directing that hate towards China and Russia only further serves US interests. Without China and Russia there would be no Iran resisting in the first place. Do these people understand that? And even Iran has demonstrated huge amounts of the very same restraint and strategic patience. Most of Iran's fiery rhetoric is for public perception management - not actual policy - and they have demonstrated this including all throughout the US war on Iran. China, Russia, and Iran all understand this and have a realistic strategy that is actually making a difference- that is why they are great nations shaping our future - and not merely impatient foot-stompers on social media.

I am often asked, "isn't there a chance Trump had some ideas or good intentions upon taking office?" Answer: No - there is zero chance Trump had any relevant ideas or ambitions of his own coming into office. Elected officials in the US hold zero power besides rubber stamping policy put in front of them, selling it to the public, and/or creating drama to distract public attention away from policies. Trump was/is no exception. This is why I correctly predicted even before his first term in office he was going to be 100% committed to continuity of agenda. This was a warning back in 2016 before Trump's first term in office: I also warned about Obama in 2012 before he started his second term: Do people think it is "luck" that I'm always right about this - or are they ready to at least consider Western politics are a layer of orchestrated control rather than one of "self-determination" or a means of "change?" (Note: before I started doing videos I wrote under several pen names including "Tony Cartalucci" just in case anyone was wondering why my name isn't on these articles).