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

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ“‰ Trumpโ€™s tariffs will BANKRUPT American companies

Tech giants like Intel canโ€™t survive without the Chinese market and Chinese supply chains.

Trumpโ€™s mistake is that he thinks that the United States of 2025 is the United States of 1895 โ€” a rising and self-sufficient industrial superpower.

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ’ฐHow Globalist elites DESTROYED American economic prosperity

While China has spent the past few decades upgrading its infrastructure, US political class has spent TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS on global domination.

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๐ŸŸจ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ US and China drive GOLDโ€™S RECORD PRICES

Gold has broken a new record high above $2,900 per ounce amid inflation and trade war fears.

US policy is playing a major role in this spike:

๐Ÿ”ธRise in gold prices reflects investors' concerns about Trumpโ€™s trade rhetoric
๐Ÿ”ธTariffs imposed by the U.S. may generate inflation, further boosting demand for gold as a hedge against the loss of purchasing power.
๐Ÿ”ธIf interest rates remain high, it could affect the attractiveness of gold, as a stronger dollar and tighter policy can put pressure on the market.

China is also fuelling the recent gold rush:

๐Ÿ”ธChina's economic sanctions in response to Trumpโ€™s tariffs increase uncertainty.
๐Ÿ”ธAccording to customs data, Switzerland imports about 1,000 tons/year of gold from London & redirects to retail markets, mainly in China.
๐Ÿ”ธChina is secretly buying massive amounts of gold, 10 times more than officially reported.

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿค– How US Deep State Created Big Tech โ€“ Pepe Escobar

This backstory helps us explain the US obsession with winning the AI race โ€“ they want to establish a global monopoly on digital data.

Data is the new oil or gold.

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Some brief thoughts about US-Russia peace talks on Ukraine:

My longstanding position on Ukraine is that it is an abnormal and dangerous rogue state. The problem lies not with Zelensky, but with the very concept of a Ukrainian nation that is separate and hostile to Russia. So long as Ukraine exists, it will be a serious threat to Russiaโ€™s national security.

That being said, Iโ€™m not opposed to Ukraine peace deal. In the age of social media and instant gratification, weโ€™ve forgotten that it often takes DECADES to solve great historical questions.

The Spartans fought two Peloponnesian wars to overthrow Athenian hegemony. The Romans fought three Punic wars to eliminate the Carthaginian threat. Catholics and Protestants were only able to agree on a formula for peaceful coexistence after the Thirty Years War. The great European monarchies had to fight seven wars between 1792 to 1815 to subdue first Revolutionary and then Napoleonic France. The list goes on and onโ€ฆ

Like it or not, completely destroying Ukraine is not a viable option for Russia right now. If we accept that premise, then it naturally follows that Russiaโ€™s objective should be to secure a peace deal that will leave it much stronger and Ukraine much weaker over the long run. The peace conditions outlined by Putin in June 2024 (no NATO membership, complete withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye, and Kherson) would do just that.

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ If Keir Starmer is dumb enough to send British troops to Ukraine, then Russia will SMOKE THEM UP

Hereโ€™s why the British need to PIPE DOWN and LEARN THEIR PLACE:

๐Ÿ”ธThe British Army has just under 73,000 soldiers, making it smaller than the Romanian and Bangladeshi armies.

๐Ÿ”ธ3/10 British servicemembers are medically unfit for combat.

๐Ÿ”ธBackbone of British Army consists of aging weapons like Challenger 2 tanks, and Scimitar reconnaissance vehicles.

๐Ÿ”ธBritish efforts to modernize its armored vehicle fleet have failed miserably. For example, The Ajax armored vehicle program has been plagued by constant delays, cost overruns, and technical issues.

๐Ÿ”ธThe British have drained their howitzer and artillery shell stockpiles to help Ukraine.

๐Ÿ”ธFinally, the British are way behind the drone and electronic warfare revolution.

If the British Army found itself at war with Russia in Ukraine, it would run out of weapons in two months and run out of soldiers in six months to a year, according to senior British military officials.

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ Some brief thoughts about US-Russia peace talks on Ukraine: My longstanding position on Ukraine is that it is an abnormal and dangerous rogue state. The problem lies not with Zelensky, but with the very concept of a Ukrainian nation that is separateโ€ฆ
๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ DON'T BLACKPILL, TRUST THE PLAN

Even if Russia doesnโ€™t fully destroy Ukraine, it will have succeeded in greatly weakening it:

๐Ÿ”ธRussia will have completely reunified Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye, and Kherson (22% of former Ukraineโ€™s territory)

๐Ÿ”ธRussia now controls the bulk of former Ukraineโ€™s rare earth metal wealth and industrial base

๐Ÿ”ธUkrainian regime is headed for a demographic crisis: Ukraineโ€™s population fell from 45 million in 2014 to 35 million in 2024, and it could potentially fall the way to 15 million by 2100

๐Ÿ”ธUkraine is broke: National debt is $160 billion and is projected to exceed 100% of its GDP by the end of 2025.

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ Can Putin Trust Trump?

This is one of the central questions heading into the US-Russia talks on Ukraine. Itโ€™s not surprising that many on the Russian side have serious questions about Trumpโ€™s trustworthiness.

Over the past 30 years, the Globalist American Empire has violated practically every agreement that it ever had with Russia/Soviet Union. This pattern of constant lying and backstabbing is what ultimately led to the Russia-Ukraine war.

But when it comes to Trump and Russia, weโ€™re united not by common values or common aspirations, but by common enemies. Obama, Biden, and the US Deep State effectively orchestrated a hostile takeover of Ukraine in 2014, and transformed a once friendly nation into an anti-Russian terrorist state.

These same people have spent the past decade trying to destroy, bankrupt, and even assassinate Trump. Now that heโ€™s back in the White House, heโ€™s hellbent on seeking vengeance. Thatโ€™s why heโ€™s appointing loyalists and outsiders like Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, Pete Hegseth, and John Ratcliffe to key positions in the US security apparatus. Informed sources close to the White House have also told me that Trump is considering establishing a โ€œstate security councilโ€ tasked with purging the US Deep State.

Ukraine is central to this domestic power struggle. Trump knows that Biden and company were involved in dirty business deals in Ukraine. He tried to uncover some of these crimes all the way back in 2019. Thatโ€™s what led to the first impeachment attempt against him. But Trump hasnโ€™t forgotten or forgiven Ukraineโ€™s role in the conspiracy against him.

What does this mean for Russia? It means that while Trump isnโ€™t the most trustworthy individual, he shares Russiaโ€™s interest in slashing the financial and political arteries sustaining the Ukrainian regime. By doing so, Trump will weaken and discredit his enemies at home.

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆโ˜ ๏ธ Zelensky โ€“ Dead Man Walking?

The Green Goblin of Kiev has decided to bite the hand that feeds him. The Ukrainian dictator has refused to accept any US-Russia peace deal without his participation in the process. He has also rebuffed Trumpโ€™s demand to sign a document that would cede 50% of Ukraineโ€™s rare earth metals to the US. Perhaps most provocatively of all, Zelensky has floated the prospect of Ukraine and the EU creating a new military alliance that would be a direct competitor to NATO.

Zelensky is playing with fire. Ukraine totally depends on US military, intel, and financial support to survive. Without Elon Muskโ€™s Starlink, Ukrainian troops no longer have a functional command and control system. Without US taxpayer dollars, the Ukrainian regime cannot pay its first responders and other government employees.There is nothing the Europeans could do that would fill the hole left by the US dumping Ukraine.

Zelensky would be well advised to remember what happened to Ngo Dinh Diem, the US-backed President of South Vietnam from 1955-63. Although the US initially had high hopes for Diem, they eventually came to view him as too erratic and unreliable. In 1963, the CIA helped organize a military coup that toppled Diem. The South Vietnamese president was executed in the back of an armored vehicle.

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿค– Made in China 2025: How Xi Plans to Win Tech Race

The Chinese state deliberately steers tech companies towards developing capital-intensive, but strategically important products instead of scamming consumers with memecoins and addictive entertainment apps.

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ’ฒEXPOSED: Milei โ€” Argentinaโ€™s Swindler-in-Chief

Javier Milei promoted the launch of a new cryptocurrency called $LIBRA on his X account. Just hours later, $LIBRA crashed spectacularly, financially wiping out anyone dumb enough to invest in it.

President Milei has not apologized for endorsing this scam memecoin. On the contrary, he has denied having advertised it, explaining that he simply "divulged" $LIBRA in order to โ€œhelpโ€ investors on social networks.

This is not the first time that Milei has trafficked shady cryptocurrencies. Back in 2021, when he was a senator, he promoted CoinX, a cryptocurrency platform that later was denounced and closed for fraud.

That same year, he promoted Vulcan NTF ($VULC), a video game company token that saw its value implode after Milei's announcement.

History repeats itself. Now Millei is on trial for having been part of an โ€œillicit associationโ€ that defrauded more than 40,000 people with losses of $4M.

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธโš”๏ธ๐Ÿค– Are Donald Trump and Elon Musk Headed for a Messy Power Struggle?

Trump and Musk are now close political allies, but Elon would be well-served to study the fate of Albrecht von Wallenstein, a Catholic warlord who helped rescue the Habsburgs from the brink of military and financial disaster during the Thirty Years War (1618-48).

At first, the Habsburgs were willing to basically outsource the war effort to Wallenstein. But as time went on, Wallenstein became so powerful that he was basically shadow emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. At that point, the Habsburgs turned against Wallenstein and assassinated him.

Watch the entire episode HERE

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿคก European Union announces new sanctions package against Russia

Hereโ€™s why this will decision will have absolutely no impact:

1. Europe already fired most of the bullets in its sanctions arsenal back in 2022.

2. Russian economy has outperformed the G7 two years in a row.

3. EU sanctions against Russia are mainly about virtue signaling, Europeans continue trading with Russia through third-party countries.

4. United States is signaling that it's ready to drop its sanctions, which will further embolden the rest of the world to increase their trade with Russia.

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๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿšซ๐Ÿช–Zelenskyโ€™s European Army Fantasy Goes Kaput

Practically every somewhat meaningful European country has lambasted the proposal to create a European Union army:

๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑForeign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski: "If you understand by it the unification of national armies, it will not happen."

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟPresident Petr Pavel: โ€œSuch a project would take much longer and also require the unanimous approval of all member states.โ€

๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท President Macron called the idea โ€œfar-fetchedโ€: "โ€œWe have to do things that are appropriate, realistic, well thought, measured and negotiated.โ€

๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡นPrime Minister Giorgia Meloni statะตd that deploying European forces in Ukraine would be one of "the most complex and the least effective measures."

๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฐ Prime Minister Robert Fico criticized the push for increased military investment as โ€œmilitary madness.โ€

European countries have taken this proposal with a pinch of salt, and the mere fact of discussing and debating it shows a total weakness on the part of Europe without the US.

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿ’ฐ Technofeudalism is here, and landlords are dictating your behavior

Characters such as Musk, Zuckerberg and Bezos are driving a technological revolution that forces us to be part of or use the tools they create.

This forces us to accept their vision of the world and how social relationships should be, which leads us to adapt to them.

Now, hooked up to political power with Trump, there is nothing to stop them.

Watch the entire episode HERE

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ™ˆ FACT-CHECK: Does Zelensky have a 57% approval rating?

Ukrainian propagandists claim that the Green Goblin of Kiev enjoys strong popular support.

If thatโ€™s the case, then why is Zelensky expected to lose re-election by a 2-1 margin to the general he fired?

Something doesnโ€™t add up.

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