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From Renaissance Florence, one of the – few – peaks of humanity, now living in memory, tread carefully across this flame-filled 2025.
FLORENCE – It’s a dazzling Tuscan winter morning, and I am inside the legendary Dominican church of Santa Maria Novella, founded in the early 13th century and finally consecrated in 1420, in a very special place in History of Art: right in front of one of the monochrome frescos painted in 1447-1448 by master of perspective Paolo Uccello, depicting the Universal Deluge.
Paolo Uccello: Universal Deluge. 1448 fresco at Santa Maria Novella, Florence. Photo by Pepe Escobar
It’s as if Paolo Uccello was depicting us – in our current times of trouble. So inspired by neoplatonic superstar Marsilio Ficino – immortalized in a chic red robe by Ghirlandaio at the Cappella Tornabuoni – I tried to pull off a back to the future and ideally imagine who and what Paolo Uccello would feature in his depiction of our current deluge.
Let’s start with the positives. 2024 was the Year of the BRICS – with the merit for all the accomplishments going for the tireless work of the Russian presidency.
2024 was also the Year of the Axis of Resistance – until the serial blows suffered during the past few months, a serious challenge which will propel its rejuvenation.
And 2024 was the year that defined the lineaments of the endgame in the proxy war in Ukraine: what remains to be seen is how deep the “rules-based international order” will be buried in the black soil of Novorossiya.
Now let’s turn to the auspicious prospects ahead. 2025 will be the year of consolidation of China as the paramount geoeconomics force on the planet.
It will be the year where the defining battle of the 21st century – Eurasia v. NATOstan – will be sharpened in an array of unpredictable vectors.
And it will be the year of advancing, interlocking connectivity corridors – the defining factor in Eurasia integration.
Not by accident Iran is central to this interlocking connectivity – from the Strait of Hormuz (through which transits, daily, at least 23% of the world’s oil) to the port of Chabahar, which links West Asia with South Asia.
Connectivity corridors to watch are the return of one of the top Pipelineistan sagas, the 1,800 km-long Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline; the International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC), which links three BRICS (Russia-Iran-India) and several aspiring BRICS partners; the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the flagship Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project; and last but not least, the fast advancing Northern Sea Route (or Northern Silk Road, as the Chinese call it), which will eventually become the cheapest and fastest alternative to the Suez canal.
A few days before the start of Trump 2.0 in Washington, Russia and Iran will finally, officially sign a comprehensive strategic partnership deal in Moscow, over two years in the making: once again, a key deal between two top BRICS, with immense, cascading repercussions in Eurasia integration terms.
A completely sealed channel of negotiation
Dmitri Trenin, respected member of Russia’s Foreign and Defense Policy Council, has what is so far the most realist road map for an acceptable end of the proxy war in Ukraine.
“Acceptable” does not even begin to describe it – because from the point of view of the collective West political “elites” which bet the farm and the bank on this war, nothing is acceptable except Russia’s strategic defeat, which will never happen.
As it stands, President Putin is in fact containing elite sectors in Moscow who favor not only cutting off the head of the snake but the body as well.
Trump for his part has less than zero incentive to be dragged into a further quagmire; leave that to the clueless European chihuahuas.
So a possible drive towards a wobbly “peace” agreement also suits the Global Majority – not to mention China, which understands how war is bad for business (at least if you’re not in the weaponizing racket).
When it comes to an always possible “existential” escalation, we’re not out of the woods yet; but there are still three weeks left for some major terror-fueled coup, as in a false flag.
The first two months of 2025 will be absolutely decisive, when it comes to sketching a possible compromise.
Elena Panina from RUSSTRAT has offered a concise, and sobering, strategic assessment of what may pan out.
What Trump essentially craves, like a trashy McDonald’s burger, is to look like the ultimate Alpha Male. So Putin’s tactical negotiating strategy will not be focused on undermining Trump’s tough guy act. The problem is how to pull it off without undermining Trump’s pop star power – and without adding more fuel to the NATOstan warmongering pyre.
Putin holds an array of trump cards close to his chest – related to Europe, the Brits, China, Ukraine itself and the Global South as a whole.
Determining spheres of influence will be part of a possible agreement. The thing is no specific details should be leaked – and must be kept impermeable to Western intel.
That means, as Panina notes, Trump needing a completely sealed channel of negotiation with Putin, which even the MI6 cannot crack.
A tall order, as privileged Zio-con silos across the Deep State are dizzy with the latest Old Testament psycho-pathological victories in Lebanon and Syria, and the way they enfeebled Tehran. Yet that does not mean the Iran-Russia-China-BRICS link is in jeopardy.
The dynamics are set; tread carefully
Putin and the Security Council should be ready to implement a quite complex, step-by-step diplomatic game, as they know that the trifecta of defeated, supremely angry Democrats, Brits and Bankova will apply maximum pressure on Trump and turn him into “an enemy of America” or some similar crap.
Moscow will accept no truce and no freeze: only a real solution.
It that doesn’t work, the war will continue in the battlefield, and Moscow has no problems with that – or with more escalation. The final humiliation of the Empire of Chaos will then be total.
Meanwhile, Cold War 2.0 between China and the U.S. will advance more on the pop sphere than in substance. The sharpest Chinese analysts know that the real competition is not over ideology – as in the original Cold War – but over technology, from AI to upgrading seamless supply chains.
Moreover, Trump 2.0, at least in principle, has less than zero interest in unleashing a proxy war – Ukraine-style – on China in Taiwan and the South China Sea. China has way more geoeconomic resources than Russia.
So it’s not exactly intriguing that Trump is floating the idea of a G2 between the U.S. and China. The Deep State blob will see it as the ultimate plague – and fight it to death. What’s already certain is assuming this goes ahead, the European poodles will be left drowning in a dirty swamp.
Well, political “elites” that appoint braindead specimens like the Medusa von der Lying and the batshit crazy Estonian chick as top representatives of the EU; who start a war against their most important energy supplier; who fully support a genocide broadcast 24/7 to the whole planet; who are obsessed on eradicating the culture which has defined them; and who at best pay only lip service to democracy and freedom of speech, these “elites” do deserve to wallow in filth.
On the Syrian tragedy, the fact is Putin knows who the real enemy is; certainly not a bunch of Salafi-jihadi head-chopping mercenaries. And the Sultan in Ankara is also not the enemy; from Moscow’s perspective, for all his lofty dreams of replacing “Central Asia” with “Turkestan” in Turkiye’s school textbooks, he is a minor geoeconomic and even geopolitical player.
To paraphrase the inestimable Michael Hudson – perhaps our Marsilio Ficino dressed by Paolo Uccello as a writer in a chic red robe – it’s as if in this pre-deluge juncture American elites were saying, “The only solution is total war with Russia and China”; Russia is saying, “We hope there’s peace in Ukraine and West Asia”; and China is saying, “We want peace, not war.
That may not be enough for reaching a compromise – any compromise. So the dynamics are set: the U.S. ruling class will keep imposing instances of chaos while Russia, China and BRICS will keep testing in the “BRICS lab” de-dollarization models, alternative set ups to the IMF and World Bank, and eventually even an alternative to NATO.
An anarchy and War of Terror cornucopia on one side; cool-headed, coordinated realism on the other. Be prepared – for anything. From Renaissance Florence, one of the – few – peaks of humanity, now living in memory, tread carefully across this flame-filled 2025.
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Houthis avenge US, UK strikes; unleash deadly strikes on Tel Aviv airport, Jerusalem power station and US aircraft carrier.
Yemen-based Houthi launched a deadly attack targeting Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv and a power station in Jerusalem with a hypersonic missile. Ben Gurion Airport halted operations after missile interception over Israeli skies. This comes as Houthis have vowed revenge for Israel’s GENOCIDE in Gaza that erupted on October 7, 2023 where has killed over 200,000 Palestinians including TODDLERS. US/UK have full complicity in this GENOCIDE.
Pepe is always sharp and cogent… while PCR is ready to be put out to pasture…. where he can continue to mumble his criticisms of great man Putin into his stale beer…
To associate Vogel and Escobar, today’s articles, …i wonder if Pablito sees the contradiction between “interconnected” and “axis” with “multi-polar and nationalism”.
Should these authors not defuse their libraries for latter use, or are they just for the now and mass consumption?
As usual a blabbering piece of rambling nonsense saying nothing. All of the blabbering idiots like you Pepe and Mike Whitney and Hudson were totally wrong and blind sided about Syria …you really know nothing at all that the average drunk at a bar mouthing off does not know too.
The genocidal Jews in the US treasury have taken a LAGHABLE decision to sanction Iran and Russia for their ‘interfere’ in the US SELECTION known as US ‘election’. The MAIN country that influences US selection to pick up a traitor to serve the Jewish mafia tribe’s interest is ISRAEL where is interfere in US selection is the GENOCIDAL Israel where has been pushed under the rug.
Treasury Sanctions Entities in Iran and Russia That Attempted to Interfere in the U.S. 2024 Election.
US interferes in every election around the world to place its own poppet in power. To force its candidate, to be accepted as a winner, US runs a propaganda campaign full of LIES to force its lackey in. in order to create chaos and riot when people VOTE for their leader and kick the US lackey out. This thick has been used by the genocidal US regimes number of times in Venezuela, Iran, and elsewhere, but the Americans never learn since they are arrogant and stupid at the same time.
U.S has now moved more armour into Syria, Erdogan the dupe! The Americans get Erdogan to do the dirty work and now they and Israel go in and take the prize.
The U.S, by this move, is telling Erdogan in no uncertain terms, “don’t even think about trying to claim any resources, its all ours.”
Quite funny, I caught Nosferatu at the Cinema…and the Dracula figure is a Forelock sporting Ukie Boyar.
Lol.
He brings Plague to Germanylandland.
Oh and let’s not forget the ‘Chinese’ intrusion into the banking system of the USA! Is it just me or are the geopolitical games currently being played boring and predictable? Except that hundreds of thousands of human lives are being lost – to what end? Profit and Influence. Peace is possible – honestly.
PeePee has been wrong for decades and he is still wrong. I see the lack of a commenting section on PCR has led to some frustration on your part.
I like Mike, otherwise agree.
i think 2025 might mirror 1945, as we seem to be in a redux of ww2, ever since the zioneocon empire launched the covid bioweapon attack on the entire world. the opening gambit was at the wuhan military games in november of 2019, after having set up the wuhan lab, as the patsy to take the blame for their henious attack on the entire world, beginning their world war of terror.
this was a hybrid biological and economic war in the beginning, aimed mostly at the chinese economy, that had overtaken their collapsing ponzi scheme of economy but was also aimed at all other rival economies as well. just as they murdered their own citizens with their patented covid bioweapon, they also attacked their vassal states economies, that were any kind of competition, especially germany. so in this sense 2019 was the analog of 1939 and the beginning of ww2.
the kinetic component of this war on the world heated up in feb of 2022, when the russians were forced to respond, to the ever increasing attacks on russian speaking ukrainians in the donbass and russian majority eastern part of ukraine, in an attempt to drive them out of ukraine and into russia, stealing their lands and resources. this was the beginning of the turning of the tide, as the russians ratcheted up troop levels and built up their forces and defense industries, they instituted a full war time economy, while crushing three iterations of the zato backed ukranazi proxy army.
when zato foolishly attacked kursk, they sealed their fate, just as the germans had eight decades earlier. this was where the soviets broke the back of the wehrmacht and drove the germans back to berlin. the russians appear poised to over run the ukrainian front lines, as zelensky cowers in his fuhrerbunker. perhaps ratskeller might be a better description for this ratfaced dictator, as he will scurry out a hole in the wall, rather than face justice for his war crimes, as ukraine is ground down to the last 12 year old child soldier.
so here we are entering 2025, hopefully it will progress much like 1945 and we can celebrate v.u. day soon, followed by v.p. day in the other theater. now i’ve got to get my sailor suit pressed, so i can go find a nurse to kiss.
Pepe; There is another significant encounter waiting for you if you find yourself in Urbino where Paolo Uccello and his son worked within the Confraternity of Corpus Domini. Specifically a predella for the new alterpiece completed in 1474 ( Communion of the Apostles) was painted by him in 6 scenes, depicting the Miracle of the Profaned Host. This miracle you can verify yourself when you return to Paris. The Oratory on the Rue du Dieu bouilli (The Street of God Boiled) commisioned by King Phillip the Fair in 1291 is dedicated to this Eucharistic miracle.
Lately PE writes pure nonsense. It seems to get lost in some way of trying to justify its sponsors. The good thing about 2024, the axis of resistance and the Brics? When did PE change his glasses? After Syria, Russia and/or Putin understands who the real enemy is. Seriously, PE concludes that without daring to point out that enemy? The worst thing this year in TUR has been the shadow of PE.
With Pepe mouthing off on his usual drivel, it will only contribute to the chaos.
Pepe Escobar’s articles and analysis seriously declined after Russia became his patron after 2022.
Everything that comes out from Pepe’s mouth is like total rubbish now. Sad to see Pepe degenerate to such an extent.
It’ll be a 2nd Renaissance once Apartheid Israhell is no more…
http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/the-downfall-of-apartheid-israel/
… and Christians actually wake up and get a dose of what the bible really says.
http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2014/09/10/a-brief-history-of-the-kingdoms-of-israel-and-judah/
2025 will be the year when Russia – China must finally decide whether they want a multipolar world order or continue to play around by paving the ground for a final globalist takeover of the planet under the rules based order, its Jewish-controlled financial system, and the dollar.
In a football match if a team does not plan on scoring goals against the opposing team while behind , the game is lost after 90 minutes. It doesn’t appear Russia, China and Iran have either a unified plan or have coordinated their objectives to score against the dollar empire.
Ukraine, Taiwan, Panama, Syria …. are all side shows for as long as the Jewish-controlled western banking cabal that own NATO, Israel, US and the rest of the west remain fully active in the global hydrocarbon business, via their more than 800 military bases around the world.
In 2025 Russia, China and Iran must finally decide if they actually want to challenge this setting or not. If they continue with the current strategy, the west (NATO-Israel) shall gradually penetrate into Central Asia under the Sultan Erdogan’s new Ottoman Empire scenario. Russia will quickly fall after that before it even has a chance to use Orsheniks. Once Russia falls, China’s collapse would be a 99.99 percent certainty.
However, if Russia, China and Iran decide they must prevent further NATO expansions, the only possible solution is to kick the Uncle Sam’s rear out of hydrocarbon business for good, hence stop its ability of providing unlimited financial support for forever wars, mini tensions, terrorist groups (Al-Qaeda, ISIS, Daesh, Tahrir al-Sham …) around the world.
We’ll know soon when Iran and Russia officially sign a comprehensive strategic partnership deal in Moscow. In that deal, if either Russia (China) provide nuclear bombs + delivery system stationed at Iranian military bases or help Tehran build them on its own, then we can say that’s serious strategy since it’ll automatically jump start the new BRICS-based multipolar world order. Anything else short of that move can be considered yet another game in the direction of the post WWII status quo that can only lead to a western globalist victory.
link please for the armor movement!
We are close to the end of the Biggest War that nobody ever saw or writes about. It was the war to end the Era of Who We Were as individuals that built our countries. Whether it was a country that is 2000 years old or one that is only 300 years old – we have been attacked for over 150 years now and the end game was to replace our older tough civilizations with the New One that must be forced to forget its true history ,it’s founding ancestry and the type of private freedoms and ethnic groups that made countries in the past – who we were. And it’s very visible in North America, Europe, the Middle East and it is very visible in Russia-believe it or not. Our massive problem – Oligarchs – Big Banking Cartels and the bought people that work for both.
Whatever happened to the ” Americans” – those homesteaders, ranchers, farmers, the immigrants and their families that built America and carved out a decent country? They were attacked , weakened and replaced by oligarch huckleberries that have destroyed the history, the monuments and the enthusiasm to be the USA that once was looked upon by the world.
The same thing has happened in the Middle East/ North Africa – the Bedouin Kadaffi kept his ancestorial roots while trying to make a decent country – killed. Syria/ Palestine etc. – after making it a decent place for Islam and Christians to live what happened – destroyed and looted.
Europe – all the individual flavor, of all those countries – trashed by the second Soviet Union called the European Union. Europe had such finesse, with the arts, different cultures, foods, history etc. etc. etc.
The Soviet Union programed most everybody while terminating the Czarist Russia and between the Bolsheviks and the WW II , most of Real Eastern Euro Russia was destroyed. Who are the real Russians , we won’t know , we will only see the new ones. The finishing touch of destroying the last of the real Russians are taking place in East Ukraine where the Lugansk and Donbass people were tired of all the Oligarchs from Ukraine, Israel and Russia. and in 2014 ran off the Kiev armies and were getting ready to start the New Russia – with Cossack Rules { Old Russia }. There were so many assassinations during this time – the New Russia {Moscow } will add NovoRossiya to bring in the last of the Real Russians and bring them into New Russia.
I have to thank Rurik’s part I & II of his Essay on Alexander Zhuchkova’s book – Mozgovoi that gave me some personal insight on Ukraine. It’s at the IntelDrop.
Here’s an upbeat summary of the past year.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2024/12/31/740060/Person-of-the-Year-is-the-Axis-of-Resistance
There will be ups and downs but may the battle continue in the coming year.
I few that Pepe Escobar and people of his ilk are contributing to failure of multipolar world with their constant partisanship and pushing of harebrained schemes. Look at Syria and Axis of Resistance – suffered complete collapse with Pepe cheering on from sidelines. Now that Syria has fallen, Pepe just moved on to the next hustle.
If you are someone that wants world to become multipolar, Pepe Escobar is a very dangerous figure that will lead to failure. That is my view.
I can’t speak for Russia, but I think China will carry on with its current strategy of economic and technological development. There won’t be any major shift for the next 20 years.
China’s share of global Manufacturing output is about 30%. America is about 16%. But China’s population is about three times the size of America. This means that Chinese manufacturing productivity is still low. China must grow its Manufacturing output to 50% – 60% of global output. That should be the chinese goal.
https://www.statista.com/chart/20858/top-10-countries-by-share-of-global-manufacturing-output/
China is the largest direct trading partner for at least 62 countries, making it the world’s most important trading partner.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/leading-trade-partners-by-country
I think China must increase the no. of countries that China has as largest trading partner. At least 100 or more. These are the concrete goals that China must focus on, not the drivel and rubbish that Pepe Escobar fantasies about. Those kind of nonsense will only end up like Syria.
I do not understand why people follow UNZ review and Pepe and Whitney just to criticize them and insult them.
Why don’t you watch Christiane Amanpour, Politico, NY times etc. These are media for you.
Why to bother scoring goals when the opponent will soon start scoring autogoals. That is much easier.
I only want to say this: I am adamant that Putin will bow to Trump, like a dog bows to his owner. It is a slavish mentality that sees the West as a “civilized superior.” Economically, Russia is struggling. It lost almost all its EU energy market. Militarily, it is engaged in skirmishes with Ukraine, which still occupies Russian territory, the Kursk Region. Let us be honest and leave the so-called “military invincibility,” which is promoted by Russia, Israel, and the U.S., behind. Since October 2023, the savage Jews have been indiscriminately bombing the unarmed Palestinians with all their U.S.-made sophisticated weapons. What have they achieved? The Palestinian Genocide has only extended Netanyahu’s criminal life.
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-is-known-about-the-role-o-h1nXycasRWmSe5aSv2V_gg
The alleged “doctor” is said not to have been a doctor at all, but simply to have taken a “postgraduate course” without being examined, which then enabled him to obtain the necessary license to practice medicine. A typical sign of an Islamist sleeper cell.
It appears so. By supporting the current toothless strategy on the part of Russia-China which puts Iran in a precarious situation to better use its immense geopolitical, military … advantages on behalf of the BRICS, it ensures a globalist take over of the planet. Maybe both Russia – China elites look forward to a globalist-run world, so they can maintain their status vis a vis their respective people? Who knows? None of the BRICS goals or BRI should materialize if Moscow – Beijing remain undecided without any credible strategy, direct actions. A real BRICS system must kick Uncle Sam’s ass out of global hydrocarbon business in which case it could no longer print unlimited fiat dollars running a $40 trillion deficit without any problems. Unless that actually happens Pepe’s path is simply utopian wishful thinking.
Good point. Insead of talking about the war in Ukraine or global situation Trump could just tell Putin he regards Russia to be part of Europe. And just like Tsar Peter the Great, Putin will be so enthralled by Trump’s magic words next he’s ready to settle with a temporary ceasefire and establishment of NATO-controlled demilitarized zone on Russia’s border.
To say that Pepe was “totally wrong and blind-sided about Syria,” doesn’t square with the facts. It just took a decade for what he identified to play out to a conclusion. This isn’t to say I don’t have profound disagreements with him, just that he was an invaluable analyst when everyone else was banging a drum for big gay Obama’s “Arab Spring.”
That said, Pepe and Whitney, like pretty much everyone else at the moment, miss that recent events in Syria are a function of the constellation of forces getting it done before Trump returns to where he belongs in the Oval Office.
Hey, Pepe? Ever heard of Tadeusz Brzezinski, last Polish amb to Nazi Germany and The Soviet Union ?
Chaos is not a bad thing at all when judiciously created by the champions of democracy and of the rules-based order. The trite old adage of needing to break some eggs to make not any, but the desired omelette applies.
Like this:
Israel needs our help more than ever. The Israelis are still valiantly struggling to defeat the intractable terrorist Hamas in Gaza:
“The Ministry of Interior in Gaza denounced the killings as a heinous crime. In a statement, it accused the Israeli occupation of spreading chaos and exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in the Strip. The statement noted that Major General Salah and Major General Shahwan were assassinated while performing their humanitarian and national duties, serving the Palestinian people amidst catastrophic conditions caused by relentless Israeli aggression. According to the ministry, Major General Salah had been a cornerstone of Gaza’s police force since its establishment 30 years ago, working tirelessly to maintain security in the besieged Strip. Another 10 Palestinians were killed when tents housing displaced families in Al-Mawasi were bombed. Among the victims were four children and three women, who were reportedly killed as they slept.”
At the same time Israel’s efforts to liberate Syria and expand Israel’s dominion closer to its God-decreed Greater Israel expanse are an enormous drain on its resources. Israel cannot do it alone.
The US must realize that no matter how much more aid in the form of billions of dollars, weaponry, intelligence, etc we give the only democracy in the ME, it will not suffice. American boots on the ground are needed, especially in Syria. There are ISIS terrorists in Syria— not the former ones who have renounced their criminal ways to become promoters of democracy (e.g., Al Jolani) but — shall we say— the excess that only clog up the place.
The myopic resistance of the American public to such direct participation and, let’s face it, a growing undercurrent of anti-semitism that misrepresents Israel’s defending itself in Gaza, must be overcome. The solution is not to present to the ignorant American people a massive, direct US military intervention in Syria as being in Israel’s favor, but rather as an urgent national security issue for the US.
Coincidentally, recent events in the US may help, like the mass casualty event perpetrated by a Black American (who even served in the US military!), who, as it turns out, had an ISIS flag in his car.
So we must fight terrorists there not “to avoid fighting them here,” no, that’s passé, but because they are already here!
This act of terrorism also makes us understand that anyone, absolutely any American citizen, may turn out to be an ISIS terrorist, most likely co-opted through alternative media, so increased vigilance, surveillance and monitoring of Americans’ communications through these media will be needed, as well as shutting down some of these venues.
lol. Once China GDP becomes larger than U.S. or even twice the size of U.S.; manufacturing output becomes 50%-60% of global output, technologically the most advanced country in the world, dominance of global supply chains, majority of countries trades most with China, what U.S. says or does becomes irrelevant on the world stage.
THAT is the game China is playing. Not Pepe Escobar’s drivel. U.S.’ 20 years in Afghanistan, Russia’s 10 years in Syria, billions of dollars wasted – all ended in kaput. lol.
‘privileged Zio-con silos across the Deep State are dizzy with the latest Old Testament psycho-pathological victories in Lebanon and Syria.” — Pepe Escobar
The new year is young, but already the psychopathic Jews are at it again, slaughtering women and children in Gaza:
‘Israeli strikes killed at least 12 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, mostly women and children, officials said Wednesday.
‘One strike hit a home in the Jabaliya area of northern Gaza. Gaza’s Health Ministry said seven people were killed, including a woman and four children. Israel’s military said it “eliminated” Hamas fighters.
‘Another strike overnight in the built-up Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza killed a woman and a child, according to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the bodies.
“Are you celebrating? Enjoy as we die. For a year and a half, we have been dying,” said a man carrying the body of a child in the flashing lights of emergency vehicles.’ — AP News
https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-news-01-01-2024-55ed3832a113d3314dd45d475bafd421
Someone once described Canada as an ‘off-brand United States.’ Increasingly I’m inclined to describe Jews as ‘off-brand human beings.’
It isn’t just their distorted facial features and beak-like noses. It’s the twisted mentality of exploiting others, coupled with a delusional victimhood which holds their targets of plunder responsible for the Jews’ countless expulsions over the millennia.
Isn’t it time for these bloodthirsty off-brand humans to be sequestered in a place — 20,000 leagues under the sea; a cold, barren asteroid — where their mass murdering of civilized humans no longer will be possible?
How can one have renaissance based on 911 lies, war onTerror lies?
Final Messenger of God warned the people of End of Times that there shall be Great Liars!
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Pepe is a Pollyanna figure, projecting ideas from fifty years ago onto now.
His international jet-set life is paid for by someone or ones, doubt that his propaganda pieces ‘BRICs, and Saudi Arabia is just great as a new member, and Belt’n’Road, and New Non-Aligned Movement, the global majority and Axis of Resistance flourishes, and then BRICS!’ pay his way.
His writing is like a word-salad as I model above.
Sure, agree on some points.
Unlike the somewhat similar Andrei Vltchek (R.I.P.), he never whines about flights or accomodation, but one may expect that, like Vltchek, he is always on first-class flights and staying in very expensive hotels, except for the occasional adventure tour.
I’m not a fan of this guy but all the other pundits that I agree with on Russia-Ukraine and the Zionist Entity that I’ve listened to on Judge Napolitano and other shows have also been wrong. Hell, my favorite colonel, McGregor has been more wrong than right since I first saw him on TuckerCarlson years ago.
He will “bow” to Trump, obsequious, smiling and ready to “play ball” while he keeps every fuck’n square inch of land he had taken in the Donbass and beyond.
Talk is cheap and the Jew Zelensky will scurry like the rat he is behind the stove in the U.S. kitchen to live on taxpayer scraps (billions) paid for with the millions of lives he cast into the wood chipper abattoir machined by Neocon killers like J McCain, Lindsey Graham, Mitch McCuntell, Vicky Nuland, John Bolton, Blinken, Fink and all of the Jews in and out of government that continue to make bank on the backs of the dead (Goyim).
Let’s fervently hope, that the neocon reign of terror, which is orders of magnitude worse than the Holocaust is coming to an end and the Jews who are the catalyst for the slaughter are cast into the void once and for all.
Florence is so beautiful that there is a mental disease that people get when they leave. It is so depressing to be away from the beauty of that drug.
https://bigthink.com/high-culture/stendhal-florence-syndrome-art/
The Jews/Rothschilds in charge now, “over there” are experiencing nation wide narrative collapse as they continue to offer this, THIS to the Italians and the rest of Europe.
Unfettered immigration from sub human filth that think “Charlemagne The God” painted most of the Frescos – Paintings and sculpted this ‘work of art’ –
should replace this
God Bless Vlad, Hero Of Mother Russia.
2025
This is what “Zero Hedge” thinks.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/what-biggest-risk-2025-and-13-other-highlights-dbs-2025-market-survey
8, 11 & 12 are kinda interesting.
Pepe hates the American empire. I do too but from a different angle. Unlike Pepe I recognize the Jewish contribution and ownership of the American empire. Pepe thinks China and Russia are the new power that will lead to our demise. He doesn’t get the Jewish role in China’s rise with their fire sale of American industry and American physical assets. Something our political class is OK with despite their mouthing opposition. Nor will Pepe ever see Vlad’s obedience to all things Jewish and WEF. If Vlad was all that, he never would have allowed Syria’s downfall and Israeli long term bombing. I understand the need for hope, but increasingly find myself pity reading PE.
Your critique is like that of bitchy women at a community garden club. You should join one; you’ll fit right in. Then you can continue blabbing, saying nothing in particular. What about his shoes? You didn’t even mention them. How disappointing.
Are you a female, or just write like one?
Perhaps you just woke up after a Twink Van Wrinkle long slumber. Those days are gone. It is obvious that you just make stupid stuff up, do not read, apprehend, or edify your knowledge with solid facts, concrete evidence and references.
Your opinion is just another asshole. Everyone has one, but yours is plugged up. You are a virtual child.
That maybe China’s wishlist on paper but NATO won’t allow it. After Syria stabilizes a little, they will set their eyes on Iran then Central Asia taking control of all Middle Eastern energy fields as well as INSTC , vital routes and corridors, especially if Iran plays along with them. Next China is caput, instead of moving forward to the future it will have to go backward. Historically now is the last chance for China and Russia to stop this ominous globalist scheme from happening.
Hey PE – why the insistence on repeating this tiresome and misleading phrase?
It’s not only ignorant of Biblical history, but it gives DaTalmudists cover for DaSynagogue of Satan…….besides pissing me off!
Every time you people post these god awful pictures I get sick, I’m starting to think that this site has aids, if it’s possible for a website to get such a disease. I don’t want to be constantly reminded of how awful Europe looks with all these blacks and shit over there while the Europeans do absolutely nothing about it. But bitch in silence and look stupid.
Next some of you will start posting pics of a bunch of white girls smiling in photos with them as their nations continue to die just to prove your point… That will be the day I shoot myself in the head for constantly coming to this site exposing myself to garbage I don’t want to see. There’s a reason I don’t even bother with porn sites much anymore…Having to constantly be exposed to negros all over every site with a white woman…Turn on the television, same tiring irritating shit…Until people do something about it I don’t care about Europe dying, fuck Europe and it’s entire leadership. Same thing with the United States.
We scold our very young kids for calling each other names like “PeePee.”
Do you think that calling Escobar “PeePee” makes up for the total lack of specific reasoning, evidence, observations, criticism in your comment?
What specifically does he say that you think is wrong or suspect, and what evidence, reasoning, principles, history, etc. leads to your disagreement?
Utter nonsense based on insane self-worshipping jewish ranting, God choosing to favor some race or tribes over others at least at times, and recycled pagan myths like the “virgin birth” of a “saviour”, the nobility and “need” for human sacrifice, innocent babies being tainted with sin committed by others, etc.
While they were members of the “right” “abrahamic” cult, European and other people certainly produced centuries of beautiful, kind, compassionate, inspiring themes in artwork, glorious architecture, and soaring music to be sure, especially by my Italian / Roman ancestors.
But beautiful uplifting work honoring and thanking God — not dead men, let alone men who were mentally ill or pathological liars — would have been possible for our talented forebears to produce without wasting chunks of their lives “learning”, reciting, and trying to spread drivel.
Wholeheartedly with the first part of your comment. The child-murdering woman-murdering torturing “israelis” who intentionally starve civilians to death, must all be destroyed or expelled from the Palestinians’ territory.
As for focusing on what the bible really says — all its many versions, with more books and fewer books — the needless cruelty, absurdity, irrelevance, stupidity, etc. of those books is very well known and documented. Take the website Skeptic’s Annotated Guide to the bible for a start.
Which part is your favorite, God killing or directing the murder of men for burning the wrong incense or on the wrong day?
Or was it the part where “God” supposedly ordered the Jews to murder every baby, child, woman, and man of an enemy tribe? (Your cult compares poorly to the other junior “abrahamic” cult in this regard, as their made-up “holy books” at least command Muslims never to kill women, children, old people and other noncombatants.)
Or do you like the part where the holy “loving” jesus chastises a man who has just lost his father, for wanting to bury and mourn his father before going on jesus’s traveling road show. That’s your role model?
Or do you most like “symbolically” eating the flesh and drinking the blood of a dead man?
So much to choose from in your “holy book(s).”
Pepe has turned into a kind of clown and charlatan. A ludicrous figure and object of mockery.
Not really a response to you but an excuse
to post since you mentioned October 7, ’23.
How Israel Faked the Oct 7th Attack – A Conversation with Matt Guertin, The Crowhouse
https://odysee.com/@thecrowhouse:2/How-Israeli-Faked-the-Oct-7th-Attack---A-Conversation-with-Matt-Guertin:2
5ds
I don’t know, do you have a photograph of Pepe’s shoes? Never seen a photo that includes his shoes, so can’t reply on that.
More ambiguous nonsense saying nothing
You guys on this site are all intuitive emotional types. You fire off comments that sound good in your own heads and some of your insights are interesting but you are not rational thinking types. and your logic is extremely faulty ….95% of you failed out of University if you ever even made it there.
Jan 2, 2025 Michael Hudson: Cracks in the Empire: Is the American Superpower Fading?
https://www.youtube.com/live/yiyHf4r4374?si=hsqyq8AW47FFA1oQ
G2 is a good idea. Decades ago General MacArthur saw the rising economic, political, and military power of Asia/China, and the moral and economic bankruptcy of Europe. Hopefully Trump finishes what he only just begun.
I’ve noticed that you never miss a chance to cancel, demean, debase any comment where a belief in Christ is indicated. Lets face it; you are a Jew, as their defining characteristic is denial of Christ. Rather like one possessed by satan, you foam at the mouth at the name of Jesus. As for the Bible, its meanings are spiritual and, therefore, not available to the literal materialist. Consider: Jesus is God come to earth through Mercy and Justice. God is Love. God is Truth.
Useless drivel.
2025 is going to bring chaos and destruction and death via zionists puppet Trump and his master Netanyahu via their attack on Iran, which will bring in Russia on the side of Iran and the war will go nuclear, this is what the insance Netanyahu and his puppet Trump both want and the world is never going to be the same after this attack and nuclear war.
Zionists are destroyers of nations and humanity and it is on display in Palestine and Lebanon and Syria, these zionists are demonic blood lust killers.
And who do you think wrote the Bible genius? It sure as hell wasn’t a Christian. That there goes to show a lot of you bible thumping types don’t even know the very book you take as gospel when really it’s all a bunch of bullshit stolen from Greek Mythology mostly.
Good ole Pepe, putting the most positive spin possible on the catastrophe that was the loss of Syria. All of Russia and Iran’s efforts undone in a matter of days and the Shia arc broken. I’ll not be holding my breath for that rejuvenation.
And again, collective West political “elites” did not “bet the farm and the bank on this war”, far from it. Yes they pulled out all the stops to try and win a quick sanctions victory over Russia, but the stakes in the Ukraine war have been fundamentally asymmetric right from the get go. The war is existential for Russia, as Putin has said many times, but it’s just another proxy war for the Anglo-Satanists. Mountains of dead Slavs in the BlackRock Republic (formerly Ukraine) is just a bonus for them, whoever wins.
2025 will be decisive alright. Either Russia will get serious about the Third Patriotic War, abandon this SMO nonsense and re-engineer the entire nation for the existential fight, or Putin will accept a peace which delivers victory to the Anglo-Satanists. Putin has been a masterful peacetime leader, but Russia now needs a Führer who is not afraid to gamble on destroying the internal status quo and vested interests in order to prevail at all costs.
If “RUSSIA TODAY”, wasn’t paying Pepe to write this propaganda, he ( she/it?), would be living in, “The Jungle” in Paris, with ALL the other illegal North/African squatters!
We’re still living in the cancerous fallout of the first Renaissance and its pagan humanist values. The last thing we need is a second one. The west needs a counter-renaissance.
Have you given thought to the fact that those people God ordered killed were no different than the Israelis of today who, according to the last polls, are 99% in favor of the ongoing genocide? People who don’t deserve to have a land?
Looks like thinking is not your forte. Your prejudice is too strong to allow that. These might help you though:
http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2016/01/26/when-bad-things-happen/
http://biblicisminstitute.wordpress.com/2015/09/04/how-atheists-do-gods-will/
Only for Americans and Chinese.
For the rest of us in the world, it doesn’t sound too attractive.
Anyways, it’s not really a new idea. Its been around since about 2009. Even Brzezinski was a proponent of it. No doubt it has been proposed unofficially to China many times since then.
The fact that we do not already have it today can only point to the fact that China has rejected it in favour of G193.
As someone from a third party country, it gives me a little relief that China did not decide to Co-Rule the world alongside the USA.
That is why we cheer the development of BRICS.
” After Syria, Russia and/or Putin understands who the real enemy is. Seriously, PE concludes that without daring to point out that enemy?”
I, too, was wondering who is the real enemy that I think Hudson is supposed to have pointed out.
I think the real enemy is Israel.
Pepe, Hudson, and Putin don’t care what I think, but I would love to know what they think!!
He writes for many outlets, though I have never come across his articles in RT. Anyways RT gives a fairer picture than do CNN or BBC or Deutsche Welle, or France 24.
Pepe lives in Bangkok. Before that he lived in Hongkong, Singapore etc. He has lived in Eastern Asia for over 40 years.
PCR is rather sharp to be honest and I agree with him about Putin. An existential threat needs to be extinguished immediately before things get out of hand and escalate to WW III. The grinding, attritional warfare has worked, the Ukrainian army is decimated. I think it would be wise to go for the knockout punch and end this thing before Trump does something stupid, or the EU for that matter.
Nothing will stop or change unless we do it ourselves.
Natural law real law , might is right.
Write it down, paper, pen. Remember cavemen and vikings, real men and women.
Now living in memory? WHAT is THAT supposed to mean?
Too deep for me …
BREAKING NEWS:
Netanyahu underwent a total prostatectomy on Sunday in a deep bunker to ensure security, possibly against any intervention by the Houthis (whose surgical skills are sloppy).
It would be in bad taste to make disparaging remarks about someone undergoing surgery for prostate cancer but I think most people (and I mean normal people) in the world would agree that Netanyahu is an exception.
The Israeli media worried about such things as:
— who was in control while he was under general anesthesia? Like Gvir and Smotrich were not fully certified psychopaths with an impressive resume of crimes against humanity to ensure “continuity of government”));
— will be become “incontinent for the rest of his life”? Like wearing adult diapers like the IOF soldiers is anything for an Israeli to be ashamed of, or like the rest of his life (with a cardiac stent needing replacement soon) is necessarily a long stretch now;
— what will be the effects of post-op hormonal therapy that he will undergo? His testosterone levels will drop to near zero while his estrogen levels will be artificially elevated to starve neoplasm formation, which means his voice will rise a few octaves to make him sound like Josh Shapiro and his man boobs will need a bra. I am sure there are outlets of that Jewish chain store— Victoria’s Secrets– in Israel. Don’t worry about any danger of feminization of his warrior instincts. Think of Golda Meir.
So, all considered, it is not really that big of a deal.
It’s not like he suffered the heartbreak of psoriasis while passing kidney stones every day, having dialysis twice a week, depending on parenteral feeding due to chronic dysphagia (after swallowing a chunk of Syria) and struggling with a nasty, antibiotic-resistant Hansen’s disease.
You nailed in your first sentence: juvenile
Death to Israel and GENOCIDAL Jewish Mafia Tribe and its supporters Trump, Biden and Starmer.
LONG LIVE YEMEN.
Yemen hit Israel with missile HARD again. We are hoping for the demise of thousands of Jewish genocidal Tribe members, sending them into their graves.
In the US, Americans are getting a small piece of what US and his mad dog are doing in the West Asia. The world wants Americans be treated with the same kind of terror that US and Israel are using against the indigenous population, so the gullible Americas to wake up and do something. Trump must be treated the same way as he treated General Soleimani. You Americans must act now, otherwise you will be seen as enemy as well.
Tesla Cybertruck explosion outside Trump Hotel in Las Vegas investigated as act of terrorism.
Driver in New Orleans terrorist attack acted alone and was ‘100% inspired by ISIS,’ FBI says.
Is the story by FBI is True or FAKE? Why does the senile genocidal Biden knows about the Terrorist Attack at the Crocus City Hall in Moscow few days earlier where told Putin, yet his security agents cannot foresee when American terrorists strike at innocent people like in cases where have just happened in New Orleans and Las Vegas. isn’t it STRANGE?
The reason is that most of the TERRORS abroad are designed and carried out by the US/Israel and their terrorists including Al – Qaeda, ISIS, Kurdish terrorist groups, sunni terrorist groups or Taliban. All are on US/UK and NATO payroll. Israel does most of the terrors including false flag and assassination.
When you destroy US/Israel, you will get rid of terror in the world. If you want security and peace you must act now.
Israel was hit again by Yemenis. Here it is:
There is no introspection whatsoever from Pepe Escobar on the total failure of Axis of Resistance in 2024 and the great victory of Al Queda, Turkey, West and Israel. Just some meaningless drivel on how Axis will “fight back” in the future.
Look at how cunning U.S., Turkey and Israel are. They bid their time and waited for ripe moment of weakness in Russia and Iran and made their move to overthrow Syria. That was masterstroke.
Russia has been on losing streak. It lost Armenia, it lost Moldova, it lost Syria. Iran’s defeats are even more epic. Billions of investment in Syria all lost. Pepe doesn’t really analyst any of these.
Pepe Escobar is just writing total garbage. He is getting old and senile.
Maybe it’s time for Pepe to retire?
Liberating Levant: The Syrian Saga Is Yet To Unfold
by M.k. Bhadrakumar
Is Israel’s triumphalism over its land grab in Syria realistic? The hard reality is—Israel now has Al-Qaeda as a next-door neighbour…
https://www.outlookindia.com/international/liberating-levant-the-syrian-saga-is-yet-to-unfold
DISCLAIMER
I did not mean to express my personal wishes to Netanyahu. by this:
“It’s not like he suffered the heartbreak of psoriasis while passing kidney stones every day, having dialysis twice a week, depending on parenteral feeding due to chronic dysphagia (after swallowing a chunk of Syria) and struggling with a nasty, antibiotic-resistant Hansen’s disease.”
I always avoid expressing controversial opinions and I know this would create an instant controversy with people split between wishing him an excruciatingly painful but fast outcome (like pancreatic cancer) and others, animated by humanism, preferring him safe and sound for a long incarceration in conditions resembling Gaza but with interrogators using the methods Israel employs in its own prisons on the Palestinians..
No. I was only musing
my god, he sort of looks like golda meir to begin with, after this he will almost indistinguishable. could this be the long awaited second coming of golda?
cue the bond music, 🎵🎺🎶:
golda finger, she’s the the one, the one with the murderous touch, murder she must, she’s the golda finger…..
Western governments are to blame for everything bad that’s happening now and that’s ever happened. No other governments anywhere else are doing anything wrong now nor have done anything wrong.
All governments except the West give journalists like Escobar the right to print whatever they want.
A Brazilian from Rio pretending to explaine Russia and the West. He does not even have a winter.