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Issue #5 of The Weekly Autocrat is live. Putin's bluff. The corruption architecture. The illiberal network. The British circus. The Beijing pivot. The autocrat's greatest vulnerability is always the same: reality. It arrives slowly, then all at once. 👇 autokratdaily.substack.com #Autocracy #Geopolitics

@Acyn A UFC arena on the White House lawn. The Romans called it panem et circenses — bread and circuses. Keep the crowd entertained while the empire does whatever it wants. Iran negotiations collapsing. Oil at $95. The AG accused of forgery. But first: UFC 250 on the South Lawn.

Construction is underway on a temporary arena that will host the UFC Freedom 250 fight card n the South Lawn of the White House 📸 REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

The acting Attorney General of the United States is facing a malpractice lawsuit for allegedly forging client signatures and overbilling $1.65M. A handwriting expert confirmed the forgeries. The case is still active. Todd Blanche now runs the DOJ — the department that prosecutes fraud and forgery. #USA #DOJ #Trump

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Two families. One country. Decades of power. The Philippines didn't fall into autocracy overnight — it was inherited, traded, and repackaged for every generation. The Marcos and Duterte dynasties. A noir history in four acts. @Medium article Link below #Philippines #Asia #Autocracy

$95/barrel. Two days ago: close to a deal. Yesterday: strikes on Iranian missile sites during negotiations. Today: oil reverses losses instantly. This isn't chaos. There's a pattern of creating tension every time peace gets close. US inflation was 2.4% pre-war. Now 3.8%. #OperationGusher

BREAKING: US oil prices reverse losses and rise toward $95/barrel as US Military strikes in Iran increase uncertainty around the peace deal.

@JNapluc @Number10cat @Nigel_Farage Exactly. The policy incoherence is a feature, not a bug. Keep the signal simple. The rest is wallpaper.

@AutokratDaily @Number10cat @Nigel_Farage Of course they can't agree. They know that they just need to be a bit anti brown or anti "illegals" and their fans will be happy. Thr rest is unnecessary detail. And, of course, they won't speak to each other.

Wake up @Nigel_Farage - the kids are fighting

France unemployment: 8.1% Q1 2026. Bardella tells business: "We're pro-market." Le Pen tells workers: "We'll lower retirement to 62." Both can't be true. Their rivals know it. Philippe calls it "posturing." Mélenchon is surging. The far right may hand France its nightmare scenario — not through defeat, but through internal contradiction. #Europe #France #FarRight

Jordan Bardella is on course to win the French presidency in 2027. His strategy: court the CAC40, wear a suit, speak softly. Marine Le Pen's strategy: keep the working-class base angry. Same party. Two faces. One playbook. Except they can't agree on pensions, taxes, or the size of the state. And their opponents are watching. #France #LePen #Europe

@nexta_tv A £5 million donation. A Russian hack. A party leader who won't show the evidence. His own MP called it "private." Nigel Farage has been running this playbook for a decade. Assert loudly. Prove nothing. Move on.

Nigel Farage said his phone may have been hacked by Russian hackers The leader of the UK Reform Party and Member of Parliament Nigel Farage said that after a check, specialists concluded there may have been a cyberattack using phishing techniques. According to him, it involves a £5 million donation that only a few people knew about. He then decided to have his phone examined to find out whether the information had been leaked. Sources in the party claim that traces of the hack point to “hostile structures” that may be linked to Russia.

@axios "Rule of law as weapon. Economy by improvisation. Power projection on personal whim." Axios just described the three-pillar autocrat playbook. Every strongman starts here. The question is always how far the institutions hold.

President Trump has proudly stretched the power of the presidency in never-before-witnessed ways. But it's the choices he's made with that power — often alone, often impulsive — that explain his plunging popularity and will define his second term. axios.com/2026/05/26/tru…

Unable to end the war he started, Trump is now expanding the ask. End the fighting with Iran. Normalize Israel across the Middle East. Force Arab states into the Abraham Accords. All in one deal. Saudi Arabia already said no. When you can't close, you reframe the goalposts as ambition. #Iran #MiddleEast #USA

@MarcoFoster_ @megynkelly @hodgetwins When Megyn Kelly says "it's obvious that's a lie to get us into this conflict" — you know the story has left the building. No new wars. No war with Iran. They said it over and over. 30/33 missile sites still operational. 70% of the stockpile intact. "Proceeding nicely."

Megyn Kelly: “It’s stunning to me that the people who voted for the man who said over and over not only no new wars, but no war with Iran — that those people on a dime were like yes, we’re pro war with Iran, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. It’s so obvious that’s a lie to get us into this conflict. They were not on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon”

Iran's negotiators are in Doha. Netanyahu: "We are not removing our foot from the pedal. On the contrary — press harder." 600 Hezbollah militants killed in recent weeks. 70+ sites struck Monday alone. 3,185 dead in Lebanon since March. Iran wants Lebanon included in any peace deal. Israel is expanding the war. Trump has not mentioned Lebanon once. #Israel #Lebanon #MiddleEast

Trump said the campaign "vastly degraded" Iran's military. US intelligence says — privately: → Iran regained 30 of 33 missile sites → Retains 70% of its missile stockpile → Retains 70% of mobile launchers → US is critically low on heavy ordnance The ceasefire is "holding." The deal is "proceeding nicely." #Iran #MiddleEast #Trump

@KobeissiLetter "Nuclear Dust!" He put an exclamation mark on enriched uranium. This is the man negotiating the terms of Iran's nuclear program. In a Truth Social post. While striking Iranian targets at the Strait of Hormuz.

BREAKING: President Trump says Iran’s enriched uranium will either be turned over to the US or destroyed at “another acceptable location.”

AUTOCRAT DAILY — May 26, 2026 Tonight, simultaneously: → US strikes Iranian missile sites near the Strait of Hormuz → Iranian negotiators sit in Doha for peace talks → Israel expands operations in Lebanon — "coordinated with the US" → Trump calls enriched uranium "Nuclear Dust!" The ceasefire is holding, apparently. #Iran #MiddleEast #Trump

Trump demanded Saudi Arabia join the Abraham Accords as part of the Iran deal. Saudi Arabia's response: "We reject that." He flew across the Middle East, threw a sword dance, sold them weapons — and they said no to his signature ask in public. That's not a negotiation. That's a rejection letter. #OperationGusher

BREAKING: 🇸🇦Saudi Arabia Just SLAMMED Trump’s Big Middle East Dream! & Saudi wants Independent Palestinian state. 🇺🇸Trump : “Every Middle East country MUST join the Abraham Accords as part of the Iran peace deal! It’ll be HISTORIC!” 🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia has OFFICIALLY rejected Trump’s demand… 🇸🇦 Saudi: “We REJECT that. No normalization with Israel unless there’s an irreversible pathway to an independent Palestinian state.” 🇸🇦Saudi just reminded everyone: Palestine is still the ultimate red line.

@clashreport Every autocrat's inner circle ends the same way — the loyalists start competing to out-loyal each other, and the knives come out. "Everything Trump Touches Dies" isn't a slogan. It's a pattern.

JD Vance is reportedly becoming more isolated within Trump’s administration after Tulsi Gabbard resigned. His non-interventionist stance on Iran has reportedly put him at odds with Trump, while Marco Rubio has gained influence. Some reports also suggest Vance could skip a 2028 presidential run to avoid being tied to recent controversies. Source: Daily Mail

@KeerDillaLife @rshereme The $12–13T is Sheremeta's figure — we didn't use it. Our breakdown is T1: +$7.8T, T2: +$2.8T. That's $10.6T total across both terms. The card shows exactly that. Read before you ratio.

@AutokratDaily @rshereme Why $12-13T when $7.8T + 2.8T = $10.6T? Are these numbers…inflated lol

The U.S. debt has just crossed $39 trillion. Trump alone is responsible for almost 30% of it. So far, Trump has added roughly $12–13 trillion to the debt across his two terms in office. That is nearly 30% of ALL U.S. national debt accumulated since 1789. Just think about this: over 250 years, 44 presidents accounted for 70% of the debt. In less than 6 years, Trump alone added 30%. That is about 18 times more than the average U.S. president in history. He is truly the worst presidents in U.S. history, causing more harm to the country than anyone else. And we will be paying for his actions long after he is gone.