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35 years in network news. I write about history, geopolitics, economics at:
https://moneycircus.substack.com
35 years in network news. I write about history, geopolitics, economics at:
https://moneycircus.substack.com
Trump & Russiagate A Clinton-FBI Plot
- ‘Trump is Russia’ hoax grew out of oppositional research
- MI6 fabulists created Russiagate, using media foghorn.
- Reporters with knowledge on the ground were suppressed.
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/trump-and-russiagate-was-clinton-fbi-plot-audio

British & U.S. intelligence co-opted law & media in a dark circle
moneycircus.substack.comU.S. lawmakers imposing programmable currency by stealth.
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/cbdc-has-velvet-crypto-chain
Applied with velvet gloves through Stable and Genius Acts.
Tariffs will onshore military-tech-financial complex.

Crypto locked in CBDC hock
moneycircus.substack.comChina will 'fight to the end’ over tariffs, says trade with US ‘roughly in balance’.
Extra duties on products from the U.S. hit 84 per cent.
Trade war would amplify the impact of kinetic war.
War provides the excuse to reset society.
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/trump-plays-jenga-on-the-precipice

Tariffs see Chinese rooster & American eagle exchange blows
moneycircus.substack.comTrump's tariffs could raise $300-600 billion.
Almost balance the budget and help reduce interest payments.
Yet Targets will retaliate.
See the image used by French channel France 24.
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/trump-tariffs-war-by-proxy

Don't doubt what's at stake
moneycircus.substack.comTrump Tariffs: Blessing Or Curse?
China plays the game: slaps 34 per cent on U.S.
High stakes or a step to a technocratic world order?
In war, tariffs could break down trade.
Nixon imposed tariffs when he severed the dollar from gold - something coming?
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/trump-tariffs-curse-or-blessing

Echoes of Nixon's dollar revolution
moneycircus.substack.comEXCLUSIVE:
Embezzle razzle: Did France’s Le Pen steal millions or get framed?
Who is running Europe but Ursula, on the hook for 1,000 X more fraud
‘Centrists’ want war so that they can impose austerity to cook the books
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/3-crises-voting-banned-war-and-austerity

European directorate manages popular opinion
moneycircus.substack.comEurope's leaders seek to make peace 'inoperable’.
Germany amends constitution to arm for war.
Putin-Trump hold 2nd phone call about ceasefire.
Who do tongue-tied, twisted leaders speak for?
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/europe-chooses-war-but-why

Leaders speak in uniform monotone; string-pullers invisible
moneycircus.substack.comLATEST:
Carney takes office today as prime minister of Canada.
Supra-national ideology holds sway in Western nations.
Rich claim their right to shape world to their liking.
We are borderless yet we fight wars - make sense of that.
Demand ID for citizens yet let undocumented cross over.
If you can't spot the psy-op, read part two.
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/canadas-unelected-pm-takes-power

Globalism as a front for corporate might, Pt 1
moneycircus.substack.comEurope's military splurge.
Germany hails 500 billion in debt-funded spending.
EU busts the books to find almost €1 trillion.
There's a war to win in Ukraine, and a continent to defend if the U.S. weakens its commitment to NATO.
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/all-smiles-as-eu-gears-up-for-war

Massive borrowing to fund rearmament
moneycircus.substack.comWhat to make of the "I don't wanna hear" cohort in Congress.
Who gains from a longer Ukraine war?
Benefits of conflict elude the common folk.
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/can-world-avoid-the-path-to-war

Who has an interest in conflict?
moneycircus.substack.comTrump was wavering on peace with Russia - imposed new sanctions - until Zelenskiy's crass demands.
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/trump-throws-zelenskiy-out-of-wh
European pressure to extend war by stealth is exposed.
Trump commits to peace after earlier quibble.

European war diddlers look on with horror
moneycircus.substack.comRomania's presidential candidate arrested after questioning NATO war bases.
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/democracy-fades-in-romania
Latest politician on world stage to be obstructed by globalists.
European Commission launches ‘democracy police’ to control the vote.

Eurasia note #107 - EC doubles down despite U.S. VP's criticism
moneycircus.substack.comThe latest:
BlackRock's CDU Komissar hides what you don't see: the corporate state.
Germany wants independent Europe, yet locked into British competition with Russia.
Politicians take train to Ukraine to celebrate third anniversary of Ukraine war.
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/german-voters-split-in-clarity-and

Opposition grows - but still war & degrowth
moneycircus.substack.comGermany Votes For The World
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/germany-votes-for-the-world
A Canadian eye on Europe's entrapment.
Do you need any more evidence that elections are shaped for global impact?
Friedrich Merz, Mark Carney are products of asset managing central banks.
The West has shared values and history that globalists despise.

A Canadian eye on Europe's entrapment
moneycircus.substack.comTrump speaks to Putin: no NATO membership, no restitution for Ukraine.
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/war-and-peace-ukraine-peace-talks
European leaders go wild. Ukraine offers ‘Contract 18-24’ to send youth to the front.
The memory of Dresden is not enough, it seems.

Eurasia note #106 - On the normalisation of brutality
moneycircus.substack.comUSA-ID scandal unrolls like toilet wipe: Politico, BBC got millions. News bites and hot takes.
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/3-crises-trump-bets-on-gaza-fink
Big money moves on Bitcoin - to profit or to limit the off ramps?
Leaders acknowledge what the scale of Gaza's destruction implies.

Musk's data grab & USA-ID meltdown. News bites and hot takes
moneycircus.substack.comTrump signs 25%+ tariffs on Canadian, Mexican, Chinese exports to U.S.
Selective and defensive, they serve a purpose.
Tariffs are a policy tool and their merit depends on objectives.
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/tariffs-should-prompt-countries-to

Row over protectionism misses the point
moneycircus.substack.comTrump Addresses C02-Choked Audience
His comments to WEF broadly align with its industrial objectives.
The difference is his focus on national, rather than supra-national, interest.
Massive energy needs of AI may force Davos to loosen its focus on climate change.
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/trump-addresses-c02-choked-audience

Yet WEF may abandon climate change for AI
moneycircus.substack.comPart Two on the incoming TRUMP administration.
Will Trump halt the globalists' centralising tendency or accommodate it?
Domestic policy is riddled with foreign interference, from health to zoning.
California fire response already looks like the a UN Agenda 21 land grab.

Will he push back against globalists as in 1st term?
moneycircus.substack.comCan Trump's realpolitik replace foreign adventures?
His pitch for Greenland and Panama may signal return to spheres of influence...
And perhaps stability.
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/can-less-war-mean-more-liberty

As Trump seeks success abroad, keep watch at home
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