Bulletins and News Discussion from February 24th to March 2nd, 2025 - Fascists? In Germany?! - COTW: Germany

pls add baerbock/scholtz and sturmer, ty (linky)

anybody here who does an about face and starts talking about how bad they feel for zelesnkyy for just defending his country yadda yadda is going to get a fucking earful from me. Trump is right here. Don't let Trump Derangement Syndrome lead you back into the Liberal morass of "Ukraine is a smol bean fighting for its freedom". It seems to be working on the TrueAnon libs who forgot that Ukraine is a willful participant that goaded this conflict on when they thought they had the USA backing them, they are NATO proxies and corrupt oligarchs. Every last one of the Ukrainian political class being hanged for treason and war crimes is the just outcome, getting a little scolding at the white house isn't even 1% of what Zelenskyy deserves for his doomed PR counter-offensives

Two points quickly:

• Israel is penetrating deeper into Syrian territory. Appeasement will never work with the Zionist entity, despite how much HTS and the new Syrian regime have cucked for Israel and the West
• It's so funny to compare the realities that 3rd world leftists live in compared to especially American leftists. I follow some Palestinian and Lebanese communists on twitter and their whole feeds are filled with actual tangible action and raising money for the PFLP and Hezbollah. They're doing communist camps and having Irish communists over and stuff like that. Then I click on American leftist profiles and they're retweeting clips of Hasan Piker owning Ethan Klein. Western leftism is so dead, what a tragedy.

Reporter: What if Russia breaks a ceasefire?

Trump: What if anything? What if a bomb drops on your head right now?

https://xcancel.com/factpostnews/status/1895532493484212738#m

Things are getting serious. The facebook profile pictures are changing to Ukrainian flags. I repeat, the facebook profile pictures are changing to Ukrainian flags.

A Cuban brain researcher went viral on Chinese TV. Here’s why

Recruitment of Cuba’s Pedro Antonio Valdés Sosa highlights China’s move to expand foreign ties

When Cuban neuroinformaticist Pedro Antonio Valdés Sosa wrote in October 2023 to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, hailing the two Communist nations’ budding collaboration in brain science, he did not expect a reply. But Valdés Sosa’s paean to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a $1.3 trillion global infrastructure effort and China’s flagship means for projecting soft power that he praised as an “insightful and innovative idea,” struck the right chord in Beijing. The following week, Xi wrote back to his “compañero,” noting that BRI’s “ultimate goal” is “to explore new measures for friendly countries in their search for common development.” Chinese TV presenters read Xi’s letter on air in its entirety, and Valdés Sosa became something of a celebrity in Chengdu, the city in southwestern China where he currently runs a lab.

For China, the public exchange put a positive spin on the 12-year-old BRI, which has bankrolled the construction of roads, railways, power stations, and ports across the globe. But China has also increasingly sought to use the initiative to strengthen science and technology ties with the nearly 150 countries taking part in it. And the December 2024 opening of the China-Cuba Belt and Road Joint Laboratory on Neurotechnology and Brain-Apparatus Communication at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), which Valdés Sosa co-directs, highlights how China is continuing to pursue foreign research alliances even as the United States moves to curtail foreign assistance programs and international science cooperation.

“China is investing in science overseas and our response is to fizzle,” says Johns Hopkins University molecular biologist Peter Agre, a Nobel laureate and practitioner of science diplomacy. He and other observers fear a further U.S. retreat from the global science stage could fuel a rapid expansion of Chinese soft power.

China has recruited a remarkable talent in the 74-year-old scientist, colleagues say. Valdés Sosa and his twin brother, also a neuroscientist, were born in Chicago before their parents moved the family to Havana in 1961 after Fidel Castro took power. “I’m a Communist, and not ashamed of it,” Valdés Sosa says. Racing to develop homegrown talent, the precocious brothers completed high school in 2 years, and at age 16 they started studying medicine at the University of Havana. Math and computer science were a strong suit for both, and in 1978, when he was 28 years old, Valdés Sosa traveled to Riga, Latvia, then part of the Soviet Union, to show off a digital electroencephalogram (EEG) system based on a computer the brothers had developed. “The Cuban computer blew the Russians away,” Valdés Sosa claims. “They were strong in theory but had pretty shitty computers.”

After the Soviet collapse in 1991 set Cuba adrift, the twins put their math skills to peaceful use. They founded the Cuban Neuroscience Center, which earned acclaim for a test for detecting hearing loss in infants. Valdés Sosa specialized in EEGs, an early brain monitoring technology that was ultimately eclipsed by other methods, such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). But under the decadeslong embargo of Cuba, the U.S. prohibited the export of fMRI machines and other advanced devices to Cuba. “We wanted to send him an fMRI” that the University of California, Los Angeles offered to donate, but couldn’t get an export license, says Mark Rasenick, a neuroscientist at the University of Illinois Chicago. The U.S. Department of the Treasury, he says, “claimed the machines could be weaponized.”

In 1993, Valdés Sosa asked Alan Evans, a prominent brain scientist at McGill University, to share MRI brain mapping data so the Cubans could write algorithms for squeezing more information out of EEGs. “When Pedro came back a year or so later and showed me what they’d done with those data,” Evans says, “it was one of the most shocking moments in my research life.” The Cuban algorithms had allowed researchers to construct sophisticated brain maps from EEG data. “These maps look like PET images,” Evans says. “It was a slap in the face. I thought: ‘These people are really good.’”

Valdés Sosa visited China for the first time in 2011, where he met a kindred spirit, UESTC neuroscientist Yao Dezhong, also an EEG specialist. A few years later, UESTC recruited Valdés Sosa through its Thousand Talents Program. From his perch in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, Valdés Sosa co-founded with Evans the Global Brain Consortium, a network of neuroscientists in 27 countries. “The fundamental premise is the democratization of neuroscience, such that scientists in low- and middle-income countries can get access to data and tools” to address brain health disparities, Evans says.

The new BRI lab, about 100 members strong and co-directed by Yao, will build on the consortium’s work, using artificial intelligence to probe neurodegenerative and other brain diseases and build a global repository of brain health data, Valdés Sosa says. (Other joint BRI labs include one for water conservation in Egypt and one for hydropower in Pakistan.) Status as a BRI lab will allow the Cuban-Chinese team to apply for Chinese grants for projects involving other BRI countries, starting with those in Latin America. Valdés Sosa is also keen to forge alliances with U.S. and European scientists whose international work is foundering in the shifting geopolitical landscape, even though “The Western system for introducing science into society is bankrupt,” Valdés Sosa asserts.

Global tensions may hamper such overtures, says environmental scientist Peng Gong, a vice president at the University of Hong Kong. “But individual scientists who do not have restrictions should be encouraged to join” BRI projects.

Manfred Horvat, a science policy expert at Vienna University of Technology, agrees with that notion. However, says Horvat, who with Gong in 2019 penned an editorial in Science calling on China to involve the global scientific community in implementing the BRI, laying the groundwork for such engagement in the current climate “certainly would be tough.” And Evans says when it comes to superpower science partnerships, “It’s very complex, four-dimensional chess going on right now.”

China-Global South scientific partnership

My dad called me at work, which he rarely does.

"Are you working right now?"
Me: yes
he stammers, not sure how to say what he wants to tell me
"Something terrible has just happened..."
"in world history."
"Trump is yelling at Zelenskyy."

Until he said world history I was scared he was about to tell me a close family member or pet died or something.

Nah, just Zelenskyy being humiliated by a senile old man. I laughed and he said it's not funny and I said it is. He wanted to keep talking but I told him I have to work.

He has major Russia Derangement Syndrome.

Well while Trump and Zelensky have been fuckin around creating content, Greece is seeing hundreds of thousands out in the streets protesting and a historic, massive general strike on the second anniversary of the train crash that embodied the heart of their struggle with austerity and neoliberal bullshit

All international and domestic flights were grounded as air traffic controllers joined seafarers, train drivers, doctors, lawyers and teachers in a 24-hour general strike to pay tribute to the victims of the crash.

Businesses were shut and theatres cancelled performances.

In a survey carried out this week by Pulse pollsters, 82% of Greeks asked said the train disaster was "one of the most" or "the most" important issue in the country and 66% said they were dissatisfied with the investigations into the accident.

"Every day, the monster of corrupt power appears before us," Maria Karystianou, whose daughter died in the crash and who heads an association of victims' families, told the crowd in Athens.

Students shouted "Text me when you get there," - the final message many of the victims' relatives sent them. A cardboard sign read: "Greece kills its children."

Barnard College is having a sit-in pro-Palestine protest, their main grievance is the expulsion of Palestinian students and pro-Palestinian students from the school. Solidarity.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DGl4Ip_SL_V/

Looks like the students are still keeping up the good work. I also love this Al Fida'i channel on social media (Patreon/Insta/X/etc) they are based as hell. Marxist-Leninist and Pan-Arab. Consider subbing to their patreon if you can afford to support them

https://www.alfidai.org/

🇺🇦🇮🇱 Zelensky, Meet the Press

Q: Is Israel following international law?

: I'm sure that Russia was behind sponsoring Hamas, and Iran too. That's who is to blame

When we talk about laws and rules, where there are terrorists, there are no rules. Everything is beyond laws

Me to my cat: what happened to the block of cheese i put on the table

Mexico will ban any unauthorized intelligence gathering from foreign countries in a new constitutional reform. US agents, from the DEA, to the CIA, have long had a large presence in Mexico, and much of their work is under the veil of secrecy.

Red on twitter

Zelensky would honestly get better treatment by Putin if he went to Moscow. At least he wouldn't be bullied in his 3rd language by Trump and that dumbass Vance.

Today European leaders were gathered in Kiev's Sportpalast to scream and shout for total war. They had come to mark three years of slaughter—not to mourn, not to reflect, but to demand more.

Among the most fanatical was Denmark's iron-fisted leader Mette Frederiksen who was slava'ing the Ukraini like it's 2022. She made some very non-delusional and sensible comments:

The defense of Ukraine does not stop if there is some kind of peace agreement. Ukraine must still be able to defend itself on the day when Russia surely returns

I do not think a future peace agreement will prevent Russia from attacking again; on the contrary, we risk that a peace agreement on the wrong terms gives Russia a really good reason to return at a later time. So peace can be dangerous.

Peace can be dangerous. Say that again. Say it slowly. Say it in front of a mirror and watch your soul leave your body. These are the words of someone who has been getting high on their own supply for so long that reality has ceased to exist.

Of course, these sorts of pronouncements always come from the people least likely to find themselves bleeding out in a trench, clawing through the mud while their lungs fill with blood.

There is one reason why leaders from around the world have traveled all the way to Ukraine to mark the third anniversary of the war

Unity, unity, unity. That is the only way forward

Strengthen Europe, make us as strong as possible, and rearm at a pace that is almost hard to comprehend, because deterring further Russian activity and invasion of other countries is the most important thing

It’s 1914 all over again. Pour everything into the war machine, build bigger guns, scream louder, demand more. Europe is circling the drain, losing its grip on the world, and its leaders have responded by embracing full-blown hysteria.

When it comes to climate change—that slow, undeniable apocalypse—there is no urgency. No war cries. No blank checks. We are boiling the planet, the crops we depend on are failing, entire nations are being washed away. We are told, time and again, that fixing it would be too expensive. That it’s too complicated. That we must be realistic.

But war? War gets the checkbook thrown open. War is where the money flows, where the urgency kicks in, where logic goes to die.

The suits at Lockheed Martin and Elbit must have been grinning like jackals in a chicken coop. They have found the perfect pay pigs in western Europe's political elites and they're going to milk them for everything they've got.

The conditions for peace must be set through strength. And I believe that is the most important task for Europe right now

A peace agreement without sustainable peace would mean great danger for all of us. It would give Russia the opportunity to rebuild and launch another attack on Ukraine or another European country.

Apparently a "sustainable peace" is one where Russia is unable to rebuild. Such an option would only be on the table in the event of a total Russian defeat, a completely delusional scenario Uber the current circumstances.

And then there's the obvious question that nobody seems to be asking: Why?

Why would Russia want to attack Europe? What would they gain?

But logic has no place here—only raw hysteria and the unshakable belief that the only path forward is through endless escalation. The west is losing its global dominance and Europe is becoming completely irrelevant and in return European leaders cling to maximalist demands that are as delusional as they are grandiose.

Ukraine has not only defended its own country but all of Europe for the past three years

Ukraine has been chewed up and spat out in a pointless, grinding slaughter engineered by American empire-builders and gleefully endorsed by their dipshit European vassals. There’s nothing noble in this. No great crusade. Just a vast, nightmarish meat grinder fueled by the illusions of people who will never bleed out in a trench themselves.

And I believe that none of us here can truly put into words how grateful we are. But we can show it through action

I urge all European countries to increase support for Ukraine. Not tomorrow, but today.

And dear friends, today gathered here, we do not have to look far to find the hero of our time ... Dear Volodymyr, you have fought for three long years against a full-scale war started by Russia

Nobody seems to have told Frederiksen that Washington has marked Zelensky for disposal, she still kneels at the altar of Saint Volodymyr, patron saint of the self-righteous Western liberal.

Three years of trench warfare. Three years of death and destruction. And the only people who have come out ahead are the arms dealers and the politicians posing for photo ops.

The war has gone as anyone who's not high on western exceptionalism could have predicted right from the start, Ukraine has not only lost a war and some territory, it has lost its future for generations.

And when it all collapses, they will need a scapegoat. Enter Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Denmark’s foreign minister and aspiring architect of the next Dolchstoßlegende

It is not about shaming and blaming, but it is clear that if everyone had done the same, Ukraine would have the upper hand. And that message needs to really 'sink in' for the countries it is directed at

Here comes the old stab-in-the-back myth. The war isn’t going badly because it was a doomed enterprise from the start—no, it’s failing because the rest of Europe didn’t do enough.

Today, we mark the third anniversary of Putin’s full-scale illegal war, and we want to send a signal of solidarity—it is time to step up

He thinks he's still living in 2022.

There is a lot of talk about a post-war plan, but we believe the most important thing right now is to step up and give Ukraine strength so that the country is in the best possible position when peace negotiations eventually take place

Right. And if they had just stepped up and shoveled more coal into the boilers of the Titanic, maybe it could’ve rammed through that iceberg.

One might as well argue that a man should set fire to his house so that he might later have a more comfortable conversation with the arsonist

And so the war drags on. The politicians pose for the cameras. The merchants of death collect their winnings. And the soldiers die.

What the hell is Europe even fighting for?

Not peace. Never peace.

Lmao, so apparently I’ve been wearing a shit-eating grin for the last hour cause just got asked if I was ODing on Prozac.

Anyway, here’s the whole exchange,courtesy of the podcast industry content farm presidency

Gotta say, the biggest takeaway for me is that the Radio War Nerd pod duo nailed Trump's headspace - they really fucking calipered his brain, holy shit. Their take has been that this whole President Deals thing is Trump’s revenge tour for Ukraine's involvement in Russiagate and his impeachment. He’s been holding the grudge of all grudges ever since and so the RWN duo have been arguing that seeing things through just the geopolitics missed out on how it's outweighed by its bigger cousin - the admin's political revenge mission to settle the score. And, wow, he really showed that today.

I'm instinctively skeptical whenever podcasters go on a psychoanalysis bend, but then Trump’s last words in this clusterfuck conference was literally talking about Russiagate. Like he tweeted afterwards, "It’s amazing what comes out through emotion." Watch the chef's kiss diplomacy, then check out the RWN episode.Wow, I'm a believer now.

the aukus-bros, it's joever

Jeff Bezos bans Washington Post opinion writers from opposing ‘free speech and free markets’

So apparently

The presser with Trump and Zelensky may actually be the funniest thing he’s ever done.

Holy shit that self aware moment where he says “this will make great television” after a minute long unhinged rant about Hunter Biden and Zelensky just sitting there like a sad toddler… I had to pinch myself to make sure I wasn’t dreaming.

The western euros need to really pull their heads out of their asses or they're going to get dogwalked into going to war with Russia for real by zelensky's neonazi backers and rabid Baltic politicians like kallas. A major purpose of project ukraine was to use ukraine as a blunt instrument against Russia. Europe could absolutely be next in a way that they are not now. If they Slava their ukrainis with boots on the ground they will absolutely be hung out to dry by the US just as the Ukrainians have been. These idiots still think of atlanticism as an article of faith, but the US will not go all in to back them.

The tides of atlanticism are ebbing, and a lot of vassals are going to find out that to their white surprise, they are not as honourarily white as they thought.

Hey Zelensky, how is that alliance with the US going?

I can't tell you how I know this but there are currently British troops on the ground in Ukraine in civilian gear on a secret "we're not supposed to be there" one month mission.

I know this for a fact from my own sources. Not second hand. Not rumour. 100% true.

Trump was right, that was great television.

Folx, the imperialism, it's no good! We send our big beautiful boys to the jungles of africa, and what do we get out of it? Canadian and swiss mining rights, that's what! I've spoken to governor trudeau, very unpopular guy by the way, and he agreed

Zelensky reportedly said "fuck you bitch (suka, blyat)" to JD Vance during their argument.

Z-man confirmed CSGO player?

copying the comment I just made on the old thread:

young german women =

young german men =

Eglin Airforce Base is having internet connection problems and

All the libs I know have brought their Ukraine flags out of storage.

If Kamala was president, the same thing would happen with Ukraine, except she would be a bit more diplomatic if meeting with Zelensky.

Zelensky really thought that being European gave him the right to mouth off to his imperial master. He didn't even bother putting on a cheap suit and tie before seeing Trump. And now this ingrate vassal will be punished for his impudence.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c05ml3q2gn7o Trump says 25% tariffs on EU will be announced soon. Says EU was formed to screw with the US.

Holy fuck that Trump vs Zelensky video is a humiliation ritual for old Z-man, pure gangster diplomacy by the Americans. Zelensky is such an ungrateful fucker as well, who the fuck does he think he is to sit there and lecture the nation that made your survival possible in the first place.

The Chinese are about 500 combat aircraft away from achieving parity with the combined US air fleets

meanwhile, in land of eugenics:

I guess medicaid is gonna be gone lol

https://x.com/SeanMcCarthyCom/status/1894560564489142571

Trump literally mocks Zelensky here with a silly impression, absolutely diabolical shit. Never been more joever for the Z-man.

Zelensky should go to beijing and cut a deal this is embarrassing

The article isn't worth wasting your brain cells on, it's a

Trump said today that he's going to retake Bagram Air Base lmao

We're going to get up and we're going to keep we're going to keep Bagram, not because of Afghanistan, but because of China, because it's exactly one hour away from where China makes its nuclear missiles. So they were going to keep Bagram. We're going to keep a small force on Bagram. We're going to have Bagram Air Base, one of the biggest air bases in the world, one of the biggest runways, one of the most powerful runways, in the sense that it was very heavy, concrete and steel. You could carry about anything. You could land anything on those runways. We gave it up, and you know who's occupying it right now, China. China Biden gave it up. So we're going to keep that and we're going to have a withdrawal, and we're going to take our equipment. We're going to do it properly.

https://x.com/LimbaughLegacy/status/1894805724456165844

https://xcancel.com/LimbaughLegacy/status/1894805724456165844?s=19

It warms my heart to know that that Nazi pig Chrystia Freeland probably did a lot of uncontrollable sobbing today.

After Ukraine agrees to the mineral "deal," Trump says in return Ukraine receives "the right to fight on." He boasts that he was the one who first gave Javelins to Ukraine, which wiped out a lot of Russian tanks. He says US weapons could continue to flow to Ukraine "for awhile"

Trump extends sanctions against Russia for another year, imposed over "threats to the territorial integrity of Ukraine"

I saw European libs on social media celebrating this and now calling him a hero for supporting Ukraine, lmao. Talk about desperation. Beyond parody.

Jerusalem Post, a right-of-center English Language publication is reporting the IOF was killing "anything that moved" on October 7.

A familiar phrase... Where have I heard that before?

Edit: I didn't realize it was the slogan of the entire London summit, which was attended by all the usual suspects...

I don’t really like Germany

Apparently EFF kicked out the podcaster who invited Hinkle

It's me the germany hater, so ima actually correct 72T here CDU+SPD+Greens is not going to be a coalition and there's never been one on a nation level. It is incredibly unlikely as well because the Bavarian branch of the Union straight up hates the greens. It's much more likely that we are going to see CDU+SPD again just with more cruelty as a treat for the germans, after all it's been 80ish years forgive and forget and all that.

Full video, in context, of the Zelensky Trump Vance press conference and argument

@carpoftruth@hexbear.net you might be interested, just a warning it's over an hour and a half.

Just watching the first five minutes I can already see how this ended in the way it did. Trump starts with his first words about negotiations and peace. Zelensky's first words are the complete opposite. Zelensky's first words were about security guarantees, and to stop Putin. Zelensky then goes onto talk about how Putin is a killer and terrorist, and how no compromises can be made with killer and terrorist Putin over Ukrainian territories currently held by Russia. Yes, he actually uses the words "killer terrorist Putin". Then Zelensky talks about "crazy Russians stealing 20 000 Ukrainian children". Then Zelensky brings out the propaganda photo print outs of Russia starving Ukrainian POWs.

Trump and Vance just let him waffle in the hopes that they can get this over with and sign the resource extraction deal, but were clearly frustrated. Zelensky was just trying to build a case about how Putin can't be trusted and there can be no negotiations with killer Putin for over an hour by the looks of it. Just completely undermining the position of Trump and company. I'm guessing eventually Trump and Vance had enough of Zelensky undermining them for over an hour, which led to Vance pulling the trigger and baiting Zelensky into saying some really foolish stuff. Zelensky completely misread the situation and tried to do all the usual taking points, not realising Trump is actually serious about trying to get a deal.

So I don't think this was a pre planned humiliation ritual of Zelensky. I really think that the USA wanted to get natural resources extraction deal over the line. To be honest, it seems that Trump was incredibly gracious by Trump standards, if he let Zelensky go full slava Ukraini for a whole goddamn hour. But Zelensky kept undermining any future concessions to Russia in public, in front of the press! Zelensky is not helped by trying to communicate in his third language, in the Vance exchange at the end it's quite clear, Vance and Trump ran rings around him.

STEPHEN A. SMITH: "The fact that I am candidate for the presidency of the United States of America according to the polling for the Democratic Party is the most clear-cut evidence of how pathetic of a state of affairs that exist within the Democratic Party today."

With every move Trump makes, the hubris and arrogance of Europe increases. The British certainly aren't the only ones who think they can still return to the great empire of the past.

I'm genuinely curious what it would take to beat some humility into the European mind at this point. I don't think poverty, loss of infrastructure, famine or even death could do it. World leaders of the Global South could be mocking them on live television and they would still hold on to their pride, like an angry teenage chud swearing that he'll "show them all, oh yes he'll show them all".

It genuinely seems like a continent of little Adolfs, Mussolinis and Napoleons, who are going to take their hubris to their graves.

The latest Harvard and Centre for American Political Studies poll on the opinions of registered US voters just came out today (was conducted online over the 19-20 February) , and boy it's a doozy. If you want the summary, it basically just backs up what previous polls from IPSOS and Rasmussen have been saying, so if you've followed my posts on that you'll have an idea of what's coming. The Democrats are screwed, Trump and his policies are popular, the Trump admin has relatively high approval, etc. I hope that you don't mind me indulging in this bit of electoralism, I am just quite shocked by some of the numbers. And don't worry, I've saved the best for last, American's opinions on foreign policy. Trust me, you'll want to have a look at those numbers, they are truly quite special.

Here's the direct link to the 55 page PDF so we can all read for ourselves, don't worry it's mostly graphs.

Winter is ending , the Megathreats have returned !

the Sky is full of Megathreats again !