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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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Oct 28 2025 
The 7-Stage Collapse Pattern
The parables of Spain, Britain, USSR… USA Is At Stage 5
“…. Just economic implosion. The military couldn’t be paid, the government couldn’t function, the [dollar] became worthless. A superpower with 30,000 nuclear weapons collapsed from internal economic failure. The pattern [had] played out again:
Military over-extension,
Currency Debasement & Failure,
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Aug 13 2024 
The Waiting is Part of the Punishment
On August 12, Dimitri Lascaris spoke with Iranian professor Mohammad Marandi about the form and timing of the resistance’s retaliation. They also discussed whether the U.S. was likely to attack Iran directly, the possible reaction of Russia and China to any such attack, and the considerable damage that the conflict is inflicting upon Israel’s economy.
At… 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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Jun 14 2024 
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Death of Petrodollar is a Biden legacy
By Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at the Indian Punchline.
The Deep State should have been alert five years ago when Candidate Joe Biden announced that he, if elected as president, was determined to make the Saudi rulers “pay the price, and make them in fact the pariah that they are.”
Biden was… Continue reading
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Jan 05 2024 
Ukraine and Palestine: A Double Threat to US Hegemony
The outcome of US-led conflicts in Ukraine and West Asia will have a profound impact on the developing world order. Washington has already lost the former, and its major adversaries are vested in making sure it loses the latter too.
by Ambassador MK Bhadrakumar at The Cradle.
Geopolitical analysts broadly agree that the war in Ukraine and… Continue reading
