Debt Rattle November 13 2026
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November 13, 2026 at 9:55 am #255604
Raúl Ilargi Meijer
KeymasterClaude Monet Boulevard des Capucines 1873 • It Was A Coup (Amil Imani) • Jensen Huang Had to Go. The Real Question Is: Cui Bono? (Stephen Green) • Tex
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle November 13 2026]November 13, 2026 at 11:36 am #255622Dr. D
ParticipantHegseth Awards Medal To Soldier Who Reprimanded His Entourage At Tomb Of The Unknown Soldier”
Happy endings. Correct thing to do. Hegseth should have known his place like a soldier but what can you do?
“ I strongly suspect that 2025 was indeed the highest point on the global oil and gas curve, and after a few more years of limping along a depletion induced decline will very likely set in.” _Sorcerer
This is literally impossible, we just opened Venezuela and Iran is immediately behind. Canada is locked up entirely and will not be forever. Russia is barely trying. Sudan can’t be got into. There MAY be a Peak Oil in the future. …But not with all the known districts being locked up and not drilled. Eg, ANWR. There is ENDLESS oil. 50-100 years known, immediately available. There’s no shortage even now.
“ Donald Trump spent Sunday and Monday proving he is a genius.”
Larry Johnson admits Trump is a genius. It’ll macro this quote as #38. Thanks, Larry! He’s actually not a genius at all, but he’s a lot smarter than you. No? Well Larry admits he’s a talented and consummate politician then. I’ll keep it at #38, maybe post this every day for a month.
“Trump after meeting with Qatari PM says he believes war with Iran is militarily ‘effectively over
Yes, they ran out of targets in the first 40 days.
“What Could The Eurasian Order Look Like If Trump Cuts A Series Of Deals To Save MAGA?So putting America first is a bad thing now, Korybo says. Just checking. Korybo is sooper sad America is ending Empire and demands we continue it. Sorry Andrew! If you wanted that, vote Democrat. All the other non-citizens did.
“Democratic Senator Says ‘Beauty’ Of Ukraine War Is Paying Ukrainians To Kill Russians”
Yup. And also gave Iran cash money so they could build a nuke and not be tracked.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HH1krtO5uGU News Expose, Medicare
How will we balance the budget tho? Why is health care so high in the U.S.?
You see, nobody had any idea this was happening since 2009. Just started Jan 20, 2025.
“Bette Milder can’t afford property taxes in NY even AFTER supporting Mayor Mandani”
Whoodaknewd? How can this happen when you stump for Democratic tax increases for 50 years? Bonus Level: AOC’s mother long since left for Florida taxes. AOC raised them more, since it’s safe now.
Mamdani also says landlords can’t sell. They have to offer to Jacobean [Community Groups] first. Like BLM and Antifa. Whoodaknewd? Shocked face!!
Mamdani, of course is a multi-millionaire from a global multimillionaire family, as is much of his activist staff.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DfYHYbAB2W9
Canada not allowed to pray. Well, SOME Canadians. You heard the joke Russell Brand converted to Islam and they let him go, right? The Real Enemy is God; any objective Reality.
“Dems Eye Bypassing The Electoral College After Swing-State Sweep
How? Am I crazy and that’s a Constitutional Amendment? Oh wait: it’s the law and no one follows that anyway. Carry on, sir! Illegal away!
“WATCH: Henry Nowak’s killer gets reality check on ‘LENIENT’ sentence” Daily Express
Worst case of all for criminals: he embarrassed the government as the incompetent, uncaring racists they are. He must hang.
“Follow The Money: Florida Subpoenas DSA Over Cuban, Chinese Cash Days After Socialist Election Sweep
If something bad has happened, this is grounds for treason. So know your friends. The Clue might have been “Burn it all down” or when they, or teachers unions, actively call for the overthrow of the U.S. government.
“Anti Fascist means “Burn the country down” and “destroy normal people’s livings and/or their persons” as per France where 250 organizations (all Left, AntiFa) commit deadly arsons. This is Helping! Helping them be so desperate, they’ll join up and burn MORE neighbors and national jewels to the ground! I mean, you get rich by burning the nation right? The final Irony is, this is all provably in service and at the direction of billionaires. Antifa is a Oligarch minimum-wage job.
Spain’s Socialist Government-Backed General Strike Ends In Riots, Looting
Duh. “Looting is Communication”. Free Speech!
“The Bank Of Nvidia Just Lost Its Chairman: Mapping Every Circular AI Deal That Now Hangs On Colette Kress
Speaking of China, it appears the AI bubble is being intentionally detonated via Nvidia, Huang. As said, they knew and didn’t tell him, continued on a while. Only the minute of the election let it out.
And in what was known and intentional:
People of Danish origin contributed a net DKK 22,000 each in the first edition, while Danish-born children of MENAPT immigrants ran deeper in the red than their parents, at a net cost of DKK 109,000 (about $16,200) each.”They knew this always, but especially after a fair % of migrants got in (5%?) and kept doing it “To Bankruptcy, and Beyond!!!” So None of them are net contributors. Nor ever were. And every immigrant child is 1:1 citizens, worse than eg Social Security, except that one of them is a direct SLAVE of the other. I work, you leisure. Obv the Leisure Group sees no problem with this.
History will look back on this in several levels of amazement. One, that they would enslave THEMSELVES, but also Fight tooth and nail to keep every injustice. But lastly, to blame the Americans for everything and pretend to be morally superior when this is going on in Europe and the U.S. is one of the only ones ending slavery, eg, deporting Black Haitians, come on ships, to work plantation jobs in meatpacking.
Again: 120% INTENTIONAL. ACTIVELY killing Denmark and every Danish person.
“”Killing People To Benefit Someone”: Slovakia’s Fico “Literally Shocked” After Private Talk With Ukraine’s PM
Same: Literally intentional. Killing millions of Europeans on purpose for no cause. They say “No, the CAUSE is to steal the $600B flowing through the nation.” No. That’s just a bonus. They get to steal AND kill the 2.5 Million (white men) they want to kill as well. Win-Win. They’d kill the 2.5M even if they didn’t make a dime.
“There’s Something Suspicious About The Texas Midterm “Blue Wave”
Trump ignited media outrage when he suggested that some midterm results were fraudulent…in the case of Texas, he might have a point…
He doesn’t need the other states. If he can get legal evidence in Texas – which seems pretty easy – he can stop the election and unseat Congress until we get a good election again. Just strategy, and this would go through the Military.
November 13, 2026 at 12:33 pm #255623Dr. D
ParticipantToday:
Miller Video: See how easy that was? He didn’t even need to hand out a Constitution. And being from Harvard and Columbia, they’ve almost certainly never heard this before. … In which case what were previous Press Secretaries doing?
Biden: “the conspiracy theorists were right again.”Sounds partisan and impossible, however, I don’t see how every part of that isn’t true. For example: he would be sued for libel if a single word is incorrect.
Oh and everyone you meet here still believes every good thing about Fauci and will punch you if you bring it up, or any facts that have come out since 2021. Any single fact. Trust the Science. Which ignores all data for 5 years.
Election Machines, “This argument is compounded by software update procedures executed in the weeks leading up to Election Day.”
This literally happened in the Westchester outage. It couldn’t do “Paper thickness” (???) but why? A: They ran an update AFTER the machines were all legally certified, Tampering with them. On record. No one cares, not in the news.
“The systematic execution across key swing districts forms the complete operational blueprint for what is fundamentally characterized as a bloodless institutional coup. The demand is straightforward: audit these elections thoroughly, transparently, and immediately. If elections cannot be independently verified and guaranteed as legitimate, this one may well be the last.”
This is why the Military has to do it. 1) They are fighting a coup, although of an unusual type. 2) They cannot legally take orders from an illegal, unelected – or questionable – Congress. Same as if Hong Kong landed on two jets and claimed they were the Congress. No. They are not. There are procedures.
“• Texas is not a Red State – It Never Was – Here’s Why (CTH)
I’m down with the concept. In practice they are personality types though. Possibly brain types at birth which are difficult to change. Women are like 80% Blue, because “Giving/Care/Harm” Men are not because they ADD work, death, and justice to the list. Sure, I’d love to give every criminal and even my enemies a break too, for my sake and to gave them options to improve. However, practically, that is not possible. I am not child. I understand things like “Costs”.
“Democrats regulate the training of AI models”
This is actually so you can’t do this at home, which is (suprisingly) easy. Now it’s a moat only the King has. Government = Monopoly. They then dispense these lucrative monopolies to their friends. Nothing happens for 1,000 years as the Baron the Rabelais owns the grist mill which hasn’t been updated since the Romans. Why would he? Everyone suffers, Progress and quality of life is capped.
“ This way congress will control the specific mechanisms of Starlink on behalf of allied international stakeholders who do not have their own space program or capability.”
Cut the s—t. What is he saying? A: Starlink is now owned and run by EUROPE, not even America. “Stakeholders”. Europe DOES nothing, makes nothing, sit around being morally superior as their only export. But when they want to run a GENOCIDE, they command America…etc. This was always the plan and demonstrates that AMERICA is not sovereign either, and Congress are middle-wage employees of Europe and the wealthy.
“Democrats want to repeal President Trump’s tariffs on Canada as a first step in a rollback of his administration’s tariff agenda”
As Stephen Miller, above, no reporter has ever read a Constitution. Congress can indeed do that ONLY IF THE PRESIDENT SIGNS IT. It’s a “Law”, maybe you’ve heard of those?
Schoolhouse Rock. “I’m Just a Bill” 1975
Here you go Paul. Hope it’s not too hard to understand.Same with most others. WE DO NOT HAVE A PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM, you American, Educated, IYI’s (Intelligent Yet Idiots). Trump has, saw this coming, and has all the funding he needs for ICE, Military, to the end of his term from the BBB for exactly this reason. Bye.
“Canada will seek to ease trade frictions with the US after tariff-weary voters rebuked Trump in midterm elections, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said”
No they won’t, And U.S. voters neither noticed or cared about any Canadian actions or tariffs. Ask them.
“Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has mocked US President Donald Trump’s ambitions to acquire Greenland, suggesting that the American leader would benefit from becoming “more Danish.”
Uhhhhh…we have complete control over Greenland and didn’t pay a dollar, and all that is signed and behind us? Whut? And that makes Greenland not a country in the same way Ukraine is not a country. At all.
And Zelensky is not a leader.
“There has been a lot of controversy over whether Musk or someone in the Trump administration ordered the speed restrictions.”
Sure except it’s not Starshield and we solved this mystery two weeks ago. Mr. Reporter.
“Zelensky’s fateful decision was responsible for killing an unthinkable number of Ukrainians over the intervening nearly four years, and if Trump is serious with his claims of wanting to stop the killing, then he can cut Ukraine off to force Zelensky into peace and therefore save the country from him.”1) Ze is not in control of anything. He’s a comedian.
2) they WANT millions of Slavs dead
3) They WANT the war to go on forever.
4) What can Trump cut Ukraine off from that hasn’t been stopped already?
5) EUROPE is the only funder and supplier of Ukraine now.
5a) You know that, why do you specifically choose not to say it?
6) Why is this our fault? Why is it America’s job to save a nation from itself? Isn’t that what they all complained about in Iraq? Or Libya? And right now in Iran?7) Reasons. And none of the reasons discussed are the real ones.
“• Democrats Are Already Drunk With Power (Matt Margolis)
Awesome. Like Hasan Piker and Mamdani and Sayed, give them every microphone and on the front page. Hakeem, I think said he would assault Hegseth on sight in the Capital. He seems to have missed his chance, but that is a specific threat and therefore a felony crime.
“WHILE WASHINGTON WHINES, ELON BUILDS. SpaceX just rolled the Super Heavy booster for Starship’s next flight back out to the launch pad in South Texas.
This is actually why you can’t build things while there are evil demons running it. They will quite obviously use every thing you create for evil, ask any Dr. Frankenstein (1818) to Avengers movies yesterday (Captain America, Winter Soldier being the best). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMQ8d3PjF8E Luckily, the people know this as every petty tyrant will steal every apple off every tree down below, and put us in the Dark Ages Democrats desire for 2,000 years.
Neo. Feudalism. Tech. Nocracy. Plato’s Philosopher kings ruling while killing 25M babies for 1,000 years.
Who is the Good Guy except that we have Free Will?
November 13, 2026 at 12:41 pm #255624Dr. D
Participant“By holding a gun to the world and calling it protection.” — Steve Rogers
“These precision guns can kill 1,000 hostiles a minute. The satellites can read a terrorist DNA before he steps outside his spiderhole”
“I thought the punishment came after the crime.” –Rogers
“We can’t afford to wait that long.” — Fury
“Who is ‘We’?” — Rogers
November 13, 2026 at 1:01 pm #255625John Day
ParticipantNaked Capitalism has the best Jensen Huang forest and trees details I have seen so far. NVIDIA is the new AIG and Huang the new Hank Greenberg, because it became a huge non-banking bank to all the silicon/AI tech companies and Jensen ran the whole thing through is own mind and his own AI assistants, checking every payroll of 41,000 employees every year, for instance.
AIG had lots of int=ertial financial arrangements, but this thing can go south very fast. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/11/jensen-huang-ouster-at-nvidia-bigger-governance-and-coming-financial-train-wreck-than-hank-greenberg-exit-from-aig.htmlNovember 13, 2026 at 1:05 pm #255628Michael Reid
ParticipantWhy the US Can Never Match Chinese Shipbuilding
November 13, 2026 at 1:11 pm #255629Michael Reid
ParticipantWho and What is Behind the Nvidia Coup & the US-China AI Race
Nov 13, 2026
The “spy investigation” was clearly political circus meant to remove Jensen Huang who built Nvidia up from the beginning and specifically because he resisted tightening restrictions on China;Nvidia will now be used as part of the wider “wonder weapon” push the US believes AI will enable, the US thinks will allow it to “beat” China and reassert global primacy;
Claims regarding an “Israeli takeover” are based on social media posts and a single out-of-context quote from Nvidia’s CFO regarding “Israeli executives;”
In reality, Nvidia bought and now controls Israeli-based company Mellanox requiring the CFO to talk to its executives in Israel because of timezones, talks that involve the CFO directing Mellanox which works FOR Nvidia;
Resources:
CNN – Jensen Huang summoned to testify before Congress after resigning as Nvidia CEO (Nov. 13, 2026):
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/11/11/bu…
Nvidia Pressroom – NVIDIA to Acquire Mellanox for $6.9 Billion (2019):
https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nv…
Globes – Trillion dollar woman (2023):
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-tr…November 13, 2026 at 1:58 pm #255630zerosum
Participant… Garbage out
Learn on how to ask questions and evaluate the answers.
A.I. are glorified search engines.
Depending on the questions, they are capable of producing word salads or producing illusive information.
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Ukraine and Word Affairs (includes West Asia): Weekly Update
13th November 2026
Dr. Rob Campbell
https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/ukraine-and-word-affairs-includes
—————Peace after war – Evolving as expected
Imposed Control – will never agree to their terms.
Stockpiles and supply disruption
Enormous borrowings and financing commitments
Crash and recession
A humanitarian crisis
Dysfunctional
—————EU Replaces US At Peace Talks — And The War Gets BIGGER🛡️ 1,198 Drones Intercepted!⚡ MS 2026.11.13
————-November 13, 2026 at 2:05 pm #255631Michael Reid
ParticipantNovember 13, 2026 at 2:31 pm #255632Dr. D
ParticipantGreta laughing herself senseless that Climate Activists are having climate protests:
In the organization and event she founded.
November 13, 2026 at 5:01 pm #255642Michael Reid
ParticipantNovember 13, 2026 at 5:04 pm #255643Michael Reid
ParticipantArmando Mema: Finland Used as New Frontline Against Russia
November 13, 2026 at 5:08 pm #255644Michael Reid
ParticipantIran’s Nuke Submarine BLINDSIDES Trump, Israel FURIOUS | Col. Lawrence Wilkerson & Anthony Aguilar
November 13, 2026 at 5:13 pm #255645Michael Reid
ParticipantUSS Bush in CRISIS: Iran Fires TEN Missiles, US & Israel Move to War | Larry Johnson
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson discusses the major crisis aboard the USS Bush aircraft carrier as the US Navy prepares for a long deployment joined with USS Roosevelt and Washington in a new operation against Iran. Iran has struck back, preemptively attacking US warships and Israel is moving closer to war. Don’t miss this must watch show covering all this and more!
November 13, 2026 at 5:19 pm #255646Michael Reid
ParticipantThey Lied to You! Defense & Security Works Best Without NATO.
November 13, 2026 at 5:26 pm #255647Michael Reid
ParticipantNovember 13, 2026 at 5:35 pm #255648Michael Reid
ParticipantNovember 13, 2026 at 5:48 pm #255656Michael Reid
ParticipantNovember 13, 2026 at 5:50 pm #255657Michael Reid
ParticipantNovember 13, 2026 at 6:03 pm #255658Michael Reid
ParticipantNovember 13, 2026 at 6:41 pm #255660John Day
ParticipantUp In the Air https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/up-in-the-air
The Ukraine War is being pushed to humanitarian crisis as winter approaches, and also funding crisis as European loans become harder to justify and more expensive, with European countries breaking from internal financial stresses. Russia isresolute in demanding a complete European security arrangement, which respects Russian security needs, while Europeans become more fractured in their resolve to pay Ukraine to kidnap men and send them into the meat grinder.
The US seems to support Russia’s side, over EU interests, which stem from a lot of bad loans and investments which European finance cannot afford to recognize. This is the obvious choice in game theory. Declare the winner. Zelensky has now been outside Ukraine for over 14 days, going to European capitals for money, which keeps him alive and the war machine-operational. He cannot, apparently, risk going https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/11/jensen-huang-ouster-at-nvidia-bigger-governance-and-coming-financial-train-wreck-than-hank-greenberg-exit-from-aig.html “home”. It is more likely the daggers he fears than Russian missiles.
The Hormuz war remains in Schrodinger’s box. Is the war over militarily or is the US about to strike Iran with nuclear binker-busters? Will Iran withdraw from the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty? Does the open debate mean they have a deliverable nuclear warhead or two? What distant US and Israeli military assets might Iran strike. We might presume they would blow up the Dimona nuclear reactor if Iran was hit with nuclear weapons, and there are numerous Israeli nuclear weapon caches to hit with hyoersonic missiles. How much of this does Netanyahu need to stay out of jail?
What view does Trump really take of the plight of our Israeli masters? What are the actual military contingencies and assessments? How desperate are “we”?
Jensen Huang resigned from NVIDIA under pressure 2 days ago, announced yesterday, but everything in the company and every deal, negotiation and covert chip sale went through Jensen and his AI assistants, everything, all of it, with no back-up plan, over the whole life of the company. This happened after midterms, though everything has been known and monitored (condoned?) for a year or more. It comes just before Trump meets Xi next week, and as the whole AI bubble wiggles and vibrates. It can be popped. Who might do that? Can the damage be controlled? Whose AI could sort out the derivatives and rehypothecations of assets? Would all the people and retirement companies holding electronic stock “ownership” just be sacrificed to save Bank of America, Goldman and BlackRock?
Can Huang be shoved back into the hole when the dike starts gushing? Will Elon Musk hire him and dominate the market with a new generation of chips?
What about that “BlueTsunami”? Was it rigged? I’d be happier if it wasn’t, but the signs won’t go away, and the republicans are mostly-quietly investigating Texas vote counnting irregularities. Could midterm results be annulled and new elections scheduled? The aggrieved parties are still “in power” until January…I intently watched the Kremlin meeting-video provided by Gilbert Doctorow, President Putin’s meeting with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner today
The atmosphere is visibly cordial. As for President Putin, his words of praise for Trump and the U.S. team are complemented by very frank talk with respect to the Europeans. He notes that the Europeans are insisting that a cease-fire and peace treaty be concluded first, after which consideration can be given to revising the security architecture of Europe. However, it is their intention as soon as hostilities end to send in their own “peacekeepers” to provide for Ukraine’s security. Given the Kremlin’s clear statement that any such foreign armed forces introduced into Ukraine will at once be destroyed by Russia, the formula advanced by the Europeans is a prescription for a new war, not for a durable peace.
President Putin spoke of the shared understanding with Donald Trump that the security for both sides must be assured first in the pan-European context BEFORE a peace with Ukraine can be concluded. He was not contradicted by Trump’s emissaries. This is the real news coming out of the meeting.
Note that from Moscow Kushner and Witkoff are flying to Ireland, where they have a meeting with Zelensky and the Europeans. https://gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p/president-putins-meeting-with-steve Military Summary: There is no possibility of a territorial exchange between Russia and Ukraine, stated Vladimir Medinsky, head of the Russian negotiating group in Abu Dhabi, in an interview with the “Vesti” news agency. According to him, the main goal of the negotiations is to create a new security system in Europe, which will become the new “Yalta” and “Potsdam.” Medinsky also stated that Russia will be satisfied with the results of the negotiations when peace is achieved on its terms. https://x.com/MilitarySummary/status/2120535238757540340
Dima at Military Summary Channel spends the first 10 minutes analyzing the Kremlin meeting, noting an odd statement Kushner made about “Europeans joining trilateral negotiations” as meaning that the US would withdraw as a party. Kushner (blushing) seemed remarkably uptight. He may have just misspoken.
Putin Issues New Ultimatums In The Kremlin - Massive Strike Expected Tonight - MS 12.11.2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNfFXpBLrL0November 13, 2026 at 6:42 pm #255661John Day
ParticipantThe morning after, with results of Ireland meeting not fully disclosed, Military Summary further reviews diplomacy and ground operations. EU Replaces US At Peace Talks — And The War Gets BIGGER 1,198 Drones Intercepted! MS 2026.11.13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl0MBgqosuc
Democratic Senator Says ‘Beauty’ of Ukraine War Is Paying Ukrainians To Kill Russians – Sen. Ruben Gallego said in an earlier post that he ‘hates the fucking Russians’ https://news.antiwar.com/2026/11/10/democratic-senator-says-beauty-of-ukraine-war-is-paying-ukrainians-to-kill-russians/
“Killing People To Benefit Someone”: Slovakia’s Fico “Literally Shocked” After Private Talk With Ukraine’s PM https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/killing-people-benefit-someone-slovakias-fico-literally-shocked-after-private-talk
The lady doctor who exposed the secret Ukrainian torture prison is presumably being tortured in prison now. Kyiv Arrests Whistleblowing Physician https://michaelwalshwriter.com/2026/11/09/kyiv-arrests-whistleblowing-physician/
Andrew Korybko somewhat addresses puppet-Zelensky’s absence from Ukraine, keeping his survival-options open: Zelensky’s Reported Rejection Of An Alleged Early 2023 Peace Deal Is Incriminating
Zelensky fatefully decided to keep fighting in spring 2022 at the cost of an unknown number of Ukrainian lives that’s nevertheless estimated to be significant, but instead of accepting basically the same terms a year later, he thought that he’d get better ones after that summer’s counteroffensive. It ultimately failed, after which he probably could have returned to the aforesaid terms, but he then decided to keep fighting indefinitely despite the military-strategic dynamics having resolutely shifted against Ukraine since then.
So many Ukrainians have died because Zelensky remains deluded with dreams of inflicting a strategic defeat upon Russia, thus resulting in a sunk-cost fallacy that combined with the conflict’s profitability to indefinitely perpetuate it at an unthinkable cost to his country.
If Trump has the political will, then he can cut Ukraine off to force Zelensky into peace and therefore save the country from him, otherwise this will remain a forever war that’ll kill countless more Ukrainians. It’s up to Trump whether that’ll happen. https://korybko.substack.com/p/zelenskys-reported-rejection-of-anNovember 13, 2026 at 6:43 pm #255662John Day
Participant Michael Hudson points out the IMF grasping at straws, saying Ukrainians need to pay more in electric bills, while services are severely interrupted by war, and tens of thousands of people are widely expected to freeze to death very soon. Michael Hudson: Hilarious IMF Demand on Ukraine https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/11/michael-hudson-hilarious-imf-demand-on-ukraine.html
Zero Hedge yesterday (stock still plunging), Jensen Huang Resigns As CEO Of Nvidia, Stock Plunges
Our quick take is that this is a major governance and key-person shock, but not an immediate collapse of the AI chip business.
Huang ran a famously flat organization with dozens of direct reports, had no formal public succession plan, and was the face of NVIDIA’s strategy, lobbying, customer deals, and the broader AI narrative. Markets are now pricing that risk explicitly. Some analysts had already flagged that a forced exit could cost 20-30% in valuation. https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/jensen-huang-resigns-ceo-nvidia-stock-plunges Naked Capitalism has the best broad-accounting, from which I lifted a key aspect. Jensen Huang made all relations and deals go though him.
Jensen Huang Ouster at Nvidia: Bigger Governance and Coming Financial Train Wreck than Hank Greenberg Exit from AIG
To understand why this is a big deal, you need to understand the AI funding loop. Here is how it works:
1. Nvidia puts money into an AI company, or guarantees its loans and leases.
2. That company uses the money and credit to build a data center.
3. The data center is filled with Nvidia GPUs.
4. Nvidia reports those GPU sales as revenue.
5. If the company cannot rent out all its computing power, Nvidia agrees to buy the unused part.
SO NVIDIA IS THE INVESTOR, THE LENDER, THE SUPPLIER AND THE BACKUP CUSTOMER, ALL IN THE SAME DEAL.
The money goes out of Nvidia and comes back to Nvidia as sales.
CoreWeave is the clearest example. Nvidia owns a stake in it, sells it chips, and agreed to buy up to $6.3 billion of its unused computing capacity through 2032.
OpenAI is the biggest. Nvidia is guaranteeing up to $105 billion for its Ohio data center, supplying all the chips inside it, and invested $1.5 billion in the company building it.
Nvidia’s own filing for the quarter ending July 26 shows where the money is tied up:
• Supply commitments for memory and chip wafers: $279 BILLION, up from $119 billion.
• Guarantee on the OpenAI Ohio data center: up to $105 BILLION.
• Deals to buy unused cloud capacity from neoclouds: $36 BILLION.
Nvidia’s actual liabilities on its balance sheet: $91 BILLION.
That means the commitments outside the balance sheet are almost 6 times bigger than the debts on it.
Some even speculate that Huang set up Nvidia to have what amounts to a financial dead hand, similar to Iran’s alleged ability to automagically retaliate on a massive scale in the event of a nuclear attack: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/11/jensen-huang-ouster-at-nvidia-bigger-governance-and-coming-financial-train-wreck-than-hank-greenberg-exit-from-aig.html Jensen’s Fall Clears The Way For A Federal Crackdown…
Four months ago, Jensen Huang was the most powerful voice in Washington arguing that Americans should be allowed to download AI models and run them on their own hardware.
This morning he resigned as Nvidia’s CEO, and he gave up his board seat too. A few hours earlier, The Information reported that Alice Huang (no relation), the former Megaspeed executive whom US intelligence believes was recruited by Beijing, had promised Nvidia chips to DeepSeek, the Chinese lab whose open-weight models have been eating American lunch (and tokens) all year. https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/federal-crackdown-imminent-open-weight-models-under-fire-after-jensen-ouster “Commerce Has The Pen”: Bessent Throws Lutnick Under The Bus Amid Agreement To Testify In Nvidia Spy Scandal
Asked on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” about reported tension between the two over why the Singapore-based Nvidia customer still isn’t on the Entity List, and whether only Commerce could have put it there, Bessent said: “I can tell you there was coordination. Treasury, War, USTR, and State were in favor of putting Megaspeed on the entity list for months.”
“But Commerce has the pen. Commerce BIS has the pen. And you will have to ask them about their internal processes.” https://www.zerohedge.com/political/commerce-has-pen-bessent-throws-lutnick-under-bus-amid-agreement-testify-nvidia-spyNovember 13, 2026 at 6:44 pm #255663John Day
ParticipantChina Says US Using Nvidia Spy Drama To Justify Chip ‘Blockade’ As Jensen’s Future Hanging By Thread
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-says-us-using-nvidia-spy-drama-justify-chip-blockade-jensens-future-hangs-threadBack To The Fax Machine: Microsoft’s Meltdown Exposes The Agentic Economy’s Weakest Link https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/back-fax-machine-microsofts-meltdown-exposes-agentic-economys-weakest-link
Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-11-13
Two things changed since the last digest. Jensen Huang has resigned from Nvidia with immediate effect: Kress is interim CEO, a third affair was reported hours later and the DOJ probes are multiplying.
Trump also closed the Iran deal track, and within hours the US struck Sirik and the IRGC hit a US radar in Bahrain. Gold broke $3,900 to a one-year low, the 10Y is back at 5.11%, and Microsoft’s cloud was still down in places going into Friday the 13th.
Nvidia: Huang resigns, CFO Kress made interim CEO, first-ever board chair named – Huang left as president, CEO and director, effective immediately. CFO Colette Kress is interim CEO and keeps the CFO job. Harvey Jones, a director since 1993, becomes the first-ever board chair (zerohedge, zerohedge, Hedgeye)… WSJ: three months ago Huang called his replacement Kress “a deer in the headlights” (Weimar Treasury)…
..SEC filing: the board accepted the resignation on Nov 11 and disclosed it on Nov 12. No severance payment is disclosed, and the permanent search covers internal and external candidates (Shanaka)
Stock fell more than 10% on the news. ~$750B of market cap is gone since the scandal began per KobeissiLetter, and Nvidia hit a 52-week low below a $4T market cap per Hedgeye…
..Receivables rose $24.6B in six months to $63.1B. Five customers hold 70%, and days sales outstanding (DSO, average days to get paid) rose to 60 from 45 (Shanaka)
Without Huang, the unprofitable customers Nvidia was backstopping lose their lender of last resort (DarioCpx)…
..The spy story is weakening – CNN: the intelligence on Alice Huang doesn’t prove she spied for Beijing. ODNI officials call the label “over-torqued” and the CIA is “not yet convinced” (KobeissiLetter)
David Sacks notes that the AG, CIA, DNI and the incoming House Intel chair all decline to back the spy claim, and calls for a leak investigation (DavidSacks)…
..Washington’s role – The White House is discussing whether to push out Commerce Secretary Lutnick over his handling of China chip exports (unusual_whales, KobeissiLetter, aleabitoreddit)…
..AI money: Anthropic IPO ~6x oversubscribed while neoclouds fall up to 21%; Nvidia’s off-balance-sheet commitments reach $530.5BN…
..Iran: Trump says “we don’t need a deal”; US strikes Sirik, IRGC hits a US radar in Bahrain - Trump on Truth Social: “We don’t need a deal with Iran. Those days have long since passed. We’ve got their money… and we’ve got their Strait!” He told Vance to focus on blue-state “corruption” instead (ApeOfGoldStreet, JenniferJJacobs)
Reported trigger: Iran told Qatar it won’t negotiate on its nuclear programme, and Qatar relayed that to Washington (GEROMAN)
US struck Iranian communications facilities, and Iran hit back at US long-range radars in Bahrain (imetatronink)
IRGC says it hit an early-warning radar in Bahrain in retaliation for the strike on Sirik’s radar. It also says it struck an LNG tanker sailing with AIS off (MenchOsint)
Trump also said he won’t hesitate to use military force against Iran if needed (AlArabiya_Brk)…
..Iran/Hormuz: four tankers hit in a day, an Omani beacon island struck, Israeli cabinet meets Sunday as a third carrier arrives…
..Iran’s Assembly of Experts calls leaving the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) a “national demand” (zerohedge, Nostra)…
..Escalation clock – KAN: Israel’s security cabinet told the IDF to raise readiness for a possible new strike. The cabinet meets Sunday, and Eisenkot urged restraint (MyLordBebo)
CENTCOM reportedly told the IDF to prepare for renewed full-scale war (TeddyGambino)…
..Washington – Democrats are weighing a shutdown fight to defund the war (zerohedge)
NYT: “Iron Gate”, a ~20-person task force set up to tighten the blockade, depends on reluctant neighbours (imetatronink)…
..Saudi-Yemen: Houthis hit East-West pipeline Station 7 and claim a Yanbu strike; Houthi forces push through Lahij toward Bab el-Mandeb…
..Microsoft 365 global outage runs into a second day - The Exchange Online incident began at 16:17 UTC Thursday. Reports reached 74 countries in about an hour and peaked at 19,650/min across five services (downdetector)
Microsoft blames a core process on affected servers that became overwhelmed (nayuengin). Restored servers “can become unresponsive again once they receive traffic” (wmiddelkoop)
Microsoft says the fix is not going “as expected” (BBCWorld). Companies and governments are affected (AP), and Sky reported hundreds of thousands of users still affected on Friday morning (wmiddelkoop)…
..Russia-Ukraine: Kyiv hit by 11 ballistic missiles as Putin calls any European peace force a target; Starshield speed-capped…
..Diplomacy – Putin met Witkoff and Kushner, with Medinsky, Dmitriev and Ushakov present (MilitarySummary). The Kremlin let media film 30 minutes of the meeting (TheLastRefuge2)
Putin: foreign troops sent to Ukraine after a deal would be “legitimate targets” and the war would resume at once (GEROMAN, gerhard_mangott)
Putin proposed a humanitarian mission out of Kostiantynivka: “if Kyiv believes it controls the city, it should ensure security on its side” (MilitarySummary). Samuel Charap reads this as a hardline restatement of Russia’s position on territory (MarkAmesExiled)
Europe at the table; sources disagree: Witkoff, via RIA, says a new three-way round is agreed and European representatives will join (GEROMAN)
The Kremlin “pours cold water” on Europe joining (zerohedge)…
..Meanwhile thousands of European troops are training in Poland for a possible postwar force (zerohedge)…
..Energy: Europe’s gas buffer drains, Germany readies coal and oil plants, Orlen walks away from Qatar LNG https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-11-13 Gold & Geopolitics, Daily digest: 2026-11-12
Overnight, Nvidia went from a spy scandal to a succession crisis. The NYT reported a second affair, this one with a direct report, and the WSJ says the board is preparing to oust Huang, with a search firm already hired.
On Iran, Washington has chosen open-ended economic strangulation over new strikes. Meanwhile Israel’s cabinet ordered the IDF to raise strike readiness, the IRGC claimed two more supertankers and cabinet secretaries moved onto military bases. Abu Dhabi ended with the war’s largest prisoner swap agreed in principle and no movement on territory; Witkoff and Kushner are with Putin today.
..China’s build-cost edge. A 100MW data center in China now costs under $300M excluding IT equipment, about a fifth of the US cost (hsu_steve). China has 40 nuclear reactors under construction; the US has none (zerohedge). https://no1sdailydigest.substack.com/p/daily-digest-2026-11-12 Shanaka, BREAKING: Navy leaders told families of the USS George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group that the ship will not be home for the holidays, according to exclusive audio of a 9th November town hall at Naval Station Norfolk, provided by an attendee and reviewed by MS NOW.
Priya Sridhar, the Pentagon reporter for MS NOW, and Lily Becker reported the meeting in a piece published at 8:38 p.m. Eastern on 11th November. I have not seen a Navy press release confirming that extension. https://x.com/shanaka86/status/2120743030252802396November 13, 2026 at 6:46 pm #255664John Day
Participant Crete, Greece, Diego Garcia… Iran security chief vows to strike US bases in Europe if war restarted – Rezaei also reiterated that not ‘not a single gram’ of enriched uranium will leave Iran’s borders https://thecradle.co/articles/iran-security-chief-vows-to-strike-us-bases-in-europe-if-war-restarted
Assembly of Experts: Powerful Iranian Clerical Body Declares Exiting Nuclear Treaty A ‘National Demand’ https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/powerful-iranian-clerical-body-declares-exiting-nuclear-treaty-national-demand
#Breaking: Leader of the Israeli parliamentary majority and former IDF Chief of Staff @Gadi_Eisenkot sends “Outgoing PM Netanyahu” a letter of stark warming about alleged illegal orders to the military: “Deploying security forces when there is no clear and present, immediate threat could have devastating consequences for Israeli democracy and for citizens’ trust in the institutions of government. Do not put the chiefs of security agencies in a hard constitutional clash or leave them in any doubt about what is required of them and what the correct course of action is.” https://x.com/NTarnopolsky/status/2120568662130094446
Report: US, Israel in Talks To Extend Military Aid Through 2033 Despite Trump Saying It Would End https://israelpalestinenews.org/report-us-israel-in-talks-to-extend-military-aid-through-2033-despite-trump-saying-it-would-end/
Poll: Most Americans, Including Republicans, Want Congress To Pass Legislation To End Iran War https://news.antiwar.com/2026/11/10/poll-most-americans-including-republicans-want-congress-to-pass-legislation-to-end-iran-war/
November 13, 2026 at 6:47 pm #255665John Day
Participant Twelve Senators Call for US-Israel Military Integration To Be Removed from NDAA
The letter, led by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, also calls for the removal of an amendment that would mandate an increase in US intelligence sharing to Israel https://news.antiwar.com/2026/11/11/twelve-senators-call-for-us-israel-military-integration-to-be-removed-from-ndaa/Caitlin Johnstone, Eric Trump’s Humanoid Robots To Be Used In Gaza Genocide https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/eric-trumps-humanoid-robots-to-be
Israeli strike on Gaza’s Nasser Hospital kills surgeon, five others
Attack on hospital in southern Gaza leaves dozens wounded as UN appeals for urgent aid to deal with heavy rains. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/11/israeli-strikes-hit-tent-camp-as-five-killed-in-gaza Israeli attacks have damaged over 16,000 hectares of agricultural and forest land in Lebanon, highlighting the occupation’s long-term environmental consequences. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israel-burned-16-000-hectares-of-land-lebanon-environment-mi
Israel Kills Seven in Gaza, Including a Child, in Attacks That Hit a Shelter https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israel-kills-seven-in-gaza-including-a-child-in-attacks-that-hit-a-shelter/
November 13, 2026 at 6:47 pm #255666John Day
ParticipantIsraeli Forces Kill Palestinian Boy, Detain His Father and Three Medics in Burqa https://www.palestinechronicle.com/israeli-forces-kill-palestinian-boy-detain-his-father-and-three-medics-in-burqa/
Palestinian cancer patient denied chemotherapy after Israeli forces arrest her and daughter https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/11/10/373475/
RAMALLAH, November 10, 2026 (WAFA) – The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs reported that three minor female detainees are currently held in Israeli occupation prisons, out of a total of 90 female detainees. The Commission identified the minor detainees as Nada Odeh, Ola Qatishat, and Rimas Dweikat. https://english-wafa-ps.translate.goog/Pages/Details/176833?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
Israeli Troops Attack Journalists Covering Their Actions in Southwest Syria – Troops establish checkpoints, accost locals in Quneitra
Multiple journalists were covering the incursions from the villages of Bir Ajam and al-Buriqa, in central Quneitra. Israeli troops opened fire on the journalists tracking their activities, sending them scattering. No casualties were reported there.
Some of the journalists, including the one from Shafaq News, reported that they were pursued by the Israeli troops, and that IDF drones were seen overhead tracking their movements. Given Israel’s long-documented history of deliberately attacking and killing journalists, this is shaping up to be a difficult region to cover on the ground, particularly with the IDF increasingly active in the area. https://news.antiwar.com/2026/11/10/israeli-troops-attack-journalists-covering-their-actions-in-southwest-syria/ Israeli forces shell southern Lebanon, target olive harvesters – Israeli forces intensify attacks on southern Lebanon through airstrikes, artillery shelling, demolitions, and measures targeting farmers, in continued ceasefire violations. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/israeli-forces-shell-southern-lebanon-target-olive-harvester
November 13, 2026 at 6:48 pm #255667John Day
ParticipantIsrael to seek bids for 2,167 homes in illegal E1 settlement project: Rights groups
Bidding opens Dec. 1 after home demolitions in Palestinian Bedouin community east of occupied East Jerusalem https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-to-seek-bids-for-2-167-homes-in-illegal-e1-settlement-project-rights-groups/4119604 Israel orders new land seizures across northern West Bank: Commission
Israeli occupiers establish illegal settlement outpost near Hebron as Palestinian groups warn of expanding control over land https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-orders-new-land-seizures-across-northern-west-bank-commission/4119606 Israeli occupiers launch major attack on West Bank village, torch vehicles
Flames spread toward homes as firefighters struggle to contain blaze at scrapyard south of Nablus https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israeli-occupiers-launch-major-attack-on-west-bank-village-torch-vehicles/4119601Different days; different clothes, same genocide: Israeli soldiers are also settlers in West Bank: Al Jazeera investigation https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-soldiers-are-also-settlers-in-west-bank-al-jazeera-investigation/
Israel maintains Gaza naval blockade as 230 Palestinian fishermen killed since start of genocide https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/11/10/373498/
November 13, 2026 at 6:56 pm #255668zerosum
Participant… garbage out …
It’s important to learn how you phrase a question to AI.Can you find claims from this last week of Iran attacking US fleet?
Yes. The claims from the past few days come from today, Friday, November 13, and none of them has been confirmed.
Claim of missiles fired at 10 US ships. Unverified reports say Iranian cruise missiles targeted US warships. Pro-IRGC media claims 10 anti-ship missiles were fired at American ships in the Gulf of Oman. There are also unconfirmed reports of explosions in Sirik, in southern Iran, where IRNA reported an “enemy” strike on a military site. This report comes from a secondary aggregator site. I couldn’t find a CENTCOM response or confirmation from a major outlet, so treat it cautiously.
newsbeep
newsbeepRelated claim about a radar in Bahrain. This one targets a base rather than a ship. The IRGC claimed it destroyed a US early-warning radar on Bahrain, in retaliation for an airstrike on a telecom tower in Sirik. Neither the US military nor Bahrain has confirmed an attack, and there is no independent evidence the radar was damaged. CENTCOM denied the radar was destroyed. It said US forces intercepted two Iranian drones headed for Bahrain. It would be Iran’s first reported attack on US military assets in a Gulf country since early September.
Iran Claims Attack on US Military Radar in Bahrain. Revolutionary Guard Warns of More Strikes
+3The Sirik strike and the Bahrain claim look connected to the warship report, but I haven’t seen a source linking them directly. This is moving quickly, so I’d check CENTCOM’s X account or a major wire service for updates.
November 13, 2026 at 7:00 pm #255669John Day
ParticipantMost Britons see Israel as a ‘serious threat’ to world peace: Survey – 78% say Israel poses serious threat, up from 48% in 2005 https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/most-britons-see-israel-as-a-serious-threat-to-world-peace-survey/4119605
Firms tied to West Bank settlements win $15m UK deals despite sanctions – Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn called the findings ‘outrageous and frankly insulting to the public’.
The United Kingdom awarded 10.7 million pounds ($14.4m) in new public contracts to firms with links to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, despite British government pledges to punish companies that profit from settlement activity, an Al Jazeera investigation reveals.
The contracts were published after the British government announced new powers on September 8 to sanction companies profiting from business with Israeli settlements in the West Bank, which are illegal under international law. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/11/10/firms-tied-to-west-bank-settlements-win-15m-uk-deals-despite-sanctions Japan Provides $1.97 Million Grant to Strengthen Healthcare Response in Gaza
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Government of Japan have signed a grant agreement worth 294 million Japanese yen, equivalent to approximately $1.97 million, aimed at strengthening the healthcare response in the Gaza Strip. The signing ceremony was held in Ramallah. https://www.yaffaps.com/en/page-141634.htmlLavrov: Israel fails to implement Trump’s Gaza plan, rejects Palestinian statehood https://english.palinfo.com/news/2026/11/10/373501/
Reuters Ravaged After Labeling Poland’s Independence Celebration A “Far-Right March” https://www.zerohedge.com/political/reuters-gets-heavily-ratioed-after-labeling-polands-independence-celebration-far-right
November 13, 2026 at 7:01 pm #255670John Day
ParticipantIsrael remains unhappy with Spanish lack of support: Spain’s Socialist Government-Backed General Strike Ends In Riots, Looting https://www.zerohedge.com/political/spains-socialist-government-backed-general-strike-ends-riots-looting
Germany: Half Of All People Convicted In Bavaria Was A Foreigner Last Year https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/germany-1-out-every-2-people-convicted-bavaria-was-foreigner-last-year
Facilitated by agentic AI: “We Have Come To Annihilate You”: Bomb Threats Empty Hundreds Of Schools Across Europe
Last Thursday, as we reported, at least 18 commercial flights in Europe faced bomb threats; an Aer Lingus jet from Dublin to Rome landed at a French military air base, a Finnair flight to Rome was escorted by fighter jets, and no explosives were found.
In Reuters’ telling, the school emails are the latest in a series of threats and cyberattacks across Europe against supermarkets, blood banks, air traffic and broadcasters.
France summoned Iran’s ambassador on Tuesday, accusing Tehran of a cyberattack that disabled refrigerators in hundreds of supermarkets; Iran called the accusation “baseless and hostile.” US agencies have since warned that hackers are going after commercial refrigeration controllers, as we noted. Some European officials suspect Russia of running a disruption campaign against Ukraine’s backers, which Moscow denies.
A national security source told Reuters that “the e-mails are public,” and that sending the alerts “was as easy as drinking a glass of water.” https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/we-have-come-annihilate-you-bomb-threats-empty-hundreds-schools-across-europe Israel? North Korea? Rothschild Bank? Latest bomb hoax disruption hits Europe as alerts sent to schools in Italy, UK and Ireland – The threat came via an email purportedly from “Mikhail Andropov, leader of the Vilayat of Misoginistan”.
“Even though today’s threats are clearly hoaxes, we cannot underestimate the consequences of incidents that alarm entire school communities and disrupt the normal conduct of educational activities.”
The threats come after a series of hoax bomb alerts in recent weeks, including on flights across Europe and cyber attacks on supermarket refrigeration systems in several European countries, including Italy.
Italian foreign minister Antonio Tajani said on Saturday he was being targeted by “cyber criminals” who were sharing his personal data online because of Italy’s support for Ukraine. [What might be the opposite of that?]
The attacks have prompted growing concern in Europe about the possibility of an escalation in hybrid warfare. https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/italy-uk-ireland-school-bomb-hoax/mjuul8ykm Canadian veterans offered euthanasia over care are suing the federal gov’t
An Alberta attorney said she is preparing a class-action lawsuit against the government to address many cases of ‘physically healthy young men asking for help, and the help offered is death.’ https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/canadian-veterans-offered-euthanasia-over-care-are-suing-the-federal-govt/November 13, 2026 at 7:02 pm #255671John Day
ParticipantJessica Rose Ph.D. on the fatal misuse of a vaccine against croup: Death of 3 month old baby a few days following mRESVIA injection – mRESVIA is NOT authorized for use in infants https://jessicar.substack.com/p/death-of-3-month-old-baby-a-few-days
Meryl Nass MD, What a difference a code makes: Medicare will now provide a code so doctors can bill for evaluating and treating vaccine injuries–and data can be collected on putative vaccine injuries https://merylnass.substack.com/p/what-a-difference-a-code-makes-medicare
However, most adult Americans now lack natural immunity, and vaccine-protection is full of holes for them. NEW 2026 DATA: Measles Vaccines Now Linked to 1,700% More Deaths than Measles Infection Since 1995 – According to official CDC data, the vaccine appears to have been worse than the disease for 31 years. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/new-2026-data-measles-vaccines-now
November 13, 2026 at 7:28 pm #255672zerosum
ParticipantAnother example
Can you list the actions, direct and indirectly, such as the embargoes, the blockades, and other actions being done against Cuba, by Trump, to cause misery, and cause failure of the gov.Here are the main measures, followed by how each side describes them. I’m giving the administration’s stated aims separately from critics’ characterizations, because intent is the contested part.
Oil and energy
In January 2026, Trump signed an executive order declaring a national emergency. It set up a process to impose tariffs on goods from countries that provide oil to Cuba.
whitehouse
This followed US sanctions on oil sent to Cuba after the intervention in Venezuela. Mexico suspended its oil shipments on January 27.
Wikipedia
The US began blocking tankers headed to Cuba in February 2026. The administration disputes the word “blockade.” Cuba’s UN representative said US Ambassador Mike Waltz repeats the claim that a blockade doesn’t exist.
Wikipedia
commondreams
One Russian tanker delivered about 730,000 barrels, which was not enough for 10 million people.
pulseSanctions
Executive Order 14404, signed May 1, 2026, authorizes sanctions on persons tied to repression in Cuba and threats to US national security.
state
Since January there have been more than two dozen rounds of sanctions. They hit over 40 entities and at least 38 individuals tied to Cuba’s military-business complex, including GAESA and CUPET.
cubaheadlines
Targets include the Interior Ministry and the intelligence directorate and the Ministry of Tourism. The most recent round, on November 5, designated eight entities and two individuals, and identified five vessels as blocked property.
Sanctions to Counter Threats Posed by the Cuban Regime Fact Sheet – United States Department of State
+2
President Díaz-Canel and family members were sanctioned, and Raúl Castro was indicted. Rubio also warned of secondary sanctions against anyone dealing with entities that GAESA, MINFAR or the Interior Ministry own at least 50%.
CNN
CNNOther measures (mostly 2025)
Cuba was redesignated a state sponsor of terrorism, and the US imposed visa restrictions on people tied to Cuba’s overseas medical missions, which the US says involve forced labor.
counterpunch
Per an advocacy source, Western Union suspended remittances to Cuba on February 8 after the state firm Orbit was listed.
bellyofthebeastcuba
Visa and Mastercard have also suspended business on the island. I’m not sure whether that was a US order or a company decision.
responsiblestatecraft
The administration stopped US foreign aid to Cuban media initiatives.
brunchRhetoric and political pressure
Trump said the US could carry out a “friendly takeover” of Cuba.
Wikipedia
In August Rubio said Cuba was on an “irreversible path” to a different future, citing Poland as a model.
cubaheadlinesThe administration’s stated aim and aid offer
Rubio says the measures target the regime’s network, not the people. He said the administration will go after those who profit while Cubans suffer. He alleged GAESA holds $18 billion in assets while ordinary citizens endure long daily power outages.
CNN
domalberto
The US offered $100 million in aid, to be delivered only by faith-based and humanitarian groups such as Caritas. Rubio said Havana hadn’t agreed to distribute it. Later, on May 21, he said Cuba had accepted it. Critics say the Church lacks the capacity to distribute that much aid, especially with fuel shortages hampering delivery.
Trump Pledges $100M To Cuba, But Only If Faith‑Based Groups Distribute It
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Even CNN described the overall effort as one that seeks to incapacitate the Cuban economy and force changes, including possible regime change.
CNNDocumented effects
UN human rights officials said the crisis is having an increasingly severe impact on the rights of people in Cuba. The UN human rights chief urged the administration to lift its oil embargo and sanctions.
theafricanmirror
commondreams
In July the UN reported the fifth nationwide grid collapse of the year, and its $94 million humanitarian plan was only 40% funded.
aa
UN experts said about 40% of Cubans now eat one meal a day or less.
ibtimesWhether this hardship is the intended means or a side effect is disputed. I can’t establish intent. Critics, including UN experts, say these measures amount to collective punishment. The administration says the aim is to remove a repressive government and that humanitarian aid is available. Also, some of the sources I used here are advocacy outlets (Truthout, CounterPunch, Belly of the Beast), so I used them mainly for the measures themselves rather than for characterizations.
November 13, 2026 at 7:42 pm #255673Dr. D
Participant“America will never build ships”
Never is a very long time, my friend.
Because “Purpose Built vs Profit”
Wow. This is literally the Socialist USSR “We will bury you” argument that has been run every year for 150 years at a 150 : 0 Scoreboard. But go ahead: “This Time It’s Different”.
Stellco is not in profit, so what happened in Hamilton there? It would work if they pay their entire workforce to do nothing? Or sell metal at a loss, paying money to their customers each day instead of the other way around? We buy Steel and Coal, pay the people, then do NOT deliver the product to the customers, or we do deliver it to them wrapped in $100 bills. That is what “profit” is.
The New Altas used to have the run of the mill common sense.
Iran is just about to attack. Just you wait and see. They can barely hit two boats a week 20 miles away by swimming scuba guys up to it, but they have infinity ICBMs and sharks with lasers on their heads.
“USS Bush in CRISIS: Iran Fires TEN Missiles, US & Israel Move to War | Larry Johnson
All of which missed or you would have said so.
“Iran’s Nuke Submarine BLINDSIDES Trump, Israel FURIOUS
Iran has no nuclear program, which is why it’s crazy Trump attacked them except for the military-grade nuclear program which is so advanced it makes micro nukes with highly enriched uranium. Riiiiight. They also have Void Stalker Battle Cruisers in space.
So if I follow you here, you owe Trump an apology and it was right for him to bomb them.
“ Rezaei also reiterated that not ‘not a single gram’ of enriched uranium will leave Iran’s borders
So you’re confirming it’s Hillary Clinton’s Uranium. Got it.
Most Britons see Israel as a ‘serious threat’ to world peace:
The United Kingdom awarded 10.7 million pounds ($14.4m) in new public contracts to firms with links to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank”Yes, because the threat is England. Briton’s threat is their own government, and they already know. Israel is a British colony and always has been. Balfour.
“They Lied to You! Defense & Security Works Best Without NATO.
Trump right again about defunding and leaving NATO. #40 on speed dial, thanks.
Galloway: I am Debanked” Yes, he lives in a Fascist state. England. Home of “1984.” Fascists are Progressives, Utopians. If only he lived in America.
“ Michael Hudson points out the IMF grasping at straws, saying Ukrainians need to pay more in electric bills, while services are severely interrupted by war, and tens of thousands of people are widely expected to freeze to death”
IMF and other Globalists, UN at work. So they think the banks need money more than humans need to stay at body temperature. Got it. But there’s no crisis or nothin’.
“.Microsoft 365 global outage runs into a second day - The Exchange Online incident “
Thank God, now maybe some work will get done. And this is why MS re-designed the whole Office so it’s non-functional without a live internet. …Just like those French Fridges. #Winning! EVERYONE told them not to do this. Every tech hates the online file-synching with the cloud. It breaks as often as it runs. MS did it anyway and corporations are too retarded to just do something cheaper and normal.
November 13, 2026 at 8:04 pm #255674Michael Reid
ParticipantIRAN BOMBS EARLY WARNING RADAR IN BAHRAIN AS ISRAEL READIES FOR STRIKES
November 13, 2026 at 8:52 pm #255680Michael Reid
ParticipantNew Missile City REVEALS How Iran Plans To Fight Next War
Based on learnings of the last round of fighting, and some of the successful of the United States and Israel’s bombing campaign Iran is crafting a new threat vector that poses unique challenges to the United States and Israel, leveraging a blend of innovative technology and resourcefulness. In this video, Sarmad Jawad highlights Iran’s turn to advances cruise missiles and the strategic implications for regional security.
November 13, 2026 at 8:55 pm #255681Michael Reid
ParticipantEinar Tangen: Is the Jensen Huang “Chinese Spy” Affair a Set-up? Nvidia Dips As AI Bubble Cracks
November 13, 2026 at 9:28 pm #255682Michael Reid
ParticipantThe Cost of Permanent Enemies, Endless Wars /Lt Col Daniel Davis
November 13, 2026 at 9:34 pm #255683Michael Reid
ParticipantMartin Armstrong: BREAKING: Over $1 Trillion Wiped Out as U.S. Stock Market Suddenly Crashes
November 13, 2026 at 11:16 pm #255703zerosum
ParticipantComplexity – A nation wide ground stop – DUUUUHHH – ABOVE EVERYBODY’S PAYGRADE
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