One of Trump s suspected blackmailers, King Charles, is set to leave Castle Mey in Caithness where he is believed ot be staying, to go to Epstein s hunting ground, Balmoral Castle, on August 8th, the very same date Trump has set as a deadline for Russia to agree to an unrealistic ceasefire.
The deadline comes as Russia and China are set to hold exercises together in the Pacific, underlining how they and North Korea are acting as one bloc and not as separate super powers as Professor John Mearsheimer claims in an interesting interview with Tucker.
In addition, China has made a massive investment in electric cars to reduce its dependence on oil.
Der Standard fails to appreciate the reason for China s strategic investment in e cars in an article today, which is not so much green energy as oil independenc for war purposes, or how its central bank can print money for free using single entry book keeping and give every Chinese person a free e car while boosting its economy.
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000281252/chinas-e-auto-boom-droht-zu-kippen-staatlich-befeuerter-boom-wird-zur-gefahr-fuer-die-wirtschaft
Alas, due to the censorship, Prof Mearsheimer seems to be ill informed about private and national central banks, hypersonic missiles and the depopulation effects of the covid jabs and also about the Greek prosecutor probes which have enabled the Russians and Chinese to have an insight into who runs the West, what their objectives and methods are.
That is why many of the predictions he makes about geopolitics in 10, 20 years do not sound realistic.
From media
China and Russia will carry out joint naval exercises in the Pacific next week, the Chinese defense ministry said Wednesday, as the quasi-alliance continues to mature.
Why It Matters
The neighbors have moved to strengthen security ties in recent years through bilateral and multilateral exercises spanning naval and air patrols and computer simulations. Over half of their 113 combined drills since 2003 have taken place in the past six years, according to analysis by the Center for Strategic and International Studies' China Power Project.
This cooperation is especially concentrated in the Pacific. While Beijing and Moscow lack a formal treaty, they are aligned on challenging long-standing U.S. military dominance and seek to establish their own spheres of influence, analysts say.
https://www.newsweek.com/china-russia-challenge-us-military-supremacy-major-joint-exercise-2106478
The big geopolitical headline this week was President Trump on Monday and Tuesday making clear that if Russia can't reach a ceasefire agreement with Ukraine within 10 days, secondary sanctions will follow, which takes the new deadline to Friday, Aug. 8.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qsdEL1kmXc
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-spox-boasts-we-have-developed-immunity-sanctions
King Charles might be kicking back and relaxing at one of his castles, in a detail revealed on social media!
On July 24, the Castle of Mey announced on Instagram that the castle and its gardens were "closed to visitors" until Friday, August 8. The Castle of Mey in Caithness, Scotland, is one of the King's royal residences, and the timing aligned with a royal engagement he made in the area on July 28.
https://people.com/king-charles-may-staying-castle-mey-scotland-11781662
This week, journalist and bestselling author Michael Wolff told a story in public — on camera to the team at MeidasTouch Network
— that left me shaken. He says that years ago, while sitting in Jeffrey Epstein’s Palm Beach home, Epstein excused himself, walked to his safe, and pulled out a small collection of photographs.
According to Wolff, there were around a dozen photos total. All of them, he says, featured Donald Trump. And not Trump at a gala or a golf course. Not Trump giving a thumbs up in a suit.
No — these were photos taken inside Epstein’s house, “where all of the things that he would ultimately be accused of took place.”
Wolff says he remembers three images in particular. In two of them, there are young topless girls sitting on Trump’s lap. In the third, Trump appears to have a stain on the front of his pants.
That’s not gossip. That’s not rumor. That’s firsthand testimony from a journalist who was sitting in the room, shown those images by Epstein himself.
And if it's true — it’s not just disgusting.
It’s blackmail.
nd that’s what this was always about.
Not just abuse. Not just rape. But leverage. Power. Secrets.
People forget, or never knew, that Trump’s own cabinet member — former Labor Secretary Alex Acosta — said Epstein was off limits.
When Acosta was asked why he gave Epstein a sweetheart deal in 2008, letting him walk free after dozens of survivors came forward, he told a journalist, on the record, “I was told Epstein belonged to intelligence. So we were told to back off.”
Those are his words. He never denied saying them.
So when people ask why Epstein wasn’t prosecuted properly, or why he kept getting protection from people in the highest levels of government — the answer has always been the same.
Because he wasn’t just a predator.
He was an asset.
Because all of this — the blackmail, the intelligence ties, the inexplicable loyalty — helps make sense of something that still confuses many people: Donald Trump’s absolute subservience to the Israeli government.
From the moment he took office, Trump did everything Netanyahu wanted.
He moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Cut humanitarian aid to Gaza. Pulled out of the Iran deal. Backed annexation of Palestinian land. Ended funding to UNRWA. Gave Israel $38 billion in military aid. Paved the way for genocidal policies we’re watching unfold today.
It wasn’t just diplomacy. It was obedience.
DON’T YOU SEE IT????
And now we have to ask — was it ideology? Or was it pressure?
Because if Epstein had those photos — and if Trump knew they existed — then his presidency wasn’t just compromised. It was controlled.
https://www.thenorthstar.com/p/michael-wolff-says-epstein-showed
Look at the results. I don’t understand how you could have this many decades of back to back foreign policy disasters and not have a wholesale reorganization of the brain trust.
The Dangers of Desperation
JOHN MEARSHEIMER: Well, it will be a devastating blow for us to lose the war in Ukraine. And when foreign policy elites get desperate, they do reckless things or they talk in reckless ways. This is why, by the way, the Ukraine war, even once it’s settled and becomes a frozen conflict, will be so dangerous.
Because the fact that it is a defeat for the west and that we have been humiliated and that we lost this major war that we were so deeply committed to will give people incentives to try to reverse the tide, to rescue the situation. And when people are desperate, they sometimes pursue very risky strategies. So once this war becomes a frozen conflict, we’re going to have to worry about it re-escalating.
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The Economic Costs of War
TUCKER CARLSON: But both Europe and the United States have become poorer and weaker during the course of the Ukraine war, partly as a result of the Ukraine war. So I don’t really see how we’re winning. How is the US benefiting from this? How is Western Europe benefiting from this?
JOHN MEARSHEIMER: Well, I think that it’s Europe, Western Europe in particular, that’s been hurt economically by this war. Not so much US and one could argue that we’ve benefited on the margins at the expense of the Europeans.
TUCKER CARLSON: Well, the US dollar kind of is, I mean it’s obviously not a safe haven anymore. So I mean, it’s just a matter of time, I would say.
JOHN MEARSHEIMER: Well, the question is how much of that is due to the Ukraine war versus other American policies.
TUCKER CARLSON: I’m sure that there are a million factors, but kicking Russia out of Swift, just stealing the personal property of the so called oligarchs, lawless crazy behavior like that, that sends a message to the world that don’t keep your wealth in dollars because it can become an instrument of war. I mean, that’s my view on it anyway.
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JOHN MEARSHEIMER: It didn’t work because Trump would have to accept Russia’s three key demands that I spelled out to you at the start of the show. And those three key demands are unacceptable to almost every person in the American foreign policy establishment and almost every foreign policy elite in Europe.
Trump is an outlier on the whole issue of Ukraine. He, JD Vance, and a handful of other people. And they’re not in a position to bite the bullet and say, “we will accept the main Russian demands and go from there.” And by the way, even if they do accept the main Russian demands, the fact is that there will be huge resistance from the foreign policy establishments on both sides of the Atlantic.
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JOHN MEARSHEIMER: My view on this is that the Israelis have long been interested in expelling the Palestinian population from Greater Israel. If you look at Greater Israel, this includes the Israel that was created in 1948 and the occupied territories. This is the West Bank, Gaza, and what we call Green Line Israel. That’s Greater Israel.
Inside Greater Israel, there are about 7.3 million Jews and about 7.3 million Palestinians. And from the get go, going back to the early days of Zionism and the views of people like David Ben Gurion, they believe that you needed a Jewish state that was about 80% Jewish and 20% Palestinian. In an ideal world, you would get rid of all the Palestinians, but the least bad alternative is 80-20. But you actually have a situation in Greater Israel where you have 50-50.
So October 7th happens and what the Israelis see is an excellent opportunity for ethnic cleansing. And they make this clear. In other words, it’s an excellent opportunity to go to war in Gaza and drive the Palestinians out of Gaza and solve that demographic problem that they face.
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JOHN MEARSHEIMER: Absolutely not. And David Ben Gurion, Vladimir Jabotinsky, all these key Zionist leaders understood that full well. And they understood that they were going to have to do horrible things to the Palestinians. They understood that. And they were explicit in saying that they did not blame the Palestinians one second for resisting what the Jews from Europe were going to do to them.
They fully understood that they were stealing their land. And they fully understood that it made perfect sense for the Palestinians to resist, which of course they did.
But anyway, just to fast forward to October 7th, what happens after October 7th is that the Israelis see an excellent opportunity to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians in Gaza. You have about 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. Just to be clear, you have about 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, about 3.2 million in West Bank, and about 1.8 in Green Line Israel.
So this is an opportunity to get rid of those Palestinians. And the way to do it is to turn the IDF, the Israeli military loose and let them tear the place apart. And the idea is that that will just drive the Palestinians out. But the problem that the Israelis face is the Palestinians don’t leave. Both the Egyptians and the Jordanians, which are the two countries that the Israelis would like to drive the Palestinians into, make it unequivocally clear that that’s not going to happen.
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TUCKER CARLSON: What sort of power is it? Because it’s not rhetorical. It’s not, you know, the most powerful movements in history are fueled by an idea. It’s usually the most powerful or fueled by an idea that’s true. But I never hear anybody make a detailed case for why the United States benefits from the current arrangement. Never. No one ever.
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It basically does control the policymakers. So now you have this real disconnect.
TUCKER CARLSON: Controls the policymakers. I mean, we just, that’s demonstrable, you know, I think it’s measurable.
JOHN MEARSHEIMER: Yes, but so you have what you were describing is the disconnect between the discourse and the policy world that now exists. But what I’m saying to you is you want to remember that the lobby was immensely successful for a long period of time because the discourse and the policy process looked like they were in sync.
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But that’s happened because there’s been like an avalanche of new information, a lot of which is totally real. People haven’t seen it before and their minds are exploding. And so public opinion is moving so radically in the other direction. I feel it all around me. Do you feel this?
JOHN MEARSHEIMER: Of course, yeah.
TUCKER CARLSON: And your life, I mean, I should say for people who aren’t familiar with your background, you wrote a book with Stephen Walt of Harvard. You’re at the University of Chicago, so both of you are, you know, have tenure or famous in your world. You’re not crazy. And you write this book in 2007 and both of you are immediately attacked in pretty shocking ways, also defended by some of your colleagues, but really maligned for it.
And now 18 years later, people are saying that Mearsheimer guy, actually, he was kind of right about everything. So that’s a reflection, I think, of the change in public opinion. But that’s not sustainable. You can’t have, in a democracy, policy that’s 180 degrees from public opinion over time. That just doesn’t work.
So you have to either change the policy or change public opinion. And no one’s even making any attempt at all to change public opinion through good faith argument. Through like, “Hey, I know you think this, but you’re wrong. And here’s why.” There’s zero. None. It’s “shut up, Nazi.” Okay? And that’s not working. So I really think the only option is to stop the conversation. Or maybe I’m missing something like censorship is the only option if you want to maintain status quo.
Censorship and Information Control
JOHN MEARSHEIMER: Well, there’s no question that they’re trying to stop the conversation. No question. I mean, they went to great lengths to shut down TikTok. And the evidence is that the lobby played a key role.
TUCKER CARLSON: Just banning one of the world’s biggest social media apps. Because it says things you don’t like.
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And I talk to people on campuses. Everybody understands this. Everybody understands that this has nothing to do with anti-Semitism. I’ve been in academia for decades. I’ve been at the University of Chicago for 44 years. Before October 7, nobody at Chicago or Harvard talked about an anti-Semitism problem. It was just unheard of.
Huge numbers of administrators, including provosts and presidents, were Jewish. Huge numbers of deans and faculty members were Jewish. Huge numbers of students, graduate and undergraduate were Jewish. This is a wonderful thing. Nobody was ever critical of it. Was there an anti-Semitism problem? I never heard about it and I don’t know anybody who was talking about it.
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There’s a study that somebody did recently as a legitimate study that said that they believe or the study concludes that there are about 400,000 missing people in.
TUCKER CARLSON: 400,000.
JOHN MEARSHEIMER: 400,000. Yeah. Now I’m not saying that’s true. I’m just saying that there are obviously lots of missing people. Right. Well, if you look at what the Israelis have done in Gaza, I wouldn’t be surprised if the number is, you know, 400,000 dead, but who knows?
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That total elimination of free speech. You say certain things, you go right to jail. Question like, what the hell happened on October 7th? Which is a completely fair question. Any in any free society that should be allowed. Not allowed.
Banning people from leaving the country. Your right to travel, especially to leave, is a foundational right. They’re telling Israeli citizens you’re not allowed to leave. I don’t know. Why is that not a big story? I don’t really get it. And then the treatment of Christians, which is. Is disgusting.
Those are all signs of. The society is becoming illiberal, really. Is becoming authoritarian. Very. I mean, that’s authoritarian. You’re not allowed to leave the country. You can’t say what you think. That’s not a free country. And those are all downstream of the military response post, October 7th. So I think it makes your point. This is corrupting to their society, as the stuff always is. 9/11 is totally corrupting to our society.
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TUCKER CARLSON: We don’t know. And it does make everybody into a wacko thinking about it. I mean if you want to end so called conspiracy theories, tell the truth and then no one has to theorize would be my view.
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OHN MEARSHEIMER: It develops enough military capability to put up a serious fight against the most powerful state in the system.
TUCKER CARLSON: Thank you.
JOHN MEARSHEIMER: Right, so you want to remember the two main building blocks of military power are wealth and population size. You take that wealth, you take that population size and that’s what allows you to build the powerful military that affects your position in the balance of power.
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