Here's why Trump's suggestion that Iran could join the Abraham Accords reflects a foreign policy of real physical economics — and why the CFR's new "Future of American Strategy" project is a tacit admission that the British-led liberal international order is finished.
Trump got Xi's "secret garden" tour, Bessent cornered the City of London, and the Senate revolted in his favor. Across this week's shows, one frame keeps surfacing: the American System is back, and the empire is out of moves.
As globalization collapses, America faces a deeper crisis of culture, identity, and purpose. Mike explores Poe’s “Descent into the Maelstrom,” the rebuilding of American industry, the conflict with Iran, and the spiritual foundations needed to revive the nation.
Russian President Putin’s surprise appointment of economist Andrei Belousov as Russia’s Defense Minister last week, heralds big changes in Russia. Defense industry hi-tech will be integrated for high payoffs in the civilian economy—but that’s only the beginning. Putin and his government are moving to build a new, young Russian elite around veterans of the Ukraine war. But what sort of elite? Belousov is being mentioned as a potential successor to Putin if he succeeds. He sees this as a multi-generational project to carry forward Russia’s Christian “cultural code.”
For all the differences between Russia and America, we have to do the same thing here. We’ll compare what Belousov said with statements of Lyndon LaRouche, and with earlier editions of our “Strategic Update.”
Mike joined LaRouche's last campaign for President in 2002. He ran a political intel and outreach company from 2011–2021, and co-founded Promethean Action in 2021. He lives in the Detroit area with his wife. [email protected]
Founding member of the LaRouche movement in the 1960s. Former editor of LaRouche’s writings and EIR magazine. Regular host of our Saturday class series.
Tony Papert and Bruce Director argue the Trump–Xi summit was misread: the real story is a leader-to-leader great-power approach also engaging Putin. They unpack Iran leverage and the paused U.S. strike, signs of an industrial upswing, and brightening Republican midterm prospects.
Mike Steger maps Iran tensions, Trump's Beijing trip and a "Core Five" sovereign-nation model against UK turmoil and California chaos — then turns to the philosophical foundations of the American system as the key to winning the midterms.
Mike reports from a Washington, DC deployment as Iran escalation in the Strait of Hormuz collides with high-level U.S.-Russia-China diplomacy, Europe's growing isolation, and Trump's sovereignty-driven economic revival heading into the midterms.
Mike Steger frames the latest assassination attempt on Trump as political warfare inside a propaganda ocean, then walks through midterm fights — Russiagate prosecutions, ActBlue/NGO money flows, the Save America Act — Iran's fractured regime, and Trump's five DPA energy memos.