Articles from ‘Independent News Roundup’ in ‘Geopolitics’

Published by Tyler Durden - Via Rabobank, · Anybody thinking US payrolls, even at -92K, matters much in the current environment is probably at the head of the queue to be replaced by an AI soon. That data series is always volatile and 2.5m undocumented workers are estimated to have left the US since Trump was re-elected: 394K foreign-born workers lost their jobs in the reported month while the native-born series rose 877K, albeit after a…

He hopes to prove Ukraine’s worth in defending against Iranian drones so that NATO’s Eastern Flank then agrees to his earlier proposal for swapping some US troops with Ukrainian ones to defend against Russian drones as the quid pro quo for the bloc deploying troops to Ukraine after the conflict ends. · Andrew Korybko · Zelensky confirmed in an interview with the New York Times that he dispatched Ukrainian drone experts and interceptor drones …

Trump's "we will remember" post wasn't aimed at Starmer — it was aimed at the City of London. Lloyd's engineered oil spike, Chatham House's legal theatrics, and the offshore laundering network are all under assault. The special relationship is over. · Barbara Boyd · Barbara Boyd argues President Trump’s Truth Social post aimed not to humiliate Keir Starmer but to warn the City of London, claiming Britain stayed out of the Iran…

Zelensky remains recalcitrant towards Russia, is worried that a long war in Iran could give Russia an edge, and is therefore anxious to have EU aid replace US aid. · Andrew Korybko · Zelensky recently gave an interview to the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera in which he spoke about the Third Gulf War, the Ukrainian Conflict, and his latest thoughts about security guarantees. Regarding the first, he shared his worries that a long war…

The 1979 oil shock wasn't a market event — it was engineered by the same imperial establishment now trying to pin an economic crisis on Trump. Barbara Boyd exposes the playbook and explains why unconditional surrender is the cure, not the cause. · Barbara Boyd argues that warnings of a 1979-style oil shock after President Trump’s call for Iran’s unconditional surrender are a manufactured panic pushed by the City of London’s…

Andrew Korybko · He just ordered that some of Russia’s LNG exports to the EU be redirected to Asia, and if the EU doesn’t coerce Zelensky into giving him giving him more of what he wants in Ukraine, then there’d be no reason for him to not cut off Russia’s exports to them entirely for catalyzing a full-blown crisis. · The EU agreed late last year to end Russian LNG imports by 31 December 2026 and pipeline gas imports by 30 September 2027,…

Jason Ross - Iran’s Khatam Al-Anbiya Central Hedquarters said the US Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier has been hit by the country’s drones. Credit: CC/Tasnim News Agency · Consider what a single week of war has revealed about the fragility of the system the Western order long assumed was permanent. · Iranian drones strike Amazon data centers in the Gulf, knocking banking systems offline across the region. Qatar halts liquefied natural gas…

The Biden administration abused us, then Trump offered us hope for a better future, thereby reconstituting our bond with the federal government. Now the cycle of abuse is repeating. · John Leake · A Google search for “Trauma Bond” yielded the following definition. · A trauma bond is a powerful, unhealthy emotional attachment that develops between a victim and their abuser, often characterized by a cycle of intense abuse followed by…

Clandestine · The “Deep State” is not just corrupt US politicians. It’s a transnational criminal organization that has embedded itself within governments around the globe, and leveraged entire nations to do their bidding. · Or as JFK called it, a “secret society” and a “monolithic and ruthless conspiracy”. · “It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources, in the building of a highly knit, highly efficient…

This latest claim respectively conforms to the fears and fantasies of Russia’s foes and friends alike. · Andrew Korybko · The Washington Post reported that “Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say”, and “The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East”. This is believable even if it’s being disclosed as part of a ploy for rallying the public…