Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Pepe Escobar: Trump in huge trouble as Putin & China's BRICS Bombshell.....

When the Soviet Union ended, there was no purpose for NATO. They could have dissolved in 1995.
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Russia is not our enemy. Greetings from Australia.
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I am a Pole living in Canada, deeply embarrassed by the idiocy and corruption of my native's country politicians. The government is putting the shame on the entire country. Thank you Mr. Escobar for sharing your wisdom and your deadpan humour with us. We need both to stay sane.
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Ukrain’s fate was already predicted more than 2000 years ago by a famous Chinese philosopher:”If a country is small but not humble, if it is weak but not wary of the strong, if it is disrespectful and insults its large neighbors, if it is greedy, arrogant and undiplomatic, it will perish." Han Fei 280BC.
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'Baltic Chihuahuas' - cracks me up every time Pepe says it.😂😂😂
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Brazil to announce new BRICS payment systems over currency in face of Trump 150% tariffs threat.
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Thank you Danny and Pepe. Independent journalists with journalistic integrity are the heroes of our time.
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So happy to hear Escobar calling them chihuahuas.
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NATO is used to fighting men in Moses sandals with antique rifles and still run away like cowards let's have a laugh NATO fighting a Superior force like Russia 😂😂😂😂😂😎
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" Toxic medusa Von der Leyen ". Priceless .
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Things getting salty since the European Colonizers got colonized by a former colony.
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He knows what BRICS is. That’s his strategy.
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Pepe is one of the best, I follow him on any social platform he’s on, thank you both from Colorado 😊
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Dame starmer has made Belfast a very strategic target for the unstoppable oreshnik missiles as huge amounts of missiles are being flown from befast to Ukraine nearly every night that makes dame starmer my enemy and not Russia 😎
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You know, when the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin Wall happened, I honestly bought the whole Farncis Fukayama "end of history" BS, in as far as I thought that it really was going to mean that it was time to "beat the swords into plough sheers." So I thought way back then, that the dismantling of NATO would go hand-in-hand with the dismantling of the Warsaw Pact. Now, those same Warsaw Pact countries are all NATO members who have no other purpose but to threaten Russia.
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“Toxic Medusa Ursula von der Leyen”. 😅😅😅😅😅😂😂😂😂
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I ❤ Pepe Escobar. Greetings from the Philippines.
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I’m from Baltics -most hate our government
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What about USA pull back minimum 75 000 Americans troops from Europe??
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Thank you gentlemen
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Danny, we love your work but please take rest. Don't burn out, we need your insights, POVs and wise conversations.
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Thank you Pepe and Danny.
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trump is big against the war in ukraine where is his passion for Gaza??? For the love of jews
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Informative thank you for sharing 🙏 Free Palestine 🇵🇸
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Trump thought Spain was part of BRICS😂
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Pepe Pepe Pepe! No one is smarter than Pepe, me quiero ir pa Russia papi, ! saqueme de aqui! salvese quien pueda! Danny like always a professional, salutes from the state of Tennessee, me and my familia always listen to you
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Terrific channel content and a great guest. Excellent episode. Thank you 🌟.
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Excellent updates and analysis by Pepe Escobar, on the slow but inevitable demise of the current world order and the emergence of the new one.
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I hate this trump propaganda lately
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American politicians are queuing up for nappies. 😂😂😂😂
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This past week has been a Geopolitical Earthquake 8.0!
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As an American i have been saying Nato lost its need after Soviet Union fell i want USA out of Nato.
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Good to see understanding of basic math, and geography, all the things that allowed the US to become a Super Power after WW II, being the only industrial giant, and being isolated by two oceans, the one no longer exists, and the second of isolation work both ways.
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Zelensky is the one that sold Ukraine. He played the part and got played. I don't blame the US for looking for it's interests they always have, I blame the useful idiots that didn't understand what Henry Kissinger meant when he said: "To be an enemy of the US is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal."
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Trump doesn’t know that China is the “C” in the BRICS! 9:30
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there's a new Sheriff in town in the USA, President Trump will sit back and let the EU implode.
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Always on top Pepe
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BDS. FREE PALESTINE ✌
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I'd love to know how should Canada, Greenland, and South America manage the decline of US imperialism?
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I see none of us are sleeping very well
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Pepe genious! Makes me smile every time, such a good analyst
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Polish chihuahua is on mobilisation to go to ukraine
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My first time hearing the "baltic chihuahua" term. I have been following news from this region for about a decade. this is the single best description of these countries i have ever heard.
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No war : No kick-backs. So sad. ☹☹☹
(According to Trump) It's not BRICS it's BRIS now or maybe RIBS 🤣
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Either Trump is genuinely completely ignorant of the structure and robustness of BRICS, or he's purposely given the opportunity to people to research what it is and what it's intended to achieve by coming across as an ignorant fool.
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Its great to hear you Mr. Escobar after all that theatre here at home - you are bringing it back down to earth - Ty very much and thank you Mr. Haiphong !
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Better to deal with Russia than Europe.
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According to military historian David Glanz (Then Titans Clash), Soviet/Russian military defense doctrine was 'defensive' and informed, especially by the carnage placed on Russia by the Nazi Germanic hordes.
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The brand new "coalition of the willing" will accelerate the downfall of all participants!! Bring it on! 🙏🙏🙏
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JD on point. Did you catch Elensky muttering "bitch" when JD was reading him the riot act at the White House meetup? Way to go pal ...
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Says the threat from within
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Welcome to China-Eurasian e-BRICS OF GOLD and the emerging Universal Planetary Metaverse (TM)....
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Have the PHILIPPINES joined BRICS yet ? (Heard tell that the Philippines have got most of the world's GOLD in underground tunnels, haven't they ? -- HOW INTERESTING) .
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"I don't know is China is part of BRICS or not" = gut laughs
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Please stop with click-bait titles.
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Another so-called 'Coalition of the willing' is sickening.
Get rid of the Petrol Dollar. Go BRICS!
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If this guys titles were actually accurate, the world would have ended 3 years ago, the US would have fallen 137 times and China would have achieved interstellar travel to galaxies far far away
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Trump is a GREAT man for piece..
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Pepe Escobar pleasure to listen at all the time!! God bless you my friend
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All mafias always charge a fund to play.
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When will Americans learn to stay in America?
your both going too much on what Trump says. As Scott Ritter says, or it might have been Alister Crooke, there are two Trumps, the public pantomime bullshiter, and behind the scenes Trump. Go on what he does not what he says. Not saying he always does the right thing, or plays things so well, he is a very mixed bag and has huge faults, but the behind the scenes Trump is much smarter than the public panto-mine version.
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I dont even know China is a member of BRICS - trump 😂😂
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Where did all the money go? Who was entrusted with it? Why did they screw up?
Thanks Danny for hosting the legend Mr Pepe
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i had been trying to get the mot juste for gauleiterin von der leyann: thanks pepe: "toxic medusa"👍😂: interesting on on turkiye's strategic options: europe is a dead duck, syria/middle east brings them into potential conflict with israel/us ( could be painful ): back to the turkic eurasian heartland-that space is already occupied...
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Trump is feigning ignorance about which countries comprise BRICS. This is his way of trying to downplay their relevance.
I hate it when you don't let Pepe speak
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If you keep underestimating Trump and thinking he is just a buffoon you will miss his real agenda.
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Vance doesn’t know what it means, ‘the threat comes from within’.
Thanking you
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Shit aint hit no fan. It's not even close to that reality. Over here in China, there is a strong understanding that things are going to get very tough for China. I wish you lived here and know the true sentiments of the Chinese. It's funny how they don't want to go head-on with the USA but outside journalists seem to be creating this strange brovado of the CCP instead. 😂😂😂😂
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I need a gif of Pepe reenacting chihuahuas 😂 that lives rent free in my head
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Well Trump thought (and said) the S in BRICS stood for SPAIN
Given the idiocy and gross incompetence of the EU, WE DO NOT HAVE TIME TO WAIT .... we must resist the dark forces .... JD Vance is a beacon of hope ... Trump has lost it, he is just flaying around repeating himself over and over... we need a more phorensic mind to address issues. J D Vance is unemcombered by blah and political slogans.
Really, you think Trump does not know who is exactly in BRICS??? You guys are not serious analysts.
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Baltic Chihuahas is so well depicting those countries 😂
Hegemony in the cannibalistic mode Southern sovereignty after 500 years?
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who is the jew standing behind trump in the oval office?
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GREAT INFORMATIVE VIDEO 👍 🥰
Danny is excellant!
fundamental EU values....like Mussolini......Hitler........Franco.........Napoleon........King Louis XVI....Henry VIII .......The Spanish INquisition....... Belgians in the Congo.........ahh Europe!
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The "Toxic Medusa Von der Layen".
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It's like everybody just woke up after Trump got in the saddle.
Danny thank you for your content and balanced intellect.
The fall of the fourth BEAST
The most convincing logic, appreciate. Thanks a lot
Trump needs to immediately get on Xiao Hong Shu. Peace
Why doesn't someone inform Trump about BRICS......dang, it's really simple and will work.
That is why Mr Putin and Mr Xi Ping is the best leaders in the world.Captain America doesn’t know whether he is coming or going. As the leader of the so called greatest country in the world Trump is pretty stupid.🇿🇦🇦🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺
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voluntary cooperation with equity does not eliminate but adds up...and is far greater by all means to war namely competition..The proof is in the pudding, 1% in evil cooperation have no problem to master 99% in competition, why do we all refuse to see the obvious? are we that insane and degenerated? indeed yes we are, but me multiplied by all, indeed to my own eyes I am perfect say we all...words are cheap..
Pepe came out as Gaddafi today 😊
it's tough being an emperor
😅 is trump for real. I dont think he knows what and how strong BRICS is. Next he will be asking, is India in BRICS.
Life, LIberty, and Ownership of property without taxations! Fraud currency and taxation theft has ruined friendship. Honest trade makes friendship! Article 1 Section 10
I think Trump has to try and belittle BRICS that it is no threat so as not to alarm or scare the countries holding US bonds and treasuries. Trying to prevent a run on the bank.
JD Vance is Based as hell. 😊
I wonder if underneath all the dramatics is this a conflict about BRICS vs the US Dollar?
News flash will of the people means nothing!!!
BRICS should add a country and rebrand their acronym to RIC-H Russia India China H— I don’t know many countries that start with H
My rspect Pepe, I can only see haos in frant of us.
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Canadas next popelinecshoild go to hudson bay.....to service europe
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"These Baltic Chuiauias now are yapping..." hahahah
Forget watching Laurel and Hardy (my favourite comedy duo), Just tune into Trump 😂
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I just want to know when the proof we can defeat Russia's Oreshnik is going to happen! Russia said , "name the time and place'!
keeeiev, ze euk road to perdition and ze death of ze narrative....ze dead end
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Ganzalo Lira
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Values shared with the USA warmongers?
Its cannibalism
wasn't nato created so usa could continue to occupy europe after ww2?
Vessel states lol America is a colony of Israel
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Make those rubles Mr Danny!!
Chucky speaks???? Vance how did you get that Yale JD??? I want see your law exams!!!
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well, for what do you need an arctic silk road if Europeans can't even afford their own grown potatoes...or worse Europe is burnt down to ashes ?
Hunter becoming the hunted
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Istyanbul is going to be again KONSTANTYNOPOL within 10 years.
Lolololl. Its ALL A MOVIE. You are all going to be shocked if they ever tell the whole truth.
No one is going to Ukraina
Pepe is Mr guess not Mr Know, people need to try and remember that!
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Danny , I am embarassed for you. You have succumbed to red man bad. Not informative and not entertaining.
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Russia is not our Enemy, from Commifornia 😂
Any updates on the new NATO office in Japan?
8:21 ..hideously behind in every department and lagging in geopolitical understanding - but (!) Northern Europe & Scandinavia are at least geographically placed - if they were to break away from EU politics - to participate in this Arctic development to economic advantage and with possible strength to secure an independent political position…healthy nations, healthy trades, healthy competition..love Trump but he can be knocked back too if it invigorates national sovereignty…
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Feb 24 Zelensky sign contract with UK on minerals-ALL PROFIT TO US????? common US gave 350 billions,EU 100 billions and UK have a contract
Putin the Great Putin the Terrible Depending on whether you are part of the Hegemony
I wish Danny would stop posting old excerpts. The speed at which current events are moving makes these videos already out of date after a few days.
Stop the bullying 😡stop calling the Baltic countries the chihuahua
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His "team," explaining anything to the Covid ockroach is like discussing tolskey with a fence post!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Pepe the clown 🤡…& I’m not talking about his sense of humor
Trump's behavior reminds me of the carpet baggers of the old wild west.
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This is a shameful paste of a video you put out a week ago; same video, same comments. Total waste of time.
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gRANDE PEPE!
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Amero-Crypto-Reserves (TM)
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i think pepe is falling for the trump troll..
The dollar is money printed on money
I would put it in a different way but probably will look stupid for stupid people
Escobar thinks Trump is a fool. Hahahahaha. Guys like him will always being surprised.
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Sorry mate but you wrong in case of Romania Wich is in shit because of UE
Not anymore because of your big mouth. Cats out of the bag.
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I am getting Suspicious of this message from this channel! C.I.A? F.B.I? ...🧐🤔🇨🇦❤️🇺🇸 . .
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😊🌙رمضان مبارك نحن ليس بخير الحمدلله المسلم الى المسلم كل البنيان المرصوص والله العظيم ما كتبت هاذا المناشدة الا من الجوع والفقر ياعالم حسو فينا سِآلَتٌکْ بًآلَلَهّ آنِ تٌنِقُذِنِآ قُبًلَ آنِ نِمًوٌتٌ مًنِ شُدٍتٌ آلَجّوٌعٌ آنِتٌخِيَکْ آنِيَ دٍخِلَةّ عٌلَﮯ آلَلَهّ ثًمً عٌلَيَکْ آنِيَ فُﮯ وٌجّهّکْ آنِيَ آخِتٌکْ آنِيَ آتٌرجّآکْ آتٌوٌسِلَ آلَيَکْ آنِقُذِنِآ لَوٌجّهّ آلَلَهّ يَشُهّدٍ آلَلَهّ يَآخِيَ آنِ مًنِ آلَصّبًآحً حًتٌآ آلَآنِ يَحًرمً عٌلَيَنِآ آلَآکْلَ غُيَرآلَمًآء"""""""""""""""“"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""'"'''"''''"""""""""“""""""“""""""""""""اخي اول كلامي انا اقسم بالله على كتاب الله اني لا اكذب عليك ولا انصب ولا احتال اني بنت يمنيه نازحين من انا و اسرتي بلادنا بسبب هذا الحرب ولا نجد قوت يومنا وعايشين انا وامي واخوتي سفار والدنا متوفي الله يرحمه ومامعنا احد فى هذا الدنيا جاانبنا فى هذه الظروف القاسيه انا واسرتي بيتنا ايجار الشهرب 20 الف يمني والان علينا 60 الف حق3 شهور وصاحب البيت من الناس الي ماترحم والله يا اخي انه يجي كل يوم يبهدلنا ويتكلم علينا ويريد يطردنا من البيت للشارع لانناماقدرناندفعله الأجار وما يروح الئ بعدما نبكي ورجعوتكلمو الجيران ومهلنالاخره الأسبوع واذا دفعنا له حلف يمين بالله بيخرجنا إلى الشارع بدون رحمه اخوتي الصغار خرجو للشارع و شافو الجيران ياكلو واوقفو عند بابهم لجل يعطوهم ولو كسره خبز والله الذي له ملك السموات والارض انهم غلقو الباب وطردهم ورجعو يبكون ايموتو من الجوع مااحد رحمهم وعطلة ردها لقمت عيش ولان لوما احدنا ساعدنا فى إيكيلو دقيق اقسم بالله انموت من الجوع فيا اخي انا دخيله على الله ثم عليك واريد منك المساعدة لوجه الله انشدك بالله تحب الخير واتساعدني ولو بي شي مع تراسلي واتساب على هذا الرقم 00967711013075 وتطلب اسم بطاقتي و ترسلي ولا تتأخر و ايعوضك الله بكل خير اخواني سغار شوف كيف حالتهم وساعدنا وأنقذنا قيل ان نكون فى الشارع او نموت من الجوع وانا و اسرتي نسالك بالله لولك مقدره على مساعد لا تتاخر علينا وجزاك الله خيرOh people, we are your sisters, by God We do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you, oh nation of Muhammad. People are brothers. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. Oh God, make your righteous servants subservient to us. My appeal to every Muslim, oh Lord, if he sees this message, may He prolong his life, make him happy, and cover him. May God reward him. God is sufficient for me, and He is the best disposer of affairs. There is no power or strength except with God. Oh people, oh nation of Muhammad, oh people of goodness, oh people of mercy. We are your sisters and your children. By God, we do not even find a loaf of bread inside the house that would satisfy you. Oh nation of Muhammad, I only spoke out of extreme hunger and distress. My mother, sisters, and I are displaced from our homes because of the war. We are in a state that no one knows about except God. God is sufficient for us, and He is the best disposer of affairs, against those who brought us to this state By God Almighty, I only wrote this appeal out of extreme poverty and poverty, oh people. I beg you by God Almighty, Lord of the Mighty Throne, that I do not have food at home. By God, my brothers and sisters have been sitting around for two days. Without food, by God our situation is very difficult, we are 4 people in the house and my father passed away and there is no one to support us and we live in a rented house and we cannot pay the rest of the rent. I am not lying to you nor deceiving you nor cheating you. I am a Yemeni girl displaced because of the war between me and my family over a rent dispute and the owner of the house. By God, my brother comes every day and humiliates us and talks about us and wants us to go out to the street because we are unable to pay him the rent. The neighbors saw us crying and talked to the neighbors again and gave us a deadline until the end of the week and we swore to God to let us out of the street now we are in arrears of 60 thousand Yemeni riyals for 3 months rent may God have mercy on us our country is suffering because of this war and we do not find our daily sustenance and we live my mother and sisters our father passed away may God have mercy on him and we do not have anyone in the world to come to us in these harsh circumstances my little sisters went out to the street and saw the neighbors eating and stood at their door giving them even a piece of bread and by God in whose hand is the heavens and the earth they closed the door and kicked them out and they came back crying dying of hunger no one has mercy on them and now the holiday has come back to me if no one of us helps us with a kilo of flour by God we will die of hunger brother I seek refuge in God and then in you and I want your help for the sake of God I ask you by God you love goodness and help me even if it is about the rent of the house send me a WhatsApp message on this number 00967711013075and ask for my card name and send it and do not delay may God compensate you with all good My little sisters, look at their situation and help us and save us before they throw us out into the street and humiliate us or my family and I die of hunger. We ask you by God, if you are able to help us, do not delay on us, and may God reward you with good.'~~_«%•&»_~~<<≤-_~&::»'////،،︎◇.،،،,@π~ π ~π/~~ π.~~~π.~ π»_;‘''''''''''''''''''''&،،،,,،،،،,,،،،,.,،،،،،،,،..`
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YOU GUYS ARE A DAMN JOKE! SERIOUSLY!
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More bs from Pepe. 😂 He is entertaining though.
Why this Russian guy's name is Pepe Escobar ?
Values? Don’t make me laugh!
Difficult to sort out which of your videos are new, and which are just recycelt. Maybe it's easier to just unfollow and get the original from the duran, brian, etc.
Blah blah blah….very technical
YOU BROKE THE STORY! TRUMP IS SCARED! BIG NEWS! YOU FIGURED HIM OUT! YOU DEDUCED HIS EMOTIONAL STATE! THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING! ESCOBAR SO PERCEPTIVE? AND FEAR MEANS TRUMP KNOWS HE CAN'T WIN. Fear means he is done! I say Escobar lost his man journalist abilities.
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Sorry pepe was watching Judge see you tomorrow 😉
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This Pepe guy is so full of himself he makes Trump look humble.
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Another edited replay
old reupload adain?
Danny: I am getting a bit tired of your anti-Trump attitude.
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How America ended up with dumb "president"
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Whenever you have Pee-Pee on I go elsewhere. He 15 minutes of fame grifter.
Danny you are communist i am never going to watch your channel again.
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Trump has the intellectual brain of an ANT.and I think even the ant could beat him in a debate.
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You lack the ignorance they have to truly understand what is going on. And in doing so have found your own. Ignorance. You lack observation. But thank you for telling me the title of your book last year. The word is integrity. This guy swims like Trump but thinks he drinks different water.
trump is not a reader, he relies on his billionaire ear wigs...
Thanks Danny for hosting the legend Mr Pepe

Pepe Escobar: Putin’s BRICS Truth BOMB Exposes Trump’s Gamble as Europe ...

Sunday, March 2, 2025

NEO: DeepSeek and the End of American Hegemony

 

DeepSeek and the End of American Hegemony

Salman Rafi Sheikh, February 17, 2025

The dawn of DeepSeek, China’s Artificial Intelligence System, has proven once again the limits of sanctions and Washington’s total inability to maintain exclusive dominance of AI, compromising its self-arrogating claims about world leadership.

DeepSeek and the End of American Hegemony

It also proves Chinese resilience and its ability to counteract the US most effectively and where it matters the most.

Deepseek took the US by storm

The arrival of DeepSeek caused a US$590 decline in the market value of Nvidia, a US-based tech company that claims to be the “world leader in Artificial Intelligence Computing”. Clearly, DeepSeek – which is a massive model that can supply information at a much lower cost than its competitors – has upended this claim. Overall, Deepseek wiped US$1 trillion off the US stocks. This is in addition to the fact that DeepSeek topped the Apple app store in the West over the last weekend, indicating its rapid acceptance and a mass shift away from US-based AI sources to China-based AI sources.

Deep Seek’s artificial intelligence threatens US dominance in the technology sector

Elsewhere in Europe, the pan-European Stoxx 600 fell on Monday, and major European technology stocks were down. The Dutch chipmaker ASML slid by 7%, while Germany’s Siemens Energy, which provides hardware for AI infrastructure, was down nearly 20%, and France’s digital automation company Schneider Electric fell by 9.5%. The meltdown was not at all surprising.

A report in The Guardian noted in August how US tech companies were investing too much in AI but yielding too little benefit from it. But China outsmarts the scale of investment in the US by far. This is despite the many sanctions the US imposed on China’s access to technology. In May 2019, for instance, the Trump administration signed an executive order. This order was meant to block China’s access. It said that “foreign adversaries are increasingly creating and exploiting vulnerabilities in information and communications technology and services, which store and communicate vast amounts of sensitive information, facilitate the digital economy, and support critical infrastructure and vital emergency services, in order to commit malicious cyber-enabled actions, including economic and industrial espionage against the United States and its people”. Several similar steps followed in subsequent years, but DeepSeek is an undeniable proof of their collective failure.

For instance, Nvidia’s most advanced chips, H100s, have been banned from export to China since September 2022 by US sanctions. Nvidia then developed the less powerful H800 chips for the Chinese market, although they were also banned from export to China last October. DeepSeek’s success at building an advanced AI model without access to the most cutting-edge US technology has raised concerns about the efficacy of Washington’s attempts to stymie China’s hi-tech sector

How China Pulled It Off

Ironically, US sanctions to limit China’s access to technology pushed Beijing to go for self-sufficiency. This is not to suggest that China began to push for self-sufficiency due to US sanctions. In fact, Beijing understood the importance of self-sufficiency in this crucial field. Since 2015, it has been seeking to increase self-reliance from 10 per cent to 75 per cent by 2030. DeepSeek’s success is evidence of rapidly increasing self-sufficiency. Outsmarting another economy globally, China has invested US$150 billion in its domestic semiconductor industry. Rare earth minerals that are crucial to the development of this technology also have a huge Chinese footprint. Beijing controls 80 per cent of the worldwide refining capacity of these minerals.

With China, there is no dearth of technical expertise – something that no sanction’s regime can block. China trains four million engineering graduates annually. This is more than the rest of the world combined. Thanks to its centralised planned economy, Beijing is able to quickly invest in critical areas that require immediate attention. It is not necessarily troubled by considerations of increasing financial returns that US-based companies like Nvidia, Microsoft, Apple, Meta, etc. must pay attention to stay relevant and competitive. Even though the US government began its own investment programme in 2022 through the CHIPS Act, it allocated only US$53 billion in federal incentives, which is still far less than what China has already invested. Given the low cost of production, China, unlike the US, has already achieved economies of scale in producing AI.

Future of US Hegemony

Besides the shock to the US economy and tech industry, the success of DeepSeek has raised very serious questions about the US ability to ‘lead’ the world in a politico-military sense as well. It has put US President Trump into a very difficult situation. His ambition to ‘Make America Great Again’ has become much more difficult than it otherwise was without DeepSeek.

With China becoming the newest centre of technological development, questions about where the centre of global military power lies are also arising. Can the US, without its technological dominance, outsmart its rivals? Can the US, without this ability, necessarily impose unilateral policies worldwide?

There is also a natural attraction for countries worldwide to look upto the ‘Chinese model’ rather than the US model of technology, with the number of students/engineers seeking to study in Chinese Universities also expected to rise in the near future.

The rise of DeepSeek has proven US policies wrong. But this is also an opportunity for Washington to reflect deeply on its policies. The more it tries to restrict the flow of technology, the freer it will become. In an interview with Chinese media, DeepSeek’s Liang said, “AI should be affordable and accessible to everyone”. This is ironic from the US/Western perspective. The West has always claimed to be a democracy and China to be an ‘authoritarian’ system. Yet, it is China leading the process of democratising technology.

 

Salman Rafi Sheikh, research analyst of International Relations and Pakistan’s foreign and domestic affairs.

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