Reader’s links for Aug. 17, 2025

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Each day at just after midnight Eastern, a post like this one is created for contributors and readers of this site to upload news links and video links on the issues that concern this site. Most notably, Islam and its effects on Classical Civilization, and various forms of leftism from Soviet era communism, to postmodernism and all the flavours of galloping statism and totalitarianism such as Nazism and Fascism which are increasingly snuffing out the classical liberalism which created our near, miraculous civilization the West has been building since the time of Socrates.

This document was written around the time this site was created, for those who wish to understand what this site is about. And while our understanding of the world and events has grown since then, the basic ideas remain sound and true to the purpose.

So please post all links, thoughts and ideas that you feel will benefit the readers of this site to the comments under this post each day. And thank you all for your contributions.

This is the new Samizdat. We must use it while we can.

For those interested, please check out https://vladtepesblog.substack.com/ as an another avenue of expression. The Substack is a different project in a sense. It is older videos that in the light of subsequent events, look different or of increased importance, Check it out now and again if you like.

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  2. Marco Rubio says Ukraine-Russia conflict is ‘not our war’: Full interview
    NBC News – 3 hours ago

  4. Between Illusion and Imitation: The IDF and the West’s War Dilemma
    • • Democracies Must Explain to Their Populations that War Is Sometimes Morally Required • •

    No military is more publicly condemned today than the Israel Defense Forces. Yet behind closed doors, few are more studied. Western generals and defense officials routinely seek Israeli briefings, request access to doctrine and tactics, and pursue cooperation on training and technology. These efforts continue even as their political counterparts issue statements of moral outrage and condemnation.

    The contradiction reflects more than a double standard. It reveals a deeper divide between political perception and military reality, between external messaging and internal understanding, between illusion and experience.

    Since the war in Gaza began, Israel has hosted dozens of foreign delegations, with military officers and defense officials observing Israeli operations firsthand. They ask technical questions about targeting processes, coordination between air and ground forces, real-time intelligence integration, and how combat units distinguish between civilians and combatants under fire.

    Some return weeks later to formalize cooperation on areas ranging from tunnel warfare to hostage recovery to civilian harm mitigation. Meanwhile, many of their political counterparts deliver rehearsed remarks emphasizing restraint, proportionality, and civilian protection, often with little connection to the operational context or ground realities they were just briefed on.

    This is not just political inconsistency. It is strategic dissonance. War is never clean. Urban warfare against a hybrid enemy embedded in civilian areas is among the most complex challenges modern democracies will face.…

    [M]ilitaries around the world continue to seek Israeli knowledge. Governments initiate formal cooperation agreements. Officers train in Israeli facilities. Procurement programs focus on Israeli defense technologies developed through experience in real combat conditions.

    Even as they broadcast "triumphs" for BDS, they're buying unprecedented amounts of Israeli military stuff.

    These are not isolated interactions. They are serious, structured engagements based on the recognition that similar wars may lie ahead. European and NATO militaries understand that future threats may look more like Hamas than like conventional armies. They are preparing accordingly…

    https://x.com/SpencerGuard/status/1953104310356906487
    ………….

    Because Orban is right: war, but not the WW2 model.
    Anticipate a series of civil wars, starting with urban riots we’re already familiar with. The MB and China will fund and manage operations. (Russia will work the media front.)

    That’s why there’s such intense observation of Gaza ops by outside military professionals.

      • omg, I know.
        Atrocities on a scale even greater than 10/7. I can’t watch or even read the details – nor did I for 10/7. The numbers are enough.

        Just about ignored by the enemedia, of course.
        But that our own govt has failed to respond appropriately – that’s made me very bitter.

        More bitter.

    • That is the future of the entire world, the asymmetric civil wars (one side will use riots as a tactic) combined with the massive propaganda effort by the left are going to be a major problem for the Free World. We are going to have to return to the Free World of pre gun control if we want to survive.

      Don’t forget the targeted assassination and targeted robberies of specific businesses, the wars will last for many decades with breathing spaces for all sides to rearm. During this time old nations will disappear and new nations will appear and other old nations will grow larger and at times smaller. If you read the real history of the world instead of the propaganda the left calls history you will discover that the nations spent more time at war then they did at peace. We are returning to the historical norm and many of the old attitudes will have to be pulled out of the closets, dusted off and reused.