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Francesco Sylos Labini retweeted
Del Vecchio fa il lavoro sporco per tanti potenti - Daniela Ranieri
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Francesco Sylos Labini retweeted
L’ex-colonel suisse Jacques Baud restera sous sanctions européennes un an de plus.
Sans procès, ni audition, ni défense possible.
En décembre 2025, l’UE l’accusait de soutenir des actions russes menaçant la stabilité de l’Ukraine. Le 8 octobre dernier, la sanction a été prolongée sur une formulation plus vague encore : des actions qui « compromettent la démocratie » d’un pays tiers, désormais non nommé.
Sur quelle base concrète ? Mystère. Privé de ses comptes bancaires, bloqué à Bruxelles où il vit, cet ancien analyste de l’ONU et de l’OTAN répète n’avoir jamais eu de contact avec la Russie. Son tort est de proposer une lecture du conflit qui diffère de la version officielle.
La décision a été prise par les ministres de l’UE, sans que les personnes visées puissent se défendre. En Suisse, qui n’a pas repris ces sanctions, ses comptes restent pourtant bloqués par les banques. Le DFAE s’est contenté de demander des explications.
Même au cœur de la guerre froide, les voix dissidentes pouvaient s’exprimer. Que reste-t-il aujourd’hui de la liberté d’expression et de la culture du débat ?
Lire l'article de Jacques Pilet: antithese.info/articles/ce-q…
Francesco Sylos Labini retweeted
Ottimo articolo su @Redazione_ROARS: fa luce sul perché gli/le studenti/esse hanno piena ragione a battersi per non vedere svenduto il proprio futuro: roars.it/lalgoritmo-che-deci…
P.S. Nei commenti noto anche un "off-topic" di un certo "Ciro": tocca un 2° tema di cui nessuno parla.
Francesco Sylos Labini retweeted
In Israele, la difficile mediazione tra i due leader genocidi Netanyahu ed Eisenkot è affidata al presidente Isaac Herzog, quello che firmava le bombe da tirare ai bambini di Gaza.
L'unica democrazia genocida del Medio Oriente
Francesco Sylos Labini retweeted
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Il pericolo non sta solo nell’iniziare un conflitto atomico, ma in una catena di azioni e reazioni per cui una misura concepita come pressione limitata viene interpretata dall’altra parte come atto di guerra ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edic…
Il pericolo non sta solo nell’iniziare un conflitto atomico, ma in una catena di azioni e reazioni per cui una misura concepita come pressione limitata viene interpretata dall’altra parte come atto di guerra ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edic…
Francesco Sylos Labini retweeted
"Per interrompere questa corsa prima che sia troppo tardi occorre cambiare radicalmente la politica estera, come ha sostenuto #Conte nel confronto con Jeffrey Sachs."
@fsyloslab F.Q.
Francesco Sylos Labini retweeted
Ma non si rendono conto che tutta questa rissa patetica sui giudici, le proteste e i presunti gruppi terroristici è solo un mezzo per sviare l'attenzione da una delle manovre di bilancio più ridicole della storia italiana?
Ne parliamo domani a Coffee Break su La7 alle 9:40.
Grazie per il vostro ascolto.
Gabriele Guzzi
Francesco Sylos Labini retweeted
Jeffrey Sachs goes back to 1943.
"At the Cairo Conference... it said that those territories that had been seized by Japanese imperialism... would be returned to China. This was absolutely clear, and Taiwan was on that list."
The Cairo Declaration, signed by Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek, names it : Formosa and the Pescadores "shall be restored" to China.
Potsdam 1945 repeated it. UN Resolution 2758 in 1971 settled who holds China's seat.
Even after the civil war, Sachs says, the fight was over whose China it was. Never whether Taiwan was part of it.
So how did it become a "geopolitical issue" ?
"Because the United States unfortunately is making provocations."
His advice to Washington, in one line :
"Don't make trouble where you shouldn't make trouble."
History wrote it down 80 years ago. The arms dealers just never read it.
Francesco Sylos Labini retweeted
L’Assemblea generale delle Nazioni Unite si è pronunciata sulla necessità di porre fine all’embargo economico, commerciale e finanziario imposto dagli USA contro Cuba. Per la 34ª volta consecutiva, la risoluzione è stata approvata. Italia astenuta, l’Ucraina ha votato contro
Francesco Sylos Labini retweeted
LA PEGGIORE GOVERNATRICE DELLA STORIA DELLA BCE 🇪🇺💥
Christine Lagarde se ne va. Oggi ha annunciato le dimissioni: lascerà Francoforte il 7 febbraio 2027, nove mesi prima della scadenza. Prima di salutarla, ricordiamo chi è 👇
📜 SERVILISMO. Nel 2013, durante la perquisizione per il caso Tapie, gli inquirenti trovano la sua lettera manoscritta a Sarkozy: «Sono al tuo fianco per servirti… Usami per il tempo che ti conviene». Per quella vicenda (403 milioni a Tapie) nel 2016 è stata condannata per negligenza.
🎓 NON È UN'ECONOMISTA. Giurista, avvocata d'affari. Eppure ha guidato il FMI e la banca centrale di 350 milioni di europei.
🇬🇷 GRECIA. Da direttrice del FMI ha gestito il memorandum del 2012: PIL greco -25%, disoccupazione oltre il 27%. Quell'anno disse di pensare più ai bambini del Niger che ai greci, che dovevano «pagare le tasse». Nel 2013 lo stesso FMI ammise di aver sbagliato i calcoli sugli effetti dell'austerità.
📉 12 MARZO 2020. Piena pandemia: «Non siamo qui per chiudere gli spread». Piazza Affari -16,9%, la peggior seduta della sua storia. Un whatever it takes al contrario.
🔥 INFLAZIONE. Nel 2021 era "transitoria", destinata a calare nel 2022. Ottobre 2022: 10,6%, record dell'eurozona. Poi la stretta sui tassi più rapida di sempre, pagata da famiglie e imprese con mutui e credito più cari.
🏛️ IL SISTEMA. Lagarde è il volto dell'élite tecnocratica europea: istituzioni non elette che hanno sottratto ai popoli e alle democrazie gli strumenti della politica economica: moneta, cambio, bilancio.
🔄 E ORA? Porte girevoli: è in corsa per la presidenza del World Economic Forum di Davos e punta a pesare nelle presidenziali francesi del 2027 contro Le Pen.
Non è un incidente di percorso. È il prodotto di un sistema che ci ha portato al grado zero. E da cui dobbiamo uscire. Andare oltre ⚡️
#europa #politica #finanza #perte #Eurosuicidio
Francesco Sylos Labini retweeted
PUTIN'S STRATEGY IS WORKING: MEARSHEIMER REVEALS THE WEST'S FATAL MISTAKE
US Professor John Mearsheimer joined host Glenn Diesen on October 28, 2026. The realist scholar laid out why Russia is on track for an ugly victory in Ukraine and how decades of NATO expansion created the conditions that made this war almost inevitable. The West still refuses to face the strategic reality staring it in the face.
RUSSIA IS WINNING AND THE WEST KNOWS IT
➡️ Many Europeans, maybe even most, now understand that Russia is going to win the war.
➡️ Even Mike McFaul, a longtime Putin critic and staunch supporter of the Zelensky government, just published a piece in Foreign Affairs titled “Putin’s Strategy is working.”
➡️ Trump has shifted the burden to the Europeans because he fully understands there is no war-winning strategy for the United States in Ukraine.
➡️ He wants to cut a deal, but Zelensky, the Europeans, and the deep state stand in the way.
THE GLOVES CAME OFF
➡️ The Russians took the gloves off in their strategic bombing campaign in midsummer and ramped it up across Ukraine.
➡️ They have seriously damaged the Ukrainian economy and the infrastructure that supports the troops on the front lines.
➡️ This makes Ukraine ever more dependent on European economic support at a moment when Europe is in no position to deliver.
➡️ Zelensky has already said the €52 billion pledged for 2026 is not enough and that he needs another €27 billion. For 2027 he has asked for an additional €82 billion on top of the €52 billion already pledged.
THE TERRITORY LOGIC
➡️ Putin cannot trust the West or Ukraine to stick to any deal.
➡️ He has a deep-seated interest in taking as much Ukrainian territory as he can conquer and govern because that is the best way of maximizing Russia’s security over the long term.
➡️ From a Russian point of view the choice is simple: either Russia controls Odessa or Ukraine controls Odessa. If the Russians can take it at a reasonable cost, they will.
➡️ The goal is to turn Ukraine into a thoroughly dysfunctional rump state that is in no position to join the West or threaten Russia again.
➡️ “We have incentivized the Russians to weaken Ukraine as much as possible and to take as much Ukrainian territory as possible for strategic reasons.”
THE NATO ROOT CAUSE
➡️ If there had been no NATO expansion and no talk of bringing Ukraine into NATO, Ukraine would be intact today in its pre-2014 borders, including Crimea.
➡️ McFaul has said there is no evidence Putin was intent on taking Crimea before 2014; he was spooked by the possibility that the Crimean Peninsula would become a NATO naval base.
➡️ Putin was not an imperialist before 2014 and he was not an imperialist before 2022. The conquests that followed are driven by strategic necessity, not empire-building.
➡️ Russia lives in a dangerous neighborhood. Napoleon invaded in 1812, Imperial Germany forced the Brest-Litovsk surrender in 1917, and Nazi Germany launched the most barbaric campaign in recorded history in 1941. NATO, a mortal foe during the Cold War, has now moved up to Russia’s border. The United States sits behind two oceans with weak neighbors. Russia does not.
THE BOTTOM LINE
Mearsheimer’s assessment is blunt: Ukraine is definitely going to lose the war, the Russians will win an ugly victory, and no one can tell a plausible story about how Kyiv rescues the situation. Decades of NATO expansion that ignored Russian security concerns produced exactly the outcome the West claimed it wanted to prevent. This is the price of refusing to see the world as it is.
#Mearsheimer #UkraineWar #NATOExpansion #Russia #Realism #PutinStrategy #UkraineDefeat
HT: YouTube Glenn Diesen
Francesco Sylos Labini retweeted
A parte la presa di posizione e la solidarietà di Chiara Appendino, qualche politico ha una parola da dire su questi padroncini che vogliono distruggere i giornali? Hanno idea dell’urgenza di fare una legge per impedire agli imprenditori di comprarsi la stampa?
Francesco Sylos Labini retweeted
Das ist Jaques Baud. Publizist und Journalist. Ex Militär. Wenn Du kein Social Media hast, dann kennst Du ihn gar nicht. Warum sollte man ihn aber kennen?
Die EU wirft Jacques Baud etwas vor:
Er sei Gast in „pro-russischen" Sendungen gewesen, er fungiere als „Sprachrohr pro-russischer Propaganda“ und verbreite Verschwörungstheorien – konkret: die ukrainische Regierung sei mit Schuld am Krieg. Damit unterstütze er russische Desinformation, die unsere liberale Demokratie untergrabe.
Es wurde ihm dabei keinerlei russische Bezahlung nachgewiesen.
Man kann nun gerne seine Meinung abstoßend finden - aber darum geht es hier nicht.
Denn:
Was hat die EU Kommission gemacht? Sie hat ihn persönlich mit denselben Sanktionen belegt die für Putins Gefolgschaft gilt.
Weil er seine Meinung geäußert hat.
Das sind die konkreten Maßnahmen, die ihn betreffen:
🇪🇺 Vermögenssperre (alle EU-Konten, Vermögen, Pension eingefroren)
🇪🇺 Verbot, ihm Geld/Ressourcen bereitzustellen
🇪🇺 Reiseverbot (kein EU-Transit, seit Dez. 2025 in Brüssel festgesetzt)
🇪🇺 Praktisch: Alle Kreditkarten tot, Einkäufe/Zahlungen unmöglich, es gibt zwar humanitäre Ausnahmen aber die zu nutzen ist eher kafkaesk.
Diese Strafe wurde jetzt gerade verlängert bis Ende 2027. Natürlich ohne Prozess.
Die EU ist ein Feind der Freiheit.
Francesco Sylos Labini retweeted
🚨 U.S-IRAN WAR IS TURNING OUT TO BE BRUTAL FOR EUROPE
Just look at what's happened since the war began:
• Natural gas prices: +206%
• Diesel prices: +39%
• Petrol prices: +27%
• Crude oil prices: +50%
• Eurozone inflation: 1.9% → 3.8%
• France's 10Y bond yield: 3.22% → 4.98%
• France's 30Y bond yield: 4.23% → 5.49%
• Germany's 10Y bond yield: 2.65% → 3.38%
Meanwhile, eurozone government debt has increased by nearly €492 BILLION in just six months.
France's debt has reached 119.1% of GDP, while Italy's is approaching 140%.
Economic growth is slowing, unemployment has edged higher, consumer confidence is falling, and the ECB has already started raising interest rates again.
The bigger concern is that Europe is heading into winter with energy prices already extremely high, government debt still rising and economic growth weakening.
If the war continues and energy prices rise further, Europe could face an even more serious inflation and debt crisis.
Francesco Sylos Labini retweeted
So this French tv host asks John Kerry if there isn't a double standards between the US's position on Putin for his "war of aggression" and the fact they don't think those standards apply to Bush for Iraq.
John Kerry, embarrassed,replies Iraq wasn't a war of aggression.
🥴🥴🥴
