When Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent took the podium at the American Bankers Association on Wednesday morning he was anything but ‘yippy’ – the president’s term to describe the handwringing of Republicans and financiers who were sounding the alarm on his tariffs.
Early on, Trump branded them as ‘Panicans,’ a ‘new party based on weak and stupid people,’ but Bessent struck a unique messaging balance that both reassured stock traders and his boss.
Bessent reassured the room of bankers that, thanks to the president’s tariff threats, 75 countries were willing to negotiate with him, and that 15 of those nations had already proposed a deal.
‘The president already had good calls with the Japanese prime minster, and the leaders of South Korea, and Vietnam,’ Bessent revealed, and he was working quickly to settle monumental trade deals.
‘I’m not planning on going anywhere for Easter,’ he grinned, revealing that he would have a ‘lead negotiating role’ in the effort.
Bessent’s tone was relaxed, but made it very clear that he was backing the president’s agenda.
To the world, he urged countries to come to the table with a deal, noting that America was listening.
‘If you don’t retaliate, that is a ceiling,’ he said, urging them not to start ‘cutting their own throat’ by aligning economically with China.
The tariffs are a KOBK game theory move par excellance—Kill-Or-Be-Killed. ‘Don’t cut your own throat by retaliating’, Bessent said, voicing an actual threat.
If you retaliate as China has done you will be ‘killed’, meaning neutered, your power taken from you, subordinated to USA. If you cooperate and are reasonable we will all prosper and all will be well.
USA has the military, and more importantly, economic power to make this very strong KOBK move against the entire world. China has been an ungrateful parasite against USA and most of the rest of the world. It’s a communist-Chinese cultural flaw; selfish zero-sum thinking from dawn to dusk.
If China continues its KOBK line of retaliation, they may start a war with Taiwan or raise threat levels high enough to greatly disturb Taiwan while distracting their own people. They could also make moves against South Korea or Japan, not to mention USA.
Bessent is the perfect person to lead this largest and strongest KOBK move in world history. It’s a beautiful move, extremely well executed. Rather than bitch and moan, understand that Trump is doing what is best for USA and for the world. Using Bessent to deliver the message is perfect, as his tone is gentle but certain and it is hard not to like or trust him. He speaks softly but is carrying an enormous club. ABN
I would take this seriously. CCP has played a zero-sum, parasitic trade game with USA for well over two decades. Trump is calling their bluff. CCP is thus pushed (in their own minds and by their own negative momentum) into Kill-Or-Be-Killed strategic territory. CCP leadership cannot survive domestic economic meltdown unless it takes the world down with it or creates a major light show to distract its people. It does appear that Trump’s tariffs have been designed to confront CCP, among others. The leaders of CCP and USA (and Russia) are trapped in KOBK options. ABN
…unless it realizes what is happening. Treasonous war can be fought against and won when: 1) a strong leader with loyal generals and ministers comes to power, or 2) it becomes widely known among the population that treason and takeover have occurred and are ongoing. In USA and the collective West, we need both conditions as the hour is late. A victorious response will begin when one nation stands up loudly and proudly and manifests a leader who acts. Will this be Ireland, Germany, Hungary, or USA? We need only one to start. The rest will follow joyfully. ABN
Mass migration is a weapon of war. Mayorkas was a warrior. USA has been invaded. Four generations of war against USA have all but destroyed this country. It is happening at the federal, state, and local levels. First, there was infiltration. Then there was invasion. If we do not fight back with equal cunning and ruthlessness, all will be lost. ABN
I hope this means Sundance also understands we have experienced several generations of savage covert warfare. Since the battlefront has been covert, it is slightly difficult to see what has been happening. Use your imagination for a few hours, maybe less. Consider the gains compared to costs of a covert war against USA. There are trillions at stake, plus the most powerful military the world has ever known. How to win control of all of it? Infiltrate, takeover, attack strong boys and young men especially. In three or four generations all will be yours. Once you conceive of this strategy, you will begin to see the evidence. Lobotomies in Tibet and wherever young men are incarcerated for nothing. Lobotomies in USA without incarceration. Poison, sensory damage, done covertly. It’s a very simple strategy employing very simple tactics. I hope Sundance sees this and spends some time thinking about it. Many things will become clear, even obvious. Our enemy has long ago gotten ‘brutally, harshly mean’ with us. Remove ‘delicate sensibilities’ from your imagination and it will all become clear. ABN
In a week that saw French right-wing leader Marine Le Pen banned from running for office, the South Korean Constitutional Court’s ouster of President Yoon Suk Yeol from office on Friday has critics looking towards Beijing’s hand in efforts to remove the leader from power.
“Yoon’s foreign and security policies stand in stark contrast to the pro-China figures long supported and controlled by the [Chinese Communist Party (CCP)],” Anna Mahjar-Barducci, Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) project director, told Fox News Digital. She explained that those policies “posed a threat to Beijing’s long-term strategy of cultivating a pro-China faction in South Korea,”
Mahjar-Barducci claimed the CCP has used “overt economic cooperation, political donations, covert benefit transfers and even illegal sexual bribery” to cultivate “certain South Korean political figures over time, aiming to undermine the U.S.-South Korea alliance, weaken South Korea’s strategic independence and expand its regional influence at the expense of the U.S.”
The United States needs Greenland, whatever the cost.
US Vice President J.D. Vance reiterated this in an interview on Thursday evening local time on the Newsmax magazine program ‘Rob Schmitt Tonight’.
J.D. Vance emphasized the importance of the United States gaining control of Greenland with the phrase “come hell or high water”, which speaks of the importance of being able to control the Arctic region for the sake of American security.
The Vice President began by defending Donald Trump’s original statement about using military force, if necessary, to turn Greenland into an American resort.
Of course, the media is attacking what the president said, but there is a lot of common sense in it. This matters for our security, it matters for our missile defense, and we will protect the interests of the United States, no matter what.
It appears that Catholics and Protestants are uniting on this issue. It may also be that Ireland is being used as a testing ground to see how they will react to forced settlement of illegals; and this will become a metric for the rest of Europe. The sooner this confrontation is settled in Ireland’s favor, the less violent it will be. I hope Irish patriots realize they are setting an example for all of Europe. Buddhists take note: the Dalai Lama himself agrees with them on this. Buddhism is a wisdom teaching. Only an immoral moron will give up their country to invaders enticed by depraved elites. The sooner this is stopped, the wiser and kinder the resolution will be. ABN
Germany has positioned thousands of troops on Russia’s doorstep in the country’s first permanent foreign deployment since WW2.
Europe’s largest economy has set down a 5,000-strong armoured brigade in Lithuania in a bid to bolster Nato’s eastern flank in response to Russia’s war against Ukraine.
The historic move marks a departure from decades of German defence policy which had previously avoided the permanent stationing of combat troops abroad.
The newly-created 45th Armoured Brigade was formally activated in a ceremony on Tuesday outside Lithuanian capital Vilnius.
The New York Times published two articles {HERE and HERE} revealing: 1) that U.S. military boots are on the ground in Ukraine. (2) The U.S. military is actively involved in the ongoing targeting of strikes into Russia. (3) The CIA is operating in Ukraine and conducting targeted strikes into the Russian Federation mainland.
…The motive is clear for the New York Times to outline how the CIA is operating inside Ukraine to target the Russian Federation.
The operatives who leak to the NYT want distance between Trump and Putin. This admission of CIA involvement puts Trump in an awkward place.
The awkwardness expands, when you understand how the CIA is authorized to conduct these operations. The President, Biden, signed a “finding memo,” authorizing the CIA to conduct missile strikes into the Russian Federation.
Senator Marco Rubio as SSCI vice-chair and a Gang of Eight member, was ‘read in’ to that CIA authorization.
Senator Rubio is now Secretary of State facing Sergey Lavrov, and the Russians know exactly how these things are done.
On one hand, the NYT article spills the beans and informs the public. On the other hand, their reason for purposefully spilling the beans is to create a problem for Trump and Rubio, and possibly between Trump and Rubio.
It makes sense now why Secretary of State Rubio was the first Trump official to publicly say the United States was in a proxy war against Russia using Ukraine as the justification.
On the upside, this creates an opportunity for President Trump to distance himself from the prior administration and withdraw all CIA operatives and admitted/revealed U.S. military boots on the ground in Ukraine.
President Trump could use this revelation, now public and widespread, to reset the U.S-Ukraine dynamic and withdraw all elements of prior Biden authorization from the conflict.
Losing USAID likely means the CIA will hit back hard on the subject of Ukraine as retaliation. USAID was the front group for CIA interventionist operations globally. The omnipotent silo will not accept this decision by Secretary Marco Rubio.
The State Department has formally informed congress of their intent to dissolve USAID terminating the employment of every associate within the agency. [per this release]
Watch the geopolitical events/actions closely in the next few weeks. This is a very big hit against the Intelligence Community network, and likely one of the reasons for CIA manager John Ratcliffe scheduling a meeting with DOGE head Elon Musk.
This announcement coincides with a 3-judge appeals court ruling that now permits DOGE and Elon Musk to take apart the USAID silo.
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