Debt Rattle May 18 2026
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Carl Frederik Aagaard View to the Amalfi Coast c1860 (woodblock) • Trump Tells Iran ‘Clock Is Ticking, Move Fast’ After New Peace Proposal (ZH) • Uran
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle May 18 2026]View to the Amalfi Coast c1860
Believe this is a real place that still exists. I think I saw it on TV sometime. Bond film? Show on Italian houses?
“Attack Drone Hits Near UAE Nuclear Power Plant
When Iran tries to make a nuclear attack, it’s a GOOD nuclear attack. Not like when others do it.
“Americans Face The Highest Memorial Day Gas Prices On Record
Not only $4.50 or more but sustained. States naturally did not drop any taxes to help. I expect Trump will try a rebate before the election (buying votes) but remains to be seen. All courts were sweaty with effort to prevent and lower taxes – Oh wait: only ONE tax, all the others are wonderful can’t be high enough – in tariffs, which he was using to fund the rebate. They decry the plight of the workers while raising taxes and stopping this “free” revenue from being used. Nice.
“As Hormuz crisis rattles the world, eyes are on another key waterway
The Strait of Malacca carries more than a quarter of global trade, including most of the oil that flows from the Persian Gulf to key Asian markets.” NBC NewsIran failed and England/Globalists are moving to attack Malacca. Thanks, got it. China said they’re getting their oil from Trump, so they shouldn’t need it; good luck. Hard to put a tollbooth on the Pacific Ocean.
“Trump Tells Iran ‘Clock Is Ticking, Move Fast’ After New Peace Proposal As Analysts Predict Likely Return To War
Much as I don’t like it, China says they don’t need the straits or Iran, so he can just break all their oil infrastructure and walk away. They can keep the strait “Closed” and so will we. If Europe ever wants oil again, they can do it for themselves, they’re the only ones interested.
Iran wanted to screw around, so now they’re out of oil for 50 years and have to re-drill every well. We can do more, ever-more to them any time we want. Now I don’t see the point and goal of that, they’d have to run me through why and no one has, but the media has been arguing we can’t, and we most definitely CAN. I expect Trump will do this 2nd bombing in some capacity, but that’s hardly a prediction.
“Largest Ukrainian Drone Attack On Moscow In Over A Year Leaves Four DeadWell that’s incredibly pathetic. The biggest attack you can possibly make only kills four? 190M ppl ÷ 4 = 47 Million years to beat Russia. I’m sure they’ll surrender shortly and not nuke you at all.
“May 17 BOB MORIARTY | I’m 100% concerned about a liquidity-driven market collapse coming soon! YT
I’m picking on him regularly, but there are sign of a credit crunch out there (Again. And again). We’ll see, I think the point is to make Europe collapse first, LONDON, so they get blamed and we say “Yeah but we’d have been fine except for them…(Nosy kids!)” It isn’t if you win or lose but where you place the blame.
I’m hearing “Bond Yields blowing out” but are they? In this environment, if you wonder and argue about it, they’re not. If they were, you’d know it, there’d be no question. Burry for instance has called twelve of the last zero pullbacks in the last few years. Dodd too. They’re not wrong! …But when there are no rules, and they will print infinity in seconds, and the market doesn’t mind at all, none of the standards and histories work. In that sense it’s “Fascism” all the way down, but more like, Shogunism? It’s so screwed up they are just running it like a fiefdom right now, to be handed back to maintenance later.
“landed at New York Stewart International Airport with Mohammad al Saad”
I generally just assume he’s one of our agents or he’s innocent. So go ahead and prove like, anything to me. Same with Nigeria. Just assume it’s evil, so go ahead and get me Nigerian Press Minister that says we were acting at their direction. Not saying it isn’t, just 20 years of training here.
“Iran: They’ve been raping, killing and murdering for 47 years.” Have they though? The seem the least to me. America probably 10xed their bad behavior in only 20 years since 2002.
“FBI EXECUTES SEARCH WARRANT AT CALIFORNIA HOME OF ADAM SCHIFF”
About f’n time, but does he keep anything at his house? This is all for the Media? That is also not an arrest.
““..as the seemingly unbridgeable gulf remains, also as Iran is digging in its heels.”
• Uranium Transfer, Nuclear Limits: US Issues 5 Peace Ultimatums To Iran (ZH)If the Uranium traces back to every Obama, Hillary, and CIA agent, you can see why they would. The IRGC would collapse, the whole IDEA they, London, Proxy states are doing would collapse, and not just in Iran. We’d see the same pattern from Ukraine to Somalia to Minnesota. None of them are real. Even the DNC as a party isn’t real. It’s all a grift for the CIA and globalists.
“Here are the five newly proposed Washington conditions, which some pundits have called ‘wishful thinking’:
Why? Because we’ll surrender to the nation with no Navy? Why is that wishful? Did we run out of bombs, like Dima’s thorough inventory of the entire US Army says?
“City Manager Eric Taylor have made the obvious point that Washington skipped while measuring floor space: detainees drink water, toilets flush, kitchens run, showers drain, and small-town pipes don’t magically triple”
Quite so. This was the well-known problem with Commercial Real Estate as well. The Feds may have plans to move in portable Army devices to cope, but that would need to be said and done well. Particularly the sewage hitting the nearby plant is hard to overcome. With “Money” they just truck it off, and/or pay (blank check) for a improved, enlarged plant.
“Democrats Refuse To Even Talk To the American People Anymore (Derek Hunter)
Sure they do. They say Orange Man Orange Man Orange Man Orange Man Orange Man Orange Man Orange Man Orange Man Orange Man Orange Man Orange Man Orange Man Orange Man Orange Man Orange Man Orange Man And the American people are pretty tired of it. He sucks, we get it. What is YOUR plan to do about it? (Crickets) I mean worldwide global communism and another 150M dead, but we tried that.
They want a return to the 1990s or Obama, when the US workers were being most liquidated and destroyed, and (White) PMCs and Federal Government was most rich and could drive a tank into your ranch and light it on fire. Fallacy of Appeal to Status Quo. Their solution? More government. More lockdowns. Fewer jobs, “Those jobs – they ain’t coming back!” “Do you think I have a magic wand” called “tariffs” or something?
“Todd Blanche appears to be a step up from Pam Bondi.”
It was said that Bondi was organizing the place, letting them find the moles. She was probably put in on a horse trade, a deal. I have no idea if this is true or not, but.
“We have multiple investigations going on in Arizona, in Fulton County Georgia,”Mostly everywhere, but these turned out to be the sloppiest actors leaving the most evidence. We don’t need to prove it everywhere.
“That famed car industry sure went down fast.
• Mercedes Willing to Enter Military Production Sector (CTH)Worse than that, they handed over the Engineers to the Financial people, the casino, the extraction back in 2000, coinciding with the EU, an entirely extractive structure and principle. So the 1960s-2000s Mercedes were considered the best in the world without question. Then they both cheapened out, stopped being engineering marvels and simply became pointlessly more complicated and expensive, until today they look and act the same as a Kia, and indeed many Hyundai’s look both better styling, but more substantial and grand, while not even being worse cars.
That’s all a different choice. Yes, that’s watering down of inflation that’s so hard to avoid, but ALSO emission, but ALSO regulation, but also, and mostly, losing your way completely. I wouldn’t take a new Mercedes if you gave it to me, I’d sell it immediately and buy a real car, and it takes a lot to come back from that.
Military equipment doesn’t share that problem, because it has to WORK. Yes, they suck and steal money, but there’s an “Or Else” and you can’t avoid being burned and having the hammer fall if your jeeps and tanks fail and your side loses. They’re REAL, no longer financial or symbolic.
And is all has to do with if you have Real, and Sound money, or Symbolic and Fake money, and financialization. Oddly.
“San Antonio was occupied twice in one year. Every Texan understood that controlling who crossed the Rio Grande was a matter of life and death.
When statehood was on the table in 1845, Texans knew exactly what type of Union they were joining.”And so upcoming in Calgary.
Just listened to Nolan Bauerle who seems a very smart cat. Worked with Harper before Black Pilling out of all Canada, but focuses in this podcast on Quebec, which like I said last week is already its own nation, independent of Canada. They just get up, park some police at the border, and would be ready to go. And will. I hadn’t realized they’re also far more wealthy than Ontario, having even a sovereign fund, as Ontario makes so much more pointless noise and is the home of the Empire and Oligarchs, the “Laurentians” they call them for like 100 years now.
Other points: The whole POINT of Canada, which I never thought of, was to make East-West connections, not North-South. North-South, Canada gets absorbed by the U.S. But then 7 PMs ignore EVERY East-West infrastructure, no rails, no pipelines, no commerce, trying to destroy ALL of it, North, South, East, And West. That’s what Canada IS. But no connections from say N.S. to Ottawa, of Montreal to Edmonton, Edmonton to B.C.? Corporate, commercial, social, highways, nothing? Too late now. To hold off secession they would need like N.B. to feel like they haven’t been abandoned by everyone, or that Q.C. isn’t already an enclave, or the Alberta isn’t a tax cow, the richest oil nation on earth, held down and extracted by Ottawa and Ontario who have only just importing 5 million Indian soldiers to “eat their substance” and point against them.
And so on. He did say there is no appetite for statehood in Alberta, which is fine, but they’ll need an army day of, so there’s really no choice but the U.S. in some form. Territory is easiest, but sign whatever, it’s the reality that matters.
“• Sadiq Khan: Claims London Devolving Into A Sh*thole Is Just AI Driven (MN)
RussiaRussiaRussia. What can you say? Again, Russia is the most powerful state in the universe, the one Britain is entirely helpless before. Russia controls everything, everywhere, all media, and all elections. Russiaphrenia. Amazing.
“Knife crime: +27%
Robbery: +57%
Theft from the person: +37%
Shoplifting: +109%
Sexual offences: +64%Who knew that importing people from nations with high violence, knife crime, theft, and radically different sexual mores would cause violence, crime, stabbings, theft, and sexual offenses? I never heard the like. And this is with that imported population being diluted in the stats, with ten thousand cases of not-reporting, or refusing to report ethnicity.
“Mayor of London Sadiq Khan wants to CRACKDOWN!” Ohhh! That sound promising!
“On social media posts,” on YOU. Oh, that figures. We were actually looking for less rapists? Is that on the agenda anywhere? A: No. MORE, actually.
““The bloc must drop its unanimity principle and forge a new core group for decision making, Josep Borrell has said..”There’s only one other principle than that: DO WHAT YOU’RE TOLD. Now we’ve seen what you’re capable of even under the OLD rules, and you think they’ll give you more power? Unlimited power?
“This translates to around $340,000 for every citizen,”
We’ve got them beat: we OWE $340,000, even $1M per U.S. citizen. We’re #1!
In a practical sense, how would you know a kid could carve anything at all at age 12, or 20, or 22? Where’s your proof and confidence to hand him a several thousand dollar blank of perfect marble?
More good news: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67EApBM8hUI
Fixing the extinct Aral Sea in one move. 7 years. No central help, naturally everyone refused and left it to the locals to defy and buck them, swooping in later for credit. Guess I don’t care if it gets done, but take a note: governments kill things, not fix them. Same as the reforestation yesterday. Scotland had 400 years and did nothing, made it worse. One man raised money and fixed it in one lifetime.
Guess we should all give up, Black Pill, and sit on the couch.
Entries by DrD and JohnDay yesterday were special.
DrD brings an observation from Tom Luongos comunity. I still dont care if Iran gets a bomb. Now I see that is just an excuse. I want to see where that uranium came from.
https://www.forensicchem.com/posts/catching-nuclear-smugglers-how-atomic-fingerprints-expose-crimeJohnDay brings an observation by Eleni. The world of elites is run by competing crime families. Apparently 4 main families at the top. God knows how many sub families. They cant out compete each other because they will get kneecapped. While not killing babies is at the top of my list. I bet its not even on any of their radars.
Repeating the link
https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/competing-for-less-pieAnd my own observation. On epidemic and mRNA. The more variety of mRNA you accept, the less responsive your immune system becomes. Just covid was never the plan. The plan is mRNA after mRNA. Hantavirus and Ebola next. And they get relatively deadlier and deadlier as your immune system is neutered. This is why they want it endemic in the environment.
Jamie Dimon, money and bullshit speak in unanimity. A man clearly an expert on foreign relations who has not uttered a word about the profitable human trafficking industry or the now forgotten Epstein fiasco. and a gentile so you can be sure the man is trustworthy
Todd Blanche-
““We’re finding out some incredibly troubling things, and at some point at the right time, that will be made public,……”and the same organizations that manufactured one hoax are incapable of manufacturing a second.
and there never was a Church Committee.
and J. Egdar Hoover will be nominated for sainthood“at some point at the right time”
the world can hope that Iran will soon have John Bolton in custody for his role in crimes against humanity and state sponsored terror.
there are rumors of the homeless in the USA sitting around campfires roasting marshmallows and singing Kumbaya on their chosen streets of residence in The Shining Cities
Running scared
Laying low, seeking out the poorer quarters
Where the ragged people go
Looking for the places only they would know – Simon
But the fighter still remainssomething that never seems to be learned – “….and then they came for me”
The Barfomatic Trump,
The Zionasty Dump,
The Protofascist Pump,
The Intellectic Schlump.may god have mercy..
@JohnDay
Which view is more realistic?
Which view applies to elites in power?
What perspective might apply to elites out of power?
How badly will it all break before it is worth trying to rebuild?
I’ve lived a good life. I still have projects, and I hope to be of use to kids and grandkids, but I can’t be of any real use to our “owners”, my “betters”.
They may get rid of me, but I’m watching for it…I’ve got a pretty actively vivid imagination but even with the pedal to the metal I can’t imagine our masters taking enough interest in my doin’s to bother with getting rid of me (except as just another name on the unwritten casualties list of collateral damage.)
Since that’s the case I figure that I can do the most beneficially disruptive (to their nefarious plans) thing that I can possibly imagine.
It’s the same thing you’re doing, I’m pretty sure, which is to dig up as much truth that I can get my hands on and then telling everybody else about them, as best I can.
The basic finance model is to acquire stuff (by buying it with money) when the stuff is cheap, and then selling the stuff off (for money) when the stuff is expensive. It’s pretty much fail-safe for as long as money has value and stuff exists. You’ll “make money” every time you do it, so the more often you do it then the faster you get rich.
The richer you get then the more likely you are to get the idea that “making money” sure beats working, and that it’s okay to do it because, lets face it, you really are so much better than the people you’re stealing from.
Eventually it is highly likely that with the continuation of that profiteering attitude the money maker will observe that there are just too damned many useless and annoying people around to suit their taste, and at that point they start getting rid of them, and they use money making to do it.
Operation Warp Speed Success!
Prep Act Still Protecting!
Washington DC is a system of self-absorbed stakeholders who use isolating silos to preserve their interests. Within the game everything has a political currency, including leverage and information – and everyone wants proprietary credit for their inventory. Washington DC is a narcissist’s playground.
You’re just pretending that you knew, (the secrets), but had to keep silent.
🚨BREAKING:🚨FBI EXECUTES SEARCH WARRANT AT CALIFORNIA HOME OF ADAM SCHIFF – The FBI has reportedly quietly executed a search warrant at the home of DISGRACED Democrat US Senator Adam Schiff of California this morning, allegedly SEIZING A TREASURE TROVE OF TOP SECRET CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS AND MATERIALS related to its MASSIVE ONGOING RUSSIAGATE INVESTIGATION, of which Schiff is said to be one of the key targets and subjects for the role that he played in this COUP ATTEMPT against President Trump. Schiff and his wife are said to have been home at the time in which the search was conducted – and multiple sources are reporting that the Senator is VERY LIKELY facing charges for SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY AND SERIOUS VIOLATIONS OF THE ESPIONAGE ACT – which could potentially land him in federal prison for the rest of his life. What are YOUR THOUGHTS on this MAJOR BREAKING STORY… Are YOU ready to FINALLY see Schifty Schiff face justice for this TREASONOUS CONSPIRACY against President Trump and the 80+ million of us who voted for him?
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Supply and Demand
Once inventories run thin, prices need to do the hard work: rising high enough to curb demand back in line with available supply.
————-EVEN if it cannot be proven in court
It’s the same thing you’re doing, I’m pretty sure, which is to dig up as much truth that I can get my hands on and then telling everybody else about them, as best I can.————–
Here, here’s today’s OWS BONE RATTLE: https://news.google.com/search?q=diagnosed+when:2d&hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US:en
Russia’s Massive Retaliatory Strike
New Missile Tested? What was it? Multiple warhead!
Iran Crisis & Oil Shock
MS 2026.05.18
———–@Dr. D re:
View to the Amalfi Coast c1860
Believe this is a real place that still exists. I think I saw it on TV sometime. Bond film? Show on Italian houses?
IIRC, Cary Grant in Charade and Humphrey Bogart in Beat The Devil are two samples.
Obama Isis, Reagan Taliban
never forget, (impossible?) Ronnie and Tip were best buddies. Now there is some bipartisan nostaglia. As they say in NASCAR, back in the day, when the Republican’s, Democrats and CIA were in solidarity.
Morning in America turned into a nightmare for Mr. Carter. Mr. Carter was a Democrat so he created all of the problems he faced for himself. As Democrats are wont to do.
Can anyone remember what happened in Paraguay in 1948? Here’s a hint, The United States of The United Fruit Company
The question of the day is, Whose Ox Is Being Gored
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Donald Chuancey Gardener TrumpLooking The Other Way
the most valuable commodity in The US Congressthere is a point where naivete’ crosses the line into wilful ignorance
also known as a national security secretactually, it was the carter administration that started arming the mujahideen in afghanistan.
AND
a big part of today’s headaches are because of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Doctrine
(carter = war)
why is the cracker opposed to national security secrets?
When someone has my checkbook i want to know where he is shopping.Something to think about that could lead to ending the wars
May 18, 2026
War On Iran: – Trump’s Stock Investments May Hold Him BackAs long as Trump is politically (through the bond market) and personally (through stocks) bound to rising markets he will likely avoid anything that might lead to a large tumble of bond and stock values or even a crash.
Another big attack on Iran, and Iran’s inevitable retaliation, would likely lead to a market crash and sever personal losses for Trump.
That may well be the one and only thing that is holding him back.
A congressional report about Operation Epic Fury says that so far, the US military has reported “42 fixed-wing or rotary-wing aircraft, including uncrewed aircraft (i.e., drones), reportedly lost or damaged in OEF,” but this number is “according to news reports and statements by DOD and U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM)” and may be a different number due to the information being classified. “The number of aircraft damaged or destroyed may remain subject to revision due to multiple factors, which may include classification…”
Israel’s ‘War to the Root’ May Unravel America
Both Trump’s Iran war and the closely connected Israeli war for Jewish hegemony across the Middle East are unravelling fast.Both Trump’s Iran war and the closely connected Israeli war for Jewish hegemony across the Middle East (termed ‘Permanent Security’ in Israeli military vernacular) are unravelling fast.
Iran is standing defiant in the face of Trump and Israel’s threats, leaving Trump gambling the entire U.S. economy and its global strategic standing on conjuring up a decisive ‘win’ over Iran — however deceitful and Pyrrhic that ‘win’ might prove to be.
Trump has now arrived for the summit in China (reportedly with little groundwork preparation ahead of the visit). Possibly he relies on his usual hubristic notion — that China needs the U.S. more than the U.S. needs China — and he will tell Beijing that ‘you (Xi) have to instruct Iran’ that time is moving on, and that it should capitulate to the U.S..
Well that’s not going to happen. China supports Iran’s fight for sovereignty and shares with Russia the Iranian objective of seeing the U.S. gone from the Middle East. They want instead a Gulf-led security architecture to replace the American one. Moscow concurs.
Maybe Xi — in politest of language, of course — will tell Trump, rather, that it is Washington that should concede to Iran. The longer he delays, the harder any U.S. course correction will prove to be.
In any event, despite the innate Trumpian hubris, the U.S. President arrives in Beijing bereft of ‘big wins’ (if Venezuela is counted as a gimmick, rather than a strategic victory). Contrarily and more significantly, Beijing understands that the U.S. hovers at the brink of an economic inflationary catastrophe, whereas China largely is insulated from the coming global energy shock and is in price deflation, rather than experiencing inflation.
Put bluntly, there is almost nothing that Xi wants from the U.S., but in the interests of harmony, they may buy some soya beans (to save U.S. farmers) and perhaps some airplanes. (Even though soya beans are not really required by China which has been purchasing them easily from Brazil).
Trump has taken with him to China an entourage of U.S. oligarchs — presumably in the expectation that China will give him business valued in several ‘billions’; but China’s response may be somewhat scant. They are angry, reportedly, at the games the U.S. Treasury Secretary has been playing with sanctions on Chinese firms, the seizure of Chinese oil tankers, and the obvious attempt by Trump to squeeze China out from the Western Hemisphere.
What looms in the backdrop however, is darker: America’s collapsing standing as the unipolar hegemon — and the consequential global instability. The Iran war has provided the world with an object lesson of a major world power stuck in a conceptual rut from the Cold War era. One that refused to see the writing on the wall of a tectonic change that required it to ‘move on’ from its ‘end of history’ complacency, though all the signs of a shift to another ‘way of war’ had been present since early this century.
The turning point came with the abundance of cheap and easily available tech components.
The U.S., as the Cold War began, chose a strategy of outspending the USSR – by going for high-end, high-cost weaponry – with a main focus being on air-power and mass aerial bombardment.
That approach, at the time, had seemed justified by the subsequent Soviet implosion. This collapse was presumed to have been triggered by the American maximal spend that had over-stretched the USSR (though the collapse is now well understood to have been more a matter of a more complex internal corrosion from within).
The paradigm of western reliance on a preponderance of air power delivered by hugely expensive airframes has been blown apart and demonstrated to be ineffective by Iran’s asymmetric missile and naval warfare using weapons costing a few hundred dollars versus U.S. defence interceptors costing tens of millions.
The entire world can see the main lessons emerging from the Iran war: Firstly, that the western defence posture is as outdated as the dodo. The Establishment fell asleep, believing that the ever more billions of dollars ploughed into the Military Industrial Complex would give the U.S. a military edge that crucially would also provide the underpinning to its dollar hegemony to print more money for more weapons.
In practice however, it yielded massive corporate corruption and functionally poor, yet hugely expensive, armaments.
Of course, it is horses for courses — but up against more revolutionary adversaries, it is the latter who are out-innovating and out-manoeuvring western powers. All can see it, and are already adjusting.
China can see how small, fleeter Iranian naval assets ran rings around the large lumbering naval vessels of the U.S. Navy. The lessons naturally will be applied to Taiwan, should the U.S. seek to exert naval pressure on China in the Taiwan context.
Russia too will have noticed how a carefully graduated and selectively targeted missile offensive provided Iran with deterrence vis-à-vis Israel. Moscow likely will be thinking in these terms in respect to missiles of British, French and German origin that have been striking deep into Russia, whilst using NATO airspace and intelligence facilitation.
The accelerating global perception of the U.S.’ decline however, rests on more than just its failure to adapt to Iran’s asymmetrical war. More significant even than the sense of cognitive dissonance reigning in the White House is the perception that Trump is a full partner to Israel’s predations across the region.
The U.S. bequeathed Israel the same doctrine of air war dominance, underpinned by ultra expensive U.S. air frames that were intended to give Israel a ‘qualitative edge’ in maintaining its regional primacy. Israel’s failure in Iran, of its flailing conflict with Hizbullah, and of the unfinished war in Gaza, are the evidence of the failure of the approach — not of success.
It is worth noting that before the Israeli shift toward the U.S. ‘way of war’, the founder of the Israeli state and its first PM, Ben Gurion’s defence doctrine for Israel was different.
Ben Gurion emphasised that Israel was geographically a small state; with a small population and limited economic resources. In such circumstances, it would not be able to afford a large standing professional army. It would need a small professional army, supported when necessary by a large cadre of reservists.
Ben Gurion grounded his argument on the need for Israel to have, as well as a defence force, a strong economy to provide for the community and the state — all of which reinforced the need for a small army. He also assumed the Clausewitzian stance that ‘war is the continuation of politics by other means’ and not an end in itself, but a part of the political game.
In Israel, since 7 October 2023 however, as Israel military strategist Colonel Udi Evental, in a series of posts, has underlined – “the link between politics and war reversed itself by 180 degrees [since Ben Gurion’s time]”.
“Peace has vanished from the lexicon and become a term for weakness ahead of Election Day. The prime minister and his coalition, each for their own reasons, are digging in their heels in the hope that Trump will allow them to return to war in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran, in order to continue “striking,” “destroying,” and “crushing”.
“The threshold of paranoia was crossed on 7 October”. Professor Omer Bartov has said “that Hamas’s attack, framed as a Holocaust-like act … gradually [became] the glue binding Israeli society. A historical event transformed into an imminent threat: Hamas are Nazis. [And] criticizing Israel’s [military responses] is antisemitic”.
Bartov argues that 7 October caused Israelis to understand the Holocaust not just as something that happened in the past, but as “something always at the threshold; that here will be another Holocaust if [Israel] doesn’t meet every threat with full force and destroy it at the root”.
Israeli professor Professor Idan Landau elaborates that by adopting a stance of ‘Permanent War’,
“there is no end game; the Enemy is an undifferentiated mass of [various] Guises of Amalek. The Gaza genocide has set a shocking new standard of indifference to civilian casualties: All targets are criminalized by association to your favourite Amalek (currently the IRGC), and we stopped bothering about substantiating this association with actual facts; declaring it so – makes it so”.
“Within Israeli security thinking, there has always been a latent current seeking to expand Israel’s security borders. To a large extent, the pre-emptive approach is an operational expression of this concept. Thus, a security-ideological coalition has now emerged in Israel, which utilises a defensive-preventive narrative to realise a messianic agenda of ‘Greater Israel’”, Col. Evantal explains.
This frank account of Israel’s current policy lies at the heart of the greater catastrophe facing America — one extending well beyond the reputational loss from a botched, war of deliberate choice against Iran:
For Trump has partnered and closely associated the U.S. with a genocidal and ultimately messianic Israeli-formulated ‘way of war’ to destroy Iran and the Resistance, and to consolidate the Israeli government’s ambition to displace or ‘destroy at root’ native populations. Its perpetration disgusts the ‘world majority’. This represents the greater cloud looming over America’s global reputation. Trump is responsible. ‘Permanent war’ is a form of war crime.
Netanyahu, in recent days, told 60 Minutes that the (permanent) war is not over, and that it must continue:
“I think [we] accomplished a great deal, but it’s not over because there’s still nuclear material, enriched Uranium that has to be taken out of Iran. There are still enrichment sites that need to be dismantled, there are still proxies that Iran supports, ballistic missiles they still want to produce. Now we’ve degraded a lot of it, but all that is still there and there’s work to be done”.
He doesn’t care.
Netanyahu doesn’t care for the consequences for the U.S. economy (apparently neither does Trump), nor for the political instability in the U.S. that may result. He does not care either, for the Gulf States that will suffer and perhaps be destroyed if the U.S. resumes the war in a massive way.
He cares only for a Hebraic hegemony (and his political survival) — even if (Gentile) America pays the burden of reputational and economic price.
The posts by Colonel Evental went viral in the Hebrew-speaking sphere. Evantal argues that the only way to save Israel is to return to the Ben Gurion original formula — Israel must live within its borders and must understand that military action should be adjunct to finding political solutions.
The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Strategic Culture Foundation
Who is listening?
Nobody that is deciding the next move.
If they were, there would be peace.“Operation Cyclone was a CIA program during the Reagan administration that provided funding and weapons to the Afghan mujahideen to resist the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan” same source
for the minimum wage worker in a commuting society the price of a single commodity is not the question. What is the price of a basket of goods? How does the price of that single commodity affect that workers child when the basket of goods is considered?
“Today I see more clearly than yesterday that the back of the problem of race and color lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it: and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance, and disease of the majority of their fellow men.” ~ W. E. B. Du Bois
to live in comfort
need not cost
the majority of their fellow men
poverty, ignorance, and diseaseI think it is poor governance
City of London/Globalists:
Nice to see that the City of London’s views of the world, are being presented to us on big plates, daily at TAE!
Even miss Lindsey Grahan’s pushing of City of London’s demand for moar war!
Everything is so more peaceful, when we obey what the City of London demands!
Afterall war = peace!
Trump pays tribute to the Temple of Heaven
If all of us are magnanimous enough, we might infer that Xi and Trump agreed on a three-year stability framework.Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su
SHANGHAI – The headline on the front page of China Daily this past Thursday was a thunder and lightning “Red-carpet welcome for Trump in Beijing”.
Well, complete with electric jumpin’ children waving flowers and a visit to the Temple of Heaven, built in 1420, symbolizing the connection between heaven and humanity.
Youth meet tradition. The generation that will lead fully modernized China meets deep History. A dazed and confused POTUS could barely absorb a running masterclass in civilization.
Xi Dada was proverbially sharp: “We should be partners, not rivals.” The Exceptionals were stunned. All that after the non-stop litany of trade wars, tech sanctions, non-stop Taiwan hysteria, military encirclement, geoconomic confrontation, anti-China rhetoric.
Cool down. Be cool.
Oh, the twists and turns of the most important bilateral relation on the planet. Even as both economies are quite intertwined, bilateral trade in goods reached 4.01 trillion yuan ($590 million) in 2025. In global terms, that’s not exactly groundbreaking: only 8.8% of China’s total foreign trade.
At the state banquet, Xi’s sharp rhetorical dagger performed the feat of uniting MAGA and the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation:
“The people of China and the United States are both great peoples, achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, and making America great again, can go hand in hand.”
The barbarians were puzzled. Again.
Then Xi explained where we are, concisely. It took only one sentence:
“The transformation not seen in a century is accelerating across the globe, and the international situation is fluid and turbulent.”
Compare it to when he first referred to the “transformation”, in public, for a global audience: right after the meeting with Putin in the Kremlin in the Spring of 2023.
And then Xi immediately asked: “Can China and the United States overcome the Thucydides Trap and create a new paradigm of major-country relations?”
As much as the Thucydides Trap is yet another feeble US ThinkTankland concoction – the best analysts of Thucydides are Greeks and Italians, not the Beltway gang – Xi’s metaphor was actually stressing that China, now, is the leader of the new emerging order.
And it got here without firing a shot.
That “constructive strategic stability”
Xi then deployed his new vision for US-China relations – at least for the next 3 years – via a quite startling slogan: “constructive strategic stability” (italics mine).
Yet that presents three serious problems.
The Empire of Chaos is not constructive: it’s destructive.
It’s not strategic: at best it’s crudely tactical, tactics changing all the time.
And it’s not about stability: it’s about instilling and deploying chaos, alongside lies, plunder and, as we see in Venezuela and especially Iran, piracy.
So Xi, rationally, cannot possibly expect “cooperation” from the Empire as “the mainstay” of the relationship, much less “healthy stability with competition within proper limits.”
If all of us are magnanimous enough, we might infer that Xi and Trump agreed on a three-year stability framework which should be interpreted as a structural reset – featuring cooperation first, then managed competition, and predictable peace as the end result.
Well, never forget we are dealing, in the immortal definition of Grandmaster Lavrov, with a “non-agreement capable” US.
And of course there’s the “Taiwan question”. Xi at his sharpest: “’Taiwan independence’ and cross-Strait peace are as irreconcilable as fire and water”. The Americans must exercise “extra caution” in “handling the Taiwan question”.
Xi called it “the most important issue in China-US relations”. For Beijing, this is the ultimate red line. Team Trump may still not understand the stakes. Taiwan is the variable with the potential to reset the whole, optimistic three-year “peaceful” equation to zero.
And incidentally, American MSM spin that Xi traded non-interference by the US in Taiwan for “helping” the US in Iran is absolutely ridiculous. China and Iran have an all-evolving strategic partnership.
While all that was proceeding in Beijing, I had the pleasure of spending a long geopolitical lunch in Shanghai with the remarkable Li Bo, the general director of Guancha, the number one independent media in China, with at least 120 million daily followers.
Among other nuggets, Li Bo explained that Taiwan is not a problem for Beijing: it’s an internal matter that will be solved peacefully. The real problem is the rearming of Japan, especially now when under the frankly militaristic Sanae Takaichi administration.
Now for the real VIPs in the Trump-Xi show. After all the “evil empire” craze, the decoupling hysteria, the de-risking paranoia, the sanctions tsunami, the tariff tsunami, the war rhetoric, we have an oligarchic bunch with a collective market capitalization of over $10 trillion flying to Beijing to literally beg Xi Jinping, in person, for…deals.
Trump was estatic: “I wanted the number one from each empire! Jensen Huang, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, and the other titans… the best in the world are here, right in front of you.”
Then, the clincher: “They’re here today to pay respect to you and to China. They come hungry to do business, invest, and create. From our side, it’ll be 100% reciprocal.”
The “indispensable” nation paying tribute to the real 21st century geoeconomic empire. History will have a ball with it.
The keys to the new Temple of Heaven
Tesla, Apple, Boeing, GE Aerospace, everyone may desperately need China’s rare earths: China controls nearly 99% of the global processing capacity for rare-earth minerals. Yet China, structurally, and increasingly, does not need these American behemoths.
The combined revenue exposure to China across the top 12 companies represented by their CEOs on this trip is over $300 billion a year.
Musk needs to keep building Teslas – the Gigafactory, his primary export hub, is outside of Shanghai – without a 100% tariff. Jensen Huang needs chip export licenses so Nvidia may sell into this immense AI market (but China doesn’t need Nvidia anymore). Tim Cook needs Apple’s $70 billion China supply chain to remain steady.
The real problem is BlackRock’s Larry Fink avid for Chinese financial markets to “open up” for extra Wall Street profits (Li Bo told me at best the Chinese will let them open a little office in Hainan island…) Fink, moreover, is the actual new leader of the Davos gang, directly responsible for the funding of AI surveillance data centers all over the US.
The White House readout was beaming on “expanding market access for US businesses into China and increasing Chinese investment into US industries”; “increasing Chinese purchases of US agricultural products”; and Xi expressing “interest in purchasing more US oil”.
Yet there’s not a single word about any “trade discussions” coming from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce.
So in theory we had this trillionaire CEO party eager to “open up” China for American business/trade. Business in Shanghai was definitely not impressed. After all China is actively building its own independence – it’s all enshrined in the targets of the new Five-Year Plan – while the US, via these trillionaire CEOs, essentially demonstrated the formalization of its own dependence.
While all this sound and fury was going on in Beijing, the Foreign Ministers of Russia, China (not Wang Yi, he remained in Beijing side by side with Xi), India and, crucially, Iran, and others, were in New Delhi for a very important BRICS summit focused on what Moscow defined as reforming the system of “global governance” with a predominant role for the Global South.
BRICS may be in a coma. But if there’s anyone capable of resurrecting it, it’s Grandmaster Lavrov and Russia, side by side with China and emerging global power Iran. Once again: it’s the new Primakov triangle, RIC (Russia-India-China) which will find the real keys to open a new Temple of Heaven.
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