Eric E
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Power-starved Cuba deepens reliance on Chinese solar tech ft.trib.al/5TDiqvw
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@DougAMacgregor Perhaps Iran realized that the aggressors need time to replenish their ammunition and redeploy their troops before they can continue the assault, so they agreed to a temporary ceasefire.
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@CheburekiMan I’m no fan of Iran, but I harbor a much deeper resentment toward aggressors who habitually use armed force to attack other countries.
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This is my point. In a civilized world, what China is doing in Xinjiang would be a scandal. In the world of atrocities the United States has created, it's silly to even talk about...
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@RobboLaw its 2026 propaganda against chinese doesnt work anymore dont waste your time
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美国总统特朗普週日(4月5日)威胁,如果伊朗政府不按他设定的最后期限,在美东时间週二晚间8点(北京时间週三早上8点)重新开放霍尔木兹海峡,美国将摧毁伊朗境内所有发电厂。
他说:“如果伊朗在周二晚间前不采取行动,国内将不再有任何发电厂,也不会有任何桥梁还立著。”
特朗普上个月限令伊朗达成协议并开放霍尔木兹海峡,到了週一这个10天期限已满。不过最近一次受访,他又把期限改到週二,随后在週日下午,他在未做进一步说明的情况下发文表示:“週二,美东时间晚上8:00!”
特朗普发出威胁后,原油价格在週日早盘交易中大幅上涨,国际基准勃兰特原油(ICE Brent)价格上涨超过2%,至每桶111.25美元。美国原油价格上涨近3%,至每桶114.54美元。
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@MonicaCrowley Trump is hands down the president who managed to get the maximum number of people to loathe the U.S. in record time.
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@johnkonrad First and foremost, NATO is a tool for the U.S. to control Europe and counter Russia (and the Soviet Union before it). It’s not some charity project, so stop acting like the U.S. is some self-sacrificing hero, it never has been.
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NATO is in far bigger danger than anyone realizes. And the reason has nothing to do with defense budgets.
The real danger is psychological. It’s cultural.
Europeans didn’t just free-ride on American security for 80 years. They built an entire identity around the idea that they evolved past the Americans protecting them.
That identity is now the single biggest obstacle to Western survival. And the darkest irony is: we helped build it.
After World War II, Europe wasn’t just economically shattered. Its culture was in ruins. The cities, the universities, the concert halls, the museums. Rubble.
The Marshall Plan rebuilt the economy. But culture wasn’t a priority. Not at first.
Then the Iron Curtain dropped. And suddenly culture became a weapon.
American diplomats, academics, artists & scholars flooded Western Europe. We funded their universities. Supported their orchestras. Rebuilt their museums. Promoted their intellectual life.
Not because European culture needed saving for its own sake.
Because Eastern Europeans were struggling for Maslow’s mist basic needs.
We needed the view from the other side of that Wall to be intoxicating.
So America built Western Europe into a showcase of self-actualization. Art. Philosophy. Cafe culture. Long vacations. Universities where people studied literature instead of surviving.
We were manufacturing jealousy.
And it worked. The Wall came down.
But here’s what no one accounted for.
When you give a society self-actualization on someone else’s tab long enough, they forget it was a gift. They start believing it was organically theirs.
And when they look at the country that funded it all, a country busy building aircraft carriers and semiconductor fabs and shale fields instead of reaching the Maslow’s pinnacle.
An overweight American in a ball cap who can’t tell Monet from Pissarro. Who eats fast food. Who drives a truck. Who builds strip malls instead of piazzas.
And to a culture trained in aesthetics but stripped of strategic awareness, that American looks uncivilized.
So the arrogance takes root. And once a culture decides another is beneath them, they stop listening.
Americans say wars are sometimes necessary: crude.
Oil is the backbone of prosperity: unsophisticated.
Kids build companies in garages that reshape the planet: crass.
Wall Street finances the global economy: vulgar.
Europe has no world-class technology sector. No military capable of strong defense. No energy independence. No AI capacity.
What Europe has is culture. The culture we paid for at the expense of us reaching Maslow’s pinnacle.
For decades that was fine. We funded the museums, protected the sea lanes, and tolerated the sneering because the arrangement worked.
Then Europeans stopped keeping the contempt private. They started saying it to our faces. In their media. In their parliaments. At every international forum. “Americans are stupid.
Americans are violent. Americans are a threat to democracy.”
We could have moved the Louvre to NY. We could have built a Venice here. We could have stolen your best artists, designers, philosophers and more… like your conquering armies did for centuries.
Instead we funded them. And all we asked for in return was to let us visit.
You don’t have the military to defend your borders. You don’t have the technology to compete. You don’t have the energy to heat your homes without begging dictators.
What you have is an 80-year superiority complex FUNDED BY AMERICANS, protected by American soldiers, and built on the false belief that self-actualization is civilization.
It isn’t. Civilization is the ability to sustain itself. By that measure, Europe isn’t a civilization at all. It’s a dependency with better wine.
That’s not a threat. It’s a weather report.
Build a Navy. Or don’t. But stop lecturing the people who made you “better than us”
Our “crudeness” our “stunted liberal education” our “ugly strip malls” are because we sacrificed our culture to support yours.
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@realtimsharp Listen, kid, you obviously know nothing about the Korean War or the fact that North Korea stands as China's sole military ally.
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@KateWilton1 The United States is no longer the nation it once was, filled with ideals and a pursuit of justice. Instead, it is rapidly transforming into a military empire, much like the Galactic Empire from Star Wars.
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@CynicalPublius That sounds a lot like Goebbels calling on Germans to stand firmly behind Nazi Germany.
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美国总统特朗普称,他认为星期一与伊朗达成协议的“可能性很大”。 #Echobox=1775437671" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">zaobao.com.sg/news/world/sto…
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@zerohedge Time for Europe to stand up and say “NO” to U.S. control and bullying.
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Time For Europe To Defend Itself zerohedge.com/geopolitical/t…
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(华盛顿讯)美国总统特朗普对伊朗开战以来,他的民意支持率已跌至新低水平。战争步入第二个月后,民调显示,就连特朗普的铁杆支持者也开始后悔在2024年总统选举中投票给他。 #Echobox=1775405723" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">zaobao.com.sg/news/world/sto…

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据ABC引述美国情报部门的消息独家报道,中国地理空间人工智能和软件公司觅熵科技(MizarVision)在伊朗战争爆发前夕及期间,一直在微博平台发布经AI增强的多个美军基地的详细卫星图像,这些信息在帮助伊朗军队识别目标。
中国政府持有觅熵科技少量股份。
abc.net.au/chinese/2026-0…
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@MarioNawfal Since the U.S. was the one that started the war, it remains the aggressor regardless of how Iran responds. This fact is already etched in history.
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@0IvankaTrumpRV2 You're right. To the U.S., other countries are either vassals or enemies, with no middle ground whatsoever.
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