Michael Hudson and Lena Petrova discuss the breakdown of the US-led order, Trump’s misguided efforts to maintain primacy, and what comes next
Read more...Another example of Ukraine war blowback on the West: banking costs rose and lending tightened due to the sanctions on Russia.
Read more...The damage to Ukraine’s grid is already so serious and hard to remedy that its future as a failed state is close to certain.
Read more...Contrary to popular narrative, the U.S. is not retreating to its own “backyard.”
Read more...Trump’s Greenland climbdown is yet another sign of how his derangedness is becoming more and more destabilizing.
Read more...Though it seems highly unlikely given weak and incompetent leadership in Europe, it has cards to play to stymie Trump’s Greenland grab.
Read more...The case that the tech bros desire for freedom cities and need for AI energy is driving the Greenland obsession.
Read more...More on Trump’s plans to annex Greenland.
Read more...A look at a Trump pretext for taking Greenland: its significant stores of oil, gas, and minerals, with the vast majority still underground.
Read more...Trump’s plan for US military spending of $1.5 trillion puts the military at the core of his presidency and may signal a move to all-out war.
Read more...Russia seems finally to have gotten the memo about Trump’s worse-than-bad-US-norms duplicity and love of violence and is escalating.
Read more...Why Trump’s saber-rattling over Greenland should be taken seriously.
Read more...China and India are unhappy about a new EU carbon tax on exports like steel. The US is expected to join the chorus. Will they retaliate?
Read more...Michael Hudson describes the development and progression of America’s economic parasitism.
Read more...NATO is trying to have it both ways: escalating against Russia via a naval/tanker campaign while pretending they are not directly at war.
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