Monday, October 13, 2025

Trump’s “New Middle East” Is a Utopian Fantasy And there’s some chance it could work

https://www.theeditors.com/p/trumps-new-middle-east-is-a-utopian-fantasy-and-it-might-work
Posted by Nicholas Stix at

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

One missile attack from a free for all.

--GRA

Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at 12:20:00 AM EDT
Anonymous said...

HUMMUS RENEGES ON RETURNING DEAD ISRAELIS--BEGINNING OF THE END OF THE CEASEFIRE?

GRA:From what I've read--no. That may change,but
Netanyahu doesn't want to dump the agreement so quickly--to appease President Trump. But if it isn't a 50 foot tall fly in the ointment,it's at least a 25 footer.


(ZH)Hamas returned just four of 28 hostages' bodies on Monday, upon releasing all remaining living hostages. But Israeli leaders have condemned what they call a serious breach of what was agreed to in the Trump-brokered ceasefire deal.

The Israeli military has so far confirmed the identities of at least two of them - Guy Illouz from Israel and Bipin Joshi, a student from Nepal. Hamas indicated Tuesday it plans to hand over four more of the deceased in late evening hours.

Israel is now saying it will not reopen the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt on Wednesday and will also take the punitive step of reducing the flow of aid into the territory, until Hamas follows through with returning all of the deceased.

--GRA

Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at 9:50:00 PM EDT
Anonymous said...

GOOD COP(LIBERACE BESSENT),BAD COP(PRESIDENT TRUMP),UNIMPORTANT COP(USTR,JAMIESON GREER)STICK TO THEIR ROLES,AS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ATTEMPTS TO CONVINCE CHINA INTO GIVING UP RARE EARTH METALS


GRA:Last Friday,President Trump threatened 100% tariffs on China over China's unwillingness to part with rare earth metals,which U.S.tech companies need for their AI follies and the military needs for weapon construction. He's the bad cop. As always,Scott "Liberace" Bessent steps in to be the good cop and U.S.Trade rep,Jamieson Greer talks to the birds in the park.

(ZH)US Treasury Secretary Bessent said they want to help China, not hurt it and that China's will be hurt the most by its economic coercion. Bessent said magnets were flowing quite well following the prior China agreements and that there will be a series of meetings this week on China's restrictions. Furthermore, he said if China wants to be an unreliable partner of the world, they will need to decouple, and reiterated the US does not want to decouple, but wants to de-risk. It was separately reported that US Treasury Secretary Bessent urged the World Bank to end support for China.


USTR Greer said China's export restrictions are a global supply chain power grab, and that China is exercising economic coercion. Greer said that China's restrictions are drafted but not implemented and he is expecting restrictions not to be implemented and that they go back to the prior agreement. Furthermore, he said there is room for a positive relationship with China, and he wants this to be the last time they talk about rare earths with China.

GRA:No one knows what China is up to with this tete a tete between the top two superpowers.

--GRA

Wednesday, October 15, 2025 at 10:20:00 PM EDT

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