Articles in ‘Geopolitics’

Bessent explains Wall Street, the financial press, and Democrats keep being proved wrong—contrasting Canada’s job losses with a blowout U.S. jobs report, calling out FT/WSJ panic, and framing a Red Queen economy that must outrun debt, China, and skills gaps. By Barbara Boyd · Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells Steve Bannon that critics in Wall Street, the financial press, and Democrats keep being proved wrong, contrasting Canada’s job…

More than four years into the Russia-Ukraine war, the central question is increasingly not who can gain another town or stretch of territory, but whether either side can achieve its underlying political objectives. Political scientist Dr Nicolai Petro argues that Russia, Ukraine and Europe's leaders remain locked into fundamentally incompatible visions of European security leaving military escalation easier to imagine than a durable settlement.

Susan on Bessent naming IRGC accounts in the British Virgin Islands — the real target is the offshore money machine, not just Iran. Syria sanctions lifted, the Mecca Pact, Russia at the G20, and China on Iran. Susan Kokinda argues that Scott Bessent’s warning about IRGC accounts in the British Virgin Islands and his “cut the snake’s head off” image were aimed at London’s offshore money machine, not just Iran. She maps the BVI and Hong Kong as…

On the latest episode of Sanchez Effect, conservative commentator, journalist Ann Vandersteel exposes the terrifying reality of America’s orchestrated decline. From coast-to-coast ghost towns to the brink of economic collapse, she talks the brutal truth the mainstream media and paid influencers are desperate to hide: The dollar is nearing its death, sanctions have backfired, while London pulls the strings economically on global conflicts.

This concept refers to how the North-South Transport Corridor, the Eastern Maritime Corridor, and the Northern Sea Route form a ring around Eurasia for facilitating bilateral trade as well as their trade with third parties. Joint Secretary in the Indian Shipping Ministry, S. Venkatesapathy told the Arctic-Regions Forum in Arkhangelsk in mid-August that India will send its first cargo ship through the Northern Sea Route (NSR) next year. RT’s…

After Mark Carney pulled Canada out of U.S. trade talks and called it a war, Susan Kokinda shows it isn’t about tariffs — it’s a midterm operation and a clash of systems. Scott Bessent is fighting the parallel battle: defusing the yen carry trade with tools like FIMA so Treasury rates don’t blow. After Prime Minister Mark Carney abruptly pulled Canada out of U.S. trade talks and framed the dispute as a “war,” this episode argues the rupture…

Retired US Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor says the Ukraine conflict may be entering a more dangerous phase, with Russia increasingly convinced that neither Ukraine nor its European supporters can reverse the military balance. He argues Moscow's willingness to wait for diplomacy is fading, while warning that direct NATO involvement could dramatically escalate the conflict. INR Report: Based on an August 18, 2026 interview with retired US Army…

A manufactured “debt bomb” panic is the next play against Trump before the midterms. Barbara Boyd unpacks Scott Bessent’s Hamiltonian plan—sovereign credit for production, not speculation and why Wall Street and London can’t even comprehend it. Barbara Boyd · As headlines warn of a $40 trillion U.S. debt and a “bond market explosion,” Barbara Boyd argues a manufactured financial panic is being used to attack President Trump ahead of the…

Susan reads Canada's rap sheet — transshipment smuggling, forced-labor failures, snow-washing and contrasts Chris Wright's civilizational case for energy with Joly's "geo-industrialization," as a Green Party petition targets Ambassador Hoekstra. President Trump announced a three-day pause on planned 50% tariffs against Canada, citing a pending deal and suggesting Keystone XL could be revived. Susan Kokinda argues the dispute is larger than…

Instead of Japan and the ROK taking the lead in containing China, the US would retain this role while recognizing the DPRK as a nuclear power and approving a Russian-Japanese peace deal, thus simplifying regional security by reducing the number of fault lines that could lead to World War III. Trump confirmed that he’s back in contact with North Korea’s (DPRK) Kim Jong Un one day after scaling back the US’ participation in annual large-scale…