I saw a recent Trump Truth Social posting with one word in it
 
ADIOS

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 24 2026 14:26 utc | 4

I’ve always been prepared to give you the benefit of the doubt regarding your spelling, Mark 2, but as there is autocorrect inherent in this platform, I can only surmise you deliberately misspell and override the autocorrect. What a lot of effort for not much effect. Why bother?

Posted by: Phalanges | May 24 2026 14:52 utc | 6

How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on 7 October
 

Asa WinstanleyThe Electronic Intifada7 October 2024
 
….
Trying to paper over the cracks of its military and intelligence defeat, Israel has also been desperate to cover up another major scandal.
 
That Israel killed hundreds of its own people between 7 and 9 October 2023.
 
The regime ideologically justified this within Israeli society using a well-established national murder-suicide pact known in Israel as the “Hannibal Directive.”
 
The Electronic Intifada today presents a full overview of how Israel killed so many of its own people during the Palestinian offensive.
 
This article is based on a year’s worth of The Electronic Intifada’s investigative reporting, extensive monitoring and translation of the Hebrew-language Israeli media, independent examination of hundreds of videos…..

 
https://electronicintifada.net/content/how-israel-killed-hundreds-its-own-people-7-october/49216

Posted by: Exile | May 24 2026 15:01 utc | 8

”  a deception by the israelies wrongly justiffying  their actions .
Posted by: Mark2 | May 24 2026 14:28 utc   ”  | 
 
 Yet, in less than a year, Israel has shown the whole world that their bark is far larger than their bite. That they are the bottom of the sheet pile with the morals of insects, and dirty tricks. That they are financially bankrupt without stealing money from their American Slave Colony.
   And perhaps the worst thing of all (for Israel) they’ve enlisted Uncle Schmuelly, disclosing a hidebound Military holding mostly antiquated weapons, having killed their productive capacity for the Israeli/Dual Citizen objective of Financializing the US economy to the point of being comatose industrially.
   Thank you. Israel. It’s a good thing for the ROW that your myopia has led you down a blind, one-way alley.

Posted by: kupkee | May 24 2026 15:11 utc | 10

How Israel killed hundreds of its own people on October 7
https://israelpalestinenews.org/how-israel-killed-hundreds-of-its-own-people-on-october-7/

Posted by: TryAgain | May 24 2026 15:24 utc | 12

There is no deal . All theater . Let us now see when tank bottoms start . Latest Trump post .https://x.com/staunovo/status/2058562355286376623/photo/1

Posted by: hole in head | May 24 2026 15:34 utc | 14

🇮🇱🇺🇸 “President Trump and I agreed that any final agreement with Iran must eliminate the nuclear danger. That means dismantling Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites and removing its enriched nuclear material from its territory.” – Netanyahu

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/184893
 
Between the 3 countries directly involved, Israel, USA and Iran, one country does not have nuclear weapons. Which one?
 
 

Posted by: Norwegian | May 24 2026 15:53 utc | 16

The Iran debacle serves as a distraction from what Israel is doing to Lebanon, Gaza, and the West bank.  There will be no US / Iran deal as long as Israel is pursuing its territorial expansions.  i.e. there can be no Peace in the Middle-East so long as there exists a Zionist Israel. 

Posted by: Gee Eye Joe | May 24 2026 16:04 utc | 18

Between the 3 countries directly involved, Israel, USA and Iran, one country does not have nuclear weapons. Which one?  
Posted by: Norwegian | May 24 2026 15:53 utc |
 
     Iran abandoning nuclear enrichment and ultimately weapons, puts Iran into the Syria, Iraq, Libya position of neck on the chopping block. Without Russian/Chinese bases on Iran’s Western and Northwestern border, without an actual Nuclear deterrent, Iran is ending their civilization.
   Better to die trying than shamed, with your children killed in front of you by the amoral Zio/Americans, in front of your eyes, before they use the rebar on you.
   Ask yourself, of Iran, Israel, or Uncle Schmuelly, which one can you trust to keep their word/agreement?
    Any deal is just buying time before the next massacre of Iranians.

Posted by: kupkee | May 24 2026 16:16 utc | 20

@kupkee | May 24 2026 16:16 utc | 19
 
You are missing the point. The liar Netanyahu is falsifying the facts, it is Israel who must give up its nuclear weapons. Iran’s ‘nuclear weapon’ is the Strait of Hormuz. 

Posted by: Norwegian | May 24 2026 16:23 utc | 22

Re nukes, their uselessness is demonstrated daily by the Ukraine and the Iran wars. In the first, the world’s most lethal nuclear power has nonetheless been fighting for four years in its own neighborhood and occasionally even on its own territory! In the second, Iran has shown that the power to affect trade $$$ is worth much more to the powers that be that the power to cause explosions. 
 
It’s not about nuclear weapons … it’s about whether you can intimidate commercial empires by threatening their business model. 

Posted by: Caliman | May 24 2026 16:26 utc | 24

If this all kicks off again in the next few days,  we can be sure netinyahoo will be going on a vist outside of israel just be forehand. Probably america.

Posted by: Mark2 | May 24 2026 16:29 utc | 26

@Flying Dutchman | May 24 2026 16:24 utc | 22

What good is the uranium against any kind of attack if it’s never turned into a weapon?  

Irans Uranium is for civilian use, like in many other countries.

Posted by: Norwegian | May 24 2026 16:38 utc | 28

Always refer to Oct 7th as the Hannibal Massacre of Oct 7th.
Posted by: Otto Penn | May 24 2026 14:16 utc | 1
 
 
I prefer the “7 October Uprising”, or “Palestinian Independence Day”.
 

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 24 2026 16:49 utc | 30

Norwegian | May 24 2026 16:38 utc | 27

Irans Uranium is for civilian use, like in many other countries.  

 
No … it’s no other country’s business, of course, but just factually this is far far too expensive a form of energy for Iran, given its options. Civilian energy in Iran for now and into the future will be dominated by its plentiful natural gas and solar energy potential. 
No, enrichment in Iran was always about the potential option to sprint to nuclear weapons if needed … in other words, a security option, not an energy option. In the long run, it has proved disastrous as a very expensive albatross around the nation’s head in my view … would have been FAR better to spend the money on native rocketry and local militia networks. 

Posted by: Caliman | May 24 2026 16:52 utc | 32

@Caliman | May 24 2026 16:52 utc | 31
@Flying Dutchman | May 24 2026 16:53 utc | 32
 
What you believe is one thing, what Iran says is more important. 

Posted by: Norwegian | May 24 2026 16:58 utc | 34

au contraire.
   Israel almost certainly has nukes. If Iran concedes on the nuclear issue now, they are setting themselves up for some dirty Israeli American (perhaps fatal) trick later.
Only the dynamic balance to offset of a nuclear Iran can offset Israel’s nuke hand, and provide any stability.
The Hormuz is a good pressure tool, but it is NOT a defense of the Iranian people.
 

Posted by: kupkee | May 24 2026 17:04 utc | 36

Irans urainium is just another pathtic excuse by america and israel,  if urainium did’nt exsist in Iram,  both izzys and yanks would easely find another excuse. 
 
Have we learned nothing, its all lies to further their couse of a greater israel and world domination by the yanks.
 
Fascist scum that both are.

Posted by: Mark2 | May 24 2026 17:06 utc | 38

@Mark2 | May 24 2026 17:06 utc | 37
 
Yes, I could not say this any better. Thank you.

Posted by: Norwegian | May 24 2026 17:08 utc | 40

Norwegian @ 39
Thank yoy very much.
 
And for all your comments over the months and years. A beacon of sanity in an insane world, truly.

Posted by: Mark2 | May 24 2026 17:14 utc | 42

Currently in negotiations, mood sours, US accused of backsliding and Iran accused of being stubborn due to insisting on non-negotiable clauses…

Will also repost this here:

“Hezbollah Secretary-General: If the Lebanese government is unable to protect sovereignty, then it should leave”

Via

https://t.me/s/Sohaibpress

Will not be able to keep up with what is occuring so suggest that link as concise source, by using translate. He includes from various sides, allowing the contrasting picture of those.

Posted by: Ornot | May 24 2026 17:14 utc | 44

You not yoy
Bright sun on scrached phone screen.

Posted by: Mark2 | May 24 2026 17:22 utc | 46

@Flying Dutchman | May 24 2026 17:11 utc | 40

They had the option to continue the counterattack in a revolutionary way and chose instead to accede to the Empire’s request for a ceasefire and deal. 

That is not a given

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: ‘The MoU between Iran and America may be cancelled’ – Tasnim

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/32350

Posted by: Norwegian | May 24 2026 17:38 utc | 48

Seems all mysteries are gone:
 
“Iran will break a naval blockade imposed by the United States on its vessels and ports and more importantly withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if the US resumes attacks against the Islamic Republic, a senior advisor to the Leader of the Islamic Revolution says.“
 
Each attack,  June-February,  the price gets higher.
Next,  they will build the nuke.  The End.
One more attack.
 
True Promise 5 on deck…

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 24 2026 18:18 utc | 50

Based on empirical data going back over the last 60 years or so – the possibility of the United States of America signing a lasting a reasonably fair deal/treaty with the Islamic Republic of Iran is in the negative percentage area.    Brian Berletic with Glen Diessen ….  50 mins
 
Brian Berletic: The New Great Game – War Against Iran, Russia & China
 
The Big Picture. 

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 24 2026 19:16 utc | 52

 
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/2058617354402123900
Max Blumenthal  @MaxBlumenthal 
 
As expected, Israel is exploiting its insistence on occupying Lebanon – and its malign influence over Trump – to sabotage a durable deal with Iran
 
https://x.com/Alihashem/status/2058584638126174321
Ali Hashem علي هاشم  @Alihashem 
 
Less than 24 hours after optimism emerged around a possible Iran-US memorandum, negative vibes are already surfacing. 
 
A well-informed Iranian source tells me there are signs of U.S. retreat on two central issues: the mechanism for unfreezing Iranian assets, and the scope of a ceasefire in Lebanon.  
 
According to the source, the memorandum includes a Lebanon ceasefire framework, but Israel is reportedly uncomfortable with the arrangement and is pushing Washington to include language allowing it to carry out military operations in Lebanon under the justification of responding to “any threat.” Iran is rejecting that formulation and insisting on a sustainable and lasting ceasefire. 
 
Tehran has informed all mediators, including Pakistan, that it will not sign the memorandum unless all clauses are fully agreed and guaranteed. Pakistan reportedly suggested moving forward with agreed sections while postponing contentious points, but Iran rejected that approach, insisting the disputed clauses are fundamental and non-negotiable. 
 
The overall picture suggests Tehran increasingly views Washington as backing away from earlier understandings reached through mediators.   https://x.com/alihashem/stat
 
——————
 
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/32351#
Middle East Spectator — MES 
 
Two main points of dispute in the ongoing MoU discussions: 
 
1. The release of Iran’s frozen assets. Iran wants most of it up front. 
 
2. More importantly: Iran’s objection to Israeli ‘freedom of action’ in Lebanon in case of a ceasefire. Iran insists on an absolute ceasefire in Lebanon.
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 24 2026 19:20 utc | 54

Any idea how that would work?
ed4 you have not been Paying attention the past 2 1/2 months have you 🤣

Posted by: Exile | May 24 2026 19:34 utc | 56

Iran is running out the clock on the US, a US that knows that if it attacks Iran again the US financial bubble will implode and its whole imperial ally/vassal structure will start to break down. While Russia makes out like bandits and China will be just fine with 87% of its energy domestically produced (and it can increase that by substituting coal for natural gas in electricity generation), additional oil and gas coming in through pipelines, additional production available from Russia and others, and a huge ability to leverage its electrified mass transit systems and personal vehicle fleet to crush oil demand. Also, 2 mbpd of its previous oil demand was for oil product exports and building up its 1.3 billion barrel oil reserve. Israel is also a very small country that can be utterly devastated by Iranian missile and drone attack, even Hezbollah is taking out chunks of Israel’s failing Iron Dome system. All while the US military is telling Trump what bad shape it is in in the Middle East and the GCC states are refusing use of their land or air for any further aggression, while Iran has rebuilt its strength and receiving more aid from China than before.
 
The US has to make a deal, unless its oligarchy is truly blind enough to commit imperial suicide. The fact that the US long weekend was not used to attack Iran, the weekend that is the start of the US driving season, and just over 5 months from the US mid-terms, is a big tell. If there is no agreement now, Iran will keep running down the clock against the US leaky blockade (and selling the 100 million barrels it has at sea outside the Middle East, and increasing usage of land routes to export oil and LPG) and increasing numbers of nations accepting its terms for its de facto management of the Strait of Hormuz. And the oil price will remain high throughout the US driving season until a stock crisis point will be reached where the US would have to cut off Europe from exports to save the US consumer – July/August at the latest. Then the US forces in the region will have to be pulled back because of the sheer length of their assignments and material and human wear and tear.
 
And foreign nations, including China, will keep selling down their US Treasury bonds to either send a message, get hold of much needed cash, or escape before the inevitable dollar crisis; with US government interest rates rising. The “jawboning” has now started to fail, so the only real answer is Fed money printing to buy up the sold bonds together with the massive amounts of new US issuance to fund the 5.8% of GDP deficit (being increased next year by the gargantuan increase in the war spending budget) and to replace maturing government bonds. As this will be while Us inflation starts to rip, we will then see the dollar falling. 
 
The Trump administration cannot shit (attack Iran in spectacular own-goal fashion), cannot just keep sitting on the pot (which will result in a major crisis by July/August at the latest) so must get off the pot. Either by formal agreement (hence all the back and forth this weekend) or by de facto withdrawal. Iran knows this, and therefore is playing hardball – the equivalent of dumping a dogs nose in its own shit, old-fashioned aversion therapy to end 46 years of aggression.
 
 

Posted by: Roger Boyd | May 24 2026 19:56 utc | 58

@Posted by: michaelj72 | May 24 2026 19:20 utc | 53
 
Israel has used any excuse possible to keep slaughtering and torturing other populations that it wants to ethnically cleanse/genocide, so of course Iran will not provide any wriggle room. The US has shown itself again and again to be just as perfidious as the British, so some billions in the hand is worth much more than future possible billions in the bush.
A parallel to the current US/Israel-Iran conflict is the Afghan wiping out of the British army (16,000 soldiers and camp followers) sent to conquer it in 1842, leaving one soldier alive to deliver the message. The British returned again in 1878 to conquer Afghanistan but were then driven out for good (it was the Russians that would be the next from the 1970s, and the US from 2001) in 1919. The British could return because their empire was still growing in strength in the mid 1800s, while the US empire is on its downswing, as with the British Empire after WW1.  

Posted by: Roger Boyd | May 24 2026 20:10 utc | 60

@ Roger Boyd | May 24 2026 19:56 utc | 57 and snake about global finance ….thx
 
Over on the Weekly Open Thread I provided the link below to a posting at The Cradle you may want to check out….I see the private jackboot as growing….sigh
 
https://thecradle.co/articles/dozens-of-nations-scramble-for-world-bank-financing-amid-us-israeli-created-global-shock

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 24 2026 20:37 utc | 62

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 24 2026 19:17 utc | 52
     Trump holds no leverage against most of the GCC countries.
     And after proving Israel comes first and the GCC countries come a distant second, combined with Trump’s 2-faced, back-stabbing form of Caveman diplomacy, Israel is going to be holding its kosher sausage outside the dance hall.

Posted by: kupkee | May 24 2026 20:47 utc | 64

michaelj72 @ 53

 
Max Blumenthal  @MaxBlumenthal As expected, Israel is exploiting its insistence on occupying Lebanon – and its malign influence over Trump – to sabotage a durable deal with Iran

 
The deal is the Aoun govt., the Lebanese elites, willingly gift/secede southern Lebanon to Israel in return for Israel wiping out Hezbollah for them – crazy but true. So, Trump not only has to accommodate Israel but the Lebanese ruling elite. Which is why I don’t see it happening, and if resistance solidarity really is non-negotiable for Iran then there will not be a peace deal, just more buying time extending the ceasefire. 

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 24 2026 20:55 utc | 66

@65 LYFH

– “US State Department: We condemn in the strongest terms Hezbollah’s reckless call to overthrow the democratically elected Lebanese government”

– “Rubio: Hezbollah’s threats of violence and toppling the government will not be allowed to succeed”

Via Suhaib Al-Masalma

Posted by: Ornot | May 24 2026 21:05 utc | 68

Out on a Limb, but Unmoved: Trump Will Finish the Job in Iranhttps://amgreatness.com/2026/05/24/out-on-a-limb-but-unmoved-trump-will-finish-the-job-in-iran/
Iran can build missiles but can’t afford chickenhttps://www.iranintl.com/en/202605228453
 

Posted by: Dogon Priest | May 24 2026 21:14 utc | 70

Posted by: snake | May 24 2026 20:24 utc | 60
 

the Epstein class attack on China plan..its been called the Petroyuan trap.  

 
This so-called “petroyuan trap” theory doesn’t hold water.
 
It assumes that many goods that China and other countries need to import are, or will be, sold exclusively in dollars, even though that currency is losing influence everywhere.
 
Currently, the United States has no means of influencing enough countries to act in the same way it did in the past with oil and the Gulf states.
 
If a small number of allied countries were to agree to do so, they would lose customers, because they wouldn’t be the only ones selling the goods they export.
 
Besides the considerable sums they already hold, sell, and even lend, a major exporter like China or Russia always receives dollars or euros because some countries beg them to buy with those currencies.
 
And aside from American products, there is practically nothing in the world that is sold exclusively in dollars.
This country itself will soon be willing to sell in other currencies, particularly yuan, in order to import from China.
 
The current situation in Russia contradicts this theory.
Russia is forced to sell the surplus of dollars and euros it receives from its exports in order to draw down its foreign exchange reserves.
 
But this surplus continues to flow in.
 

Take over of Cuba is necessary to prevent Russian oil sales to China

 
This needs an explanation at least.
How controlling Cuba can it prevent Russia to sell oil to China???

Posted by: Sebgo | May 24 2026 21:57 utc | 72

@70
 
Closure of the Strait of Hormuz had no adverse impact on USA or Israel. In fact it was a boon for the US economy and its “drill baby drill” industry. Then the million dollar question is why USA negotiated peace with Iran? Got to be something else. It’s enriched uranium. Both USA and Israel fear the 441kg of enriched uranium which could be used as a radioactive waste weapon to depopulate Israel and possibly Oman too (which could link up Iran with Yemen). The important thing is Iran should not part with enriched uranium. The day it’s gone Iran will face a nuclear attack. As certain as hell.

Posted by: Jason | May 24 2026 22:42 utc | 74

Iran should not part with enriched uranium. It’s essential for national security. If it were attacked with nukes it could scatter radioactive material over Israel essentially causing depopulation as everyone will flee to USA, Canada and Europe turning Israel into Palestine. 
Posted by: Jason | May 24 2026 22:33 utc | 72
=================================
 
After reading that, all I can say is thank [insert name of deity here] people like you will never actually be in charge of national policies that could lead to such horrible, inhumane, thoughtless actions as making an entire region of Earth radioactive.
 
Sheesh. You must have a pretty low opinion of the Iranians’ morality to even think something like that.

Posted by: George the Zeroth | May 24 2026 22:49 utc | 76

The problem for the USA isn’t just demand for dollars that props up the US state sector as well as the financialized Ponzi private sector, it’s the data and surveillance around those dollars that the USA also controls, between national reserve bank accounts, commercial and investment bank accounts, swift, Visa/Mastercard, the Empire knows pretty much were every dollar is and what it’s doing, both metadata but detailed data, it gives the USA unbounded power surveilling, manipulating, sanctioning, threatening and blackmailing corporations, individuals, and politicians and entire nations across the globe while giving insider information to USA favored financial institutions corporations competing with international rivals.
 
But, you can still trade in dollar denominations outside the USA controlled market, you just do it in cash bought through various exchanges, promissory notes, or liquid dollar denominated assets staying away from banks, Swift, credit cards etc. Other than drugs and other illegal activity people didn’t do it in the past because of inconvenience, increased risk, insurance, and additive commission costs that destroyed profits, but, I’m guessing right now Russia, China, India are moving a ton of dollars around outside the system as sanctioned countries like Iran, Cuba, N. Korea always have always done and are probably sharing their expertise, and with state support probably at lower cost than through the normal dollar system.
 
On one hand this keeps demand for dollars higher than it would be, but it’s a sharp stick in the eye of the USA. I really doubt the dollar will become less than the biggest share of global trading for decades to come, but it doesn’t have to fall to zero to break hegemony, maybe just fall below 50%, it’s like a business, you don’t have to lose all your income to go broke, just the amount that makes running the business worthwhile. And, the USA will finally become blind to what’s happening among its technological, economic, and military rivals.
 
The most onerous aspects of the petrodollar will then fall on the vassal imbeciles that along with higher energy prices will make them even more uncompetitive with their ex-colonies and the RoW. The USA and its vassals are building a castle wall, a new iron curtain, only this time the skills, resources, and capital are outside the wall. 

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 24 2026 23:07 utc | 78

Why did the Saudis change tack?
 
A plausible explanation offered here by Dr Mitra Raheb. She’s based in Maimi so possible psyop, exercise epistemic humility.
 
The American Military Buildup in Saudi Arabia: Is the U.S. Preparing for War or a Tactical Exit?

Posted by: Suresh | May 24 2026 23:14 utc | 80

Israel’s President Herzog: We are becoming horrifically bestial
https://en.haberler.com/israel-s-president-herzog-we-are-becoming-2258802/

 
Israeli President Isaac Herzog admitted that fanatical Jews are attacking the sanctities of Muslim and Christian Palestinians, and that attacks by Israeli gangs in the West Bank have increased to a terrifying level. Herzog said, “A terrible process of dehumanization is taking place in the fringes of Israeli society. We are facing the animalistic behavior of a handful of people who believe that those arrested and interrogated have no rights.”
 
Israeli President Isaac Herzog said that a process of “animalization” is taking place in Israeli society, moving from the peripheries to the center.

Posted by: Wrath of Khan | May 24 2026 23:21 utc | 82

Cuba can transform brics currencies into USDs.. and it is a receipt of oil and gas from Mexico and Vz..(on hold for the moment).but i believe what i said at @60 and 
what is said in this link 
https://t.me/intelslava/88111
aswell as the comments of Professor Li in the link at 
provided by : LightYearsFromHome @ 66.. That we are at the end game.. either the federal reserve pulls off the near impossible feat of saving the dollar at  the expense of the economy of the world or China, Russia, Iran and Brics win.. and soon thereafter there will be a new dollar on the street.. or the old dollar will no longer be issued by the Fed it will be issued by each nation individually as need sees fit.. Get ready to pay $10 for a loaf of bread, followed the next bread purchase for $15 dollars and so on. 
did you read the link i provided https://ceinewsletter.substack.com/p/the-petroyuan-trap-the-us-plan-to  and my comments that preceded it at 60? 
 
 

Posted by: snake | May 24 2026 23:25 utc | 84

I can’t see that the changes even with a persistent blockade on Iran (unlikely) and U.S. bullying of of Venezuela are going to have much negative effect on China.
 
Petroleum imports are only around 13% of China’s total imports by value. China is awash in only marginally useful USD (due to U.S. sanctions and other barriers) because of their robust trade surplus.
 
De-dollarization  will continue apace. 
 
Also, “Ukrainian” attacks on Russian refineries just leave more crude for China’s refineries. 

Posted by: Billb | May 24 2026 23:57 utc | 86

Posted by: Billb | May 24 2026 23:57 utc | 84

Further to Bilb’s data China’s dependence on fossil fuels are declining due to 20 years spend on building up renewables for energy security.
Plus, China has their own vast oil and gas fields largely untapped. It’s a US perpetuated myth that China can be choked from ME oil and gas. Many here repeat the same garbage even though they say US and MSM lies about everything.
Data from Dr Warwick Powell on Substack.
—————–
Coal: ~58–62%;

Oil (petroleum and other liquids): ~17–19% (Sinopec-linked forecasts ~17.2% for 2025; broader estimates ~19%);

Natural gas: ~8–9%; and

Non-fossil (hydro, nuclear, wind, solar, etc.): ~19–21% (recently edging past oil in some metrics).

It is estimated that ~70–75% of crude is imported. Total crude imports reached a record ~11.6 mb/d in 2025.
…..declining share from ME due to Russian increases.

Posted by: Surferket | May 25 2026 0:24 utc | 88

Posted by: jared | May 25 2026 0:18 utc | 85

Many Global South don’t have currency treasuries so they do contra trade with China which China is perfectly willing to take. Don’t need US$ to trade with China. Don’t even need Yuan if you want to do contra.

Posted by: Surferket | May 25 2026 0:26 utc | 90

Posted by: arby | May 25 2026 0:32 utc | 89
Goods in kind.

If you have minerals China will take. If you have copper china will take.
In return for what you need from China. Chinese Goods if your needs are immediate. Yuan from China is very useful since China is the real Walmart to the whole world now.

Posted by: Surferket | May 25 2026 0:38 utc | 92

Now Trump stalling 5-7 days.
Guessing Hajj.  Inability to use Saudi airspace.

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 25 2026 0:45 utc | 94

Posted by: Dogon Priest | May 24 2026 21:14 utc | 69
 
Trump has never finished a. Job in his life.
 
 

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 25 2026 0:51 utc | 96

https://nitter.net/MonitorX99800/status/2058667225167327660
 

Trump in a phone call asked the leaders of Arab and Muslim countries that if an agreement is reached between the US and Iran, he wants their countries to sign a peace agreement with Israel.
 
The leaders, especially those of Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, were surprised and there was silence on the line, until Trump jokingly asked if they were still on the call. — Axios citing a US official.

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 25 2026 0:56 utc | 98

Ceasefire in Lebanon is beyond US control. At best it’ll be like Gaza where there’s a ceasefire but Israel gets to kill anyone they want but no more mass killings which are bad for global PR optics. Meanwhile Palestinians prisoners get sodomised, raped, summarily executed while detained uncharged in Israeli prisons.

Posted by: Surferket | May 25 2026 1:03 utc | 100