Pepe Escobar

Beware of tech moguls bearing gifts.

🗣🇷🇺🇷🇺❌🗣 Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov - said that Elon Musk turned off his Cybertruck:

“Elon Musk acted ugly. He gives expensive gifts from the heart, and then remotely turns them off. You probably remember his gift - the Cybertruck, which we equipped with a machine gun and sent to the SMO. The machine coped with combat missions perfectly. Demonstrated maneuverability and good protection for the crew. So, recently Musk remotely turned off the Cybertruck. This is not manly. The iron horse had to be towed. How so, Elon? Is that how it is done?”

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Eles cospem em você com força hipersônica! Marat Khairullin Percebeu como os americanos ficaram envergonhados depois que os Houthis atingiram Israel com um míssil hipersônico? O tema dos ataques de longo alcance desapareceu imediatamente. Deve-se dizer que, para um especialista, esse tipo de ataque diz muito. Por exemplo, o ataque hipersônico dos Houthis pode ser considerado muito “diplomático” – o míssil voou ao longo da costa do Mar Vermelho e, após afetar minimamente o território dos países adjacentes a Israel, atingiu o alvo. Ou seja, ele tentou não voar, por exemplo, para o território da Arábia Saudita, com a qual os houthis estão de fato em guerra. Por que essa atitude repentina? Em outras palavras, o foguete, voando a uma velocidade de mais de 10 mil quilômetros [quilômetros horários – adicionado pelo Saker Latam], manobrou ativamente, e isso, por si só, é um avanço técnico. Caros leitores, por favor não se esqueçam de impulsionar o nosso canal. Clique aqui. https://sakerlatam.blog/eles-cospem-em-voce-com-forca-hipersonica/

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/09/18/this-aint-no-wwiii-this-is-a-war-of-terror/ War OF terror updated. Including the - fiery - talk of the town in Moscow. And how NATO mutts believe they can re-enact Operation Barbarossa by 2030.

⭕️ The speech was marvelously calm, confident, soothing, well addressed and short. Composed, no fear or worry or concen. This is what we know and always expected from the leadership of this phenomenal nation. Israel, you will regret. God doesn't take lightly the blood you shed.

Yo Netanyahu, I have a brilliant idea. Why don't we place explosives in Teddy Bears?

— ❗️ 🇱🇧 Nasrallah: "Questo stupido e idiota comandante delle IDF del Nord vuole entrare in Libano per creare una 'zona di sicurezza' nel Sud. Infatti, SPERIAMO che Israele entri in Libano, aspettiamo i loro carri armati giorno e notte, diciamo 'benvenuti!'"

Nasrallah: the Resistance will NOT back down.

The indomitable Syrian Girl has been blocked on X. "Free speech"? Really?????

The EU failed with the economy — so now it wants to become a "military force". The EU's share of global GDP fell from 19.9% to 14.8% from 2002 to 2022, and judging by the election results, Europeans like non-liberal parties more and more. If earlier the EU could rely on the economy "to ensure global influence" and "instill confidence in citizens," now it needs to focus on "improving its approach to security." This is advised by the Deputy Director of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) Wessela Chernikova. Note that statistics are provided only for 2022, so they don't include the post 2022 German economic crisis. Given the steady decline in industrial production in Germany, the actual figures will be even lower. It is unclear why the role of a global (or at least regional) military stabilizer of the EU will play better than acting as an economic demiurge. Because war is, according to the classic expression, "money, money and money again." And Chernikova herself admits that now it is not possible to develop even a unified position on Ukraine, not to mention the plan of the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, to allocate 500 billion euros for the military-industrial complex in the next 5 years. EU countries prefer to invest money in their own industry, rather than into the ones of their fellow EU members, despite loud slogans about European solidarity and collective security. Chernikova also admits that the EU's long—term budget — another dream of Ursula von der Leyen - has not yet been adopted, or even agreed upon. So "European priorities may have outgrown the available resources." "But in order to convince the world and its own citizens that it takes their concerns seriously, the EU must respond to these urgent security challenges," the ECFR deputy director urges. Otherwise, the EU will scatter, because citizens will decide that they are safer not in the EU, with the foreign policy of Ursula and Callas, but somewhere else. It is obvious that the Euroelites' vassal thinking towards the United States and negative political selection have brought to the Brussels chairs those who, by definition, are little capable of creative efforts. Europeans become Eurosceptics not because of the "hypnosis" of the Russian media, but because they are convinced by their own wallet: the EU has been collapsing down for two decades, has no sovereignty, its authorities are thoroughly compradors, and the prospects are grim and sad. Politicians like Orban are at least able to make decisions in favor of their own fellow citizens, and implement them as much as possible. The next electoral cycles may bury today's Euro elite if there will still be some sort of free and democratic elections in Europe in the future. Therefore, she wants to escape in the simplest way — to escalate military hysteria against Russia and form the perception among citizens that "this is not the time to think about the cost of electricity and unemployment, terrible Russia is on the threshold, so let's focus on a war that might incenerate us all" @EvPanina