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Ibrahim Traoré wearing St. George’s ribbon with pride.

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“As rigged as the 2020 election.”

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Given everything that has been broadcast out of the Trump camp regarding the Iran/Israel situation— re: “we want to make a deal with Iran”— this negotiation will ultimately come down to trust. The “technical elements” are otherwise meaningless.

If Trump formally recognizes Palestine, it will be the single-most flippantly defiant moment (toward Israel) in US foreign policy since the JFK administration. It will serve as a signal to Tehran that Trump is bold and strong and able to act outside of the influence of DC. It will be proof that Trump represents their best opportunity to make an earnest and mutually beneficial deal with the West.

President Trump is a showman and a brilliant storyteller. He will want a bold and memetic gesture from Iran to help capture the gravity of this moment, and it would behoove Iran if said gesture also granted them protections from Israeli aggression.

Joining the Abraham Accords would accomplish all of this. It would demonstrate to the world that Iran doesn’t seek war, and would give them new Arab allies in the event that Israel strikes first. It would also give Iran all of the narrative sympathy in such an attack, making them the true victim.

If they were to give President Trump this gesture, how could he deny them a civil nuclear program as part of the new Iran nuclear deal?

https://x.com/ghostofbph/status/1921567999745552646

They are catching on. Very soon the Sovereign Alliance will be an undeniable part of reality.

Netanyahu is on Israeli television trying to spin this situation as something that was his decision. Do you remember the tantrum he threw when Biden stopped sending 2,000 pound bombs?

https://x.com/ghostofbph/status/1921682222072938811

“Although competing with major rivals was central to Trump’s first term and Biden’s term, it’s important to note that “great-power competition” never described a coherent strategy. To have a strategy suggests that leaders have defined concrete ends or metrics of success. During the Cold War, for example, Washington sought to increase its power in order to contain Soviet expansion and influence. In the contemporary era, by contrast, the struggle for power has often seemed like an end in itself. Although Washington identified its rivals, it rarely specified when, how, and for what reason competition was taking place. As a result, the concept was exceedingly elastic. “Great-power competition” could explain Trump’s threats to abandon NATO unless European countries increased defense spending, since doing so could protect American security interests from free-riding. But the term could also apply to Biden’s reinvestment in NATO, which sought to revitalize an alliance of democracies against Russian and Chinese influence.”
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“In pursuing accommodations with rivals, Trump may be breaking with recent convention, but he is tapping into a deeply rooted tradition. The notion that rival great powers should come together to manage a chaotic international system is one that leaders have embraced at many points in history, often in the wake of catastrophic wars that left them seeking to establish a more controlled, reliable, and resilient order. In 1814–15, in the wake of the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars that engulfed Europe for almost a quarter century, the major European powers assembled in Vienna with the aim of forging a more stable and peaceful order than the one produced by the balance-of-power system of the eighteenth century, where great-power war occurred practically every decade. The result was “the Concert of Europe,” a group that initially included Austria, Prussia, Russia, and the United Kingdom. In 1818, France was invited to join.


Trump may be breaking with recent convention, but he is tapping into a deep tradition.
As mutually recognized great powers, members of the Concert were endowed with special rights and responsibilities to mitigate destabilizing conflicts in the European system. If territorial disputes arose, instead of seeking to exploit them to expand their own power, the European leaders would meet to seek a negotiated solution to the conflict. Russia had long eyed expansion into the Ottoman Empire, and in 1821, the Greek revolt against Ottoman rule seemed to provide Russia with a significant opportunity to do just that. In response, Austria and the United Kingdom called for restraint, arguing that a Russian intervention would wreak havoc on the European order. Russia backed down, with Tsar Alexander I promising, “It is for me to show myself convinced of the principles on which I founded the alliance.” At other times, when revolutionary nationalist movements threatened the order, the great powers convened to guarantee a diplomatic settlement, even if it meant forgoing significant gains.”

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/rise-and-fall-great-power-competition

Archived: https://archive.ph/wFmI7

So @Boeing fails to deliver the new Air Force One on its promised deadline of 2025, has no timetable for when the plane will be ready, and they are being given a free pass by the CIA-controlled mainstream media?

Now President Trump’s old friend, Sheikh Tamim of Qatar, is going to gift the United States government a free luxury plane, and President Trump is the bad guy?

Stop listening to these petulant sociopaths. They have no credibility or authority.

(Also, this is major signal of collaboration between Trump and Qatar, the latter of which is under heavy proverbial fire from Netanyahu, who is now trying to blame Qatar for all of Israel’s problems.)

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Politics/trump-administration-poised-accept-palace-sky-gift-trump/story

Thank you Hamas, very cool!

https://t.me/insiderpaper/35544

I suspect we will soon see similar videos out of Israel, with the conscription of the Haredi (Orthodox and Hasidic Jews) about to unfold for the first time in Israel’s history.

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/147612

Some Chris Paul 🔥 from last night's show.

Full episode: https://rumble.com/v6t75e9-devolution-power-hour-ep.-353.html?mref=2ay364&mc=b2hfe

Axios, citing sources, writes that Zelensky will fly to Istanbul for talks with Russia, even if it refuses to agree to a ceasefire on May 12 .

In the fall of 2022, the Ukrainian president issued a decree banning direct negotiations with Putin. Zelensky's decision has not yet been reversed.

At the same time, the Kremlin did not provide any information about the Russian leader’s possible participation in the negotiations.

t.me/ForeignAgentIntel

The main "architect" of the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the director of British intelligence MI6, Richard Moore, is resigning this autumn.

t.me/ForeignAgentIntel

Accelerate.

Massive development. Trump keeping his promise to Mahmoud Abbas, whom he described as a “father-like figure” during a 2021 interview with Israeli media.

https://x.com/ghostofbph/status/1921707298386325679

Let the kvetching begin.