Interview w/Pål Steigan where he claims that support to Ukraine is most popular in the Nordics and the Baltics, whereas ie the biggest German and French opposition parties want to normalize relations with Russia. If and when others stop the support, some Nordic and Baltic countries might remain, the "Viking Alliance" that gives more than 2% of our GDP.

PS: "Norway is making a run here together with the Baltics, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. And I think that is worrisome, because these are almost the same countries as supported Operation Barbarossa. That is, Nazi Norway participated in Operation Barbarossa. So too were the Finns and the Baltics. In Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, they have revered Nazi veterans the whole time after the so-called independence from the Soviet Union. There are flower ceremonies for SS officers and such every year.

So it is very special cirquits we are allying ourselves with. And today, we published an article by a Serbian intellectual who points out that small countries sometimes have a tendency to function like ignitors of conflagration. They assume the great powers will come along and help them. So therefore they run around in the gunpowder depot with lighted torches. And that is a very perilous role.

Here we can mention for example the role of Serbia to ignite the 1st World War. There was a militant group called the Black Hand which ignited it, while the government didn't really want it. One thing took the other, and suddenly we had a war between great powers. And in a way, Polen and Austria functioned in this way with South Slovakia before the 2nd WW.

And you know Norway is talking about war with Russia. Norway is going to produce long ranged weapons that are supposed to reach Moscow or further. Ok. At some point perhaps the Russians are going to say, like Putin said at the meeting in New Dehli here the other day, sure, if you want war with Russia you can have it. And that will be a short war. And I think he is right about that. And then these Nordic leaders, or what one is supposed to call them, they believe that Uncle Sam is going to come to their rescue. There is no chance that the Americans are going to sacrifice a single soldier to defend crazies in the Nordics. There is no chance."

TA: "No, this is pretty interesting, because in reality this is a war that to a large degree is provoked through many many years by USA. But now USA in a way has managed to let the Europeans take over the management of this war. And earlier this week, 8th sep, the General Secretary of Nato, Mark Rutte, drummed together some people who constitute a sort of donor countries group, in order to continue to support Ukraine with money and weapons. And he says we have no choice. We just have to continue supporting Ukraine. We have no choice. And yesterday i listened to Helgemorgen on P2, NRK, where [foreign minister] Espen Barth Eide, manages to come back to the same. We have no choice. We just have to support Ukraine. That is the scenario here that our media has pushed since the war started. Ukraine's war is our war. And Norway's front line now goes in East Ukraine."

PS: "And so how many soldiers have Norway sent to Ukraine? They are presupposing that it is the Ukrainians who are going to continue to die."

TA: "Yes."

PS: "And now European countries are abolishing the protection of the asylum seekers, to chase not just men, but also women, back to Ukraine, into the front, to suffer a quick death to advancing Russian forces. So it is an unbelievably cynical game. And I don't think EBE and Støre necesarily understand this. Their strategic thinking ability I don't put very high. But there has to be one or two professional military strategic thinkers in Europe who understand what this is about.

In USA at any rate there are lots of them. The American think tanks have been researching this for a long time, New York Times wrote two and a half years ago that Ukraine is going to lose. Spectator wrote it a couple weeks back. "Ukraine is losing the war". We know this. And then they say they are to continue.

With what? So far the Russians have not used the heaviest conventional weapons they have, only as an exception have they tried some of them, but they have studied meticulously Iran's experiences, there is now a de facto alliance between Moscow and Tehran, Moscow has supplied Iran with many important things, radar systems and surveillance systems that have been important in the war. And Moscow sees that if Iran hits American bases, the Americans aren't going in with full force and try to defend it. They don't have the ability to. They are using so many Patriot interceptors just against a few Iranian drones or missiles. And the Russians know this very well. They know there are no Patriot missiles in Europe to protect the bases. I don't think Putin wants war with Europe. Why would he? On the other hand, it is fully possible for the Europeans to make a provocation that the Russians have to react to. And that will be scary for Europe, and the Americans are not coming to the rescue. That is not going to happen, and then we are standing there.

And there is something strange with that Nordic war activism. To me it seems a little like Bjørnsson's glorification of the Scandinavianism. And egged the Danes to war with Prussia, no? And it ended with the catastrophy on Dybel Skanse which incurred a terrible defeat upon Denmark. And why go on in that way?

Small countries need to realize that it is the great powers who own the game. Norway should realize it, because Norway has three times become more or less free because of the great power game. After the Kiel Peace 1813 it became possible to gather the Storting and vedta the constitution in 1814. That was to be fair short lasting, and the war against Sweden lasted very short, but that was the great power game at that time. And in 1905 it was the great powers again, among others Russia, who made it possible to establish a Norway independent of Sweden. It didn't come to war between Norway and Sweden because the great powers didn't want it. And again, it was the Soviet Union first and foremost, who made Norway free in '45, fundamentally.

TA: "We must not talk so loudly about that. I suppose our viewers should see a Gallup poll, how is the feeling among Ukrainians in Ukraine? .. And here we see a clear tendency. At the war outbreak there was over 70% of Ukrainians who wanted to fight against the invasion militarily. This support for the war in Ukraine, among Ukrainians it has fallen quite drastically. And in both 2025 and 2026 it was measured to just 24% of the Ukrainians wanted to fight militarily in this war. 66% want now want a negotiated solution as soon as possible. And this is a Gallup made by the American Gallup institute. Very credible. Nobody has cast doubt upon the correctness of this study. So the feeling in Ukraine among Ukrainians is very clear. They want a negotiated peace solution. So why in all the days should Norwegian politicians overrun the Ukrainians' own wish?"

PS: "That has to be because there are other interests behind. One can evaluate what that is, but as it happens, this this war is first and foremost a financial operation.

The war is an enormous support to the weapons industry, and thereby to the finance capital who owns the weapons industry. And as a whole, what we have seen in the recent years, lockdown with the Corona fckery and so on, was also a financial war, Ukraine is a financial war, most of these billions go to American weapons industry. American weapons industry is owned by Blackrock and these companies, BlackRock is inside Ukraine with large assets there. So in the last instance this is finance. And Norway is actually a significant finance imperialist. The oil fund owns 1.5% of the world's stocks and is deeply integrated into Wall Street and the BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard system.

So Norway here operates as an international finance capitalistic warmaker. And these war stocks are enormous. The Kongsberg Group makes huge profits on this. So this is capitalism as of today, it has in reality stopped doing normal capitalist production, but it is all about finance.

In addition comes an important aspect because everybody knows that Ukraine is Europe's most corrupt society. It is said that 15-30% of the money that comes in is simply stolen by the system. Recently the State Attorney had to resign. Why, because the State Attorney's office got enormous profits of a system of call centers that is criminal, and the international police authorities say this bigger internationally than drug trade. So this is gigantic. And once you are inside that system, you are on team with the blackest of the black economy in the world. This is criminal to the core. Those who send these money from Norway, must know they are part of this. It can not have escaped them.

Therefore, they also have personal interest in that this war doesn't end. Because when this war ends, this whole laundry is coming on the table, and the blame for having used, how much, a quarter of a national budget, on swindle and scams, that will be distributed. Clearly the persons, Støre, Stoltenberg and so on, they have personal interests of this not being seen. So they have personal interest in that the war continues."

TA: "The problem here Pål, is that the whole Storting is behind this. There is no opposition on the Storting. So who in all the days are going to put the responsibility to whom?"

They move on to among other things the connections between Norwegians and "the White Fuhrer" in Ukraine, General Biletskyj.

Who keeps track of the money and connections between Nordic politicians and corporations, the Ukrainian corruption and international finance capital?

I feel like rain is a part of our daily lives and as my rain coat is about to need to be replaced I’d love to here what people are buying and who has the smartest setup to stay dry during these rainy times. I have regular rain pants but hate the inconvenience of taking them off when arriving at a friend’s house.

Taking into account intense wind is a bonus as well as the wind where I live is out of this world.

How come user flairs are disabled here? Most Nordic or similar subreddits even force you to use flairs to indicate where you're from.

En sejr for Nordisk integration! 💛💙🤍❤️

1. Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland make an alliance to attack against Russia to help Ukraine in the name of humanity. Half of Polands military would go to help Ukraine on its front while the other half and Lithuania help Latvia and Estonia attack russia on their front. They should get pretty close to St Petersburg with their military power.
2. Finland with minor support from the Swedish military attacks the Russian Karelia, reaching the white sea in no time due to how weak Russias military is there and helps the former 4 take over St petersburg.
3. Norway along with Sweden launches an all-out invasion of the Kola-peninsula resulting in massive casualties but eventually being able to take it.
4. While this is happening, Georgia, Azerbaidzan and Armenia form an alliance and attack Russia where its military is the weakest, eventually reaching the Ukrainian front, thus helping the Ukrainian and Polish troops get further into Russian territory.
5. After ovetaking the Kola-peninsula, the Norwegian and Swedish forces make landings on the other side, on the Russian wilderness and continue to push until they meet up with the Finnish forces in Karelia.
6. After this, it would basically just be a race to Moscow with most, if not all of Russias military having been decimated.
7. After taking Moscow, if Russia still doesnt surrender, the literal WALL of allies could continue to push further into the siberian until Russia surrenders.

(Keep in mind, this plan ingnores the existence of Belarus, kazakstan and the rest of Russias allies)

To my mind they are, as it is largely an ethnic-linguistic term - and on the other hand Meänkieli speakers and the Norwegian and Swedish Sami surely won't appreciate calling them Scandinavians. As a Finn this question has always bothered me :)

I want to make an illustration based off of Danish culture during the Viking Age, and I'm trying to find sources for things like fashion and art during this time. However, it's been pretty difficult to find sources for Denmark specifically, and a lot of them just describe clothing as 'Nordic' or 'Scandinavian.'

I also plan on writing a small blurb on my inspiration for the piece. Is it offensive to just say: "The characters are wearing 10th century nordic clothing"? If someone described something as "Asian clothing" or even "East Asian clothing" I would find that quite offensive and an ignorant generalisation of many distinct cultures. Does the word 'Nordic' have the same connotations and does it generalise the cultures of Nordic countries?

I would also be really grateful if anyone had any really good sources on this subject in any language!

Planning a few days in Lapland next September 11-14. Which of the two of these (or open to others) would y’all pick? Will be coming from Helsinki and then going on to Bergen. Would love to experience ruska and the northern lights (hopefully), like small quieter towns more than bigger bustling cities. I’m a total noob on this part of Europe so please feel free to shoot me straight! Open to all suggestions.

The following is the first half of a program on The Duran.

AC: "... And what are your thoughts on what was signed between Trump, Denmark and Greenland?

AM: "Well, I thought it was very interesting, because it is exactly on the lines of what we anticipated after the Munich Security Conference. If you remember, there was an awful lot of going on about Greenland at that time. And Trump announced that the Danes had agreed to a deal that was being brokered by the Nato Secretary General, Mark Rutte, which basically gave the US security and military control of Greenland. There was a lot of pushback afterwards. People were saying that this wasn't really the case, Trump was fantasizing. We said in the program at that time that probably this is exactly how it would shape out. And now we have the actual deal.

The actual deal in effect gives the US military control of Greenland in exactly the way that we said. So, Trump got what he wanted over Greenland. The Danes caved. The British, the Dutch, the Germans, Ursula, all of them ultimately told the Danes, 'give Trump what he wants. Give the US what they want over Greenland, because we need the Americans involved. We need them involved in Europe. We need their support for Ukraine.'

So, ultimately, Denmark was left by its own, and it gave the US what it wanted, and Fredriksen, who is the Danish PM, and who is obsessively focused on Russia, she too wasn't going to fight hard for Greenland, when it is Russia that she cares about. So, that is what happened."

AC: "Why would she fight hard for Greenland against the US?"

AM: "Well she didn't fight hard for Greenland."

AC: "She's going to do exactly what the US tells her to do. The part that was interesting about this Greenland deal was not, I don't think, was what the US got or what Denmark or the Europeans conceded. I think the interesting part to the Greenland deal was that we had all of these theatrics.

AM: "Yeah."

AC: "Around Greenland, Trump posting the memes, the AI images, the AI slop that he was posting about Greenland, talking about it, how it was going to become the 51st state or the 53rd state. And the US is going to take Greenland, and they're going to annex Greenland and the EU was horrified and they were shocked and they were pushing back against the US's claims, Trump's claims, that he was going to take Greenland, there was even talk about a military confrontation at one point. I mean, it was just all freaking theater. It was a skit. It was theater, the whole thing. It was done on purpose. Because at the end of the day the US could have contacted Denmark. And they could have sat down with Denmark and said, 'Look, here is the deal. We want 3 military bases. We want 10 military bases. We want 100 military bases.' Denmark and Europe were not going to say no to the US."

AM: "No, of course they won't. The key thing to understand about why Fredriksen should have made a stronger position on Greenland is because Greenland is Norwegian, I'm sorry, Danish sovereign territory.

And of course many people in Greenland have an eventual aspiration towards independence. And they're not being consulted about this as far as I could tell. Their PM was basically given this done deal which he had to sign. The Danes, in effect, in other words, sold the Greenlanders out. That's how it looks to me. And Fredriksen as you absolutely rightly said, went through all the motions and all the activities of trying to hand hold out for Greenland, but of course she didn't, because the EU, the leaders of all of the European states, Fredriksen definately, the Baltic states, not just the 3 Baltic states that were formerly part of the Soviet Union, but all of the Baltic nations, their governments, what they are overwhelmingly obsessively focused upon is Russia. They're not interested in protecting the sovereignty of their countries from the US, because of course they are themselves vassals of the US as we have discussed in many places.

And the long-term aspirations of the people of Greenland are neither here nor there in this discussion. Now, I'm going to say something btw, and this is for the future. It's not for today or for next year or five years or 10 years time. Maybe actually maybe 5 years or 10 years time. But if we ever do get into a situation where the US does indeed fully disengage from Europe, and I accept that there is no plan or intention to do that now. But if we ever get there, if the US does indeed withdraw into its own geographical sphere of influence, then they will simply annex Greenland. I mean, it's a done thing. Denmark isn't going to be in any position to say no. The American troops will already be there. The people of Greenland will have no choice in the matter. I mean, that, now, if we get into that kind of geopolitical environment, has become irresistible."

AC: "Yea, the deal between the US and Greenland could have been negotiated, if you want to use the word negotiated. Could have been demanded by the US towards Denmark in a week's time, through back channel diplomacy without having to go through all the theatrics of it. Ok, it's the way Trump is utilized for the goals of the globalists and of the deep states is to create this WrestleMania type of theatrical skit."

AC: "And Trump is very good at it."

AM: "Yea, it's also very humiliating for the Europeans. We should not forget that. I mean, I don't know what people think about it in Denmark, or indeed in Greenland, but the fact of the matter is, if it had been negotiated in the quiet way that you have suggested, the US would have got what it wanted obviously.

AC: "Well, that's my question."

AM: "But, it would have been much better for the Danes."

AC: "I know. I know. Well you're predicting my question. My question is why go through all of this? Why do you have to put Trump out there if you're the guys that are really running the show? Why do you put Trump out there to post the memes? Why do you create these memes of the US flag over Greenland, or the AI of a giant Trump overlooking Greenland, eyeing Greenland because he's going to take it and annex it. Why do you create the narratives of Denmark and the Europeans actually getting into a confrontation with the US? Why do you have to go through all of this? Is it to con the people? Is it to feed this stuff to the citizens of Denmark, to the citizens of Europe and the US? That there's tension, that there's anger. That there's this big struggle because you don't want to just make this a quick one-and-done kind of deal? 'We're going to build 10 bases. There's nothing you can say about it Denmark.' Ok, it's over. I mean, why do you have to go through all of this?"

AM: "To humiliate the Europeans and tell them who the master is, it's as simple as that. I mean, to do it in ways that are the most humiliating possible and to put the option of annexation on the table.

To be absolutely clear, with the American troops, the American army now, all over Greenland on a much bigger scale than what we've seen in the past. All that annexation would require now would be a stroke of the pen in Washington. I mean there would no longer be any need, in the future, to discuss this with Copenhagen and with the Danes because the Danes, having already conceded in effect that the US takes over security and protection in Greenland, that is in fact a concession of sovereignty. Sovereignty goes with military protection. A country that is not protecting itself, or a region of a country that is not protecting itself, that is being protected by a different country, has given up the sovereignty of that territory. So that's the reason it was done, obviously.

There's an element of theater on Trump's side, he goes and shows everybody that he's the Emperor and all of that. He doesn't like the Europeans very much. I think that is probably true. Why would he? So he doesn't like the Europeans. He likes to play theater and he likes to provide a big story to people in the US. But ultimately, there was never much pushback against this within the US, because the political class in the US, the deep state in the US, have long had their eyes on Greenland, and they've now got it.

AC: "Why do they have to humiliate the Europeans though? I mean, what does the US gain by humiliating the Europeans? And in your description of Greenland, the fact that you have the US military presence in Greenland is in a way one step closer to just outright annexation and control of Greenland. I mean, you've pretty much described all of Europe."

AM: "Yeah."

AC: "The entire US military is in Europe. A large part of the US military is controlling much of Europe.

AM: "Yes."

AC: "Is there sovereignty in Europe? Is there sovereignty in Germany? Is there sovereignty in the European countries that have large US military presence? Poland is now going from one base to two, is what I'm hearing. Not only are they going to build one American base, but now there's talk of a 2nd American base."

AM: "Yes. Right. I mean, one cannot compare the situation of a place like Germany with a place like Greenland. I mean, however circumscribed sovereignty in Germany or indeed Poland or even Britain is, the fact remains that these are countries with large populations. They do have their own militaries. They do have in theory at least their own foreign policy. They can always, in theory again, and not just in theory, in practice, they can say no. Greenland is no longer in the position to say no. If the US just decides to move forward with annexation, Greenland is too small, its population is too limited. It has never secured independence from Denmark anyway. If the decision is made in Washington to annex Greenland, that's it. It's over. There's no further discussion. Europe, in theory, maybe, one day might strike out on its own. Greenland from this moment never can and never will."

Can anyone recommend any feel good lighthearted tv series or films with a romance element (preferably with a female lead) similar to Home for Christmas /Hjem til jul ? I’ve rewatched it so many times

Prefer more recent or modern rather than 80s/90s

Small Places, Big Imperial Battles

Analysis of Greenland, Korea and Yemen in light of US plans, by KJ Noh from South Korea. He reminds us of the nature of the Danish colonialism, that until a year ago they had intelligense tests for Inuit mothers and took their baby away. Tests were in Danish.

Noh explains why the US can't process rare earths, and probably won't be able to. Next question is what the increased US military presence is supposed to be for. The fixation with Greenland signals that the US is still firmly committed to global hegemony. The base it has is also a space base that can detect missiles and project space assets.

Though the US sees China as its main rival, it is not likely to promote peace with Russia. US presence in Greenland threatens Russia's nuclear powered submarines, stationed off Kola peninsula, and its ice breaker fleet.

"So these are very very agressive moves, and it signals that Western hostility to Russia has not abated despite the surface discussions happening. The US claim and the US desire for hegemony has not changed and Greenland and all of Europe is essentially going along with this plan. So on that level I wouldn't expect any change, either with the Democrats of the Republicans. I think that if we take away the surface scuttlebutt we see that the agenda is still the same. They still want to dominate Russia, they still want to bleed it out, they still want to essentially turn it into a vassalized appendage of Europe.

And ofcourse, this goes back to the larger picture, what we call the 2 + 3 configuration, which is there are two revisionist powers, two great enemies of the US, that's Russia and China, and then there are three smaller enemies that are North Korea, Iran and non-state actors. And essentially, these non-state actors are less important but the two great enemies of the US, the two great revisionist powers are Russia and China. So nothing has changed and I think that we're foolish to think that there'll be anything more that a change of style as far as Democrats or Republicans are concerned."

Both flavours of puppets are controlled by the same puppeteer, which is the ruling imperial deep state. It is not going to take on an anti-war position. The Americans always vote for the candidate they think is the peace candidate, and as they say each time they vote for peace they end up with John McCain again.

Next the interview turns to SK. SK was created by genocide by the US as a bulwark against socialist movements in East Asia and as a bulwark against China. Korea had been a Japanese colony for half a century, until USA 'liberated' half of it and kept it as a colony for itself. So SK doesn't have sovereignty, which is illustrated by the fact that its huge conscription army is controlled by USA. SK was made to participate in almost every major US war, but the SK president has said no to participate in the war against Iran. Noh expects further pressure from the US for SK to send troops. It could try a coup, as it tried before. SK also had to give $350b in tribute just to avoid US tariffs.

So the US wants to use SK as a proxy, but also the US cannot build industry. "It's not profitable, it's much easier to gouge rentier profits. But they still need industrial capacity if they want to wage an industrial war against Russia, against Iran, against China. And so they're turning SK into the quartermaster for US wars. And what that means is taking Korean industrial capacity, which is impressive and vast, along with Japanese industrial capacity, along with some Indian projects as well, and see if they can make a kind of enclosed industrial system that can be the quartermaster, that can be the defence industrial base for the US.

..in particular in terms of ship-building. And ofcourse, the main idea is to exclude China and to create independent economic and industrial structures that banishes and shuns China, like the Biden administration tried to do with the Trans-Pacific Partnership. They're still working on that. So once again all of this boils down back to the fact that the US is seeking war with China. It seeks to maintain its hegemony. And it understands that the easiest way to do that is to deputize and to appropriate its vassals into doing some of its fighting and most certainly most of its industrial production."

The culture in SK is all about class war, which divides it between pro-imperialist, pro-Japanese collaborators who became the pro-American collaborators, and the anti-imperialist resistance, which is strongly aligned with NK, the living embodiment of anti-imperialist resistance. SK was created by wiping out, literally, all the progressives in SK, and their children, and their women and their families were lined up and shot and murdered in mass graves. Nobody talks about it.

"Korea was turned into a wasteland on par with Gaza, but on a scale 900 times larger. So class war is at the heart of this political crisis in SK. And for many decades Koreans put up with military dictatorships, with the kind of tacit provisio that we'll put up with all this exploitation and violence but eventually, it will raise our standard of living. Well, in 1997, that promise turned out to be completely bogus. And even the managerial middle class realized that they were expendable tools in this globalized imperial colonial project.

Tens of thousands of South Koreans who thought they had lifetime employment with Samsung or Hyundai realized that they were just expendable labour, and during that period we have what is called the IMF su..ide*,* which is thousands of people committed su..ide after losing work. In Korea the IMF is considered to be an acronym for 'I'm F'd'.

And this was literally what happened. Wealthy middle class Koreans would pick up their children from school, or from piano lessons and take them home, give them a bag with some toys and a teddy bear, drop them off at and orphanage, and then both parents would go home and commit su..ide*.* So we have this entire phenomenon during that period of what we call IMF orphans, middle class people who thought they were middle class, who committed su..ide after being reamed by the global capitalist system.

So that class war and the class dimensions of the Korean society have never ended, and ofcourse people understand this as related to imperial subjugation. There was a period in the late 1970's-early 1980's where Koreans were fighting against the military dictatorships and they were fighting for 'democracy'..

..and they understood that without liberation, without sovereignty from imperial control, you have no chance at democracy. There is a critical path and a sequencing, and you have to wrest back sovereignty first, and you have to fight imperialism before you even have the minimal chance at establishing a people's democracy. But people were mislead.."

This was going on in Taiwan as well. Noh explains more about the resistance movement in the current political landscape in SK and the brutal treatment the PM was subjected to as child slave.

Since the illegal war against Iran started, there's been massive protests in the streets in Korea against being sent to die in it. Yemen has shown that the US is a paper tiger, which gives the Koreans a little bit of maneuver space.

SK has good relations with Iran, and has built ports in Iran which USA is bombing now. Iran said if SK joins the US war, Iran will destroy all of its assets, ports, infrastructure, refineries, data centers all across the Gulf states.

The main obstacle to Korean unity and de-escalation is the US. The US has to have hostility in the region to justify its military presence. Once bitten twice shy, NK has so far as Noh can tell given up on reunification. It has instead closed off transport to SK and is steeling itself for conflict. NK has mutual defence treaty with Russia and is the only country who has one with China. Along with Iran, this is the core of multipolar resistance (Crink).

Between 1/3 and 1/5 of North Koreans were killed in the war, but they rebuilt the country quickly. It's always supported independence, and helped Iran and Yemen with their tunnel defences for example, as well as arms. It has been a stalwart support to Palestine with arms and training. Because of its stalwart support to resistance and its ability to resist, USA has always wanted to obliterate it. NK has sought peace with SK since the war ended in 1953. The US always rejected peace treaties and deceived and betrayed it at every opportunity.

Russia disabled the UNSC monitoring committee for sanctions, which allowed NK some breathing space to get back to being itself, "a highly productive, developmental socialist state, kind of a model of what you can do with socialism if you put your mind to it, and ofcourse that counter example should not, in the minds of the Western elite, should not be allowed to exist, which is why they spent so much energy and effort into trying to strangle it in the crib. But NK has resisted, it's survived, it's re-ascending towards its previous status as both a powerful ally of the Global South and of national liberation movements, and a powerful development state in its own right with tremendous technological capacity. So all of this is just more signals of the way in which the Global South is rising up again, with Yemen, with Iran, with West Asia, with all the developments that are happening in China and in SE Asia as well. And ultimately, it's a signal that the Empire, despite its best and most violent efforts, has not been able to snuff out socialism in the Global South. .."

Yemen and Iran holds the two most important choke points in the world, adding to the pressure on the Empire core and its Gulf satropies. USA wants to release AI as a weapon against workers, against the Global South and against China, who wants to release AI as a public good. So tectonic shifts are going on.

Every year, my family and I are so excited for winter. My kiddo is a more mobile and active and is looking forward to playing in the snow. Aside from winterproof outer layer, are there any good base layers that'll keep my kiddo warm when we are outside?