China has cut off supplies of dual use materials to the USA - i.e., those that can be used for domestic and military use. Of special note is rare earth magnets.
Boeing who was in decline for decades after the rape by finance, now will not have supplies for planes or the military technology sales, which has keep them afloat. I was shocked to hear that both Airbus and Boeing are way behind in orders and with the blockage of parts from China, Boeing is in deep shit.
Airlines can't get enough planes nor enough mechanics. Old planes are being refurbished in order to handle existing air travel. Meanwhile China is charging ahead. One thread on the rapid decline of the west. Be sure to watch the video of Chinese airline manufacturing efforts. Why would a third world country buy into declining companies who cannot even deliver now? Buy China planes.
"China is killing Boeing, Part II: As a major Pentagon contractor
Cheers Chris - I'll give it a look. Alex Krainer has some interesting thoughts about Russia' s possible approval of the minerals deal and breakdown of Iran talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h02rYBG9rXc
Starmer has just been roasted in UK local elections by a disenfranchised electorate. Despite insuperable and mounting domestic problems he slavishly devoted most if not all of his time and energy to pronouncements on Ukraine particularly after Trump intervened. Nothing seemed to deter him in efforts to escalate and prolong the proxy war and obstruct Trumps negotiations. He seemed oblivious to domestic criticism continuing to pledge billions to Zelensky’s Neo Nazis regime whilst imposing more neoliberal austerity on the poorest and most vulnerable. His obsession with Ukraine and Zelensky was obvious to all but the UK MSM has deliberately ignored any reference to Ukraine in explaining the Labour wipeout.Starmer has proved himself without doubt to be the indentured servant of the UK ruling class he has destroyed the Labour Party to save Ukraine. MI6 the UK Deep State axis are celebrating “two birds with one stone”! Starmer damaged beyond repair Zelensky victorious in his deranged objections to Trump!
While Trump may trumpet a Minerals Deal that will pay the US for facilitating a war that has destroyed vast swathes of Ukraine, and lost it 5 oblasts, a map produced by Forbes shows that the 2 Donbas regions hold the bulk of Ukraine's mineral wealth: $7 trillion worth. The only oblast that is in that ball park is Dnipropetrovsk, which has $3.5 trillion worth. If Kharkiv becomes part of the Russian Federation, then it and the other 3 oblasts will add $1.5 trillion to that, making a total of $8.5 trillion. Excluding Dnipropetrovsk ($3.5 trillion), the rest of Ukraine has ~$2.7 billion worth of minerals. Most of the Lithium is in the Donbas.
While in the Middle East, the port of Bander Abbas is vital to a new trade route being developed by Russia and Iran that will take Russian and Iranian goods between the two countries, and on to an Indian port. There can be little doubt which nation(s) are responsible for the explosions there.
Both of those nations are bristling with nukes, so for them to dictate a no nukes policy to Iran is the utmost hypocrisy.
Several sources have reported that the F-18 that sank into the Red Sea was being moved, on the outside of the ship, from a lower deck to the upper deck when an Ansar-Allah missile caused the ship to quickly swerve, sending the jet into the sea. A pilot was in the jet and ejected safely.
Because Ansar-Allah's missiles are becoming more powerful, faster, and more accurately directed, many pundits believe it is only a matter of time before they sink a US aircraft carrier. Some reports suggest that the Chinese are providing intel to help with missile accuracy. It does not pay to threaten the Dragon.
It appears that the leaders of both Israel and Ukraine want to prolong the suffering that their decision-making is causing, and for the same reason: the minute their wars stop they will be cactus. Netanyahu will be gaoled, and Zelensky could well be assassinated.
Very interesting things are happening in Africa now, too. The Sahel states are consolidating in giving their colonial overlords the boot, and Burkina Faso's new President, Ibrahim T, who has already had several serious attempts on his life, has, this week, been sent security forces for his protection, by Russia.
Is it possible, that in case of a successfull strike on the Ketchbridge or the victoryparade in Moskau supported by the US the Houthies are being delivered by some Zirkon missiles? Only a thought...
The US is currently bombing the Houthis (Ansar-Allah). Given that the US is enabling the genocide in Gaza, and the fact that the Houthis are attacking US vessels in the Red Sea because of this, I can't think of anything less likely.
Thanks for the update Rob. A really interesting array of event coverage here.
I vaguely remember the 1992 Crimean independence and later autonomous republic compromise.
It was definitely reported in the media at the time.
But after being fed with so much cold war bogeyman for 45 years people did not take much notice of the ins and outs of the Soviet union breakup and distribution.
Nothing like a few facts to be conveniently left out by our psychopath-dogmatic war drummers in Europe such as Starmer, Von der Leyen and Merz though.
I too think the negotiation route is difficult to complete and will be constantly stalled by the deep state actors and rightfully so by Russia.
I have said before that the impetus will have to come from within like a coup by the army or revolt by people.
Zelensky/Yermak will be targeted first if that happens.
Trump for all his bluster just looks like he is sitting on the fence. Dangerously so if he thinks that the US has any rights to minerals in the land the Russians have returned.
Maybe that is the long term plan to drag the US into the ground war
The global zionists are continuing with their sick actions whilst the world watches on.
I read Friday about an aid ship heading to Gaza being attacked (twice by drones near Malta ) link below.
I heard about the attack on the aid ship - the Zionists are monsters. Alex Krainer has some interesting thoughts about Russia's possible approval of the minerals deal and the possibility of war with Iran: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h02rYBG9rXc. The coming week will be interesting - cheers.
Thanks Rob. Yes they are monsters. The lack of challenge to their behaviour is disgusting from our world organisations and leaders. That link to the Alex Krainer interview is interesting.
I read something about that the other day; that it could be a deal with Russia to stand aside when the Iran invasion goes ahead,
I doubt very much whether Russia would agree to stand aside and I don't think the Iran invasion will happen. An attack on Iran is an attack on Russian interests: it is an attack on BRICS. If irrational and misinformed voices were allowed to prevail then it could happen - but my view that sanity will prevail is based purely on my optimism rather than rational/empirical calculation. Krainer takes the same view.
Thanks for that Sue - appreciated. I believe that those who search for power have small hearts but they don't have big brains - they are quite stupid really - as far as I can tell.
Thanks Rob, excellent as usual. Has there ever been such an inept western leadership group? Everything that they attempt seems to have the opposite effect to what was the stated aim.
I think the proposed rearmament of Europe won't happen as they don't have the factories, the energy , the skilled workers or the organisational abilities to achieve it. Trump wants to make America great again but his actions seem only to accelerate the decline.
Aurelien had a good article at his substack that outlined the magical thinking that passes for policy in the West and I recommend that. It is way past the time that governments actually did some hard work and got things done instead of issuing a press release and waiting for the private sector to do the job.
I think I've said before that they do not have a good grasp of reality and that's why things don't work out as they hope they will. I agree that Europe will not rearm to any great degree and the Hegemon is destined to decline - so there's nothing Trump or anyone else can do. What was the title of the Aurelien article? Cheers.
It was a brilliant article - though very long. I don't agree with everything he says or some of the conclusions he draws but the general point he makes about the way governments think - the disconnect between strategy and implementation - is spot on. Thanks for recommending it. Anyway, I have subscribed.
1. What is the reason that politicians like Trump, Starmer, Macron, Merz an many others try to do their very best to lose their next elections like Biden or Scholz?
2. How can I spend a coffee or become a paid subsriber for this channel?
Thanks for that Hans. I'm not sure why you think that these people actually Try to lose elections. It may appear that way but I'm fairly sure that losing elections is not what they intend. So, I can't answer that question. At the moment I am not offering subscribers the option of donating money - though I may do at some point in the future. But kind comments, likes and shares are very welcome in lieu of financial reward.
I can't imagine that top ranked politicians are so stupid... Scholz is losing his election after only one periode with the worsest result for his party since 1887. The new chancler Merz is breaking all his promises and will make the same things like Scholz before. And now the AFD becomes the strongest party in Germany in surveys. Is this politics a kind of 5d chess I can't understand or only madness to ruin the own party and career? As Einstein said about madness...
i.e. doing the same thing but expecting different results. I know what you mean. I don't have answers for you Hans: only questions for you to consider - maybe.
It will be an interesting day this coming Monday - the date of Ego Trumpets 10 day ultimatum to the Green Goblin - with regard to the Ego (has landed) and his verbal diarrhea over not following through with the threat of 'walking away'.
Thanks for the link to Col. Jaques Baud on Glenn Diesin's podcast. I have watched him on his regular slot on Dialogue Works. He invariably provides valuable nuggets of information such as those surrounding Crimean politics prior to 2014.
Following on from the suggestion that the world was substantially different 60 years ago I visited Wikipedia:
Cheers Dude. It was my twelfth year. I was aware of the civil rights movement in the US and the ban the bomb stuff but not the detail. I remember the night we found out that Kennedy had been killed: we were all devastated because we saw him as a good man who had prevented nuclear war. We had much more 'confidence' in leaders back then, whether it was justified or not. But Today!
Looks like a roll call for British comedy actors - no I've never seen it - as far as I know. Are you saying that an LBJ character was in this film? BTW someone was speculating that LBJ actually had Kennedy killed.
Spike Milligan was one of the writers of the original stage play. I watched it on DVD recently and although it was 'dated' in terms of content it struck me that it had a surprising relevance to current affairs. Just an overview of the plot is amusing. The current rise of 'Reform' suggests that we are travelling backwards in time - perhaps toward Christmas. It's still available on DVD.
The list of suspects for the JFK killing icludes Mossad, CIA, and includes the Jewish mafia. WRT to LBJ; I didn't realise that he had ever been 'elected' to the 'Donship' of the USA.
The Jewish Mafia angle, Jack Ruby was Jewish and a mob associate, surprised me when I found out about it earlier this year, and how it was deliberately over looked.
In popular culture that part of the Mafia was Jewish is ignored. Murder Incorporated included Meyer Lansky, Mickey Cohen, Harold "Hooky" Rothman, Dutch Schultz, and Bugsy Siegel.
Just heard that Trump is insisting that Iran dismantle its nuclear energy program completely and that he will accept nothing less. This sounds like a declaration of war. Iran will not obey and Trump will lose face if he backs down. The report in RT is a little misleading, however, since the Times of Israel - https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-wants-total-dismantlement-of-iran-nuke-program-might-allow-civilian-energy/ appears to suggest that Trump is open to letting Iran keep its nuclear reactors for energy.
US decline accelerates thanks to Trump.
China has cut off supplies of dual use materials to the USA - i.e., those that can be used for domestic and military use. Of special note is rare earth magnets.
Boeing who was in decline for decades after the rape by finance, now will not have supplies for planes or the military technology sales, which has keep them afloat. I was shocked to hear that both Airbus and Boeing are way behind in orders and with the blockage of parts from China, Boeing is in deep shit.
Airlines can't get enough planes nor enough mechanics. Old planes are being refurbished in order to handle existing air travel. Meanwhile China is charging ahead. One thread on the rapid decline of the west. Be sure to watch the video of Chinese airline manufacturing efforts. Why would a third world country buy into declining companies who cannot even deliver now? Buy China planes.
"China is killing Boeing, Part II: As a major Pentagon contractor
Kevin Walmsley
May 02, 2025"
https://kdwalmsley.substack.com/p/china-is-killing-boeing-part-ii-as
To make matters worse, without parts, US cannot build weapons which is our main export.
The solution to save the USA and the West is simple: Make America Friendly Again.
Cheers Don - good to hear from you.
Cheers Chris - I'll give it a look. Alex Krainer has some interesting thoughts about Russia' s possible approval of the minerals deal and breakdown of Iran talks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h02rYBG9rXc
Starmer has just been roasted in UK local elections by a disenfranchised electorate. Despite insuperable and mounting domestic problems he slavishly devoted most if not all of his time and energy to pronouncements on Ukraine particularly after Trump intervened. Nothing seemed to deter him in efforts to escalate and prolong the proxy war and obstruct Trumps negotiations. He seemed oblivious to domestic criticism continuing to pledge billions to Zelensky’s Neo Nazis regime whilst imposing more neoliberal austerity on the poorest and most vulnerable. His obsession with Ukraine and Zelensky was obvious to all but the UK MSM has deliberately ignored any reference to Ukraine in explaining the Labour wipeout.Starmer has proved himself without doubt to be the indentured servant of the UK ruling class he has destroyed the Labour Party to save Ukraine. MI6 the UK Deep State axis are celebrating “two birds with one stone”! Starmer damaged beyond repair Zelensky victorious in his deranged objections to Trump!
While Trump may trumpet a Minerals Deal that will pay the US for facilitating a war that has destroyed vast swathes of Ukraine, and lost it 5 oblasts, a map produced by Forbes shows that the 2 Donbas regions hold the bulk of Ukraine's mineral wealth: $7 trillion worth. The only oblast that is in that ball park is Dnipropetrovsk, which has $3.5 trillion worth. If Kharkiv becomes part of the Russian Federation, then it and the other 3 oblasts will add $1.5 trillion to that, making a total of $8.5 trillion. Excluding Dnipropetrovsk ($3.5 trillion), the rest of Ukraine has ~$2.7 billion worth of minerals. Most of the Lithium is in the Donbas.
While in the Middle East, the port of Bander Abbas is vital to a new trade route being developed by Russia and Iran that will take Russian and Iranian goods between the two countries, and on to an Indian port. There can be little doubt which nation(s) are responsible for the explosions there.
Both of those nations are bristling with nukes, so for them to dictate a no nukes policy to Iran is the utmost hypocrisy.
Several sources have reported that the F-18 that sank into the Red Sea was being moved, on the outside of the ship, from a lower deck to the upper deck when an Ansar-Allah missile caused the ship to quickly swerve, sending the jet into the sea. A pilot was in the jet and ejected safely.
Because Ansar-Allah's missiles are becoming more powerful, faster, and more accurately directed, many pundits believe it is only a matter of time before they sink a US aircraft carrier. Some reports suggest that the Chinese are providing intel to help with missile accuracy. It does not pay to threaten the Dragon.
It appears that the leaders of both Israel and Ukraine want to prolong the suffering that their decision-making is causing, and for the same reason: the minute their wars stop they will be cactus. Netanyahu will be gaoled, and Zelensky could well be assassinated.
Very interesting things are happening in Africa now, too. The Sahel states are consolidating in giving their colonial overlords the boot, and Burkina Faso's new President, Ibrahim T, who has already had several serious attempts on his life, has, this week, been sent security forces for his protection, by Russia.
Thanks for that Joy.
Is it possible, that in case of a successfull strike on the Ketchbridge or the victoryparade in Moskau supported by the US the Houthies are being delivered by some Zirkon missiles? Only a thought...
The US is currently bombing the Houthis (Ansar-Allah). Given that the US is enabling the genocide in Gaza, and the fact that the Houthis are attacking US vessels in the Red Sea because of this, I can't think of anything less likely.
Thanks for the update Rob. A really interesting array of event coverage here.
I vaguely remember the 1992 Crimean independence and later autonomous republic compromise.
It was definitely reported in the media at the time.
But after being fed with so much cold war bogeyman for 45 years people did not take much notice of the ins and outs of the Soviet union breakup and distribution.
Nothing like a few facts to be conveniently left out by our psychopath-dogmatic war drummers in Europe such as Starmer, Von der Leyen and Merz though.
I too think the negotiation route is difficult to complete and will be constantly stalled by the deep state actors and rightfully so by Russia.
I have said before that the impetus will have to come from within like a coup by the army or revolt by people.
Zelensky/Yermak will be targeted first if that happens.
Trump for all his bluster just looks like he is sitting on the fence. Dangerously so if he thinks that the US has any rights to minerals in the land the Russians have returned.
Maybe that is the long term plan to drag the US into the ground war
The global zionists are continuing with their sick actions whilst the world watches on.
I read Friday about an aid ship heading to Gaza being attacked (twice by drones near Malta ) link below.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14671127/Ship-carrying-aid-Gaza-attacked-drones-Mediterranean-island-sparking-onboard-inferno-amid-race-rescue-30-activists-sinking-vessel.html
All in all it looks like our idiot world leaders are forming distinct unmovable barriers between the various different factions. They love war.
Next week will be interesting.
I heard about the attack on the aid ship - the Zionists are monsters. Alex Krainer has some interesting thoughts about Russia's possible approval of the minerals deal and the possibility of war with Iran: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h02rYBG9rXc. The coming week will be interesting - cheers.
Thanks Rob. Yes they are monsters. The lack of challenge to their behaviour is disgusting from our world organisations and leaders. That link to the Alex Krainer interview is interesting.
I read something about that the other day; that it could be a deal with Russia to stand aside when the Iran invasion goes ahead,
I doubt very much whether Russia would agree to stand aside and I don't think the Iran invasion will happen. An attack on Iran is an attack on Russian interests: it is an attack on BRICS. If irrational and misinformed voices were allowed to prevail then it could happen - but my view that sanity will prevail is based purely on my optimism rather than rational/empirical calculation. Krainer takes the same view.
I hope, for the sake of human beings, you are right.
What will happens, if Putin offers Trump an all inclusiv mineral deal with for example a discount about 20%?
Sadly Hans. Trump would lap it up. Exactly what Russia would get from that deal is up in the air.
One thing is for sure Western politicians love trading people for resources.
Great stuff, Rob. Glad you’re here to document these momentous times for your audience.
Would love to see some of these mass protest take hold and actually effect change.
Your weekly expected the full 7 days you fill in what one for lack of time or excess of information
went by it without paying atention, & all of this happening because the people that search power
have big brains and small hearts;; most of them are put there as puppets and have a full closet full
of corpses or are tied down by worse reasons as families in danger or as in the case of Traore.
And those we don't know about. If they can kill unborn by millions, use them in the most nefarious
ways, or dance when they blow a baby head........It's incredible our inner strength when knowing
all thiswe still have hope and can even laugh.
Until next dear Dr. Rob Dios mediante
Thanks for that Sue - appreciated. I believe that those who search for power have small hearts but they don't have big brains - they are quite stupid really - as far as I can tell.
Thanks Rob, excellent as usual. Has there ever been such an inept western leadership group? Everything that they attempt seems to have the opposite effect to what was the stated aim.
I think the proposed rearmament of Europe won't happen as they don't have the factories, the energy , the skilled workers or the organisational abilities to achieve it. Trump wants to make America great again but his actions seem only to accelerate the decline.
Aurelien had a good article at his substack that outlined the magical thinking that passes for policy in the West and I recommend that. It is way past the time that governments actually did some hard work and got things done instead of issuing a press release and waiting for the private sector to do the job.
I think I've said before that they do not have a good grasp of reality and that's why things don't work out as they hope they will. I agree that Europe will not rearm to any great degree and the Hegemon is destined to decline - so there's nothing Trump or anyone else can do. What was the title of the Aurelien article? Cheers.
The article was called "Do you believe in magic".
All of his posts are very good.
It was a brilliant article - though very long. I don't agree with everything he says or some of the conclusions he draws but the general point he makes about the way governments think - the disconnect between strategy and implementation - is spot on. Thanks for recommending it. Anyway, I have subscribed.
Two Questions...
1. What is the reason that politicians like Trump, Starmer, Macron, Merz an many others try to do their very best to lose their next elections like Biden or Scholz?
2. How can I spend a coffee or become a paid subsriber for this channel?
Dear Rob, thanks for your huge effords.
Hans
Thanks for that Hans. I'm not sure why you think that these people actually Try to lose elections. It may appear that way but I'm fairly sure that losing elections is not what they intend. So, I can't answer that question. At the moment I am not offering subscribers the option of donating money - though I may do at some point in the future. But kind comments, likes and shares are very welcome in lieu of financial reward.
I can't imagine that top ranked politicians are so stupid... Scholz is losing his election after only one periode with the worsest result for his party since 1887. The new chancler Merz is breaking all his promises and will make the same things like Scholz before. And now the AFD becomes the strongest party in Germany in surveys. Is this politics a kind of 5d chess I can't understand or only madness to ruin the own party and career? As Einstein said about madness...
i.e. doing the same thing but expecting different results. I know what you mean. I don't have answers for you Hans: only questions for you to consider - maybe.
A good synopsis as usual.
It will be an interesting day this coming Monday - the date of Ego Trumpets 10 day ultimatum to the Green Goblin - with regard to the Ego (has landed) and his verbal diarrhea over not following through with the threat of 'walking away'.
Thanks for the link to Col. Jaques Baud on Glenn Diesin's podcast. I have watched him on his regular slot on Dialogue Works. He invariably provides valuable nuggets of information such as those surrounding Crimean politics prior to 2014.
Following on from the suggestion that the world was substantially different 60 years ago I visited Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965
That was my 10th year and it pretty much all went over my head, but it does seem that the phrase SSDD sums it up.
Cheers Dude. It was my twelfth year. I was aware of the civil rights movement in the US and the ban the bomb stuff but not the detail. I remember the night we found out that Kennedy had been killed: we were all devastated because we saw him as a good man who had prevented nuclear war. We had much more 'confidence' in leaders back then, whether it was justified or not. But Today!
There did seem to be a choice.
Did you ever see 'The Bedsitting Room'?
PS It was interesting that LBJ became US President that year considering JFK was killed in 1963.
Looks like a roll call for British comedy actors - no I've never seen it - as far as I know. Are you saying that an LBJ character was in this film? BTW someone was speculating that LBJ actually had Kennedy killed.
Spike Milligan was one of the writers of the original stage play. I watched it on DVD recently and although it was 'dated' in terms of content it struck me that it had a surprising relevance to current affairs. Just an overview of the plot is amusing. The current rise of 'Reform' suggests that we are travelling backwards in time - perhaps toward Christmas. It's still available on DVD.
The list of suspects for the JFK killing icludes Mossad, CIA, and includes the Jewish mafia. WRT to LBJ; I didn't realise that he had ever been 'elected' to the 'Donship' of the USA.
I found somewhere to watch it - so I'll let you know what I think.
I look forward to your thoughts.
The Jewish Mafia angle, Jack Ruby was Jewish and a mob associate, surprised me when I found out about it earlier this year, and how it was deliberately over looked.
In popular culture that part of the Mafia was Jewish is ignored. Murder Incorporated included Meyer Lansky, Mickey Cohen, Harold "Hooky" Rothman, Dutch Schultz, and Bugsy Siegel.
The Kennedy assassination was definitely covered up, the unanswered question is why.
Wasn't Trump's team due to release some confidential stuff on the assassination?
Trump released more documents, but the fbi found even more. No big reveals yet.
Hi have to ask, what does SSDD mean?!
same shit different day.
Doh!
There have been times when I wished I knew of a head slap emogi.
;o)
Just heard that Trump is insisting that Iran dismantle its nuclear energy program completely and that he will accept nothing less. This sounds like a declaration of war. Iran will not obey and Trump will lose face if he backs down. The report in RT is a little misleading, however, since the Times of Israel - https://www.timesofisrael.com/trump-wants-total-dismantlement-of-iran-nuke-program-might-allow-civilian-energy/ appears to suggest that Trump is open to letting Iran keep its nuclear reactors for energy.
... and will China or India stay aside?