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Bringing you news from around the 🌍, we ask the questions mainstream media avoid. Hosted by Afshin Rattansi, broadcast globally. Our Channel: https://rumble.com/c/GoingUnderground
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More success from the US’ desperate attempts to strangle China’s🇨🇳 economy: China’s exports in the 21st Century’s most important industries: solar, batteries and EVs, soared by 70% year-on-year. China proves its economy is too big to be strangled.
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China’s🇨🇳 Xi Jinping:

"Marxism has provided a strong theoretical weapon for the Chinese revolution, construction and reform, enabling China, an ancient country in the east, to create an unprecedented development miracle in the history of mankind."

The miracle:

-800 million people brought out of poverty in 4 decades

-Extreme poverty eliminated in China

-Lifted 98.99 million rural citizens out of poverty since 2013

-Expanded the Belt and Road Initiative to over 150 countries

-Has built a larger high speed rail network than the rest of the world put together, expanding it from 10,000KM to over 50,000KM

-Installed renewable energy capacity in China is roughly 4× larger than that of the United States today

-Made China the world’s largest industrial economy, with manufacturing output now exceeding the US & EU combined

-Presided over the largest housing and urbanisation programme in history, moving hundreds of millions into modern cities with infrastructure, utilities, and services. In 2013 730 million lived in cities, in 2025, 954 million lived in cities. An increase of 224 million.

-By 2030, China is projected to account for over 40% of the world’s middle class

-Average disposable income has increased more than 25x since 1980 (real terms)

-China’s middle class already drives the majority of domestic consumption, shifting growth away from exports

-China now contributes more to global consumption growth than the US and Europe combined

-Steel production: China produces approximately 55% of global steel

-Shipbuilding: China accounts for over 50% of global shipbuilding output

-China produces more cement than the rest of the world combined

⚡️The renewable energy dominance:

-China controls 80%+ of the global solar manufacturing market across the entire supply chain (wafers, cells, panels)

-It produces approximately 98% of solar wafers, 92% of solar cells, and 85% of solar panels globally

-In 2025 alone, China exported 200+ GW of solar cells, with exports surging over 73% year-on-year

-Solar cells & wafers now make up 40%+ of China’s solar exports

-China drove over 50% of global solar expansion in 2025

-Chinese battery giant CATL alone holds approximately 42% of the global EV battery market
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China’s🇨🇳 Xi Jinping: "Marxism has provided a strong theoretical weapon for the Chinese revolution, construction and reform, enabling China, an ancient country in the east, to create an unprecedented development miracle in the history of mankind." The miracle:…
Today is the 156th birthday of Vladimir Lenin, leader of Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.

He created the Soviet Union, the world’s first socialist state and laid the foundations for consolidating the revolution and transforming the backward and undeveloped ruins of the Russian empire into the superpower Soviet Union:

📚 Literacy: Only 37.9% of men & 12.5% of women could read in 1917. By 1937: 86% of men & 65% of women. The USSR achieved in 22 years what took Britain, France & Germany a century.

Electrification: Electricity was virtually unknown in Russian villages pre-1917. Output hit 49 billion kWh by 1940, making USSR the world’s 2nd largest generator.

🎓 Education: Free compulsory schooling to age 17 introduced in 1919. Textbooks published in 44 languages by 1927.

Land: Approximately 150 million hectares redistributed from aristocracy & Church to peasants, the largest land redistribution in European history at the time.

♀️ Women: First country to legalise abortion (1920). Women declared legal equals to men in 1917.

67% of Russians have a positive view of the Bolshevik revolutionary who laid the foundations for the Soviet Union to be a superpower.
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Today is the 156th birthday of Vladimir Lenin, leader of Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. He created the Soviet Union, the world’s first socialist state and laid the foundations for consolidating the revolution and transforming the backward and undeveloped…
Vladimir Lenin’s 156th birthday, Some of his most important quotations:

“Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich, that is the democracy of capitalist society.”

“A handful of rich states live by robbing the colonies and oppressing the majority of the world’s population.”

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: freedom for slave owners.”

“The bourgeoisie of the imperialist ‘Great’ Powers bribe their workers with crumbs from the superprofits they obtain from the colonies.”

“Imperialism is not a policy but a stage of capitalism.”

“The concentration of production and capital has developed to such a high stage that it has created monopolies which play a decisive role in economic life.”

“Finance capital is such a decisive force in all economic and international relations that it is capable of subordinating, and actually does subordinate, even states enjoying the fullest political independence.”
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Ukraine🇺🇦: Zelensky’s conscription henchmen throw a man off a ROOF, before dragging him into a van in Volyn, to be sent off to the frontlines to die against Russia🇷🇺 in NATO’s failed proxy war.
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The statue of Jesus Christ that was destroyed with a sledgehammer by an IDF occupying soldier in Lebanon🇱🇧 has successfully been restored by Italian UNIFIL units.

The whole world has seen through the lies of Israeli propaganda, through the war crimes of their own soldiers.
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"We can choke off China's🇨🇳 oil at any time we want,,,China has two weaknesses: energy and food. Both of them are vulnerable to our blockades.”

-US🇺🇸 Rep. Carlos Gimenez

The war on Iran and the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine were events to set up the coming war on China.

While China advocates peace, the US is actively preparing to bring down China.

Is China taking the threat of attack by a desperate Washington seriously enough?
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Trump asked if he would use a NUCLEAR WEAPON against Iran:

‘Why would we need it?…A nuclear weapon should never be allowed to be used by anybody.’

One solitary sane statement amid threats to kill an entire civilisation and near daily threats of war crimes
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🚨Former Israeli Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy on Israel’s Defence Minister threatening ‘ELIMINATION of entire Khamenei family awaits green light from the US🇺🇸.’

‘This is NOT normative, NORMAL or acceptable talk or behaviour.’

‘It is not normal to talk like that and it should not be accepted. Not even attempting to draw this distinction, that they sometimes like to pretend that other members of the family were collateral damage.

But it was legitimate to go after X, you know, saying openly the whole family, following off the back of President Trump, talking about wiping out a civilisation.’

Catch the full interview on Saturday’s episode of Going Underground to understand the real Greater Israel plan

Don’t miss it, follow us on X and follow our Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/v78xmxu-greater-israel-is-about-regional-hegemony.-trkiye-is-israels-next-target-da.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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🚨Former Israeli Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy on Israel’s Defence Minister threatening ‘ELIMINATION of entire Khamenei family awaits green light from the US🇺🇸.’ ‘This is NOT normative, NORMAL or acceptable talk or behaviour.’ ‘It is not normal to talk like…
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🚨SATURDAY’S GOING UNDERGROUND: THE REAL GREATER ISRAEL PLAN

We’re joined by veteran Israeli Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy who outlines what Israel’s real plan is for Greater Israel:

-How does Israel seek to build unrivalled regional hegemony?

-How is Israel using the US to achieve its Greater Israel objectives despite Washington’s decline?

-How does Israel view the rise of the multipolar world and decline of US empire?

All this and more on Saturday’s Going Underground. Don’t miss it, follow our Rumble channel: https://rumble.com/v78xmxu-greater-israel-is-about-regional-hegemony.-trkiye-is-israels-next-target-da.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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🚨’Israel is on a SUGAR HIGH of death and destruction, it’s not clear to me Zionism can RE-INVENT itself.’ —Former Israeli Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy WATCH the full interview: https://rumble.com/v78xmxu-greater-israel-is-about-regional-hegemony.-trkiye…
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‘There is no good Zionism. It’s a racist ideology. It’s a violent ideology. And don’t believe me, look at Palestine for the last 100 years.’

-Miko Peled, his grandfather signed Israel’s Declaration of Independence.
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🚨Israel ACCELERATING US🇺🇸 decline with war on Iran to create a regional alliance to be not so reliant on America? 

‘Israel may, as I suggested, think that maybe we can’t pull this back—but maybe one of the things we’ve done in this war is accelerate American decline to a place where we can create a regional alliance where we’re not so reliant on America.

I think that would be a very risky bet to place, but it’s one they perhaps are placing.

So you have, at the moment, what feels like it could become at least a perfect storm, that Israel is more dependent on the US, more controversial in the US, less able to pull opinion and politics in its direction, and more overstretched in its ambition.’

-Former Israeli Peace negotiator and President of the US/Middle East Project Daniel Levy

Watch the full interview: https://rumble.com/v78xmxu-greater-israel-is-about-regional-hegemony.-trkiye-is-israels-next-target-da.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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🚨Israel ACCELERATING US🇺🇸 decline with war on Iran to create a regional alliance to be not so reliant on America?  ‘Israel may, as I suggested, think that maybe we can’t pull this back—but maybe one of the things we’ve done in this war is accelerate American…
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🚨'Trump is DESPERATE to end this and declare VICTORY against Iran. Netanyahu is desperate to keep him from doing it.’

-Former Chief of Staff at the US State Department Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on @NewOrderTV

Netanyahu is desperate to stop Trump from declaring victory and walking away because he knows that time is running out on the alliance with the United States:

1. 74% of Gen Z sympathise with Palestine over Israel

2. The US is declining as a superpower

Israel now sees this moment as an opportunity to squeeze every last war it can from the US to remake the Middle East for it, and then rein as the regional hegemon as the US fades away as the dominant superpower.
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🚨Former Israeli Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy: Israel’s NEXT TARGET is Türkiye🇹🇷

‘When they talk about the next target being Türkiye, part of what they’re trying to do is to create an equation where Turkey will be isolated and then Israel can go after Turkey. I’m not saying that’s the military plan for the next five years, but that is what they are now putting on the agenda.

And when you go and speak to government officials around the world, they will often say, depending on where you are, of course, we just had the Israelis in town. Wow. They were talking about Turkey the same way they talked about Iran 10-20 years ago.

Now that is partly why I think not just Turkey, but a whole host of states in the region are saying, whoa, wait a minute. The most revanchist, radicalising, destabilising actor in the region today is Israel, because it has this extremely overambitious agenda of how it wants to reshape the region.

What Israel’s betting is that even if that conversation is beginning to take place, the states of the region won’t be able to come together to offer any kind of collective containment or deterrence of Israel and therefore that Israel will be able to advance this project. That’s the bet it is placing.’

Watch the full interview: https://rumble.com/v78xmxu-greater-israel-is-about-regional-hegemony.-trkiye-is-israels-next-target-da.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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🚨Former Israeli Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy: Israel’s NEXT TARGET is Türkiye🇹🇷 ‘When they talk about the next target being Türkiye, part of what they’re trying to do is to create an equation where Turkey will be isolated and then Israel can go after Turkey.…
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“Turkey🇹🇷 is the new Iran.”

-Israel’s leader of the opposition and likely the next Prime Minister of Isrsel Naftali Bennett

If Israel achieves it goal of turning Iran into a failed state, Israel’s total hegemony over the region will be blocked by one country: Türkiye.

Israel is already setting up the propaganda and rhetoric for a coming war on Türkiye, for even more regional destruction and death.
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🚨 ‘Israel is in a USE IT OR LOSE IT mentality with US🇺🇸 alliance as Washington declines, sees it as an OPPORTUNITY to push its regional project.’

—Former Israeli Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v78xmxu-greater-israel-is-about-regional-hegemony.-trkiye-is-israels-next-target-da.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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🚨 ‘Israel is in a USE IT OR LOSE IT mentality with US🇺🇸 alliance as Washington declines, sees it as an OPPORTUNITY to push its regional project.’ —Former Israeli Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v78xmxu-greater-israel-is-about…
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🚨‘Israelis are totally DISCONNECTED from reality, they live in a bubble.’

—Veteran Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy on Going Underground

'For decades Israelis didn’t want to know about the occupation, now they don't want to know anything about the ethnic cleansing of Gaza...

Because looking at it might make them uncomfortable. It's much easier to accuse the whole world of anti-Semitism. How can you say the whole world is anti-Semitic if you have no clue what's going on in Gaza?'
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🚨GREATER ISRAEL PLAN: ‘Israel wants to be surrounded by failed, fragmenting, or co-opted states. Its goal in Iran is STATE COLLAPSE, NOT regime change.’

—Former Israeli Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy

FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v78xmxu-greater-israel-is-about-regional-hegemony.-trkiye-is-israels-next-target-da.html?e9s=src_v1_ucp_a
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🚨GREATER ISRAEL PLAN: ‘Israel wants to be surrounded by failed, fragmenting, or co-opted states. Its goal in Iran is STATE COLLAPSE, NOT regime change.’ —Former Israeli Peace Negotiator Daniel Levy FULL INTERVIEW: https://rumble.com/v78xmxu-greater-israel…
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REMINDER: Netanyahu clearly said he is on a ‘historical and spiritual mission’ and says he connects with the Greater Israel vision ‘very much’.

The goal for the past 3 decades has been to turning the regional powers surrounding it into failed states to pave the way for Israeli Lebensraum.

To achieve a Greater Israel, Israel must annex land from Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and even a part of Türkiye.

After Iran, the next large-scale planned Israeli war will be against Türkiye, either through overt warfare, proxy warfare, or a mix of both.

If Israel still has not managed to make Iran collapse, with Türkiye, the largest military force in the entire region, Israel will be biting off more than they can chew.
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