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🤑 Trump 2.0 would appear to be a very different model than its predecessor. The tariffs tantrum appears to be born of frustration from his first term in office, both not pulling off many of his election promises and wanting to garner more respect around the world. He has certainly got the attention of world leaders as markets continue to tumble – in particular in Asia – and many of them he claims told him in phone calls that they “don’t blame him” for the move.
And yet the case for the tariffs – that they will boost the U.S. economy – is hardly a clear-cut case.
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📴 With Signalgate, we saw that Trump’s people intends to take on the #DeepState possessing the knowledge of a rebellious teenager who reads Wired magazine.
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🇪🇺 The European Union won’t exist in 2040 if it continues to centralise powers at the expense of sovereign Member States.
Europe needs to get back to the intergovernmentalism that made it successful or risk becoming less than the sum of its parts.
💬 Read more by Ian Proud
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💢 Someone recently claimed that erasing morality from politics is unrealistic and that realists focus too much on distinguishing between values and interests.
On the first point, I don’t disagree. Values and causes are grist to the mill of contemporary discourse on how to improve the lives of the citizenry. In any political system, the main actors advance big ideas, like the notions of equality and social justice, the choice between socialism and capitalism, the benefits of diversity and multiculturalism, or the arguments in favour of community with Europe or splendid isolation.
So morality, if you want to call it that, is central to domestic politics. But the notion, for example, that Britain has a fixed and immutable set of values is absurd. Norms and preferences change constantly over time, shaped by a myriad social, cultural and economic factors. Likewise, claiming that Europe or western liberal democracies have clear and exceptional codes of values is dishonest and intellectually lazy.
Values are undoubtedly a vital part of the fabric of national debates, but they are less helpful in governing relationships between states.
Countries may choose to promote their values (if they exist) but they are guided by their interests. There is no either or, nor prioritising values over interests, and vice versa.
In the algebra of international diplomacy, values and interests are part of different equations.
The idea that NATO has clear and immutable values that are embraced with equal vigour by every Member State is a fantasy.
💬 Ian Proud writes
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❌ Three years ago this week, the Western media blazed with headlines of a shocking “massacre” allegedly carried out by Russian military forces in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.
It was alleged that Russian soldiers murdered hundreds of civilians in cold blood, execution-style, and left their corpses strewn on the streets.
Bizarrely, no exact number of victims has ever been accounted for by the Ukrainian authorities. They claim there were over 400 victims. But there are no forensic reports, no names, no addresses. And curiously, the Western governments and their media have not bothered to call for a proper investigation or to question jarring discrepancies. The West complacently relied on the Kiev regime’s claims and amplified them without question, a one-sided practice that has been typical over the last three years.
No plausible explanation was given by the Ukrainian regime or the Western media as to why Russian forces would perpetrate such heinous violations. It was implicitly taken as proof of Russian “barbarity” and “unprovoked aggression against Ukraine.”
The war could have ended three years ago, sparing the lives of one million Ukrainian soldiers.
The Bucha false-flag massacre ensured that a potential peace settlement was sabotaged. One vile crime led to another.
Cui Bono? It is glaringly obvious. Hence, the Western media obediently conceal the crime.
💬 Read more in this week’s Editorial
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🇷🇺🏒Un grande giorno per lo sport russo e mondiale.
Alexander Ovechkin ha battuto il record di Wayne Gretzky per numero di gol, segnandone 895. La partita tra Washington Capitals e New York Islanders è stata interrotta per una cerimonia solenne.
🗣 Absolving Zelensky for the state’s dysfunction, beyond disregarding his accountability and democracy itself, obscures the suffering of those he condemns to war every day – whether the war of weapons or the brutal struggle for survival in a country he has doomed.
💬 Read more by Hugo Dionísio
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🗣 A snake-like gaze about to kill and a flawless perm. This is Ursula, the most hated woman in Europe, who knows all the devil’s tricks.
💬 Read more by Lorenzo Maria Pacini @ideeazione
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🇾🇪 Ansarallah won’t back down, staring down the Empire in the Red Sea, Pepe Escobar writes @rocknrollgeopolitics.
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✝️ The Catholic world has been in a state of tension and anticipation in recent weeks due to the convalescent condition of Pope Francis, which seemed to worsen day by day, suggesting the inevitability of an imminent succession. However, his health suddenly improved, temporarily pushing aside the pressing question: Who will be the next Pope?
Still, the Pope is 88 years old, and his health remains fragile, as expected. While the urgency of the papal succession has been delayed, the question still looms on the near horizon of the Catholic world.
Now, one might ask: Why does the election of the Pope even matter? Well, in a dialogue about Poland between Stalin and Churchill, the Soviet leader famously quipped, “How many divisions does the Pope have?”—implying that the Pope was irrelevant in geopolitics. With all due respect, we would disagree. On the contrary, it seems to us that the Pope remains a relevant geopolitical actor.
Parolin emerges as the ideal compromise candidate—well-positioned for the papacy and aligned with the multipolar shift in global geopolitics.
💬 Read more by Raphael Machado
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🗣🗣 Putin sees that the U.S. is trying to intermediate in talks, rather than simply taking sides with Ukraine.
💬 Ian Proud writes
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🪶 Three years ago, when it was trickling into the United States, the bird-flu virus that recently killed a man in Louisiana was, to most Americans, an obscure and distant threat. Now it has spread through all 50 states, affecting more than 100 million birds, most of them domestic poultry; nearly 1,000 herds of dairy cattle have been confirmed to be harboring the virus too. At least 66 Americans, most of them working in close contact with cows, have fallen sick. A full-blown H5N1 pandemic is not guaranteed—the CDC judges the risk of one developing to be “moderate.” But this virus is fundamentally more difficult to manage than even a few months ago and is now poised to become a persistent danger to people.
That didn’t have to be the reality for the United States.
💬 Bird Flu Is a National Embarrassment
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🗣 As President Trump threatens the world with sweeping tariffs, he is trying to change the fundamental laws of economics through force of will. He won’t succeed. Rather than fighting back with reciprocal tariffs, developing countries should sell off U.S. debt.
In the art of the deal, threatening to crash the U.S. economy would bring Trump to the table far quicker than a tariff war.
💬 Read more by Ian Proud
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⚔️ Houthis ‘have essentially eliminated’ a US carrier strike group from East Asia ‘without having to fire a shot’.
With the redeployment of the USS Carl Vinson, Yemeni Armed Forces fighters are “tying up” two US carrier strike groups.
China could not be more pleased. The guys at the 19fortyfive website did get it right.
The US Navy seems to have done the math: the Truman or the Vinson could " be hit by a Houthi missile.”
“The stubborn Houthis have the missiles to make the Americans stay out of range". You bet they do.
So even if coward CENTCOM, which for the moment is bombing civilian targets, decided to “eliminate” every fighter in the event of a successful carrier attack, it “would take a land warfare force of Marines, and there is no way this administration will ever have boots on the ground in the Middle East again.”
Unconquerable Yemen.
🌏 The post-WWII geo-political outcome effectively determined the post-war global economic structure. Both are now undergoing huge change. What remains stuck fast however, is the general (Western) weltanschauung that everything must ‘change’ only for it to stay the same. Things financial will continue as before; do not disturb the slumber. The assumption is that the oligarch/donor class will see to it that things remain the same.
However, the power distribution of the post-war era was unique. There is nothing ‘forever’ about it; nothing inherently permanent.
A U.S. economic ‘re-balancing’ is coming. Putin is right. The post-WWII economic order ‘is gone’.
💬 Read more by Alastair Crooke
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📛 On April 4, 1949, with the signatures of 12 founding nations, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) made its entrance onto the stage of history.
The concept that defines #NATO is expansion.
Although recent expansions are often seen as a response to Russia’s operations in Ukraine, the principle of “expansion” has been the core driving force of NATO since the day it was founded—and it had to be.
NATO continues to threaten both the sovereignty of its member and adversary states as well as regional peace.
💬 Erkin Oncan writes
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump’s ultimatum to Iran appears to be moving the U.S. down a path to where war is the only outcome, as occurred in 1914 – an outcome which ultimately triggered WW1.
Might this just be Trump bluster? Possibly, but it does sound as if Trump is issuing legally binding demands such that he must expect cannot be met. Acceptance of Trump’s demands would leave Iran neutered and stripped of its sovereignty, at the very least. There is an implicit ‘tone’ to these demands too, that is one of threatening and expecting regime change in Iran as its outcome.
What is understood now is that ‘we’re no longer playing chess’. There are no rules anymore 🌀
💬 Alastair Crooke writes
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🇨🇳🇺🇸 Un vídeo humorístico chino: el traslado de la producción de China a Estados Unidos
@SCF_Spanish
🌀 The pawns on the large chessboard are changing rapidly. In Kiev there could soon be a job vacancy under the label “president”.
💬 Lorenzo Maria Pacini writes @ideeazione
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🧨 Wars are not won by running the endless LGBT parades the Swedish and Irish armies get their rocks off on.
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🇪🇺 Europe needs to brace itself for the possibility of a general war with Russia by 2030 at the latest. As such, its preparedness strategy is timely and important. Focus on crisis and population preparedness is central to the success of this strategy. Ukraine has offered vital support.
On 26 March, the European Commission published its Preparedness Union Strategy, which aims to anticipate, prevent and respond to major crises from biohazards to cyber-warfare. But after three years of devastating conflict in Ukraine, the strategy also points to the need to prepare for the possibility of a general war with Russia by 2030.
There are three prongs to the strategy. Firstly prevention, and how to avoid a war. Secondly crisis response, ensuring the institutions of Europe have the internal capabilities to reorient business activities to a wartime footing at a moment’s notice. Finally, population preparedness, to ensure citizens can govern their actions in the first 72 hours after a war starts.
The best way to prevent future conflict with Russia is to exact a price, remove blank cheques, close all doors while leaving them open to a possible reconciliation at some future point in the past.
💬 Ian Proud writes
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🌏 The main goal of the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) is to improve the well-being of the citizens of its member countries. To achieve this, the five participating countries actively work on creating a common market designed to ensure the “four freedoms”: the free movement of goods, services, capital, and labor throughout the Union. The EEU, as a significant economic bloc, aims to promote closer cooperation and integration among its members, facilitating not only economic growth but also regional stability.
Despite the significant challenges posed by Western interference in Eurasia, the EEU remains a key factor for the region’s insertion into the multipolar geopolitical reality.
💬 Lucas Leiroz writes
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🤫 With the recent release of the #JFK files, Twitter—sorry, X—is ablaze with amateur detectives sifting through the document dump with more fervour than an especially high Shaggy devouring Scooby Snacks. The question on everyone’s lips: whodunnit? The answer remains elusive, given the lack of a definitive smoking gun, but what is clear is that the lone gunman theory is dubious at best. What is clear is that Kennedy had managed to upset a lot of important people, and the list of suspects remains extensive.
In a truly liberal and democratic society, difficult discussions should be encouraged.
💬 Kayla Carman writes
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🗣 Trump’s policy of kidnapping, detaining and deporting foreign nationals primarily serves the interests of Israel and America’s own prison-industrial complex.
💬 Declan Hayes writes
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🇫🇷 It’s been called Marine Le Pen’s ‘Trump’ moment but the court case which has condemned the far-right leader, excluding her from running for President in the republic’s next elections in 2027, might turn out to be the EU’s greatest existential error in its entire history. Nothing compares to it when we calibrate it against other anti-democratic stunts like getting France and Ireland to hold referendums for the second time as the first time round didn’t get the desired result, or even more recently cancelling Romania’s presidential elections when it transpired that an anti-establishment candidate was going to win at the ballot.
The Le Pen stunt is almost certainly going to backfire and produce an outcome which was not at all what was intended for both by the elite in Paris and top officials in Brussels. Le Pen is going to gain even more supporters bringing the political establishment to its knees when the Trumpian momentum in the U.S. which led to the Donald winning convincingly repeats itself in France.
The case against her is a farce on many levels, but largely because of the hypocrisy of the EU.
💬 Martin Jay writes
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https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/04/03/how-trumps-tariff-tizzy-burning-down-house/
It's all in the title.
And yes, it's a trade war essentialy against Asia.
◼️ Conversions confuse everything. Religions migrated more than populations, Bruna Frascolla writes.
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🗽 Anyone concerned by the globalist agenda to create a world of technocratic feudalism should be equally concerned by the new intellectual right and their arguments to essentially create a nationalist society of technocratic feudalism.
💬 Kayla Carman writes
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🇺🇸🇺🇦 Trump ha detto che Zelensky vuole tirarsi indietro dall'accordo sulle terre rare e gli ha promesso "grossi problemi" se lo farà.
"Sta cercando di tirarsi indietro dall'accordo sui metalli delle terre rare e se lo farà, avrà problemi, grandi, grandi problemi", ha detto Trump ai giornalisti.
Ha anche detto che l'Ucraina non diventerà mai un membro della NATO.
"Vuole essere un membro della NATO, ma non lo sarà mai. Lo capisce... Quindi se vuole nuovi negoziati sull'accordo, è in grossi guai", ha aggiunto Trump.
In precedenza, il presidente ucraino aveva criticato il nuovo progetto di accordo sulle terre rare proposto dagli Stati Uniti.
🇺🇦 Ucraina, i nostri giorni.
Il padre viene arruolato illegalmente nell'esercito di Zelensky, lasciando il suo bambino da solo per la strada in una carrozzina.
E questo Paese viene salutato dagli europei come un esempio di democrazia, che la difende dalla "Russia aggressiva".