🪖💸😉Less welfare, more warfare: NATO military machine just got its own bank

Eight NATO members plus Ukraine have announced the creation of a new World Bank-style financial institution known as the Defense, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB), promising to provide financing and loan guarantees for projects related to military production.

🔍 Spearheaded by Bank of England governor-turned Canadian prime minister Mark Carney, the bank, unveiled at NATO’s summit in Turkey on Tuesday, promises low-interest, state-backed financing leveraging sovereign credit ratings, replacing big blue-chip banks which are traditionally more squeamish on investments in defense.

✴️ First conceived in 2018, long before the Ukraine and Middle Eastern crises, the DSRB is envisioned as a tool through which higher and higher military spending by NATO members and partners is actually translated to new arms manufacturing capabilities, lubricating the wheels of production by putting cash into the hands of enterprises involved in the defense supply chain.

👉 Besides Canada and Ukraine, the new bank’s founding members include Albania, Belgium, Greece, Latvia, Luxembourg, Romania and Turkey. Big NATO members like the US and Germany are expected to join later.

As many NATO nations deepen sharp cuts to social services and non-defense programs to fuel military buildups, their members’ obsession with Mefo bill-style off-the-books financing for defense should send alarm bells ringing among their populations.

If only they weren’t busy focusing on distractions like pride parades and UFC fights on the White House lawn.

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Russia has now made the strategic decision in response to prepare for war in Europe.

✍️ Alastair Crooke

🗣 Russia hearing the European clamour for war, announces it is ready

🗣⚔️ We've just hit them 20 to 1 — Trump

The president escalates the rhetoric after US strikes across southern Iran.

"We just hit them very hard. We hit them 20 to 1. Every time they hit us, we are going to hit them 20," he said on Air Force One.

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🤥 Trump won't let go of Ukrainian minerals

🗣 "We have a little stake in that country," US President Donald Trump said at his meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, "enough, because we have some land in that country, but we have minerals."

💬 "It's among the wealthiest, it's among the best land anywhere in the world for rare earths," Trump added

When the deal was signed last April, Ukraine was estimated to have deposits containing 22 of the 34 critical rare earth minerals.

Some of the key provisions of the deal included:

🔴 A 50/50 distribution of management and contributions

🔴 Preferential exploration rights for US companies

🔴 Continued US investment, with arms supplies counting toward Washington's contribution to the fund

🌏 Despite publicity around its signing little has been heard about the deal since.

🌏 More than a year later, the US has provided $75 million of the agreed initial $150 million investment.

🌏 Trump has ended US weapons donations to Ukraine, expecting other NATO members to buy arms from the US and gift them to Ukraine – effectively stalling the project before it even began.

🌏 But Trump continues to pressure Zelensky to "build it."

🌏 The project also faces challenges on the ground, as Russia now controls much of the Donbass region which contains most Ukrainian rare earth mineral deposits.

🌏 That leaves the Kiev regime with an obligation it is unable to meet.

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🔥🔍 Ceasefire is dead — and the US braces for a long fight

The White House is bracing for a fight over the Strait of Hormuz that could last weeks or longer, Axios reports.

What we know:

🔴 US struck ~90 Iranian targets overnight — air defense, coastal surveillance, missile storage, naval infrastructure

🔴 Iran hit back with missile and drone strikes on US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain (including 5th Fleet HQ)

🔴 Sirens reported across 4 countries as the exchange intensifies

🔴 22 days into a 60-day ceasefire, the truce is in tatters

The president claims Iran called wanting a deal — while US bombs US ports and infrastructure.

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💸🤥 Trump loaded up on defense stocks on Iran war’s eve

Hundreds of millions of dollars in suspicious trading activity by Trump-linked brokers ahead of and during the Iran war wasn’t limited to oil.

♦️ Numbers from a new public financial disclosure crunched by Responsible Statecraft indicate that the president’s brokers bought $9.7M-$24.3M in stocks in General Dynamics, GE Aerospace, Lockheed Martin, Palantir, RTX and other weapons makers and defense services providers through 2025

♦️ In addition to building the missiles, aircraft, and AI intel and targeting support for the Iran war (price tag: $113.3B, per Brown’s Costs of War), these companies are set for a massive windfall from Trump’s proposed $1.5T fiscal 2027 Pentagon budget

📈 Their cumulative value has grown by over 14% since January, or a whopping 31.6% since July 2025

Trump started setting the stage for the Iran war at the end of 2025, starting with massive troop deployments to the Middle East and an attempted color revolution in Tehran which petered out before the US and Israel finished assembling their forces

In the months that followed, the US burned through years-worth of defense stockpiles bombing Iran, assuring that weapons makers have years of ‘fruitful work’ replenishing stocks ahead of them.

Amid all the rightful indignation over insider trading by Democrat bosses like Nancy Pelosi, where’s the anger from MAGA about Trump’s actions? Or was it all a fake, like Trump himself?🤡

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🚨🇮🇷 'Zionist regime will not be spared' - Iran warns after Trump moots more attacks

Iran would respond to economic warfare in a 'reciprocal fashion,' Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr vowed.

Israel would also not be spared from retaliation, he also threatened.

The warning came after US President Donald Trump said he was considering strikes on Iranian electrical factories, power plants and desalination plants if tensions escalate.

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