Outstanding analysis by Braudel Marx

‘In the best-case scenario, Iran responds to a nuclear attack not with retaliation but with revelation. A nuclear test—detonated beneath its own soil—marks an apocalypse in the original sense: an unveiling, a shattering of illusions.’ x.com/BraudelMarx/st…

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Nicely done Braudel Marx Was especially impressed by this

👇🏻 Kevin explains far better than I ever could what is really happening in the Israel/US vs Iran/China/Russia context.

Reflections on this post of Kevin's. I was reading a while back that the Chinese as a matter of business do not seek to maximise profits but rather to maintain them at relatively modest levels; if I understood correctly, this is partly a matter of Confucian philosophy and a

This is a very cynical analysis, more than I'd like, of American foreign policy as strategic rent extraction, but it is also a very interesting perspective on recent events.

'by amplifying the threat posed by Russia, the U.S. has solidified European dependence on US security. The resulting windfall....is a strategic return on manufactured insecurity. Europe now pays the U.S. a kind of protection rent worth 5% of GDP.'

👇🏻 An excellent and thorough analysis by Kevin of the factors around any possible Russian - Iranian action against Azerbaijan.

'The formal casus belli would lie in Baku’s central role in the Israeli-influenced Operations Spiderweb and Rising Lion, aimed at the territorial integrity of both Russia and Iran. For Moscow and Tehran alike, the red lines crossed were not rhetorical, they were existential.'

On the track of Ibsen. "If you take the life-lie away from the average man, you take away his happiness as well."

👇As always, a very thought provoking piece by Kevin. I would add something and that is this: Losing wars has consequences. One of those consequences is the exposure of the noble lie for what it is, and sometimes the result is far reaching deep disaffection that can have serious

Kevin (Braudel Marx) delivers another classic must read. One of the best around

'Were Moscow haemorrhaging men & material...the logic of attrition would compel NATO to escalate. Killing another million Russians...would be strategically irresistible. That none of this is happening, & that calls for ceasefire now multiply across NATO capitals...'