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Russia continues advancing toward victory, six more towns in Zaporizhia and Donetsk last days, not to forget about Pokrovsk and Kupiansk last weeks, quite important strongholds for the Ukrainian side, now Russian. The four oblasts are going to be Russia, this is inevitable. If Ukraine had some sense, they would use the parts of these territories it holds as a decent negotiating card, but they don't have it, so Russia will take them by force. Then we'll see how the power balance remains, it may go even further. Security guarantee demands in the mouth of NATO and its vasels equal to a de facto NATO adhesion of what remains of Ukraine, and Russia, as the inevitable victor in this war, is not going to concede on that, no matter how you call it. The Minsk accords showed Russia that the Europeans and the US are not trustworthy, so they are not going to fall for their bullshit again, they are fighting and winning, and they will set the military terms of the outcome to the losers. Without counting Ukraine, Europe is the big loser of this conflict. They have been conned by the US in a way, which was the biggest perpetrator of all this, now Europe depends on the US energy supply at a much higher price. The US blew up the Nord Stream, Biden was asked about it, and his answer gives no room for doubt. European leaders are both stupid and sold out to do anything about it though, and keep falling like in the last military budgets approved in favor of the US industry. Propaganda noise about the Russian collapse is smoke, that is not going to happen. Russia has no problem keeping this ongoing economically, militarily, and socially. Ukraine has more manpower problems, and we'll see how long European cucks want to continue funding the US military industry, and the corrupts in Ukraine. The trend won't change, Russia will win. When? Unknown, maybe months, probably years.

No, he let him live until the sixth round.

Jake Paul's fight was even better. Fighting a professional boxer is not a good idea, who would have guessed that? He got a good reality check and a broken jaw.

Basically, the criminals have custody of the evidence related to their crimes, so they attempt to erase it as much as possible. I don't think people are letting this go, the stink comes directly from Trump.

AZAPAC, the Anti Zionist America Pac, created this year to fight against AIPAC on their same plane. Awesome presentation ad: Interview with its founder: He denounces the billions that fly from the US to Israel, and for what... for horrendous crimes against the Palestinians. AIPAC is bipartisan, and so is AZAPAC, since a third-party option is not viable in the US, they decided to go with this PAC formula. The main objective is to dezionize the US government and stop both the money flow to Israel and to stop their crimes at the same time.

A good interview by Amy Goodman from Democracy Now to Jeremy Scahill mostly about Hamas, whom he has interviewed personally, the last ceasefire negotiations. and the attack that took place in Qatar, that didn't kill the negotiators, but other innocent people. You can't expect much from people who use negotiations to kill negotiators. The ceasefire where both sides are supposed to cease fire against each other's armed forces, which Hamas has complied, but Israel keeps killing civilians. Ceasefire Israel way, you cease, but I don't, and target unarmed civilians and children.

@Twentyfirst He didn't say everyone, in fact, he said he would agree on low-income people paying less, which I agree. Taxes have to be regulated and progressive, meaning everyone shouldn't pay the same amount, but an amount based on their income. There would be a deeper debate about the tricks rich people and corporations use to evade paying taxes by not registering their wealth as income, but I won't get there now. Now, you seem to propose a voluntary tax system in opposition to a regulated one. Maybe you think that the people willing to pay taxes in a regulated system should be equally willing to pay them in a voluntary one, but that's flawed, because different systems produce different responses. Let's give two thoughts to a voluntary tax system. I think we can agree that most people would decide not to pay anything at all, and the ones that would consider it, would look at their slightly richer neighbors not doing it, and would be discouraged too. I don't blame any of these behaviours, but I acknowledge them, and I understand that this system is a utopia at this point in history, and is not going to change anytime soon. Then yes, a regulated system is better. For the people who still want to give money voluntarily, after they're done with their taxes, in their own country and generally in the world, there's not going to be a lack of causes where money is needed any time soon either, so they can feed their altruistic tendencies without any problem, as many do already.

A culturally Jewish man shares his views and experiences. The brainwashing they go through in their childhood to defend Israel and hate Arabs, which he started questioning at some point. He and thousands of Jews out of Israel reject Zionism now, which comes with some social costs of rejection. Calls the government of Israel Neonazis for their ideas and actions that have gone through. He says the Jewish community will have to acknowledge what has happened these last two years and since 1948, even the ones opposing it.

Zohran Mamdani won, with a progressive agenda and AIPAC-free. This is the way.

I'm rescuing this topic for this interesting discussion between Sachs and Mearshamer about spheres of influence in the multipolar world. What establishes a sphere of influence? I'd say geographic proximity would be the most important factor. They also make a distinction between a non-restricted economic influence and a restricted military influence. Of course, the Ukrainian conflict comes into the conversations, but also the Cuban Missile Crisis. Would the USA sit down and respect the freedom between Mexico and China to establish Chinese ballistic bases all through the Mexican border, pointing at the USA. No way, so it's not that hard to understand that Russia won't accept an equivalent of that in Ukraine either.

And Marjorie Taylor Greene surprisingly turns to the left and advocates for affordable care, also known as Obamacare. Some more recent good takes, she has been supporting the Epstein victims and asking for the files. Also she is one of the few that has not taken AIPAC money during her campaigns, able to spit some truths about Israel. For example, asks AIPAC to be registered in FARA, the Foreign Agent Registration Act. Not bad. Well, keep it coming. I'm not going to oppose her on these things.

Quick response to Ben Shapiro's comments about Israel's generosity to the US.

An Arab woman in Haifa, a city ethnically cleansed in the 40's. They are a minority now, totally forbidden to identify as Palestinians, and shares other struggles under the Israeli law and society.

If it brought you peace, that's fine. Walk that path if it works for you, just be respectful with other people's faiths and or ways of living, as you want others to respect yours.

The story of an Arab Jew, born in Palestine, self-proclaimed Palestinian Jew, rejects Zionism and Israeli nationality. His parents were from Iraq, as he explains, forced to leave that country by Zionists, with the false flag attacks against synagogues. He doesn't hate Muslims and explains that Muslims didn't hate Jews either, the historical coexistence was pretty good until the Zionist project started.