by Eric Zuesse, The Duran:
11 October 2025, by Eric Zuesse. (All of my recent articles can be seen here.)
From Paul Billings:
It appears the Trump administration is pursuing increasingly reckless and self-destructive policies as the economic vise tightens on the US. Links follow.
1. China’s Had Enough… Xi Calls Trump’s Bluff, by Larry C. Johnson. Fri., Oct. 10, 2025: https://sonar21.com/chinas-had-enough-xi-calls-trumps-bluff/
2. US to impose additional 100% tariffs on China – Trump. The president’s announcement sent shockwaves through global stock markets. RT Fri, Oct. 10, 2025: https://www.rt.com/news/626213-trump-us-tariffs-china/
TRUTH LIVES on at https://sgtreport.tv/
3. Federal Reserve is TRAPPED – Political Chaos, Economic CRISIS and Internal Divisions Spell TURMOIL Lena Petrova World Affairs In Context Sat., Oct. 11, 2025: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJFZCZYzLFg
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I (Eric Zuesse) INCLUDE AS BEING ASSOCIATED, BUT SPECIFICALLY ABOUT ISRAEL:
https://beeley.substack.com/p/syria-now-after-the-zionist-bloc
Vanessa Beeley presents the view that Israel now controls “The West”; that it’s not really the U.S. empire; it is the Zionist empire (and there is more evidence of this all the time). She describes the roles that Jolani, U.S., Turkey, and Russia, play in the Israeli plan for the Middle East. Qatar is aligned with Turkey, for restoration of the Ottoman empire (now that the British empire is gone), but Sauds and the other Arab monarchs are instead aligned with Israel and they support its expansionist goals in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria; and both groups are against Palestinians, Iran, Houthis, and Hezbollah (collectively the “axis of resistance” against Israel). And Russia’s only goal in Syria is to keep its air base in Khmeimim and its naval base in Tartus; Israel wants those Russian bases to stay there, so as to restrain Turkey’s expansionist plans. Jolani is siphoning gold out to his shell accounts in Cypress, and will soon be forced by Israel to leave Syria.
I think that Beeley understands Netanyahu’s — and so “The West’s” — plan perfectly.
AND IN REGARD TO THE WAR IN UKRAINE — the war that Obama started in February 2014 — Danny Davis of the Soros-and-Koch-created Quincy Institute (the two top long-term donors to both the Democratic and the Republican Party), interviews on October 11th Matthew Hoh, of the Quincy Institute, at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVR2P3SDNOg
who now openly says that “Ukraine cannot win this war; Russia cannot lose this war” — as an Establishmentarian, Koh still won’t say “Russia will win this war.” Koh says instead (27:44):
27:44
The Russians’ goals and
27:45
objectives in this — it was never about the conquest of all of Ukraine. Again, it was about Russia’s national
27:51
security interest, as well as as, as you know, as it changes in 2022, taking the
27:57
four provinces or oblasts of eastern Ukraine and, and that’s it. Um so
28:04
yeah, I don’t understand this idea of a pathway forward where they think it’s going to come from the fact that it
