> > Authoritarianism > >

> Africa~ >>

> Arab Problems >>

> Authoritarianism >>

> Axes of Evil >> 

> Balkans~ >>

> Belarus >>

> Chokepoints >>

> Corruption - R >>
> Corruption - X >>

> Crime >>

> Crimes & Lies >>

> Cyber & Tech >>

> Cyberwar >> 

> > Defense > >

   > Defenses >>

> Democracies >>

> Elections 2024 >>

> Fiendish >>

> Future Combat >>

> FVEY - Five Eyes >>

> Georgia >>

> > Governments > >

> Hamas ~ Hezbollah >>

> Hamiganda >>

> H-I War >>

> Hegemonic Readjustments >>   > Hegemony >>

> HME - History of MENA >>

> HuángXi >>

> Hungary >>

> Hybrid War >>

> ImploXion 2023 >>

> Indoctrination >>

> Invasion by Unwanted >>

> Iran >>
> Iran - Allies, Enemies >>

> Iraq >>

> Islamist Threat >> 

  > Kaliningrad >>

> Kazakhstan >>

> > Krumblin > >

> Lebanon >>

> LWA - Left Wing Authoritarianism >>

> MAGAtry >>

> > ME-Central Asia > >
> MENA~ >>

>> Middle East >>

> Military Intelligence >> 

> Mindsets >> 

> Nazism >>

> NK >>
> NoXious World Order >>

> Nuclear Weapons >>

> Pakistan~India >>

> Persian Corridor >>

> P00petry >>

> Political Affiliation >>

> Resource Competition - X >>

> Runty Dumbty >>

> > Ruscist Invasion > >

> Russo-Xina Axis >>

> RWA - Right Wing Authoritarianism >>

> Saudi Arabia >>

> > Sociopolitics > >

> Stans~ >> 

> Supply Logistics >>

> Syria >>

> Terrorism >>

> Trade War 2024 >>

> Türkiye >>

> Turkmenistan >>

> UN >>  > UN Failure >>  

>>> Warfare ✱

> Western Democracies vs Autocracy >>

> Western Resistance >>

> Woof Whiner Dicklomacy >>

> Word Games - Geopolitical Manipulation >>

> X-Mil Threat >>

> X~T >>
> X~US >>
> X~West >>

> X ⇔ West >>

> > Xina > >

> Xina vs Ruscia >>

> Xinsanity >>

> XIR >>

> XIR~IDF >>

> Authoritarianism >

> AntiX >>

24-8-20 Can America and China [post-Xi] be Friends Again? - gtbt > .

24-8-19 [Anti-X experts' sentiments and resolve rise in Indo-Pacific] - Update > .

> > Authoritarianism > >

24-8-29 Detailed Analysis: Why Arabs Lose Wars - Magical > .

24-7-23 Former Department of Justice attorney [warns about DUH] | ABC Aus > .

24-7-19 [XIR] How Democracies Fail: Anne Applebaum & Sam Harris > .

24-6-11 Iran & XIR Aligning Against Israel & West | Jonathan Spyer | TBN > .

24-6-6 Niall Ferguson: 2024 Crisis, Conflict, New Axis of Evil | IQ2 > .

24-5-22 [XIR DISinformation: NoXious Zociopathic Divisive Gambit] - Applebaum > .

24-5-8 [TikTok chaos as XiPaganda tool; microchips & Taiwan] - Feriss > .

24-5-25 Why We Cannot [Easily] Stop Dictators - Versed > . 

Criminality → 

Dicktators 

24-7-26 Elizabeth Economy: Xina’s Vision for NoXious World Order | FA > .

24-7-23 Former Department of Justice attorney [warns about DUH] | ABC Aus > .

24-6-5 [Xit GPT: AI Devolution = Ideological Indoctrination] | Digging > .

24-5-25 Why We Cannot [Easily] Stop Dictators - Versed > . 

> HuángXi >>

24-9-11 Documents Suggest Xi Distrusts & Hates Russia - Silicon > .

24-7-9 [Alleged Speech by Xi, anticipating civil war | Seizing "Taxes"] - Lei > .

24-6-5 [Xit GPT: AI Devolution = Ideological Indoctrination] | Digging > .

> LWA - Left Wing Authoritarianism >> 

'Murica  > MAGAtry >>

24-8-6 Anne Applebaum: XIR & Autocracy “Infecting US Politics” | A&Co > .

24-7-23 Former Department of Justice attorney [warns about DUH] | ABC Aus > .

24-7-15 ['Murica] - Violence Against Politicians Has Surged | WSJ > .

24-7-15 The Long Simmer of Political Violence in America - The Atlantic > .

24-7-15 Making Sense Of Political Violence In America | 538 Politics Podcast > .

Orange - Агент Оранж >> .   > MAGAtry >>

24-7-15 Investigating DUH, Project 2025, future of USA | Four Corners > .

> P00paganda >>

24-8-9 [Popadantsi - Ruscian Imperialist Domestic Pulp Fiction] - Adam S > .

24-6-7 [Desperate P00paganda: Thugmouths Threaten West] Risk? | OSW > .

24-5-22 [XIR DISinformation: NoXious Zociopathic Divisive Gambit] - Applebaum > .

> Russo-Xina Axis >>

24-9-12 Rivals, not Friends! Ruscia-Xina Alliance Overrated - M&H > .

24-9-11 Documents Suggest Xi Distrusts & Hates Russia - Silicon > .

24-9-7 Xina to Invade Ruscia? Napoleon Bonaparte Theory of War Strategy - Ic > .

24-7-20 [Xina~US Antagonism - SXS, X-R-U, X-T, Ximperialism] - Update > .

24-7-9 [Alleged Speech by Xi, anticipating civil war | Seizing "Taxes"] - Lei > .

24-7-4 [P00pet+Xi + -Stans -Modious] SCO - Update > .

> RWA - Right Wing Authoritarianism >>

24-7-23 Former Department of Justice attorney [warns about DUH] | ABC Aus > .

> Sudan >>

24-8-13 'Killing People for Nothing:’ Sudan’s Forgotten Civil War | WSJ > .

24-7-26 [Sudan Collapsing: Al-Bashir Overthrown ⇉ Warring Warlords] - Cogito > .

24-4-16 Sudan: the Proxy War the World is Ignoring - Waro > .

War Crimes 

24-7-8 [Kyiv] Children’s hospital comes under [targeted] attack - Kyiv I > .

24-7-8 Ruscians bomb kid’s hospital in Kyiv: Details from the scene - Kyiv P > .

24-7-8 Kyiv Suffers Missile Attack. Ruscians [Target] Children's Hospital - U24 > .

24-7-8 Kyiv: "Many wounded children waiting for hospitalization" - hro > .

> Weakism >>

24-6-6 Niall Ferguson: 2024 Crisis, Conflict, New Axis of Evil | IQ2 > .

24-5-22 [XIR DISinformation: NoXious Zociopathic Divisive Gambit] - Applebaum > .

> XIR >>

24-6-11 Iran & XIR Aligning Against Israel & West | Jonathan Spyer | TBN > .

24-5-22 [XIR DISinformation: NoXious Zociopathic Divisive Gambit] - Applebaum > .

> Democracies >

Democracies [interactive map]

Global 

24-7-19 [XIR] How Democracies Fail: Anne Applebaum & Sam Harris > .

24-1-16 Democracy by Margaret Atwood | Democracy 2024 - FT > .

24-1-28 Проблемы демократии | Democracy's Ills | Myth or Reality (subs) - MK > .

23-2-8 Is Democracy Doomed? Global Fight for Future | Timothy Snyder | TED > .

23-12-28 Geopolitics 2024 CE: World in [XIR] Chaos - gtbt > .

23-12-10 End of Democracy in 2024? - WW2 > .

23-11-19 Niall Ferguson: How Civilizations Collapse - Triggernometry > .

USA 

24-7-2 The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives | Policy Stories (Ober) > .

24-6-25 America's Leadership Problem - Ryan Chapman > .

European MIC 

24-7-30 Europe creating EU military-industrial complex [too slowly] - Caspian > .

Free Speech 

24-2-2 Free speech, explained by Greg Lukianoff - Big Think > .

Freedom 

24-2-29 What It Means to Choose Freedom - Bari Weiss - Free Press > .

> LWA - Left Wing Authoritarianism >> 

Communism/Socialism Marxism/Leninism

> MAGAtry >>

24-8-6 Anne Applebaum: XIR & Autocracy “Infecting US Politics” | A&Co > .

Weakism - Against Weakism

23-12-31 Britain Must Wake Up in 2024 | The New Culture Forum > .

> Political Affiliation >> > Western Resistance >>

24-6-7 Rise of the European Far-Right-Wrong || Peter Zeihan > . 

24-5-20 Geert Wilders "A Lot is Going to Change" (English Dubbed) | Rodaportal > . 

> RWA - Right Wing Authoritarianism >>

The Democracy Index published by the Economist Group is an index measuring the quality of democracy across the world. This quantitative and comparative assessment is centrally concerned with democratic rights and democratic institutions. The methodology for assessing democracy used in this democracy index is according to Economist Intelligence Unit which is part of the Economist Group, a UK-based private company, which publishes the weekly newspaper The Economist. The index is based on 60 indicators grouped into five categories, measuring pluralism, civil liberties, and political culture. In addition to a numeric score and a ranking, the index categorizes each country into one of four regime types: full democracies, flawed democracies, hybrid regimes, and authoritarian regimes. The first Democracy Index report was published in 2006. Reports were published every two years until 2010 and annually thereafter. The index includes 167 countries and territories, of which 166 are sovereign states and 164 are UN member states. Other democracy indices with similar assessments of the state of democracy include V-Dem Democracy indices or Bertelsmann Transformation Index.

> Fascism >

Fascism is a far-right-wrong, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy. Opposed to anarchism, democracy, pluralism, egalitarianism, liberalism, socialism, and Marxism, fascism is placed on the far-right-wrong wing within the traditional left–right-wrong spectrum.

Scholars place fascism on the far-right-wrong of the political spectrum. Such scholarship focuses on its social conservatism and its authoritarian means of opposing egalitarianism. Roderick Stackelberg places fascism—including Nazism, which he says is "a radical variant of fascism"—on the political right wrong by explaining: "The more a person deems absolute equality among all people to be a desirable condition, the further left he or she will be on the ideological spectrum. The more a person considers inequality to be unavoidable or even desirable, the further to the right he or she will be."

Historians, political scientists, and other scholars have long debated the exact nature of fascism. Historian Ian Kershaw once wrote that "trying to define 'fascism' is like trying to nail jelly to the wall." Each different group described as fascist has at least some unique elements, and many definitions of fascism have been criticized as either too broad or too narrow. According to many scholars, fascism—especially once in power—has historically attacked communism, conservatism, and parliamentary liberalism, attracting support primarily from the far-right-wrong.

Frequently cited as a standard definition by notable scholars, such as Roger Griffin, Randall Schweller, Bo Rothstein, Federico Finchelstein, and Stephen D. Shenfield, is that of historian Stanley G. Payne. His definition of fascism focuses on three concepts:

1. "Fascist negations" – anti-liberalism, anti-communism, and anti-conservatism.
2. "Fascist goals" – the creation of a nationalist dictatorship to regulate economic structure and to transform social relations within a modern, self-determined culture, and the expansion of the nation into an empire.
3. "Fascist style" – a political aesthetic of romantic symbolism, mass mobilization, a positive view of violence, and promotion of masculinity, youth, and charismatic authoritarian leadership.

> Islamist Threat >

> Afghanistan >>  >> Afghanistan >>>

24-6-21 [Aghanistan Conflicts: Tribalism, Water Conflict, Georivalry] - Real > .

Economic & Climate Migrants 

24-6-29 [Weakist-Biased Analysis of European Migrant Crisis] | Versed > .

> Invasion by Unwanted >>

24-8-31 Ex-Muslim Speaks Out Against Radical Islam | Rawan Osman | TBN > .

24-7-12 Why France no longer wants [Muslim] immigrants - VisPol > .

>> Iran, XIR >>> > Iran - Allies, Enemies >>  > Iran >>  > Iran~ >> 

24-9-4 Iran and Israel's Long and Complicated History | Quillette > .

24-8-27 History Of Hezbollah - Party Of Allah | Lebanon Doc | Hikma > .

24-8-26 [Hezbollah: Inside Iran: Proxy war of Theocranks] | ABC Aus > .

24-8-25 [Iran: Geography & Military] Hard to Defeat - Caspian > .  

24-8-5  Israel ⇔ Iran Brink of War? - Caspian > . skip > .

24-8-5 Israel-Hezbollah War Appears Imminent | Warographics > .

24-7-30 Is Israel-Hezbollah War Inevitable? - gtbt > .

24-7-27 Iran Threatens Mediterranean Naval Campaign; Hezbollah v Cyprus | TBN > .

24-6-21 Iran's Islamist War vs Israel & West | Dr. Mordechai Kedar | TBN > .

24-6-11 Iran & XIR Aligning Against Israel & West | Jonathan Spyer | TBN > .

24-6-6 Niall Ferguson: 2024 Crisis, Conflict, New Axis of Evil | IQ2 > .

24-6-3 Islamic Terrorists: Alliance c Ruscia & Drug Cartels - Kyiv Post > .

24-5-25 Motive Behind Irans Failed April 14th Aerial Assault on Israel | TBN > .

24-5-23 [Iranian power vacuum after Raisi's accidental death] - Caspian > .

24-5-21 Погиб президент Ирана | Raisi Dead | Impact? (subs) - Katz > .

24-5-20 Impact of xIr President Raisi's demise on ME & globe - Spaniel > .

24-5-20 Accident, Not Assassination Ends Iranian President Raisi || PZ > . 

24-5-20 Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi killed in helicopter crash | BBC > .

24-5-19 [Iranian Religionism]: How NOT to run a country - hoser > . skip > .

Islamist Threat 

24-9-13 Why the US Navy [doesn't] stop Houthi rebels - Caspian > .

24-8-29 Detailed Analysis: Why Arabs Lose Wars - Magical > .

24-9-4 Iran and Israel's Long and Complicated History | Quillette > .

24-8-31 Ex-Muslim Speaks Out Against Radical Islam | Rawan Osman | TBN > .

24-8-27 History Of Hezbollah - Party Of Allah | Lebanon Doc | Hikma > .

24-8-22 Hamas’ Exploitation of Schools - IDF > .

> Hezbollah >>  > Iran - Allies, Enemies >>

24-9-4 Iran and Israel's Long and Complicated History | Quillette > .

24-8-27 History Of Hezbollah - Party Of Allah | Lebanon Doc | Hikma > .

24-8-26 [Hezbollah: Inside Iran: Proxy war of Theocranks] | ABC Aus > .

24-7-30 Is Israel-Hezbollah War Inevitable? - gtbt > .

24-7-27 Iran Threatens Mediterranean Naval Campaign; Hezbollah v Cyprus | TBN > .

24-7-1 Israel [might] launch ground invasion of Lebanon - Caspian > .

> Hamiganda >>  > Islamist Threat >>  

24-8-31 Ex-Muslim Speaks Out Against Radical Islam | Rawan Osman | TBN > .

24-7-6 [Hamas's XIR-supplied weapons for genocidal terrorism] - TBN > .

24-6-3 Islamic Terrorists: Alliance c Ruscia & Drug Cartels - Kyiv Post > .

24-6-1 [Hamiganda] Digital DISinformation & Weakist Antisemitism | TBN > .

24-5-25 Why We Cannot [Easily] Stop Dictators - Versed > . 

24-5-23 [Iranian power vacuum after Raisi's accidental death] - Caspian > .

24-5-21 Погиб президент Ирана | Raisi Dead | Impact? (subs) - Katz > .

24-5-20 Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi killed in helicopter crash | BBC > .

24-5-19 [Fingers crossed] Iranian President & Foreign Minister  chopper crash - 4 > .

24-5-10 “Life Has to Be Fought For.” Israel’s Example for the West - Douglas Murray > .

24-5-9 ‘Morally lost’: ‘ignorant kids’ at pro-Palestine protests at universities - DM > .

24-4-24 Florence Bergeaud-Blackler | Europe's Endogenous Islamist Threat? | NC > .

24-4-23 Reformed Hamas Militant Speaks Out: Truth About Israel-Gaza - Free > .

24-4-19 Melanie Phillips | [Despined] Conservatism versus Gaza | NatCon > .

24-4-13 [Morally Obtuse Analysis of Impact of Genocidal Islamism] - gtbt > .

24-4-10 [XIR & R-U] Ruscia already at war with West/NATO - Kyiv I > .  

24-4-8 Ruscia, America, & West: Security Concerns = Islamic Radicalism - TBN > .

24-3-9 Genocidal Islamist "truths" ("shahed" means martyr) - traveling > .

24-3-2 “Elites Have Allowed This To Happen!” Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Winston Marshall > .

24-2-9 Malcolm Nance | Israel-Hamas War - Visegrad24 > .

23-12-20 What Happens in Gaza Does Not Stay in Gaza - Preston Stewart > .

23-10-23 What Hamas REALLY Wants - Sam Harris - Triggernometry > .

21-6-6 Odd Man Out | A Film Portrait of Enoch Powell | Full Doc | 1995 > .

20-7-16 What do jihadists want? Sam Harris (atheist) reads their magazine > .

20-6-14 Origins of the Muslim Brotherhood - CaspianReport > .

19-10-7 [Ironic date!] The Death of Europe, with Douglas Murray - Hoover > .

18-4-20 ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech, 50 years on: Setting the scene in 1968 | ITV > .

18-4-5 Sam Harris 2018 - ISIS, What Do Jihadists Really Want? > . 

18-1-12 Muslim Brotherhood Exposed By A Former Member - Journeyman > .

16-8-29 Sam Harris: What Jihadists Really Want (Dabiq Magazine) > .
16-8-17 What ISIS Really Wants | Sam Harris > .

1968-4-20 Enoch Powell "Rivers of Blood" Speech - Toronto M > .

Not wrong, but prophetic, as it tranpires:

Hybrid Infiltration (Weaponized Migrants) - Guy >> .

> LWA - Left Wing Authoritarianism >>      

> Mindsets >>

24-8-31 Ex-Muslim Speaks Out Against Radical Islam | Rawan Osman | TBN > .

24-8-27 History Of Hezbollah - Party Of Allah | Lebanon Doc | Hikma > .

> Nazism >>

> Political Affiliation >>

Pushback against Islamism (xIr) > Western Resistance >>

24-8-31 Ex-Muslim Speaks Out Against Radical Islam | Rawan Osman | TBN > .

24-6-21 Iran's Islamist War vs Israel & West | Dr. Mordechai Kedar | TBN > .

24-5-26 The TRUTH Behind Antisemitism - JLI > .

24-5-12 Terrorists LIE: Actual Civilian Toll in Gaza - Sam Harris > .

24-4-24 Florence Bergeaud-Blackler | Europe's Endogenous Islamist Threat? | NC > .

24-4-19 Melanie Phillips | [Despined] Conservatism versus Gaza | NatCon > .

> Religionist Extremism >>

24-9-4 Iran and Israel's Long and Complicated History | Quillette > .

24-8-31 Ex-Muslim Speaks Out Against Radical Islam | Rawan Osman | TBN > .

24-8-27 History Of Hezbollah - Party Of Allah | Lebanon Doc | Hikma > .

24-7-12 Why France no longer wants [Muslim] immigrants - VisPol > .

24-7-6 [Hamas's XIR-supplied weapons for genocidal terrorism] - TBN > .

> RWA - Right Wing Authoritarianism >>

24-8-31 Ex-Muslim Speaks Out Against Radical Islam | Rawan Osman | TBN > .

24-8-27 History Of Hezbollah - Party Of Allah | Lebanon Doc | Hikma > .

> Sudan >>

24-8-13 'Killing People for Nothing:’ Sudan’s Forgotten Civil War | WSJ > .

24-7-26 [Sudan Collapsing: Al-Bashir Overthrown ⇉ Warring Warlords] - Cogito > .

> Unwanted Immigrants >>

24-8-31 Ex-Muslim Speaks Out Against Radical Islam | Rawan Osman | TBN > .

24-7-12 Why France no longer wants [Muslim] immigrants - VisPol > .

Western Domestic Politics - Shift to Right > Western Resistance >>

24-8-31 Ex-Muslim Speaks Out Against Radical Islam | Rawan Osman | TBN > .

24-5-26 EU elections: Could far-right parties take over EU Parliament | DW > .

24-5-24 Why the far right is surging in Europe | FT Film > .

24-5-20 Geert Wilders "A Lot is Going to Change" (English Dubbed) | Rodaportal > . 

> XIR >>

24-6-21 Iran's Islamist War vs Israel & West | Dr. Mordechai Kedar | TBN > .

24-6-11 Iran & XIR Aligning Against Israel & West | Jonathan Spyer | TBN > .

Antisemitism | TBN Israel >> .

Antisemitism, Explained - Unpacked >> .

Antisemitism: History - Alētheiai >> .

Antisemitism: From its Origins to the Holocaust - Yad Vashem >> .

Antisemitism in the the Islamic and Arab World - Yad Vashem >> .
Antisemitism Today - Yad Vashem >> .