This Week in the World Affairs Brief

CHINA LURES TRUMP BACK TO HER SIDE

On the tail end of Trump’s trade visits to Malaysia, Japan and South Korea, Trump agreed to a last minute meeting with China’s Xi Jinping despite having said “we have nothing to discuss” after China threw a monkey-wrench into the world’s high-end manufacturing by restricting several key rare earth metals. Despite this aggressive trade-war action, Trump can’t seem to resist believing that he is capable of turning everything around by having a “wonderful relationship” with every world leader, including those who are dictators, corrupt and even mortal enemies of the nation. His staff even reached out to dictator Kim Jong Un of N. Korea for a meeting on NK’s nuclear weapons program, but were rebuffed. Otherwise, we probably would have seen another of Trump’s false claims of a “successful meeting.” South Korea isn’t an enemy but even its president knew how to gain favorable trade deals with Trump by awarding him their medal of honor and gifting him a golden crown—which, given the “No Kings” protests in the US, is the last thing Trump should have accepted. As I pointed out last week, all of the world’s leaders now know that Trump can be influenced if they apply enough praise and flattery. An even greater enticement to Trump seems to be the lure of making “great deals” with world leaders whose stature is viewed by parts of the world as even more formidable than Trump himself, like Xi and Putin. To receive a free one-time sample of the Brief, along with options on how to subscribe, click on Request a Sample on the left.

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  • The War in Gaza is Not Over
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Why Are 42 Million Americans Relying On SNAP Benefits?

ZeroHedge

Amid the furious debate over the government shutdown and the incoming freeze of SNAP food benefits, one important factor is often overlooked - Why are 42 million Americans, a number larger than the entire population of Canada, dependent on government subsidized groceries?

Ukraine Sends Special Forces To Bolster Nearly 'Surrounded' Troops In Pokrovsk

ZeroHedge

The strategic city is considered to be "the gateway to Donetsk" - and its loss would be a huge blow to Ukraine's logistical abilities across the eastern front lines. Kiev has rejected Putin's claim to have the whole city surrounded and blockaded. "We are holding Pokrovsk," Ukraine’s army chief Oleksandr Syrskii wrote on Facebook Saturday. "A comprehensive operation to destroy and dislodge enemy forces from Pokrovsk is ongoing."

War Intensifies: October Marked High Point For Russian Missiles Fired On Ukraine

ZeroHedge

As for drone attacks, this number is in the thousands - with many of these likely being decoy drones, but also highly destructive suicide drones which often come in waves, overwhelming Ukraine's air defenses. "Russia also fired 5,298 long-range drones at Ukraine in October, the same data showed, down by around six percent on the number it fired in September but still close to record highs," AFP found.

9 People In Critical Condition After Mass Stabbing On UK Train

ZeroHedge

The attack was carried out by two unidentified suspects at 7:35pm as the Doncaster to London King’s Cross train headed south toward Huntingdon, a market town a few miles northwest of the university city of Cambridge. The two men dressed in all-black were tasered, restrained, and taken into custody by police, according to that report.

88-Year-Old Congresswoman Is Exposed For Having 7 No-Show Jobs

Headline USA

Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington D.C.’s 88-year-old congressional delegate, claims to sit on multiple boards at prestigious institutions, but investigations reveal she hasn’t been active with them in years. Some of these positions no longer even exist according to a report by Luke Goldstein and Dan Boguslaw.

Who's Really Calling The Shots At HHS?

Who is Stefanie Spear? Most of Trump’s MAGA base would fail to pick her out of a lineup. Even most MAHA activists don’t know much about her, but they do know the number one rule in the world of RFK JR: you must go through Stefanie Spear to get to Bobby. She’s the gatekeeper.

Senate Big Guns Target Bill Gates for Bolstering the Chinese Communist Party’s Tyrannical Grip

What Finger

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has fired a warning shot across the bow of globalist kingpin Bill Gates, demanding answers from the Gates Foundation over its shady funneling of millions to arms of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Grassley’s October 27, 2025, letter to Gates Foundation CEO Mark Suzman accuses the nonprofit of violating IRS rules by pouring cash into CCP-linked entities, potentially jeopardizing its tax-exempt status under 501(c)(3). “According to reports, in 2023, the Gates Foundation ‘directed roughly $11.7 million into various arms of China’s communist-controlled government, as well as $2 million to a corporation the Department of Defense (DOD) determined works with the Chinese military,'” Grassley wrote,

Experts Explain How Reviving Nuclear Weapons Tests Would Actually Happen

The WarZone

Minutes before he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Busan, South Korea on Wednesday, U.S. President Donald Trump issued a statement on social media saying he “instructed the Department of War to start testing our Nuclear Weapons on an equal basis. That process will begin immediately.” The reason, Trump explained, was because of “other countries [SIC] testing programs.”

Do Antidepressants Work for Kids? Key Evidence Is Corrupt

Paul Thacker

I’ve been investigating and writing about Study 329 for almost twenty years as it stands out as one of the best documented case studies of corruption in modern biomedicine. Unfortunately, a piece I wrote for a DC nonprofit documenting much of this evidence disappeared in the last year as the publishing platform shut down. So I’m republishing that 2011 piece here so that it stays available for readers searching on Google.

Russian Infantry Operating Inside Pokrovsk - Strategic Ukrainian City's Fall Imminent

ZeroHedge

For the majority of the war Pokrovsk has acted as the logistical hub and rear operations base for Ukraine's eastern defensive lines. It sits astride both a key railroad juncture and the highway to Ukraine’s fourth-largest metro, Dnipro. The city's defensive positions are a final obstacle to Russia's access to most of the region. If Pokrovsk falls Russian forces will be able to more easily flank entrenched troops in the north and south of the country.

Gaza Ceasefire Has Resumed After Israeli Soldier & Over 100 Palestinians Were Killed Tuesday

ZeroHedge

After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday instructed the country's military to "carry out powerful strikes in Gaza," the IDF followed in a Wednesday morning statement saying it has resumed the ceasefire in Gaza. The military indicated it had launched "series of significant strikes in which dozens of terror targets and terrorists were attacked" - the result of Hamas gunmen allegedly opening fire on its troops.

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