Lavrov didn’t equivocate: Russia accepted Washington’s proposal in Anchorage. What followed wasn’t cooperation — it was sanctions hardened, ships boarded, tankers seized, and Europe left to absorb the damage.

That contradiction is the story. Diplomacy for the cameras. Coercion in practice.

In my latest piece for the Ron Paul Institute, I lay out what Anchorage actually revealed:
why the sanctions machine never stopped,why Europe paid the price and now quietly admits it, and why Russia, fully aware of Washington’s midterm clock, is taking a harder line.

This isn’t a frozen conflict. It’s a closing window and Moscow knows it holds the leverage as the clock runs down.

https://ronpaulinstitute.org/anchorage-was-the-receipt-europe-is-paying-the-price-and-knows-it/

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🇬🇱Greenland isn’t rich the way you think.

It’s not a treasure chest. It’s a hinge.

The GIUK gap. The Atlantic choke point. The place where naval flows get tracked, boxed, or released. Whoever holds it shapes the weather in the North Atlantic.

And while everyone argues about rare earths, Russia is operationalizing the Arctic.
37.9 million tonnes through the Northern Sea Route. Icebreakers scaling. Doctrine through 2035.

Corridors don’t stay theory. They become infrastructure. Then they become massive leverage.

You’re being sold a minerals story. This is about command of the North Atlantic–Arctic axis.

So when Trump says “we have to have Greenland,” don’t hear real estate.

Hear unlimited basing rights. Hear radar arcs. Hear ownership without the flag.

Greenland is less about rare earths. It’s about who controls the geopolitical weather in the North Atlantic.

I broke the whole board down — minerals, NSR, icebreakers, Golden Dome, the lot.

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Kallas: “Russia is no superpower.”
Reality: Moscow outproduces NATO 4-to-1 in shells, bleeds Ukraine 37-to-1, fields hypersonics Europe can’t stop, runs the 4th largest economy by PPP. Europe shut down its factories and called it strategy.

God help us!

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EU Digital ID Wallet mandatory by December 2026. VPN restrictions in UK. An Orwellian Democracy Shield with Brussels-funded fact-checkers. 24-hour content removal mandates. All to “protect children.”

€2.5 BILLION in fines extracted from X, Meta, TikTok.

January 2026: DOJ released 2% of the Epstein files. Check who they protected.
Check who they prosecuted (zero). Check whose names stay redacted. Check whose information they published, victims’ driver’s licenses, exposed.

Keir Starmer appointed Epstein’s “best pal” as UK Ambassador. Knew the relationship. Knew the history. Appointed him anyway.
Now he’s banning VPNs for “child safety.”

Then ask why THESE EXACT PEOPLE need your identity before you’re allowed to speak.

They didn’t prosecute the network because they were the network’s best customers.
So how dare they invoke children’s safety to strip yours.

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Brussels just made a catastrophic mistake. A Berlin court ordered X to hand over Hungarian election data to researchers Germany funds — weeks before the vote.

They’re trying to setup up another Romania. If they try to soft coup Hungary's election and fail, every populist in Europe learns Brussels is even weaker than it looks.

The EU collapses either way.

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🇬🇧Britain pledged to "defend Europe."

It fields the smallest army since Cromwell. Ten warships. 140 combat aircraft. A £28bn defence hole discovered after the promise was made.

Britain’s Ghost Army isn’t a metaphor. It’s cold arithmetic. Full verdict 👇

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Four years. A lost board. And now Starmer and Macron... Dr. Strangelove without the self-awareness — are reaching for the TN75 nuclear warhead to hand over to Ukraine, rather than accept checkmate. Nobody voted for this. Nobody was asked.

History will not struggle to name what this is. The tragedy is that there may be no historians left to write it. Full piece 👇

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🇩🇪 Chancellor SchMerz stood in a cinema surrounded by weapons dealers and quoted a man who called Russia barbaric. What he didn’t tell you is that the same man called Russia civilised. He deleted that word. Deliberately. Because you cannot sell a war against Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and Tchaikovsky. You can only sell it against barbarians — so he made them barbarians, right there, in the cinema, with his merchants of war watching.

He is bleeding Ukraine white for a war its men swim frozen rivers to escape and bankrupting Germany to pay for it — factories gone, sovereignty sold, sons next — two peoples sacrificed on the altar of a dead ideology by a man who has never once been asked to pay the price of his own bloodthirsty arrogance. This is the ultimate cowardice: to destroy without consequence, to betray without accountability, to stand in a cinema and lecture the world about barbarism while the bodies and the balance sheets tell the real story.

Both peoples betrayed. Neither consulted. The barbarian was never in Moscow.

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The "Wing of Zion" circled off the Israeli coastline for four hours while Iranian missiles struck Haifa and Tel Aviv. Circled. Waiting. Then flew west. Over Greece. On to Berlin.

The man who invoked Purim and the lion’s roar and told his people there would be “heavy costs” — was in Germany hiding like a coward when the costs arrived.

Forty-eight hours before the bombs fell, Iran had agreed in Geneva to full IAEA verification, irreversible uranium downgrade, no stockpiling above civilian levels. Oman’s foreign minister called it a breakthrough. The strike date was already circled on a calendar in Tel Aviv before the talks began.

Then they killed the Supreme Leader. Thirty-five years. Eight American presidents. Sanctions, assassinations, a war with brutal war by Western darlin gSaddam, the twelve-day war. Khamenei outlasted all of it. He did not outlast this. And yet... the missiles kept flying.

The Assembly of Experts convened. The IRGC escalated. The succession activated without fracture. Washington wanted to prove that American power can decapitate a government and trigger its collapse. What it proved — in front of the entire world — was the opposite.

One man ordered the war from a resort in Florida. The other (the architect) ordered it, made his speech, and got on a plane. Eighty-five children died in a school in Minab. The Strait closed by afternoon. The ceasefire request came before dinner.

This is where it leads: a closed Strait, a martyred Supreme Leader who unified every Iranian regardless of faction, a rare earth embargo already running, and a multipolar world that just watched the Islamic Republic absorb a decapitation strike and keep fighting. The empire didn’t break Iran. It demonstrated, live, that Iran cannot be so easily broken. Every government in the Global South filed that lesson.

They called it Epic Fury. Read what it actually was in our latest substack 👇

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🇧🇭 Bahrain is in revolution. Saudi armour is rolling in to crush it. You will not see this on CNN.

For three decades Washington told you the missiles are for the people (we have to commit mass murder to save them!) — for the oppressed, the voiceless, those living under theocratic tyranny. It funded colour revolutions. Cheered manufactured protesters in Iran. Ran Farsi-language CIA social media accounts urging Iranians into the streets. Every last word of it in the name of freedom. But where is CNN and the BBC demanding freedom and liberty for this popular uprising in Bahrain? Fecking hypocrites.

The majority Shia population of Bahrain are in the streets. Saudi tanks are crossing the King Fahd Causeway. Again. Where is the White House statement cheering on this popular uprising for liberty and freedom? Where is the State Department’s grave concern? Silent — because Bahrain hosts the Fifth Fleet, and the Al Khalifa family are the right kind of autocrats. The kind that price their oil in dollars. The wrong kind of autocrat is simply the one Washington doesn’t own. Washington loves brutal dictatorships and the feeling is mutual for the Sunni monarchs that are loyal to the empires exporting of actual terrorism.

Now watch the boomerang.

The regime change virus they launched at Tehran is airborne and unguided. Bahrain shaking. Saudi Arabia’s Shia Eastern Province — sitting on top of the kingdom’s oil fields, furious for forty years — watching every frame of this. How stable is Kuwait? Qatar’s LNG offline. Every Gulf monarch who rented their soil to Washington is now a target not of Iran’s choosing but of America’s regime change boomerang.

And Israel. When historians go looking for what Operation Epic Fury actually produced, they may well find the regimes that fell were not in Tehran. The Likud fantasy of a redrawn Middle East may yet arrive — just not in the direction anyone promised the Israeli public.

They wanted regime change in Iran. They may have lit the fuse on everything else.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Darwinian level arrogance and incompetence.

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