Laith Marouf discusses Lebanon and the fraud between UAE and Saudi Arabia

From 24 minutes onwards, Laith Marouf describes the origin of UAE, Qatar and how the ruling families are branches of the Saudi Royal family which is leading to the current fauds https://www.youtube.com/live/gGc-ym4-gpQ?si=6Xh8hW8rUhv_lOKE A quick search does not agree with Marouf's assertion. From Quora: Key points and clarifications “Blood relation” in Gulf monarchies usually means close patrilineal descent or first/second-degree kinship. The major ruling houses (Al Saud, Al Thani, Al Nahyan, Al Khalifa, Al Maktoum) each descend from different tribal lineages; they are distinct dynasties rather than offshoots of a single immediate family. Intermarriage: political marriages between ruling families and elite clans are common. These create marital ties (in‑laws, cousins by marriage) but do not imply close direct blood descent between the sovereigns unless specifically documented. For example, members of UAE ruling families sometimes intermarry with other Gulf royals, producing bilateral kin connections at the extended-family level. Distant tribal ancestry: many Gulf dynasties share broad Arabian tribal origins going back centuries. Those shared roots explain cultural and historical affinity but do not constitute close genealogical kinship among current rulers. Practical implication: there is no simple close-blood relationship (father/son, brothers, first cousins) tying the current heads of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi (UAE) and Bahrain together. They lead separate dynasties with occasional marital ties and distant tribal commonality. From https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-blood-relation-between-the-leaders-of-Qatar-Saudi-Arabia-Abu-Dhabi-U-A-E-and-Bahrain

Roy Unz on Trump’s state of mind

https://www.unz.com/runz/has-president-donald-trump-lost-his-mind/

Progress in SMO with Stanislav Krapivnik

https://youtu.be/o1mHo6f1a-k?si=3tuNJJkNns8FL578

Iran update from Danny Haiphong

https://www.youtube.com/live/A4r0aOVtmvY?si=z4JmnDT8-FiJ10cR

Two Russian commenters with US experience discuss current wars

https://youtu.be/4RVRTaPZSfg?si=WdHvoNLwo6zNqMyv

From C.Wright Mills

The Power Elite (1956) describes the relationships among the political, military, and economic elites, noting that they share a common world view; that power rests in the centralization of authority within the elites of American society.[61][page needed] The centralization of authority is made up of the following components: a "military metaphysic", in other words a military definition of reality; "class identity", recognizing themselves as separate from and superior to the rest of society; "interchangeability" (they move within and between the three institutional structures and hold interlocking positions of power therein); cooperation/socialization, in other words, socialization of prospective new members is done based on how well they "clone" themselves socially after already established elites. Mills's view on the power elite is that they represent their own interest, which include maintaining a "permanent war economy" to control the ebbs and flow of American Capitalism and the masking of "a manipulative social and political order through the mass media."[59][page needed] Additionally, this work can be described as "an exploration of rational-legal bureaucratic authority and its effects on the wielders and subjects of this power."[48] President Dwight D. Eisenhower referenced Mills and this book in his farewell address of 1961. He warned about the dangers of a "military-industrial complex" as he had slowed the push for increased military defense in his time as president for two terms. This idea of a "military-industrial complex" is a reference to Mills' writing in The Power Elite, showing what influence this book had on certain powerful figures.[62] From the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Wright_Mills Another by Frank Elwell https://web.archive.org/web/20220519122501/http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/users/f/felwell/www/Theorists/Mills/SocMills.htm

Are the elites the same everywhere? From a post in Dialogue works.

Lawrence Wilkerson after about 28 minutes: six years ago I guess now, maybe a little longer, a report well done participating in by some Iranians in Iran at the University of Iran. Um, and the report showed how much money oil sales generated for Iran on a fiscal year basis in US dollars. And then it showed how much the IRGC took out of that fabulous amount of money. They were taking about one quarter of the Iranian budget, most of it generated from oil sales,oil and gas. And the implication was strong when you just did simple things like analyze the number of people in the RGC leadership and the amount of money being and essentially taken away from the Iranian government which could have been used for social programs for food you know any any number of things that would have benefited the Iranian people was going to the RGC and then when you read further in the analysis it wasn't going to the rank and file of the RGC. was going to the leadership. So that is a problem within the chemistry if you will I suspect of Iran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Ij0cWArw0&t=3292s

Patrick Henningsen with Danny Haiphong

https://www.youtube.com/live/jlIJefVCjAI?si=LQcuhuDDcG6cIPwJ They're using the US military as a kind of ad hoc kind of you know 18:1218 minutes, 12 secondsmodular mercenary force that's really kind of been commandeered by a foreign government if you think 18:2018 minutes, 20 secondsabout it. Um we're talking about the state of Israel.

Alastair Crooke comments on the current state of the Iran confrontation

https://www.youtube.com/live/o-P_gUeA5Zo?si=rwH9MpKFVYXYxWcr

The Duran: How Iran and Ukraine Exposed America's Limits w/ Garland Nixon

https://youtu.be/QIkzOy-jeqE?si=HSune9QWlaXofASg

Iran elected to a position to review NPT

https://youtu.be/SpNz7q_klA0?si=IyVGv_o0MFVwKNm3

Robert Inlakesh on the background for the current Iran conflict

https://youtu.be/Xs2DH0YW6sw?si=_wmQ9n-UlrFJKMki

Alastair Crooke on Iran’s strong position

https://youtu.be/OW3_a-oUrVQ?si=Oc0NEz3_z3_cpTPT