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🚨 While the media skimmed right past it, Trump just quietly launched a HUGE shift in global finance. The goal? PERMANENT DOLLAR DOMINANCE. His Treasury is rolling out direct dollar swap lines with key Gulf and Asian allies — starting with the UAE, following the Argentina deal last year. Sounds arcane? It’s not. And it may be the biggest shift in global finance since Nixon closed the gold window in 1971. The IMF is learning the same lesson NATO did: Trump is DONE letting multilateral institutions dilute American power. Crisis finance is moving in-house to the U.S. Treasury. Direct. Fast. Profitable. American. And POWER moves with it, to Washington. These aren’t bailouts or foreign aid. A swap line is collateralized dollar power: the Fed provides dollars to a foreign central bank, takes their currency as collateral, and reverses it later at the same rate. No risk to us. Pure leverage. And now the people who need it need to go to Trump, not our surly deadbeat "allies". Everyone loves to claim something's going to replace the dollar. But the dollar isn’t just a currency. It’s a strategic weapon — diplomatic tool, sanctions platform, military enabler. It's backed by the U.S. Navy controlling every critical chokepoint on Earth. Trump understands what the foreign policy elite forgot: America built this system and defends it. It enriches the world. So America should command it. Trump is building a direct American dollar network for exactly the energy producers and nations China wants to peel away. No more middlemen. The IMF will continue to exist. It won't continue to control. Already, it's reshaping the world. Yesterday, the UAE announced its sudden departure from OPEC. That's an earthquake. Beijing’s “petroyuan” dream? Pure fantasy, and even more so now. The yuan can’t deliver trust, rule of law, or deep liquid markets. But Trump isn’t passively waiting for that to fail — he's pushing it off the cliff. He’s making dollar access unavoidable. A club. Membership has privileges. Exclusion has consequences. No more begging Brussels, cajoling European votes, or letting multilateral committees water down U.S. leverage while America foots the bill. Trump and Bessent just cut out the middleman. Dollar power now runs through Washington. That’s not just “America First.” That’s America in charge. 🔥 If you want to learn how this all really works, I wrote a Deep Dive you can read on my site. Link in my bio. (What do you think — biggest financial power move of the century?)

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Food for thought. Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride For half a century, Western strategists have known that the Strait of Hormuz is the acute point where energy, sea power and political will intersect. That knowledge is not in dispute. What is new in this war with Iran is that the United States, under Donald Trump, has chosen not to rush to “solve” the problem. In Hegelian terms, he is refusing an easy synthesis in order to force the underlying contradiction to the surface. The old thesis was simple: the US guarantees open sea lanes in the Gulf, and everyone else structures their economies and politics around that free insurance. Europe and the UK embraced ambitious green policies, ran down hard‑power capabilities and lectured Washington on multilateral virtue, secure in the assumption that American carriers would always appear off Hormuz. The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities. Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed. In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines. In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure,or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive. A quick, surgical “fix” of Hormuz would short‑circuit the dialectic. If Trump rapidly crushed Iran’s remaining coastal capabilities, swept the mines and escorted tankers back through the Strait, Europe and the UK would heave a sigh of relief and return to business as usual: underfunded militaries, maximalist green posturing and performative disdain for US power, all underwritten by that same power. The contradiction between their dependence and their posture would remain latent. By declining to supply the synthesis on demand, and by explicitly telling London and Brussels to “go and take it” themselves, Trump forces a reckoning. European and British leaders must confront the fact that their energy systems, their industrial bases and their geopolitical sermons all rest on an American hard‑power foundation they neither finance nor politically respect. The longer the contradiction is allowed to unfold, the stronger the eventual synthesis can be: a new order in which access to secure flows, Hormuz, Venezuela and beyond, is explicitly conditional on real contributions, not assumed as a right. In that sense, the delay in “taking” the Strait, and the challenge issued to US allies to do it themselves, is not indecision. It is the negative moment Hegel insisted was necessary for history to move. Only by withholding the old guarantee, and by saying so out loud to those who depended on it, can Trump hope to end the free ride.

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NEW. POWER COUPLE OF CHAOS: How a tycoon and activist built a 'Revolutionary Base' at the House of Singham WATCH: Exclusive remarks from Neville Roy Singham ⬇️ I’ve spent a decade in the streets covering the protest industry, not just what people say, but who shows up, how movements form and what patterns repeat. This morning we are publishing the first part of a five-part series @FOxNews Digital that started with my reporting on the streets. It changed when I used large language models to analyze years of data, including IRS filings, corporate records, events, messaging. READ and SHARE: Part 1 of our series: foxnews.com/us/house-singh… What emerged: a clear portrait of the system and infrastructure behind the protests. At the center: a transnational network funded by tech tycoon Neville Roy Singham. His wedding to CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans in Jamaica in 2017 ushered in a new decade over which this network has been built. I call it the House of Singham. And for the first time — in his own words in a video that I have unearthed from a conference last fall in Shanghai, blessed by the Communist Party of China — we have evidence that Singham is explicitly aligned with: 🟥 The People's Republic of China 🟥 President Xi Jinpeng 🟥 "The CPC," as Singham calls it: the Communist Party of China "Comrades and friends....," he begins. SIngham continues in the video: "If we want to, therefore, have a new world order that is based on multilateralism that President Xi and CPC and China have proposed, we have to undo the ideological damage that has been done by the narrative of World War II." (The West speaks about the Chinese Communist Party, or CCP. Singham uses the term that the government of China uses for its ruling party.) In the newly discovered remarks, Singham: 🟥 Calls the Western view of WWII a “fascist lie” and frames Western democracy as “fascism” 🟥 Argues the global order must be reconstructed around China 🟥 Praises Xi Jinping and the Communist Party of China’s vision for a "new world order" In a 172-page study, "80th Anniversary of the Victory of the World Anti-Fascist War: Acknowledging Who Truly Saved Human History and Restoring Historical Truth," published under his name, Singham: 🟥 Minimizes U.S. sacrifice in WWII — claiming "just 1%” of deaths were "Anglo-Americans" 🟥 Diminishes the deaths of U.S. and British troops and servicemembers, writing that the Soviets and China really won the war with, "59.8% socialists dead, 13.1% colonised peoples dead – only 1% Anglo-Americans dead" 🟥 Praises Mao Zedong's views on winning "protracted war" through the "masses of the people" This isn’t abstract rhetoric. It connects directly to a funding, influence operation and cognitive warfare we mapped: 5 Rings. 2,000 Groups 🟥 223 transactions 🟥 $591M moved globally 🟥 $278M tied directly to Singham I've included all of the transactions in a public spreadsheet with Part 1 of our series. Here’s how it works: 🟥 LEVEL 1 — The Funnel Tax-exempt money routed through shell-like entities + a donor-advised fund tied to Goldman Sachs → anonymity for wealthy donors. (Goldman Sachs confirmed to me that it terminated Singham's fund in 2024.) 🟥 LEVEL 2 — The Core $278M flows into 6 nonprofits — several created rapidly, with leadership tied to Singham + his wife Jodie Evans 🟥 LEVEL 3 — Expansion About $163M redistributed into 52 orgs + regional pipelines 🟥 LEVEL 4 — Global Distribution $150M pushed outward across continents, including tens of millions into Sub-Saharan Africa 🟥 LEVEL 5 — Network Effect 67 core orgs linking to about 2,000 groups worldwide This is not just about money. It’s the infrastructure for malign influence, shaping protests, narratives and political pressure across countries. Thank you to @DataRepublican for her support as I walked through a labyrinth of data. And for the many researchers following the money — and the words — in the House of Singham, I have tried to share the raw data with you publicly so you can see the receipts and analyze the data. What is the best defense in cognitive warfare? What is the best innoculation? I believe it's knowledge, awareness and insight. And I hope that this investigation will help peel back the layers for you in a war over not just the hearts and minds of Americans but the world. Links to all original sources in the 🧵

For shits and giggles, I decided to see just how hard it would be to replace my birth certificate, Social Security card, AND my marriage license, since Democrats think women are too stupid to figure it out. Here's how it went: 1. Birth certificate: Contacted the health department of the county where I was born. They OVERNIGHTED a certified copy to me the next day - total cost, $14. 2. SS Card: Contacted Social Security on their site. They asked if I was sure I needed the card, since I 'won't likely be asked for it.' I went ahead and got it - took five business days to arrive - total cost, $0. 3. Marriage License: Went to the 'vital docs' site of the county where we were hitched. Filled everything out online, arrived in three days - total cost, $5. It cost less than $20 to obtain all three certified/legal documents, and it took less than five business days to receive them. Note: if I had lived where I was born or married, it would have been a day. Tops. Anyone telling you this is too hard or unfair is lying and hiding the real reason they want to stop Voter ID. I know you guys knew that already... lol

1. This is a lie 2. Read the damn bill 3. The text beginning on page 12, line 22 makes abundantly clear that what you’re saying isn’t true 4. Why can’t Senate Democrats argue against this bill without lying?

So let me get this crystal-clear, you gaslighting clowns… Democrats are out here screeching at the top of their lungs that Republicans “caused” the DHS shutdown and those soul-crushing TSA cattle lines. One tiny, inconvenient, ball-busting problem with that fairy tale: The goddamn voting record is public. It’s timestamped. It’s searchable. And it shows your team...every last one of those sanctimonious frauds...voting NO on the funding bills like it was a personal vendetta. You can spin sob stories, manufacture outrage, Photoshop headlines, and cry “disinformation” till your vocal cords bleed… But you can’t spin a recorded roll-call vote, dipshits. The yeas and nays are carved in digital stone. They don’t care about your feelings, your talking points, or your desperate attempt to memory-hole reality. When the receipts are this brutal and this easy to pull up, the only move left is to shut the hell up and hope everyone forgets you got caught red-handed. Spoiler: We didn’t forget. And we’re not shutting up. (article below)

𝗩𝗗𝗛: 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗣𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗗𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡. Victor Davis Hanson has spent fifty years studying how wars end. When he says the tide is turning, it's worth listening to why. His argument isn't based on what the Pentagon is saying. It's based on how everyone else is behaving. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀. VDH's rule: Europeans never agree to go anywhere near a conflict unless they think the winning side has already been determined. They didn't help in the early days. Now they're starting to move. That movement is not idealism. It's a calculation. They've looked at the battlefield and decided which way this ends. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝘂𝗹𝗳 𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼-𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. The Saudis, the Emiratis, the Qataris — these governments have survived for generations by reading the regional climate with precision. When they expel Iranian military attachés, when they intercept Iranian missiles over their own capitals and say nothing about American strikes, when the UAE reaffirms its $1.4 trillion investment commitment to the United States mid-war — they are not making ideological statements. They are placing bets. And they are betting on the United States. 𝗔𝗹 𝗝𝗮𝘇𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗮. This is the one that should stop you cold. Al Jazeera — the Qatari state media network, historically critical of American military action, the network Tucker Carlson and the anti-war right love to cite against Israel — is now calling the U.S. bombing campaign brilliant and effective, and saying it has been underestimated. When the media outlet of a nation that hosts both the largest American air base in the Middle East and a Hamas political office starts praising American military effectiveness, the message is unmistakable: 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘯. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗹. A-10 Warthogs and Apache helicopter gunships are now flying strike missions in Iranian airspace at will. VDH's point: you only deploy those aircraft when there is effectively no air defense left to threaten them. They are slow, low-flying, close-support platforms. Their presence confirms what the Pentagon has been claiming — Iran has no meaningful air defense remaining. Iran's strategy now is rope-a-dope. Run out the clock. Wait for American public opinion to shift. Hope the midterms create political pressure on Trump to stop. It is the only play they have left. VDH's conclusion: if Trump sees it through — and he believes he will — the regime falls. Not in years. 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻. 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝗮𝘆. 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮.

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The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is a serious escalation, no doubt, and it's affecting the front-end crude pricing…but pinning this solely on President Trump and Secretary Hegseth ignores the broader context and Iran's decades-long aggression. Iran has threatened to close the Strait for years as leverage against the West, especially in response to sanctions or military pressure. The U.S.-Israeli strikes starting February 28 weren't some reckless "bomb them into submission" gamble; they were a targeted response to Iran's rapid nuclear ☢️ advancements, missile programs, and proxy attacks across the region that have destabilized the Middle East for decades. Doing nothing would have allowed Iran to cross bright red lines - arming the madmen with nuclear ☢️ weapons or further entrenching Hezbollah and Houthis. "Trust me, bro" isn't the strategy; it's calculated deterrence backed by intelligence. As for Hegseth, calling him the "most incompetent" DoD head ever is partisan hyperbole. He's a combat vet with real experience, and under his leadership, we've seen precise strikes that have degraded Iran's capabilities without full invasion. We have also experienced record recruiting numbers under Sec Hegseth. He has brought physical fitness and lethality back to our fighting forces …while also dismissing the LBGTQ+ nonsense the democrats infected our forces with. The U.S. Navy is providing political risk insurance to maritime trade and offering escorts where feasible, while Trump is rallying an international coalition…including potential partners like France, Japan, South Korea, and the UK, to reopen the Strait with warships. This isn't isolationist folly; it's multilateral burden-sharing to counter a murderous rogue regime. Our service members aren't cannon fodder for "fools' failures"…they're defending global stability and U.S. interests against a murderous theocracy that's exported terror to the world for 45 years. The real failure would be continued democratic appeasement, letting Iran dictate terms. We've mitigated worse price shocks before, and with our world-leading domestic hydrocarbon production, we'll weather this. Blame the terrorist ‘leadership’ in Tehran, not those brave enough to finally hold them accountable.

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The “experts” can’t say this because they are the gatekeepers of the China Expert Industrial Complex and if everyone could get a better understanding by just watching mob movies then no one will buy their airport books and consulting services.

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Oh, of course. If tariffs are purely paid by Americans and China feels zero pain, then China must have thrown a weeks-long diplomatic tantrum purely for cardio. I mean, why retaliate at all? Why slap counter-tariffs on U.S. goods? Why scramble exporters, subsidize industries, pressure supply chains, and quietly worry about capital outflows? If American consumers were the only ones suffering, the logical move for China would’ve been to sit back, relax, and enjoy the spectacle. Instead, they responded immediately, choosing to imitate the Trump admin by "retaliating" with tariffs on American products and penalizing the poor Chinese with increase in prices. Are you implying that Chinese government is being run by a bunch of idiots who saw America jump off the bridge, and they decided to jump too?