Debt Rattle June 7 2026
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Claude Monet San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk 1908 • US Led Over 100 Vessels via Strait of Hormuz in May — NYT (TASS) • ‘Biden’s War’ Has Become Trump’s –
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle June 7 2026]The WEST is on its KNEES : Russia deployed a Game-Changing Nuclear Giant Monster that Paralysed NATO
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SHOCKING PayBack: Russia confirmed the evacuation of dozens of bodies of NATO servicemen from KYIV
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FINLAND was Violently Attacked amid RUSSIA’s announcement of closure of the SKIES over NATO states
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RUSSIA confirmed the DEATH of SBU and CIA officers during the strike by ‘ZIRCON’ Hypersonic Missiles
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Russian Colonel announced a Missile Attack on a NATO Airbase & the Death of Dozens of UK servicemen
It’s a Pure VICTORY: Russia introduced the World’s most Powerful Carrier of ZIRCON missiles
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After ORESHNIK, Russia struck KYIV with the World’s Most Powerful Cruise Missile 9M729 ‘NOVATOR
As reccommended … Read More …
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symbolic enforcement often proves more attractive than structural reform.
The EU’s ‘strictest-ever migration law’ won’t change anything
Politicians promise immigration control while the economic and demographic forces driving migration remain firmly in place
Published 5 Jun, 2026 19:31https://web.archive.org/web/20260606120405/https://www.rt.com/news/641094-eu-new-migration-law/
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If you seek to understand why the American public is so deeply bamboozled, it is largely the utter failure of the news business.A big reason is that broadcast news now employs nearly zero correspondents in-the-field. Nobody is out there reporting on events.
They don’t want to spend the money.
So, the news just spins and spins, mostly in the service of manufactured lies.————-
As recommended. … Read More …https://tass.com/world/2143587
TASS, Russia’s leading government-run news agency, turned 121 on September 1, 2025
The Russian news agency TASS, the country’s first unified body for distributing official information, turned 121 on September 1, 2025.
TASS originated as the St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency, which went live on September 1, 1904.
As one of Russia’s most cited news agencies, TASS publishes nearly 3,000 news items daily in six languages, alongside about 1,000 photographs and videos from correspondents in Russia and across the globe.
This extensive coverage ensures a comprehensive and objective view of current events.Over 1,700 employees ensure the agency’s operation in real time.
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Bots and AI agents now generate more web traffic than humans, according to data from internet infrastructure company Cloudflare. CEO Matthew Prince has described the development as a major turning point in the history of the web. Recent Cloudflare Radar data shows that automated bot requests account for roughly 57% of traffic to ordinary webpages across a selection of websites using the company’s services, compared with about 43% generated by humans.
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Drone and missile warfare
☢️ CHORNOBYL HIT: A CLEAR MESSAGE TO UKRAINE⚠️ LIMAN & KOSTYANTYNIVKA FALLING FAST⚔️ MS 2026.06.07
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New skirmishes between Iran and US Navy
Plus news and updates from Lebanon.
Ismaele
Jun 06, 2026https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/new-skirmishes-between-iran-and-us
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Judgment had come to the WEST┃Russia Secretly Deployed a Game-Changing SYSTEM that SHOCKED the WORLD
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Our Revenge is MERCILESS: Russian General announced the Destruction of NATO Military Transport Plane
So silver and gold crash means we’re doing a land invasion in Iran, right? It’s the only choice. Or it means bigger war in Ukraine as Russia wins? Go on, I’m waiting.
This is like Oil at $70 with Duran yesterday: they say “the market is wrong, I’m right!” Uh, no. That’s not how it works.
“Has Trump Opened Pandora’s Box? The limits of U.S. military power are now fully exposed.” RosenbergerApparently not. We used 10% of our power and brought out almost no new and secret tech. And took out a nation of 90 Million in 30 days, so you better hope we’re the good guys.
So talk to me about how much you know about the limits of our power after we have used 80% of it and we have more than say 1,000 casualties. …Like 10 or 50 thousand. So far this has looked like a training exercise.
“2.5 months in to the U.S.-Israeli war against a nation that posed no threat to the United States’ vital interests, justified by a pyramid of lies,”
Well Israel is an official major ally, so that’s by definition a threat to U.S. vital interests, regardless of how you feel about our alliance, that’s what those words mean. He is also claiming the Strait has no strategic significance whatsoever, or it would be by definition a “Vital Interest”. He then is so clear on what lies were told (eg “Yellowcake”) that he can’t name one of them. No facts or details. Why? Because if he had facts or details he would name them, since that would better present his case. He does not, which means he’s a liar. Guilt, Rumor, Innuendo, Lies.
“The repeated bombing of military‑related targets across a country the size of Western Europe with more than 90 million people is not a strategy; it is a tactic untethered to any discernible operational or strategic end state.”
Bombing places does not achieve military objectives this genius says. Someone tell Patton and Montgomery they were doing it wrong.
“The Trump administration assumed that by assassinating the Grand Ayatollah Khamenei, the IGRC and security apparatus of the nation would collapse, and the Iranian people would flood into the streets to violently overthrow the government.”
They never specifically said this, you made it up just now. And you know that since the sentence before was lamenting the absence of plan or objective. If this is their plan and objective then there was one. If not, retract your previous statement: they had a plan and objective, you merely disagree with it. But they both have and do not have a plan, and it’s bad both ways. Because: Orange Man. If there is a man in the woods and no woman can hear him, is he still wrong? Yes, note all his approaches are the extreme toxic feminine.
“The government and the people have never been more unified.”
Not just “how would you know this?” — I seriously doubt it as no nation on earth supports their government right now, not the US, UK, China, Brazil, Mexico, etc. — but that we can very much KNOW for a fact the IRGC and Civilian governments are at open war. And the IRGC appears to have the Ayatollah hostage. That’s not what you call unified. If you want to say “They’re just as unified as the U.S.” that’s fine, but we’re on the brink of a Civil War too, only averted so far.
“The Trump administration assumed that the massive armada of air power it would employ would quickly destroy Iran’s capability to retaliate. It didn’t.”
The Administration never said any such thing. You just made it up. He continues on that the U.S. never thought of anything, ever, at any time (see above, where we “thought of overthrow”) That’s why they had both Insurance and trade all pre-planned and ready to go. And that’s why Russia was stockpiling oil in preparation +6months before.
“Equally concerning, the administration overlooked the fact that Lloyds of London and other maritime insurance companies would not underwrite”
So Lloyds is attacking us. Got it. Thanks. So the real enemy is there, not Iran’s guns. Check. Lloyd’s is synonymous with “London” and their office practically connects with MI6. Glad it’s out in the open and we agree, not just me saying it. I’ll quote you now when I need to make this case.
Continues with tropes about how Iran is better armed with more missiles than when they started, which is why they’re not shooting any and it’s a fight for Israel which is why they’re ignoring Israel altogether and the U.S. and attacking only Kuwait and UAE.
“The result? Cascading and disastrous effects. “
Yes, effects like Oil is down to $70. Oh no. What will we do when gas is $2.99 again? Cry I guess.
“The Gulf States are unlikely to ever welcome American forces back into their countries, “
Exactly. Except exactly zero of that has happened. There’s tremendous REASON to act, speak out, hint, anything. No one has. If anything they are more all-in – and allied with Israel – than ever. Explain?
Part of “We Make S–t Up” is also “Not Noticing” all other contradicting facts. That is: “Reality.”
“Russia is enjoying a windfall in oil and natural gas sales and revenue as it becomes the principal supplier of oil to China, India, Europe, Japan, South Korea, and other nations”
Yes but Russia is our ALLY. Only Neocons like you think they’re our enemy. Same with China. And it’s not only Russia who gets Rich AF with oil sales: the other or primary beneficiary is the U.S.
“Lastly, the administration has failed to define a path to victory that culminates in the restoration of a durable peace in the Middle East.”
This is roughly every paragraph. YOU said they defined a path: to overthrow Iran, install a puppet government, and steal the oil. That is “Defining a path to victory and end state.” Now I disagree, I don’t think they’ve defined one at all, and from what I can gather, that would not be it…or you might at least HAVE ground troops stationed somewhere. But I’m just reading your own argument back to you. We both have, and do not have, a path to victory. Both are bad.
Your argument is gibberish. Why is nearly every pro-Iran argument hot raving gibberish? It should be really easy: you can’t aggressively attack a sovereign nation especially during negotiations. They then have the right to defend themselves against your assets worldwide, or especially in theater. Simple. The U.S. is required to declare war. Simple. There are 1,000-year laws in war, such as right of conquest, and recently Westphalia and Geneva conventions, etc. Simple.
Nope. His argument rests on utter nonsense and “Not Noticing” instead. On that Iran has twice as many missiles as 90 days ago, and that the U.S. has clearly collapsed. What. TF.
“FBI Fires Analysts Who Drafted Controversial Anti-Catholic MemoSomething happens and this is a case where arresting is not actually the thing to do. Wish you could take their pension, but perhaps even that is too far. So good. 90% on this one action. Only about 200,000 more Federal employees left to punish.
“MASS LAYOFFS AT SPY AGENCIES? Two real pieces here. …about 8,000 senior federal workers to at-will status with no appeal rights, and OPM says it could reach 50,000.”
And probably the right ones. We need to radically re-set the Government/Private balance. Away from being Joseph Stalin and +50% of the nation is government.
“Last month, the US military helped coordinate the passage of more than 100 commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, The New York Times (NYT) wrote citing sources.”
More than thought perhaps since they may have started that run on day 15. Add to that 50% of the oil is possibly moving outside of Hormuz, as to the Red Sea, and every minute Hormuz becomes more irrelevant, and Iran’s leverage far smaller.
Strongly suggests they are out of missiles and boats, although Trump admits (as is obvious) they have assembled some new ones out of remaining parts. This is different from saying they have as many or more than when they started which is likewise impossible.
“• ‘Biden’s War’ Has Become Trump’s – Lavrov (RT)
America’s position on the Ukraine conflict has become almost indistinguishable from that of the EU,This is categorically not true, so I’m not sure what Lavrov is up to, a smart operator. So sending $150B is the same as sending near nothing? And Trump’s POSITION can be anything, it’s irrelevant if there is no physical ACTION backing it up. We already know he bitch-slapped the whole EU senseless over this before giving up on them, and has shut off their oil only last month. An absolutely ENORMOUS blow, possibly more relevant than Russia’s.
“Marco Rubio said efforts to facilitate Russia-Ukraine talks were complicated “because, frankly, we’re not an impartial mediator.”
I very much appreciate someone not telling lies for 5 minutes. Why do I have to say nice things about Rubio, it hurts. Not that we can’t be a “Mediator” in some capacity, but absolutely vital to admit we’re not impartial.
Diagnosis: Lavrov’s mad about Congress forcing Monetary support to Ukraine, and appropriately so. However, Trump doesn’t control them. Trump may have and very likely did promise he would have Congress in line however, and does not. As with MTG we’re still finding all the traitors.
Why MTG, Margorie Taylor Green? She has always worked with Ro Khana, as does Massie, more than their own party. Okay, not wrong, but a signal. She is now talking about joining with Democrats, and on “Reimagining Police” and other straight-up DNC (Far Left) talk, with using their precise spin-language. That doesn’t mean much to me, but for guys in that career, the word choice itself indicates what Team and Talking Points they’re selling, and it’s moved heavily into DNC Far-Left territory. Disbanding the police is not exactly “Far Right.”
Massie was the same, remember. Saying “I’d congratulate my opponent, but couldn’t reach him in Tel Aviv” while his own major backer is equally Pro-Israel. Also major ally of Ro Khana, and voted against literally everything: Big Bill, all jobs and manufacturing moving back to KY, backed the Meat Packing status quo, everything corporate.
Obviously this is disappointing.
“a return of production back to the USA (a fundamental rules change).
Both approaches involve a different govt policy, but Trump’s approach changes behavior.”That’s true, I understand this. Promethean is wrong on some things though. She was saying Capitalism is this jungle of money. No. “Capitalism” is PROPERTY RIGHTS. You already need a government to have any Property Rights. So therefore you presume (Just) rule of law. So then “Capitalists” (meaning “People”) already can’t poison, murder, bribe, steal, commit fraud. Those rules pre-date “Capitalism” by 5,000 years.
“Capitalism” is not disbanding government. That’s nonsense.
The “American Plan” is indeed different, roughly matching Howard Deans’ (DNC) plan (1999?) to have “fair playing field” by leveling tariffs on nations according to their wages, Union and environmental safety, etc. Then China comes up WITH us. If China has outrageous tariffs, we’re not supposed to just sit there and lose. If they have none, we have none, but that never happens. So he agreed with DNC exactly as Trump’s other plans are just Bill Clinton’s Center-Left platform.
So her diagnosis that “This IS Capitalism” and what we really want is “The American Plan” (As per Hamilton, etc) is good talking points, but mostly off, and I try to be accurate. Yes, “Capitalism” can go too far like that…but that means it’s no longer Capitalism. Because there are no longer free markets, price discovery, and competition, only paying off Government in a merger…which is a foundation of Fascism (which adds a few other things like propaganda and social engineering).
Understanding this, then Trump taking percentages in say, AI and other corporations is just what we always did, say with the Erie Canal or other major projects for 250 years.In a way they are not “Conservative” which means hands off as much as possible…but this is traditional. And they’re not absolutists, which is a sign of the “Far-somethings”. It’s not a religion.
“While large states such as Florida declare election winners within 24 hours, California may take up to two weeks to count all the votes.”Every nation on earth except Blue Cities and States. Then they also keep finding more votes for only their candidates somehow. Amazing! We count until I win! Then we stop.
“• The EU’s ‘Strictest-Ever Migration Law’ Won’t Change Anything (von Hoffmeister)
Translation: they did nothing. No ACTIONS. This is after lying for 26 years. We’re now at the point of “Okay, you’re right, We DID do that…but it’s a good thing.” And as yesterday “Strict law” of Illegals while keeping “Legal Immigration” pegged at infinity, and handing out a free Stab-and-Rape pass at the border, hitting native populations like a hammer.
Good for Cameras, “Yet the larger economic machinery that attracts millions of migrants continues operating.”Yes, because giving “Free S—t Army” is the structure of the whole nation. U.S. and foreign alike. It’s Russia 1990, “Closing the Collapse Gap with the Soviet Union” (where is Orlov lately anyway?) Attacking business isn’t going to get us back domestic again, duh. And all these laws are created and repealed by Congress. He can do more– as he says, arrest business owners – but how far will that really take you? As above, create a STRUCTURAL change, then the Tide itself starts moving.
How do we know? That’s exactly how it was installed in say 1971 or 1994. Sorry you want it in 30 minutes or less, so do I, but things made quickly reverse quickly. Change the foundation and people don’t notice until it’s already gone.
“• Paris Riots Fuel The Right (RMX)
If by “Far Right” you mean to the left of Antifa in the U.S.
“Kemi Badenoch has slammed UK politicians over what she described as attempts to score points on existing racial divisions, warning that it risked pushing the country towards a “civil war.”
This is the plan and required. They set it up like an avalanche, I would say essentially impossible to defuse. They make the situation worse and worse and worse and worse, then if anyone does anything about it, they call them “Far Right” “Killers” “Nazi” “Racists”. These are all just native peoples trying to live in f—king peace. Thanks to some dumb billionaire extractors – as usual – they are importing colonists and leveling the place, exactly the same as when White Guys arrived in the Dakota hills for gold.
“Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old Polish-British student”
He matters now that he was half-immigrant. But not if he’s all-native.
“The only prominent political figure to not go along with the Omerta is Reform leader Nigel Farage.”
Pretty sure this is untrue. Rowe is twice the Farage. Farage is also probably a mole and less than half of what he claims. So this is part of the “Great Pretending” the furious “Not Noticing” that Rupert Lowe and Restore exists.
“Framed initially as a tool to tackle illegal immigration through right-to-work verification, the scheme has ballooned into a cradle-to-grave tracking apparatus.”
So the other reasons to have “A Crisis”. All made up! Voluntary! Planned. To cause the issue, a disaster to be able to do more out of a crisis than on a normal day.
CAUSE the crisis. Pre-position the trades, Walk it as far as your able. Let the herd rest so they don’t kick back, then repeat.
“The WEST is on its KNEES : Russia deployed a Game-Changing Nuclear Giant”I’m not on my knees to Russia. I don’t even notice. We’re probably allies. Now if you mean EUROPE, completely excluding America, then yes. There is no “West”.
Want an extra on that? They willy-nilly include..and do not include…Japan in that list of “The West” Or why not Australia, the same? Mexico is equally colonized by Europe and the same age or older than the U.S. but is not “The West.” The word never had meaning, it’s used exclusively to baffle all.
UPDATED 5:01 PM EDT — 8:40 AM EDT – June 7: Israel Has Attacked Beirut, Lebanon, Again; Iran Says Resumption of Full Scale War, NOTAMS Issued
Hal Turner
The Israeli Defense Force(IDF) is offensively attacking Beirut Lebanon, again.Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned last week that Tehran would “respond with force” if Dahiyeh in Beirut were struck:
All eyes are on Tehran to see if they make good on their word.
UPDATE 10:40 AM EDT —
Iranian state media is reporting that the Supreme National Security Council has called an emergency session following Israel’s strike on Beirut’s Dahiyeh district.
Israel informed the U.S. in advance before the strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs, Saudi Al-Hadath reports.
UPDATE 10:48 AM EDT —
Iranian state media claims that the IRGC’s Khatam al-Anbia headquarters has placed “Operation True Promise 5” on standby following Israeli strikes in Beirut’s Dahiyeh district.
UPDATE 11:40 AM EDT —
Iran’s IRGC is now ready to execute “Operation True Promise 5” against Israel tonight, with Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei having authorized the full-scale resumption of war.
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council convened an emergency session, saying a “painful and decisive response” will come in response to Beirut strikes, per Iranian state TV.
Iran has issued an evacuation warning to all residents in northern Israeli territory to immediately leave, with coordinates of Israeli targets now transferred to missile units.
UPDATE 12:25 PM EDT —
Qalibaf (Speaker of Iran Parliament and Chief Negotiator with U.S.): “The naval blockade on us and Washington’s green light to Israel make their bases and interests legitimate targets.”
UPDATE 12:33 PM EDT —
QATAR Issues a 7 DAY NOTAM, READY FOR WAR
I assume this is in anticipation of an attack on Israel by Iran for striking Lebanon.
This could result in the U.S. hitting Iran from their Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar.
NOTAM:
This NOTAM is restricting all flights from today until June 14th. It will establish alternative flight routes through its airspace for aircraft departing from Doha and airports in Saudi. That’s almost a whole week of suspended flights.
UPDATE 5:01 PM EDT —
Hostilities in the Israel/US – Iran Conflict are RESUMING!
About three hours ago, I departed my home in New Jersey and drove to my country home in northeast Pennsylvania. (It had nothing to do with the hostilities in the Middle East).
In the three hours it took me to drive from NJ to PA, the following developments took place:
3:16 PM EDT — Iran has just restarted the war with Israel. Ballistic missile attack.
3:31 PM EDT — Israeli airspace and all flights at Ben Gurion Airport have reportedly been halted. Multiple U.S. Air Force refueling aircraft are said to be taking off from Israel as the IDF prepares a major response.
3:32 PM EDT — Iran fired 5 waves of missiles towards northern Israel. The 5th is on the way right now. Every barrage consists of about 3-5 ballistic missiles.
3:35 PM EDT — Iran’s IRGC says “this is the beginning of a full week of continuous strikes.” “Waves of missiles and drones will continue to be launched around the clock for the next seven days until the enemy is deterred and ceases its crimes.”
3:51 PM EDT — According to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), via the Fars New Agency: “Tonight’s operation was merely a warning announcement, and if aggressions are repeated, the responses will be broader and will include all American-Zionist targets in the region.”
The IRGC cites their reason for tonight’s ballistic missile attack against Northern Israel as continued Israeli strikes against Lebanon and U.S. attacks against Iranian coasts and vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, the Sea of Oman, and the Indian Ocean.
4:00 PM EDT — Turkish media “Anadolu Agency”: Air raid sirens went off in Haifa and several other locations across northern Israel after Iran launched missiles. As interception attempts were underway, blasts were heard in both Nazareth and Haifa.
4:09 PM EDT — Israel’s Ministry of Health is preparing to transfer all hospitals to protected areas and underground complexes – Channel 12
4:11 PM EDT — Iraq has just shut its entire airspace. FAA NOTAM A0237/26 closes the Baghdad FIR effective 1940Z, citing “operational reasons,” the standard wording for closing a flight region when it turns into a military risk zone. It came through within the hour of Iran starting to fire ballistic missiles at northern Israel.
4:15 PM EDT — The Islamic Republic has again cut off internet to 90 million Iranians.
4:37 PM EDT — The Israeli army says it will continue its operations “throughout Lebanon”
4:39 PM EDT — Trump says, “The Iranian strikes didn’t hurt anybody. Hopefully Israel is not going to retaliate. If Bibi strikes them back it’s just gonna keep going like the last 47 years, or the last 3000 years.” “I’m going to call Bibi right now and tell him not to retaliate. Each of them had their fun. Israel had its strike and Iran had its strike. We don’t need another one.”
5:02 PM EDT — Iran is now threatening that if Israel responds, missiles will be launched immediately toward a list of targets inside Israel.
5:04 PM EDT — All airports in western Tehran FIR are closed until 23:30 Tehran time on June 8th – NOTAM
5:05 PM EDT — US Embassy in Jerusalem has directed all U.S. government employees and their family members in Israel to shelter in place until further notice.
5:11 PM EDT — Iran’s Foreign Ministry says its armed forces conducted ‘defensive strikes’ against Israel
5:22 PM EDT — Trump and Netanyahu conducted a phone call. No word on what was said or how it went.
5:29 PM EDT — After the phone call with Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is holding a joint meeting with senior defense officials.
5:31 PM EDT — Iran has sent a message to Israel saying it has finished its attacks and will not strike again if Israel does not respond.
“The government and the people have never been more unified.”
Of course, Iran killed, 60,000 rebels who supported the US and tried to overthrow the Iraq gov.
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Iran’s IRGC says “this is the beginning of a full week of continuous strikes.”
”Waves of missiles and drones will continue to be launched around the clock for the next seven days until the enemy is deterred and ceases its crimes.”Iran war effect marks the resetting of world geo-politics
Contact us: info@strategic-culture.suSeemingly, every day brings breathless new claims that an U.S.-Iran ‘deal’ awaits only a signature. As so often happens, the mediators (Pakistanis and Qataris) hope to manage both sides by telling one side that the other party is at the brink of agreement when it is not so, especially in an atmosphere of total mistrust. By these means the mediators hope to push matters towards a final agreement. It is a familiar tactic, but one that quite often results in confusion and distrust – rather than the hoped-for settlement.
The ‘plan’ at this stage has only two central pillars: Iran’s ‘reopening’ of the Strait of Hormuz (on Iran’s terms) in return for the lifting of the U.S. naval blockade, and – at a later date – an understanding that the dilution of Iran’s 60% enriched uranium would be tackled in return for an end to sanctions.
To say the devil is in the detail would be the understatement of the year. Iran understands that Trump’s headliners of an ‘imminent deal’ are firstly, intended to keep the U.S. stock market up and oil futures trading well below that of the delivery price of physical oil. And secondly, to obfuscate that Trump may be seeking a plausible way to end the war via striking a quick, incomplete deal that would, in all likelihood, be largely on Iran’s terms.
All other issues – including the crucial detail of any nuclear agreement – would be deferred.
Trump wants from Iran an initial concession that he can hail as a visible win – and one that will please markets, too. But Iran will not trade its military leverage, and certainly not the strategic dominance that it achieved in the war, nor Hormuz, for fuzzy assurances from the mediators. Iran does not trust the U.S. one iota.
Ali Akbar Velayati, Senior Adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader observes,
“History bears witness that everyone who came seeking domination, from Alexander to Genghis Khan and Trump, ultimately ended up dissolving into the heart of ancient Iranian civilization. This time, Iran’s red line is clear: papers and signatures alone are no guarantee. The tangible guarantor of the agreement’s survival is the Strait of Hormuz”.
“For geography does not lie, and it is the final judge over every covenant written on paper”.
The mediators naturally are desperate to avoid another round of war. Iran however, demands hard detail. This is Trump’s dilemma. He wants a quick win, but the mere hint of a fudged, incomplete deal – mainly on Iran’s terms – brought the wrath of the pro-Israel billionaire class down upon his head (the pushback was intense), and Israel (likely with encouragement from that same class) then blew up Trump’s ceasefire by launching ascorched-earth military assault on Lebanon, and on Gaza and its citizens, so breaching the ceasefire precondition for any deal.
Trump is in zugzwang. (Any move he makes, potentially only worsens his position, whether strategically or domestically).
We saw this same zig-zagging, back of an envelope, non-strategy perfectly illustrated in the iconic imaging from Trump’s Beijing visit – Trump ‘winged it’; no prior preparation; a ‘seat of the pants’ summit.
That image may perhaps come to define this era – today’s iconic moment was of a U.S. President wearing the air of defeat whilst a confident President Xi’s comportment demonstrated who was in control.
Why, one may ask, would the pro-Israel class risk the West being wrecked by the economic consequences of a prolonged closure of Hormuz that would be entailed by their angry veto of Trump’s mooted ‘deal’? Possibly because Jewish ‘Big Money’ – since the 2008 crisis and the subsequent structural transfer of wealth from the real economy to the financialised ‘trader élite’ – may lead them to feel immune to economic downturn. They may even see it as an ‘opportunity’ (leading to assets going cheap).
The Iran effect, if not the direct cause, nonetheless marks a point of a significant reshuffling of global geo-politics. For, Israel it is bad news. The current Israel narrative is that no deal is better than a bad deal, because Israel could always return to war with Iran in a year or two’s time.
No one believes that, of course. Israel cannot mount war on Iran without full assistance from the U.S. And tomorrow’s America – in its relations with Israel – likely will be different from today’s.
Nahum Barnea in Yediot Ahoronot has written,
“We [Israel] are sliding into a never-ending war on three, perhaps four fronts, holding territories that are not ours, with soldiers we do not have, in a bloody war against enemies we do not know how to deter – and all without giving real security to our citizens. Israel must break out of the Iranian trap. [Yet] Netanyahu is the last person who has the ability to extract us from it”.
Russia is changing too (partly under the effect of Iran). Strategic patience is over, and the recent deadly Ukrainian drone attack on a college dormitory in the Russian town of Starobelsk which killed at least 21 people, mainly teenage girls, was described Moscow as “the last straw”. The Russian public is justly furious.
Moscow holds European capitals and Kiev responsible for the recent Ukrainian barrage of drones and missiles fired deep into Russia, taking advantage of NATO airspace in the attempt to sidestep Russian air defences. Additionally, Russia has issued formal notification to Washington (via a telecon with Maro Rubio in India) that it holds European capitals and Kyiv responsible for the collapse of the Anchorage framework as well.
Russia has said that it intends to put an end to Ukraine’s ability to carry out further such attacks, and to liquidate the decision centres that plan and direct the attacks on Russians – even if it means killing U.S. and European personnel. On 15 April, Russia’s Defence Ministry published lists containing the names and addresses of over 20 European companies and joint ventures allegedly supplying drones and components to Ukraine. Senior Russian officials, including Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev, explicitly designated these international facilities as “potential targets” for Russia’s armed forces.
Europe has been warned.
Again, it seems that the Trump-Xi and the Putin-Xi summits in Beijing serve to mark the transition into a more hard-nosed geo-political era.
The two summits, one after the other, seem to have incentivised China into loosening its customary caution in order to put a brake on U.S. attempts to widen dollar use, at the expense of the Yuan. The U.S. Treasury’s ‘grand strategy’ is to ‘contain’ China’s current competitive advantage by raising its capital and energy costs. The U.S. Treasury first tried imposing tariffs on China, but after failing with that ploy, turned to trying to squeeze China’s competitive advantage by blockading Chinese oil imports (naval blockades of Iran and Venezuela) to raise China’s energy costs.
However, if Trump wants all out trade competition, it seems to be ‘game on’ now for China – No more Mr (Xi) nice guy.
China is responding to Trump not with sanctions, nor with missiles. It is doing something far more precise: They are exerting counter pressures back at the U.S. economy, and are doing this by cutting money flows into the dollar sphere in reaction to the U.S. attempt to grossly widen global dollar use.
Both the U.S. Genius and the Clarity Acts are contrived to suck out retail holders of local overseas currencies from their positions through inducing them to switch into crypto tokens denominated in dollars and backed by U.S. Treasuries. If successful, this would both widen the U.S. dollar reach and provide a new source of demand for U.S. debt. Similarly (under the Clarity Act), investors looking to hold assets could be swapped out of regular U.S. stocks and bonds into digital tokens, via a digitised distributed ledger system.
In short, the U.S. aims to scoop up as much overseas currency as it can to insert into U.S. markets via crypto – (effectively swapping the declining Petro-dollar for a substitute Crypto dollar hegemony that would then generate the dollar demand necessary to keep the U.S. bond market from failing).
So, China is countering by going after something more sensitive – the flow of Chinese retail money going into American stocks and bonds. Chinese authorities have cracked down hard on Hong Kong brokerages that were helping Chinese mainland money flow into U.S. markets. As matters stand, Wall Street depends on foreign buyers of stocks to a significant extent, but Chinese savings dwarf those of all other countries. These will no longer be available.
Secondly, China, the largest holder of gold in the world, will open a new gold trading centre in Hong Kong in July. This is a major move to break the western hold over precious metal trading – it strengthens the role of the Yuan and enables oil sales to be settled in gold (Saudi Arabia, in a roundabout way, is reportedly already selling oil to China via gold).
Thirdly, Euroclear, one of the world’s largest financial companies and the backbone of international settlements, is planning to accept Chinese bonds traded in Hong Kong – as ‘good collateral’.
Sean Foo explains:
“When Euroclear accepts Chinese bonds as collateral, that means those bonds are treated as equivalent to liquid cash. It means they are good enough to back all international transactions – meaning that the global financial plumbing will be incorporating Chinese debt into the core infrastructure”.
“Now there’s a reason why Chinese bonds are becoming attractive to global investors, and this goes beyond just geopolitics or trade flows. It comes down to one fundamental reason. China is sitting on over $50 trillion in bank deposits. That’s more than the combined bank holdings of the EU, U.S. and Japan. And that creates something every bond market, such as China’s needs in order to function well – a deep, reliable base of domestic buyers – your own local people buying”.
In sum, as more money flows into Chinese bonds, and the Yuan bond market deepens, Chinese borrowing costs stay low. So Beijing can fund itself cheaply and almost indefinitely – and thus can outlast the U.S. grand strategy to contain China by squeezing both its capital costs and its energy costs.
Iran: The art of controlling escalation dominance
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MOSCOW – Iran holds an insurmountable escalation dominance in contrast with the U.S. And that’s driving the vociferating Emperor of Barbaria absolutely nuts.
Let’s quickly recap the highlights of the past week. In direct retaliation for a CENTCOM air attack on the outskirts of Bandar Abbas airport – a direct break of the “ceasefire” fiction – on the very same day the IRGC launched a targeted strike against a U.S. base in Kuwait. The IRGC was unambiguous: “If repeated, our response will be more decisive.”
The extremely calibrated IRGC response was framed as a deliberate warning, signaling in no uncertain terms that any U.S. provocation will be met with a response, yet short of triggering the return of all-out war.
At the start of last week, two U.S. military vessels attempted a “dark transit” through the Strait of Hormuz: transponders off, evading IRGC Navy monitoring, and ignoring repeated navigational warnings.
Yet Omani signals intelligence flagged the vessels, and after warnings were explicitly disregarded, the IRGC Navy went for a targeted drone strike.
Translation: that was the strict enforcement of the new laws regulating the Iran-controlled navigation corridor at the world’s top sensitive maritime choke point.
The Zionist axis did not fail to frame Iran’s enforcement action as a direct assault on “American supremacy”. Hence, predictably, the White House authorized strikes against Iranian drone installations.
Washington, once again predictably, presented the kinetic response as a proportionate reassertion of deterrence. Tehran for its part interpreted it as a blatant U.S. attack during an active ceasefire.
So the IRGC’s retaliatory strike on the Kuwaiti base delivered, once again, an unmistakable message: American forward bases in the Gulf – the ones not yet destroyed – continue to be legitimate targets, and never again will regain the status of sanctuaries.
CENTCOM, predictably, did not back down. There were more strikes on Tuesday and Wednesday, and that was coupled on Thursday with sanctions targeting Iran’s new Strait oversight agency, the PGSA.
CENTCOM framed attacks on Iranian radar and command sites in Goruk and Qeshm Island as “self‑defense strikes”. The IRGC Aerospace Force targeted the Kuwaiti airbase from which the U.S. strikes originated – and stated that the “predicted targets were destroyed”, adding that responsibility “lies with the U.S. regime.”
A dangerous escalation cycle is back. Trump and CENTCOM may see it as tactical deterrence. Tehran sees it as strategic bad faith.
What they don’t want you to know
Iran’s response to the American provocation made it crystal clear that the current incarnation of the proposed 60-day ceasefire framework does not hold. China, officially, happens to support a 60-day ceasefire. Yet the U.S. for all practical purposes continues to violate the current, wobbly ceasefire.
Conversations last week in Shanghai revealed that China maintains very close communication with Iran and constantly adapts the facts on the ground – and in the air – into its much broader, long-term strategic calculations, especially concerning energy flows through the Strait of Hormuz.
Additionally, what really matters in the grand strategic chessboard is that China and Pakistan, on the forefront, plus in the background Russia and the DPRK, continue to provide material and strategic support to Iran across several levels of deliberate ambiguity and plausible deniability. The intensity of the coordination has been on the rise, non-stop.
The strikes last week on Iran only serve one player: the death cult in West Asia, which strategically wants to degrade Iranian military infrastructure and keep Tehran perpetually on the defensive – irrespective to the enormous risks to real U.S. interests and West Asia stability.
The outlook is self-evident: Pentagon generals, in thesis, may want to explore off-ramps, but the political leadership of what may be described as the Epstein Syndicate wants war.
None of the Gulf petro-monarchies – with the exception of the UAE, shorthand for “Arab Zionists” – want the U.S. to resume war. Their concern is obviously existential. They know the IRGC, and the possible entrance in the war theater of Ansarallah in Yemen, would lead to a major retaliation disaster – with attacks on their ports and energy assets. The GCC players still live in perpetual fear.
Iran’s response to what is now on the public domain – direct UAE attacks during the war – will come in due time. What’s more pressing is the actual collapse of the UAE’s semi-monopoly of navigation in West Asia.
Iran and Pakistan have closely interconnected their regional transit hubs in just a matter of weeks, with the opening of seven layers of land corridors, directly linked to the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
After all both Iran and Pakistan are New Silk Road partners, and that also apply to ports: Chabahar in Sistan-Balochistan and Gwadar in the Arabian Sea, separated by only 80 km, are enjoying a new, unforeseen symbiosis. The UAE’s maritime semi-monopoly in West Asia has become meaningless.
When it comes to the heart of the action – the Strait of Hormuz – we have crossed yet another threshold. If CENTCOM decides to go for more provocations, up the escalation ladder, the next IRGC response will go for the jugular, destroying U.S. air assets outright.
So it’s up to the actors which want restraint – China, Pakistan, Gulf petro-monarchies, Iran pragmatists – to exercise the necessary leverage to stop the road back to war.
The facts are stark. Trump effectively holds less than zero leverage with Iran. And Iran holds insurmountable escalation dominance.
What has happened this past week goes way beyond a temporary flare-up in the Strait of Hormuz; this is all about a serious, ongoing structural rupture in West Asia, a much deeper, more volatile architecture beneath the whole drama.
And it is this volatile context – illustrated by the disclosure of exclusive information – that will start to be analyzed in a new independent platform, Power Shift.
Power Shift debuts globally this Monday, June 1st, at 5:30 PM EST, with a special first episode titled “Iran: What They Don’t Want You to Know”. Global viewers fed up with managed narratives and ready for the real read-out may join it live. I will be joining from Moscow. Exclusive. Unfiltered. Uncensored.He’s insane. “Escalation Dominance” is extremely in doubt here, and doesn’t win wars anyway. He’s talking about all the “Signaling” side of the exchanges, ignoring that every radar dish we hit means they have no ability to project or express power.
Iran is of course untouched and unaffected by anything the U.S. does, because, they have a few county bridges to equally-backward Pakistan, then the $100M shut off in wells don’t matter.
They are biding their time for 5, 10, or 20 years, because they Totes can blow up all U.S. air assets but are being super-nice and not trying. Uh-huh. Spin. There are not enough facts and details in this to be worth our time, although of course one should always know what the other guy is spinning.
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