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NewsReal: New US National Strategy, the End of Global Hegemony, and Euro Delusions

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"A pretty big turnaround," the Russian government called it. "Aligned with Russia," is how Atlanticist media is describing it. The updated US National Security Strategy is, on paper, something of a 'clean break' with the the United States' past . No longer seeking 'full-spectrum dominance' and stressing the impossibility of being 'policeman for the entire world', the US outlook on global affairs codifies Trump's vision of refocusing on 'the near-abroad', namely the Americas. It also explicitly calls for ending NATO expansion and seeking 'win-win outcomes' with US peer and near-peer competitors.

Timely then, given the sharp spat last week between US and EU officials over censorship and the crackdown on political dissent in Europe, which erupted when the European Commission decided to fine Elon Musk's X platform for not agreeing to quietly censor European citizens on behalf of the Euro regime. The year 2025 is thus bookended by a second charged 'debate' between JD Vance and Musk and European leaders over the what becomes of the EU without its 'US guarantor'.

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Buffalo_Ken · 2025-12-10T01:27:29Z

Oh Christ's sake - 2 minutes in and Trump wins the metal - give me a break - he don't deserve it - and that is known for Christ's sake

Glory Be - listen to this:

[Link] - or don't if you don't want to....

If you don't wan't to listen to that, then listen to this: [Link]
The first might fade, the 2nd will remain - and that you can rest assured on.

~

I'm gonna listen to the rest of this NewsCast - but I hope there ain't hypocrisy when they claim they have disavowed a doctrine everybody and their brother already knew was full of failure. Cause if so, I suspect there is no bunker they nor "us" can hide out in. You know?

TBoris · 2025-12-10T15:05:40Z

From looking over the new National Security Strategy document, I see problems right away with how dumb the audience is expected to be. For example:

historic commitment from NATO countries to raise defense spending from 2 percent to 5 percent GDP

How is Russia happy about that? NATO is an organ of US foreign policy. As much as the media tries to paint the EU and its member countries unwilling to make peace with Russia, it is the US that is behind the current war by proxy and originally during Maiden 2014.

In Operation Midnight Hammer, we obliterated Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity

No you didn't. Iran had no ambition to build bombs. You destroyed their nuclear power plants that is all. Midnight Hammer was a cowardly act not something to be venerated. Also, don't forget all the killings of the scientists and engineers families killed using targeted A.I. attacks.

I declared the drug cartels and savage foreign gangs operating in our region as Foreign Terrorist Organizations

No you killed a bunch of fishing boats for all we know. Also you are enlisting the Trump version of the Monroe Doctrine which is colonialization at the end of the day [Link] . In Venezuela it is about taking the oil. And the CIA still runs all the drugs.

and ending the war in Gaza with all living hostages returned to their families

No mention of genocide. It is all about Hamas Israel hostages.

America is strong and respected again-and because of that, we are making peace all over the world

I seriously doubt that is the case.

In everything we do, we are putting America First

That is very debatable. MAGA continues to be dissappointed over Epstein and Gaza. The economy still isn't better inflation continues and wages are stagnant or worse. Private Equity continues to ravish our country: [Link]

and we will make America safer , richer, freer, greater, and more powerful than ever before

Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety , deserve neither Liberty nor Safety ."

And rich countries don't necessarily mean a rich population. Wealth inequities are at a all time high. See:

'Part 1: My Life Is a Lie' [Link]
'Part 2: The Door Has Opened' [Link]
'Part 3: The Pursuit of Happiness' [Link]

The story you THINK you know is that Chinese competition flooded the world with product; the real story is that Western capital flooded China and pulled off the greatest labor arbitrage since Carthaginian and Eastern Mediterranean slaves flooded the Roman Republic . If you’re old enough to remember North Carolina’s furniture industry collapse, you might note the resonance:

...

One of the story’s wrinkles is that the influx of Chinese imports had not been initiated by Chinese industrialists but rather by the North Carolina industry’s own leaders , who had sought cost advantages that could put them ahead in what has historically been, and remains to this day, a highly competitive industry. — John Mullin

Buffalo_Ken ·

TBoris

· 2025-12-11T16:32:35Z

parzival · 2025-12-15T06:54:29Z

TBoris Thanks Todd. Good reading, and yes we know the game is rigged. Markets? Ha Ha Ha Ha... there hasn't been Discovery in over 15 years, and an intervening FED makes it all a house of cards. The Golden Rule is, we have all the gold and make all the rules. Same as it ever was. But the greed will kill off the (cough cough) elites. And they really are the dumbest people in the room, by Medici standards. They're not ruthless, they're toothless. The wake up call is coming.

TBoris · 2025-12-15T15:20:40Z

parzival Thanks. I don't recall ever saying my name is Todd??? Where did you get that from?

there hasn't been Discovery in over 15 years

I don't think it is well known that it is actually American/US factories that are producing goods for export from China to the US. Or that the Chinese citizens are unable to buy them. And further, that goods that are produced by actual Chinese owned businesses, are not allowed import into the US? In other words, China is not an adversary to the US in the way we are told.

Also, the changes to the anti-trust law (non rescinded since the late 70s) of "Consumer Welfare" are also not well known; with this leading to all the consolidation that has taken place in the market place(including all the firing and loss of pensions and life long employment).

Bottom line, is that morals of greed would not have been capable of reaching the harms that have happened without these deliberate systematic changes.

The hope I had, was that others becoming aware of China's US factories, among other things ( illuminated in those Michael Green substack posts), like the re-definition of poverty, could help in undoing it( with better ideas ), rather than hoping that those who are "greedy" would simply fall on their own sword due to their alleged ineptitude...

parzival · 2025-12-16T03:33:00Z

TBoris I got Todd from the last link on the Green series. I figured it was tied to your account/e-mail because a pop up came into view as soon as the link opened, inviting me to subscribe to Todd's personal substack. If you're not Todd, oh well, apologies for the misattribution. In any event, thanks again for the links. I agree Green's work should get out there. I remain skeptical of the U.S. owned factories run as sweatshops bound only for the American market. But hey, I haven't been there to witness it, and stranger things are happening.

TBoris · 2025-12-17T02:16:28Z

parzival Sorry, I don't have a substack. Not really big on personal stuff and being "likable" or "popular". Or making a "name" for myself. Been kind of a beta all my life. Friends used to call me "odd" for my eccentric tendencies. Being "relatable and eloquent" escapes me. Look up "relatable and eloquent" in this SOTT post and you can see what I mean(maybe it is a good thing?? ):

Best of the Web: Democracy's fatal flaw and more on forgiveness

Logocratic principles on display in Tucker Carlson's recent interview with George Santos In our latest ponerology meetup for paid subscribers we discussed Lobaczewski's criticisms of modern...

Comments welcome on that...

But hey, I haven't been there to witness it, and stranger things are happening.

That thing about first hand witness (in China), is a lot like going to North Korea on a tour(IMO); in that the tour guide can't say anything bad about their "great leader". The same goes being a tourist to China. I think one may actually learn more not looking at things from personal experience perspective. Culture is always shown somewhat sterilized, and a foreigner stands out, and one sometimes is given the wrong impression(IMO).

I remain skeptical of the U.S. owned factories run as sweatshops bound only for the American market.

'The Best Phones You Can’t Buy in the US' [Link]

There’s a world of excellent flagship smartphones that push photography to new levels and budget buys that confound expectations, but you won't find them in the US for various reasons. Some Chinese phone manufacturers are banned, while other brands prefer to focus their efforts in countries where Apple doesn't have a massive market share .

Being skeptical is fine. But why would you want to be? What narrative about China vs US would you believe? Just that there is none? Given all the trade there has to be something. CAF says China and the US are Siamese twins. When I read of Green's work that matched up better to me. It also opens up possibilities in that "tariffs on China" now means something else.

I agree Green's work should get out there.

I wasn't really expecting it to get "out there". To me that is reach. SOTT to me has almost no reach. And do you really think we are here to wake up the sleeping masses?? To me the value is in syntheses and ideas germinating in the comment sections of SOTT. Just agreeing or giving atta boys just seem pointless to me...

The other value of SOTT is in testing ones ability to get their thoughts out more cogently. There are a ton of intel agents on this site always trying to derail narratives and deflect from the truth. That to me has value in itself. And because there is no reach (from SOTT) there is little worry that one might find themselves like Charlie Kirk... So you must know me by now? Why don't we try and see where we are fitting our thoughts together and not worry to much about the "Yes, and"s??

parzival · 2025-12-17T06:47:31Z

TBoris Mike Green: The Real Poverty Line Is $140,000 (Not $31,000)The Julia La Roche Show [Link]

TBoris · 2025-12-17T12:52:30Z

parzival Thanks for that. It is a hole in the boat for sure.

parzival · 2025-12-19T08:57:22Z

TBoris Still treading! 'The Light is Gathering 3: Unto Earth A Child is Born, He Shall Reign Forevermore' Dear reader, will you take this Son? Because you see...by TriTorch Dec 18, 2025 [Link]

TBoris · 2025-12-19T13:44:37Z

parzival Thank you for those stories. They are very inspirational. To me Jesus is a real thing I have no doubt. I don't have much faith based on material miracles or physical suffering on the cross(those material "proofs" are non proofs in my book). Same deal with rising from the death(a parlor trick for 4D STS entities). I do however believe in the 'Come to Jesus Moment' and its transformational aspects. I have it in my own life and can attest it isn't fake. I still go with the Cs definition of who Jesus is. And yes He is a personal savior (and He did sacrifice to save us) but it isn't the same as it is presented in the Gospels. It also though isn't actually a contradiction to the Gospels either(except for some literal material existentialist meanings in the Gospels that I think can be dumped for better comprehension).

The biggest win to me(plugging the largest hole of division of the human race) would be countering the narratives of those that wield the Christian Zionist force over Christians(hint they are the same ones calling people antisemitic). If Christians could "wake up" on that one, Christmas would be awesome to me. Here is a recent article on it that attempts to do that: 'The Nonsense of Christian Zionism' [Link]

I am sure this going to anger some people, but so be it. Christian Zionism is a theological and political movement primarily among evangelical Protestants (especially in the United States) that expresses strong support for the modern State of Israel and the Jewish people’s right to the land. Its beliefs are rooted in a particular interpretation of the Bible—known as dispensational premillennialism — which views biblical prophecies as literal and still applicable today .

Let me know your thoughts??

parzival · 2025-12-21T06:48:24Z

TBoris I agree with you all the way. In fact I have read and reviewed a book on Zionism from a former Evangelical Christian who for 30 years was spoon fed the dogma of the day and awoke from the spell, and wrote a book about her research into Zionism. [Link]
Turns out I'm the only person who wrote a review for her. Maybe you might add one?

TBoris · 2025-12-22T02:41:29Z

parzival I am going to order the book. Yes it a difficult subject. There is a lot of confusion in Christians about the subject of Christ for everyone, and Messiah for only the "chosen ones" in a blood line.

parzival · 2025-12-22T06:05:48Z

TBoris The Eastern Europeans who call themselves Jews that inhabit this prized real estate certainly exhibit their quest/need to be special. A poll was recently taken where 60% of all Jewish respondents who are residents state that they feel the Palestinians should be harsher with the Palestinians. My guess is that most of the population have taken the gene therapy shots, and it has really fucked with their brains and any sense of humanity.Glad to learn you'll be supporting Camie & her research.

parzival · 2025-12-13T17:33:00Z

Adding this conclusion to a substack article that names names, pulls no punches, and makes it exceedingly clear that the 'old order' is currently "being auctioned off, and the auctioneer has yet to be named." A must read if you care to know the current state of affairs of the post world order in all its current lawfare and financialization, brought to you by criminals with more dollars than sense the world over... Merry Christmas/Happy New Year everyone.

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'The Yalta Moment: How America Is Auctioning the Post-War Order While Russia Declares Legal War on the West' [Link]
The architects of dollar hegemony have become the auctioneers of its dissolution.

by Shanaka Anslem Perera Dec 12, 2025

XII. The Civilizational Verdict

"What we are witnessing is not a peace negotiation. It is a liquidation sale conducted under legal bombardment.

The American-led international order constructed after 1945 rested on a bargain: the United States would provide security, maintain open markets, and uphold a rules-based system; in exchange, allies would support American leadership and adversaries would face consequences for violations. That bargain assumed that American commitments were credible because they were institutionalized, embedded in treaties, organizations, and precedents that transcended individual administrations.

The Peace Through Profit framework dissolves that assumption. Commitments are revealed as contingent on the deals that can be struck. Allies are revealed as customers whose continued protection depends on their commercial value. Adversaries are revealed as potential partners whose rehabilitation depends not on behavioral change but on the opportunities they offer.

Russia’s legal offensive reveals something equally profound about the limits of financial warfare. The frozen assets that were supposed to punish aggression have become a liability for the freezers. Belgium sits exposed. Euroclear faces litigation. British banks resist their own government. And through it all, Russia waits, knowing that time favors the patient, that legal complexity favors the aggressor, and that Western democracies cannot maintain indefinite resolve against an adversary willing to fight in every forum, on every timeline, through every available mechanism.

The Yalta of 1945 was conducted by Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, men who had led their nations through existential war, who commanded the respect of the institutions they represented, who understood that the arrangements they made would shape history for generations. Whatever one thinks of their decisions, they were made by people with the standing to make them.

This new Yalta is conducted by real estate developers, private equity managers, sanctioned oligarchs, and central bank lawyers, men whose primary expertise is in finding the price at which any asset can be moved and the venue in which any claim can be filed. They have discovered that the post-Cold War order has a price. They are negotiating that price now. And Russia has served notice that it will contest every cent in every court on earth.

The December 18-19 EU Summit will determine whether Europe can act collectively or whether Belgium’s exposure paralyzes the continent. A Putin-Trump direct meeting is probable in the first quarter of 2026, the capstone to the shadow diplomacy that has already established the framework. The IMF’s $8.1 billion program for Ukraine will likely receive Executive Board approval in early 2026, providing short-term stabilization while longer-term arrangements crystallize.

The military trajectory is relentless. Russia will likely reach the outskirts of Pokrovsk by early 2026, another city fallen to the grinding calculus of attrition. Ukraine’s negotiating position weakens with every square kilometer lost, an arithmetic that everyone in every negotiating room understands perfectly well.

The great powers are dealing. The lawyers are filing. The price is being set.

The only question left is who pays, and for how many generations."

'This analysis synthesizes validated reporting from the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Reuters, Financial Times, CNN, NBC News, the Institute for the Study of War, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and official statements from the governments involved. All figures have been cross-referenced against primary sources current as of December 12, 2025.' What to Watch:

'December 18-19: EU Summit determines whether Article 122 qualified majority voting can bypass Belgian objectionsQ1 2026: Putin-Trump meeting formalizes the framework

Euroclear legal exposure escalates through Russian “global campaign”

Pokrovsk falls or holds, shifting negotiating arithmetic

IMF $8.1 billion program approval provides short-term Ukrainian stability

Congressional hearings on donor business interests test institutional oversight

The great powers are dealing. The courts are mobilizing. The old order is under auction. And no one has yet named the auctioneer.'

parzival · 2025-12-13T17:44:12Z

parzival Bonus video clip found on 'X'... For your approval: Inflatable absurdity in the U.S. [Link]

Buffalo_Ken ·

parzival

· 2025-12-13T20:24:26Z

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-12-13T20:24:52Z

parzival

"p" - 1 like for the first - a 2nd for the 2nd!

Happy Holidays to you and kin,

Ken

parzival · 2025-12-13T23:19:34Z

Buffalo_Ken Thanks Ken. My kin and I are much obliged!

The 1st post is interesting in its geopolitical simplicity of how this all dovetails back into how it's all about making money, the have nots being the people whose lives are destroyed in the process, and the haves who are the morally stunted losers, vacuuming up ever more assets in a finite world pursuing their sick pleasure.

The second post is mere AI Tomfoolery as pointed out by Mr. Dunn who happens to be a photographer. He lays it out quite succinctly; "You know it’s AI when the Chev full size pickup/Ford Ranger/Jeep/Honda Ridgeline pulls up.." [Link]

BTW, enjoyed reading and seeing the photos of your most recent engineering self-sufficiency! Will be watching with great interest how that project evolves! Take Care Ken!

parzival · 2025-12-13T23:25:36Z

parzival One might call it Ken's hunt for electrons! [Link]

Buffalo_Ken · 2025-12-14T18:30:50Z

parzival thanks!

Ken

parzival ·

Buffalo_Ken

· 2025-12-15T03:29:42Z

TBoris · 2025-12-15T04:35:42Z

parzival This is a great summary:

The 1st post is interesting in its geopolitical simplicity of how this all dovetails back into how it's all about making money, the have nots being the people whose lives are destroyed in the process, and the haves who are the morally stunted losers, vacuuming up ever more assets in a finite world pursuing their sick pleasure.

I would add that those that "ultimately print the money"(the bankers and a favorable nod to Dane Wigington https://geoengineeringwatch.org/geoengineering-watch-global-alert-news-december-13-2025-540/) are not the same as those "making money" through business deals and transactions. Also, I would fault the system a bit more than just examination of the moral aspects of the greedy billionaires (as sick and demented as they are)! I think that the system which allowed for all the consolidation of industries using 'Other's Peoples Money' [Link] should be complained about as well! See my links above Part 1, 2 and 3. Have a great evening or what not when you finally get to read this!

parzival · 2025-12-16T06:03:20Z

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