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Hormuz Strait: How to navigate in the unchartered waters?

2026-04-13T13:05:00.000-07:00

The waters under the Middle East’s Hormuz Strait are something unknown and unchartered to most military parties, considering how many, when, where, what types of and by whom the marine mines may have been being set up there. Thousands of naval mines over there can be detected and neutralized, but just a single mine undetected and getting exploding could sabotage the whole campaign and its reliability.

Hormuz Strait: A test of political durability

2026-04-12T12:09:00.000-07:00

Iran may have known so well the bipartisan political system of the USA and how that superpower system is being operated and how much pressure every incumbent Administration has to face every 2 years or 4 years, with all of its transparent “voters’ block/log and political tendency” keeping changing from time to time, from day to day. Meanwhile, some or many of Iranian political spheres have proved to be intact for decades and obviously imperceptible to Western political and military eyes over the years.

What are the possible biggest winnings and losings by Trump Administration after the temporary ceasefire with Iran?

2026-04-08T11:28:00.000-07:00

When the 2-week ceasefire was announced, the biggest winning by Trump Administration in the abrupt military campaign against Iran may be that the USA successfully forced Iran to show its best strengths and advantages, some of that may be beyond the USA and Israel’s intelligence envisage and coverage, and help the USA identify where their allies are. Now the USA, Israel and the whole world come to know clearly what kind of substantial damages Iran could and can cause if the regime faced danger (and they know the necessity to strategically avoid or at least minimize such damages in the future). The biggest loss by the Trump Administration maybe they would have to spend lots of efforts for another internal political campaign which seems no less rigorous than the presidential trail in 2025 since the mid-term congressional elections are coming soon.

Is Elon Musk trying to make a X-Oscar Cinematic Academy?

2026-04-04T09:42:00.000-07:00

With an increasing number of posts on X promoting the X Imagine, billionaire Elon Musk has shown his fondness and dedication to the service. However, it’s still not clear his final destination in the journey to develop this special AI service. Is he trying to make billions of people on Earth to use this service to make movies for their being as both sole director and sole audience, or to create a X-Oscar universe for robots?

Try it out! https://t.co/RO0GDsbGmG
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 3, 2026

U.S. Central Command Warns Civilians to Avoid Ports Used by Iranian Forces

2026-03-11T10:54:00.000-07:00

On March 11, US Central Command (CENTCOM) has issued a warning to civilians, including Iranians, that the Iranian regime is using civilian ports along the Strait of Hormuz to conduct military operations that threaten international shipping. It said civilian ports used for military purposes lose protected status and become legitimate military targets under international law. It’s likely that the US is preparing for extensive strikes on Iranian military presence in these areas amidst viral reports of Iran forces embedding the Strait waters with naval mines.

Strait of Hormuz

Border concentration camps may rise to prevent an American constitutional crisis

2025-04-23T09:56:00.000-07:00

The Trump Administration’s efforts to implement mass deportation of illegal immigrants have being facing tremendous and persistent blocks by the judicial personnel and Democrat congressmen, as an unavoidable challenge despite the current Republican dominance in both the executive and law-making branches. It’s envisaged that mass concentration camps shall be soon set up along the American border to contain illegal immigrants, effectively depriving them of any illegitimate rights they are enjoying, while preventing a fatal clash between the federal government and the federal courts. It’s still unclear whether the federal budget, in worsening deficits, could afford all the costs to maintain such concentration camps for a long time. The costs to maintain such camps may be eventually charged back to the tax-funded expenditures for the judicial system operations, on a reciprocal basis.

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Donald Trump retaliates China at 125% tariffs while offering 90-days pause for other countries

2025-04-09T11:33:00.000-07:00

The US President has announced on Wednesday 9th April 10 2025 to raise “the Tariff charged to China by the United States of America to 125%, effective immediately”, citing “the lack of respect that China has shown to the World’s Markets”. Conversely, he authorized a 90 day pause during which its reciprocal tariffs staying at 10% for around 75 countries which were willing to negotiate with his government representatives. Just one hour after Jump’s announcement the Dow Jones responded by shooting upwards over 2.283 points (6.6%).

Donald Trump announces worldwide reciprocal tariffs effective from 2nd April, but at discounted

2025-04-02T15:18:00.000-07:00

In an event, described by the USA President as a Liberation Day, at the Rose Garden, Trump showed to the audience a sheet of discounted reciprocal tariffs applied to the USA’s key trading partners in the world. For countries charging 10% on American goods, the reciprocal rate of 10% is applied; for the ones charging more than 10%, the reciprocal rates are discounted by a half.

Donald Trump: a Radical Left Lunatic Judge wants to assume the role of President then the Country is in very big trouble

2025-03-18T23:02:00.000-07:00

The clash between Trump Administration and Left Judges appointed by Democrat Presidents like Barack Obama and Joe Biden are likely to escalate into a crisis between the executive branch and juridical branch of the country. In a post dated 19^th Mar, Donald Trump wrote “If a President doesn’t have the right to throw murderers, and other criminals, out of our Country because a Radical Left Lunatic Judge wants to assume the role of President, then our Country is in very big trouble, and destined to fail!”.

Donald Trump terminates the secret service protection for Biden’s son and daughter

2025-03-17T21:23:00.000-07:00

When social media was flooded with images of former President Biden’s son luxuriously vacating in the hostile South Africa under the federal budget-funded protection by 18 American secret agents, the USA President seemed to be angry and decided that effective immediately “Hunter Biden will no longer receive Secret Service protection”, and the same would apply to Ashley Biden who has 13 agents.

Donald Trump declares Joe Biden’s pardons null and void because of AutoPen signing

2025-03-16T22:49:00.000-07:00

In an unprecedented move, the USA President declared in a post on 16th March 2025 that the Pardons that his predecessor Joe Biden gave to the “Unselected Committee of Political Thugs” are now “null, void, vacant and of no further force or effect because of the fact that they were done by AutoPen". Therefore, the Pardoned “should fully understand that they are subject to investigation at the highest level”, he added.

Trump Administration being on approve trend, according to Leftwing polls

2025-03-16T20:47:00.000-07:00

NPC News just unveils a polls less than 2 months into Trump Administration that 44% of Americans say the country is heading in the right direction compared to just 27% in November 2024; the “very positive” approve for Trump among Republicans now stands at 74% (compared to 50% in April 2017 in his first term). Meanwhile, CNN announced a polls that when asked about voters’ view of Democrats in Congress, 68% of all voters said they disapproved, only a historically record low 21% said they approved.

Trump Administration deport 238 criminals to El Salvador, an Obama-appointed district judge unsuccessfully block it

2025-03-16T20:01:00.000-07:00

The USA President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to immediately deport 238 Tren de Aragua gang member to a prison in El Salvador. DC District judge James Boasberg appointed under Barack Obama era issued an order to halt the operation and demand the deportation flights to return to the USA. However, latest information showed that the criminals already arrived El Salvador’s CECOT prison on 16th March.

Conservatives protest outside Windsor Castle as King Charles holds prayer for Muslims inside

2025-03-13T01:28:00.000-07:00

As the reigning British monarch, King Charles III, being the Supreme Governor of the Church of England, organized on 12th March a Ramadan event at Windsor Castle attended by 400 Muslim guests. Crowds of British Christian conservatives gathered outside the castle with banners read “Not My King”, “Down with the Crown” and “Dutch the Dutchies”. Protests against the Crown was something rarely happened during the reign of Queen Elizabeth who passed away in Sept 2022.

Premier of Ontario recedes after Donald Trump threatens to raise tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum to 50%

2025-03-11T19:18:00.000-07:00

Premier of Ontario Doug Ford agreed to suspend its 25% surcharge on exports of electricity to Michigan, New York and Minnesota. He is also pushing talks with USA Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick and Trade Representative to discuss a renewed USMCA (United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement). When the Trump Administration applies the reciprocal tariffs on April 2nd, Canada would likely face tariffs not just of 25% but can be 250% - 390% because these are the rates Canada is applying for American farming and diary products.

Donald Trump buys a red Tesla at full market price

2025-03-11T17:33:00.000-07:00

Against the ongoing anti-Tesla protests, boycotts and sabotages, the USA President decided to buy a Tesla to show his confidence and support for Elon Musk’ electric vehicle brand. On March 11th 2025, line-up of Teslas were found in front of the White House, and Trump seemed to prefer a Red Model S Plaid. Trump said he would buy by traditional method of giving Tesla a check, and didn’t want a discount. Musk announced on the day that he would double down Tesla productions in the USA.

Elon Musk: Cyberattack on X originated from Ukraine

2025-03-10T15:13:00.000-07:00

The social media platform X underwent a massive cyberattack on 10th Mar, following Elon Musk’s post one day earlier saying that his Starlink is the backbone of the Ukrainian military and their front line would collapse if he turned it off. In an interview with Fox Business, Musk stated the IP address of the attack came from Ukraine.

Elon Musk traced groups responsible for Tesla “protests” back to a George Soros-funded platform

2025-03-09T03:22:00.000-07:00

The billionaire’s electric vehicle company Tesla has been enduring a wave of protests, sabotages and boycotts across the USA, which found their dealers and showrooms surrounded, charge stations sabotaged, Tesla cars painted and damaged. In an X post, Musk revealed that 5 groups responsible for the incidents were funded by ActBlue which was the main fundraising platform for Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.

JD Vance gains positive popularity in “Once Upon a Meme”

2025-03-08T21:18:00.000-08:00

The US Vice President has been the target of many Democrats who initially tried make joke of him by pasting his face into various funny memes. Instead of fighting back the flood of memes making fun of him on social media, Vance chose to post one of them on his X account on 8th Mar 2025, and that was a cut scene of Leo DiCaprio in “Once upon a time”. Within just a few hours, Vance’s post has received a record of nearly 85 million views, 420k likes. And now some Democrats turn to call for stopping the joking trend so that Vance wouldn’t get more popularity.

Russia warns against UK’s “giving away” Russian assets to Ukraine

2025-03-08T14:28:00.000-08:00

Russian media quoted Vyacheslav Volodin, the Speaker of the Russian State Duma as saying “The transfer of Russia's assets by Britain to Ukraine is a serious breach of international law. They will ultimately have to return to Russia what they are now so generously giving away”. Earlier, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denis Shmygal announced via his Telegram channel that Ukraine had received 752 million pounds (~ $ 971.3 million dollars) from Britain, secured through proceeds from frozen Russian assets.

Russia escalated and gained advantages in battlefield as Ukraine lost access to US intelligence information

2025-03-08T05:46:00.000-08:00

Russian media quoted reports by Russia Ministry of Defence that in week March 1-7, the Russian Armed Forces delivered 7 combined strikes on Ukraine by precision weapons and attack unmanned aerial vehicles, hitting the infrastructure of military airfields, ammunition depots, production workshops, storage warehouses …, inflicting 1,590 Ukrainian casualties, and Russian units continued to move deeper into Ukraine’s defenses.

Missouri General Attorney to secure ~$25 billion judgement against China in relation to Covid-19 epidemic

2025-03-08T02:34:00.000-08:00

The State’s Attorney General Andrew Bailey announced on Friday 7th March 2025 that he is taking actions to secure the $24 billion judgment against China for unleashing the COVID-19 pandemic.

Risky sources for Ukraine aid and conflicting agendas make Brussels Summit failed

2025-03-07T00:43:00.000-08:00

EU Brussels Summit on 6th March 2025 basically failed to agree on a joint position to substantially continue their support for Ukraine, firstly because they did not intend to use their pocket money for the “aid” and secondly some items of their agenda seemed to be too-early-so- too- risky.

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There have been no reports of the EU leaders discussing on how much the EU Commission and each member states would share their parts in a new aid package to Ukraine. Instead, they primarily debated on whether to use/confiscate some $227 billion in frozen Russian assets that have been held in Europe’s financial system since the start of the Ukraine war.

According to New York Post, so far, around $50 billion in assistance has been given to Ukraine using the accumulating interest on Russia’s frozen assets by the G7 group of nations.

Ukraine President Zelenskyy was successful in rallying some neighbor countries, such as Poland and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to call for the seizing of Russia’s money to pay for Ukraine’s reconstruction, and especially for an emergency aid at this moment when the USA paused all of its military aid.

However, Germany, France and Belgium warned of legal and financial consequences. "Countries calling for the confiscation of frozen Russian assets should be aware of the economic risks. This could shock the global financial system.", said Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever.

Any Russia–Ukraine Peace Deal in the future would certainly involve the handling of Russian frozen assets, therefore any touch on these assets at this stage would make the future peace talks become complicated, and even worse, someone would have to compensate for what they had confiscated.

Also, “pouring more military aids, sending own troops” and “proposing for a temporary truce” are conflicting agendas to each other, and the former would undermine or eliminate the later. It would be hard for Russia to believe in the honesty of any truce proposal and accept it if the other war party(ies) is rallying more forces.

In general, the EU seems to be still indecisive about which path to take: to rally all forces to defeat Russia, or to start the peace negotiations immediately.

According to AI Gok, for 2023, the most recent year with comprehensive data, Eurostat reports the following government deficit-to-GDP ratios:
Germany: Recorded a deficit of -2.6% of GDP. As the EU’s largest economy, with a GDP of approximately €4.5 trillion, this translates to a deficit of about €117 billion. Germany’s fiscal discipline is notable, though it still exceeds the EU Stability and Growth Pact’s 3% threshold slightly.
France: Had a deficit of -5.5% of GDP. With a GDP of around €2.8 trillion, this equates to roughly €154 billion. France consistently runs higher deficits, reflecting its significant public spending.
Italy: Posted a deficit of -7.2% of GDP, the highest among these countries. With a GDP of about €2.1 trillion, this amounts to approximately €151 billion. Italy’s large deficit is tied to its substantial debt burden and economic challenges.
Spain: Recorded a deficit of -3.6% of GDP. With a GDP of around €1.5 trillion, this is about €54 billion. Spain has reduced its deficit since the post-pandemic peak but remains above the EU’s 3% limit.
Poland: Had a deficit of -5.1% of GDP. With a GDP of roughly €0.8 trillion, this translates to about €41 billion. Poland’s deficit reflects increased spending, partly due to regional security concerns.
Across the EU as a whole, the average government deficit was -3.5% of GDP in 2023, up from -3.2% in 2022, amounting to approximately €600 billion against a total EU GDP of €17.2 trillion. Among the biggest economies, Italy and France stand out with deficits well above the EU average and the 3% threshold set by the Stability and Growth Pact, while Germany and Spain are closer to or just over that limit. Poland sits in the middle of this group.
These numbers are based on Eurostat’s October 2024 release, reflecting data reported by EU member states.

EU leaders gather in Brussels to talk on more military aid to Ukraine and defense boost scheme

2025-03-06T15:29:00.000-08:00

The European Union held another emergency meeting after London Summit on Friday 6th March, this time in Brussels Belgium including Ukraine of course but without previous outsiders Canada and UK. The summit’s main agenda would likely the “Rearm Europe Plan” worth of Euro 80 billion outlined by EU Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen on Monday, the French President Macron’s scheme of “expanding French nuclear umbrella” over Europe, and Zelenskyy’s demand for more money and EU soldiers’ foots on his war zone.

Zelenskyy smiles happily and optimistically when talking to EU Commission President

The USA President intends to apply reciprocal tariffs this 2nd April

2025-03-05T19:17:00.000-08:00

In his joint address to American Congress early March 2025, Donald Trump revealed the plan to enforce reciprocal tariffs on April 2nd (he originally wanted it on April 1st but superstitiously tried to avoid the April Fool’ day). “The European Union, China, Brazil, India, Mexico and Canada and countless other nations charge us tremendously higher tariffs than we charge them. It's very unfair”. After reciprocal tariffs kick in, “whatever they tax us, we will tax them”, he stated.

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