China and Brics will ‘defend’ global order as Trump withdraws, Brazil says
#politics #brazil #UnitedStates #china #BRICS #geopolitics
https://www.ft.com/content/9679a8e9-6137-4b96-8af8-59f2fefe39b2
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JFC
#PutinsPuppet is spreading #RussianPropaganda & attacking #Zelensky, #Obama & #Biden in disgusting #racist code & advocating for #Russia’s demands.
“I have nothing to do with Russia, but have much to do with wanting to save, on average, five thousand Russian & Ukrainian soldiers a week, who are dying for no reason whatsoever.
No reason?! Just their #sovereignty, #independence & #democracy
#Trump #geopolitics #Ukraine #disinformation #alliance #NATO #authoritarianism #StandWithUkraine
#FederalReserve Chair #JeromePowell is speaking
Says #Trump #tariffs were far higher than expected & that larger than expected tariffs mean higher #inflation, slower growth.
"We face a highly uncertain outlook with elevated risks of both higher #unemployment & higher inflation," undermining both of the #Fed's mandates of 2% inflation & maximum employment, Powell said in prepared remarks for a business journalists' conference.
The #UnitedStates & #Ukraine announced the creation of a new reconstruction & investment fund, formalizing an economic agreement between the 2 that is intended to give the US access to proceeds from Ukraine’s reserves of rare earth #minerals.
The agreement concludes months of fraught negotiations over whether the #US will continue to provide Ukraine w/ #economic & #military support to Ukraine as it tries to broker an end to its war w/ #Russia.
#geopolitics #extortion
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/world/europe/ukraine-minerals-deal-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=B6D34864-523A-4478-90D7-2E06148475AB
That’d be the smart move
Exclusive: #Ukraine considers shift from the #US #dollar to #euro amid #geopolitical realignments
Ukraine is starting to consider a shift away from the US dollar, possibly linking its currency more closely to the euro amid the splintering of global #trade & its growing ties to #Europe, per #CentralBank Gov Andriy Pyshnyi.
#geopolitics #economy
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-considers-shift-dollar-euro-amid-geopolitical-realignments-2025-05-07/
#Putin has declared a 3-day pause in fighting against #Ukraine, but for bloodied Ukrainian soldiers limping into a field hospital, their wounds testified that the ceasefire was not being respected.
One soldier, who gave his name as Stanislav, sat in the field hospital on Friday night cradling his left arm. It was wrapped in gauze bandage, & blood was soaking through.
“There hasn’t been any ceasefire," said Stanislav.
#Russia #war #geopolitics
https://www.reuters.com/world/wounded-ukrainian-soldiers-ask-what-ceasefire-2025-05-10/
In #Mideast, #Trump plans to focus on #business deals, not #geopolitics
Trump leaves Monday for a 4-day trip to #SaudiArabia, #Qatar & the #UAE, a mission that is expected to focus heavily on business deals & new investments from the #oil-rich region.
The swing through deep-pocketed #MiddleEast monarchies, Trump’s first major international travel of his 2nd term, is a marker of Trump’s priorities & another sign of his intention to de-emphasize the traditional #US #allies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/11/trump-mideast-trip/
#Putin's #Oil Empire Gets Double Boost
The #US will not back an #EU proposal to impose a price cap on #RussianOil that seeks to curb revenues for Russian President Vladimir Putin's #war machine, acc/to Bloomberg.
#Russia could also benefit from the spike in oil prices following #Israel's attack on #Iran, a major producer of the commodity.
#geopolitics #Ukraine #StandWithUkraine
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-putin-oil-sanctions-price-cap-2085549
Smart
#Greenland handed a 30-year #mining permit to a Danish-French mining group aiming to extract a moon-like rock that could offer a #climate-friendly alternative in aluminium production.
The #Arctic island rich in #minerals, #oil & #NaturalGas, & long seen as a potential resource frontier, has drawn international attention since #Trump expressed an interest in *purchasing* [conquering] it earlier this year.
#geopolitics #Denmark #France #US
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/greenland-gives-danish-french-group-permit-mine-rock-with-green-potential-wake-2025-05-21/
#KingCharles III arrives in Ottawa on Monday to underscore #Canada’s #sovereignty to #Trump.
Trump’s repeated suggestion that the US #annex its northern neighbor prompted Prime Minister #MarkCarney to invite Charles to give the speech from the throne that will outline his government’s agenda for the new Parliament. The king is the head of state in Canada, which is a member of the British Commonwealth of former colonies.
#geopolitics #USexpansionism
https://apnews.com/article/king-charles-canada-carney-trump-parliament-speech-cfb17691de077f3a3677fe377666ace7
Exclusive: #Putin, for #Ukraine peace, wants a pledge to halt #NATO enlargement
Putin's conditions for ending the war in Ukraine include a demand that Western leaders pledge in writing to stop enlarging NATO eastwards [shorthand for formally ruling out membership to Ukraine, #Georgia & #Moldova & other former #Soviet republics] & lift a chunk of sanctions on #Russia, according to three Russian sources with knowledge of the negotiations.
#geopolitics
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-ukraine-peace-wants-pledge-halt-nato-enlargement-sources-say-2025-05-28/
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#Trump’s actions & statements suggest he might be envisioning a world in which each of the 3 so-called great powers—the #UnitedStates, #China & #Russia—dominates its part of the globe, #ForeignPolicy analysts say.
It would be a throwback to a 19th-century style of #imperial rule.
Trump has said he wants to take #Greenland from Denmark, annex #Canada & re-establish American control of the #PanamaCanal.…extend[ing] US dominance in the Western Hemisphere….
#geopolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/us/politics/trump-russia-china.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=839DA511-2704-4676-B75F-1EF9BD8AE047
#TACO news
New #China #Trade ‘Deal’ Just Takes The #US Back to Where It Started
If a handshake agreement holds, it will merely undo some of the #damage from the #TradeWar that #Trump started.
#economy #tariffs #inflation #recession #geopolitics #TrumpIsWeak
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/politics/us-china-trade-deal-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
#Trump threatens extra 10% #tariffs on #BRICS as leaders meet in Brazil
Trump said the #US will impose an additional 10% #tariff on any countries aligning themselves with the "Anti-American policies" of the BRICS group of developing nations, whose leaders kicked off a summit in Brazil on Sunday.
#Economy #Geopolitics #Brazil #Russia #China #India #SouthAfrica
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/leaders-growing-brics-group-gather-rio-summit-2025-07-06/
USA sanctions Francesca Albanese for working with the International Criminal Court, and for being early at calling the Gaza Genocide a genocide.
This regime is a global menace, to the freedoms of each of us. Where will this end?
#FarRight #Genocide #Gaza #USA #USPol #ICC #ICJ #Law #HumanRights #Palestine #EU #Geopolitics #Albanese #FrancescaAlbanese
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#Trump to abruptly leave a #G7 in Canada a day ahead of schedule to *deal with* [right, cuz he’s so effective at diplomacy] the escalating conflict between #Iran & #Israel, amid Israeli pressure for the #US to intervene militarily to crush Iran’s #nuclear capabilities.
The White House propagandist, Karoline Leavitt, said that Trump left the 2-day summit “because of what is going on in the Middle East,” but did not elaborate.
#geopolitics #war
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/16/world/iran-israel-news/heres-the-latest?smid=url-share
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#Trump Renews Embrace of #Putin Amid Ongoing Break With #Allies
[Despicably,] Trump opened his remarks at the #G7 gathering of industrialized nations by criticizing the decision to expel #Russia from the bloc after Moscow’s 2014 “annexation” of Crimea.
#geopolitics #authoritarianism #dictatorship #autocracy #tyranny #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/world/canada/trump-g7-russia-ukraine.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Reporter: Is the US moving closer to striking Iranian nuclear facilities?
TRUMP: I may do it, I may not do it. Nobody knows what I'm going to do. Iran's got a lot of trouble.
[yeah Nobody knows what you’re going to do because you are an unhinged chaotic reactionary crazy person. Also, the number of times this guy says, “I’ve never seen anything like this” he is the personification of the phrase “born yesterday”. Idiot]
#geopolitics #NationalSecurity #GlobalSecurity #MiddleEast #Iran #US #war
The United States has intervened in 128 elections since 1946 to shape political outcomes in their own interests.
https://globalinequality.org/imperial-power/
Exclusive: #Putin, unfazed by #Trump, will fight on & could take more of #Ukraine
Putin intends to keep fighting in Ukraine until the West engages on his terms for *peace*, unfazed by Trump's threats of tougher #sanctions, & his territorial demands may widen as #Russia advances, 3 sources close to the Kremlin said.
#TrumpIsWeak #PutinsPuppet #geopolitics
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/putin-unfazed-by-trump-will-fight-could-take-more-ukraine-2025-07-15/
Solarpower has won, not because it is alternative or woke, but because of economy. And it will keep winning with still improving panels, becoming thinner and easy to use everywhere, battery technology is also still improving.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment
#solarpower #renewables #energy #geopolitics @geopolitics
Trump's threatened 30% #tariff on #SouthAfrica exports is set to deal an economic blow to a community he has vocally & controversially championed: white farmers.
Citing false claims that #white South Africans are being persecuted, #Trump has cut aid to the country, publicly berated its president in the Oval Office & invited #Afrikaners - descendants of early European settlers - to come to the #US as *#refugees*.
#PerfomativePolitics #stunt #racism #idiocracy #geopolitics
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-tariffs-south-africa-set-hit-white-farmers-trump-has-embraced-2025-07-09/
At least 51 people have been killed this morning in #Israel attacks on #Gaza, hospital sources tell Al Jazeera. At least 14 of that number were killed in the north
#Iran’s Supreme Leader #Kahmenei congratulated the country’s armed forces & said #US military bases could be attacked again in case of future threats.
#MidfleEast #geopolitics #war
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/26/live-israel-kills-over-80-in-gaza-3-killed-in-israeli-settler-attack
#Mexico, the #UnitedStates’ biggest trading partner, will get another 90 days to try to reach a #trade deal, #Trump & President #ClaudiaSheinbaum of Mexico announced after a phone call Thursday morning. The extension came a day before the *deadline* Trump has set for countries around the globe to strike deals or face #tariffs of as much as 50%.
#TACO #economy #law #geopolitics
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/politics/trump-tariffs-mexico-extension.html?smid=url-share
#Iran Suspends Cooperation With #UN #Nuclear Watchdog, #IAEA
The decision means that international inspectors will not be able to oversee sites. Experts have warned that Tehran could revive plans to build a bomb.
#geopolitics #MiddleEast #US #Israel
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-iaea.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare