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It’s deeply satisfying to watch the narratives pushed by Mike Pompeo and Victoria Nuland completely unravel the moment they’re forced to face the hard facts laid out by Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer. Their talking points immediately collapse under scrutiny because their bullshit rhetoric can not survive contact with reality.

@papel_em_branco @RnaudBertrand With Isaac Accords

Helberg is doing the same thing here in Latin America. I read your posts and Argentina immediately came to mind. This is exactly what's happening there right now, to the letter. It's not called Pax Silica here, it goes by "Protecting Global Commons Program", but the structure is identical. Redefine sovereign territory as a "global common", wrap it in technical assistance, sign it with admirals. SOUTHCOM delivers surveillance technology fully integrated into American systems, while Milei slashes the Armed Forces budget until soldiers resign en masse, 15,000 already since 2023. Those who remain operate American equipment, integrated into American systems, under American strategic direction. Argentina provides the territory and bears the risk. Washington keeps the intelligence. As your post makes clear, in the Philippines they went even further, carving out 4,000 acres of sovereign territory to operate under US law with diplomatic immunity. A colonial concession, old school. It brings to mind the Pax Romana, achieved through exactly the same means. Suppression of autonomist movements, impoverishment through heavy taxation, permanent military tutelage. Peace for those who complied. The legion for those who didn't. We are living under a Pax Armata. But nobody wants the Pax Americana. Not even them.

This is pretty insane: the U.S. just tried to literally re-colonize part of the Philippines. They did so under the so-called "Pax Silica" initiative, the brainchild of - surprise, surprise - an ex-Palantir guy named Jacob Helberg who now runs U.S. economic "diplomacy" from the State Department. It's causing a big outcry in the Philippines, which is quite a feat given this is by far the most US-friendly country in Southeast Asia. If you're the US and you're getting the Marcos administration - of all governments - to push back on sovereignty, you've really overplayed your hand. What is the "Pax Silica" initiative? In a nutshell it's about the US getting other countries to commit to restructuring their AI tech infrastructure around a US-led stack. It's basically vendor lock-in: you hand over your critical minerals, align your export controls with Washington's, regulate AI the way America wants, and in return you get to be a US "trusted partner," whatever that means these days. In essence, let's not kid ourselves, it's all about China: this is the US's initiative to "win the AI race" by getting other countries to contractually commit to keeping China out of their tech supply chains. When you can't preserve your lead through innovation, you seek to lock countries in contractually. For instance as a country, this would mean telling Huawei they can't sell you AI chips, and telling Chinese firms they can't invest in your data centers - even if they're better and cheaper. It's not about choosing the best technology, it's about choosing the right flag. But in this instance, the US went much further still: they literally tried to carve out 4,000 acres of Philippine territory (in New Clark City, 60 miles north of Manila) to be governed under US common law with diplomatic immunity - the first arrangement of its kind anywhere in the modern world. This is according to the WSJ who ran the story last month (wsj.com/world/asia/u-s…) as if it was a done deal (it wasn't). Heard about the "French concession" or "British concession" in China during the century of humiliation? Same thing: the US basically asked for an "American concession" in the Philippines. Unsurprisingly, there was quite a bit of backlash in the country with for instance the Peasant Movement of the Philippines (KMP) calling it a “massive sellout” of the country’s land, minerals, and sovereignty (punto.com.ph/us-led-pax-sil…). So much so that the Philippines' government - namely Joshua Bingcang, president and chief executive of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) - issued a statement saying that the Philippines had rejected US proposals that would place the project beyond local jurisdiction (asianews.network/philippines-re…). Note, by the way, this delicious irony: the BCDA is the government agency that was created in 1992 specifically to convert former US military bases at Clark and Subic Bay after the Philippines spent decades negotiating their closure. New Clark City - where the Pax Silica's hub would go - is built on the old Clark Air Base. So the agency whose entire reason for existing is to turn former American colonial territory (i.e. US military bases) into sovereign Philippine land is the one now being asked to hand part of that very same land back under US jurisdiction (and, apparently, declined). Of course though, blocking this specific jurisdiction grab doesn't change the bigger picture. The Philippines is still a Pax Silica signatory, and Pax Silica itself is structurally neocolonial: you supply the cheap labor and raw materials, align your export controls and regulations with Washington's, cut yourself off from the world's rising technological powerhouse - and in exchange you get assembly jobs and the privilege of getting a pat on the head and being called a "trusted partner." They dropped the most cartoonishly colonial demand - governing Philippine soil under US law - but the underlying architecture is the same: you serve America's supply chain, on America's terms, and you relinquish your sovereign right to trade with whoever offers the best deal.

Leader of Taiwan's historic Kuomintang party Cheng Li-Wun has learnt the lesson of Ukraine and prefers Chinese unity to becoming yet another sacrificial pawn in a proxy war for US hegemony. Hence her recent visit to Beijing. channelnewsasia.com/east-asia/chin…

@4HumanUnity @TrumpWarRoom

And this was the Memorial Day message from the President of the United States: insulting half the country on a day meant to honor Americans who never made it home. Memorial Day is not about your political enemies. It’s about the brave men and women who gave their lives serving this nation. And if you truly want to honor them, you do it with actions, not memes or words, by not sending them into unauthorized wars the people never asked for in the first place. Respect for the fallen should come with humility, restraint, and dignity. Not childish insults.

On Memorial Day, we honor and remember the heroic Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice so the rest of us could live free. 🙏🏻🇺🇸

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@CJHY12wm @Gurutxe1

Outside the relief kitchen, hungry people stood in line. Bombs tore that wait apart. Three lives ended. Israel’s war machine never runs out of ammunition, because America’s arsenals are always open to it.

If Rubio knew the history or architecture, he wouldn't have posed for a picture here. This monument was built out for the love of emperor's Iranian wife, crafted by the genius of Iranian architects — meanwhile his government today threatens to wipe out Iranian civilization, insulting other civilizations.

One of the biggest crooks on earth, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, is calling for trillions in investment in data centers and AI power grids. He says the money should come from “Americans' savings, pensions, and insurance funds”, all to compete with China, even though the US already has 12 times as many data centers as China. The billionaires now want to steal from Americans’ to bring about their AI mass surveillance dystopia.

Claudia Sheinbaum ha confirmado que la selección de Irán se alojará en México durante el mundial de fútbol a pesar de que todos sus partidos tienen que celebrarlos en EEUU, pero el gobierno de Trump ha prohibido su estancia.

🤣🤣🤣🤣 l'OEA qui est un outil de l' empire étasunien. Le corrompu Almagro, le copain du narco N° 82 de la Colombie, el criminal A. Uribe V. Almagro soutient la candidate du parti politique criminels dirigé par Uribe. "La manque d' éthiques d'Almagro à l'OEA sont la pointe d'un immense et mortel iceberg " cepr.net/es/publication… The Organization of American States Shouldn’t Be Run by Regime Change Enthusiasts fpif.org/the-organizati…

@RackhamLeVrai Evo Morales a perdu un référendum sur la limitation des mandats, puis a tenté de se faire réélire en 2019. L’OEA a constaté des fraudes massives. Il a fui le pays. Ce n’était pas un “coup d’État d’extrême droite”, c’était le rejet d’un caudillo qui s’accrochait au pouvoir.

Elon Musk s'était publiquement vanté de soutenir le coup d'État d'extrême droite en Bolivie en 2019. Aujourd'hui le peuple Bolivien manifeste en masse pour le retour au socialisme. Et vous noterez qu'aucun grand média ne fait la promotion de cette révolte.

Gift horse mouth, etc “US government has covertly funded a huge network of Cuban media outlets that claim to be independent in a push for regime change against the independent socialist government — financed by Washington through USAID, NED & Open Society mintpressnews.com/revealed-usaid…

Europeans and Americans will incessantly cover and force positions on everyone to support middle class reactionary revolutions fighting for ‘democracy’ in different countries yet there is silence or hostility when real workers, miners actually revolt in Bolivia. This is why all the dumb discussions on the left to force us to cheer on middle-class pro-western revolutions are worthless. Never take them seriously.

Están colocando narcotraficantes en ese corredor mafioso llamado "Escudo de las Américas", con la Biblia en la mano (sionismo cristiano), como vemos en Bolivia, Honduras, El Salvador... emancipar.co/el-nuevo-corre… Y los "Acuerdos de Isaac", pactos secretos o semiabiertos que subordinan los recursos de América Latina a los intereses de EE. UU. e 🇮🇱 ya están en marcha, de la mano de M!lei.

Miles de mineros y obreros bolivianos se unieron contra el régimen de Rodrigo Paz, títere de EEUU, que quiere entregar los recursos y privatizar el pais para entregárselo al imperio. El imperialismo quiere que Bolivia sea otra Argentina, el pueblo mandó a parar y está luchando por evitarlo.

@pablolbm1982 @DaniMayakovski Los trolls sionistas al ataque

@DaniMayakovski El verdadero ´pueblo Boliviano contra el pederasta de Evo Morales. x.com/RAMIROMARRA/st…

@baterritarrak @DaniMayakovski Troll sionista

@DaniMayakovski Si Bolivia fuese otra Argentina, tendría varios Nobel, escritores renombrados, un agro pujante y salud pública. Hoy es una mierda inculta, que dejan a la gente tirada si no paga y un agro, además de ser 100% informal, amenazado con expropiaciones. Ser Argentina sería un upgrade.

They are placing narco traffickers that mafia corridor called " Escudo de las Américas" with Bible in hand (Christian Zionism) as we can see in Bolivia, Honduras, El Salvador... emancipar.co/el-nuevo-corre… And the "Acuerdos de Isaac" —those secret or semi-open pacts that subordinate Latin American resources to US/🇮🇱 interests— are already underway, carried out hand in hand with M!ile!.

Venezuela resistance in one video. Trump knew that he could buy the leaders and that all the slogans about fighting for freedom were just empty slogans. They could not fool a con man. Betrayal.

@PalestinaVence @CorwinAmbre92 Dua Lipa despide a su manager por pedir el despido del grupo pro-Palestina Kneecap es.euronews.com/cultura/2025/0…

🇵🇸 Mientras la mayoría de celebridades guardan silencio o se benefician del sistema, Dua Lipa está haciendo lo contrario. En 2026 rechazó contratos millonarios con Disney, HBO y Coca-Cola por su apoyo a Israel, demandó a Samsung, rompió acuerdos con otras marcas y donó significativamente a Palestina. Todo esto le ha costado, según reportes, cerca de 268 millones de dólares.Esto no es solo “posicionamiento”. Es una decisión económica y moral en un mundo donde la mayoría elige el dinero por encima de los principios. En una industria que históricamente ha sido complaciente con el lobby sionista, ver a una artista de su nivel perder fortunas por coherencia con Palestina dice mucho más que mil discursos. Es una prueba de que aún quedan voces con convicción dispuestas a pagar el precio.