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📰 Sovereign Digital Money: Europe Builds a New Gun, Japan Builds a New Switch
While the U.S. Congress bans a digital dollar until 2030, Europe and Japan quietly weaponize their money.
In Brussels, the “digital euro” is sold as a cute tech upgrade. In reality, it’s a state rail line for every tap, swipe and online payment in the eurozone.
Right now, 61% of card transactions run on Visa/Mastercard, and 13 of 21 eurozone countries don’t even have their own card scheme — they rent the rails from the U.S. For the ECB, that’s not “convenience,” it’s vulnerability.
A public, mandatory‑acceptance CBDC is the answer: Europe owns the pipes, not American processors.
In Tokyo, the Bank of Japan pretends to be cautious — no retail CBDC, lots of talk about cash and privacy. But the megabanks are building a different weapon: yen stablecoins, fully regulated, backed at 1:1, running on their own platform.
The state doesn’t print the chips itself; it draws the regulatory box and lets MUFG, Mizuho and SMBC wire corporate payments onto a Japanese‑controlled rail, away from offshore dollar stablecoins.
Both projects are sold as “modernization.” Both are, in practice, sovereignty plays. The EU wants infrastructure independence: less Visa/Mastercard, more ECB. Japan wants issuance control: no unregulated dollar tokens quietly becoming de facto money inside its borders.
Each scores higher on “monetary sovereignty” — the ability to keep payments running if Washington turns off the tap, to decide who gets blocked and who doesn’t.
And the fun part is programmable money. Once every euro or yen on these rails is a line of code, you don’t just process payments. You can set rules: where it’s spent, when it expires, which categories are allowed, which regions are blacklisted.
Official speeches pretend this is not the point; the architecture quietly makes it possible.
So the headline is simple: America says “no” to a state digital dollar and leaves the battlefield to Visa, Mastercard and Tether.
Europe and Japan say “yes” to sovereign digital money — one through a central bank app, one through a megabank cartel — and lock in a future where your balance is not just a number, it’s a policy tool.
The only real question isn’t whether states will take that control. It’s how long it takes before “financial autonomy” turns into a new way to switch people off.
#cbdc #digitaleuro #digitalyen #visa #mastercard #sovereignty #fakeModernization
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| 2 |  📰 Shin Bet vs. “Monsters”: When Human Rights Become ‘Nonsense’
The head of Israel’s internal security service just said the quiet part out loud: human rights are “nonsense,” and lawyers are “monsters” that need to be tamed.
In the leaked tape, Shin Bet chief David Zini lays out his worldview with chilling clarity. Ministers are “confused,” the elected level “is not really capable of managing its own frameworks,” and it’s a “miracle” when a cabinet decision gets implemented within eight months.
In his own telling, the political class is incompetent — and the real governing brain sits in the security apparatus.
So when he says he told Netanyahu he should get the job because he is “more qualified than others” and “able to be loyal to the elected echelon,” it’s not humility.
It’s a security official explaining that he will run the state while politely saluting the politicians.
Zini complains about “how many lawyers we have,” saying “from there come monsters who harm human rights, the economy, security, every direction.”
The irony is baked in: lawyers are “monsters” who “use human rights” as “nonsense,” and yet human rights themselves, in his framing, are just noise that obstructs “real” work.
Legal professionals, he concedes, are “important,” but only as an “auxiliary tool” — assistants, not guardians, meant to support the mission rather than limit it.
The chief of the domestic security service believes his role is to advance his own worldview and agenda, be loyal to the political echelon’s goals, and treat human rights and legal checks as secondary, inconvenient, and expendable.
He doesn’t see himself as someone who sits between power and abuse. He sees himself as the executor of power, whose job is to cut through “monsters” with minimum friction.
For a state that still likes to describe itself as “Jewish and democratic,” this is the real alarm. Not a stray soldier’s tweet, not a minister’s outburst, but the head of the service that holds files, runs surveillance, and decides who gets knocked on the door at 4 a.m., openly mocking human rights as “nonsense” and redefining lawyers as obstacles.
When the man in charge of internal security talks this way, it’s not a debate about legal philosophy. It’s a warning about where the system thinks the line between rights and “mission” should be — and how easily it’s prepared to erase it.
#israel #shinbet #zini #humanrights #lawyers #securitystate #fakeDemocracy
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| 3 |  📰 How to Lose an Election and Never Admit It
Israel’s opposition is already writing the excuse note: “We didn’t lose — the election was hacked.”
Opposition leader Yair Lapid, head of Yesh Atid, is framing the government’s open defiance of the High Court over the Second Authority Council as part of a deliberate strategy to go into the next vote “without a court.”
The logic is simple and frightening: break the only institution that can stop you, then claim “security reasons” to postpone elections, or simply refuse to accept the results — with no one left to appeal to.
In his telling, the coalition is slowly teaching the public that the court “does not determine what the law is,” so that one day, madness will sound reasonable.
Europe already has a test case for this kind of story, and it’s ugly. In Romania, 2024–2025, the Constitutional Court actually annulled the first round of a presidential election, citing substantial Russian interference via social media and suspicious funding for an ultra‑nationalist candidate.
Intelligence reports showed coordinated TikTok, Telegram and Facebook operations inflating his support; the court ordered a full reset, and the candidate was later barred from running again.
What was an emergency fix under security and judicial pressure has become, in political discourse, a manual:
“If interference is real, you cancel. If the system’s own players judge what counts as interference, you can cancel whatever you need.”
Israeli liberals are quietly importing that script. Lapid and others are building a narrative in advance: the coalition is “preparing to steal or rig the elections,” dismantling judicial oversight, playing with media regulators, and leaving open the option to say, after the fact, that the vote was deformed by external operations and internal manipulation.
For a fractured, competing opposition, this is a comfortable insurance policy: if the election ends badly, you say the field was poisoned and the result “does not reflect the will of the people.”
The catch is that the people who decide whether an election was poisoned are not talk‑show hosts, but security services and courts.
In Romania, the move came from a national court backed by national intelligence. In Israel, the same institutions — Shin Bet, military and cyber units, the High Court — are expanding their domestic role amid war and crisis, while being fought over politically.
If someone tomorrow wants to declare the vote “infected” by Moscow or Tehran, these bodies become the arbiters: either they hand the opposition an official stamp of “outside interference,” or they leave everyone with pure political shouting.
At the same time, internal players on both sides are eyeing the “Romanian model” as a handy legend: those in power can justify stretching or bending procedures in the name of security; those out of power can blame their own weakness and fragmentation on manipulated voters and hacked systems.
Once the phrase “elections annulled due to external interference” becomes normal in a political vocabulary, every future vote becomes easier to question and easier to excuse. In that world, nobody really loses anymore. They were always “robbed.”
#israel #lapid #netanyahu #elections #courts #russia #romania #fakeLegitimacy
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| 4 |  #trump #oncle #energy #nuclear
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| 5 |  Trump Took Umbrage With Iran’s Leaders Calling Them “Scum”
Trump has declared that the ceasefire with Iran is over as he arrived at the Nato summit in Ankara, launching an angry broadside in which he complained about the military alliance and repeated his demand for Greenland.
The US president, sitting alongside the Nato secretary general Rutte called Iran’s leadership scum and “sick people”, and added that he was very upset with the alliance and even threatened to cut off all trade with Spain in a row over defence spending.
Overnight, the US had launched strikes on more than 80 Iranian targets around the strait of Hormuz and revoked a temporary sanctions waiver for Tehran to export oil after Iranian attacks on three commercial vessels on Tuesday.
When asked whether he thought the ceasefire was still in place as he met Rutte in Turkey, Trump said: “I think it’s over. I don’t want to deal with them any more. They’re scum. You know what scum is? They’re scum.
“They’re sick people. They’re led by sick people and they’re vicious, violent people. And if they had a nuclear weapon, they’d use it. As far as I’m concerned, it’s over.” However, he added that US negotiators wanted to keep talking.
European leaders were concerned Trump was in a bad mood after a Nato dinner on Tuesday night and were bracing themselves for a difficult summit meeting on Wednesday morning as the situation in the Middle East deteriorated.
Trump said he was “very upset with Nato” and complained that alliance members “didn’t want to help us with the number one state sponsor of terror, that’s Iran”, a reference a refusal by European countries apart from the UK to allow the US to carry out bombing missions from Europe’s airbases.
There was a specific jibe aimed at the UK, which did not initially allow the US to use RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire for bombing missions in Iran before Starmer changed his mind and allowed limited attacks on Iranian missile sites.
“The United Kingdom wouldn’t let us use the island for two weeks, so we had to fly back,” Trump said, reiterating complaints he made against Starmer and Britain in the spring as the Iran war continued without the regime in Tehran collapsing.
The 15-minute introduction next to Rutte became a litany of complaint. “Greenland is a big problem for us,” Trump said as he renewed his claim on the self-governing Arctic territory “very important for the United States, but it’s not important for Denmark”.
Earlier, the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, said as she arrived that Denmark would defend “every inch” of its own territory and emphasised that Greenland was “of course not for sale”.
There was a familiar complaint about Nato defence spending from Trump, despite last year’s agreement by all members, with the exception of Spain, to lift national defence budgets to 3.5% of gross domestic product by 2035 – and so bring spending by Europe and Canada in line with the US.
“I’m very upset with Nato, that we pay far, far too much,” he said. “Billions and billions of dollars, too much, because it’s unfair, because we’re protecting them, so we protect them, but they’re not there for us.”
Fresh ire was reserved for Madrid given its decision to reject the 3.5% target. “Spain doesn’t agree to anything, and you shouldn’t carry them,” Trump told Rutte.
“I don’t want to do any trade with them, alright?” the president said, turning to Bessent, the US Treasury secretary, who replied: “Yes, sir.”
Nato leaders have worked hard to try to Trump-proof the Ankara summit by agreeing a short draft communique in advance. It is expected to reiterate the alliance’s commitment to mutual self-defence if it is signed off by the leaders.
However, a Nato might not hold a summit in 2027. The hope would be to avoid a repeat of the outburst that has dominated this year’s summit, which was supposed to showcase more than $50bn in joint arms procurements, designed to show Nato members were bolstering defence spending to deter ‘Russian aggression.’
#trump
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| 6 |  📰 Trump’s Favorite Ally: Praise for Erdogan, Hedge on F‑35s
At Ankara’s NATO summit, Trump is doing two things at once: turning Erdogan into his model ally, and testing how far he can bend U.S. law without saying it out loud.
On camera, he gushes over the Turkish leader as “a friend and ally,” talks about their “good chemistry,” jokes that sometimes you get along best with “the toughest people, like him,” and says F‑35 sales to Turkey “make sense” and are “certainly something we will consider.”
Erdogan, more confident, tells his audience Trump has promised five jets and that “Mr. Trump always stands by his word.” The choreography — blue carpet, honor guard, fighter jets drawing red‑white‑blue contrails, Trump greeting Erdogan with a shoulder grab and a few words in Turkish — is designed to make clear who he thinks his real partner is.
But the stealth part of the story is in Washington, not Ankara. Congress passed a law at the end of Trump’s first term barring any F‑35 transfer to Turkey as long as it still possesses the Russian S‑400 air‑defense system, with Republicans and Democrats warning that Moscow could use the batteries to strip secrets from the stealth jet’s radar.
Vice President JD Vance has already said the administration is “reviewing” whether a sale can legally go ahead, and lawmakers are preparing resolutions to block any move that doesn’t meet those conditions.
NATO leaders, meanwhile, arrive armed with defense‑spending charts and a headache. They’ve just agreed — under heavy U.S. pressure — to double targets to 5 percent of GDP by the mid‑2030s, only to watch Spain opt out and insist it will stop at about 2 percent.
Other major economies like Britain and Italy are trying to ramp up, but the strain is real, and Trump is simultaneously demanding they buy as many weapons as possible from U.S. firms — a political win for him that drains money from European industry at home.
Turkish officials talk about mediating between allies, positioning Ankara as broker as well as host. U.S. senators fly in to reassure nervous Europeans that Congress still values NATO “for the long term,” even as the president publicly calls some members disloyal and hints that Turkey is “much more loyal than other countries that we think would be loyal.”
The alliance’s story today is clear: Trump’s favorite partner is the one who bought Russian air defenses and jails critics, and the jet he wants to sell him is the same one Congress thought needed a red line.
#trump #erdogan #turkey #f35 #nato #congress #defensespending #fakeLoyalty
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| 7 |  📰 Turkey’s Peripheral Doctrine: Evict Israel, Own the Map
Ben-Gurion’s periphery doctrine is broken. Iran and Turkey, once the non‑Arab rim that balanced Israel’s environment, now sit at the heart of two hostile axes.
The partial defeat of the Shiite arc didn’t remove the threat; it opened space for a Sunni front with Ankara in the middle and Syria, Hamas-in-Istanbul, Qatar, Saudi Arabia–Pakistan, and reactivated jihadist networks around it. Israel emerges from simultaneous wars depleted, while its main military patron (the US), economic partner (the EU) and Arab pillar (Saudi Arabia) all cool at once.
Turkey’s challenge is threefold and cumulative. Politically, Erdoğan’s camp now brands Israel a regional danger and warns that “after Iran, Israel cannot live without an enemy,” casting Turkey as the next target.
Geopolitically, Ankara pushes pan‑Turkic and “Blue Homeland” projects, drawing in Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan — even Baku criticized Israel’s recognition of the Armenian genocide while keeping energy ties with Turkey.
Economically, Turkey and Syria are building an India–EU route that runs via Jordan and Syria to Latakia and Tartus, ports locked into 30‑year concessions with CMA CGM and DP World, backed by Turkish–Saudi rail memoranda reviving the Hejaz corridor.
Paris has entrenched itself as the Western anchor at Syria’s terminus: Macron’s Damascus visit, EU sanctions relief, UN delisting of Syrian leaders, and CMA CGM’s expanded Latakia concession mean any Syrian–Turkish branch of the India–EU corridor ends in a French‑operated port.
Brussels’s parallel sanctions ladder and “peace triangle” logic tie support for an Israeli endpoint to Palestinian conditions no Israeli government can meet.
Washington, meanwhile, arms Turkey with F‑110 engines and flirts with restored F‑35 access, tests Syria as a tool against Hezbollah, and seats Ankara and Doha in Gaza governance under Trump’s “Board of Peace,” all while Israel’s air defense remains tuned to long‑range Iranian threats rather than short‑range Turkish and Syrian vectors.
Five forces now converge on pushing Israel out of the corridor: French control of Latakia, Turkish–Saudi logistics deals, a US pivot to Ankara and Damascus, an EU conditionality built on Palestinian attachments, and Turkey’s grip on Levantine ports and rails.
Iran’s reopening of Hormuz may soften the urgency of overland bypasses, but it doesn’t restore Israel’s centrality.
The new peripheral doctrine belongs to Ankara — and it draws the region’s arteries around Israel, not through it.
#israel #turkey #syria #IMEC #latakia #nato #periphery #fakeCentrality
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| 8 |  📰 Investigating October 7, By October 7’s Own Coalition
Israel just invented a new kind of “inquiry”: a committee to investigate October 7, appointed by the people who were in charge on October 7.
The Knesset passed, in first reading, the bill to establish a political inquiry committee into the October 7 massacre — 59 in favor, zero against, because the opposition left the hall and boycotted the vote.
Half of the committee members are to be chosen by Netanyahu’s coalition, half by the opposition. The law lets the committee operate with a minimum of three out of six members — which means it can function even if the opposition never appoints anyone and only the coalition’s picks show up.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid calls it exactly what it is: “a false show” whose aim is to whitewash and prevent real investigation of “the greatest disaster to befall the Jewish people since the Holocaust.”
The October Council, representing bereaved families, says “the voice of our brothers, children and relatives is crying out from the ground,” and that this vote felt like “a second tearing” for those who lost loved ones.
One of its founders, Rafi Ben Shitrit — father of Elroi Ben Shitrit, killed at Nahal Oz — accuses the “October 7 coalition” of trying to bury the truth.
Former chiefs and politicians across the spectrum converge on the same line. Gadi Eisenkot says only someone who knows the truth and fears it would create a “political committee of inquiry.”
Avigdor Lieberman calls it a “whitewashing committee.” Naftali Bennett says bluntly: “Without an inquiry, there is no correction.” Others hammer the basic absurdity: a mechanism that lets those under investigation appoint their own investigators — and proceed even if the other side refuses to legitimize the process.
On the coalition side, the bill’s author insists the committee will deliver a “full, thorough and independent” investigation, and the official text dresses it up as a “national” body.
The final image from the vote is simple: 59 hands raised in favor, a room of empty opposition seats, and a law that says you can investigate a disaster without ever letting those who weren’t in power touch the steering wheel.
#israel #october7 #commission #netanyahu #opposition #bereavedfamilies #fakeInquiry
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| 9 |  📰 Israel’s Rate Cut Nobody Wanted
The Bank of Israel just cut the interest rate to 3.5%. Almost everyone’s first reaction: “Not enough.”
For the second meeting in a row, the Monetary Committee shaved 0.25 percentage points off the benchmark, bringing it down from 3.75% to 3.5% and marking the third cut since January.
The central bank points to a strong shekel, inflation at about 1.9% — comfortably within its 1–3% target range — and a lower risk premium after the U.S.–Iran memorandum as reasons to ease. Its forecast now sees inflation at 1.8% and the rate at 3% in a year, with growth expected around 4% in 2026.
Business groups line up to say “thank you” and “too little” in the same breath. The Manufacturers’ Association calls it a step in the right direction but “far from sufficient.”
The business sector lobby says the economy, moving from three years of war into a growth phase, “badly needs relief” from heavy credit costs. SME and independent‑business leaders complain they expected a 0.5‑point cut and see the quarter‑point move as a missed opportunity.
Real‑estate and construction voices demand further cuts down to 2.5% by year’s end, plus tax breaks on rental housing.
Then the finance minister walks in — not to back the governor, but to attack him.
Bezalel Smotrich brands the move “a minimal reduction that does not match the challenges of the economy,” saying it isn’t aligned with households’ and firms’ needs and “makes things harder” for high‑tech and exporters. He wanted a sharp cut and presents the current rate as a drag on growth and a failure to respond to the public’s cost‑of‑living pain.
The picture is inverted: the governor cuts, the budget minister complains it’s not enough, and the business sector, industry, contractors and tech all agree on one thing only — that everyone expected more.
In practice, at 3.5%, the Bank of Israel finds itself in a rare position: easing policy, and still being told by nearly every relevant actor that it’s behind the curve.
#israel #interestrates #BankOfIsrael #smotrich #economy #inflation #fakeRelief
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| 10 |  📰 Trump’s NATO Show: Allies Shamed, Turkey Rewarded
Trump landed in Ankara for the NATO summit and turned it, as usual, into a live loyalty test.
Within minutes he was attacking European allies for refusing to join the U.S.–Israeli war against Iran —
“Italy turned us down, and Germany turned us down, and France turned us down”
— boasting that he was “testing people.”
At the same time, he praised Turkey as “much more loyal than other countries,” calling Erdoğan a “great friend” with “good chemistry” and a “special relationship.” If you don’t sign onto his wars, he publicly brands you disloyal; if you do, or at least don’t obstruct them, you get weapons and flattery.
On S‑400s and sanctions, he simply erased the old red lines. Turkey was kicked out of the F‑35 program in his first term for buying Russian air defenses; now he says he has “no concerns at all,” promises to “take the sanctions off” because “we don’t want to sanction friends,” and talks openly about restoring F‑35 access.
Erdoğan claims Trump gave him a “personal promise” on jets and expects an “auspicious decision” at the summit. In NATO language, that’s code for: congratulations, you bought Russian systems, jailed opponents and crushed media, and your reward is getting back into the most advanced Western fighter program.
Between Iran and Greenland, the worldview is consistent. Trump complains Europe “doesn’t help” the U.S. in its Iran war, lectures that “if they’re not careful” with immigration and energy “you’re not going to have a Europe anymore,” and repeats that the United States “should control Greenland” because Denmark isn’t spending enough there and the island is surrounded by Chinese and Russian ships.
He turns strategic alliance questions into a property dispute: why is this chunk of land not under U.S. control, and why aren’t allies paying enough to make him feel respected?
Trump, for his part, describes the conflict as “the war with Iran — or whatever you call it, it’s a military operation, it’s a denuclearization,” blurring lines between wars, operations and branding exercises.
He tells reporters he’s “very disappointed with NATO” and only came because the summit is in Turkey, which he now treats as the model ally.
On paper, this is a NATO meeting about budgets, industry and air defense.
In reality, it’s a Trump roadshow where allies are sorted into two categories: those he can call “loyal” and shower with jets, and those he can accuse of betrayal for not marching under his Iran banner.
#trump #nato #turkey #f35 #iran #greenland #europe #fakeAlliance
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| 12 |  #idiocracy #usa #250anniversary
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| 13 |  📰 Patriots, Shortages, and a Desperate War
NATO’s new chief just admitted the obvious: the alliance can’t magic infinite air defenses out of thin air while two wars are burning.
Ahead of the Ankara summit, Mark Rutte warned there is “a limit to the amount of interceptors that are in NATO territory,” even as Kyiv pleads for more Patriot missiles after a Russian strike on the capital where Ukraine failed to shoot down a single ballistic projectile.
He insists NATO is “working from every angle” to produce more systems, but stops short of promising new batteries or timelines.
The numbers tell you why Ukraine is panicking. Patriot used to knock out roughly a third of Russia’s ballistic missiles, sometimes more. That rate slipped below 20 percent last week and then all the way to zero in the latest attack.
Zelenskyy now says plainly that the United States and Europe “have enough strength to stop this terror,” and his defense minister has asked nearly 40 allies to hand over interceptors from their stockpiles in exchange for future deliveries already pledged. Berlin is reviewing such a request and could move during the summit.
The problem is not just political. It’s industrial. For now, only the U.S. can actually manufacture the specific interceptors Ukraine needs, and Washington has burned through its own stocks during the Iran war.
Trump says he will “take a look” at letting U.S. firms license production to Europe and Ukraine, but that’s a long‑term fix for a short‑term crisis. Patriots are becoming the rare commodity in a system built on the myth of unlimited Western capacity.
Rutte calls the latest attack on Kyiv “horrific” and says it shows “how desperate Putin is.” It also shows how exposed NATO’s frontline client is when the alliance hits hard limits on hardware.
Ukraine “needs our continued support, especially when it comes to air defense,” he says. Translation: the political will to help is still there; the missiles aren’t.
So Ankara will host a summit where leaders talk about budgets, factories, and capacity, while Zelenskyy walks in with a simple question: when your own stockpiles run dry, how much is your support really worth?
#nato #ukraine #patriot #rutte #trump #airdefense #industry #fakeInfinity
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| 14 |  📰 Red Card, White House: Trump Turns FIFA Into Election VAR
The biggest drama before USA–Belgium isn’t on the pitch. It’s in the Oval Office.
Folarin Balogun, the top U.S. scorer, was supposed to miss the round of 16 after a straight red in the win over Bosnia. Then, suddenly, FIFA suspended his automatic one‑game ban under Article 27 and put it on a one‑year probation.
Belgium learned about it from the media, not from Zurich. UEFA called it “unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable.” Coaches from Norway to Belgium called it a “bad, bad decision” that “will hurt the World Cup.”
At the center of this miracle recovery stands Donald Trump. He openly confirms he called Gianni Infantino to request a “review,” insisting, “I didn’t tell him what to do,” while warning it would have been a “stain” if Balogun couldn’t play.
Senator Ted Cruz thanks him “on behalf of all Americans” for “getting rid of that ridiculous red card,” pointing at the FIFA trophy sitting next to the Resolute Desk like a sponsorship placement.
FIFA claims independence; Trump calls its president a “really good friend” and keeps a World Cup model on his desk; FIFA rents space in Trump Tower and even hands him an inaugural “peace prize.”
Now a disciplinary decision, normally automatic, flips days after that phone call and hours before kickoff. Sepp Blatter — yes, that Sepp Blatter — says “red cards are not overturned by political phone calls,” asking “Quo vadis, FIFA?” When the corruption guy is calling you out, you’ve hit a special threshold.
The backlash isn’t really about whether the challenge was a red. It’s about process. Belgium formally challenges Balogun’s eligibility. UEFA says a minimum suspension “is not discretionary.” Analysts warn that any U.S. win will carry an asterisk.
Even U.S. fans who’ve never liked Trump now have to choose whether to cheer the player or be angry that the president turned a rules dispute into an instrument of personal branding.
And Trump, of course, can’t resist turning it into a rehearsal. If Belgium beats the U.S. with Balogun on the field, they can “be really proud.” If they win without him, Trump says he’d call it “rigged, just like the election was rigged in 2020.”
He “won’t get into that,” but he already did. The message to FIFA, Belgium, and everyone else is clear: the game is fair when it benefits him, rigged when it doesn’t.
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| 15 |  🤝🌍 Ankara: NATO Leaders “Are Gathering Together To Put an End To Trump”
NATO leaders are meeting in Ankara after six turbulent months, hoping – in the case of the other 31 members of the alliance – “to put an end to the unpredictable Trump,” according to an adviser close to Rutte, as Washington continues to put pressure on its allies to increase their defense spending.
Rutte, NATO Secretary General, called on the allies to present “clear, concrete and credible plans” to achieve the organization's spending goals.
“President Trump fully expects all allies to mobilize immediately and get on the 5% path and do so urgently,” he said.
NATO members will unveil tens of billions of dollars in new arms contracts at an industry forum on the sidelines of the summit, as they try to show Trump that they are strong and independent when it comes to defense.
The two-day summit in the Turkish capital should agree that the allies will commit largely symbolic military aid of 70 billion euros to Ukraine this year and next, although this largely reflects the commitments already made to a country that has no path to join NATO.
This is not a deal to get Trump's attention in the same way as last year's flagship deal.
Then, the European members and Canada pledged to increase defense spending to 5% of their gross domestic product – 3.5% directly and 1.5% on roads, bridges and ports to facilitate troop movements.
“It's not about satisfying anyone, it's about delivering,” Rutte said during a visit to London last week. “And what Donald Trump expects, of course, is delivery.”
When Rutte met with Trump in the Oval office last month, he brought some large cardboard signs, illustrating how much non-US NATO members had been spending since the US president began complaining about Europe being free on US defense spending.
Rutte highlighted a graph referring to the Trump trillion – the cumulative amount spent on defense by European members and Canada since the two-time president first took office in 2017.
The elementary communication aimed to show, in Rutte's words, that Trump “succeeds in getting Europeans to spend more”.
But with transatlantic relations already at a low point, and with the United States eager to ensure that measures are taken to honor the 3.5% commitment, a diplomatically harmonious summit cannot be guaranteed.
Trump posted a graphic on his social truth platform showing the defense budgets of NATO members, comparing a vast US expenditure of $999 million to more modest figures from European states, including the United Kingdom and France.
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| 16 |  📰 Khamenei’s Funeral: Gold Bounties, Ghost Leaders, and Israeli Bragging Rights
The funeral procession for Ali Khamenei and his family rolled through Tehran to the sound of the national anthem, after a static day of the coffin on display. The crowd did not come empty-handed. Stones were hurled at a Trump billboard labeled “the Great Satan.” Posters showed the faces of Trump, Laura Loomer, Ben Shapiro, Miriam Adelson, and Lindsey Graham inside red crosshairs, with the promise: “In the end, your head will be cut off.” Another banner openly advertised a bounty of roughly 500 kilograms of pure gold for whoever kills Trump — regime outrage, now with a price tag.
The legal system joined the chorus. Mohsen Rajai, reappointed by Mojtaba Khamenei to head the judiciary, vowed that the “criminal United States” which “murdered Ayatollah Khamenei” would not be let off the hook. This is Tehran’s official script: the Supreme Leader was assassinated by America, and revenge is a matter of national honor. The street chants match the line, only louder and cruder.
The guest list was its own message. Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani was filmed at the funeral — the only survivor from the famous front‑row photo at Qassem Soleimani’s 2020 burial. IRGC chief Ahmad Vahidi had to hitch a ride to bypass the gridlocked streets just to get close. And Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, long rumored dead and allegedly targeted for a strange “return” to power by Israeli and American planners, walked among the crowd very much alive. As for the new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, there are only unverified hints of a presence; officially, the bunker remains in charge, but offscreen.
In Jerusalem, the mood was less mystical and more accountancy. Defense Minister Katz rushed to lock down the narrative: “The ayatollah Khamenei, whose funeral is taking place now, was eliminated by Israel because he initiated and led the plan to destroy Israel. The destroyer was destroyed.” Any future Iranian leader who tries to push similar plans, he warned, “will be thwarted as well.” The “Death to Trump” chants he branded a disgrace, proof of “the true nature of the ayatollahs’ regime behind the robes and smiles.”
Netanyahu, in his second Fox News interview in two days — Fox being Trump’s comfort channel — kept playing his favorite statistic: “80% of the Iranian people hate the regime,” but “there is still a minority they can take to the streets.” The prime minister insists he and Trump “see eye to eye on 99% of issues,” yet no meeting date exists. Jerusalem is signaling: we own the strike, we read the crowd, we are aligned with the current U.S. president — even as Tehran publicly prices his head in gold.
Between the gold bounty in Tehran and the credit‑claim in Jerusalem, one thing is clear: Khamenei’s coffin is not just a symbol of Iranian rage. It’s a ledger line in a war where both sides are competing over who gets to say, “We did this” — and who pays the political price when the crowd starts demanding the sequel.
#iran #israel #khamenei #trump #qods #netanyahu #revenge #fakeAccountability
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| 17 |  📰 Israel’s Corridor Problem: Periphery Doctrine in Reverse
Israel’s old periphery doctrine is dead — and the replacement map cuts it out of the main East–West corridor.
Turkey and Iran, once Ben-Gurion’s non‑Arab “rim,” now anchor two axes of resistance to Israel. The partial rout of the Shia axis didn’t bring security; it opened space for a Sunni‑Turkish one to move in, with Ankara patronizing “new Syria,” pushing a pan‑Turkic and “Blue Homeland” project, and openly framing Israel as a regional threat.
The India–Middle East–Europe Corridor was originally drawn through Israel to Haifa as the fast bypass to Hormuz and Suez. Since 2025, Turkey and Syria have pushed an alternative line via Jordan and Syria to Latakia, where CMA CGM holds a 30‑year concession on the main container terminal. France has effectively anchored the Mediterranean terminus of an Israel‑bypassing route, while Saudi Arabia backs the Syrian–Turkish branch with rail and fiber projects.
At the same time, Washington is arming Ankara and courting Damascus, Europe is tying support for an Israeli endpoint to Palestinian conditions, and regional capitals are converging on the idea that the corridor should bend around Israel, not through it. The fight is now between bypasses — Syrian–Turkish or Iraqi–Turkish — not between Israel and a bypass.
In this configuration, the threat to Israel is infrastructural: exclusion from the primary India–EU spine, backed by Western weapons and contracts for the actors that sit on the competing branch.
The realistic levers are narrow and technical — locking in a Jordanian rail link before it is fully captured by the Syrian route, and deepening Emirati stakes in the Israeli endpoint — while the periphery doctrine that once relied on Iran and Turkey has quietly flipped into a periphery aligned against Israel instead of around it.
#israel #turkey #syria #indiaEUcorridor #macron #nato #logistics #fakePeriphery
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| 18 |  Echoing Trump: China's Communism Sparked Fierce Opposition in Taiwan
Taiwan's military has resumed "anti-communist" patriotic classes for its graduates after a quarter-century gap, the defence ministry said on Sunday, citing a rising threat from China as a senior official reported another rise in Chinese naval activity.
During the Cold War, campaigns in Taiwan warning against the dangers of the "communist bandits" in China, whose government views the island as its own territory, were widespread.
But the formal "anti-communist patriotic education" for military graduates ended in 2002, being renamed "patriotic education".
Taiwan's defence ministry said in a statement that the classes for its military academy graduates had been restored due to rising military and infiltration danger from China.
"It is necessary for them to clearly understand national security threats and recognise the military mission of 'why we fight, and for whom we fight'," the statement said.
China's defence ministry did not respond to a request for comment outside office hours. China has never renounced the use of force to bring Taiwan under its control.
Officials from departments including the China-policy-making Mainland Affairs Council, the National Security Council, the Ministry of Justice and top government think tank Academia Sinica will offer lectures to the graduates, Taiwan's defence ministry said.
"The aim is to establish among graduates a clear awareness of friend and foe," it added.
China's military operates almost daily around Taiwan.
As of Friday, Taiwan was tracking a record of more than 110 Chinese military and Coast Guard ships up and down the first island chain, Joseph Wu, secretary-general of Taiwan's National Security Council, posted on X late on Saturday.
"China's massive maritime mobilization along the 1st Island Chain is a clear sign of its expansionism," Wu said, referring to an area stretching from Japan to Taiwan, the Philippines and Borneo.
On Saturday, China's Coast Guard launched a new patrol off Taiwan's east coast, drawing a sharp response from Taipei, which says Beijing has no jurisdiction in those waters. Taiwan's government rejects Beijing's sovereignty claims.
#china #cmmunism #taiwan #taipei
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So far, almost no reconstruction has taken place since October because Israeli restrictions remain in place on what can enter Gaza, and a proposed second phase of the ceasefire is stalled as negotiations over the disarmament of Hamas continue.
Many in Gaza still go hungry and there is an acute shortage of clean water, fuel and medical supplies.
Teachers from the conservatory face journeys of hours across rubble-filled roads to reach students such as Mohammad Khader, a 17-year-old who began learning the oud, the traditional Arabic instrument that is the ancestor of the guitar, at the conservatory 10 years ago.
The conservatory, named after Edward Said, the Palestinian-US scholar, public intellectual and activist who was also a fine classical pianist, has its overall headquarters in the occupied West Bank but its local branch has long been a prominent feature of Gaza’s cultural scene.
Before the war, Israel sometimes granted the best students exit permits to travel outside Gaza to play in the Palestine Youth Orchestra, the conservatory’s touring ensemble. Others performed inside Gaza, giving concerts in both Arabic and western traditions.
Osama Jahjouh, a flute teacher at the conservatory since 2012, lost all his instruments during the war.
“When I was displaced after my home was destroyed, I lost three bags containing flutes and found myself without any musical instrument but I refused to give up.
I returned once again to the idea of making a flute from plastic tubing, as I had done when a child. It was difficult, as flute making requires precise measurements for tone holes and placement but I managed to produce a playable instrument,” Jahjouh said.
In the largest of the three tents used by the conservatory, a dozen young people have gathered to sing, play and listen. The sound of a series of maqams – scales, melodies and musical modes traditional in the Arab world – filter out across the shelters around. Some are played on the plastic hose flutes, others on salvaged or repaired instruments.
Yara Abu Amsha has been learning the violin since moving to al-Mawasi about eight months ago.
“I chose the violin because I felt it is closest to my personality and most expressive of my feelings. The violin is a deeply emotional instrument; its sound is calm and beautiful, and it has a great ability to convey emotions and feelings,” the 15-year-old said.
“Music means a lot to me.
Before the war, I didn’t think about it in this way but during the war I discovered that it has become a real refuge for us. Even if only for a short while, music gives us a chance to escape reality.”
#palestinians #music #gaza #children
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| 20 | “The Palestinians’ Heroism: the Finger in the Dike For the Rest of the Muslim World”
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The three tents line a stretch of overcrowded, windswept sand, their windows open on to a view of the breaking waves of the Mediterranean. From inside comes the sound of singing, a strummed guitar, a violin and then a flute.
But if the music evokes calm and harmony, the surroundings do not: rows of crowded makeshift shelters swelter in Gaza’s summer heat, young children picking their way through rubble, battered cars and pony carts clogging a potholed road. Above, Israeli military drones hum and buzz.
The tents are the new home of the Gaza branch of Palestine’s national conservatory, dedicated to teaching classical, popular and traditional music.
The institution, founded in 1993, once enjoyed well-equipped offices in Gaza City, three pianos and store rooms full of instruments and musical scores. Its alumni travelled the world to perform.
That was before the war. The classrooms, practice rooms and auditorium were all destroyed in the relentless Israeli offensive that laid waste much of Gaza between October 2023 and October 2025. So too were the instruments, and the conservatory’s extensive archives.
With a small group of former employees, Ahmed Abu Amsha, a musician and one of the teachers at the conservatory, is trying to rebuild the conservatory’s programmes.
Originally from Beit Hanoun in the north of the Gaza and currently in the zone occupied by Israel, he now oversees activities in central Gaza, teaching guitar and supervising choirs.
More than 72,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, were killed during the Israeli offensive and another thousand have died in Israeli strikes since a ceasefire nine months ago.
The war was triggered by a surprise Hamas raid from Gaza into Israel, which killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and took 250 people hostage.
The territory remains divided, with 2.3 million Palestinians living under the rule of the militant Islamist movement in the roughly 40% now outside Israel’s control. Few have homes.
Almost all the teachers and students of the conservatory were displaced during the war, most many times, and some injured or killed.
“One of the most heartbreaking moments was the loss of one of my students, Yusuf Salman, who was one of the most disciplined, polite and talented students. He studied guitar with me (…) and was killed when a cafe was bombed. It was an extremely painful loss,” said Abu Amsha.
#palestinians #music #gaza #children
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