On 17 May 2026, I was on “Switzerland” talking with Tom Switzer about a number of different subjects including the state of the war in Ukraine, the results of Trump’s trip to China, and the US obsession with settling scores with 94-year old Raul Castro by finally achieving regime change in Cuba.
"The pattern is this: a colonial or imperial power encounters a mind it cannot buy, a voice it cannot silence by ordinary means, a movement it cannot co-opt. And so it kills. And then it lies about the killing. And then, when the lie is exposed — years later, decades later — it expresses regret in carefully managed language while ensuring that no one of consequence is ever held accountable.
"The apartheid regime killed Biko and blamed a hunger strike. The U.S. government killed its way across Central America and called it “foreign policy.” The British Empire carved up Africa, Asia, and the Middle East and called it “civilization.” The Zionist regime is erasing Palestine and calling it “self-defense.” The Pentagon operates across the African continent through AFRICOM — the United States Africa Command, established in 2007 — with bases, training programs, drone operations, and “advisory” missions in dozens of countries, and calls it “security cooperation”; attempting now to murder leaders of the Sahel Alliance who strive for a free and prosperous African People.
Mearsheimer stated the neocon agenda is to promote democracy and often at the end of a rifle barrel. To me these people are loathsome, and have no real interest in democracy, but in power and control, and the welfare of a few. Perhaps they even fool themselves. Power is their game and the charade that they are interested in democracy is nothing more then a sham to cover their innate barbarism. Nuland and the neocons strongly support Israel's genocide since they have very strong ties to Israel and Zionist interests. No normal human being adopts this philosophy, and Mearsheimer should not provide them with any credibility in terms of their stated goals otherwise he would have to defend Hitler should he come back. They supported all our Middle Eastern wars and really wanted a Biden win so that they were secure that the war in Ukraine would continue and ultimately bring Russia down, another one of their goals.
What emerged in St. Petersburg in 2025 was not the birth of a new ideology.
It was the consolidation of an already existing transnational far-right ecosystem under a Russian geopolitical umbrella.
The gathering around the “Paladins” network brought together actors and milieus connected to European identitarianism, remigration activism, neo-fascist movements, ethnonationalist groupings, and sections of the New Right. Among the networks and environments linked to the broader ecosystem were circles connected to Golden Dawn, Forza Nuova, Falange Española, Patriotic Alternative, AfD-related milieus, Alain de Benoist, and Aleksandr Dugin.
What matters is not whether every participant receives direct orders from Moscow.
That is not how modern influence ecosystems operate.
The Kremlin does not need formal control over every activist, publisher, influencer, or media platform. It is enough that these environments move in the same strategic direction:
Weakening NATO.
Fragmenting Europe.
Undermining the EU.
Reducing support for Ukraine.
Eroding trust in democratic institutions.
Turning minorities and immigrants into scapegoats.
This is why Russia has increasingly cultivated relationships with parts of the European far right. The overlap is ideological, cultural, and geopolitical.
Milieus connected to remigration ideology, “The Great Replacement,” identitarian metapolitics, and anti-liberal civilizational rhetoric have become useful tools for destabilization and polarization across Europe.
The same pattern has appeared around networks and platforms linked to Pravfond, Voice of Europe, and Euromore: alternative media ecosystems, “anti-establishment” influencers, ideological publishing houses, and extremist milieus collectively amplifying narratives that benefit Russian strategic interests.
St. Petersburg 2025 symbolized something larger than a conference.
It demonstrated how parts of the European far right are increasingly functioning as a transnational ideological ecosystem with geopolitical value for the Kremlin.
I often think him quite naive regarding ultimate goals of all US policy actions, naive that he hasn't yet been able to accept that the failures and atrocities are planned rather than errors or one-offs.
What emerged in St. Petersburg in 2025 was not the birth of a new ideology.
It was the consolidation of an already existing transnational far-right ecosystem under a Russian geopolitical umbrella.
The gathering around the “Paladins” network brought together actors and milieus connected to European identitarianism, remigration activism, neo-fascist movements, ethnonationalist groupings, and sections of the New Right. Among the networks and environments linked to the broader ecosystem were circles connected to Golden Dawn, Forza Nuova, Falange Española, Patriotic Alternative, AfD-related milieus, Alain de Benoist, and Aleksandr Dugin.
What matters is not whether every participant receives direct orders from Moscow.
That is not how modern influence ecosystems operate.
The Kremlin does not need formal control over every activist, publisher, influencer, or media platform. It is enough that these environments move in the same strategic direction:
Weakening NATO.
Fragmenting Europe.
Undermining the EU.
Reducing support for Ukraine.
Eroding trust in democratic institutions.
Turning minorities and immigrants into scapegoats.
This is why Russia has increasingly cultivated relationships with parts of the European far right. The overlap is ideological, cultural, and geopolitical.
Milieus connected to remigration ideology, “The Great Replacement,” identitarian metapolitics, and anti-liberal civilizational rhetoric have become useful tools for destabilization and polarization across Europe.
The same pattern has appeared around networks and platforms linked to Pravfond, Voice of Europe, and Euromore: alternative media ecosystems, “anti-establishment” influencers, ideological publishing houses, and extremist milieus collectively amplifying narratives that benefit Russian strategic interests.
St. Petersburg 2025 symbolized something larger than a conference.
It demonstrated how parts of the European far right are increasingly functioning as a transnational ideological ecosystem with geopolitical value for the Kremlin.
A renewed war with Iran would not simply raise oil prices — it could shatter the fragile foundations of the global economy. Tankers stranded in the Gulf, collapsing stock markets, runaway inflation, and panic across financial systems could push the world toward its darkest economic crisis in decades. Factories would slow, unemployment would surge, food prices would soar, and vulnerable nations could descend into riots, debt collapse, and political chaos. The shockwaves would reach every household, from fuel stations to supermarket shelves, turning a regional conflict into a worldwide economic catastrophe.
What emerged in St. Petersburg in 2025 was not the birth of a new ideology.
It was the consolidation of an already existing transnational far-right ecosystem under a Russian geopolitical umbrella.
The gathering around the “Paladins” network brought together actors and milieus connected to European identitarianism, remigration activism, neo-fascist movements, ethnonationalist groupings, and sections of the New Right. Among the networks and environments linked to the broader ecosystem were circles connected to Golden Dawn, Forza Nuova, Falange Española, Patriotic Alternative, AfD-related milieus, Alain de Benoist, and Aleksandr Dugin.
What matters is not whether every participant receives direct orders from Moscow.
That is not how modern influence ecosystems operate.
The Kremlin does not need formal control over every activist, publisher, influencer, or media platform. It is enough that these environments move in the same strategic direction:
Weakening NATO.
Fragmenting Europe.
Undermining the EU.
Reducing support for Ukraine.
Eroding trust in democratic institutions.
Turning minorities and immigrants into scapegoats.
This is why Russia has increasingly cultivated relationships with parts of the European far right. The overlap is ideological, cultural, and geopolitical.
Milieus connected to remigration ideology, “The Great Replacement,” identitarian metapolitics, and anti-liberal civilizational rhetoric have become useful tools for destabilization and polarization across Europe.
The same pattern has appeared around networks and platforms linked to Pravfond, Voice of Europe, and Euromore: alternative media ecosystems, “anti-establishment” influencers, ideological publishing houses, and extremist milieus collectively amplifying narratives that benefit Russian strategic interests.
St. Petersburg 2025 symbolized something larger than a conference.
It demonstrated how parts of the European far right are increasingly functioning as a transnational ideological ecosystem with geopolitical value for the Kremlin.
I have agreed with virtually everything I have ever heard John say. The one point where I would differ is his notion that population size, along with per capita GDP, is a determining factor in a country’s power. That was true — until the new kid on the block showed up. Going forward, AI robots and AI agents will increasingly replace human labor, and it is conceivable that within a relatively short period of time there will be hundreds of millions of robots, fundamentally diminishing the role of human population in any balance-of-power equation.
This, in turn, speaks to a broader limitation: thinkers like John tend to stay in their lane. They are brilliant within their domain, but the accelerating pace of technological change demands a wider lens. And that is precisely why people should be paying attention to my two films and the framework I call the Civilizational Operating System — because what I am offering is not just another geopolitical theory, but a comprehensive blueprint for the best way forward.
Maybe, as the authors of Why Nations Fail say, the Russian economy miracle can be explained as a productivity boost as Russia enters planned economy from Feudalism.
At least the courts forced the Voice of America back on the radio- Truth needs to be spoken NOW,,, waiting for history to judge is a tragedy for next generations.Russia called in bomb threats last election here in Pennsylvania ▪︎ That is not acceptable ⚠️🔍🌐
The children in the white shrouds are not abstractions. They are the cost of your comfort, and they have names you never learned because learning them would make the barbecue taste different.
This is not a chapter for people who want to feel good about Memorial Day Othough those people obviously need it the most). This is a chapter for people willing to feel what Memorial Day actually means — if it is to mean anything at all.
The children in the white shrouds are not abstractions. They are the cost of your comfort, and they have names you never learned because learning them would make the barbecue taste different.
This is not a chapter for people who want to feel good about Memorial Day Othough those people obviously need it the most). This is a chapter for people willing to feel what Memorial Day actually means — if it is to mean anything at all.
The long standing argument that China intends to invade Taiwan’s currently being seriously undermined by the fact Xi hasn’t made a move in the last few weeks while Trump seems largely disinterested and otherwise preoccupied in the Middle East.
Forgive my naivité, I think the trump clown the one blowing the trumpet , will stay in "power" as long as he pleases his masters. He's got many: Netanyahu is the team leader of a very powerful bunch of financiers, bankers, media tycoons.... etc. On top of those there's the equally powerful military-industrial complex (here his advisers told him the sad story of president J.F. Kennedy and his fate when he tried to curb their profits by planning to withdraw from the deadly Vietnam war.) By pleasing both the clown trump is actually killing two birds with one stone. And for a mere clown I'd say that's an achievement, that's also why his clear symptoms of senile dementia are tolerated
You lack the brains to understand funding of foreign countries, by the US, sweet cheeks? I used very basic, kindergarten level English so that you could understand.
And you obviously lack cojones and it's also obvious you've serious prostate issues wgich impairs your feeble judgmen .
I will mute di thread because onestly you're not at all interesting nor stimulating. No need to reply. oh! try a mechanical self penetration it will calm you down
Regarding upcoming debate on the US going after non-democracies and make them democracies, what would your opponents say about Azerbaijan?:)) Is it too democratic for them not to consider going after it?:)
This contest is no longer the neo-fascism of Trump & MAGA vs, the excessive LIBERALISM of the Democrats. What we are looking at is international Fascism vs international Socialism. I do not find either option to be attractive; So the sooner the world develops a CENRTRIST party the better.
The interview was outstanding. Tom Switzer asked insightful questions about Middle East events, and Professor Mearsheimer provided a thorough analysis. It was incredibly informative!
What emerged in St. Petersburg in 2025 was not the birth of a new ideology.
It was the consolidation of an already existing transnational far-right ecosystem under a Russian geopolitical umbrella.
The gathering around the “Paladins” network brought together actors and milieus connected to European identitarianism, remigration activism, neo-fascist movements, ethnonationalist groupings, and sections of the New Right. Among the networks and environments linked to the broader ecosystem were circles connected to Golden Dawn, Forza Nuova, Falange Española, Patriotic Alternative, AfD-related milieus, Alain de Benoist, and Aleksandr Dugin.
What matters is not whether every participant receives direct orders from Moscow.
That is not how modern influence ecosystems operate.
The Kremlin does not need formal control over every activist, publisher, influencer, or media platform. It is enough that these environments move in the same strategic direction:
Weakening NATO.
Fragmenting Europe.
Undermining the EU.
Reducing support for Ukraine.
Eroding trust in democratic institutions.
Turning minorities and immigrants into scapegoats.
This is why Russia has increasingly cultivated relationships with parts of the European far right. The overlap is ideological, cultural, and geopolitical.
Milieus connected to remigration ideology, “The Great Replacement,” identitarian metapolitics, and anti-liberal civilizational rhetoric have become useful tools for destabilization and polarization across Europe.
The same pattern has appeared around networks and platforms linked to Pravfond, Voice of Europe, and Euromore: alternative media ecosystems, “anti-establishment” influencers, ideological publishing houses, and extremist milieus collectively amplifying narratives that benefit Russian strategic interests.
St. Petersburg 2025 symbolized something larger than a conference.
It demonstrated how parts of the European far right are increasingly functioning as a transnational ideological ecosystem with geopolitical value for the Kremlin.
The Principle of "CUIUS REGIO, EIUS RELIGIO" ("Whose Region, Their Religion") was a foundational Principle of Peace spelled out first in the 1555 Augsburg Peace and then re-stated in the Westphalian Treaties of 1648. Unfortunately the USA has forgotten of this Principle.
The USA, its CIA and many Religious Sects and Cults believe in a US "Ideologic Supremacy" (Manifest Destiny) that has to be imposed on others with more or less Brutality, Coercion and Cruelty.
In fact they cover-up their relentless push for Economic Domination (Economic Extraction through Economic, Cultural and Intelligence Domination) with veils of Ideologic Dogma, in clear opposition with well-known Medieval Principle of Peace.
"The pattern is this: a colonial or imperial power encounters a mind it cannot buy, a voice it cannot silence by ordinary means, a movement it cannot co-opt. And so it kills. And then it lies about the killing. And then, when the lie is exposed — years later, decades later — it expresses regret in carefully managed language while ensuring that no one of consequence is ever held accountable.
"The apartheid regime killed Biko and blamed a hunger strike. The U.S. government killed its way across Central America and called it “foreign policy.” The British Empire carved up Africa, Asia, and the Middle East and called it “civilization.” The Zionist regime is erasing Palestine and calling it “self-defense.” The Pentagon operates across the African continent through AFRICOM — the United States Africa Command, established in 2007 — with bases, training programs, drone operations, and “advisory” missions in dozens of countries, and calls it “security cooperation”; attempting now to murder leaders of the Sahel Alliance who strive for a free and prosperous African People.
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/steve-biko-the-drum-that-will-not
Mearsheimer stated the neocon agenda is to promote democracy and often at the end of a rifle barrel. To me these people are loathsome, and have no real interest in democracy, but in power and control, and the welfare of a few. Perhaps they even fool themselves. Power is their game and the charade that they are interested in democracy is nothing more then a sham to cover their innate barbarism. Nuland and the neocons strongly support Israel's genocide since they have very strong ties to Israel and Zionist interests. No normal human being adopts this philosophy, and Mearsheimer should not provide them with any credibility in terms of their stated goals otherwise he would have to defend Hitler should he come back. They supported all our Middle Eastern wars and really wanted a Biden win so that they were secure that the war in Ukraine would continue and ultimately bring Russia down, another one of their goals.
What emerged in St. Petersburg in 2025 was not the birth of a new ideology.
It was the consolidation of an already existing transnational far-right ecosystem under a Russian geopolitical umbrella.
The gathering around the “Paladins” network brought together actors and milieus connected to European identitarianism, remigration activism, neo-fascist movements, ethnonationalist groupings, and sections of the New Right. Among the networks and environments linked to the broader ecosystem were circles connected to Golden Dawn, Forza Nuova, Falange Española, Patriotic Alternative, AfD-related milieus, Alain de Benoist, and Aleksandr Dugin.
What matters is not whether every participant receives direct orders from Moscow.
That is not how modern influence ecosystems operate.
The Kremlin does not need formal control over every activist, publisher, influencer, or media platform. It is enough that these environments move in the same strategic direction:
Weakening NATO.
Fragmenting Europe.
Undermining the EU.
Reducing support for Ukraine.
Eroding trust in democratic institutions.
Turning minorities and immigrants into scapegoats.
This is why Russia has increasingly cultivated relationships with parts of the European far right. The overlap is ideological, cultural, and geopolitical.
Milieus connected to remigration ideology, “The Great Replacement,” identitarian metapolitics, and anti-liberal civilizational rhetoric have become useful tools for destabilization and polarization across Europe.
The same pattern has appeared around networks and platforms linked to Pravfond, Voice of Europe, and Euromore: alternative media ecosystems, “anti-establishment” influencers, ideological publishing houses, and extremist milieus collectively amplifying narratives that benefit Russian strategic interests.
St. Petersburg 2025 symbolized something larger than a conference.
It demonstrated how parts of the European far right are increasingly functioning as a transnational ideological ecosystem with geopolitical value for the Kremlin.
Relevant sources and documentation:
Rabulisten / Tore Rasmussen:
https://rabulisten.no/emner/tore-rasmussen/
Aftenposten on Legatum, the far right, and “The Great Replacement”:
https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/i/bgqwqA/aldri-har-faktasjekk-av-representanter-for-ytre-hoeyre-vaert-viktigere
Samtiden on Legatum Publishing and Renaud Camus:
https://www.samtiden.no/bok/forlag-ble-utsatt-for-scenenekt-av-litteraturhuset-i-oslo/1032181
The Insider on the St. Petersburg gathering:
https://theins.press/en/politics/285889
Meduza on the Paladins network and European far-right connections:
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/24/we-are-not-subject-to-russophobia
Searchlight Magazine on an international pro-Kremlin far-right axis:
https://searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/international-far-right-pro-putin-axis-launched-in-russia/
European Parliament resolution on Russian influence networks:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/B-9-2024-0266_EN.html
The Guardian on the Voice of Europe operation:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/29/belgian-police-search-eu-parliament-office-russian-interference
United24 Media on the neo-Nazi gathering in St. Petersburg:
https://united24media.com/world/why-a-neo-nazi-gathering-was-held-under-the-auspices-of-the-russian-orthodox-church-14367
I often think him quite naive regarding ultimate goals of all US policy actions, naive that he hasn't yet been able to accept that the failures and atrocities are planned rather than errors or one-offs.
What emerged in St. Petersburg in 2025 was not the birth of a new ideology.
It was the consolidation of an already existing transnational far-right ecosystem under a Russian geopolitical umbrella.
The gathering around the “Paladins” network brought together actors and milieus connected to European identitarianism, remigration activism, neo-fascist movements, ethnonationalist groupings, and sections of the New Right. Among the networks and environments linked to the broader ecosystem were circles connected to Golden Dawn, Forza Nuova, Falange Española, Patriotic Alternative, AfD-related milieus, Alain de Benoist, and Aleksandr Dugin.
What matters is not whether every participant receives direct orders from Moscow.
That is not how modern influence ecosystems operate.
The Kremlin does not need formal control over every activist, publisher, influencer, or media platform. It is enough that these environments move in the same strategic direction:
Weakening NATO.
Fragmenting Europe.
Undermining the EU.
Reducing support for Ukraine.
Eroding trust in democratic institutions.
Turning minorities and immigrants into scapegoats.
This is why Russia has increasingly cultivated relationships with parts of the European far right. The overlap is ideological, cultural, and geopolitical.
Milieus connected to remigration ideology, “The Great Replacement,” identitarian metapolitics, and anti-liberal civilizational rhetoric have become useful tools for destabilization and polarization across Europe.
The same pattern has appeared around networks and platforms linked to Pravfond, Voice of Europe, and Euromore: alternative media ecosystems, “anti-establishment” influencers, ideological publishing houses, and extremist milieus collectively amplifying narratives that benefit Russian strategic interests.
St. Petersburg 2025 symbolized something larger than a conference.
It demonstrated how parts of the European far right are increasingly functioning as a transnational ideological ecosystem with geopolitical value for the Kremlin.
Relevant sources and documentation:
Rabulisten / Tore Rasmussen:
https://rabulisten.no/emner/tore-rasmussen/
Aftenposten on Legatum, the far right, and “The Great Replacement”:
https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/i/bgqwqA/aldri-har-faktasjekk-av-representanter-for-ytre-hoeyre-vaert-viktigere
Samtiden on Legatum Publishing and Renaud Camus:
https://www.samtiden.no/bok/forlag-ble-utsatt-for-scenenekt-av-litteraturhuset-i-oslo/1032181
The Insider on the St. Petersburg gathering:
https://theins.press/en/politics/285889
Meduza on the Paladins network and European far-right connections:
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/24/we-are-not-subject-to-russophobia
Searchlight Magazine on an international pro-Kremlin far-right axis:
https://searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/international-far-right-pro-putin-axis-launched-in-russia/
European Parliament resolution on Russian influence networks:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/B-9-2024-0266_EN.html
The Guardian on the Voice of Europe operation:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/29/belgian-police-search-eu-parliament-office-russian-interference
United24 Media on the neo-Nazi gathering in St. Petersburg:
https://united24media.com/world/why-a-neo-nazi-gathering-was-held-under-the-auspices-of-the-russian-orthodox-church-14367
A renewed war with Iran would not simply raise oil prices — it could shatter the fragile foundations of the global economy. Tankers stranded in the Gulf, collapsing stock markets, runaway inflation, and panic across financial systems could push the world toward its darkest economic crisis in decades. Factories would slow, unemployment would surge, food prices would soar, and vulnerable nations could descend into riots, debt collapse, and political chaos. The shockwaves would reach every household, from fuel stations to supermarket shelves, turning a regional conflict into a worldwide economic catastrophe.
Depends on how much pressure Tel Aviv applies.
What emerged in St. Petersburg in 2025 was not the birth of a new ideology.
It was the consolidation of an already existing transnational far-right ecosystem under a Russian geopolitical umbrella.
The gathering around the “Paladins” network brought together actors and milieus connected to European identitarianism, remigration activism, neo-fascist movements, ethnonationalist groupings, and sections of the New Right. Among the networks and environments linked to the broader ecosystem were circles connected to Golden Dawn, Forza Nuova, Falange Española, Patriotic Alternative, AfD-related milieus, Alain de Benoist, and Aleksandr Dugin.
What matters is not whether every participant receives direct orders from Moscow.
That is not how modern influence ecosystems operate.
The Kremlin does not need formal control over every activist, publisher, influencer, or media platform. It is enough that these environments move in the same strategic direction:
Weakening NATO.
Fragmenting Europe.
Undermining the EU.
Reducing support for Ukraine.
Eroding trust in democratic institutions.
Turning minorities and immigrants into scapegoats.
This is why Russia has increasingly cultivated relationships with parts of the European far right. The overlap is ideological, cultural, and geopolitical.
Milieus connected to remigration ideology, “The Great Replacement,” identitarian metapolitics, and anti-liberal civilizational rhetoric have become useful tools for destabilization and polarization across Europe.
The same pattern has appeared around networks and platforms linked to Pravfond, Voice of Europe, and Euromore: alternative media ecosystems, “anti-establishment” influencers, ideological publishing houses, and extremist milieus collectively amplifying narratives that benefit Russian strategic interests.
St. Petersburg 2025 symbolized something larger than a conference.
It demonstrated how parts of the European far right are increasingly functioning as a transnational ideological ecosystem with geopolitical value for the Kremlin.
Relevant sources and documentation:
Rabulisten / Tore Rasmussen:
https://rabulisten.no/emner/tore-rasmussen/
Aftenposten on Legatum, the far right, and “The Great Replacement”:
https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/i/bgqwqA/aldri-har-faktasjekk-av-representanter-for-ytre-hoeyre-vaert-viktigere
Samtiden on Legatum Publishing and Renaud Camus:
https://www.samtiden.no/bok/forlag-ble-utsatt-for-scenenekt-av-litteraturhuset-i-oslo/1032181
The Insider on the St. Petersburg gathering:
https://theins.press/en/politics/285889
Meduza on the Paladins network and European far-right connections:
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/24/we-are-not-subject-to-russophobia
Searchlight Magazine on an international pro-Kremlin far-right axis:
https://searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/international-far-right-pro-putin-axis-launched-in-russia/
European Parliament resolution on Russian influence networks:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/B-9-2024-0266_EN.html
The Guardian on the Voice of Europe operation:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/29/belgian-police-search-eu-parliament-office-russian-interference
United24 Media on the neo-Nazi gathering in St. Petersburg:
https://united24media.com/world/why-a-neo-nazi-gathering-was-held-under-the-auspices-of-the-russian-orthodox-church-14367
We own Tel-Aviv.
Sure we do bud.. sure we do.. keep telling yourself that..
Our foreign aid proves it.....
I have agreed with virtually everything I have ever heard John say. The one point where I would differ is his notion that population size, along with per capita GDP, is a determining factor in a country’s power. That was true — until the new kid on the block showed up. Going forward, AI robots and AI agents will increasingly replace human labor, and it is conceivable that within a relatively short period of time there will be hundreds of millions of robots, fundamentally diminishing the role of human population in any balance-of-power equation.
This, in turn, speaks to a broader limitation: thinkers like John tend to stay in their lane. They are brilliant within their domain, but the accelerating pace of technological change demands a wider lens. And that is precisely why people should be paying attention to my two films and the framework I call the Civilizational Operating System — because what I am offering is not just another geopolitical theory, but a comprehensive blueprint for the best way forward.
Only his hairdresser knows for sure.
Maybe, as the authors of Why Nations Fail say, the Russian economy miracle can be explained as a productivity boost as Russia enters planned economy from Feudalism.
At least the courts forced the Voice of America back on the radio- Truth needs to be spoken NOW,,, waiting for history to judge is a tragedy for next generations.Russia called in bomb threats last election here in Pennsylvania ▪︎ That is not acceptable ⚠️🔍🌐
The children in the white shrouds are not abstractions. They are the cost of your comfort, and they have names you never learned because learning them would make the barbecue taste different.
This is not a chapter for people who want to feel good about Memorial Day Othough those people obviously need it the most). This is a chapter for people willing to feel what Memorial Day actually means — if it is to mean anything at all.
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/memorial-day-in-memoriam-remembering
The children in the white shrouds are not abstractions. They are the cost of your comfort, and they have names you never learned because learning them would make the barbecue taste different.
This is not a chapter for people who want to feel good about Memorial Day Othough those people obviously need it the most). This is a chapter for people willing to feel what Memorial Day actually means — if it is to mean anything at all.
https://griobhtha1.substack.com/p/memorial-day-in-memoriam-remembering
The long standing argument that China intends to invade Taiwan’s currently being seriously undermined by the fact Xi hasn’t made a move in the last few weeks while Trump seems largely disinterested and otherwise preoccupied in the Middle East.
Forgive my naivité, I think the trump clown the one blowing the trumpet , will stay in "power" as long as he pleases his masters. He's got many: Netanyahu is the team leader of a very powerful bunch of financiers, bankers, media tycoons.... etc. On top of those there's the equally powerful military-industrial complex (here his advisers told him the sad story of president J.F. Kennedy and his fate when he tried to curb their profits by planning to withdraw from the deadly Vietnam war.) By pleasing both the clown trump is actually killing two birds with one stone. And for a mere clown I'd say that's an achievement, that's also why his clear symptoms of senile dementia are tolerated
Michael, honey, the US funds Israel - they don't fund us.
Dementia is a serious illness. When was Trump diagnosed?
sweety-pie in your next reply try just make an effort to be more articulate and comprehensible. cheeri-o
You lack the brains to understand funding of foreign countries, by the US, sweet cheeks? I used very basic, kindergarten level English so that you could understand.
And you obviously lack cojones and it's also obvious you've serious prostate issues wgich impairs your feeble judgmen .
I will mute di thread because onestly you're not at all interesting nor stimulating. No need to reply. oh! try a mechanical self penetration it will calm you down
You've misgendered me, honey. Again, you don't understand that the US funds Israel, they don't fund the US. You lack reading comprehension.
Regarding upcoming debate on the US going after non-democracies and make them democracies, what would your opponents say about Azerbaijan?:)) Is it too democratic for them not to consider going after it?:)
This contest is no longer the neo-fascism of Trump & MAGA vs, the excessive LIBERALISM of the Democrats. What we are looking at is international Fascism vs international Socialism. I do not find either option to be attractive; So the sooner the world develops a CENRTRIST party the better.
Define the neo-fascism of Trump and MAGA, I didn't get that memo.
The interview was outstanding. Tom Switzer asked insightful questions about Middle East events, and Professor Mearsheimer provided a thorough analysis. It was incredibly informative!
What emerged in St. Petersburg in 2025 was not the birth of a new ideology.
It was the consolidation of an already existing transnational far-right ecosystem under a Russian geopolitical umbrella.
The gathering around the “Paladins” network brought together actors and milieus connected to European identitarianism, remigration activism, neo-fascist movements, ethnonationalist groupings, and sections of the New Right. Among the networks and environments linked to the broader ecosystem were circles connected to Golden Dawn, Forza Nuova, Falange Española, Patriotic Alternative, AfD-related milieus, Alain de Benoist, and Aleksandr Dugin.
What matters is not whether every participant receives direct orders from Moscow.
That is not how modern influence ecosystems operate.
The Kremlin does not need formal control over every activist, publisher, influencer, or media platform. It is enough that these environments move in the same strategic direction:
Weakening NATO.
Fragmenting Europe.
Undermining the EU.
Reducing support for Ukraine.
Eroding trust in democratic institutions.
Turning minorities and immigrants into scapegoats.
This is why Russia has increasingly cultivated relationships with parts of the European far right. The overlap is ideological, cultural, and geopolitical.
Milieus connected to remigration ideology, “The Great Replacement,” identitarian metapolitics, and anti-liberal civilizational rhetoric have become useful tools for destabilization and polarization across Europe.
The same pattern has appeared around networks and platforms linked to Pravfond, Voice of Europe, and Euromore: alternative media ecosystems, “anti-establishment” influencers, ideological publishing houses, and extremist milieus collectively amplifying narratives that benefit Russian strategic interests.
St. Petersburg 2025 symbolized something larger than a conference.
It demonstrated how parts of the European far right are increasingly functioning as a transnational ideological ecosystem with geopolitical value for the Kremlin.
Relevant sources and documentation:
Rabulisten / Tore Rasmussen:
https://rabulisten.no/emner/tore-rasmussen/
Aftenposten on Legatum, the far right, and “The Great Replacement”:
https://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/debatt/i/bgqwqA/aldri-har-faktasjekk-av-representanter-for-ytre-hoeyre-vaert-viktigere
Samtiden on Legatum Publishing and Renaud Camus:
https://www.samtiden.no/bok/forlag-ble-utsatt-for-scenenekt-av-litteraturhuset-i-oslo/1032181
The Insider on the St. Petersburg gathering:
https://theins.press/en/politics/285889
Meduza on the Paladins network and European far-right connections:
https://meduza.io/en/feature/2025/09/24/we-are-not-subject-to-russophobia
Searchlight Magazine on an international pro-Kremlin far-right axis:
https://searchlightmagazine.com/2025/10/international-far-right-pro-putin-axis-launched-in-russia/
European Parliament resolution on Russian influence networks:
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/B-9-2024-0266_EN.html
The Guardian on the Voice of Europe operation:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/29/belgian-police-search-eu-parliament-office-russian-interference
United24 Media on the neo-Nazi gathering in St. Petersburg:
https://united24media.com/world/why-a-neo-nazi-gathering-was-held-under-the-auspices-of-the-russian-orthodox-church-14367
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