This Week in the World Affairs Brief

TRUMP’S ERRATIC MOVES DESTABILIZE THE ECONOMY AND ALLIANCES

Donald Trump has signed many dramatic and beneficial executive orders to blunt the woke agenda and bring sanity to most of our lives and public principles, but he has also made serious errors in budget talks, and in economic and foreign policy. His increased tariffs change weekly and are threatening to bring about a disaster for international trade and market stability. More importantly—relative to future wars—Trump’s misplaced confidence in Vladimir Putin fell apart this week, as I expected. In short, it’s one thing to make dramatic moves using presidential power, dangerous as that is to the constitutional order, but it’s another to keep changing your mind in dramatic ways on tariffs and foreign policy. That’s an indication of not having thought things out well in advance, or getting the right advice. Fluctuations in tariffs are threatening major market turmoil, and Trump’s increasing detente with Russia is fracturing the NATO military alliance which fears they can no longer rely on decades-old defense agreements and shared military equipment that leaders see as being “at risk” of one’s man’s erratic leadership style. It’s not as simple as “pulling out of NATO” since the US has talked all of those nations into becoming nearly totally dependent on US military technology and intelligence. And that, in turn, holds them hostage to Trump’s hostility toward Europe aiding Ukraine and positioning themselves counter to what they rightly view as Putin’s existential threat to Europe. I’ll explain all this in detail this week. 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.

Also:
  • Trump’s Moves Against Ukraine Undermine NATO Trust in USA
  • Trump Tariff Volatility
  • Bad Stopgap Funding Bill Supported by Trump

Daily News

EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History: Zeldin Rolls Out 31 Groundbreaking Actions to Save Americans TRILLIONS, Slash Costs and Supercharge Job Growth

The Gateway Pundit

Reconsideration of regulations on power plants (Clean Power Plan 2.0) Reconsideration of regulations throttling the oil and gas industry (OOOO b/c) Reconsideration of Mercury and Air Toxics Standards that improperly targeted coal-fired power plants (MATS) Reconsideration of mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program that imposed significant costs on the American energy supply (GHG Reporting Program)

US Warned of Caribbean Becoming 'Chinese Lake'

Newsweek

The committee identified major Chinese projects, including the development of a $3 billion deep-water port on Grand Bahama, just 55 miles from the U.S. mainland, and a $600 million investment to improve the Dominican Republic's electricity grid. According to Forbes, China is funding $2.1 billion worth of projects in Jamaica and $773 million in Suriname.

FBI Redactions on Seth Rich Index Leave No Answers

Consortium News

The F.B.I. cyber unit got involved after the D.C. police were unable to access protected files on Rich’s computer, Hersh said. So the F.B.I. “found what he’d done. He had submitted a series of documents, of emails. Some juicy emails from the DNC,” to Wikileaks, Hersh said. “He offered a sample, an extensive sample, you know I’m sure dozens of emails and said ‘I want money.’ Then later Wikileaks did get the password, he had a Dropbox, a protected Dropbox,” Hersh said. He went on:

Arrested Container Ship Captain That Hit US Tanker Is Russian National

ZeroHedge

They must have been able to detect it on the radar." Some have been fixated on the GPS jamming angle on X while Solong was on autopilot during its transit. This is because the Stena Immaculate is a high-value target for foreign adversaries, as it is part of a fleet of 10 tankers involved in a U.S. government program to supply fuel to the military.

Canadian Liberals Select Globalist Technocrat Mark Carney to Replace Justin Trudeau as Prime Minister

Breitbart

Perhaps demonstrating a lack of enthusiasm, of the approximate 400,000 Liberal Party members who registered to vote in the leadership contest, CTV reports that just 151,899 votes were actually cast. Under Canada’s parliamentary system, Carney does not automatically become prime minister but will have to wait for Trudeau to officially tender his resignation to the governor-general. After that, Carney will be invited to form a new government. This process is expected to be carried out within the next week.

Black Lives Matter Plaza Jackhammered by D.C. After Pressure from Rep. Andrew Clyde

Breitbart

The street on Black Lives Plaza, renamed from Liberty Plaza by D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser in 2020 as riots following George Floyd’s death paralyzed the city, served as a divisive partisan message during the 2020 campaign season. On March 3 Clyde reintroduced his bill to remove the message and rename the plaza – just one block from the White House – which Breitbart News reported exclusively.

Marco Rubio Cancels 83% of USAID Programs

Breitbart

The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in some cases even harmed), the core national interests of the United States. In consultation with Congress, we intend for the remaining 18% of programs we are keeping (approximately 1000) to now be administered more effectively under the State Department.

US Firm Maxar Disables Satellite Photos For Ukraine

ZeroHedge

In a fresh report in Le Monde Ukrainian military expert Ievhen Dyky has described that "The total ban on intelligence sharing is effective, both directly from the US to [Ukraine], but it is also a ban on NATO allies transferring data received from the US to us." He specified that the ban "applies to all forms of intelligence."

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