Articles from ‘Independent News Roundup’ in ‘Geopolitics’

A third assassination attempt. Corporate threats from Rice and Sullivan. A Supreme Court ruling the globalists think they won. But the tariffs are already working — and the names on those briefs tell you everything about who destroyed this country. · Barbara Boyd · Another assassination attempt on President Trump is described after a 21-year-old man entered the secure grounds of Mar-a-Lago with a shotgun and a gasoline canister and was…

This is the grand strategic context within which Russia’s talks with the US and Ukraine are taking place. · Andrew Korybko · Casual observers are convinced that Trump is a madman with no method behind his madness, but the reality is that he and his team – collectively known as Trump 2.0 – are slowly but surely implementing their grand strategy against China. Every one of their moves abroad should be seen as a means to this end. They…

RT’s Roman Kosarev dissects the Ukrainian leader’s string of unhinged interviews · RT’s Roman Kosarev analyzes a speech by Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky ©  RT · Vladimir Zelensky is increasingly resorting to insults and unhinged rants while trying to rally pro-Ukraine hawks in the West.  · Zelensky used profanites on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference last week and later continued in the same style in…

The Supreme Court tried to disarm Trump's tariff revolution. Treasury Sec. Bessent declared Hamilton's system the foundation of sovereignty. Meanwhile, 60 nations answered Trump's call at the Board of Peace. One system is dying. Another is born. · Susan Kokinda · Susan Kokinda argues Trump’s response to the Supreme Court tariff ruling points beyond China to “foreign interests” tied to British Empire's Adam Smith free-trade ideology,…

Slovakia will stop providing Ukraine with electricity unless it restores the deliveries within two days, Prime Minister Robert Fico has said · A stone commemorating the Druzhba oil pipeline in Szazhalombatta, Hungary. ©  Janos Kummer/Getty Images · [RT] Slovakia will cut its emergency electricity supplies to Ukraine unless Kiev resumes deliveries of Russian oil by Monday, Prime Minister Robert Fico has warned. · The…

Alex Krainer · As I discussed in yesterday’s report, ECB President Christine Lagarde’s remarks during the 62nd Munich Security Conference should have come as a cold shower for the capital markets. Only two months ago, Lagarde was warning that Europe was facing an “existential crisis,” and called for urgent reforms. · In Munich, she expressed doubts about European economy’s competitiveness and again warned about financial instability…

Budapest has accused Kiev of breaching its commitments to the EU by halting oil transit through the Druzhba pipeline · FILE PHOTO: Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto. ©  Global Look Press / Mohammad Abu Ghosh · [RT] Budapest has imposed a veto on a €90 billion ($106 billion) EU loan for Ukraine agreed in December. The move was made in response to Kiev “blackmailing” Hungary and violating its obligations to the EU…

The approval of “reverse enlargement” to Ukraine and other candidate states would institutionalize a three-tiered Europe between the “E6”, Central Europe, and the new partial members from Eastern Europe and the Balkans for facilitating Germany’s divide-and-rule federalist plans. · Andrew Korybko · Politico reported on the EU’s plan to grant Ukraine partial membership by next year at the earliest as part of a comprehensive solution to that…

Alex Krainer · Yesterday was a particularly busy day for American diplomacy. U.S. delegations held extremely delicate, high level talks in Geneva, involving two major crisis theaters: Ukraine and the Middle East, the former one being relatively simpler, from the U.S. point of view. · Trilateral Ukraine talks under Trump deadline · The trilateral talks between Russian, US, and Ukrainian delegations started yesterday and are due to conclude…

The timing comes amidst continued dialogue with the US and its role in mediating between Russia and Ukraine, which could abruptly end if temperamental Trump’s threat perception of BRICS is once again exacerbated given how capricious he’s proven himself to be, ergo the need to assuage his fears. · Andrew Korybko · Sergey Ryabkov, who serves as both Deputy Foreign Minister and BRICS Sherpa, recently clarified that “I would like to remind you…