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

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🚨🇺🇸🏦 Trump's tariffs against BRICS will BACKFIRE

If Trump follows through on his threats, this will only supercharge BRICS' efforts to develop SWIFT and US dollar alternatives.

The BRICS already have several cross-border payment projects underway such as the interconnection of payment systems between Russia, Iran and China, the BRICS pay card and the BRICS bridge.

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🚨🇨🇳🏦No, the Chinese economy won't collapse

Western media has spent years hyping up China's real estate bubble. But here's what they don't tell you:

🔸Market stabilization efforts: The Chinese government has been reducing mortgage rates and relaxing purchase restrictions.

🔸Sales rates: While primary sales have been declining, secondary home sales are increasing, this will help stabilize the market by mid-2025.

🔸Price fluctuations: Home prices have shown disparate trends in different cities. In first-tier cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai, new home prices have seen slight increases, but across the country overall price corrections continue.

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🚨🇺🇸🤖Technofeudalism: Dictatorship by AI

This is the vision Elon Musk is trying to enact in the United States with Trump’s blessing.

Goodbye US Deep State, hello Big Tech oligarchy.

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🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳🇬🇱Trump in PANIC MODE over China's business deals in the Arctic

One of the main reasons Trump wants to annex Greenland is to stop Chinese extractions in Greenland and keep them out of the Arctic.

China has been immersed in the Danish government's Zink and Rare Earth Elements (REE) extraction projects since 2018, for example:

🔸Citronen Fjord zinc project in North Greenland and the Kvanefjeld (Kuannersuit).
🔸Rare earth elements (REE)-uranium project in South Greenland.
🔸The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), which also includes plans to establish an “Ice Silk Road”.

Currently the U.S. government has already pressured Danish suppliers of REE to stop selling to China.

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🚨🇺🇸⚔️ Imagine Texas gained independence from the United States, began instituting anti-American policies, and tried to join a Russian-Chinese military alliance.

🇷🇺🇺🇦 This is exactly what happened between Russia and Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia cannot accept anything less than REGIME CHANGE in Ukraine - Dimitri K. Simes

Otherwise, Ukraine will remain an existential security threat to Russia.

Do you agree?

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🚨🇺🇸📉 Trump’s tariffs will BANKRUPT American companies

Tech giants like Intel can’t survive without the Chinese market and Chinese supply chains.

Trump’s mistake is that he thinks that the United States of 2025 is the United States of 1895 — a rising and self-sufficient industrial superpower.

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🚨🇺🇸💰How 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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🟨🇺🇸🇨🇳 US and China drive GOLD’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:

🔸Rise in gold prices reflects investors' concerns about Trump’s trade rhetoric
🔸Tariffs imposed by the U.S. may generate inflation, further boosting demand for gold as a hedge against the loss of purchasing power.
🔸If 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:

🔸China's economic sanctions in response to Trump’s tariffs increase uncertainty.
🔸According to customs data, Switzerland imports about 1,000 tons/year of gold from London & redirects to retail markets, mainly in China.
🔸China is secretly buying massive amounts of gold, 10 times more than officially reported.

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🚨🇺🇸🤖 How US Deep State Created Big Tech – Pepe Escobar

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

Data is the new oil or gold.

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🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 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 Russia’s national security.

That being said, I’m not opposed to Ukraine peace deal. In the age of social media and instant gratification, we’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 on…

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 Russia’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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🚨🇬🇧🇺🇦 If Keir Starmer is dumb enough to send British troops to Ukraine, then Russia will SMOKE THEM UP

Here’s why the British need to PIPE DOWN and LEARN THEIR PLACE:

🔸The British Army has just under 73,000 soldiers, making it smaller than the Romanian and Bangladeshi armies.

🔸3/10 British servicemembers are medically unfit for combat.

🔸Backbone of British Army consists of aging weapons like Challenger 2 tanks, and Scimitar reconnaissance vehicles.

🔸British 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.

🔸The British have drained their howitzer and artillery shell stockpiles to help Ukraine.

🔸Finally, 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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🚨🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦 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…
🚨🇷🇺🇺🇦 DON'T BLACKPILL, TRUST THE PLAN

Even if Russia doesn’t fully destroy Ukraine, it will have succeeded in greatly weakening it:

🔸Russia will have completely reunified Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporozhye, and Kherson (22% of former Ukraine’s territory)

🔸Russia now controls the bulk of former Ukraine’s rare earth metal wealth and industrial base

🔸Ukrainian regime is headed for a demographic crisis: Ukraine’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

🔸Ukraine 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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🚨🇷🇺🇺🇸 Can Putin Trust Trump?

This is one of the central questions heading into the US-Russia talks on Ukraine. It’s not surprising that many on the Russian side have serious questions about Trump’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, we’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 he’s back in the White House, he’s hellbent on seeking vengeance. That’s why he’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 “state security council” 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. That’s what led to the first impeachment attempt against him. But Trump hasn’t forgotten or forgiven Ukraine’s role in the conspiracy against him.

What does this mean for Russia? It means that while Trump isn’t the most trustworthy individual, he shares Russia’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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🚨🇺🇦☠️ Zelensky – 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 Trump’s demand to sign a document that would cede 50% of Ukraine’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 Musk’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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🚨🇨🇳🤖 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.

Watch the entire episode HERE

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🚨🇦🇷💲EXPOSED: Milei — Argentina’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 “help” 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 “illicit association” that defrauded more than 40,000 people with losses of $4M.

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