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Jan 08 2026 
Oily dreams flowing into a Venezuelan dark pit
So the Big Oil Picture in Venezuela is way more complex than the Trump 2.0 gang suspects.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
Let’s start with neo-Caligula’s new edicts on the imperial satrapy he says he now owns; not exactly edicts but outright threats directed to interim President Delcy Rodriguez:
Crack down on “drug trafficking… Continue reading
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Jul 20 2024 
US Grand Strategy in the Middle East to Contain China
Hamas & unhackable Huawei? Fighting the last (energy denial) war against Imperial Japan, 85+ years later? And other Exceptionalist conundrums navigating “Strategery in our Greater Middle East.”
Carl Zha talks to long term Chine observer Peter Lee aka chinahand on X of the Peter Lee’s China Threat Report about the US Grand Strategy in the Middle… Continue reading
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Nov 27 2023 
What Are The Saudis Really Preparing For?
By Tom Luongo via ZeroHedge
Call the roller of big cigars
and bid him whip in kitchen cups concupiscent curds…
… the only emperor is the emperor of ice cream
— Wallace Stevens
It was announced the other day that Saudi Arabia and China are opening a $7 billion local currency swap line.It prompted the highest-trafficked tweet of mine ever.
Mark Wauck… Continue reading
