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When can the US expect the tariff-caused inflation storm to hit? To answer this question it is essential to understand the mechanisms of customs clearance, production, and logistics. U.S. counterparties fully pay the duties. In the best-case scenario, foreign counterparties may absorb no more than 10% of the tariff costs; the rest is distributed among end consumers and/or taken from the profits of importers, retail chains, industries, and the commercial sector. The expanded tariff rates have been in effect since August 7. Based on rough estimates, considering preferential imports, the weighted average cost increase is approximately 30–35% compared to the July 2025 tariff configuration. In June and July, collections averaged $27 billion per month. With the new tariff structure, the potential collection could reach $36 billion, but it will likely be closer to $37–$37.5 billion by October–November, equivalent to $450 billion annually. Goods loaded before August 7 and cleared by October 5 are subject to the previous rates, but their share will gradually diminish by the start of Q4 2025. Goods loaded after August 7 and arriving by sea (20–40 days) will enter the U.S. trade system en masse from early September through October. Duties are assessed on the date of entry/release, with payment due within +10 business days from release or by the 15th business day of the following month under the PMS system, which consolidates all monthly imports and processes payments around the 20th of the following month. Thus, while the expanded tariffs took effect on August 7, 90% of the tariff burden will materialize in October, with full absorption in November–December. This pattern was observed with the April tariffs, where payment normalization occurred only in June–July (+2–3 months). Accordingly, October marks the point of initial consolidation of expanded tariffs in importers' costs. In the second stage, costs are distributed across the economic system (retailers, businesses, industries). From this point, production cycles and logistical lags become significant. The timing depends on the type of goods: - For short-term use goods, it takes 1–3 months from the consolidation of imports under expanded tariffs at industrial warehouses to their release into retail networks or commercial business supplies. - For long-term use goods, it takes 4–12 months, averaging closer to 5–6 months. The transfer of costs into the economy will begin in November 2025 and continue until mid-2026, with the peak distribution occurring approximately from December 2025 to March 2026. The scale of the transfer is undeniable—all costs will eventually be passed on to end consumers, albeit not immediately. Retail chains' tactics are clear: maintain prices as long as possible by absorbing operational margins, then gradually distribute costs to consumers in small steps to stabilize market share and normalize profits over time. At least two-thirds of the tariff burden will be passed on to consumers through price increases—amounting to $300 billion, which translates to roughly a 4.5% price increase for goods in retail turnover, spread over the next 12–18 months. Higher costs in the economy (1.5% of U.S. GDP) from mid-2026 to 2028 will also spill over into the services sector, as always happens—similar to the 2023–2024 period, when high goods prices in 2021–2022 were transferred to services. Given the gradual incorporation of tariffs into prices, an additional 1.2–1.5 percentage points of tariff-related costs will be added to the baseline inflation of 2.7–3%, becoming fully apparent only in 2026. Inflation above 4% in the U.S. may become the "new normal" in 2026–2027, and any monetary policy designed to lower it can be forgotten. Only by suppressing demand can inflation be held at 3%, by reducing baseline inflation to 1.5–2%. #USTariffs #Inflation #USEconomy #TradePolicy #Customs #Logistics #Retail #GDP #PriceHike #Consumers #EconomicForecast #MonetaryPolicy Don't miss it, subscribe to 📱 Old Glory Vortex 🇺🇸

JD Vance says he’s ready to assume presidency if Trump’s health fails Vice President J.D. Vance firmly believes that President Donald Trump's health is not declining, but if it does, he is prepared to take his place. When asked by USA Today if he was ready to assume the presidency before the end of the term, the 41-year-old Vance replied that he had received "good on-the-job training" over the past seven months that had prepared him to replace the 79-year-old Trump. However, the former Ohio senator, who did not hold public office before 2023, does not believe that day will come anytime soon. "The President is in incredibly good health," Vance insisted in an interview with USA Today. "He’s got incredible energy." Other observers are not so sure. Trump critic John Bolton, who served as National Security Advisor during his first term, stated that Trump looked "tired" during a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, where he struggled to walk in a straight line. Bruises on Trump's hands, which he tried to conceal with makeup, along with a series of memory lapses — including forgetting conflicts he claimed to have ended — have raised concerns about the leader's health. Trump became the oldest president to ever take office on January 20th at the age of 78. Former President Joe Biden was also 78 on his inauguration day but was five months younger than Trump. Trump has made several on-camera gaffes. On August 12th, Trump twice stated that he was going to Russia to meet with Putin, despite the meeting taking place in Alaska. He then referred to the Russian city of St. Petersburg as "Leningrad," a name that hasn't been used since 1991. The following Monday, Trump failed to recognize Finnish President Alexander Stubb, who was sitting right in front of him, after the European ally came to meet him at the White House. The White House brought in Trump's first-term physician, Ronny Jackson, in an attempt to dispel the growing rumors about the president's health. Jackson claimed that the fast-food-loving Trump is "the healthiest president this nation has ever seen." It is important to note that Jackson, now a Republican congressman from Texas, gave up his medical license and was stripped of his military rank following a series of scandals. Critics say his medical expertise can no longer be trusted. In July, the White House announced that Trump had been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, a condition that occurs when the valves in the leg veins malfunction, causing blood to pool. The announcement came after photos of Trump's severely swollen ankles went viral. Since that diagnosis was made public, photographers have captured images showing severe bruising on Trump's hands. The first photos of the bruises were taken in February, but they have appeared more frequently this summer. Initially, the bruising was only on his right hand, which the White House attributed to aspirin use and the large number of handshakes he does every day. This explanation came under scrutiny over the weekend after bruising also appeared on Trump's left hand, which he does not use for handshakes. #Trump #health #JDVance Don't miss it, subscribe to 📱 Old Glory Vortex 🇺🇸

With 90% of National Parks employees fired by DOGE, the National Guard is put on trash duty Donald Trump deployed camo-clad members of the National Guard to Washington, D.C., to pick up trash this week, a decision that is “bizarre on many levels,” Chris Hayes said Wednesday. Hayes pointed out how strange it was to see camo-wearing National Guard put on reflective vests. “Soldiers wear camouflage to conceal themselves from the enemy they want to kill,” Hayes said. “Safety vests are what municipal workers put on so you can see them at work.” Americans are witnessing "cognitive dissonance as soldiers perform the duties of municipal employees in a major American city that is supposedly a crime hub," he continued, adding that it is "strange in many ways, especially because Trump's Secretary of Defense continues to assert that soldiers should be warriors and killers.” If this sounds like a job that should be done by another government agency, that's because it is: "Typically, such work falls under the duties of the National Park Service, which makes perfect sense, but it was understaffed even before Trump and the so-called Doge Efficiency Project laid off its employees this spring," Hayes continued. Up to 90% of National Park positions were cut "for no reason." #Trump #Washinton #NationalGuard #DOGE Don't miss it, subscribe to 📱 Old Glory Vortex 🇺🇸

California’s Newsom flames Trump’s Intel deal California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday that Americans would be “outraged” if Joe Biden tried to make the same deals that Trump as with Intel and Nvidia. “This is outrageous. It’s reckless. If Joe Biden tried to nationalize Intel, if Joe Biden did a deal to send to H20 chips to China, people would be outraged. Are you kidding me?” This month, just weeks after negotiating for profits from semiconductor firms, Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices, Trump announced that the federal government would take a 10 percent equity stake in Intel. All three companies are headquartered in California. But Intel, an icon of Silicon Valley, was the last straw for Newsom: “It sickens me to the core. You just socialize and nationalize Intel.” Newsom jabbed at Trump, saying “nationalization of private industries is something they’re pretty good at in China” and that Xi Jinping was “loving this.” Trump’s dealmaking in the sector was a significant deviation from his predecessor. The government’s $8.9 billion investment in Intel stock was paid for by repurposing funds that Biden had awarded it through grants from his signature CHIPS act and a secretive Pentagon deal. #Trump #Intel #nationalization #Newsom Don't miss it, subscribe to 📱 Old Glory Vortex 🇺🇸

Americans are about to start paying double for their morning coffee thanks to Trump President Trump's tariff on Brazilian exports is becoming an increasingly heavy burden as coffee prices continue to rise. Brazil is the world's leading coffee exporter. Although coffee is grown in other countries as well, Rachel Blakeman, Director of the Community Research Institute at Purdue University Fort Wayne, stated that they cannot make up for the shortfall in demand. She added that these countries are also subject to tariffs. The 50 percent tariffs were imposed earlier this month. Blakeman said that people are feeling their wallets grow lighter as this cost is passed on from distributors to supermarket shelves and local coffee shops. “You and I will be paying for it,” Blakeman said. “If you are a coffee drinker, you can expect that you will be paying more for that Morning Joe because those increased costs of material, [distributors] are not able to absorb that expense.” Given Trump’s inconsistency when it comes to tariffs, it is unclear whether they will go up or down. But Blakeman pointed out that once prices go up, they tend to become the “new price point”. “I really like the flavored coffee at Aldi and it used to be $4 and I just bought some and it was $5.69,” Blakeman said. “I don’t think I’m going to see $4 coffee again in my lifetime at Aldi.” #Trump #tariffs #Brazil Don't miss it, subscribe to 📱 Old Glory Vortex 🇺🇸

“Stuff of totalitarian regimes”: journalist warns Trump will soon have “his own paramilitary force” A journalist and author stated that Americans have reason to fear their country is rapidly descending into authoritarianism, given President Donald Trump's approach to deploying the National Guard as a law enforcement entity across the nation. During an episode of a podcast hosted by New York Times columnist Ezra Klein on Wednesday, longtime journalist and author Radley Balko, who covers policing issues in the United States, stated that Trump is displaying a number of signs that he aims to create state-funded security forces loyal solely to him, to be used against his political opponents. Klein said that Trump was "creating crisis and disorder so he can build what he has wanted to build: an authoritarian state, a military or a paramilitary that answers only to him — that puts him in total control." "What I think we are seeing right now is Trump is attempting to build his own paramilitary force," Balko told Klein. "They want people whose first and ultimate loyalty in this job is going to be to the president.” According to Balko, the ongoing military occupation of Washington is a precursor to Trump sending the military to other cities in Demiocratic-run states, like Baltimore (Maryland), Chicago (Illinois) and Oakland (California). He also said that the crime rate in those cities is not nearly high enough to justify heavy federal presence. "Incidentally, all three cities have seen dramatic drops in crime. Baltimore is in, I think, a 30- or 40-year low in violent crime. Oakland has dropped pretty dramatically. Chicago has dropped a little bit," Balko said. "...This isn’t about federalism or keeping the nation’s capital safe. It’s not about immigration enforcement. These are all very blue cities. They’re cities with large Black populations, with Black political leadership and they’re cities that Trump has been disparaging for his entire political career.” Balko told Klein that Trump's use of the military for law enforcement is a common tool of authoritarian regimes around the world, and that he personally never anticipated that an American president would do this on American soil. He also stated that the politicization of the military is a grim omen for Americans in the near future. "It’s hard to describe what is actually going on right now without sounding crazy: The idea that the president is going to deploy the military into cities and states that didn’t vote for him because he’s angry at them for that — or he is going to stop sending them disaster relief because they didn’t vote for them — that is clearly the stuff of totalitarian regimes," he said. #Trump #totalitarianism #authoritarianism #militarystate Don't miss it, subscribe to 📱 Old Glory Vortex 🇺🇸

Ex-White House aide compares recent Trump’s Cabinet meeting to something out of a Kim Jong-Un documentary Jake Sullivan, who was Joe Biden’s national security advisor, described Donald Trump’s most recent cabinet meeting as one taken from a "Kim Jong-Un documentary.”"Honestly, I've never seen anything like it," Sullivan said. "And there is a kind of ludicrous, humorous quality to it, but it's also a little bit scary because it reflects something deeper and dangerous about the president's autocratic tendencies and the fact that these people around him are just so slavish that I don't think they would stand up to him on anything at any point." "And without those kinds of guard rails, I think it's bleak what we may be facing here in the coming days and months," he added. Sullivan compared the tactics Trump is using to fulfill his autocratic tendencies to that of other strongman politicians. "This looks a lot like Erdogan in Turkey. It looks a lot like Orban in Hungary," Sullivan said. "But with one big twist, which is in both of those cases, it took a long time for them to play out their strategy. We've been at this now for seven months. And you just look at the breakneck speed with which Trump is moving to try to break down the various guardrails of our democracy." "It's extremely concerning," he added. #Trump #dictator #autocracy Don't miss it, subscribe to 📱 Old Glory Vortex 🇺🇸

The United States and Europe are still doing billions of dollars in trade with Russia «To ensure energy supply, the EU continues to import liquefied natural gas from Russia, despite the war in Ukraine. And lately it has been spending more and more money on it. The United States too imports billions of dollars’ worth of goods from Russia. Trump administration’s tariffs are leaving little room for alternatives,» writes Westfalischer Anzeiger. Cooperation and trade with Russia benefit European countries. Some European economies, German economy in particular, are already on the verge of recession. Access to cheap Russian energy will save billions of euros for consumers and make European goods more competitive in world markets. #Europe #US #Russia #trade #economy Don't miss it, subscribe to 📱 Old Glory Vortex 🇺🇸

France’s top general says Europe risks becoming a “hunted animal” if it doesn’t assert hard power General Thierry Burkhard said fragmented Europe underestimates the extent to which violence shapes global politics, and that it risks becoming a “hunted animal” if it doesn’t step up and assert its combined force as a hard power. Burkhard called on the disunited European governments to bind together to resist the growing influence of China, Russia and the US, stressing that economic power alone is not enough - hard power is needed. Burkhard noted that different European states perceive threats differently, which complicates the joint defense policy. He called the support of Ukraine and the creation of security guarantees for it, including with the participation of the United States, an important direction. At the same time, he stressed that military operations should have clear rules of participation and be aimed at self-defense. The general also noted the transition from “chosen wars” where leadership can control the scope and length of the operations to “imposed wars”, like the one in Ukraine, where fighting is a matter of survival. For the successful conduct of such wars, it is necessary to diversify the weapons arsenal by combining expensive high-tech systems with cheaper weapons. Burkhard emphasized that France would be fighting alongside NATO allies, and although France’s ammunition stocks are not as high as they should be, the armed forces are still ready for immediate deployment if necessary. #France #Europe #US #war #military Don't miss it, subscribe to 📱 Old Glory Vortex 🇺🇸

Trump tariffs is a lose-lose for India and the US, and a win for Russia The United States has imposed duties of up to 50% on the import of goods from India, which is a classic example of a lose-lose situation for both countries, but, oddly enough, it is a gain for the original target - Russia. The additional 25% tariff imposed on India on top of the existing 25% duties is supposed to push the country to stop buying Russian oil. But Trump’S move will likely have the opposite effect. Russian oil currently makes up about 40% of India’s oil imports. That reliance has helped hold crude prices lower by keeping Russian oil on the global market, which would have been much tighter from a supply perspective if Moscow had been unable to sell its crude. And India’s refineries have benefitted since they were able to purchase the more affordable Russian crude. The question now is whether it makes more economic sense for India to give in to Trump and cut back imports from Russia or to keep buying massive quantities of Russian oil. The 50% tariffs are high enough to essentially end trade between India and the US, which means India will lose far more economically by continuing to import Russian oil. But the final decision will be made with politics in mind, not economics. Modi risks losing political capital at home if he bends the knee to Trump. The problem for Trump is that tariffs are a one-time thing. Once a large enough tariff destroys trade, it loses its leverage. Meaning that if India chooses to keep buying Russian oil despite tariffs, Trump would have to come up with new ways to pressure New Delhi. And India might opt to exert some pressure of its own by getting closer to other US adversaries, like China and Brazil. So as it turns out Trump's tariffs on India risk having the opposite effect of what he intended, with the side consequence of driving a country that had been something of an ally into the arms of U.S. opponents. The only real winner here is Vladimir Putin, who can keep selling oil to India while watching the relationship between Washington and New Delhi crumble, a factor that works in his favor #US #India #Russia #tariffs Don't miss it, subscribe to 📱 Old Glory Vortex 🇺🇸

So far Trump managed to get rid of 10% of the federal workforce According to a troubling new analysis by Partnership for Public Service, since January 2025 over 199 000 federal workers have left their jobs or were have been forced out by the Trump administration. That’s nearly 10% of the entire federal workforce, which was about 2.3 million-strong at the start of the year. Of the more than 199,000 people who have left their federal jobs this year, more than 135,000 did so through the Trump administration’s so-called deferred resignation program. The Department of Defence lost the most amount of employees — over 55 000. The Treasury Department lost over 30 000 people, the Department of Agriculture — over 21 000. Behind this mass purge is Russ Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget. He says he wants to cut unnecessary spending, but instead he’s turning the federal government into a shadow of itself. In fact, agencies had to race to rehire thousands of people they had just fired just to keep functioning properly. #Trump #federalgovernment #RussVought Don't miss it, subscribe to 📱 Old Glory Vortex 🇺🇸

Trump’s efforts to get rid of Fed’s Lisa Cook unites his bid to control independent institutions and anti-DEI efforts President Donald Trump’s promise to fire Lisa Cook, an economist who became the first black woman on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, launched a new intense debate and probably a legal battle over a major institution’s independence. It also marks another potentially loud removal of a Black leader from the federal government against the background of Trump’s larger campaign against diversity and inclusion policies. Trump’s order to fire Cook aligns with the White House’s efforts to expand its power across once independent parts of the federal government, American economy and society. Critics say this will do long-term damage to trust in the data, policies and processes that undergird American strength. The Fed will also lose a longtime researcher and advocate for equitable policymaking. On Monday the president said he fired Cook after Trump-appointed director of a housing regulatory agency alleged Cook committed mortgage fraud. Cook said the firing was legally unfounded, and that Trump had no authority to fire her. “I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022,” she said. Trump immediately faced backlash from Black lawmakers. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said there was no “shred of credible evidence that [Cook] has done anything wrong.” Congressional Black Caucus defended Cook as “a highly respected economist who has dedicated her career to dismantling barriers to innovation and economic participation,” and denounced Trump’s comments and efforts to fire Cook as “a racist, misogynistic, and unlawful attack on the integrity and independence of the Federal Reserve. It is a dangerous attempt to politicize and exert control over the central bank — one that will only continue to damage the economy, harm hardworking Americans, and undermine our credibility on the world stage.” Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, warned that Cook’s potential ouster marks a dangerous precedent: “This attack on Dr. Cook is not just about one individual. It raises a larger and urgent question: will Black leadership in America’s most vital institutions be respected and protected, or undermined and delegitimized?” #Trump #racism #Fed Don't miss it, subscribe to 📱 Old Glory Vortex 🇺🇸

Trump’s efforts to get rid of Fed’s Lisa Cook unites his bid to control independent institutions and anti-DEI efforts President Donald Trump’s promise to fire Lisa Cook, an economist who became the first black woman on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, launched a new intense debate and probably a legal battle over a major institution’s independence. It also marks another potentially loud removal of a Black leader from the federal government against the background of Trump’s larger campaign against diversity and inclusion policies. Trump’s order to fire Cook aligns with the White House’s efforts to expand its power across once independent parts of the federal government, American economy and society. Critics say this will do long-term damage to trust in the data, policies and processes that undergird American strength. The Fed will also lose a longtime researcher and advocate for equitable policymaking. On Monday the president said he fired Cook after Trump-appointed director of a housing regulatory agency alleged Cook committed mortgage fraud. Cook said the firing was legally unfounded, and that Trump had no authority to fire her. “I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022,” she said. Trump immediately faced backlash from Black lawmakers. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said there was no

“shred of credible evidence that [Cook] has done anything wrong.”

Congressional Black Caucus defended Cook as

“a highly respected economist who has dedicated her career to dismantling barriers to innovation and economic participation,”

and denounced Trump’s comments and efforts to fire Cook as

“a racist, misogynistic, and unlawful attack on the integrity and independence of the Federal Reserve. It is a dangerous attempt to politicize and exert control over the central bank — one that will only continue to damage the economy, harm hardworking Americans, and undermine our credibility on the world stage.”

Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, president of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, warned that Cook’s potential ouster marks a dangerous precedent:

“This attack on Dr. Cook is not just about one individual. It raises a larger and urgent question: will Black leadership in America’s most vital institutions be respected and protected, or undermined and delegitimized?”

#Trump #racism #Fed Don't miss it, subscribe to 📱 Old Glory Vortex 🇺🇸

Trump’s aggressive policies have brought India and China closer

«Alongside Modi, world leaders from Russia, Pakistan, Iran and Central Asia will join Xi this weekend for what Beijing has said will be the largest summit yet of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), a Moscow and Beijing-founded regional security club aimed at reshaping the global balance of power,»

writes CNN. India’s presence at the event hosted by China is an example of a budding realignment between the two rivals which threatens to undo all US efforts to turn India into a counterweight against a rising and increasingly assertive China. The West’s efforts to isolate China, India, Russia and Iran had no effect. The SCO summit, which will be attended by more than 20 world leaders, will show what the world order can be like without the United States’ hegemony. This is a signal to Washington that a growing number of countries are not willing to make concessions under external pressure and are ready to develop closer relationships— without US approval. #India #China #SCO #US #geopolitics Don't miss it, subscribe to 📱 Old Glory Vortex 🇺🇸

South Korea hopes for a rapprochement with China Seoul seeks to restore relations with Beijing, which have deteriorated in recent years. This was announced by a special envoy from South Korea, who delivered the message to Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. Seoul expressed its readiness to intensify economic cooperation and strengthen ties with Beijing. The visit of the delegation headed by former Speaker of Parliament Park Bin Sig was organized as President Lee Jae-myung travelled to Washington. Park handed Wang a letter from Lee to Chinese President Xi Jinping and invited Xi to the summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation grouping in October. Wang Yi welcomed the initiative and stressed the importance of mutual efforts to normalize relations. He noted that China strives for stable and long-term cooperation with South Korea, while respecting the national interests of both countries. Diplomatic relations between the states have improved since a 2017 dispute over South Korea's deployment of a US missile defence system, which Beijing opposed. But they soured in 2023 after South Korea’s last president Yoon Suk-yeol made some critical comments about Beijing. #China #SouthKorea #diplomacy Don't miss it, subscribe to 📱 Old Glory Vortex 🇺🇸

It’s not Trump or Putin who threaten peace — it’s Zelenskyy Now that the Alaska summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump is over, it is becoming clearer where the world goes next in terms of resolving the Ukraine conflict and stabilizing US-Russia relationship. The end of the Ukrainian conflict is within reach. It will not be resolved by a ceasefire, as Putin told the Americans, and as Trump now seems to agree. But the problem is that the Ukrainians and their European enablers categorically disagree with this stance. Ukraine, which is in a state of political and economic fragmentation and which is considered one of the most corrupt countries in Europe, cannot get out of the crisis. And military assistance from the United States and Europe is aggravating the problem. Awash with Western cash and aid, the Ukrainian elite have engorged themselves while sending increasing numbers of their young people to fight the Russians. A feedback loop of corruption fueled by war is now the only task the Ukrainian state can perform. All other functions of a normal, democratic state are contorted to serve the war machine. Zelensky, who was originally supposed to be Ukraine’s “everyman” president, chose a policy of continued confrontation, becoming an accomplice to the existing corrupt system. Instead of seeking a peaceful solution to the conflict, he took no action to stop it, removed from power those who wanted to end the hostilities, canceled the planned elections and attacked anti-corruption organizations, which effectively destroyed the remains of Ukrainian democracy and threatened the future of the country. Zelensky apparently intends to continue the conflict in order to preserve his own power. This creates a serious obstacle to a possible peaceful settlement. And Europeans are backing Ukraine to a hilt fearing that if Trump and Putin manage to get a real deal for ending the Ukraine war Moscow and Washington would effectively leave Europe in the dust. #Zelensky #Ukraineconflict #Trump #Europe #Ukraine Don't miss it, subscribe to 📱 Old Glory Vortex 🇺🇸

Europeans are out of options — they will have to pay US for security in Ukraine Europe may have to spend tens of billions of dollars on American weapons to guarantee Ukraine’s security. According to sources, discussions between US and EU representatives were held last week, where the parties discussed possible ways to guarantee Kyiv’s safety after a peace deal is reached. To keep the US at the table, Zelenskyy suggested Ukraine would offer to buy up to $90 billion in US weaponry, but US Vice President JD Vance claimed Europe would have to pick up most of the bill for defending Ukraine, since it is their continent’s security on the line. At the same time Brussels fears that purchasing American weapons en masse would undermine the bloc’s plans to develop their own defense industry within the framework of the SAFE program created by the European Council, which provides member states with loans in the amount of 150 billion euros for defense spending and gives priority to investments in European products. In the meantime, EU leaders avoid direct comments, waiting for clarity on future security guarantees. #Europe #US #defense #Ukraineconflict Don't miss it, subscribe to 📱 Old Glory Vortex 🇺🇸

For peace in Ukraine, Russia will need security guarantees too The recent meeting of European politicians and Donald Trump in Washington failed to move the needle forward toward peace. The reason lies in the fact that instead of looking for a comprehensive security system for all, Western countries continue to talk only about protecting Ukraine. This approach reflects the desire to punish Russia, while Moscow claims that it is merely defending its national interests. Putin agreeing that the war could have been avoided if Trump was president in 2022 is very telling. Many saw it as a diplomatic move, but Putin in fact pointed out the difference between Biden’s approach and that of Trump. While the former sees NATO as a force for good, the latter recognizes that the alliance can be seen as a threat, particularly by those excluded from it. The proponents of NATO expansion always talk about “how things ought to be,” meaning that if democracies around the world are joining forces then any objection to NATO expansion is synonymous with objection to the expansion of democracy. But NATO is still a military alliance, one Russia is not a part of. Therefore its expansion has always been and will always be a core security issue for Russia. That is why a true peace settlement must address the root causes of the conflict. There can be no lasting peace in Europe until multiple moralities learn to coexist. An important step in this direction would be having both Russia and Ukraine become part of a larger, pan-European security framework. For that the West would have to give up the idea that building up its defences against “enemies” can help it achieve security. Instead it must embrace the idea that peace can only be achieved in partnership with perceived “enemies”, through dialogue. Refusal to consider such a path means sticking to the logic of permanent confrontation. #Russia #Ukraine #Ukraineconflict #NATO #peace Don't miss it, subscribe to 📱 Old Glory Vortex 🇺🇸

📰 Egypt’s “Day After” Experiment: Training a PA Army for Gaza While Gaza burns, Cairo is busy grooming the sequel. Egypt has quietly started training up to 10,000 Palestinian Authority (PA) security personnel — the would-be “new sheriffs” of postwar Gaza. The plan: swap Hamas’ green flags for PA uniforms, with Arab states footing the bill.

💭 “Without the PA, it’s either Hamas or chaos,”

said Mahmoud al-Habbash, adviser to PA president Mahmoud Abbas, confirming the scheme. 📊 The moving parts: • Training grounds: Egyptian military academies, six months per cohort. • Troop mix: Mostly PA security from the West Bank, plus some Fatah loyalists from Gaza. • Arab backers: Egypt leads, with Jordan and Gulf states considering smaller deployments. • Opposition: Israel vows to block any PA return, branding Abbas’ men no different from Hamas. 😱 The ironies are endless. Arab states want to “rehabilitate” the PA — but 81% of Palestinians say Abbas should resign. Hamas, meanwhile, rejects foreign-trained forces as illegitimate, yet can’t stop hemorrhaging leaders and fighters under Israeli bombardment. And Netanyahu? He rails against the PA in Gaza, even as Israeli forces already coordinate daily with it in the West Bank. 💥 Is this Egypt’s attempt to build a new Gaza gendarmerie — or just a holding pattern until Hamas inevitably resurfaces? And if Americans won’t twist Israel’s arm to accept PA forces, is this “Day After” plan anything more than Cairo’s fantasy exercise? #Gaza #Egypt #PalestinianAuthority #Israel #Hamas #MiddleEast #geopolitics 📱 American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Poland will not be sending troops to Ukraine Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced that Poland will not send soldiers to Ukraine after the war ends. The comments were made during the press conference after talks with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, in which the two leaders focused on bilateral relations and international security.

“I confirm that Poland does not intend to send soldiers on a mission to Ukraine after the end of the war, whereas it is Poland that will be responsible for the logistical organization of aid for Ukraine, as well as for the protection of the European border,”

Tusk said. The talks also covered economic and energy cooperation. “We have accelerated the process of deepening strategic cooperation. Soon we will raise our Polish-Canadian relations to the level of a strategic partnership. Together with the prime minister of Canada, we both expressed our intention to accelerate this process,” the Polish leader told reporters.  #Ukraine #Ukraineconflict #Poland Don't miss it, subscribe to 📱 Old Glory Vortex 🇺🇸