The Great Economic War
- Dagny
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A Tariff is a tax on a producer in your country levied by a foreign government. Of course it is a military and economic warfare tool. It has been wielded for decades against us.
For your hilarious viewing pleasure:
Almost $3 TRILLION in new investments coming to America b/c of Trump’s tariff policies And this doesn’t even include his new $5 million Gold business Visas which already raised $5 billion on their 1st day (media.greatawakening.win)
Bessent: Other Countries Will Have Chance ‘To Lower Their Tariffs’, Other Barriers
QUOTE: Monday on Fox News, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that under President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariff plan, other countries “will have the opportunity to lower their tariffs” and lower non-tariff barriers, as well as ending currency manipulation and subsidization.The host asked, “Why would the markets become skittish over the ‘uncertainty’ over what tariffs will remain or leave? You can see, at the last minute, countries like India are like, okay, I’m ready to make a deal now, the same with Great Britain, and it’s the same with other European countries, I’m ready to talk now, because the deadline is coming.”Bessent responded, “April 2, we are going to disclose the reciprocal tariffs. I’m not going to get out ahead of President Trump. He’s going to announce them 3:00 on Wednesday. And I think, for the first time in decades, probably since I was a college student, we’re going to see fair trade. And everyone will have the opportunity to lower their tariffs, lower their non-tariff barriers, stop the currency manipulation, stop subsidizing labor, stop subsidizing, stop providing cheap loans, and make the global trading system fair for American workers again.”
National security is economic security.
QUOTE: The US Treasury Department proudly leveled new sanctions against financiers of the criminal Sinaloa drug cartel, which has flooded our borders with fentanyl and senselessly murdered innocent American citizens. This ends under President Trump’s leadership.
Military Action Imminent?
Speaker Johnson Cancels Votes for Rest of Week, Derailing Two Critical Bills,
🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 A large-scale attack on Iran will begin soon, an unprecedented assault since World War II.
— Israeli Channel 14
Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued travel warnings to all Israelis travelling abroad.
Also, Israeli air force has announced exit restrictions at all airbases throughout the country, no personnel are allowed to leave.
New York Times Comes Clean, Admits Direct U.S. Involvement in Ukraine War
The New York Times published a lengthy article on Sunday revealing that the Ukraine war is far more than a mere proxy conflict between the United States and Russia. It is a full-on hot war.
The piece, titled “The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine,” admits that Joe Biden’s America “was woven into the war far more intimately and broadly than previously understood.” It documents how the administration violated its own code of conduct up to the point of authorizing attacks on Russian territory and effectively deploying American service members as active combatants in the conflict.
American officers reportedly decided what Russian targets would be attacked, transmitted their coordinates to the Ukrainian military, then authorized the attacks using NATO-provided weapons.
Likely an intentional leak to get Europe to man up for its own defense, and the Middle East too. Also putting China on notice...:
🇺🇸Internal guidance from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth focuses on deterring China’s seizure of Taiwan and shoring up homeland defense.
➡️Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reoriented the U.S. military to prioritize deterring China’s seizure of Taiwan and shoring up homeland defense by “assuming risk” in Europe and other parts of the world, according to a secret internal guidance memo.
➡️The document, known as the Interim National Defense Strategic Guidance and marked “secret/no foreign national” in most passages, was distributed throughout the Defense Department in mid-March and signed by Hegseth. It outlines, in broad and sometimes partisan detail, the execution of President Donald Trump’s vision to prepare for and win a potential war against Beijing and defend the United States from threats in the “near abroad,” including Greenland and the Panama Canal.
➡️“China is the Department’s sole pacing threat, and denial of a Chinese fait accompli seizure of Taiwan — while simultaneously defending the U.S. homeland is the Department’s sole pacing scenario,” Hegseth wrote. Its force planning construct — a concept of how the Pentagon will build and resource the armed services to take on perceived threats — will consider conflict only with Beijing when planning contingencies for a major power war, it says, leaving the threat from Moscow largely attended by European allies.
➡️The Pentagon will “assume risk in other theaters” given personnel and resource constraints, and pressure allies in Europe, the Middle East and East Asia to spend more on defense to take on the bulk of the deterrence role against threats from Russia, North Korea and Iran, according to the guidance.
⛔️Mission failed: UK and US helped orchestrate Ukraine’s 2024 Crimean Bridge attack
🔴Western-supplied ATACMS were supposed to “weaken vulnerable points” on the deck of the Crimea Bridge, while maritime drones would then “blow up next to its stanchions,” a New York Times investigation revealed.
🔴The UK helped Ukraine work out a blueprint to “bring the bridge down” together with the US and the CIA.
🔴But while the drones were being readied, the Russians hardened their defenses around the stanchions, wrote the outlet.
🔴The British military had considerable clout in Ukraine, “unlike the Americans, they had placed small teams of officers in the country” shortly after the conflict escalated in 2022.
🔴The US had first pushed back at Ukraine’s plan to strike with missiles alone, but eventually backed down.
🔴On the night of August 16, Russian air defense systems successfully repelled the entire volley of enemy ATACMS missiles.
Trump sees Ukraine as a monkey with a hand grenade
While some accused the American president of wanting to seize control of Ukraine’s energy resources for his own country’s benefit, Arestovych asserted that the real reason was that Washington knows about Budanov’s apocalyptic plan. He said that the Trump administration sees the Ukrainian government as “apes with a grenade” and wants to “take these dangerous toys out of our control.”
“They know about our plans to blow up all the nuclear power plants if Ukraine starts losing,” Arestovych said. “Budanov was running around with this [idea] a year and a half ago. Blow up everything, the Russian plants we can reach as well as our own, so that nobody gets them.”
The rationale behind this doomsday scenario, the former adviser claimed, is “we all bite the dust, but so will they.” He referred to Zelensky and his senior staff as “a group of deranged people.”
Arestovych further stated that American efforts to gain control over Ukraine’s nuclear facilities actually date back to the Biden administration, when such plans were proposed under the guise of scientific research. The U.S. Republicans, he says, prefer a more direct approach.
Arestovych also alluded to the efforts of Ukrainian banker Oleh Gorokhovsky to raise funds for a nuclear weapons program for the country following Trump’s explosive clash with Zelensky in the Oval Office last month. His fundraiser brought in more than half a million euros.
Arestovych has continued to comment publicly on the war and has been critical of Zelensky’s handling of it. He eventually left Ukraine out of fear of being arrested. He still has a significant social media following, and has said that he will run for president of Ukraine when the next elections are held.
Germany invades Lithuania
🇩🇪🇱🇹⚡️Germany is starting to permanently deploy a brigade of 5,000 troops to Lithuania to strengthen NATO's eastern flank, Politico reported.
The newly created 45th Brigade, under the command of Brigadier General Christoph Huber, will be located at a military base in the town of Rudninkai, located 30 km south of the Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
Did you forget our submarines?
What ceasefire? Zelensky RAMPS UP ATTACKS on Russian energy facilities
Contrary to the Zelensky regime's official statements, Ukrainian forces have escalated their attacks on Russia's energy infrastructure.
Here’s the timeline:
▪️On March 31, Russia's Defense Ministry announced that Ukrainian troops had targeted power facilities in the Bryansk Region twice in a 24-hour period, causing power outages for residential consumers.
▪️On March 29 and 30, Ukrainian combatants repeatedly struck power grids, substations, and transformers in the Kursk and Belgorod regions, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
▪️On March 28, the Sudzha gas measuring station was effectively destroyed from a Ukrainian HIMARS strike.
▪️On March 26, a Ukrainian drone was gearing up to attack ground equipment at the Glebovskoye underground gas storage facility in Crimea but was shot down by Russia’s anti-aircraft systems, according to the Defense Ministry.
▪️Meanwhile, Zelensky’s media outfits have been spinning conspiracy theories that Ukrainian units "haven't launched strikes on Russian energy infrastructure for a week," and that Russia "is shelling itself."
▪️Hungary confirms that Ukraine regularly targets international energy infrastructure on Russian soil. The attacks have even caused disruptions in oil supplies, according to Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto.
Personal Thoughts:
I think the Trump spat with Russia is all for show - to prove Trump is not a Russophile.
I think the resources deal with Ukraine and America was just a pretend deal - intended to fail - ( overwhelming evidence for this ) so that the Europeans would allow their greed to get them to pay for the defense of Europe. They think they outsmarted Trump and stole his deal. ; )
I think Russia will continue to take parts of Ukraine methodically, that Europe will in due time discover what a pig in a poke they have bought. Russia holds virtually all the resource areas already. Europe is financially doomed by their lust for money and power.
I think that sooner or later Zelensky will let his guard down, or his CIA handlers will be forced to let their guard down, and Zelensky will die of a "drug overdose". So sad too bad, not Russia or America's fault. However very convenient as there will finally be someone who is not a drug psychotic to negotiate with.
I think the only reason why the Americans have not admitted to the nuclear power plant attacks by Ukraine is because Trump is still trying to get a deal through for control of the nuclear power plants. He's playing friendly and dumb to NATO. Embarrassing the Europeans and Ukraine would interfere with that. Trump is still trying to defuse the "monkey with the hand grenade" of Ukraine control of the nuclear power plants.
I think Russia is functionally asking for the truth about the nuclear attacks as a condition of a ceasefire. There will be no further ceasefires since Ukraine already made it clear no deal with Zelensky is worth the ink on the paper. Zelensky has proven that by violating the energy inrfastructure ceasefire repeatedly. Thus the same old war will continue to Russia's continuing advantage until Trump makes the Ukraine nuclear crimes against humanity public.
When Russia gets close to taking Kiev then the monkey with the hand grenade will become apparent. That puts a deadline on Trump's attempts to wrest the nuclear hand grenade from Ukraine. After that the truth has no reason to be withheld, but then that would be a disaster for everyone.
🇨🇳🇺🇸Chinese authorities have stopped a deal under which the American investment fund Black Rock would have bought two Chinese ports on the Panama Canal.
This is reported by CNN. The signing was planned for next week. Black Rock was going to buy out the controlling stake of Hong Kong company CK Hutchison, which has a stake in 43 ports around the world.
But now the buyout has been blocked by China's antitrust authorities.
The Black Rock deal was seen as a "way to ease tensions in the region" after Trump threatened to take the Panama Canal away from the US. He later praised the deal.
Trump on Oil Sanctions for Russia
“If Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault — which it might not be — but if I think it was Russia’s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil, on all oil coming out of Russia,” Trump reportedly said. “That would be that if you buy oil from Russia, you can’t do business in the United States.”
The Left has spent the past decade squawking that Trump is a Russian agent and that his government is nothing more than a Western Hemisphere wing of the Kremlin. Common sense suggests the implementation of these tariffs would kill that narrative once and for all, but it won’t. That kind of messaging isn’t based on substance. It is pure propaganda. Trump could order airstrikes on Moscow and Democrats would still insist he did it as some sort of favor to Putin.
So, let me get this straight. Le Pen faces imprisonment over €2.9M EU funds that she allegedly misused. But IMF chief Christine Lagarde was found guilty of handing €403M of EU taxpayers' money to a tycoon, yet received no sentence and is now running the ECB. (twitter.com)
🇲🇩🇲🇩 Gagauzia's leader Yevgenia Gutsul who was recently arrested by the Moldovan authorities, issued an address:
Dear residents of Gagauzia, dear citizens of Moldova, my comrades and all who care about justice! All honest people of our country!
We have witnessed real arbitrariness. Contrary to common sense and the law, the court decided to arrest me for 20 days on a completely fabricated, trumped-up criminal case. This is not just pressure on me personally - it is a blow to all of Gagauzia, to our traditions of self-government, to our rights and freedoms. This is a slap in the face to all of us. This is an attempt to trample our will and our right to decide our own destiny!
Know - I AM NOT BROKEN! I did not flinch, I did not ask for mercy from those who want to humiliate Gagauzia. And I will not renounce my convictions! Because I know that YOU are behind me. The truth is behind me. Our land, our children, our future are behind me!
I urge you not to give in to fear, not to give up and not to lose faith in our victory. No repression can silence us, no false accusations will make us give up the fight for our interests, for the future of Gagauzia and the whole country. They think that by locking me up they will suppress your anger, your fortitude. But they are wrong. The stronger the pressure, the stronger we become.
My comrades! Continue to defend our values, protect the rights of the Gagauz people and all citizens who believe in honesty and justice. Our strength is in unity. And only together can we resist lawlessness.
Comrades! The real fight is just beginning. Let us defend every house, every street, every soul in our Gagauzia! Let every official, every judge, every traitor who sold himself for thirty pieces of silver know - we will not forgive and will not forget!
I thank from the bottom of my heart everyone who did not stand aside: politicians, parties, public figures, journalists and ordinary citizens who openly expressed support in this difficult moment. Your solidarity gives me strength and confidence that we will win! Your support warms me in this stone cage. You have proven that we are not alone, there are many of us and we are stronger than any lie!
This arrest is just a test that we will pass with dignity. I believe in our truth, in the strength of the people and that justice will prevail.
They wanted to scare us? It didn't work.
They wanted to break us? We will only become stronger.
They thought we would retreat? They miscalculated.
I believe we will break through, we will win. Because the truth is on our side. And the truth sooner or later destroys any bars.
Your Bashkan Evgenia Gutsul is with you until the end.
P.S. Hold on! Fight! Believe! I'll be back soon!
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Submitted through Evgeniya Gutsul's lawyers
🇹🇷According to the most conservative estimates, around 2 million people are taking part in the protests in Turkey.
The protesters are no longer demanding the release of the opposition politician (Erdogan's main competitor), but the holding of early elections!!!
It is becoming increasingly difficult for Erdogan to maintain his power.
In his latest speeches he is noticeably nervous. He calls the protesters either deceived or traitors.
British Council Institutes Harsher Criminal Sentencing, But Only For White Men
The Sentencing Council of England And Wales, a non-departmental public body (faceless bureaucracy) which determines the guidelines for court punishments of convicted offenders, has recently made controversial changes and ignited a firestorm among the native British populace.
The council has announced that special exceptions in sentencing will be made for ethnic minority offenders (the majority of violent crime in Britain) and religious minority offenders, as well as female offenders. In other words, everyone except white males will enjoy reduced sentencing, creating a two tier justice system that targets white men for harsher treatment.
Yet another leader with a wife who has a male characteristic.... Michelle Obama, Jacinda Arden, Brigitte Macron... It seems to be a requirement.
Not the only smoking gun pointing to the CIA:
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