Articles from ‘Independent News Roundup’ in ‘Geopolitics’

Clandestine · After watching the Epstein saga unfold, I think I have it figured out. · The Dems knew Trump was going to release the Epstein files, so they had to get in front of it, because they knew it leads to them, not Trump. · Their only option was to hijack the narrative, and convince the public that Epstein was a Trump scandal. Psychological projection. Their hope was that the public wouldn’t actually read the files, and just…

Rubio told Munich that deindustrialization was "a conscious policy choice." He's right — the CFR wrote that plan in 1977. Now the globalists are panicking and Trump is reversing it on every front. We have the receipts. · Secretary of State Marco Rubio says at the Munich conference that deindustrialization was a deliberate, decades-long policy choice that stripped nations of wealth, productive capacity, and independence. Susan …

Washington maintained a warm tone at the Munich conference, but it has shown that it doesn’t intend to “defend the old order,” the outlet’s sources say · US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrive for a meeting at the Munich Security Conference on February 13, 2026. © Getty Images · [RT] The Munich Security Conference has revealed a widening rift between the US and Europe, as Washington signaled that it…

Jason Ross- U.S.Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Credit: U.S. State Department* · U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stood before the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 13 and delivered what was meant to be a stirring defense of Western Civilization. It was the European continent, he declared, “that produced the genius of Mozart and Beethoven, of Dante and Shakespeare, of Michelangelo and Da Vinci, of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.”…

He calmly acknowledged that it’s now more difficult for Russia to advance its foreign policy goals due to the US’ renewed attempt to dominate the global economy through coercion and force, but he still believes that BRICS will play a pivotal role in furthering the global systemic transition to multipolarity. · Andrew Korybko · Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recently gave an interview to TV BRICS about their namesake organization and…

Dennis Small- Pentagon Policy Chief Elbridge Colby at the NATO Defense Ministers meeting. Credit: NATO · Scarcely six weeks into 2026, a profound shift in the global military-strategic situation is fully underway and is being openly discussed as such in Washington, Moscow, and other world capitals. The U.S. Under Secretary of War for Policy Elbridge Colby was blunt in his Feb. 12 speech to NATO defense ministers meeting in Brussels: “We…

Jason RossFor the 250th anniversary of the signing of Declaration of Independence, by John Trumbull, we should be looking forward to the 300th. · Every day brings new sordid and reprehensible details about the practices of Jeffrey Epstein and his collaborators and “guests.” Some speculate that the point of his operation was to compile incriminating documentation of high-powered individuals to be used to control them through blackmail.…

It’s also the enemy of Europe’s conservative-nationalists, who’d be left leaderless if Kiev and Brussels succeed in ‘democratically deposing’ Orban during early April’s next parliamentary elections and replacing his leadership of their movement with a collection of anti-Russian Polish figures. · Andrew Korybko · Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban recently declared that “As long as Ukraine demands that Hungary be cut off from cheap…

Mark Rutte likened the pace of Moscow’s battlefield progress to a “garden snail” despite Ukraine’s continued retreats from major strongholds · NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte attends the Munich Security Conference on February 13, 2026 in Munich, Germany. © Getty Images / Johannes Simon · [RT] NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte sniped at the Russian army, comparing its battlefield progress in Ukraine to the pace of a “garden snail.” His…

Ro Khanna says Epstein files could end the monarchy—then targets Trump's Commerce Secretary. · While Democrats weaponize scandal, Trump kills the Green Agenda with the largest deregulation in US history. It's a 200-year-old British playbook, and it will fail. · Barbara Boyd · In this episode, Barbara Boyd breaks down how the Epstein files might threaten the British Monarchy as revealed by Ro Khanna on Sky News. Boyd analyzes how the…