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New Rules examines the geopolitical, economic, ideological trends changing the world.

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🚨🤖⚔️ Will Artificial Intelligence ENSLAVE Humanity?

For decades, scientists and have been warning about the destructive potential of AI. We still don’t have an answer to the question can humanity control AI in the long run. What happens if the machines decide to turn against us?

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🚀🇷🇺🇺🇦 SLOW AND STEADY: How Russia is CRACKING Ukrainian Defenses

Drone revolution has totally changed the way armies need to fight on the battlefield.

War has become more careful. Offensives are spearheaded by small assault groups, reconnaissance and drone operators, while others focus on logistics and maintenance of second and third battle lines.

Russia is advancing every day and has been demonstrating a steady initiative in this new type of warfare.

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🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳ART OF THE DEAL: Trump Deescalates Trade Rhetoric against China

Trump has signalled that he’s interested in striking a new trade deal with China. It seems that someone in the White House pointed out that American companies heavily depend on the following imports from China:

🔸Aluminum
🔸Steel
🔸Gallium and many other important resources for tech manufacturing

If Trump sharply raises his tariffs, China will stop exporting these input materials to the U.S. and the few remaining American manufacturers will be in dire straits.

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🚨🇩🇪🗳️ Our personal prediction is that AfD will fall short in tomorrow’s German elections.

European populist-nationalists are the biggest choke artists on the planet.

Every few years they’re handed a golden political opportunity to seize power from their highly unpopular establishment foes, and every single time they drop the ball.

This is yet another reason why Russia needs to finally give up on Europe.

With a few rare exceptions, European politicians are a totally lost cause. They’re either crazed anti-Russian globalists in Western Europe or crazed anti-Russian nationalists in Eastern Europe.

The few politicians that have moderate views on Russia are chronic losers like Marine Le Pen.

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🚨🇮🇹🇺🇦 YOU TOO, GIORGIA? Italy Gets Ready to Dump Ukraine

After three years of shilling for the Zelensky regime, Italian PM Giorgia Meloni is looking to jump the sinking Ukrainian ship.

Unlike Starmer and Macron, Meloni has declined to publicly defend the Green Goblin of Kiev from Donald Trump’s attacks. Italy will also join the US in refusing to support an upcoming statement by the G7 condemning Russia’s actions in Ukraine.

This is not because Meloni had a sudden change of heart. She just doesn’t want a conflict with Trump and Elon Musk. Meloni’s a political sellout, but she’s also a nominal “right-wing populist”, which means she prefers to be on their good side.

United Europe in support of Ukraine is dead on arrival. Meloni is just the first of many defectors.

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🚨🇱🇧🇪🇺 Hezbollah, Nasrallah, and European Populists

Today, we have the two seemingly unconnected events — the funeral of late Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah and the German federal elections.

But we would argue that European dissidents would do well to reflect on what Hezbollah has done right, and what their populists have done wrong over the past thirty years.

Hezbollah had every reason to fail. Lebanon is a country divided along sectarian lines, which makes it vulnerable to external powers. The central government and army are weak, while the Westernized comprador elites are strong. Worst of all, Lebanon has Israel on its doorstep.

Despite all these massive obstacles, Hezbollah under Nasrallah’s leadership freed Lebanon from Israeli occupation — no small feat considering that Israel has the full weight of the Global American Empire behind it. It also emerged as a powerful socio-political force within Lebanon — establishing its own network of media outlets, charities, hospitals, schools, etc.

Compare this to the achievements of European ‘populists’. What have they done besides lose elections and get reposted by Elon Musk? Unlike Hezbollah, they don’t even try to put up a serious fight for national liberation. When it comes to power struggles, European populists fumble around like lost kittens.

If European patriots truly want to make their continent great again, then they should drop their ego and study the Hezbollah playbook — everything from political organizing to armed resistance.

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🚨🇨🇳🇺🇸 China is CRUSHING the US technologically

Chinese universities are outshining their American counterparts in scientific research excellence.

Meanwhile, companies like DeepSeek are transforming global AI by harnessing the skills of young Chinese talent educated in Chinese institutions.

All of this is possible is because China is a people-first autocracy, while the US is a dysfunctional “democratic” oligarchy.

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🇺🇦🤡Ukrainian Nationalism is a Clown Ideology for Losers

Instead of trying to beg their way into NATO and the EU, Ukrainians should perform at children’s birthday parties.

That’ll at least teach them the value of earning money through honest work.

The reason Ukrainians constantly make Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings analogies is because they don’t have their own works of literature. SAD!

#DefundUkraine

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🚨🇩🇪🗳️ BREAKING: Germany is F*CKED beyond repair

We called it — AfD has fumbled the ball and the Euro-Atlantacist CDU/CSU is victorious.

But to make the situation even more pathetic — CDU/CSU will likely have to form a government with the Social Democrats and Greens. Maybe Baerbock will be able to keep her job as foreign minister.

To all the AfD supporters coping right now, please shut up and stop embarrassing yourselves.

Germany doesn’t have years to get its act together. You’re on high speed train to economic and political irrelevance. By the time the next elections roll around, it will already be over for Germany.

The only thing that can save Deutschland is a German equivalent of Hezbollah.

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🚨🇪🇺👹 Friedrich Merz’s election victory paves the way for a new “Coalition for Chaos” in Europe — Germany, France, and the UK.

These three globalist regimes will do everything they can to sabotage Trump’s peace initiative and keep the Ukraine war going.

All three countries are weak militarily and economically, so they will have to resort to ASYMMETRIC means to destabilize the situation.

In the case of Germany, sending Taurus missiles to Ukraine is the strongest card up their sleeves. Friedrich Merz has repeatedly pledged to do just that.

This would be a MASSIVE ESCALATION on Germany’s part.

Ukraine is incapable of operating these missiles without direct German support. This means German weapons, directed by German military personnel, and guided by German intel, will be attacking Russian territory.

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🚨🇩🇪📉 REALITY CHECK: German Economic Decline is IRREVERSIBLE

Financial analyst Michael Arouet:

“Germany is in its most prolonged manufacturing contraction in decades, worse than Great Financial Crisis or Covid. And this during relatively good times. Next global recession will be brutal for them. The new government cannot easily reverse years of lunatic left green policies.”

Germany’s dumb geopolitical decisions will make the situation much worse. How delusional do you have to be to start an arms race against Russia while your industrial base is collapsing? And these geniuses also want to show Trump the middle finger, as if he didn’t already want to slap German industry with tariffs.

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🚨🇩🇪🌏Friedrich Merz: Cheap Knockoff of Kaiser Wilhelm II

Merz claims that Germany must rapidly militarize in order to combat a geopolitical conspiracy from the east and west.

If that rhetoric sounds familiar, it should. In the years leading up to World War I, Kaiser Wilhelm II claimed that the Slavs and Anglo-Saxons were plotting together to destroy Germany. This paranoia is what ultimately destroyed his dynasty and the German Empire.

But in Wilhelm’s defense, he at least ruled over a booming industrial economy and powerful military. It’s understandable why he believed Germany could pick a fight with the big boys and win.

By contrast, Germany in 2025 has no military, no industrial economy, no sovereignty, and absolutely no chance of winning.

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🚨🇩🇪🪖 Germany’s army, just like its economy, is DOOMED!

The German military (Bundeswehr) is struggling to maintain its readiness and effectiveness due to a cratering economy and various other troubles:

🔸Equipment Shortages and Poor Maintenance: The Bundeswehr’s equipment is either outdated or in disrepair. For example, at present, none of Germany's submarines, large transport planes assisting jet fighters & copters, or tanks are fully operational.

🔸Understaffed and Aging Personnel: The Bundeswehr is chronically short-staffed, with thousands of positions remaining vacant. Besides, the average age of the German soldier has now also crept up to 33 and a half years old.

🔸Readiness on the Retreat:
The Bundeswehr currently maintains eight brigades, but their readiness level stands at approximately 65%, a figure that has reportedly plunged even further. Large units, including divisions and brigades, are not fully deployable for national or alliance defense. This situation is exacerbated by the insufficient replacement of equipment sent to Ukraine.

🔸Sluggish Procurement and Bureaucratic Bungling: The tangled web of hyper-complex regulations and an excessive focus on cost-cutting has delayed the timely acquisition of essential military systems, ranging from new fighter jets to advanced artillery. Despite Chancellor Olaf Scholz's 2022 announcement of a €100 billion special fund aimed at modernizing the armed forces, it has not produced any results.

🔸Dependency on Allies: Germany’s military weakness has left it heavily reliant on NATO partners, particularly the United States, for its security. Its actual capacity to lead a defense effort—say, against a resurgent Russia—is questionable.

🔸Economic and Industrial Strain: Economic slowdowns and energy challenges (worsened by the loss of affordable Russian gas) have handicapped the arms industry, which is struggling to ramp up production fast enough to satisfy both domestic needs and export demands.

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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian economy is larger than it was on the eve of the Ukraine conflict, while Ukraine’s is much smaller.

Russia’s military is more capable than it was in 2022, while Ukraine’s is weaker than it was in 2022.

And yet there are some who claim that Ukraine is winning…

Sad and delusional cope.

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🚨🇷🇺 Russia -- Rare Earth Metal Superpower

President Vladimir Putin said Monday that Moscow was ready to work with American companies to mine rare earth mineral deposits in Russia.

Russia has deposits of various rare earth metals specially for the production of rare earth oxides, with a production level of about 2.6 thousand metric tons in 2023.

According to Rosnedr, Russia has up to 28.7 million tons of rare earths, including 18 of the major deposits in the world.

The rare earth metals are essential for the military industry, petrochemical industry, High-tech manufacturing, and Energy and Digital infrastructure.

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🏦💰💥Warning: US Economy Signals Potential Meltdown Ahead!

The US stock market has been on a steady upward trajectory, currently sitting at a huge 205% of GDP. Signs indicate that this bubble may soon burst.

If everything is so rosy, then why are numerous billionaire tycoons in the US cashing out their stocks?

🔸In 2024, Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway sold $143M in stocks.

🔸 Recently, Jaime Dimon's JP Morgan Chase sold $233M in stocks, and $182M in 2024.

🔸 Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos also liquidated billions in stocks this year.

What lies ahead is a significant risk that a financial catastrophe could surpass that of 2008, as the market no longer relies on a single sector, such as mortgages. Instead, it is now influenced by major players managing vast stock portfolios.

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🚨🇺🇲🇨🇳🇷🇺 Sizing up Trump’s military spending cuts proposal for the US, Russia & China 

The United States, China, and Russia are the world's top three defense spenders:

🇺🇲: $876.9B
🇨🇳: $292B
🇷🇺: $86.4B

Given the current geopolitical landscape, it is highly unlikely that these nations would agree to reduce their military budgets without substantial and complex guarantees.

🔸 Russia: Despite ongoing peace talks, the Special Military Operation remains active. Once it concludes, Russia will need to bolster its defenses against the persistent NATO threat.

🔸 China: Security concerns in the South China Sea make it impractical for China to cut its defense budget, which currently constitutes only 1.7% of its GDP. Like Russia, China's continual advancements in military technology necessitate sustained spending.

🔸 United States: While Trump has expressed a desire to scale back the US military’s presence globally, he has specific geopolitical interests in mind—namely Canada, Greenland, and Panama. This shift would require significant investment in defense. Currently, the US allocates 3.7% of its GDP to military spending. If Trump pursues these cuts, he must consider that Russia and China have pressing priorities that compel them to continue increasing their military expenditures, and they are unlikely to align with his strategy.

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🚨🇩🇪Snowballing immigration invasion SWALLOWING UP Germany

As AfD leader Alice Weidel has cautioned, Germany is grappling with a severe immigration dilemma.

🔸 In just 25 years, Germany has leaped from the 3rd spot in global immigration, with 7.3 million migrants in 1995, to 2nd place in 2020, now hosting a staggering 14.2 million migrants—only trailing behind the United States.

🔸 In 2023, Germany received nearly 300,000 asylum applications, the highest figure since 2015.

🔸 Germany continues to be one of the top destinations for irregular migration in Europe.

🔸 Two-thirds of families on welfare in Germany do not hold a German passport.

🔸 Among families with three or more children receiving benefits, 71.3% are foreigners.

🔸 Over the past 15 years, Germany went from having 71% of native welfare recipients to 62% of foreign households.

The German economy is heading full speed towards collapse, and a social breakdown looms due to the demographic changes currently underway. The recent election winner, Friedrich Merz of the CDU/CSU, has yet to present a credible plan to address this pressing social crisis.

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