Rare Kremlin video: Putin with Witkoff and Kushner, then their first Kyiv trip this term and Zelenskyy's restrained reply. Moscow cites trust and economic projects; Bessent chokes offshore funding. Argentina presses Malvinas as Trump rethinks automatic U.S. backing of Britain.
Harvard’s battle against the American System spans centuries. Mike examines globalization, America’s skilled-worker crisis, and what President Trump is building to replace it.
The offshore empire gets named on live TV, Wall Street's forecasters get humiliated by the jobs numbers, and Europe moves to loot its own savers. One pattern runs through all of it — and eight weeks to settle it. Five posts inside.
Bessent forecasts the Strait of Hormuz will be “irrelevant” within two years — and at Chatham House, Lebanon’s adviser named Kissinger as the author of 50 years of war. Susan connects the sanctions, the pipelines, and the Board of Peace replacing the old imperial game.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the U.S. is escalating economic isolation measures against Iran and forecasts the Strait of Hormuz will become “irrelevant” within two years, while Energy Secretary Chris Wright argues shipping continues under escorts and rerouting, citing 8–9 million barrels/day still moving through the strait plus 6 million diverted via expanding pipelines. The episode frames this as part of a broader strategy since March 2025 targeting Iran’s financial networks while expanding alternative energy supplies, including increased U.S. production, changes in Venezuela, UAE production outside old OPEC quotas, and Iraq pipeline deals to bypass Hormuz, alongside a nuclear power “renaissance.” It highlights remarks at Chatham House by Lebanese adviser Jean Aziz blaming Henry Kissinger’s 1976 actions for decades of conflict and IRGC entanglement, and Qatar’s Majed Al-Ansari describing a regional Gaza “20-point plan” leading to a Washington-based Board of Peace meeting on Feb. 19, 2026.
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06:02 The Indictment Nobody Was Supposed to Hear
08:44 The Replacement
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Rare Kremlin video: Putin with Witkoff and Kushner, then their first Kyiv trip this term and Zelenskyy's restrained reply. Moscow cites trust and economic projects; Bessent chokes offshore funding. Argentina presses Malvinas as Trump rethinks automatic U.S. backing of Britain.
Harvard’s battle against the American System spans centuries. Mike examines globalization, America’s skilled-worker crisis, and what President Trump is building to replace it.
Bessent explains Wall Street, the financial press, and Democrats keep being proved wrong—contrasting Canada’s job losses with a blowout U.S. jobs report, calling out FT/WSJ panic, and framing a Red Queen economy that must outrun debt, China, and skills gaps.
Susan on Bessent naming IRGC accounts in the British Virgin Islands — the real target is the offshore money machine, not just Iran. Syria sanctions lifted, the Mecca Pact, Russia at the G20, and China on Iran.
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