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Cutting edge Middle East news analysis from ArabDigest.org
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Israel=E2=80=99s Counter-Hamas Proxies

*Summary: Israel has historically utilised a strategy of politicide in the
Gaza Strip by backing proxy collaborator militias to fragment Palestinian
society and attempt to establish a postwar governing alternative to Hamas.
Despite receiving Israeli arms and salaries and international validation
these criminal gangs while serving Israel have betrayed Gazans trapped in a
shrinking enclave.*

Recent intelligence developments have cast a spotlight on the
behind-the-scenes engineering of postwar Palestinian governance in the Gaza
Strip. Shin Bet chief David Zini recently met
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with
exiled former Gaza security chief Mohammed Dahlan in the United Arab
Emirates, highlighting secret discussions regarding the enclave=E2=80=99s f=
uture
leadership. Dahlan, a former head of the PA=E2=80=99s Preventive Security F=
orce and
a fierce critic of both Hamas and the Palestinian Authority, lives in Abu
Dhabi and is frequently floated by Israeli and international officials as a
prime candidate to oversee a transitional technocratic government in
postwar Gaza. He is described as a close confidante of UAE President
Mohammed bin Zayed.

The meeting aptly illustrates a structural paradigm of conflict management
deeply embedded in Israeli handling of Palestine. Since its early political
formation, Israel has consistently sought to deprive Palestinians of
national legitimacy and erode their identity through a policy of
politicide. In order to infiltrate Palestinian society and distort its
collective will, a central Israeli strategy has been the recruitment of
rogue groups operating outside the national consensus. These client actors
are tasked with carrying out destabilising activities to undermine
Palestinian liberation from within, a recurring pattern which reflects the
long-standing Zionist doctrine of fragmenting the population, neutralising
resistance capabilities and obstructing national unity.

The charge of collaboration has long functioned as a potent political
weapon between rival Palestinian factions. The modern =E2=80=9Ccollaborator=
=E2=80=9D
charge first
emerged textually
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during
the May 1983 campus clashes at the Islamic University of Gaza between the
Islamist Islamic Block and pro-PLO Fatah students. Following a violent
brawl, the PLO=E2=80=99s newspaper of record, *Al-Fajr*, explicitly accused=
 the
rising Islamic movement of acting as a =E2=80=9Ccollaborating force=E2=80=
=9D with
occupation authorities.

This accusation transitioned into the popular sphere during university
courtyard debates in 1985. Then, Yahya Sinwar representing the Islamic
Block and Mohammed Dahlan representing Fatah routinely squared off. Dahlan
famously popularised the collaborator accusation against the Islamists
during these debates, cementing a bitter personal, political and
ideological rivalry that would continuously shape Palestinian internal
security discourse for the next four decades.

Yahya Sinwar who went on to become a senior Hamas leader and was killed by
the IDF in 2024 had a deep preoccupation with informants which found
expression in his 2004 semi-autobiographical novel, The Thorn and the
Carnation
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written while serving multiple life sentences in an Israeli prison. The
text closely mirrors his real-life role co-founding Hamas' internal
security wing, *al-Majd*, established explicitly to hunt down traitors.
Through the character Ibrahim, a literary alter-ego for Sinwar himself, the
novel outlines exactly how collaborators are perceived, entrapped and
systematically punished.

In the novel, collaboration is portrayed as profound moral, religious, and
social rot that destroys society from within. Sinwar stresses that Shin Bet
relies heavily on internal treason to conduct successful Israeli
assassinations, sudden raids and arrests. The narrative shows how
occupation forces systematically exploit human vulnerabilities such as
financial desperation, drug addiction, blackmail or the need for medical
permits to coerce individuals into espionage.

The novel positions the tracking and liquidation of traitors as a
sanctified duty required for collective survival. The narrative outlines a
strict process: meticulous surveillance to gather undeniable proof,
followed by abduction and intense interrogation to extract detailed
confessions regarding handlers and compromised information.

*Public execution of traitors by Hamas in the Gaza Strip*

At the outset of the Gaza genocide in 2023, the old Israeli doctrine of
recruiting surrogate internal actors re-emerged as a formal military
strategy. The then defence minister Yoav Gallant proposed utilising local
militias and clans as a governing alternative to Hamas. Following initial
difficulties, the plan moved through the Knesset=E2=80=99s secret committee=
s
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until
Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar reformulated it
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into
an operational plan. Approved by Netanyahu and top military officials, it
launched as a pilot model with a small cell in Rafah
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designed
for gradual expansion.

To foster these client groups, the colonising state engineered supportive
conditions by launching incitement campaigns against the resistance and
exploiting wartime starvation to encourage public unrest. This manifested
in protests in Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis
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calling
for an end to the war, the release of captives and the removal of Hamas.
Zionist agents quickly mobilised these spontaneous actions into
socio-economic protests under the banner =E2=80=9CWe want to live,=E2=80=9D
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peaking
in northern Gaza in March 2025 before spreading widely.

Out of this manufactured landscape, four primary collaborator militias
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emerged
under direct Israeli patronage:

First, =E2=80=9CThe Popular Forces,=E2=80=9D initially led by Yasir Abu Sha=
bab and later by
Ghassan al-Dahini. Abu Shabab, a Tarabin clan member previously jailed for
theft and drug offences, was released following an Israeli attack
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on
a Hamas prison at the outset of the conflict. Despite being illiterate
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he =E2=80=9Cauthored=E2=80=9D an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal
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that
claimed his group had secured territory free from Hamas and called for
international recognition. UN
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 and Sky News
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reports
exposed his group for coordinating with the Israeli military, extorting
protection fees and systematically looting aid convoys along =E2=80=9CLoote=
rs=E2=80=99
Alley=E2=80=9D. Following an expanded circle of support, Trump=E2=80=99s se=
nior advisor
Jared Kushner even held direct discussions with Abu Shabab to evaluate
using his forces to clear Hamas operatives out of the Rafah tunnels. Abu
Shabab was killed on December 4, 2025, in a targeted Al-Qassam Brigades
ambush
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sparking public celebrations
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before
al-Dahini assumed command
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under
ongoing Israeli protection
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.

Second, the Counterterrorism Strike Force (CSF), led by 51-year-old Husam
al-Astal, a former officer under Mohammed Dahlan. After assisting Mossad
with a 2018 assassination in Malaysia, he was sentenced to death upon
returning to Gaza but escaped prison
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during
a 2024 airstrike. Operating 150 to 500 fighters
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just
700 metres from an Israeli outpost near Kizan al-Najjar, al-Astal coordinat=
es
directly
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with
the occupation forces, pitches his =E2=80=9CThe New Gaza
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project as a postwar alternative to Hamas, and coordinates with al-Dahini's
Rafah militia
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.

Third, the Popular Defence Forces, formed in summer 2025 by Rami Hillis, a
former Presidential Security Force employee. His 500-strong militia
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of
Ramallah-paid PA employees operates in Shuja=E2=80=99iyyah and Tal al-Hawa
under Israeli
operational cover
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Coordinating via the District Coordination Office and collaborating with
Shin Bet
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they conduct surveillance, target front-line resistance fighters, and
abduct pro-resistance citizens to hand over to Israel.

Fourth, =E2=80=9CThe Popular Army,=E2=80=9D launched in northern Gaza in Se=
ptember
2025 by Ashraf
al-Mansi
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Comprising several dozen armed individuals with criminal records
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they claim control over Jabalia and Beit Hanoun. Al-Mansi faces active
charges of running an espionage network for Israel and his militia has
engaged in multiple post-ceasefire clashes with Hamas
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.

The operational tactics of these modern collaborator gangs rely heavily on
exploitation and psychological leverage. A primary mechanism is the
=E2=80=9Cluxury=E2=80=9D marketing strategy, where gang leaders like Husam =
al-Astal
explicitly flaunt prohibited foreign consumer goods such as chocolates,
coffee and Seven-Up in propaganda videos to entice starving, desperate
youth into joining their ranks, a tactic which earned al-Astal the popular
public nickname =E2=80=9CAbu Seven=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9CAbu Sab'in=E2=80=9D=
. Alongside this branding, these
groups engage in massive aid theft to build localised power, drawing
immense hatred from the general populace. Furthermore, security factions
note that these gangs use civilians as human shields, distributing sweets
and cigarettes east of the =E2=80=9Cyellow line=E2=80=9D to scout Hamas pos=
itions, knowing
the resistance will hesitate to shoot back into civilian crowds.

Official admissions confirm that Israel treats these criminal groups as a
security asset. In May 2025, Netanyahu formally instructed
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the
Civil Administration to distribute weapons
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to
these gangs in southern Gaza, characterising the arming of the militias as =
a
good step
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that
saved soldiers=E2=80=99 lives. *Haaretz*
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documented
that the military provides them with salaries and logistical support and
integrates them into command-and-control software as if they were Israeli
forces. This coordination expanded
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under
a US-backed plan managed out of a Civil-Military Coordination Center in
Kiryat Gat. Despite heavy institutional backing, numerous Israeli experts
have criticised Israel=E2=80=99s reliance on client militias, calling it a =
doomed
experiment that ignores bitter historical precedents such as the South
Lebanon Army. Analysts like Michael Milshtein
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3a73c569d8e13858129>
, Eitan Dangot
<https://us.list-manage.com/ySbSqOlPsl1?e=3D672f0b89c4&c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e=
3a73c569d8e13858129>,
and various military officials argue these criminal gangs can never achieve
ground superiority or substitute for a strategic, regionally coordinated
governance framework. Haaretz commentator Jack Khoury
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underscored
that leadership cannot be engineered from above, noting that Abu Shabab=E2=
=80=99s
death exposed the vast gap
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between
Zionist narratives and Gaza=E2=80=99s actual reality. Channel 14=E2=80=99s =
Omri Haim
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3a73c569d8e13858129>
similarly
stated that relying on local mercenaries is destined to fail against a
deeply embedded resistance project.

Nevertheless, Israel continues this strategy with Kan reporting
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3a73c569d8e13858129>
that
the military is actively preparing further protection and withdrawal paths
for these groups. The UN Security Council=E2=80=99s adoption of Resolution =
2803 on
November 18, 2025, introduced a new dynamic, though it remains unclear if
its mandate to dismantle armed groups will be applied to these collaborator
militias, given that US and Israeli officials continue to engage them to
secure localised reconstruction efforts
<https://us.list-manage.com/DIONZHgpYVT?e=3D672f0b89c4&c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e=
3a73c569d8e13858129>.
Ultimately, the failure to establish these militias as a legitimate
governing alternative only serves to highlight the resistance=E2=80=99s pop=
ularity,
steadfastness and ongoing capacity to systematically dismantle Israel=E2=80=
=99s
surrogate networks.

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" class=3D"m_-7907180044345023133bodyContent"><table border=3D"0" cellpaddi=
ng=3D"10" cellspacing=3D"0" width=3D"100%"><tbody><tr><td valign=3D"top"><d=
iv style=3D"color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;font-siz=
e:12px;line-height:20px"><h1 style=3D"color:rgb(64,64,64);font-family:Georg=
ia,Times,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;font-size:28px;font-weight:norma=
l;line-height:42px;margin-bottom:10px">Israel=E2=80=99s Counter-Hamas Proxi=
es</h1><p><em>Summary: Israel has historically utilised a strategy of polit=
icide in the Gaza Strip by backing proxy collaborator militias to fragment =
Palestinian society and attempt to establish a postwar governing alternativ=
e to Hamas. Despite receiving=C2=A0Israeli arms and salaries and internatio=
nal validation these criminal gangs while serving Israel have betrayed Gaza=
ns trapped in a shrinking enclave.</em></p><p>Recent intelligence developme=
nts have cast a spotlight on the behind-the-scenes engineering of postwar P=
alestinian governance in the Gaza Strip. Shin Bet chief David Zini=C2=A0<a =
href=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/hWd5tfKokuu?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd=
0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,10=
2,102)">recently met</a>=C2=A0with exiled former Gaza security chief Mohamm=
ed Dahlan in the United Arab Emirates, highlighting secret discussions rega=
rding the enclave=E2=80=99s future leadership. Dahlan, a former head of the=
 PA=E2=80=99s Preventive Security Force and a fierce critic of both Hamas a=
nd the Palestinian Authority, lives in Abu Dhabi and is frequently floated =
by Israeli and international officials as a prime candidate to oversee a tr=
ansitional technocratic government in postwar Gaza. He is described as a cl=
ose confidante of UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed.</p><p>The meeting aptly=
 illustrates a structural paradigm of conflict management deeply embedded i=
n Israeli handling of Palestine. Since its early political formation, Israe=
l has consistently sought to deprive Palestinians of national legitimacy an=
d erode their identity through a policy of politicide. In order to infiltra=
te=C2=A0Palestinian society and distort its collective will, a central Isra=
eli strategy has been the recruitment of rogue groups operating outside the=
 national consensus. These client actors are tasked with carrying out desta=
bilising activities to undermine Palestinian liberation from within, a recu=
rring pattern which reflects the long-standing Zionist doctrine of fragment=
ing the population, neutralising resistance capabilities and obstructing na=
tional unity.=C2=A0</p><p>The charge of collaboration has long functioned a=
s a potent political weapon between rival Palestinian factions. The modern =
=E2=80=9Ccollaborator=E2=80=9D charge=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-manag=
e.com/dZjjrXMBH6L?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e1385812=
9" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">first emerged textual=
ly</a>=C2=A0during the May 1983 campus clashes at the Islamic University of=
 Gaza between the Islamist Islamic Block and pro-PLO Fatah students. Follow=
ing a violent brawl, the PLO=E2=80=99s newspaper of record,=C2=A0<em>Al-Faj=
r</em>, explicitly accused the rising Islamic movement of acting as a =E2=
=80=9Ccollaborating force=E2=80=9D with occupation authorities.</p><p>This =
accusation transitioned into the popular sphere during university courtyard=
 debates in 1985. Then, Yahya Sinwar representing the Islamic Block and Moh=
ammed Dahlan representing Fatah routinely squared off. Dahlan famously popu=
larised the collaborator accusation against the Islamists during these deba=
tes, cementing a bitter personal, political and ideological rivalry that wo=
uld continuously shape Palestinian internal security discourse for the next=
 four decades.</p><p>Yahya Sinwar who went on to become a senior Hamas lead=
er and was killed by the IDF in 2024 had a deep preoccupation with informan=
ts which found expression in his 2004 semi-autobiographical novel,=C2=A0<a =
href=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/prWvdXZOcK_?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd=
0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,10=
2,102)">The Thorn and the Carnation</a>, written while serving multiple lif=
e sentences in an Israeli prison. The text closely mirrors his real-life ro=
le co-founding Hamas&#39; internal security wing,=C2=A0<em>al-Majd</em>, es=
tablished explicitly to hunt down traitors. Through the character Ibrahim, =
a literary alter-ego for Sinwar himself, the novel outlines exactly how col=
laborators are perceived, entrapped and systematically punished.</p><p>In t=
he novel, collaboration is portrayed as profound moral, religious, and soci=
al rot that destroys society from within. Sinwar stresses that Shin Bet rel=
ies heavily on internal treason to conduct successful Israeli assassination=
s, sudden raids and arrests. The narrative shows how occupation forces syst=
ematically exploit human vulnerabilities such as financial desperation, dru=
g addiction, blackmail or the need for medical permits to coerce individual=
s into espionage.</p><p>The novel positions the tracking and liquidation of=
 traitors as a sanctified duty required for collective survival. The narrat=
ive outlines a strict process: meticulous surveillance to gather undeniable=
 proof, followed by abduction and intense interrogation to extract detailed=
 confessions regarding handlers and compromised information.</p><img height=
=3D"282" src=3D"https://mcusercontent.com/2820afb1fbae0c99e88fb6f52/images/=
598dec9e-51fb-6c30-22c7-7e23a24307f7.jpg" width=3D"550" class=3D"gmail-CToW=
Ud gmail-a6T" tabindex=3D"0" style=3D"cursor: pointer; outline: none; borde=
r: 0px; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; height: 282px; line-height: 14p=
x; text-transform: capitalize; display: inline; margin: 0px 0px 10px; width=
: 550px;"><br><em>Public execution of traitors by Hamas in the Gaza Strip</=
em><p>At the outset of the Gaza genocide in 2023, the old Israeli doctrine =
of recruiting surrogate internal actors re-emerged as a formal military str=
ategy. The then defence minister Yoav Gallant proposed utilising local mili=
tias and clans as a governing alternative to Hamas. Following initial diffi=
culties, the plan moved through the=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-manage.=
com/7NTi_kxbaEq?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129"=
 target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">Knesset=E2=80=99s secre=
t committees</a>=C2=A0until Shin Bet chief=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-=
manage.com/QrcUfwQJHn_?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13=
858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">Ronen Bar reform=
ulated it</a>=C2=A0into an operational plan. Approved by Netanyahu and top =
military officials, it launched as a pilot model with a=C2=A0<a href=3D"htt=
ps://us.list-manage.com/oq8mdtyXL93?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e=
3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">sma=
ll cell in Rafah</a>=C2=A0designed for gradual expansion.</p><p>To foster t=
hese client groups, the colonising state engineered supportive conditions b=
y launching incitement campaigns against the resistance and exploiting wart=
ime starvation to encourage public unrest. This manifested in protests in=
=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/MNQNPM_g4Kq?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;=
c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:r=
gb(102,102,102)">Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis</a>=C2=A0calling for an end t=
o the war, the release of captives and the removal of Hamas. Zionist agents=
 quickly mobilised these spontaneous actions into socio-economic protests u=
nder the banner=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/18MJhhWxYGE?e=3D=
672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" s=
tyle=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">=E2=80=9CWe want to live,=E2=80=9D</a>=C2=
=A0peaking in northern Gaza in March 2025 before spreading widely.</p><p>Ou=
t of this manufactured landscape, four primary=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.l=
ist-manage.com/IWonZIRe4JZ?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d=
8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">collaborator=
 militias</a>=C2=A0emerged under direct Israeli patronage:</p><p>First, =E2=
=80=9CThe Popular Forces,=E2=80=9D initially led by Yasir Abu Shabab and la=
ter by Ghassan al-Dahini. Abu Shabab, a Tarabin clan member previously jail=
ed for theft and drug offences, was released=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.lis=
t-manage.com/1CkMe_jLG5d?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e=
13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">following an I=
sraeli attack</a>=C2=A0on a Hamas prison at the outset of the conflict. Des=
pite=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/RpECFMkEpZ2?e=3D672f0b89c4&=
amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"col=
or:rgb(102,102,102)">being illiterate</a>, he =E2=80=9Cauthored=E2=80=9D an=
 opinion piece in=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/TTkxrNLKRd4?e=
=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank=
" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">The Wall Street Journal</a>=C2=A0that cl=
aimed his group had secured territory free from Hamas and called for intern=
ational recognition.=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/KAs7vDA5pxn=
?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_bla=
nk" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">UN</a>=C2=A0and=C2=A0<a href=3D"https:=
//us.list-manage.com/ra6ejbwHm25?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a7=
3c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">Sky Ne=
ws</a>=C2=A0reports exposed his group for coordinating with the Israeli mil=
itary, extorting protection fees and systematically looting aid convoys alo=
ng =E2=80=9CLooters=E2=80=99 Alley=E2=80=9D. Following an expanded circle o=
f support, Trump=E2=80=99s senior advisor Jared Kushner even held direct di=
scussions with Abu Shabab to evaluate using his forces to clear Hamas opera=
tives out of the Rafah tunnels. Abu Shabab was killed on December 4, 2025, =
in a targeted=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/eeyg5KUOyzX?e=3D67=
2f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" sty=
le=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">Al-Qassam Brigades ambush</a>, sparking=C2=A0=
<a href=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/XcqzS8rNOvc?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=
=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(1=
02,102,102)">public celebrations</a>=C2=A0before al-Dahini=C2=A0<a href=3D"=
https://us.list-manage.com/FVkeJCBhx2M?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd61=
79e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">=
assumed command</a>=C2=A0under ongoing=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-mana=
ge.com/_4wJwj4fXAs?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e138581=
29" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">Israeli protection</=
a>.</p><p>Second, the Counterterrorism Strike Force (CSF), led by 51-year-o=
ld Husam al-Astal, a former officer under Mohammed Dahlan. After assisting =
Mossad with a 2018 assassination in Malaysia, he was sentenced to death upo=
n returning to Gaza but=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/n1lvURm6=
nbv?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_=
blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">escaped prison</a>=C2=A0during a 20=
24 airstrike. Operating=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/5LgEGYrc=
6r0?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_=
blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">150 to 500 fighters</a>=C2=A0just 7=
00 metres from an Israeli outpost near Kizan al-Najjar, al-Astal=C2=A0<a hr=
ef=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/Rr6wqA24qoG?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0b=
e5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,=
102)">coordinates directly</a>=C2=A0with the occupation forces, pitches his=
 =E2=80=9C<a href=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/yItFm3AbpR4?e=3D672f0b89c4&=
amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"col=
or:rgb(102,102,102)">The New Gaza</a>=E2=80=9D project as a postwar alterna=
tive to Hamas, and coordinates with=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-manage.=
com/dAVJgJAr3iz?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129"=
 target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">al-Dahini&#39;s Rafah m=
ilitia</a>.</p><p>Third, the Popular Defence Forces, formed in summer 2025 =
by Rami Hillis, a former Presidential Security Force employee. His=C2=A0<a =
href=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/MaeP2kaoWI1?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd=
0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,10=
2,102)">500-strong militia</a>=C2=A0of Ramallah-paid PA employees operates =
in Shuja=E2=80=99iyyah and Tal al-Hawa under=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.lis=
t-manage.com/15PCBHS8m16?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e=
13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">Israeli operat=
ional cover</a>. Coordinating via the District Coordination Office and=C2=
=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/7Ya00YExsG2?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2i=
d=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(=
102,102,102)">collaborating with Shin Bet</a>, they conduct surveillance, t=
arget front-line resistance fighters, and abduct pro-resistance citizens to=
 hand over to Israel.</p><p>Fourth, =E2=80=9CThe Popular Army,=E2=80=9D lau=
nched in northern Gaza in September 2025 by=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list=
-manage.com/13ayxWnVZgS?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e1=
3858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">Ashraf al-Mansi=
</a>. Comprising several dozen armed individuals=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us=
.list-manage.com/1Bdqd3iwCHX?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c56=
9d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">with crimi=
nal records</a>, they claim control over Jabalia and Beit Hanoun. Al-Mansi =
faces active charges of running an espionage network for Israel and his mil=
itia has engaged in multiple post-ceasefire=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list=
-manage.com/4pcXGtmV7CC?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e1=
3858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">clashes with Ha=
mas</a>.</p><p>The operational tactics of these modern collaborator gangs r=
ely heavily on exploitation and psychological leverage. A primary mechanism=
 is the =E2=80=9Cluxury=E2=80=9D marketing strategy, where gang leaders lik=
e Husam al-Astal explicitly flaunt prohibited foreign consumer goods such a=
s chocolates, coffee and Seven-Up in propaganda videos to entice starving, =
desperate youth into joining their ranks, a tactic which earned al-Astal th=
e popular public nickname =E2=80=9CAbu Seven=E2=80=9D or =E2=80=9CAbu Sab&#=
39;in=E2=80=9D. Alongside this branding, these groups engage in massive aid=
 theft to build localised power, drawing immense hatred from the general po=
pulace. Furthermore, security factions note that these gangs use civilians =
as human shields, distributing sweets and cigarettes east of the =E2=80=9Cy=
ellow line=E2=80=9D to scout Hamas positions, knowing the resistance will h=
esitate to shoot back into civilian crowds.</p><p>Official admissions confi=
rm that Israel treats these criminal groups as a security asset. In May 202=
5, Netanyahu=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/U_kCudyqJmM?e=3D672=
f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" styl=
e=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">formally instructed</a>=C2=A0the Civil Adminis=
tration to=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/1AV_zLOK1Gf?e=3D672f0=
b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=
=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">distribute weapons</a>=C2=A0to these gangs in s=
outhern Gaza, characterising the arming of the militias as=C2=A0<a href=3D"=
https://us.list-manage.com/128nyNRmwNv?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd61=
79e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">=
a good step</a>=C2=A0that saved soldiers=E2=80=99 lives.=C2=A0<a href=3D"ht=
tps://us.list-manage.com/rjVB3Ezpfyt?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179=
e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)"><e=
m>Haaretz</em></a>=C2=A0documented that the military provides them with sal=
aries and logistical support and integrates them into command-and-control s=
oftware as if they were Israeli forces. This=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.lis=
t-manage.com/Pg8HyhajLYX?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e=
13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">coordination e=
xpanded</a>=C2=A0under a US-backed plan managed out of a Civil-Military Coo=
rdination Center in Kiryat Gat. Despite heavy institutional backing, numero=
us Israeli experts have criticised Israel=E2=80=99s reliance on client mili=
tias, calling it a doomed experiment that ignores bitter historical precede=
nts such as the South Lebanon Army. Analysts like=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://u=
s.list-manage.com/LevKNZszJlK?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c5=
69d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">Michael M=
ilshtein</a>,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/ySbSqOlPsl1?e=3D67=
2f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" sty=
le=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">Eitan Dangot</a>, and various military offici=
als argue these criminal gangs can never achieve ground superiority or subs=
titute for a strategic, regionally coordinated governance framework. Haaret=
z commentator=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/1B8rfVX1i0e?e=3D67=
2f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" sty=
le=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">Jack Khoury</a>=C2=A0underscored that leaders=
hip cannot be engineered from above, noting that Abu Shabab=E2=80=99s death=
 exposed=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/iVgFw6GyAXY?e=3D672f0b8=
9c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D=
"color:rgb(102,102,102)">the vast gap</a>=C2=A0between Zionist narratives a=
nd Gaza=E2=80=99s actual reality. Channel 14=E2=80=99s=C2=A0<a href=3D"http=
s://us.list-manage.com/O9DtnFop_rg?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3=
a73c569d8e13858129" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">Omri=
 Haim</a>=C2=A0similarly stated that relying on local mercenaries is destin=
ed to fail against a deeply embedded resistance project.</p><p>Nevertheless=
, Israel continues this strategy with=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-manag=
e.com/oghBgD1Jds3?e=3D672f0b89c4&amp;c2id=3Dcd0be5fd6179e3a73c569d8e1385812=
9" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">Kan reporting</a>=C2=
=A0that the military is actively preparing further protection and withdrawa=
l paths for these groups. The UN Security Council=E2=80=99s adoption of Res=
olution 2803 on November 18, 2025, introduced a new dynamic, though it rema=
ins unclear if its mandate to dismantle armed groups will be applied to the=
se collaborator militias, given that US and Israeli officials continue to e=
ngage them to secure=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://us.list-manage.com/DIONZHgpYVT=
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nk" style=3D"color:rgb(102,102,102)">localised reconstruction efforts</a>. =
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ng alternative only serves to highlight the resistance=E2=80=99s popularity=
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*https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/06/this-is-oligarchy-nearly-100-billi=
onaires-are-funding-susan-collins-reelection-bid.html
<https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/06/this-is-oligarchy-nearly-100-billi=
onaires-are-funding-susan-collins-reelection-bid.html>*

*=E2=80=98This Is Oligarchy=E2=80=99: Nearly 100 Billionaires Are Funding S=
usan Collins=E2=80=99
Reelection Bid . . . *The freakout over Graham Platner is telling.
*Yves Smith <https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/author/yves-smith>June 12,
2026*

*Yves here. Needless to say, there are not even remotely 100 billionaires
who vote in Maine.*

*The freakout over Graham Platner is telling.*

*By Jake Johnson, a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.
Originally published at Common Dreams
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/susan-collins-billionaire-donors>*

*A new analysis of campaign finance
<https://www.commondreams.org/tag/campaign-finance> data shows that nearly
100 billionaires and their spouses have contributed to Republican
Sen. Susan Collins <https://www.commondreams.org/tag/susan-collins>=E2=80=
=99
reelection bid so far, funneling nearly $10 million to the incumbent=E2=80=
=99s
campaign committee and PACs supporting her effort to fend off progressive
challenger Graham Platner.*

*The Maine <https://www.commondreams.org/tag/maine> Monitor on
Thursday published a list
<https://themainemonitor.org/billionaires-backing-collins-list/?utm_source=
=3Dflipboard&utm_content=3Dtopic/u.s.politics>
of
billionaires who have donated to Collins and Platner, who has called his
Republican opponent a =E2=80=9Ccorrupt=E2=80=9D protector and beneficiary o=
f an oligarchic
political system. The outlet noted
<https://themainemonitor.org/billionaires-donating-reelect-collins/>that
Collins=E2=80=99 billionaire donation total =E2=80=9Cstands in stark contra=
st with the
fundraising of her opponent=E2=80=A6 whose campaign has mostly attracted sm=
aller
amounts of funds but from many more people.=E2=80=9D*

*The $9.8 million that Collins=E2=80=99 fundraising network received from
billionaires and their spouses between January 2025 and late May 2026
represents =E2=80=9Ca third of what groups supporting Collins raised from a=
ll
donors,=E2=80=9D according to The Maine Monitor=E2=80=99s analysis.*

*Platner=E2=80=99s reelection bid has received donations
<https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2026/06/despite-anti-billionaire-theme-pl=
atners-small-dollar-campaign-draws-small-checks-from-billionaire-donors/>
from
billionaires George Soros, Pat Stryker, Jon Stryker, Christy Walton, and
Jennifer Pritzker. Those contributions represent =E2=80=9Ca fraction of 1% =
of his
total haul,=E2=80=9D The Maine Monitor noted. The Democratic candidate=E2=
=80=99s campaign
said Thursday that =E2=80=9Cgrassroots donors chipping in $200 or less have=
 given
Graham Platner $9.6 million.=E2=80=9D*

*=E2=80=9CWhile Susan Collins=E2=80=99 campaign is backed by billionaire do=
nors, our
campaign is built on a movement funded by the people, with an average
donation of $26,=E2=80=9D Ben Chin, Platner=E2=80=99s campaign manager, sai=
d in a
statement. =E2=80=9CThe establishment can bring it on=E2=80=94they cannot d=
efeat the will
of working Mainers, 15,000+ volunteers, and a campaign powered by
small-dollar donors from nearly every zip code in Maine.=E2=80=9D*

*Collins=E2=80=99 largest billionaire donor to date came from Ken Griffin, =
a hedge
fund manager who pumped $2.5 million into Pine Tree Results, a Super PAC
supporting the five-term Republican incumbent. Collins=E2=80=99 network has=
 also
received at least $1 million from Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, New
Balance chair James Davis, and hedge fund manager Paul Singer.*

*The Maine Monitor observed that =E2=80=9Cthe majority of the billionaire d=
onations
to Collins this cycle are from billionaires who made their money in
alternative investments, including hedge funds and private equity.=E2=80=9D=
*

*In 2017, Collins voted for legislation that delivered massive tax breaks
to large corporations and American billionaires, whose collective
wealth surged to $8.1 trillion
<https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-billionaire-wealth> last year.
ProPublica reported
<https://www.propublica.org/article/susan-collins-backed-down-from-a-fight-=
with-private-equity-now-theyre-underwriting-her-reelection>
that
private equity became Collins=E2=80=99 =E2=80=9Cmost reliable source of don=
ations=E2=80=9D after
she withdrew an amendment to the 2017 legislation that would have targeted
one of the industry=E2=80=99s beloved tax breaks.*

*On top of billionaire funding, Collins=E2=80=99 campaign has benefited fro=
m
massive ad spending by dark-money groups such as One Nation
<https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigatio=
ns/southern-company-gave-mcconnell-dark-money-group-1-million-last-year/>.
The group, which is aligned with Sen. Mitch McConnell
<https://www.commondreams.org/tag/mitch-mcconnell>, has spent more than $19
million
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/us/politics/maine-primary-election-mone=
y-spending.html>
on
advertising for Collins so far.*

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=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr"><b style=3D"font-family:georgia,serif"><font =
color=3D"#000000"><a href=3D"https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/06/this-i=
s-oligarchy-nearly-100-billionaires-are-funding-susan-collins-reelection-bi=
d.html" target=3D"_blank">https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/06/this-is-o=
ligarchy-nearly-100-billionaires-are-funding-susan-collins-reelection-bid.h=
tml</a></font></b></div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div style=3D"fon=
t-family:georgia,serif"><b><font color=3D"#000000"><br></font></b></div><di=
v><h1 style=3D"line-height:1.2141em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;max-=
width:100%"><font size=3D"2" color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><i>=
=E2=80=98This Is Oligarchy=E2=80=99: Nearly 100 Billionaires Are Funding Su=
san Collins=E2=80=99 Reelection Bid . . .=C2=A0</i></font><span style=3D"fo=
nt-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;"><font color=3D"#000000" size=3D"2">T=
he freakout over Graham Platner is telling.</font></span></h1><div style=3D=
"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;margin-bottom:1.45em;max-width:100=
%"><b><font color=3D"#000000"><a href=3D"https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/au=
thor/yves-smith" title=3D"Yves Smith" rel=3D"author" style=3D"text-decorati=
on:none;margin:0px;max-width:100%;display:inline" target=3D"_blank">Yves Sm=
ith</a><span style=3D"margin:0.07em 0.45em 0px;padding:0px;max-width:100%;d=
isplay:inline"></span>June 12, 2026</font></b></div><p style=3D"font-family=
:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000">Yve=
s here. Needless to say, there are not even remotely 100 billionaires who v=
ote in Maine.</font></b></p><p style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&q=
uot;;max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000">The freakout over Graham Pl=
atner is telling.</font></b></p><p style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Rom=
an&quot;;max-width:100%"><em style=3D"max-width:100%"><strong style=3D"max-=
width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000">By Jake Johnson, a senior editor and st=
aff writer for Common Dreams. Originally published at<span>=C2=A0</span><a =
href=3D"https://www.commondreams.org/news/susan-collins-billionaire-donors"=
 rel=3D"nofollow" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_=
blank">Common Dreams</a></font></strong></em></p><p style=3D"font-family:&q=
uot;Times New Roman&quot;;max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000">A new =
analysis of<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.commondreams.org/tag/c=
ampaign-finance" rel=3D"nofollow" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:1=
00%" target=3D"_blank">campaign finance</a><span>=C2=A0</span>data shows th=
at nearly 100 billionaires and their spouses have contributed to Republican=
 Sen.<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.commondreams.org/tag/susan-c=
ollins" rel=3D"nofollow" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" targ=
et=3D"_blank">Susan Collins</a>=E2=80=99 reelection bid so far, funneling n=
early $10 million to the incumbent=E2=80=99s campaign committee and PACs su=
pporting her effort to fend off progressive challenger Graham Platner.</fon=
t></b></p><p style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;max-width:100=
%"><b><font color=3D"#000000">The<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.=
commondreams.org/tag/maine" rel=3D"nofollow" style=3D"text-decoration:none;=
max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">Maine</a><span>=C2=A0</span>Monitor on Th=
ursday<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://themainemonitor.org/billionaire=
s-backing-collins-list/?utm_source=3Dflipboard&amp;utm_content=3Dtopic/u.s.=
politics" rel=3D"noopener nofollow" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width=
:100%" target=3D"_blank">published a list</a><span>=C2=A0</span>of billiona=
ires who have donated to Collins and Platner, who has called his Republican=
 opponent a =E2=80=9Ccorrupt=E2=80=9D protector and beneficiary of an oliga=
rchic political system. The outlet<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://the=
mainemonitor.org/billionaires-donating-reelect-collins/" rel=3D"noopener no=
follow" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">not=
ed</a>that Collins=E2=80=99 billionaire donation total =E2=80=9Cstands in s=
tark contrast with the fundraising of her opponent=E2=80=A6 whose campaign =
has mostly attracted smaller amounts of funds but from many more people.=E2=
=80=9D</font></b></p><p style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;ma=
x-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000">The $9.8 million that Collins=E2=
=80=99 fundraising network received from billionaires and their spouses bet=
ween January 2025 and late May 2026 represents =E2=80=9Ca third of what gro=
ups supporting Collins raised from all donors,=E2=80=9D according to The Ma=
ine Monitor=E2=80=99s analysis.</font></b></p><p style=3D"font-family:&quot=
;Times New Roman&quot;;max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000">Platner=
=E2=80=99s reelection bid has<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.open=
secrets.org/news/2026/06/despite-anti-billionaire-theme-platners-small-doll=
ar-campaign-draws-small-checks-from-billionaire-donors/" rel=3D"noopener no=
follow" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">rec=
eived donations</a><span>=C2=A0</span>from billionaires George Soros, Pat S=
tryker, Jon Stryker, Christy Walton, and Jennifer Pritzker. Those contribut=
ions represent =E2=80=9Ca fraction of 1% of his total haul,=E2=80=9D The Ma=
ine Monitor noted. The Democratic candidate=E2=80=99s campaign said Thursda=
y that =E2=80=9Cgrassroots donors chipping in $200 or less have given Graha=
m Platner $9.6 million.=E2=80=9D</font></b></p><p style=3D"font-family:&quo=
t;Times New Roman&quot;;max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000">=E2=80=
=9CWhile Susan Collins=E2=80=99 campaign is backed by billionaire donors, o=
ur campaign is built on a movement funded by the people, with an average do=
nation of $26,=E2=80=9D Ben Chin, Platner=E2=80=99s campaign manager, said =
in a statement. =E2=80=9CThe establishment can bring it on=E2=80=94they can=
not defeat the will of working Mainers, 15,000+ volunteers, and a campaign =
powered by small-dollar donors from nearly every zip code in Maine.=E2=80=
=9D</font></b></p><p style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;max-w=
idth:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000">Collins=E2=80=99 largest billionaire =
donor to date came from Ken Griffin, a hedge fund manager who pumped $2.5 m=
illion into Pine Tree Results, a Super PAC supporting the five-term Republi=
can incumbent. Collins=E2=80=99 network has also received at least $1 milli=
on from Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman, New Balance chair James Davis, a=
nd hedge fund manager Paul Singer.</font></b></p><p style=3D"font-family:&q=
uot;Times New Roman&quot;;max-width:100%"></p><p style=3D"font-family:&quot=
;Times New Roman&quot;;max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000">The Maine=
 Monitor observed that =E2=80=9Cthe majority of the billionaire donations t=
o Collins this cycle are from billionaires who made their money in alternat=
ive investments, including hedge funds and private equity.=E2=80=9D</font><=
/b></p><p style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;max-width:100%">=
<b><font color=3D"#000000">In 2017, Collins voted for legislation that deli=
vered massive tax breaks to large corporations and American billionaires, w=
hose collective wealth<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.commondream=
s.org/news/us-billionaire-wealth" rel=3D"noopener nofollow" style=3D"text-d=
ecoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">surged to $8.1 trillion</a=
><span>=C2=A0</span>last year. ProPublica<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"http=
s://www.propublica.org/article/susan-collins-backed-down-from-a-fight-with-=
private-equity-now-theyre-underwriting-her-reelection" rel=3D"noopener nofo=
llow" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">repor=
ted</a><span>=C2=A0</span>that private equity became Collins=E2=80=99 =E2=
=80=9Cmost reliable source of donations=E2=80=9D after she withdrew an amen=
dment to the 2017 legislation that would have targeted one of the industry=
=E2=80=99s beloved tax breaks.</font></b></p><p style=3D"font-family:&quot;=
Times New Roman&quot;;max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000">On top of =
billionaire funding, Collins=E2=80=99 campaign has benefited from massive a=
d spending by dark-money groups such as<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https:=
//www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/sout=
hern-company-gave-mcconnell-dark-money-group-1-million-last-year/" rel=3D"n=
oopener nofollow" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_=
blank">One Nation</a>. The group, which is aligned with Sen.<span>=C2=A0</s=
pan><a href=3D"https://www.commondreams.org/tag/mitch-mcconnell" rel=3D"nof=
ollow" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">Mitc=
h McConnell</a>, has<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/2=
026/06/09/us/politics/maine-primary-election-money-spending.html" rel=3D"no=
opener nofollow" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_b=
lank">spent more than $19 million</a><span>=C2=A0</span>on advertising for =
Collins so far.</font></b></p></div><div style=3D"font-family:georgia,serif=
"><b><font color=3D"#000000"><br></font></b></div><div style=3D"font-family=
:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div>
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The US and Iran stepped back from the brink of returning to all-out war on
June 11. Hours after saying the US military would carry out strikes against
Iran for a third consecutive night, Donald Trump postponed the attack. The
Iranian military had said the US would =E2=80=9Creceive a more severe respo=
nse than
before=E2=80=9D if it followed through on its threats.

Trump claimed to have cancelled the strikes because of progress in
negotiations between the two countries. In a statement
<https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116732652997120164> posted
on social media, Trump said: =E2=80=9CDiscussions and final points have bee=
n, in
both concept and great detail, approved by all parties involved.=E2=80=9D H=
e later
added that <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c78y6w78828o> the deal is
set to be signed over the =E2=80=9Cnext few days=E2=80=9D.

Whether this will happen remains to be seen. Trump has declared that a deal
between the US and Iran is imminent on numerous occasions only for no
agreement to be signed. Iran=E2=80=99s foreign ministry has also called
<https://www.dw.com/en/trump-claims-iran-deal-close-tehran-says-nothing-fin=
alized/live-77498305>
claims
that an agreement has been reached speculative, insisting that =E2=80=9Cnot=
hing has
been finalised=E2=80=9D.

And, even if it is signed, the agreement Trump is talking about is far from
a final peace deal. It appears to be a memorandum of understanding,
establishing a framework for the two countries to talk about unresolved
issues. These include Iran=E2=80=99s ballistic missile capabilities and nuc=
lear
programme.
[image: Iranians walk past a poster featuring the late Iranian supreme
leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, alongside his son and successor, Ayatollah
Mojtaba Khamenei.]
Iranians walk past a poster featuring the late Iranian supreme leader,
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (left), alongside his son and successor, Ayatollah
Mojtaba Khamenei (right) in Tehran on June 11. Abedin Taherkenareh / EPA

Rather than the supposed diplomatic progress, perhaps more significant in
persuading Trump to pull back from renewing an all-out war with Iran was
that a return to conflict simply would not have been in the interests of
the US.

War, as Prussian military strategist Carl von Clausewitz observed in his
1832 book, On War
<https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691018546/on-war?srsltid=
=3DAfmBOopczMhM-owZ5KRmmoaoJiOkRlLJFKCMPMmYHlCALQgVdFfeNPFg>,
is the continuation of politics by other means. Its enormous costs can be
justified only when they are tied to a coherent strategy and when there is
a clearly defined political objective that there is a reasonable prospect
of achieving.

Measured against this standard, there was no argument for returning to war
with Iran. The difficulty begins with the absence of any discernible plan
in Washington. Trump has articulated no strategy and no definition of
victory beyond a vague aspiration to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear
weapons.

He was drawn into prosecuting a war based on intelligence about the
fragility of the regime in Tehran that proved flawed and on scenarios that
were overconfident and have not come to pass. These scenarios suggested the
decapitation of Iran=E2=80=99s leadership would lead to sudden regime colla=
pse and
a popular uprising that would see the country transition to democracy.

There is also very little a return to all-out war could have accomplished.
The reason for this is that the Iranian regime is not a conventional state
that can be brought down by overwhelming firepower. The regime, which is
now dominated by the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, can best
be described as a militia with a state
<https://dawnmena.org/america-is-bogged-down-against-a-militia-with-a-state=
/>
.

It is operating through a dispersed network of forces across air, land and
sea, which were designed as an asymmetric instrument of power capable of
absorbing, scattering and outlasting precisely the kind of concentrated
military pressure the US military was built to deliver.

Weeks of intensive bombing earlier in the war did not shatter the regime=E2=
=80=99s
centre of gravity. Rather, it consolidated the regime and has left it more
cohesive and determined than it was before. In contrast to the more
cautious regime of Iran=E2=80=99s late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamen=
ei,
which tended to wait and to respond, the new regime has become assertive.

It has been quick to retaliate against US and Israel attacks with severity
and to set the pace of escalation. On June 8, for example, Iran
launched barrages
of missiles
<https://theconversation.com/irans-attacks-on-israel-were-an-attempt-to-sha=
pe-the-region-on-its-own-terms-and-it-might-just-do-so-284742>
towards
Israel in protest at the Israeli military=E2=80=99s escalating campaign in =
Lebanon.
[image: A man drives a tractor near the remains of an Iranian missile that
landed in a field in Syria.]
A man drives a tractor near the remains of an Iranian missile that landed
in a field near the Syrian town of Najha on June 8. Mohammed Al Rifai
/ EPACosts
of war

Iran also retains the capacity to impose intolerable costs on everyone
while retaining a high threshold of pain itself. If an all-out war
returned, there was a very real risk that Iran would have moved to close
the Bab al-Mandab Strait between Yemen and the Horn of Africa by mobilising
its ally, the Houthis.

This threat is already
<https://www.euronews.com/2026/06/08/houthis-join-iran-war-fight-threatenin=
g-red-sea-shipping-amid-hormuz-closure>
on
the table. The Houthis paused their attacks on shipping in the region after
a ceasefire was signed in Gaza in October 2025, but have warned these will
resume if the Iran war escalates. The Bab al-Mandab Strait serves as
the principal
bypass route
<https://theconversation.com/what-alternatives-do-gulf-states-have-to-the-s=
trait-of-hormuz-281805>
for
Saudi oil and for much of Gulf maritime trade, both of which are currently
unable to transit the closed Strait of Hormuz.

Iran is also likely to have resumed direct attacks on the Gulf states with
greater scope and intensity than before, which could have converted an
already severe global energy crisis into something far worse. Perhaps the
most consequential impact of returning to all-out war, therefore, was the
prospect that it would have cost the US its valuable Gulf partners.

Every Iranian strike that American installations in the region attract
reinforces
a lesson <https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/new-order-gulf> the Gulf
monarchies are increasingly inclined to draw, which is that the presence of
American bases on their soil makes them targets rather than affording them
protection.

Faced with a closed Strait of Hormuz, the global economy in decline
<https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/5740355b-6f=
22-4c1f-a21f-015d5ff2192f/content>
and
a looming defeat for his Republican party in November=E2=80=99s US midterm =
elections
<https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/who-win-midterm-elections-2=
026-polls-predictions-odds-c8d9qnbk5>,
Trump is clinging to the hope that he can pressure Iran into accepting a
deal. The chances of this strategy proving a success are slim.

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11. Hours after saying the US military would carry out strikes against Iran=
 for a third consecutive night, Donald Trump postponed the attack. The Iran=
ian military had said the US would =E2=80=9Creceive a more severe response =
than before=E2=80=9D if it followed through on its threats.</p><p style=3D"=
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ause of progress in negotiations between the two countries. In a=C2=A0<a hr=
ef=3D"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116732652997120164" st=
yle=3D"color:rgb(75,75,78);outline:none;white-space:pre-wrap">statement</a>=
=C2=A0posted on social media, Trump said: =E2=80=9CDiscussions and final po=
ints have been, in both concept and great detail, approved by all parties i=
nvolved.=E2=80=9D He=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7=
8y6w78828o" style=3D"color:rgb(75,75,78);outline:none;white-space:pre-wrap"=
>later added that</a>=C2=A0the deal is set to be signed over the =E2=80=9Cn=
ext few days=E2=80=9D.</p><p style=3D"background:transparent;border:0px;mar=
gin:0px 0px 18px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Whether t=
his will happen remains to be seen. Trump has declared that a deal between =
the US and Iran is imminent on numerous occasions only for no agreement to =
be signed. Iran=E2=80=99s foreign ministry=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.dw.c=
om/en/trump-claims-iran-deal-close-tehran-says-nothing-finalized/live-77498=
305" style=3D"color:rgb(75,75,78);outline:none;white-space:pre-wrap">has al=
so called</a>=C2=A0claims that an agreement has been reached speculative, i=
nsisting that =E2=80=9Cnothing has been finalised=E2=80=9D.</p><p style=3D"=
background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 18px;outline:0px;padding:0=
px;vertical-align:baseline">And, even if it is signed, the agreement Trump =
is talking about is far from a final peace deal. It appears to be a memoran=
dum of understanding, establishing a framework for the two countries to tal=
k about unresolved issues. These include Iran=E2=80=99s ballistic missile c=
apabilities and nuclear programme.</p><div class=3D"gmail-placeholder-conta=
iner" style=3D"background:rgb(51,70,94);border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;p=
adding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><img alt=3D"Iranians walk past a poster=
 featuring the late Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, alongsi=
de his son and successor, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei." src=3D"https://image=
s.theconversation.com/files/741478/original/file-20260612-71-iabrz3.jpg?ixl=
ib=3Drb-4.1.0&amp;q=3D45&amp;auto=3Dformat&amp;w=3D754&amp;fit=3Dclip" clas=
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tyle=3D"background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0p=
x;vertical-align:baseline">Iranians walk past a poster featuring the late I=
ranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (left), alongside his son and=
 successor, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei (right) in Tehran on June 11.</span>=
=C2=A0<span class=3D"gmail-attribution" style=3D"background:transparent;bor=
der:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rg=
b(33,33,33)"><span class=3D"gmail-source" style=3D"background:transparent;b=
order:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Abedi=
n Taherkenareh / EPA</span></span><p style=3D"background:transparent;border=
:0px;margin:0px 0px 18px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">R=
ather than the supposed diplomatic progress, perhaps more significant in pe=
rsuading Trump to pull back from renewing an all-out war with Iran was that=
 a return to conflict simply would not have been in the interests of the US=
.</p><p style=3D"background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 18px;outl=
ine:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">War, as Prussian military stra=
tegist Carl von Clausewitz observed in his 1832 book,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https=
://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691018546/on-war?srsltid=3DAfmBO=
opczMhM-owZ5KRmmoaoJiOkRlLJFKCMPMmYHlCALQgVdFfeNPFg" style=3D"color:rgb(75,=
75,78);outline:none;white-space:pre-wrap">On War</a>, is the continuation o=
f politics by other means. Its enormous costs can be justified only when th=
ey are tied to a coherent strategy and when there is a clearly defined poli=
tical objective that there is a reasonable prospect of achieving.</p><p sty=
le=3D"background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 18px;outline:0px;pad=
ding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Measured against this standard, there was=
 no argument for returning to war with Iran. The difficulty begins with the=
 absence of any discernible plan in Washington. Trump has articulated no st=
rategy and no definition of victory beyond a vague aspiration to prevent Ir=
an from obtaining nuclear weapons.</p><p style=3D"background:transparent;bo=
rder:0px;margin:0px 0px 18px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baselin=
e">He was drawn into prosecuting a war based on intelligence about the frag=
ility of the regime in Tehran that proved flawed and on scenarios that were=
 overconfident and have not come to pass. These scenarios suggested the dec=
apitation of Iran=E2=80=99s leadership would lead to sudden regime collapse=
 and a popular uprising that would see the country transition to democracy.=
</p><p style=3D"background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 18px;outli=
ne:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">There is also very little a ret=
urn to all-out war could have accomplished. The reason for this is that the=
 Iranian regime is not a conventional state that can be brought down by ove=
rwhelming firepower. The regime, which is now dominated by the powerful Isl=
amic Revolutionary Guard Corps, can best be described as a=C2=A0<a href=3D"=
https://dawnmena.org/america-is-bogged-down-against-a-militia-with-a-state/=
" style=3D"color:rgb(75,75,78);outline:none;white-space:pre-wrap">militia w=
ith a state</a>.</p><p style=3D"background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0p=
x 0px 18px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">It is operating=
 through a dispersed network of forces across air, land and sea, which were=
 designed as an asymmetric instrument of power capable of absorbing, scatte=
ring and outlasting precisely the kind of concentrated military pressure th=
e US military was built to deliver.</p><p style=3D"background:transparent;b=
order:0px;margin:0px 0px 18px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseli=
ne">Weeks of intensive bombing earlier in the war did not shatter the regim=
e=E2=80=99s centre of gravity. Rather, it consolidated the regime and has l=
eft it more cohesive and determined than it was before. In contrast to the =
more cautious regime of Iran=E2=80=99s late supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali K=
hamenei, which tended to wait and to respond, the new regime has become ass=
ertive.</p><p style=3D"background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 18p=
x;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">It has been quick to ret=
aliate against US and Israel attacks with severity and to set the pace of e=
scalation. On June 8, for example, Iran launched=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://th=
econversation.com/irans-attacks-on-israel-were-an-attempt-to-shape-the-regi=
on-on-its-own-terms-and-it-might-just-do-so-284742" style=3D"color:rgb(75,7=
5,78);outline:none;white-space:pre-wrap">barrages of missiles</a>=C2=A0towa=
rds Israel in protest at the Israeli military=E2=80=99s escalating campaign=
 in Lebanon.</p><div class=3D"gmail-placeholder-container" style=3D"backgro=
und:rgb(164,165,92);border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-=
align:baseline"><img alt=3D"A man drives a tractor near the remains of an I=
ranian missile that landed in a field in Syria." src=3D"https://images.thec=
onversation.com/files/741479/original/file-20260612-57-foa7ln.jpg?ixlib=3Dr=
b-4.1.0&amp;q=3D45&amp;auto=3Dformat&amp;w=3D754&amp;fit=3Dclip" class=3D"g=
mail-native-lazy" style=3D"background: none; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outl=
ine: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; inset: 0px; height: 503px=
; object-fit: cover; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 0.5s; width: 754px; di=
splay: block; max-width: 100%;"></div><span class=3D"gmail-caption" style=
=3D"background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;ve=
rtical-align:baseline">A man drives a tractor near the remains of an Irania=
n missile that landed in a field near the Syrian town of Najha on June 8.</=
span>=C2=A0<span class=3D"gmail-attribution" style=3D"background:transparen=
t;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;col=
or:rgb(33,33,33)"><span class=3D"gmail-source" style=3D"background:transpar=
ent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">=
Mohammed Al Rifai / EPA</span></span><h2 style=3D"background:transparent;bo=
rder:0px;font-size:23px;margin:0px 0px 12px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertica=
l-align:baseline">Costs of war</h2><p style=3D"background:transparent;borde=
r:0px;margin:0px 0px 18px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">=
Iran also retains the capacity to impose intolerable costs on everyone whil=
e retaining a high threshold of pain itself. If an all-out war returned, th=
ere was a very real risk that Iran would have moved to close the Bab al-Man=
dab Strait between Yemen and the Horn of Africa by mobilising its ally, the=
 Houthis.</p><p style=3D"background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 1=
8px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">This=C2=A0<a href=3D"h=
ttps://www.euronews.com/2026/06/08/houthis-join-iran-war-fight-threatening-=
red-sea-shipping-amid-hormuz-closure" style=3D"color:rgb(75,75,78);outline:=
none;white-space:pre-wrap">threat is already</a>=C2=A0on the table. The Hou=
this paused their attacks on shipping in the region after a ceasefire was s=
igned in Gaza in October 2025, but have warned these will resume if the Ira=
n war escalates. The Bab al-Mandab Strait serves as the=C2=A0<a href=3D"htt=
ps://theconversation.com/what-alternatives-do-gulf-states-have-to-the-strai=
t-of-hormuz-281805" style=3D"color:rgb(75,75,78);outline:none;white-space:p=
re-wrap">principal bypass route</a>=C2=A0for Saudi oil and for much of Gulf=
 maritime trade, both of which are currently unable to transit the closed S=
trait of Hormuz.</p><p style=3D"background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0p=
x 0px 18px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Iran is also li=
kely to have resumed direct attacks on the Gulf states with greater scope a=
nd intensity than before, which could have converted an already severe glob=
al energy crisis into something far worse. Perhaps the most consequential i=
mpact of returning to all-out war, therefore, was the prospect that it woul=
d have cost the US its valuable Gulf partners.</p><p style=3D"background:tr=
ansparent;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 18px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-a=
lign:baseline">Every Iranian strike that American installations in the regi=
on attract=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.foreignaffairs.com/iran/new-order-gu=
lf" style=3D"color:rgb(75,75,78);outline:none;white-space:pre-wrap">reinfor=
ces a lesson</a>=C2=A0the Gulf monarchies are increasingly inclined to draw=
, which is that the presence of American bases on their soil makes them tar=
gets rather than affording them protection.</p><p style=3D"background:trans=
parent;border:0px;margin:0px 0px 18px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-alig=
n:baseline">Faced with a closed Strait of Hormuz, the global economy in=C2=
=A0<a href=3D"https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/server/api/core/bitstream=
s/5740355b-6f22-4c1f-a21f-015d5ff2192f/content" style=3D"color:rgb(75,75,78=
);outline:none;white-space:pre-wrap">decline</a>=C2=A0and a looming defeat =
for his Republican party in November=E2=80=99s=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.=
thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/who-win-midterm-elections-2026-polls-pre=
dictions-odds-c8d9qnbk5" style=3D"color:rgb(75,75,78);outline:none;white-sp=
ace:pre-wrap">US midterm elections</a>, Trump is clinging to the hope that =
he can pressure Iran into accepting a deal. The chances of this strategy pr=
oving a success are slim.</p></div></div></div></div></div>

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Iran takes startling step believing Trump is 'legitimately mentally ill':
journalist
Alexander Willis <https://www.rawstory.com/u/alexanderwillis>
June 12, 2026
[image: Iran takes startling step believing Trump is 'legitimately mentally
ill': journalist]
U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as he speaks to the members of the
media, after attending Game 3 of the NBA Finals, at John F. Kennedy
International Airport in New York, U.S., June 8, 2026. REUTERS/Nathan Howar=
d
Amid the ongoing peace talks between Washington and Tehran, Iranian
negotiators have recently enlisted the help of =E2=80=9Csenior psychologist=
s=E2=80=9D to
help them navigate what they believe to be a pressing issue involving
President Donald Trump <https://www.rawstory.com/trump-news/>,
investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill claimed Friday, citing Iranian
sources.

=E2=80=9CA couple of weeks ago, the Iranian side added senior psychologists=
 to
their negotiating team to review the communications that they were going to
be sending to the mediators to give to Trump,=E2=80=9D Scahill said during =
an
appearance <https://youtu.be/Nnb6iOubt14?si=3DNShrE5LSfHwFtEov&t=3D466> on =
the
podcast =E2=80=9CBreaking Points.=E2=80=9D

=E2=80=9CThey did that because the Iranians believe that Trump is legitimat=
ely
mentally ill and is operating in an impaired mental state. And they didn't
say this as a joke, they didn't say this with any lightness.=E2=80=9D

Trump, who turns 80 on Sunday, has faced *renewed questions*
<https://www.rawstory.com/trump-health-2676961944/> about his physical and
mental health after reportedly *dozing off*
<https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-slee=
ping-cnn-white-house-health-b2983972.html>
during
cabinet meetings with growing frequency. Observers have also noted *bruisin=
g
on his hands*
<https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/white-house-says-large-bruis=
e-trumps-hand-shaking-hands-day-every-day-rcna193652>
, *swollen ankles*
<https://apnews.com/article/trump-swelling-legs-chronic-venous-insufficienc=
y-health-40beb3c818cfb914645db9d1f143fdd8>
and
a *rash on his neck*
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/02/trump-neck-rash>.

=E2=80=9CThe [Iranian sources] said 'we recognize that we are dealing with =
a
mentally incapacitated individual and we've had senior psychologists work
up a psychological profile of what they think is going on with Trump's
brain, and so we started to cater our messages by running them past senior
psychologists before delivering them to Trump,'=E2=80=9D Scahill continued.

=E2=80=9CAnd they said =E2=80=98we started to then see some progress=E2=80=
=99 =E2=80=93 they almost talked
about it in a clinical sense like they're dealing with a patient.=E2=80=9D

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Nearly 100 billionaires and their spouses have donated to reelect Susan
Collins
<https://themainemonitor.org/author/joshkeefe/>
By Josh Keefe <https://themainemonitor.org/author/joshkeefe/>
josh@themainemonitor.org
Published on: June 11, 2026
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Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins announced her reelection campaign in
February by posting a video that showed her opening a box of New Balance
running shoes.

=E2=80=9CThis is perfect for 2026,=E2=80=9D she said to the camera
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DS_MchyL7M3E> as she held up a sneaker.
=E2=80=9CBecause I=E2=80=99m running.=E2=80=9D

The video didn=E2=80=99t mention that New Balance=E2=80=99s owner and chair=
man, billionaire
Jim Davis, gave $1 million to the super PAC supporting Collins=E2=80=99 cam=
paign
seven months prior. The company is based in Boston and has manufacturing
facilities in Maine. It was one of four donations Davis made last year to
the network of committees raising money for Collins.

Davis, who is worth an estimated $6.1 billion, is one of at least 79
billionaires who donated to Collins=E2=80=99 network between January 2025 a=
nd May
20, 2026, according to a *Maine Monitor* analysis of Federal Election
Commission campaign finance data. If billionaires=E2=80=99 spouses are incl=
uded in
the tally, the number rises to 97.

Collectively, the group of nearly 100 billionaires and spouses has donated
<https://themainemonitor.org/billionaires-backing-collins-list/> $9.8
million to the Collins network since the start of 2025, representing a
third of what groups supporting Collins raised from all donors.

The total from billionaires stands in stark contrast with the fundraising
of her opponent, Democrat Graham Platner, whose campaign has mostly
attracted smaller amounts of funds but from many more people. Platner, who
won his party=E2=80=99s primary election Tuesday, has received at least $24=
,000
from five billionaires, a fraction of 1 percent of his total haul.

The breadth of billionaire funding for Collins shows how the race, which
could decide control of the U.S. Senate, has drawn national interest and
funding from some of the wealthiest people in the world, a group that has
made up a growing share of election spending in recent years. Billionaires
accounted for 19 percent of all federal election contributions in 2024, up
from just 0.3 percent in 2004, according to a *New York Times* analysis
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/us/billionaires-federal-election-campai=
gn-contributions.html>
from
earlier this year.

Billionaires and their spouses gave $529,000 to the Collins campaign
<https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00314575/?cycle=3D2026> directly;
$370,000 to the Collins Victory Committee
<https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00692897/>, a joint fundraising
committee that has disbursed funds to the other committees; $100,000 to Dir=
igo
PAC <https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00391797/?tab=3Dabout-committee>,
the leadership committee Collins uses to raise money for other candidates;
and $24,000 to Susan Collins for Maine
<https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00920389/>, a joint fundraising
committee. But the billionaires have mostly opted to send their donations,
nearly $9 million, to Pine Tree Results PAC
<http://google.com/url?q=3Dhttps://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00894709/&sa=
=3DD&source=3Deditors&ust=3D1781034729368711&usg=3DAOvVaw2vfswY4Ew_1xUco3Fo=
lQdR>,
a super PAC dedicated to electing Collins that, unlike the others, is not
subject to contribution limits.

Pine Tree Results PAC has financed attack ads against Platner since April
and has booked $24 million in ads leading up to the general election in
November, according to data from AdImpact.

The network of five groups supporting Collins is linked through a
series of joint
fundraising agreements
<https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/joint-fundraising-candi=
dates-political-committees/>,
which are legal arrangements that allow them to raise money together and
then disburse the funds according to a predetermined formula. For the first
time in Collins=E2=80=99 career, a super PAC =E2=80=94 Pine Tree Results =
=E2=80=94 is linked to her
fundraising apparatus through those agreements, an arrangement made
possible thanks to a 2024 advisory Federal Election Commission opinion. The
super PAC also shares a treasurer with the Collins Victory Committee and
Dirigo PAC.

Counting all her donations, including both from billionaires and others,
the Collins network has raised about $30 million since the beginning of
last year, with $12 million going to her campaign.

The Platner campaign, meanwhile, raised $16.3 million over that time. The
total does not include the $200,000 his campaign said it raised in the 24
hours
<https://www.pressherald.com/2026/06/05/you-have-my-back-graham-platner-sta=
ys-the-course-at-bar-harbor-rally/>
 after *The New York Times *published a story
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-girlfr=
iends-relationships.html>
last
week detailing what it described as Platner=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Cunsettling=
=E2=80=9D behavior with
three former girlfriends. The Platner campaign has no joint fundraising
agreements with any other committees, according to federal campaign finance
filings, and no super PAC dedicated to supporting his candidacy. (Platner
has said that super PACs =E2=80=9Cshould be outlawed
<https://x.com/grahamformaine/status/2061540794129867253?ref_src=3Dtwsrc%5E=
tfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2061540794129867253%7Ctwgr%5E9900d84de=
6f21aa3737a0fbe0ceb4550f434e2d0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fww=
w.commondreams.org%2Fnews%2Fplatner-outlaw-super-pacs>.=E2=80=9D)
Experts speculated, however, that big outside money will likely move toward
Platner now that he has clinched the Democratic nomination.

*The Monitor* counted billionaire donors by comparing the names on the Forb=
es
2026 World=E2=80=99s Billionaire List <https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/=
> to
Federal Election Commission donor information, which included reviewing
location and occupation information to eliminate the possibility of
erroneous matches based on similar names.
RELATED STORY:   See the 97 billionaires and their spouses backing Susan
Collins
<https://themainemonitor.org/billionaires-backing-collins-list/>

The Collins campaign did not respond to a request from *The Monitor* for an
interview with the senator and then declined to answer questions over email=
.

The amount billionaires gave in support of Collins is similar to the amount
that small-dollar donors =E2=80=94 those giving $200 or less =E2=80=94 cont=
ributed to the
Platner campaign. Billionaires gave $9.8 million in support of Collins,
while small-dollar donors gave $9.6 million to support Platner. The Collins
campaign raised about $980,000 from small-dollar donations.

=E2=80=9CWhile Susan Collins=E2=80=99 campaign is backed by billionaire don=
ors, our
campaign is built on a movement funded by the people, with an average
donation of $26,=E2=80=9D wrote Ben Chin, Platner=E2=80=99s campaign manage=
r, in an email.

The majority of the billionaire donations to Collins this cycle are from
billionaires who made their money in alternative investments, including
hedge funds and private equity. Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel
LLC, donated $2.5 million to the Pine Tree Results Super PAC, the largest
individual donation backing Collins since 2025. Stephen Schwarzman, the
founder and CEO of Blackstone dubbed =E2=80=9Cthe king of private equity,=
=E2=80=9D donated
$2 million. Schwarzman and the private equity industry were some of
Collins=E2=80=99 biggest boosters
<https://www.propublica.org/article/susan-collins-backed-down-from-a-fight-=
with-private-equity-now-theyre-underwriting-her-reelection>in
her last campaign in 2020.

Other billionaire Collins donors include Palantir co-founder Alex Karp;
Melinda French-Gates, ex-wife of Microsoft founder Bill Gates; New England
Patriots owner Robert Kraft; and Elizabeth Uihlein, husband of Richard
Uihlein, the main financial backer of the effort to place a referendum
question about trans athletes on Maine=E2=80=99s ballot this year.
<https://themainemonitor.org/out-of-state-signature-gatherers-trans-athlete=
-question/>

The billionaire donors supporting Collins have a net worth of $888 billion,
or nearly nine times Maine=E2=80=99s entire economic output in 2025
<https://apps.bea.gov/itable/?ReqID=3D70&step=3D1&_gl=3D1*5wq2ki*_ga*MTI0OT=
g1NjM5MS4xNzgxMTgzMjMz*_ga_J4698JNNFT*czE3ODExODMyMzIkbzEkZzEkdDE3ODExODMzM=
DAkajYwJGwwJGgw#eyJhcHBpZCI6NzAsInN0ZXBzIjpbMSwyOSwyNSwzMSwyNiwyNywzMF0sImR=
hdGEiOltbIlRhYmxlSWQiLCI1MzEiXSxbIk1ham9yX0FyZWEiLCIwIl0sWyJTdGF0ZSIsWyIwIl=
1dLFsiQXJlYSIsWyIyMzAwMCJdXSxbIlN0YXRpc3RpYyIsWyIzIl1dLFsiVW5pdF9vZl9tZWFzd=
XJlIiwiTGV2ZWxzIl0sWyJZZWFyIixbIjIwMjUiXV0sWyJZZWFyQmVnaW4iLCItMSJdLFsiWWVh=
cl9FbmQiLCItMSJdXX0=3D>.
None are Maine residents.
[image: Stephen Schwarzman]Stephen Schwarzman, chairman, CEO and co-founder
of the investment firm Blackstone, waits to be interviewed on the floor of
the New York Stock Exchange in October 2019. Photo by Richard Drew of the
Associated Press.

The Platner campaign received donations from at least five billionaires. It
received $1,500 from Jennifer Pritzker, a cousin to fellow billionaire and
Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker; a total of $12,000 from Jon and Pat Stryker,
heirs to the Stryker medical equipment empire; $3,500 from Christy Walton,
who married into the Walton family; and $7,000 from Democratic megadonor
and hedge fund founder George Soros. Together, they are worth an estimated
$42.3 billion.

The difference between billionaire contributions to the two candidates is
not surprising given Collins=E2=80=99 long Senate tenure, her position as c=
hair of
the powerful appropriations committee and Platner=E2=80=99s anti-billionair=
e
message, said Mark Brewer, a political science professor at the University
of Maine.

=E2=80=9CWe generally know that, in contemporary American politics, big mon=
ey from
wealthy donors generally tends to head in the direction of Republicans more
than Democrats,=E2=80=9D he said.

Meanwhile Democrats dating back to Howard Dean and Barack Obama have shown
the possibility of raising huge sums from small-dollar donations, he added.

=E2=80=9CIt=E2=80=99s two different ways to get there, but you both get the=
re,=E2=80=9D Brewer
said.

Just 3 percent of the total that Collins=E2=80=99 groups raised came from d=
onors
who gave $200 or less. In comparison, about 60 percent of donations to
Platner=E2=80=99s campaign came from those smaller donations.

It=E2=80=99s not possible to track the state where smaller, =E2=80=9Cunitem=
ized=E2=80=9D donations
came from. Committees are required, however, to provide the Federal
Election Commission information about donors who contribute more than $200
across all federal campaigns, including their state of residence. These
donations are called =E2=80=9Citemized donations.=E2=80=9D Both campaigns h=
ave relied
heavily on out-of-state money for their itemized donations.

Of those larger donations to the Collins network, about 3 percent came from
Maine.

Platner=E2=80=99s trackable donations were more likely to be from Maine: Ab=
out 22
percent were from the state, according to the Federal Election Commission.

That=E2=80=99s actually a large percentage of in-state donations for a Sena=
te
campaign, said Nicholas Jacobs, a professor of American government at Colby
College who has studied out-of-state donations in Senate campaigns
<https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1532673X231220639>. Maine
contributed more itemized funding to Platner than any other state through
May 20, according to the Federal Election Commission
<https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00916437/?cycle=3D2026&tab=3Draising>.

=E2=80=9CThat=E2=80=99s rare in general and exceptionally rare for a small =
state,=E2=80=9D Jacobs
said.

But now that Platner has won his primary, big money may start flowing his
way. Jacobs predicted that Platner will likely get the backing of a super
PAC at some point this summer.

=E2=80=9CThat=E2=80=99s just the way politics works,=E2=80=9D Jacobs said.

In the wake of *Citizens United*

This is the first time that Collins has been running for reelection since
the Federal Election Commission issued an advisory opinion
<https://www.fec.gov/updates/ao-2024-07/> that allowed super PACs to join
joint fundraising efforts, and Collins has taken advantage of the change.

Before 2024, campaigns =E2=80=94 which are subject to donor limits =E2=80=
=94 could not be
connected to super PACs, which are not subject to limits on donor
contributions. Super PACs were created in the wake of the *Citizens
United* Supreme
Court decision, which ruled that groups independent of campaigns have a
First Amendment right to raise and spend money supporting or attacking
candidates without limits, so long as they aren=E2=80=99t coordinating with
campaigns.

In 2024, the Federal Election Commission issued an advisory opinion
allowing South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham=E2=80=99s campaign t=
o enter
into a joint fundraising agreement with the super PAC supporting his
candidacy. Commission members voted, 5-1, to permit the arrangement because
Graham and his campaign told the commission they =E2=80=9Cwill not discuss =
the
nonpublic campaign plans, projects, activities, or needs of Senator Graham
or his campaign with [the] Super PAC,=E2=80=9D according to the advisory op=
inion.

Critics, including the Democratic Party=E2=80=99s House and Senate fundrais=
ing
arms, argued the arrangement was a clear violation of the ban on
coordination, a ban that they argued has been regularly circumvented since
the creation of the super PAC
<https://campaignlegal.org/sites/default/files/2023-11/Coordination%20Repor=
t%20%28Final%20POST%20Proofing%29.pdf>
in
2010.

In her dissent, former Democratic Federal Election Commission member Ellen
Weintraub wrote that =E2=80=9Cthe Commission has already created far too ma=
ny holes
in what should be a solid wall dividing candidates and their committees
from the super PACs that support them.=E2=80=9D In 2025, Trump fired Weintr=
aub
<https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/ellen-l-weintraub/>from
the commission shortly after she became chair and didn=E2=80=99t name a
replacement. Shortly after that, the agency lost a quorum of commissioners,
effectively sidelining it from its election watchdog duties since April 202=
5
<https://www.notus.org/campaigns/trump-fec-shutdown>.
[image: Transfers between Susan Collins' fundraising network.]A look at
some of the money moving through the fundraising network supporting Sen.
Susan Collins.

The 2024 advisory opinion opened the door for the Collins campaign to
connect with the Pine Tree Results Super PAC. The campaign and the PAC each
have a joint fundraising agreement with the Collins Victory Committee,
which has transferred funds to both organizations. Most of this money, a
total of $2.4 million, has gone to the Collins campaign.

The Pine Tree Results Super PAC and the Collins Victory Committee share a
treasurer, and all three groups have paid the same fundraising and event
planning consultant, the Morning Group, based in Washington, D.C., Federal
Election Commission records show.

Other outside groups are also spending large amounts on the race. For
example, the Senate Leadership Fund
<https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00571703/>, which is the main
fundraising vehicle for Senate Republicans, has raised $175 million since
the start of 2025 and has booked $29 million in ads for the race pitting
Collins against Platner.

Many of the donors to the Senate Leadership Fund also donated to parts of
the Collins fundraising network, including Schwarzman and hedge fund
manager Paul Singer. Other billionaires have donated large sums to the
Senate Leadership Fund as well, including casino magnate Miriam Adelson,
who donated $30 million, and Elon Musk, who gave $10 million.

On the other side of the aisle, Democratic super PAC WinSenate has booked
$25 million in ads in Maine=E2=80=99s Senate race. WinSenate is funded by t=
he Senate
Majority PAC <https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00484642/>, the main
fundraising vehicle for Senate Democrats. It has raised $115 million this
cycle, and includes funds from billionaires such as Cable TV magnate Amos
Hostetter Jr., who gave $2 million, and Netflix cofounder and chairman Reed
Hastings, who contributed $1 million.

Both the Republican Senate Leadership Fund and the Democratic Senate
Majority PAC are beneficiaries of large amounts of funds contributed by
501(c)4 nonprofits that aren=E2=80=99t required to reveal their donors. Tha=
t type
of funding has been dubbed =E2=80=9Cdark money=E2=80=9D due to the lack of =
transparency
about its sources.

This cycle, the Senate Leadership Fund has raised $46 million from
conservative dark money group One Nation, while the liberal dark money
group Majority Forward has donated $33 million to the Democratic Senate
Majority Fund. It=E2=80=99s unclear how much of that money came from billio=
naires.

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mail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px=
">Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins announced her reelection campaign in F=
ebruary by posting a video that showed her opening a box of New Balance run=
ning shoes.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-siz=
ing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">=E2=80=9CThis is perfect for 2026,=E2=
=80=9D=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DS_MchyL7M3E" targe=
t=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;col=
or:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">she said t=
o the camera</a>=C2=A0as she held up a sneaker. =E2=80=9CBecause I=E2=80=99=
m running.=E2=80=9D</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-s=
izing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">The video didn=E2=80=99t mention that=
 New Balance=E2=80=99s owner and chairman, billionaire Jim Davis, gave $1 m=
illion to the super PAC supporting Collins=E2=80=99 campaign seven months p=
rior. The company is based in Boston and has manufacturing facilities in Ma=
ine. It was one of four donations Davis made last year to the network of co=
mmittees raising money for Collins.</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph=
" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">Davis, who is worth a=
n estimated $6.1 billion, is one of at least 79 billionaires who donated to=
 Collins=E2=80=99 network between January 2025 and May 20, 2026, according =
to a=C2=A0<em style=3D"box-sizing:border-box">Maine Monitor</em>=C2=A0analy=
sis of Federal Election Commission campaign finance data. If billionaires=
=E2=80=99 spouses are included in the tally, the number rises to 97.</p><p =
class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0p=
x 0px 16px">Collectively, the group of nearly 100 billionaires and spouses=
=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://themainemonitor.org/billionaires-backing-collins-l=
ist/" type=3D"link" id=3D"gmail-https://themainemonitor.org/billionaires-ba=
cking-collins-list/" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" style=3D=
"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;background-col=
or:transparent">has donated</a>=C2=A0$9.8 million to the Collins network si=
nce the start of 2025, representing a third of what groups supporting Colli=
ns raised from all donors.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" s=
tyle=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">The total from billionai=
res stands in stark contrast with the fundraising of her opponent, Democrat=
 Graham Platner, whose campaign has mostly attracted smaller amounts of fun=
ds but from many more people. Platner, who won his party=E2=80=99s primary =
election Tuesday, has received at least $24,000 from five billionaires, a f=
raction of 1 percent of his total haul.</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-parag=
raph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">The breadth of bi=
llionaire funding for Collins shows how the race, which could decide contro=
l of the U.S. Senate, has drawn national interest and funding from some of =
the wealthiest people in the world, a group that has made up a growing shar=
e of election spending in recent years. Billionaires accounted for 19 perce=
nt of all federal election contributions in 2024, up from just 0.3 percent =
in 2004,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/us/billionaires=
-federal-election-campaign-contributions.html" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"nor=
eferrer noopener" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-deco=
ration:none;background-color:transparent">according to a=C2=A0<em class=3D"=
gmail-lazyloaded" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box">New York Times</em>=C2=A0=
analysis</a>=C2=A0from earlier this year.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-blo=
ck-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">Billionai=
res and their spouses gave $529,000 to the=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.fec.=
gov/data/committee/C00314575/?cycle=3D2026" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"norefe=
rrer noopener" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decorat=
ion:none;background-color:transparent">Collins campaign</a>=C2=A0directly; =
$370,000 to the=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C0069289=
7/" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" style=3D"box-sizing:borde=
r-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">C=
ollins Victory Committee</a>, a joint fundraising committee that has disbur=
sed funds to the other committees; $100,000 to=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.=
fec.gov/data/committee/C00391797/?tab=3Dabout-committee" target=3D"_blank" =
rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0)=
;text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">Dirigo PAC</a>, the lea=
dership committee Collins uses to raise money for other candidates; and $24=
,000 to=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00920389/" targ=
et=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;co=
lor:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">Susan Col=
lins for Maine</a>, a joint fundraising committee. But the billionaires hav=
e mostly opted to send their donations, nearly $9 million, to=C2=A0<a href=
=3D"http://google.com/url?q=3Dhttps://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00894709/=
&amp;sa=3DD&amp;source=3Deditors&amp;ust=3D1781034729368711&amp;usg=3DAOvVa=
w2vfswY4Ew_1xUco3FolQdR" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" styl=
e=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;background=
-color:transparent">Pine Tree Results PAC</a>, a super PAC dedicated to ele=
cting Collins that, unlike the others, is not subject to contribution limit=
s.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:borde=
r-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">Pine Tree Results PAC has financed attack ads ag=
ainst Platner since April and has booked $24 million in ads leading up to t=
he general election in November, according to data from AdImpact.</p><p cla=
ss=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0=
px 16px">The network of five groups supporting Collins is linked through a =
series of=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committee=
s/joint-fundraising-candidates-political-committees/" target=3D"_blank" rel=
=3D"noreferrer noopener" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);te=
xt-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">joint fundraising agreemen=
ts</a>, which are legal arrangements that allow them to raise money togethe=
r and then disburse the funds according to a predetermined formula. For the=
 first time in Collins=E2=80=99 career, a super PAC =E2=80=94 Pine Tree Res=
ults =E2=80=94 is linked to her fundraising apparatus through those agreeme=
nts, an arrangement made possible thanks to a 2024 advisory Federal Electio=
n Commission opinion. The super PAC also shares a treasurer with the Collin=
s Victory Committee and Dirigo PAC.</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph=
" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">Counting all her dona=
tions, including both from billionaires and others, the Collins network has=
 raised about $30 million since the beginning of last year, with $12 millio=
n going to her campaign.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" sty=
le=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">The Platner campaign, mean=
while, raised $16.3 million over that time. The total does not include the=
=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.pressherald.com/2026/06/05/you-have-my-back-gr=
aham-platner-stays-the-course-at-bar-harbor-rally/" target=3D"_blank" rel=
=3D"noreferrer noopener" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);te=
xt-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">$200,000 his campaign said=
 it raised in the 24 hours</a>=C2=A0after=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.nytim=
es.com/2026/06/04/us/politics/platner-maine-senate-girlfriends-relationship=
s.html" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" style=3D"box-sizing:b=
order-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;background-color:transparen=
t"><em style=3D"box-sizing:border-box">The New York Times=C2=A0</em>publish=
ed a story</a>=C2=A0last week detailing what it described as Platner=E2=80=
=99s =E2=80=9Cunsettling=E2=80=9D behavior with three former girlfriends. T=
he Platner campaign has no joint fundraising agreements with any other comm=
ittees, according to federal campaign finance filings, and no super PAC ded=
icated to supporting his candidacy. (Platner has said that=C2=A0<a href=3D"=
https://x.com/grahamformaine/status/2061540794129867253?ref_src=3Dtwsrc%5Et=
fw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2061540794129867253%7Ctwgr%5E9900d84de6=
f21aa3737a0fbe0ceb4550f434e2d0%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=3Dhttps%3A%2F%2=
Fwww.commondreams.org%2Fnews%2Fplatner-outlaw-super-pacs" target=3D"_blank"=
 rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0=
);text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">super PACs =E2=80=9Csh=
ould be outlawed</a>.=E2=80=9D) Experts speculated, however, that big outsi=
de money will likely move toward Platner now that he has clinched the Democ=
ratic nomination.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"b=
ox-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px"><em style=3D"box-sizing:border-bo=
x">The Monitor</em>=C2=A0counted billionaire donors by comparing the names =
on the=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/" target=3D"_bla=
nk" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,=
0,0);text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">Forbes 2026 World=
=E2=80=99s Billionaire List</a>=C2=A0to Federal Election Commission donor i=
nformation, which included reviewing location and occupation information to=
 eliminate the possibility of erroneous matches based on similar names.=C2=
=A0</p><div class=3D"gmail-wp-block-data443-irp-shortcode gmail-irp-shortco=
de" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px"><div style=3D"box-s=
izing:border-box;clear:both;margin-top:0em;margin-bottom:1em"><a href=3D"ht=
tps://themainemonitor.org/billionaires-backing-collins-list/" target=3D"_bl=
ank" rel=3D"dofollow" class=3D"gmail-uc67bca789fb431c05a968ea8b9e2ff44" sty=
le=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;backgroun=
d-color:rgb(211,84,0);padding:1em 0px;margin:0px;width:700px;display:block;=
font-weight:bold;opacity:1;border-width:0px 0px 0px 4px;border-style:none n=
one none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(211,=
84,0)"><div style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:1em;padding-right:1=
em"><span class=3D"gmail-ctaText" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(=
234,234,234)">RELATED STORY:=C2=A0</span>=C2=A0=C2=A0<span class=3D"gmail-p=
ostTitle" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(234,234,234);text-decora=
tion:underline">See the 97 billionaires and their spouses backing Susan Col=
lins</span></div></a></div></div><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" styl=
e=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">The Collins campaign did no=
t respond to a request from=C2=A0<em style=3D"box-sizing:border-box">The Mo=
nitor</em>=C2=A0for an interview with the senator and then declined to answ=
er questions over email.</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"=
box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">The amount billionaires gave in =
support of Collins is similar to the amount that small-dollar donors =E2=80=
=94 those giving $200 or less =E2=80=94 contributed to the Platner campaign=
. Billionaires gave $9.8 million in support of Collins, while small-dollar =
donors gave $9.6 million to support Platner. The Collins campaign raised ab=
out $980,000 from small-dollar donations.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-blo=
ck-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">=E2=80=9C=
While Susan Collins=E2=80=99 campaign is backed by billionaire donors, our =
campaign is built on a movement funded by the people, with an average donat=
ion of $26,=E2=80=9D wrote Ben Chin, Platner=E2=80=99s campaign manager, in=
 an email.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizi=
ng:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">The majority of the billionaire donation=
s to Collins this cycle are from billionaires who made their money in alter=
native investments, including hedge funds and private equity. Ken Griffin, =
founder and CEO of Citadel LLC, donated $2.5 million to the Pine Tree Resul=
ts Super PAC, the largest individual donation backing Collins since 2025. S=
tephen Schwarzman, the founder and CEO of Blackstone dubbed =E2=80=9Cthe ki=
ng of private equity,=E2=80=9D donated $2 million. Schwarzman and the priva=
te equity industry=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.propublica.org/article/susan=
-collins-backed-down-from-a-fight-with-private-equity-now-theyre-underwriti=
ng-her-reelection" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" style=3D"b=
ox-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;background-color=
:transparent">were some of Collins=E2=80=99 biggest boosters=C2=A0</a>in he=
r last campaign in 2020.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" sty=
le=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">Other billionaire Collins =
donors include Palantir co-founder Alex Karp; Melinda French-Gates, ex-wife=
 of Microsoft founder Bill Gates; New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft; =
and Elizabeth Uihlein, husband of Richard Uihlein, the main financial backe=
r of the effort to place a referendum question=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://them=
ainemonitor.org/out-of-state-signature-gatherers-trans-athlete-question/" t=
arget=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box=
;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">about =
trans athletes on Maine=E2=80=99s ballot this year.</a></p><p class=3D"gmai=
l-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">T=
he billionaire donors supporting Collins have a net worth of $888 billion, =
or nearly nine times=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://apps.bea.gov/itable/?ReqID=3D7=
0&amp;step=3D1&amp;_gl=3D1*5wq2ki*_ga*MTI0OTg1NjM5MS4xNzgxMTgzMjMz*_ga_J469=
8JNNFT*czE3ODExODMyMzIkbzEkZzEkdDE3ODExODMzMDAkajYwJGwwJGgw#eyJhcHBpZCI6NzA=
sInN0ZXBzIjpbMSwyOSwyNSwzMSwyNiwyNywzMF0sImRhdGEiOltbIlRhYmxlSWQiLCI1MzEiXS=
xbIk1ham9yX0FyZWEiLCIwIl0sWyJTdGF0ZSIsWyIwIl1dLFsiQXJlYSIsWyIyMzAwMCJdXSxbI=
lN0YXRpc3RpYyIsWyIzIl1dLFsiVW5pdF9vZl9tZWFzdXJlIiwiTGV2ZWxzIl0sWyJZZWFyIixb=
IjIwMjUiXV0sWyJZZWFyQmVnaW4iLCItMSJdLFsiWWVhcl9FbmQiLCItMSJdXX0=3D" target=
=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;colo=
r:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">Maine=E2=80=
=99s entire economic output in 2025</a>. None are Maine residents.</p><img =
width=3D"1600" height=3D"1067" alt=3D"Stephen Schwarzman" class=3D"gmail-wp=
-image-42631 gmail-lazyloaded" id=3D"gmail-MzU4NDo2MzU=3D-1" src=3D"https:/=
/themainemonitor.org/nitropack_static/KhOsGgqJLUCOwJMWyQAoJGfWpmSMlxGs/asse=
ts/images/optimized/rev-3d0ae6e/themainemonitor.org/wp-content/uploads/2026=
/06/Stephen-Schwarzman-700x.jpg" style=3D"box-sizing: border-box; vertical-=
align: bottom; border-style: none; max-width: 100%; height: auto;">Stephen =
Schwarzman, chairman, CEO and co-founder of the investment firm Blackstone,=
 waits to be interviewed on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in Oct=
ober 2019. Photo by Richard Drew of the Associated Press.<p class=3D"gmail-=
wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">The=
 Platner campaign received donations from at least five billionaires. It re=
ceived $1,500 from Jennifer Pritzker, a cousin to fellow billionaire and Il=
linois Gov. J.B. Pritzker; a total of $12,000 from Jon and Pat Stryker, hei=
rs to the Stryker medical equipment empire; $3,500 from Christy Walton, who=
 married into the Walton family; and $7,000 from Democratic megadonor and h=
edge fund founder George Soros. Together, they are worth an estimated $42.3=
 billion.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizin=
g:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">The difference between billionaire contri=
butions to the two candidates is not surprising given Collins=E2=80=99 long=
 Senate tenure, her position as chair of the powerful appropriations commit=
tee and Platner=E2=80=99s anti-billionaire message, said Mark Brewer, a pol=
itical science professor at the University of Maine.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"g=
mail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px=
">=E2=80=9CWe generally know that, in contemporary American politics, big m=
oney from wealthy donors generally tends to head in the direction of Republ=
icans more than Democrats,=E2=80=9D he said.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-=
block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">Meanwh=
ile Democrats dating back to Howard Dean and Barack Obama have shown the po=
ssibility of raising huge sums from small-dollar donations, he added.=C2=A0=
</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;ma=
rgin:0px 0px 16px">=E2=80=9CIt=E2=80=99s two different ways to get there, b=
ut you both get there,=E2=80=9D Brewer said.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-=
block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">Just 3=
 percent of the total that Collins=E2=80=99 groups raised came from donors =
who gave $200 or less. In comparison, about 60 percent of donations to Plat=
ner=E2=80=99s campaign came from those smaller donations.</p><p class=3D"gm=
ail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px"=
>It=E2=80=99s not possible to track the state where smaller, =E2=80=9Cunite=
mized=E2=80=9D donations came from. Committees are required, however, to pr=
ovide the Federal Election Commission information about donors who contribu=
te more than $200 across all federal campaigns, including their state of re=
sidence. These donations are called =E2=80=9Citemized donations.=E2=80=9D B=
oth campaigns have relied heavily on out-of-state money for their itemized =
donations.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizi=
ng:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">Of those larger donations to the Collins=
 network, about 3 percent came from Maine.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-bl=
ock-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">Platner=
=E2=80=99s trackable donations were more likely to be from Maine: About 22 =
percent were from the state, according to the Federal Election Commission.=
=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-=
box;margin:0px 0px 16px">That=E2=80=99s actually a large percentage of in-s=
tate donations for a Senate campaign, said Nicholas Jacobs, a professor of =
American government at Colby College who=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://journals.s=
agepub.com/doi/10.1177/1532673X231220639" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferr=
er noopener" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoratio=
n:none;background-color:transparent">has studied out-of-state donations in =
Senate campaigns</a>. Maine contributed more itemized funding to Platner th=
an any other state through May 20,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.fec.gov/data=
/committee/C00916437/?cycle=3D2026&amp;tab=3Draising" target=3D"_blank" rel=
=3D"noreferrer noopener" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);te=
xt-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">according to the Federal E=
lection Commission</a>.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" styl=
e=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">=E2=80=9CThat=E2=80=99s rar=
e in general and exceptionally rare for a small state,=E2=80=9D Jacobs said=
.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border=
-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">But now that Platner has won his primary, big mon=
ey may start flowing his way. Jacobs predicted that Platner will likely get=
 the backing of a super PAC at some point this summer.</p><p class=3D"gmail=
-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">=
=E2=80=9CThat=E2=80=99s just the way politics works,=E2=80=9D Jacobs said.=
=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-has-medium-font-size gmail-wp-block-paragraph" =
style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px;font-size:20px"><span st=
yle=3D"box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">In the wake of=C2=A0</span=
><span style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder"><em style=3D"box-=
sizing:border-box">Citizens United</em></span><span style=3D"box-sizing:bor=
der-box;font-weight:bolder">=C2=A0</span></p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-par=
agraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">This is the fir=
st time that Collins has been running for reelection since the Federal Elec=
tion Commission issued=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.fec.gov/updates/ao-2024-=
07/" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" style=3D"box-sizing:bord=
er-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">=
an advisory opinion</a>=C2=A0that allowed super PACs to join joint fundrais=
ing efforts, and Collins has taken advantage of the change.</p><p class=3D"=
gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16p=
x">Before 2024, campaigns =E2=80=94 which are subject to donor limits =E2=
=80=94 could not be connected to super PACs, which are not subject to limit=
s on donor contributions. Super PACs were created in the wake of the=C2=A0<=
em style=3D"box-sizing:border-box">Citizens United</em>=C2=A0Supreme Court =
decision, which ruled that groups independent of campaigns have a First Ame=
ndment right to raise and spend money supporting or attacking candidates wi=
thout limits, so long as they aren=E2=80=99t coordinating with campaigns.=
=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-=
box;margin:0px 0px 16px">In 2024, the Federal Election Commission issued an=
 advisory opinion allowing South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham=E2=
=80=99s campaign to enter into a joint fundraising agreement with the super=
 PAC supporting his candidacy. Commission members voted, 5-1, to permit the=
 arrangement because Graham and his campaign told the commission they =E2=
=80=9Cwill not discuss the nonpublic campaign plans, projects, activities, =
or needs of Senator Graham or his campaign with [the] Super PAC,=E2=80=9D a=
ccording to the advisory opinion.</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" =
style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">Critics, including the =
Democratic Party=E2=80=99s House and Senate fundraising arms, argued the ar=
rangement was a clear violation of the ban on coordination, a ban that they=
 argued has been regularly=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://campaignlegal.org/sites/=
default/files/2023-11/Coordination%20Report%20%28Final%20POST%20Proofing%29=
.pdf" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" style=3D"box-sizing:bor=
der-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent"=
>circumvented since the creation of the super PAC</a>=C2=A0in 2010.=C2=A0</=
p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;marg=
in:0px 0px 16px">In her dissent, former Democratic Federal Election Commiss=
ion member Ellen Weintraub wrote that =E2=80=9Cthe Commission has already c=
reated far too many holes in what should be a solid wall dividing candidate=
s and their committees from the super PACs that support them.=E2=80=9D In 2=
025,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.fec.gov/about/leadership-and-structure/ell=
en-l-weintraub/" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" style=3D"box=
-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;background-color:t=
ransparent">Trump fired Weintraub=C2=A0</a>from the commission shortly afte=
r she became chair and didn=E2=80=99t name a replacement. Shortly after tha=
t, the agency lost a quorum of commissioners, effectively sidelining it=C2=
=A0<a href=3D"https://www.notus.org/campaigns/trump-fec-shutdown" target=3D=
"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:r=
gb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;background-color:transparent">from its elect=
ion watchdog duties since April 2025</a>.=C2=A0</p><img width=3D"1191" heig=
ht=3D"845" alt=3D"Transfers between Susan Collins&#39; fundraising network.=
" class=3D"gmail-wp-image-42632 gmail-lazyloaded" id=3D"gmail-MzY2NDo3NzU=
=3D-1" src=3D"https://themainemonitor.org/nitropack_static/KhOsGgqJLUCOwJMW=
yQAoJGfWpmSMlxGs/assets/images/optimized/rev-3d0ae6e/themainemonitor.org/wp=
-content/uploads/2026/06/Collins-fundraising-apparatus-FINAL-700x.jpg" styl=
e=3D"box-sizing: border-box; vertical-align: bottom; border-style: none; ma=
x-width: 100%; height: auto;">A look at some of the money moving through th=
e fundraising network supporting Sen. Susan Collins.<p class=3D"gmail-wp-bl=
ock-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">The 2024=
 advisory opinion opened the door for the Collins campaign to connect with =
the Pine Tree Results Super PAC. The campaign and the PAC each have a joint=
 fundraising agreement with the Collins Victory Committee, which has transf=
erred funds to both organizations. Most of this money, a total of $2.4 mill=
ion, has gone to the Collins campaign.</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragr=
aph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">The Pine Tree Resu=
lts Super PAC and the Collins Victory Committee share a treasurer, and all =
three groups have paid the same fundraising and event planning consultant, =
the Morning Group, based in Washington, D.C., Federal Election Commission r=
ecords show.</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:b=
order-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">Other outside groups are also spending large=
 amounts on the race. For example, the=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.fec.gov/=
data/committee/C00571703/" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" st=
yle=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;backgrou=
nd-color:transparent">Senate Leadership Fund</a>, which is the main fundrai=
sing vehicle for Senate Republicans, has raised $175 million since the star=
t of 2025 and has booked $29 million in ads for the race pitting Collins ag=
ainst Platner.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-=
sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">Many of the donors to the Senate Lea=
dership Fund also donated to parts of the Collins fundraising network, incl=
uding Schwarzman and hedge fund manager Paul Singer. Other billionaires hav=
e donated large sums to the Senate Leadership Fund as well, including casin=
o magnate Miriam Adelson, who donated $30 million, and Elon Musk, who gave =
$10 million.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-si=
zing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">On the other side of the aisle, Democr=
atic super PAC WinSenate has booked $25 million in ads in Maine=E2=80=99s S=
enate race. WinSenate is funded by the=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.fec.gov/=
data/committee/C00484642/" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer noopener" st=
yle=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-decoration:none;backgrou=
nd-color:transparent">Senate Majority PAC</a>, the main fundraising vehicle=
 for Senate Democrats. It has raised $115 million this cycle, and includes =
funds from billionaires such as Cable TV magnate Amos Hostetter Jr., who ga=
ve $2 million, and Netflix cofounder and chairman Reed Hastings, who contri=
buted $1 million.=C2=A0</p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"b=
ox-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 16px">Both the Republican Senate Leader=
ship Fund and the Democratic Senate Majority PAC are beneficiaries of large=
 amounts of funds contributed by 501(c)4 nonprofits that aren=E2=80=99t req=
uired to reveal their donors. That type of funding has been dubbed =E2=80=
=9Cdark money=E2=80=9D due to the lack of transparency about its sources.</=
p><p class=3D"gmail-wp-block-paragraph" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;marg=
in:0px 0px 16px">This cycle, the Senate Leadership Fund has raised $46 mill=
ion from conservative dark money group One Nation, while the liberal dark m=
oney group Majority Forward has donated $33 million to the Democratic Senat=
e Majority Fund. It=E2=80=99s unclear how much of that money came from bill=
ionaires.=C2=A0</p></div></div></div></div></div>

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*https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260613-ben-gvir-raids-hebron-neighborh=
ood-following-israeli-curfew-in-occupied-west-bank/
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260613-ben-gvir-raids-hebron-neighborh=
ood-following-israeli-curfew-in-occupied-west-bank/>*

*6/13/26*

*Ben-Gvir raids Hebron neighborhood following Israeli curfew in occupied
West Bank*
[image: The Israel Land Authority teams accompanied by Israeli police and
Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir demolish structures at
the headquarters of UNRWA in Jerusalem on January 20, 2026. [Mostafa
Alkharouf - Anadolu Agency]]

*Israel=E2=80=99s National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir on Friday raid=
ed the
city of Hebron=E2=80=99s Jaber neighborhood in the southern occupied West B=
ank,
following the imposition of a curfew by the Israeli army on the area and
its surroundings, Anadolu reports.*

*Local sources told Anadolu that Ben-Gvir entered Jaber after heightened
military measures were implemented in the Old City, coinciding with the
closure of several entrances and a widespread deployment of Israeli forces.=
*

*Official Palestine TV reported that Israeli forces raided a house in the
city and imposed a complete curfew on the city=E2=80=99s Jaber, Salaymeh, a=
nd Wadi
al-Haseen neighborhoods.*

*The Israeli army restricted the movement of Palestinians and prevented
them from moving within the targeted neighborhoods, according to the same
source.*

*READ: Italy=E2=80=99s premier backs sanctions on Israeli settlers, Ben Gvi=
r ahead
of EU Council
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260611-italys-premier-backs-sanctions-=
on-israeli-settlers-ben-gvir-ahead-of-eu-council/>*

*A video circulating on social media showed Israeli soldiers marching
through the streets of Hebron, accompanied by a convoy of Ben-Gvir,
reflecting the heavy security presence during the raid.*

*Hebron frequently faces Israeli military incursions and operations,
including restrictions on movement and raids on homes in neighborhoods near
points of contact with occupiers and Israeli forces.*

*About 750,000 Israeli occupiers live in 141 illegal settlements and 224
outposts in the West Bank, including about 250,000 in occupied East
Jerusalem. The international community considers the settlements illegal.*

*Since October 2023, Israeli army fire and occupier attacks have killed at
least 1,169 Palestinians in the West Bank, and wounded 12,666 others,
leading to the arrest of about 23,000 people and displacement of 33,000,
according to official Palestinian figures.*

*READ: More Palestinians killed in West Bank since 2023 than in previous 17
years, Oxfam says
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260612-more-palestinians-killed-in-wes=
t-bank-since-2023-than-in-previous-17-years-oxfam-says/>*

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=
=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr"><b><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, s=
erif"><a href=3D"https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260613-ben-gvir-raids-=
hebron-neighborhood-following-israeli-curfew-in-occupied-west-bank/" target=
=3D"_blank">https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260613-ben-gvir-raids-hebro=
n-neighborhood-following-israeli-curfew-in-occupied-west-bank/</a></font></=
b></div><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr"><b><br></b></div><div dir=3D"=
ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr"><b>6/13/26</b></div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"=
ltr"><div><b><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><br></font></b=
></div><div><h1 style=3D"line-height:1.2141em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:=
0.5em;max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif" size=
=3D"4"><i>Ben-Gvir raids Hebron neighborhood following Israeli curfew in oc=
cupied West Bank</i></font></h1><div style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-bottom:=
1.15em;line-height:1.5em"><img src=3D"https://i0.wp.com/www.middleeastmonit=
or.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/AA-20260120-40309437-40309422-ISRAEL_DEMO=
LISH_THE_UNRWA_HEADQUARTERS_IN_JERUSALEM-Mehedi-Islam.jpg?fit=3D920%2C613&a=
mp;ssl=3D1" alt=3D"The Israel Land Authority teams accompanied by Israeli p=
olice and Israel&#39;s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir demolish =
structures at the headquarters of UNRWA in Jerusalem on January 20, 2026. [=
Mostafa Alkharouf - Anadolu Agency]" style=3D"margin:auto 25px auto auto;di=
splay:block;clear:both"></div><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D=
"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">Israel=E2=80=99s National Security Minist=
er Itamar Ben Gvir on Friday raided the city of Hebron=E2=80=99s Jaber neig=
hborhood in the southern occupied West Bank, following the imposition of a =
curfew by the Israeli army on the area and its surroundings,<span>=C2=A0</s=
pan><em style=3D"max-width:100%">Anadolu reports.</em></font></b></p><p sty=
le=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">Lo=
cal sources told Anadolu that Ben-Gvir entered Jaber after heightened milit=
ary measures were implemented in the Old City, coinciding with the closure =
of several entrances and a widespread deployment of Israeli forces.</font><=
/b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georg=
ia, serif">Official Palestine TV reported that Israeli forces raided a hous=
e in the city and imposed a complete curfew on the city=E2=80=99s Jaber, Sa=
laymeh, and Wadi al-Haseen neighborhoods.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-wid=
th:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">The Israeli arm=
y restricted the movement of Palestinians and prevented them from moving wi=
thin the targeted neighborhoods, according to the same source.</font></b></=
p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><strong style=3D"max-width:100%"><font color=
=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">READ:=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.midd=
leeastmonitor.com/20260611-italys-premier-backs-sanctions-on-israeli-settle=
rs-ben-gvir-ahead-of-eu-council/" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:1=
00%" target=3D"_blank">Italy=E2=80=99s premier backs sanctions on Israeli s=
ettlers, Ben Gvir ahead of EU Council</a></font></strong></p><p style=3D"ma=
x-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">A video ci=
rculating on social media showed Israeli soldiers marching through the stre=
ets of Hebron, accompanied by a convoy of Ben-Gvir, reflecting the heavy se=
curity presence during the raid.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%">=
<b><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">Hebron frequently faces =
Israeli military incursions and operations, including restrictions on movem=
ent and raids on homes in neighborhoods near points of contact with occupie=
rs and Israeli forces.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font c=
olor=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">About 750,000 Israeli occupiers li=
ve in 141 illegal settlements and 224 outposts in the West Bank, including =
about 250,000 in occupied East Jerusalem. The international community consi=
ders the settlements illegal.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b>=
<font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">Since October 2023, Israeli=
 army fire and occupier attacks have killed at least 1,169 Palestinians in =
the West Bank, and wounded 12,666 others, leading to the arrest of about 23=
,000 people and displacement of 33,000, according to official Palestinian f=
igures.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><strong style=3D"max-widt=
h:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">READ:=C2=A0<a href=
=3D"https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260612-more-palestinians-killed-in-=
west-bank-since-2023-than-in-previous-17-years-oxfam-says/" style=3D"text-d=
ecoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">More Palestinians killed i=
n West Bank since 2023 than in previous 17 years, Oxfam says</a></font></st=
rong></p></div></div>
</div>
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https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and
Mythos 5
Jun 12, 2026

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an
export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by
any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States,
including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this
order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for *all* our
customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Anthropic models will
not be affected.

We received the directive from the government today at 5:21pm (ET). The
letter did not provide specific details of its national security concern.
Our understanding is that the government believes it has become aware of a
method of bypassing, or =E2=80=9Cjailbreaking=E2=80=9D Fable 5. We reviewed=
 a demonstration
of this specific technique being used to identify a small number of
previously known, minor vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities all appear
relatively simple, and we have found that other publicly-available models
are able to discover them as well without requiring a bypass.

Anthropic=E2=80=99s posture with respect to Fable=E2=80=99s safeguards, as =
laid out in our
launch blog post <https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5>,
is the following:

   - We have instituted strong safeguards that greatly reduce the
   likelihood that Fable is misused for tasks related to cybersecurity (amo=
ng
   others). In fact, our safeguards are so strong that many users have
   complained that they are overly broad.
   - In the weeks leading up to the launch of Fable, Anthropic worked with
   the US government, the UK AISI, multiple private third-party organizatio=
ns
   and internal teams to red-team Fable=E2=80=99s safeguards for thousands =
of hours in
   total.
   - These tests showed that Fable=E2=80=99s safeguards are substantially m=
ore
   effective than those of any previously deployed model.
   - No testers have yet been able to find a *universal jailbreak*=E2=80=94=
a
   jailbreak method that can very broadly bypass the model=E2=80=99s safegu=
ards,
   unblocking a wide range of cyber capabilities.
   - We suspect that perfect jailbreak resistance is not currently possible
   for any model provider. Every safeguard used in the industry is vulnerab=
le
   to *non-universal jailbreaks *(which can elicit *some *cyber information
   in specific circumstances), and it is likely that universal jailbreaks w=
ill
   eventually be found in the future. We stated this clearly when we
   released <https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5> Fable
   5.
   - Given that perfect jailbreak resistance does not appear to be possible
   today, Anthropic adopted a *defense in depth *strategy with Fable 5. We
   aimed to make jailbreaks either narrow (in the case of non-universal
   jailbreaks) or very expensive to produce (in the case of universal
   jailbreaks), and to combine this with thorough monitoring to quickly det=
ect
   and shut down any successful attacks. This is also why Anthropic has
   required 30-day retention of customer data with Fable=E2=80=94a policy c=
hange that
   carries real costs for us with customers
   <https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15425996-data-retention-practice=
s-for-mythos-class-models>,
   but that allows us to research and mitigate jailbreaks.
   - We stand by this defense in depth strategy. It reduces the risks posed
   by Fable, making them comparable to the risks of existing models already
   deployed across the industry.
   - We have not even received a disclosure of a concerning non-universal
   potential jailbreak that led to a harmful result. The potential jailbrea=
ks
   that have been disclosed to us are either entirely benign responses or a=
re
   minor findings that provide no Mythos-specific uplift.

To date, the government has only given us verbal evidence of a potential
narrow, non-universal jailbreak, which essentially consists of asking the
model to read a specific codebase and fix any software flaws. Our
understanding is that one potential jailbreak was shared with the
government. We have reviewed a report that we believe is the basis of the
government's directive and validated that the level of capability displayed
there is widely available from other models (including OpenAI=E2=80=99s GPT=
-5.5
<https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-5/cybersecurity>), and is used
every day by the defenders who keep systems safe. We will share more
details over the next 24 hours.

We are complying with the government=E2=80=99s legal directive and are remo=
ving
access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all users. However, we disagree that the
finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a
commercial model deployed to hundreds of millions of people. If this
standard was applied across the industry, we believe it would essentially
halt all new model deployments for all frontier model providers.

As we have stated <https://www.anthropic.com/policy-on-the-ai-exponential>
publicly <https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential>, we
believe the government should have the ability to block unsafe deployments,
as part of a statutory process that is transparent, fair, clear, and
grounded in technical facts. This action does not adhere to those
principles.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a
misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div style=3D"font-size:12pt;direction:ltr;font-family:Apt=
os,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href=3D"https://www.anthropic.com/news/fa=
ble-mythos-access" title=3D"https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-acc=
ess" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(0,120,212)">https://www.anthropic=
.com/news/fable-mythos-access</a></div><div style=3D"font-size:12pt;directi=
on:ltr;font-family:Aptos,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style=
=3D"font-size:16px;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Aptos;margin-right:auto;=
margin-left:auto"><h1 style=3D"line-height:57.2px;margin-top:0px;margin-bot=
tom:0px;letter-spacing:0px"><span style=3D"color:rgb(20,20,19)">Statement o=
n the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5</sp=
an></h1><div style=3D"letter-spacing:0px;color:rgb(20,20,19)"><span style=
=3D"letter-spacing:0px">Jun 12, 2026</span></div></div><div style=3D"font-s=
ize:16px;color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:Aptos;margin-right:auto;margin-lef=
t:auto"><p style=3D"margin:0px auto 1rem;letter-spacing:0px"><span style=3D=
"letter-spacing:0px">The US government, citing national security authoritie=
s, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 =
and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United =
States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of t=
his order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for=C2=A0</=
span><span style=3D"letter-spacing:0px;font-weight:600"><u>all</u></span><s=
pan style=3D"letter-spacing:0px">=C2=A0our customers to ensure compliance.=
=C2=A0</span><span style=3D"letter-spacing:0px;font-weight:600">Access to a=
ll other Anthropic models</span><span style=3D"letter-spacing:0px">=C2=A0</=
span><span style=3D"letter-spacing:0px;font-weight:600">will not be affecte=
d.</span></p><p style=3D"margin:1rem auto;letter-spacing:0px"><span style=
=3D"letter-spacing:0px">We received the directive from the government today=
 at 5:21pm (ET). The letter did not provide specific details of its nationa=
l security concern. Our understanding is that the government believes it ha=
s become aware of a method of bypassing, or =E2=80=9Cjailbreaking=E2=80=9D =
Fable 5. We reviewed a demonstration of this specific technique being used =
to identify a small number of previously known, minor vulnerabilities. Thes=
e vulnerabilities all appear relatively simple, and we have found that othe=
r publicly-available models are able to discover them as well without requi=
ring a bypass.</span></p><p style=3D"margin:1rem auto;letter-spacing:0px"><=
span style=3D"letter-spacing:0px">Anthropic=E2=80=99s posture with respect =
to Fable=E2=80=99s safeguards, as laid out in our launch=C2=A0<a href=3D"ht=
tps://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5" title=3D"https://www.=
anthropic.com/news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"colo=
r:rgb(0,120,212);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">blog post</a>, is the fo=
llowing:</span></p><ul style=3D"margin:1rem auto;padding-left:2ch"><li styl=
e=3D"margin-left:15px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:23.8px;margin-bottom:0=
.75rem"><span role=3D"presentation" style=3D"letter-spacing:0px">We have in=
stituted strong safeguards that greatly reduce the likelihood that Fable is=
 misused for tasks related to cybersecurity (among others). In fact, our sa=
feguards are so strong that many users have complained that they are overly=
 broad.</span></li><li style=3D"margin-left:15px;letter-spacing:0px;line-he=
ight:23.8px;margin-bottom:0.75rem"><span role=3D"presentation" style=3D"let=
ter-spacing:0px">In the weeks leading up to the launch of Fable, Anthropic =
worked with the US government, the UK AISI, multiple private third-party or=
ganizations and internal teams to red-team Fable=E2=80=99s safeguards for t=
housands of hours in total.</span></li><li style=3D"margin-left:15px;letter=
-spacing:0px;line-height:23.8px;margin-bottom:0.75rem"><span role=3D"presen=
tation" style=3D"letter-spacing:0px">These tests showed that Fable=E2=80=99=
s safeguards are substantially more effective than those of any previously =
deployed model.</span></li><li style=3D"margin-left:15px;letter-spacing:0px=
;line-height:23.8px;margin-bottom:0.75rem"><span role=3D"presentation" styl=
e=3D"letter-spacing:0px">No testers have yet been able to find a=C2=A0<i>un=
iversal jailbreak</i>=E2=80=94a jailbreak method that can very broadly bypa=
ss the model=E2=80=99s safeguards, unblocking a wide range of cyber capabil=
ities.</span></li><li style=3D"margin-left:15px;letter-spacing:0px;line-hei=
ght:23.8px;margin-bottom:0.75rem"><span role=3D"presentation" style=3D"lett=
er-spacing:0px">We suspect that perfect jailbreak resistance is not current=
ly possible for any model provider. Every safeguard used in the industry is=
 vulnerable to=C2=A0<i>non-universal jailbreaks=C2=A0</i>(which can elicit=
=C2=A0<i>some=C2=A0</i>cyber information in specific circumstances), and it=
 is likely that universal jailbreaks will eventually be found in the future=
. We stated this clearly when we=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.anthropic.com/=
news/claude-fable-5-mythos-5" title=3D"https://www.anthropic.com/news/claud=
e-fable-5-mythos-5" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(0,120,212)">releas=
ed</a>=C2=A0Fable 5.</span></li><li style=3D"margin-left:15px;letter-spacin=
g:0px;line-height:23.8px;margin-bottom:0.75rem"><span role=3D"presentation"=
 style=3D"letter-spacing:0px">Given that perfect jailbreak resistance does =
not appear to be possible today, Anthropic adopted a=C2=A0<i>defense in dep=
th=C2=A0</i>strategy with Fable 5. We aimed to make jailbreaks either narro=
w (in the case of non-universal jailbreaks) or very expensive to produce (i=
n the case of universal jailbreaks), and to combine this with thorough moni=
toring to quickly detect and shut down any successful attacks. This is also=
 why Anthropic has required 30-day retention of customer data with Fable=E2=
=80=94a policy change that carries=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://support.claude.c=
om/en/articles/15425996-data-retention-practices-for-mythos-class-models" t=
itle=3D"https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15425996-data-retention-prac=
tices-for-mythos-class-models" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(0,120,2=
12)">real costs for us with customers</a>, but that allows us to research a=
nd mitigate jailbreaks.</span></li><li style=3D"margin-left:15px;letter-spa=
cing:0px;line-height:23.8px;margin-bottom:0.75rem"><span role=3D"presentati=
on" style=3D"letter-spacing:0px">We stand by this defense in depth strategy=
. It reduces the risks posed by Fable, making them comparable to the risks =
of existing models already deployed across the industry.</span></li><li sty=
le=3D"margin-left:15px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:23.8px;margin-bottom:=
0.75rem"><span role=3D"presentation" style=3D"letter-spacing:0px">We have n=
ot even received a disclosure of a concerning non-universal potential jailb=
reak that led to a harmful result. The potential jailbreaks that have been =
disclosed to us are either entirely benign responses or are minor findings =
that provide no Mythos-specific uplift.</span></li></ul><p style=3D"margin:=
1rem auto;letter-spacing:0px"><span style=3D"letter-spacing:0px">To date, t=
he government has only given us verbal evidence of a potential narrow, non-=
universal jailbreak, which essentially consists of asking the model to read=
 a specific codebase and fix any software flaws. Our understanding is that =
one potential jailbreak was shared with the government. We have reviewed a =
report that we believe is the basis of the government&#39;s directive and v=
alidated that the level of capability displayed there is widely available f=
rom other models (including OpenAI=E2=80=99s=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://deploy=
mentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-5/cybersecurity" title=3D"https://deploymentsaf=
ety.openai.com/gpt-5-5/cybersecurity" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"color:rgb(=
0,120,212);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">GPT-5.5</a>), and is used ever=
y day by the defenders who keep systems safe. We will share more details ov=
er the next 24 hours.</span></p><p style=3D"margin:1rem auto;letter-spacing=
:0px"><span style=3D"letter-spacing:0px">We are complying with the governme=
nt=E2=80=99s legal directive and are removing access to Fable 5 and Mythos =
5 for all users. However, we disagree that the finding of a narrow potentia=
l jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model deployed to hu=
ndreds of millions of people. If this standard was applied across the indus=
try, we believe it would essentially halt all new model deployments for all=
 frontier model providers.</span></p><p style=3D"margin:1rem auto;letter-sp=
acing:0px"><span style=3D"letter-spacing:0px">As we have=C2=A0<a href=3D"ht=
tps://www.anthropic.com/policy-on-the-ai-exponential" title=3D"https://www.=
anthropic.com/policy-on-the-ai-exponential" target=3D"_blank" style=3D"colo=
r:rgb(0,120,212);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">stated</a>=C2=A0<a href=
=3D"https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential" title=3D"htt=
ps://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential" target=3D"_blank" s=
tyle=3D"color:rgb(0,120,212);margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">publicly</a>=
, we believe the government should have the ability to block unsafe deploym=
ents, as part of a statutory process that is transparent, fair, clear, and =
grounded in technical facts. This action does not adhere to those principle=
s.</span></p><p style=3D"margin:1rem auto;letter-spacing:0px"><span style=
=3D"letter-spacing:0px">We apologize for this disruption to our customers. =
We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as =
soon as possible.</span></p></div></div>

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PLA scientists propose a plan to destroy US carrier groups from 3,000km awa=
y

China=E2=80=99s military proposes a strategy to attack out-of-reach America=
n
military assets as distance becomes a shield
SCMP
[image: Aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) moored pier side
at Naval Base Guam in Micronesia. The US military has quietly pulled its
most precious military assets away from Asian coasts, beyond the reach of
most conventional missiles. Photo: US Navy/AFP]
Stephen Chen <https://www.scmp.com/author/stephen-chen>in Beijing
12 Jun 2026
As the United States
<https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3355495/china-team-drafts-=
comprehensive-sanctions-list-targeting-us-allies-63-tech-sectors?module=3Di=
nline&pgtype=3Darticle>
quietly
pulls its most precious military assets away from the coasts of Asia, they
are falling back to places like Guam in Micronesia, a US island territory
far beyond the reach of most conventional missiles.
It sounds like a retreat but for the Chinese military it is actually a much
trickier problem. In modern warfare
<https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3354989/ai-massively-incre=
asing-chinas-new-weapon-development-speed-scientists?module=3Dinline&pgtype=
=3Darticle>,
distance can become a shield and dispersion a weapon.

This is the puzzle a team of Chinese defence scientists has been solving.
Their answer, published openly in a peer=E2=80=91reviewed journal, offers a
step=E2=80=91by=E2=80=91step guide on how to destroy a US carrier group fro=
m 3,000km (1,865
miles) away, precisely the distance from Shanghai to Guam.
The paper, =E2=80=9CResearch on the effectiveness of anti=E2=80=91ship miss=
ile swarm
operation
<https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3355232/chinese-scientists=
-create-kill-them-all-algorithm-drone-warfare?module=3Dinline&pgtype=3Darti=
cle>
under
distributed confrontation=E2=80=9D, comes from the College of International=
 Studies
at the National University of Defence Technology in Nanjing.

Led by associate professor Gao Tianyun, it was published in Tactical
Missile Technology, one of China=E2=80=99s top defence journals, on May 25.

For years, the US Navy=E2=80=99s big ships operated relatively close to Chi=
na in
Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and the South China Sea. That proximity
made them vulnerable to China=E2=80=99s growing arsenal of
=E2=80=9Canti=E2=80=91access/area=E2=80=91denial=E2=80=9D weapons =E2=80=93=
 mid-range ballistic missiles,
hypersonic gliders and swarms of cruise missiles.

So the Pentagon adopted a new concept called Distributed Maritime
Operations (DMO).

Instead of clustering a carrier strike group inside one small patch of
ocean, DMO scatters the ships over hundreds of kilometres. It pushes the
most valuable carriers further back, while sending smaller, more expendable
vessels forward to act as missile shields and floating radars.

The paper explains why this is a headache. When a carrier was only a few
hundred kilometres offshore, China=E2=80=99s missiles could reach it quickl=
y, from
many directions.

Now, the US fleet is a dispersed and layered formation. The outermost layer
is a network of Aegis destroyers stationed 600 to 800km in front of the
carrier, armed with SM=E2=80=913 interceptors that can shoot down ballistic
missiles in mid=E2=80=91course.

Closer in, uncrewed surface vessels carrying SM=E2=80=916 and ESSM missiles=
 created
an extra =E2=80=9Cmissile sponge=E2=80=9D, Gao=E2=80=99s team said.

The carrier itself hides behind a dense inner ring of air-defence ships,
fighters and early-warning aircraft. To kill the carrier, you first have to
peel away all those layers but they are spread widely, making them hard to
find, harder to hit and even harder to overwhelm all at once.

The Chinese researchers=E2=80=99 plan begins with a surprise. Instead of la=
unching
a mass wave of missiles from land or the air, they propose using a
submarine to fire hypersonic anti-ship missiles at the forward Aegis
destroyers.

A submarine can creep close to the enemy=E2=80=99s defensive perimeter with=
out
revealing itself, and a hypersonic weapon travels so fast and manoeuvres so
erratically in the upper atmosphere that it is extremely difficult to
intercept.

By striking the outer layer first, the PLA can punch a hole through the
midcourse missile defence shield. Once that shield is cracked, the carrier
becomes much more exposed to follow-up salvos.

The paper calls this =E2=80=9Cbreaking the weak node to open a window=E2=80=
=9D. No other
country is known to have such a capability yet.

After the opening punch, the plan calls in an orchestrated =E2=80=9Cfirepow=
er
package=E2=80=9D.

This mixes three kinds of weapons: cheap decoy drones and low-cost cruise
missiles to flood the enemy=E2=80=99s sensors and exhaust their interceptor=
 stocks,
subsonic stealth cruise missiles that skim the waves and slip through radar
gaps, and then more hypersonic missiles aimed at the remaining high-value
targets.

This combination, the paper argues, puts the US defences in a no-win
dilemma. If they focus on the hypersonic threats, the stealthy low=E2=80=91=
fliers
might sneak through. If they shoot at the decoys and cheap missiles, they
burn through their limited ammunition.

And if they try to defend everywhere at once, the sheer coordination of the
swarm, which is timed to hit from multiple directions at the same moment,
could overwhelm even the most advanced Aegis system.

One of the most unusual elements in the paper is a tactic called
=E2=80=9Cleader=E2=80=91follower=E2=80=9D mode.

In a missile swarm, one missile climbs high and acts as a scout, scanning
the battlefield and relaying targeting data to the other missiles flying
low under the radar horizon. If the leader is shot down, another
immediately takes its place.

This means the swarm does not need constant instructions from a distant
command centre =E2=80=93 it can adapt on the fly, reassign targets among it=
self and
keep pressing the attack even in heavy electronic jamming.

Another striking feature of the Chinese scenario is that it imagines the US
Navy equipped with weapons that do not yet exist such as the glide phase
interceptor, designed to kill hypersonic missiles in mid-glide, and the
SM-6 IB for terminal defence.

The paper=E2=80=99s authors call this *liao di cong kuan*, or expecting the=
 enemy
to be strong. By assuming the US will have its best possible equipment, the
Chinese plan is built to work even against the worst-case scenario.

The paper even offers a geopolitical diagnosis. The authors argue that
America=E2=80=99s deindustrialisation and its shrinking ability to control
far=E2=80=91flung bases are the real drivers of the DMO concept.

Without enough shipyards, spare parts and overseas allies willing to host
big bases, the US can no longer afford to keep its carriers parked in
harm=E2=80=99s way.

China, on the other hand, has become the world=E2=80=99s factory. Its shipb=
uilding
capacity dwarfs that of the United States, and its missile production lines
can churn out weapons at a pace that makes mass-swarm tactics feasible.

The National University of Defence Technology is a top Chinese military
school, not a think tank. It is rare for the PLA to allow such a detailed,
almost tutorial-like plan to appear in a public journal. The authors could
not be reached for comment.

Last year, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth made a startling claim: China
could destroy all of America=E2=80=99s aircraft carriers around the world w=
ithin 20
minutes. If it is true, the 3,000km distance suggested in this paper may
not be the limit of the Chinese military=E2=80=99s playbook.
[image: Stephen Chen] <https://www.scmp.com/author/stephen-chen>
Stephen Chen <https://www.scmp.com/author/stephen-chen>
Stephen Chen is the SCMP's science news editor. He investigates major
research projects in China, a new power house of scientific and
technological innovation, and

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r:0px;word-break:break-word">United States</span></a>=C2=A0quietly pulls it=
s most precious military assets away from the coasts of Asia, they are fall=
ing back to places like Guam in Micronesia, a US island territory far beyon=
d the reach of most conventional missiles.</div><div class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmai=
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order:0px">It sounds like a retreat but for the Chinese military it is actu=
ally a much trickier problem. In=C2=A0<a target=3D"_self" class=3D"e1yy41x4=
0 ef9u0v01 gmail-css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0" href=3D"https://www.scmp.com/news/ch=
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in:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inhe=
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adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-=
align:baseline;border:0px;word-break:break-word">modern warfare</span></a>,=
 distance can become a shield and dispersion a weapon.</div><p class=3D"e8z=
c9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px=
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aseline;border:0px;color:inherit">This is the puzzle a team of Chinese defe=
nce scientists has been solving. Their answer, published openly in a peer=
=E2=80=91reviewed journal, offers a step=E2=80=91by=E2=80=91step guide on h=
ow to destroy a US carrier group from 3,000km (1,865 miles) away, precisely=
 the distance from Shanghai to Guam.</p><div class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1x=
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x">The paper, =E2=80=9CResearch on the effectiveness of=C2=A0<a target=3D"_=
self" class=3D"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 gmail-css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0" href=3D"https=
://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3355232/chinese-scientists-creat=
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nherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;word-break:break-word">anti=E2=80=
=91ship missile swarm operation</span></a>=C2=A0under distributed confronta=
tion=E2=80=9D, comes from the College of International Studies at the Natio=
nal University of Defence Technology in Nanjing.</div><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 =
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t;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baselin=
e;border:0px;color:inherit">Led by associate professor Gao Tianyun, it was =
published in Tactical Missile Technology, one of China=E2=80=99s top defenc=
e journals, on May 25.</p><div class=3D"gmail-js-reading-20-percent-complet=
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ght:28.8px;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inheri=
t;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;color:in=
herit">For years, the US Navy=E2=80=99s big ships operated relatively close=
 to China in Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and the South China Sea. T=
hat proximity made them vulnerable to China=E2=80=99s growing arsenal of =
=E2=80=9Canti=E2=80=91access/area=E2=80=91denial=E2=80=9D weapons =E2=80=93=
 mid-range ballistic missiles, hypersonic gliders and swarms of cruise miss=
iles.</p><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizi=
ng:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inheri=
t;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-family:i=
nherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:=
inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;color:inherit">So the Pentagon a=
dopted a new concept called Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO).</p><p cl=
ass=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;=
margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:=
inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-family:inherit;font-si=
ze-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertic=
al-align:baseline;border:0px;color:inherit">Instead of clustering a carrier=
 strike group inside one small patch of ocean, DMO scatters the ships over =
hundreds of kilometres. It pushes the most valuable carriers further back, =
while sending smaller, more expendable vessels forward to act as missile sh=
ields and floating radars.</p><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0=
k1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inheri=
t;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height=
:28.8px;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;f=
ont-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;color:inher=
it">The paper explains why this is a headache. When a carrier was only a fe=
w hundred kilometres offshore, China=E2=80=99s missiles could reach it quic=
kly, from many directions.</p><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0=
k1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inheri=
t;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height=
:28.8px;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;f=
ont-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;color:inher=
it">Now, the US fleet is a dispersed and layered formation. The outermost l=
ayer is a network of Aegis destroyers stationed 600 to 800km in front of th=
e carrier, armed with SM=E2=80=913 interceptors that can shoot down ballist=
ic missiles in mid=E2=80=91course.</p><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr=
6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-styl=
e:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;lin=
e-height:28.8px;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:i=
nherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;col=
or:inherit"><span style=3D"color:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-style:inh=
erit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:i=
nherit;background-color:initial;font-size:inherit">Closer in, uncrewed surf=
ace vessels carrying SM=E2=80=916 and ESSM missiles created an extra =E2=80=
=9Cmissile sponge=E2=80=9D, Gao=E2=80=99s team said.</span></p><p class=3D"=
e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:=
0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit=
;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-family:inherit;font-size-adju=
st:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-alig=
n:baseline;border:0px;color:inherit">The carrier itself hides behind a dens=
e inner ring of air-defence ships, fighters and early-warning aircraft. To =
kill the carrier, you first have to peel away all those layers but they are=
 spread widely, making them hard to find, harder to hit and even harder to =
overwhelm all at once.</p><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" =
style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;fo=
nt-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.=
8px;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-=
feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;color:inherit">=
The Chinese researchers=E2=80=99 plan begins with a surprise. Instead of la=
unching a mass wave of missiles from land or the air, they propose using a =
submarine to fire hypersonic anti-ship missiles at the forward Aegis destro=
yers.</p><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizi=
ng:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inheri=
t;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-family:i=
nherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:=
inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;color:inherit">A submarine can c=
reep close to the enemy=E2=80=99s defensive perimeter without revealing its=
elf, and a hypersonic weapon travels so fast and manoeuvres so erratically =
in the upper atmosphere that it is extremely difficult to intercept.</p><di=
v class=3D"gmail-js-reading-50-percent-completion-tracker gmail-css-19icq8a=
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:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line=
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nherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px"></=
div><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizing:bo=
rder-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;fon=
t-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-family:inheri=
t;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inher=
it;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;color:inherit">By striking the outer =
layer first, the PLA can punch a hole through the midcourse missile defence=
 shield. Once that shield is cracked, the carrier becomes much more exposed=
 to follow-up salvos.</p><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" s=
tyle=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;fon=
t-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.8=
px;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-f=
eature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;color:inherit">T=
he paper calls this =E2=80=9Cbreaking the weak node to open a window=E2=80=
=9D. No other country is known to have such a capability yet.</p><p class=
=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;mar=
gin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inh=
erit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-family:inherit;font-size-=
adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-=
align:baseline;border:0px;color:inherit">After the opening punch, the plan =
calls in an orchestrated =E2=80=9Cfirepower package=E2=80=9D.</p><p class=
=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;mar=
gin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inh=
erit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-family:inherit;font-size-=
adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-=
align:baseline;border:0px;color:inherit">This mixes three kinds of weapons:=
 cheap decoy drones and low-cost cruise missiles to flood the enemy=E2=80=
=99s sensors and exhaust their interceptor stocks, subsonic stealth cruise =
missiles that skim the waves and slip through radar gaps, and then more hyp=
ersonic missiles aimed at the remaining high-value targets.</p><p class=3D"=
e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:=
0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit=
;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-family:inherit;font-size-adju=
st:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-alig=
n:baseline;border:0px;color:inherit">This combination, the paper argues, pu=
ts the US defences in a no-win dilemma. If they focus on the hypersonic thr=
eats, the stealthy low=E2=80=91fliers might sneak through. If they shoot at=
 the decoys and cheap missiles, they burn through their limited ammunition.=
</p><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizing:bo=
rder-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;fon=
t-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-family:inheri=
t;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inher=
it;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;color:inherit">And if they try to def=
end everywhere at once, the sheer coordination of the swarm, which is timed=
 to hit from multiple directions at the same moment, could overwhelm even t=
he most advanced Aegis system.</p><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec=
74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:in=
herit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-he=
ight:28.8px;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inher=
it;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;color:i=
nherit">One of the most unusual elements in the paper is a tactic called =
=E2=80=9Cleader=E2=80=91follower=E2=80=9D mode.</p><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gma=
il-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:=
0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretc=
h:inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;f=
ont-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;b=
order:0px;color:inherit">In a missile swarm, one missile climbs high and ac=
ts as a scout, scanning the battlefield and relaying targeting data to the =
other missiles flying low under the radar horizon. If the leader is shot do=
wn, another immediately takes its place.</p><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-=
1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;fon=
t-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inher=
it;line-height:28.8px;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-ker=
ning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0=
px;color:inherit">This means the swarm does not need constant instructions =
from a distant command centre =E2=80=93 it can adapt on the fly, reassign t=
argets among itself and keep pressing the attack even in heavy electronic j=
amming.</p><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-si=
zing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inhe=
rit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-family=
:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-setting=
s:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;color:inherit">Another strikin=
g feature of the Chinese scenario is that it imagines the US Navy equipped =
with weapons that do not yet exist such as the glide phase interceptor, des=
igned to kill hypersonic missiles in mid-glide, and the SM-6 IB for termina=
l defence.</p><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box=
-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:i=
nherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-fam=
ily:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-sett=
ings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;color:inherit">The paper=E2=
=80=99s authors call this=C2=A0<em class=3D"gmail-css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15" st=
yle=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:in=
herit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit">liao di cong kuan</em>, or e=
xpecting the enemy to be strong. By assuming the US will have its best poss=
ible equipment, the Chinese plan is built to work even against the worst-ca=
se scenario.</p><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"b=
ox-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant=
:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-f=
amily:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-se=
ttings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;color:inherit">The paper =
even offers a geopolitical diagnosis. The authors argue that America=E2=80=
=99s deindustrialisation and its shrinking ability to control far=E2=80=91f=
lung bases are the real drivers of the DMO concept.</p><p class=3D"e8zc9q40=
 gmail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padd=
ing:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-st=
retch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inher=
it;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseli=
ne;border:0px;color:inherit">Without enough shipyards, spare parts and over=
seas allies willing to host big bases, the US can no longer afford to keep =
its carriers parked in harm=E2=80=99s way.</p><div class=3D"gmail-js-readin=
g-90-percent-completion-tracker gmail-css-19icq8a ekyy9du0" style=3D"box-si=
zing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inhe=
rit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-famil=
y:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settin=
gs:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px"></div><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 g=
mail-css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;paddin=
g:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stre=
tch:inherit;line-height:28.8px;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit=
;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline=
;border:0px;color:inherit">China, on the other hand, has become the world=
=E2=80=99s factory. Its shipbuilding capacity dwarfs that of the United Sta=
tes, and its missile production lines can churn out weapons at a pace that =
makes mass-swarm tactics feasible.</p><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6uqr=
6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-styl=
e:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;lin=
e-height:28.8px;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:i=
nherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;col=
or:inherit">The National University of Defence Technology is a top Chinese =
military school, not a think tank. It is rare for the PLA to allow such a d=
etailed, almost tutorial-like plan to appear in a public journal. The autho=
rs could not be reached for comment.</p><p class=3D"e8zc9q40 gmail-css-1c6u=
qr6 ec74h0k1" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-st=
yle:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;l=
ine-height:28.8px;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning=
:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border:0px;c=
olor:inherit">Last year, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth made a startling=
 claim: China could destroy all of America=E2=80=99s aircraft carriers arou=
nd the world within 20 minutes. If it is true, the 3,000km distance suggest=
ed in this paper may not be the limit of the Chinese military=E2=80=99s pla=
ybook.</p><div class=3D"gmail-css-1auxnbl evaaos91" style=3D"box-sizing:bor=
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Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland
votes, France says
By Gabriel Stargardter
<https://www.reuters.com/authors/gabriel-stargardter/>
June 11, 202612:39 PM EDTUpdated 22 hours ago
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   - Summary
   -


   - Viginum flags alleged BlackCore operations in Angola, Togo, New York
   and Scotland
   - French PM says France asked Israel for help identifying who
   commissioned BlackCore
   - BlackCore described itself as an influence and cyber firm but has not
   responded to requests for comment

PARIS, June 12 (Reuters) - Israeli firm BlackCore, suspected of interfering
in France's local elections in March, is also suspected of meddling in
elections in New York City and Scotland, and =E2=80=8Coperating in Angola a=
nd Togo,
France's disinformation detection service, Viginum, said on Thursday.
Last month, Reuters reported that French authorities suspected BlackCore
was behind
<https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/french-prosecutors-probing-=
alleged-foreign-interference-against-hard-left-2026-05-20/>
an
online smear campaign targeting three mayoral candidates from the
hard-left, pro-Palestine France Unbowed party (LFI) in the local elections.
At a press conference on Thursday alongside French Prime Minister Sebastien
Lecornu, Viginum chief Marc-Antoine Brillant said technical work had led
the service to BlackCore. Viginum subsequently presented a detailed report
on BlackCore's alleged actions around the world.
"This modus operandi was not limited to municipal elections in France,"
Brillant said. "It also appears to have been used to carry out foreign
digital interference operations in other countries or regions, such as
Angola, Togo, the =E2=81=A0elections in Scotland, and the 2025 municipal el=
ection
in New York."
However, he added it was still unclear who had commissioned BlackCore to
meddle in France.
"Our investigations did not make it possible to identify the sponsor or
sponsors, if indeed they exist, behind this foreign digital interference,"
he said.
Lecornu said the French government had asked Israel for explanations of
BlackCore's actions, and also for help in trying to find out who may have
been behind the smear campaign.
"I do not doubt for a single instant that if a French private group, from
French soil moreover, had engaged in foreign digital interference in
Israel, they would have done the same to its ambassador on site," Lecornu
said.
Israel's embassy in Paris confirmed that France had reached out, saying it
was waiting to receive details from the French probe
<https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/paris-prosecutors-probe-alleged-forei=
gn-smear-campaigns-local-elections-2026-05-27/>
to
conduct its own.
"Israel has of course no intention to interfere in the French political
process, be it at the national or municipal level," it said in a statement.
NEW YORK AND SCOTTISH ELECTIONS ALSO TARGETED
Brillant did not explicitly mention who was targeted in last year's New
York City =E2=80=8Celection, which =E2=81=A0was won by Zohran Mamdani
<https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mamdani-wins-over-new-york-with-bold-visi=
on-that-galvanized-young-voters-2025-11-06/>.
His victory thrilled many younger Jewish progressives but spooked more
traditional pro-Israel New Yorkers with his outspoken support for the
Palestinian cause.
Mamdani's team did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Neither did New York City and New York state officials.
The New York Police Department and the U.S. cyber defense agency CISA did
not immediately return emails seeking comment. The FBI declined comment.
In a subsequent report, Viginum said it had detected BlackCore-linked
accounts targeting John Swinney, the first minister of Scotland. Swinney
has described the situation in Gaza as a "man-made humanitarian
catastrophe", saying a genocide =E2=81=A0may be unfolding, citing civilian
casualties, widespread destruction and statements by Israeli officials.
"These reports of bad actors attempting to interfere in the Scottish
Parliament elections are deeply concerning," Swinney, of the Scottish
National Party (SNP), said in an email.
He called on the British government, "which has responsibility for national
security", to make "dealing with hostile state online interference a far
higher priority."
Ross Colquhoun, the SNP's head of digital, told Reuters that =E2=81=A0durin=
g the
May elections, the party's "social media platforms were subject to an
unprecedented level of negative reactions and comments from accounts which
appeared to be AI-generated bots."
An email seeking comment from Scottish election officials was not
immediately returned.
The governments of Angola and Togo also did not immediately respond to
requests for comment.
Before scrubbing its online presence following enquiries from Reuters,
=E2=81=A0BlackCore described itself as "an elite influence, cyber, and tech=
nology
company built for the modern era of information warfare." It said it
provided governments and political campaigns with "cutting-edge strategies,
advanced tools, and robust security to shape narratives."
It has not responded to repeated requests for comment.

Reporting by Gabriel Stargardter in Paris. Writing by Dominique Vidalon and
Gabriel Stargardter. Additional reporting by Raphael Satter in Washington,
John Irish in Paris and Sam Tabahriti in London. Editing by Susan Fenton,
Matthew Lewis and Kevin Liffey and Mark Potter

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2px 12px;margin-bottom:24px"><div class=3D"gmail-context-widget-module__tab=
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83.325px;overflow:auto hidden"><ul role=3D"tablist" class=3D"gmail-context-=
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n:0px;display:flex"><li role=3D"tab" aria-selected=3D"true" tabindex=3D"0" =
class=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18=
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h:720px;display:flex;border-bottom:4px solid rgb(64,64,64);white-space:nowr=
ap">Summary</li><li role=3D"tab" aria-selected=3D"false" tabindex=3D"-1" cl=
ass=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__medium-grey__yZtlg=
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y-module__base__o--Cl gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail-context-wi=
dget-module__tab__lRw-D" style=3D"font-size:16px;padding:12px 8px 4px;lette=
r-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-medium,Arial,sans-seri=
f;color:rgb(102,102,102);max-width:720px;display:flex;border-bottom:4px sol=
id rgba(0,0,0,0);white-space:nowrap"><br></li></ul></div><div class=3D"gmai=
l-context-widget-module__content__lI1uo" style=3D"padding:12px 0px 0px"><ul=
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:0px;list-style:none"><li class=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-tex=
t-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-module__regular__qJJtA gmail-text-mod=
ule__small__sph8i gmail-body-module__base__o--Cl gmail-body-module__small_b=
ody__gOmDf gmail-summary-module__point__UgXPz" style=3D"font-size:16px;marg=
in:0px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledg=
e-regular,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:720px;display:flex=
">Viginum flags alleged BlackCore operations in Angola, Togo, New York and =
Scotland</li><li class=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module_=
_dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-module__regular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__smal=
l__sph8i gmail-body-module__base__o--Cl gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmD=
f gmail-summary-module__point__UgXPz" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:4px 0p=
x 0px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge=
-regular,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:720px;display:flex"=
>French PM says France asked Israel for help identifying who commissioned B=
lackCore</li><li class=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module_=
_dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-module__regular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__smal=
l__sph8i gmail-body-module__base__o--Cl gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmD=
f gmail-summary-module__point__UgXPz" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:4px 0p=
x 0px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge=
-regular,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:720px;display:flex"=
>BlackCore described itself as an influence and cyber firm but has not resp=
onded to requests for comment</li></ul></div></div><div class=3D"gmail-text=
-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-module_=
_regular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i gmail-body-module__full_wid=
th__kCIGb gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail-article-body-module__p=
aragraph__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;le=
tter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-regular,Arial,sans-=
serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">PARIS, June 12 (Reuters) - Israel=
i firm BlackCore, suspected of interfering in France&#39;s local elections =
in March, is also suspected of meddling in elections in New York City and S=
cotland, and =E2=80=8Coperating in Angola and Togo, France&#39;s disinforma=
tion detection service, Viginum, said on Thursday.</div><div class=3D"gmail=
-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-mo=
dule__regular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i gmail-body-module__ful=
l_width__kCIGb gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail-article-body-modu=
le__paragraph__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0=
px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-regular,Arial,=
sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">Last month, Reuters reported=
 that French authorities=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.reuters.com/business/m=
edia-telecom/french-prosecutors-probing-alleged-foreign-interference-agains=
t-hard-left-2026-05-20/" class=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text=
-module__inherit-color__PhuPF gmail-text-module__inherit-font__1P1hv gmail-=
text-module__inherit-size__EyiQW gmail-link-module__link__INqxZ gmail-link-=
module__underline_default__-okuC" style=3D"font-size:inherit;margin:0px;pad=
ding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;text-transform:inherit;line-height:inherit;colo=
r:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit">suspe=
cted BlackCore was behind</a>=C2=A0an online smear campaign targeting three=
 mayoral candidates from the hard-left, pro-Palestine France Unbowed party =
(LFI) in the local elections.</div><div class=3D"gmail-article-body-module_=
_element__5eCce" style=3D"width:707.325px;margin:0px 0px 24px"></div><div c=
lass=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 =
gmail-text-module__regular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i gmail-bod=
y-module__full_width__kCIGb gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail-arti=
cle-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 1=
2px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-r=
egular,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">At a press conf=
erence on Thursday alongside French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu, Vigin=
um chief Marc-Antoine Brillant said technical work had led the service to B=
lackCore. Viginum subsequently presented a detailed report on BlackCore&#39=
;s alleged actions around the world.</div><div class=3D"gmail-text-module__=
text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-module__regular_=
_qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i gmail-body-module__full_width__kCIGb=
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_Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;letter-spac=
ing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-regular,Arial,sans-serif;col=
or:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">&quot;This modus operandi was not limited =
to municipal elections in France,&quot; Brillant said. &quot;It also appear=
s to have been used to carry out foreign digital interference operations in=
 other countries or regions, such as Angola, Togo, the =E2=81=A0elections i=
n Scotland, and the 2025 municipal election in New York.&quot;</div><div cl=
ass=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 g=
mail-text-module__regular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i gmail-body=
-module__full_width__kCIGb gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail-artic=
le-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 12=
px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-re=
gular,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">However, he adde=
d it was still unclear who had commissioned BlackCore to meddle in France.<=
/div><div class=3D"gmail-article-body-module__element__5eCce" style=3D"widt=
h:707.325px;margin:24px 0px"></div><div class=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0=
GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-module__regular__qJJtA =
gmail-text-module__small__sph8i gmail-body-module__full_width__kCIGb gmail-=
body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail-article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF"=
 style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:0px=
;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-regular,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(=
64,64,64);max-width:100%">&quot;Our investigations did not make it possible=
 to identify the sponsor or sponsors, if indeed they exist, behind this for=
eign digital interference,&quot; he said.</div><div class=3D"gmail-text-mod=
ule__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-module__reg=
ular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i gmail-body-module__full_width__=
kCIGb gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail-article-body-module__parag=
raph__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;letter=
-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-regular,Arial,sans-seri=
f;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">Lecornu said the French government ha=
d asked Israel for explanations of BlackCore&#39;s actions, and also for he=
lp in trying to find out who may have been behind the smear campaign.</div>=
<div class=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__=
UFC18 gmail-text-module__regular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i gma=
il-body-module__full_width__kCIGb gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmai=
l-article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px=
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edge-regular,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">&quot;I d=
o not doubt for a single instant that if a French private group, from Frenc=
h soil moreover, had engaged in foreign digital interference in Israel, the=
y would have done the same to its ambassador on site,&quot; Lecornu said.</=
div><div class=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-gr=
ey__UFC18 gmail-text-module__regular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i=
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gmail-article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin=
:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:k=
nowledge-regular,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">Israe=
l&#39;s embassy in Paris confirmed that France had reached out, saying it w=
as waiting to receive details from=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.reuters.com/=
world/europe/paris-prosecutors-probe-alleged-foreign-smear-campaigns-local-=
elections-2026-05-27/" class=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-m=
odule__inherit-color__PhuPF gmail-text-module__inherit-font__1P1hv gmail-te=
xt-module__inherit-size__EyiQW gmail-link-module__link__INqxZ gmail-link-mo=
dule__underline_default__-okuC" style=3D"font-size:inherit;margin:0px;paddi=
ng:0px;letter-spacing:0px;text-transform:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:=
inherit;font-family:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit">the Fre=
nch probe</a>=C2=A0to conduct its own.</div><div class=3D"gmail-text-module=
__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-module__regula=
r__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i gmail-body-module__full_width__kCI=
Gb gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail-article-body-module__paragrap=
h__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;letter-sp=
acing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-regular,Arial,sans-serif;c=
olor:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">&quot;Israel has of course no intention =
to interfere in the French political process, be it at the national or muni=
cipal level,&quot; it said in a statement.</div><div class=3D"gmail-article=
-body-module__element__5eCce" style=3D"width:707.325px;margin:24px 0px"></d=
iv><h2 class=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey=
__UFC18 gmail-text-module__medium__2Rl30 gmail-text-module__heading_6__u1Kd=
J gmail-heading-module__base__p-zaD gmail-heading-module__heading_6__-zrtS =
gmail-article-body-module__heading__KTJKz" style=3D"font-size:18px;margin:2=
4px 0px 12px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:26px;font-family:kn=
owledge-medium,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:500;color:rgb(64,64,64)">NEW YO=
RK AND SCOTTISH ELECTIONS ALSO TARGETED</h2><div class=3D"gmail-text-module=
__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-module__regula=
r__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i gmail-body-module__full_width__kCI=
Gb gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail-article-body-module__paragrap=
h__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;letter-sp=
acing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-regular,Arial,sans-serif;c=
olor:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">Brillant did not explicitly mention who =
was targeted in last year&#39;s New York City =E2=80=8Celection, which =E2=
=81=A0was=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/mamdani-wins-ove=
r-new-york-with-bold-vision-that-galvanized-young-voters-2025-11-06/" class=
=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__inherit-color__PhuPF =
gmail-text-module__inherit-font__1P1hv gmail-text-module__inherit-size__Eyi=
QW gmail-link-module__link__INqxZ gmail-link-module__underline_default__-ok=
uC" style=3D"font-size:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;te=
xt-transform:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:inherit;font-family:inherit;=
font-weight:inherit;font-style:inherit">won by Zohran Mamdani</a>. His vict=
ory thrilled many younger Jewish progressives but spooked more traditional =
pro-Israel New Yorkers with his outspoken support for the Palestinian cause=
.</div><div class=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark=
-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-module__regular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sp=
h8i gmail-body-module__full_width__kCIGb gmail-body-module__small_body__gOm=
Df gmail-article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;mar=
gin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-famil=
y:knowledge-regular,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">Ma=
mdani&#39;s team did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Neit=
her did New York City and New York state officials.</div><div class=3D"gmai=
l-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-m=
odule__regular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i gmail-body-module__fu=
ll_width__kCIGb gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail-article-body-mod=
ule__paragraph__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:=
0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-regular,Arial=
,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">The New York Police Departm=
ent and the U.S. cyber defense agency CISA did not immediately return email=
s seeking comment. The FBI declined comment.</div><div class=3D"gmail-text-=
module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-module__=
regular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i gmail-body-module__full_widt=
h__kCIGb gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail-article-body-module__pa=
ragraph__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;let=
ter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-regular,Arial,sans-s=
erif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">In a subsequent report, Viginum sa=
id it had detected BlackCore-linked accounts targeting John Swinney, the fi=
rst minister of Scotland. Swinney has described the situation in Gaza as a =
&quot;man-made humanitarian catastrophe&quot;, saying a genocide =E2=81=A0m=
ay be unfolding, citing civilian casualties, widespread destruction and sta=
tements by Israeli officials.</div><div class=3D"gmail-article-body-module_=
_element__5eCce" style=3D"width:707.325px;margin:24px 0px"></div><div class=
=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmai=
l-text-module__regular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i gmail-body-mo=
dule__full_width__kCIGb gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail-article-=
body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 12px;=
padding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-regul=
ar,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">&quot;These reports=
 of bad actors attempting to interfere in the Scottish Parliament elections=
 are deeply concerning,&quot; Swinney, of the Scottish National Party (SNP)=
, said in an email.</div><div class=3D"gmail-text-module__text__0GDob gmail=
-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-module__regular__qJJtA gmail-text=
-module__small__sph8i gmail-body-module__full_width__kCIGb gmail-body-modul=
e__small_body__gOmDf gmail-article-body-module__paragraph__Ts-yF" style=3D"=
font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-heig=
ht:24px;font-family:knowledge-regular,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);=
max-width:100%">He called on the British government, &quot;which has respon=
sibility for national security&quot;, to make &quot;dealing with hostile st=
ate online interference a far higher priority.&quot;</div><div class=3D"gma=
il-text-module__text__0GDob gmail-text-module__dark-grey__UFC18 gmail-text-=
module__regular__qJJtA gmail-text-module__small__sph8i gmail-body-module__f=
ull_width__kCIGb gmail-body-module__small_body__gOmDf gmail-article-body-mo=
dule__paragraph__Ts-yF" style=3D"font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 12px;padding=
:0px;letter-spacing:0px;line-height:24px;font-family:knowledge-regular,Aria=
l,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64);max-width:100%">Ross Colquhoun, the SNP&#3=
9;s head of digital, told Reuters that =E2=81=A0during the May elections, t=
he party&#39;s &quot;social media platforms were subject to an unprecedente=
d level of negative reactions and comments from accounts which appeared to =
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When a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman stood at a lectern in Beijing on
11 June 2026 and addressed a Bloomberg News correspondent=E2=80=99s questio=
n about
European supply-chain legislation, he said little that the Foreign Ministry
had not said before. The EU=E2=80=99s proposed directive compelling compani=
es to
reduce over-dependency on single suppliers was, the spokesman observed,
simply the outcome of choices made by European firms based on cost,
technology, and efficiency, choices that European policymakers had reframed
as a structural vulnerability the moment they became politically
inconvenient. Citing the old Chinese proverb about not imposing on others
what one does not desire for oneself, he suggested the bloc=E2=80=99s so-ca=
lled
=E2=80=98diversification=E2=80=99 policy was protectionism wearing market-e=
conomy clothing,
and urged Brussels to resolve disagreements through dialogue rather than
legislation designed to penalise superior competitiveness.

The response was characteristically measured. It was also, on the available
evidence, largely accurate. Tracking the European Union=E2=80=99s commercia=
l
relationship with China across three decades reveals a pattern that resists
the official narrative of strategic foresight: a bloc that benefited
enormously from Chinese manufacturing integration when it suited European
capital, discovered the language of risk only when Chinese industry became
formidably competitive, and has since generated a vocabulary, de-risking,
strategic autonomy, overcapacity, unfair subsidy, that functions primarily
to justify protective measures the WTO system was designed to prevent. The
historical record, across solar energy, telecommunications, automotive
manufacturing, and energy supply, tells a story less about Chinese
distortion than about European complacency and the structural consequences
of outsourcing industrial policy to financial markets for a generation.

The solar panel episode is among the most instructive. In July 2012, EU Pro
Sun, an association of approximately twenty European solar panel producers,
filed a complaint with the European Commission alleging that Chinese
manufacturers were dumping photovoltaic products on the European market.
The Commission opened an investigation in September 2012. By June 2013,
provisional anti-dumping tariffs of 11.8 per cent were imposed, rising to
47.6 per cent by August of that year. The Commission framed the measures as
necessary to protect an estimated 25,000 jobs in European solar
manufacturing. The Chinese delegation to Brussels responded by threatening
countermeasures, and Beijing shortly afterwards launched an anti-dumping
investigation into European wine exportsx, a signal that the trade
relationship had more to lose from escalation than either party cared to
acknowledge publicly.

At the time of the dispute, Chinese manufacturers held roughly 80 per cent
of the European solar market, and in 2011 alone had exported =E2=82=AC21 bi=
llion in
solar panels to the EU.=C2=B9 The Commission=E2=80=99s stated objective, re=
storing a
level playing field to save domestic jobs, was contested from the outset by
a different coalition of European commercial interests, namely the
installers, developers, and electricity utilities who had built business
models around cheap Chinese photovoltaic equipment and who argued,
correctly, that tariffs would raise the cost of Europe=E2=80=99s energy tra=
nsition.
The settlement reached in July 2013, which imposed a minimum export price
of =E2=82=AC0.56 per watt-peak and a volume cap of seven gigawatts annually=
,
resolved the immediate diplomatic confrontation without addressing the
underlying industrial question. European solar panel manufacturing did not
revive.

The political memory of that episode has been buried under subsequent
events, but its logic repays examination. The tariff regime that Brussels
constructed to protect a domestic industry it described as strategically
significant proved incapable of generating the investment, scale, or
technological development necessary to compete. European governments had
already reduced feed-in tariff subsidies in response to falling panel
prices - prices that fell, in large part, because Chinese manufacturers
were building the volume and supply-chain integration that European
producers were not. Imposing import barriers at that late stage did not
change the underlying industrial calculus; it merely raised costs for
European consumers and delayed the energy transition at the margin, until
political and economic pressure eventually forced Brussels to reopen the
market. The industry the Commission sought to protect remains, for most
practical purposes, absent from European manufacturing.

The Huawei and ZTE question produced a different kind of institutional
failure, though one with comparable financial consequences. From roughly
2018 onwards, European governments came under sustained diplomatic pressure
from Washington to exclude Chinese telecommunications equipment vendors
from their fifth-generation network deployments, on the grounds that
Huawei=E2=80=99s infrastructure posed an unacceptable national security ris=
k. The
United Kingdom moved first among major European economies, with Culture
Secretary Oliver Dowden announcing in July 2020 that all Huawei components
would be removed from British 5G networks by 2027, at an estimated cost of
up to =C2=A32 billion and a network rollout delay of between two and three
years. European operators had, at various stages, deployed Huawei equipment
across their existing network infrastructure, and the cost of removal was
distinct from the cost of replacement.

A report from GSMA, the industry association representing mobile network
operators, estimated that a full European exclusion of Huawei and ZTE would
cost operators approximately =E2=82=AC55 billion and delay 5G rollout by up=
 to 18
months.=C2=B2 The security case for the exclusion rested substantially on
inference and political alignment rather than demonstrated evidence of
malfeasance. The British signals intelligence agency GCHQ, through its
Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre, a body that had examined the
company=E2=80=99s equipment since 2010, concluded that it had never discove=
red a
deliberate backdoor, though it identified, in 2020, defects characterised
as =E2=80=98serious and systematic=E2=80=99 in Huawei=E2=80=99s software en=
gineering practices. The
agency stated explicitly that it did not believe these defects resulted
from Chinese state interference. The United States government, which had
pressed most forcefully for the exclusion, produced no public technical
evidence of malicious functionality. Sweden=E2=80=99s telecoms regulator, c=
iting
advice from its armed forces and security service, described China as =E2=
=80=98one
of the biggest threats against Sweden,=E2=80=99 but offered no technical
demonstration that Huawei hardware contained exploitable Chinese state
access.

What the exclusion campaign unambiguously produced was measurable economic
damage to the European operators who had staked capital on Chinese
equipment and were then required to remove it. In Portugal and Romania,
operators installed Huawei hardware in advance of government bans, only to
face removal and reinstallation costs when those bans arrived. By February
2024, the European Commission=E2=80=99s own records showed that only ten of
twenty-seven member states had implemented meaningful restrictions on
Huawei or ZTE, notwithstanding years of Commission urgings. Germany,
Europe=E2=80=99s largest economy, proposed removing critical 5G core compon=
ents
only by 2026. The security imperative that Europe=E2=80=99s political class
proclaimed urgently in public was not, by the behaviour of most European
governments, treated urgently in practice. The episode illustrates a
recognisable pattern: a geopolitical posture adopted under American
pressure, executed expensively and incompletely, at substantial cost to
European network competitiveness, justified by security arguments that the
available evidence did not fully support.

Energy dependency presents the starkest case in the political economy of
European strategic self-deception. The International Energy Agency=E2=80=99=
s
analysis of the 2022-2023 energy crisis documents that Russian natural gas
grew from roughly 30 per cent of EU supply in 2010 to over 45 per cent by
2019. This was not an accident or an oversight; it was the cumulative
result of deliberate commercial and policy choices by European governments
and corporations who found Russian pipeline gas cheap, contractually
stable, and convenient. The warnings were not absent. Russia had
interrupted pipeline supply to Ukraine in 2006 and 2009, with downstream
consequences for EU member states. Germany, which became the primary
importer of Russian gas and the political champion of Nord Stream 2,
pursued deeper energy integration with Moscow through repeated diplomatic
and commercial crises.

When Russia=E2=80=99s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 force=
d a
reckoning, the European Commission launched its REPowerEU plan in May 2022,
committing to rapid diversification of energy supply. EU dependence on
Russian gas fell from approximately 45 per cent in 2021 to around 15 per
cent by 2023, achieved through a combination of accelerated liquefied
natural gas imports, reduced industrial consumption, and emergency demand
aggregation mechanisms.=C2=B3 The adjustment was remarkable in its speed, b=
ut
its cost was enormous. EU natural gas subsidies, which had hovered between
=E2=82=AC7 billion and =E2=82=AC10 billion annually before 2022, increased =
fivefold in 2022
to protect households and industries from price shocks, and remained four
times above pre-crisis levels in 2023. European industrial electricity
prices rose to levels that made energy-intensive manufacturing economically
unviable in several sectors. Companies across the continent began assessing
relocation to the United States, where the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
offered substantial subsidies for industrial investment, or to Asia, where
energy costs had not collapsed comparably.

The political and journalistic response to these dislocations rarely
assigned responsibility to the thirty-year policy of European energy
dependency that had created the vulnerability. The crisis was presented,
overwhelmingly, as an external shock caused by Russian belligerence, which
it was, rather than as the consequence of a structural dependency that
European governments had deliberately cultivated and persistently deepened
against contrary advice. The language of dependency, of strategic risk, of
overdependence on a single supplier, the precise vocabulary now deployed
against Chinese commercial integration, had been notably absent from
European public discourse during the decades in which Russian gas
penetrated deeper into European industrial and domestic supply chains.

The electric vehicle tariff imposed by the European Commission in October
2024 brings the pattern into its contemporary form. The Commission=E2=80=99=
s
investigation concluded that Chinese-made electric vehicles had benefited
from state subsidies, with countervailing duties ranging from approximately
17 per cent to 38 per cent imposed on top of an existing 10 per cent
tariff. The Chinese share of European EV sales had grown from 3.5 per cent
in 2020 to 27.2 per cent by the second quarter of 2024, with Chinese brands
specifically, as distinguished from Tesla and other foreign manufacturers
using Chinese production, expanding from 1.9 per cent to 14.1 per cent of
the market. The Commission characterised the Chinese advantage as the
product of state distortion; the complementary explanation, available in
the same European Parliament research documents, was that China had built
overwhelming scale and supply-chain integration across the entire electric
vehicle value chain, from battery chemistry to manufacturing process, over
roughly fifteen years of committed industrial development, while European
manufacturers defended internal combustion platforms and hybrid
technologies that Chinese competitors, unburdened by an existing industry
to protect, had not prioritised.

Mario Draghi=E2=80=99s 2024 report on European competitiveness, commissione=
d by the
European Commission itself, was frank about this tension. Draghi
acknowledged that relying more heavily on Chinese manufacturing represented
=E2=80=98the cheapest and most efficient route to meeting our decarbonisati=
on
targets=E2=80=99 but argued that =E2=80=98China=E2=80=99s state-sponsored c=
ompetition also
represents a threat to our productive clean tech and automotive
industries.=E2=80=99=E2=81=B4 The formulation is politically serviceable bu=
t analytically
incomplete. The European automotive industry=E2=80=99s competitive position
relative to China reflects decisions made across decades, about
electrification timelines, battery investment, platform architecture, and
manufacturing geography, that were the product of European corporate
strategy and European government incentive structures, not Chinese subsidy
design. BYD, to cite the most prominent example, received =E2=82=AC2.1 bill=
ion in
direct government subsidies in 2022, a figure that European critics have
cited repeatedly; European automotive manufacturers received comparable
state support, through a combination of diesel emissions regulatory
leniency, scrappage incentive programmes, COVID-19 sectoral aid, and
indirect subsidy through favourable electricity tariffs for manufacturing,
that has not attracted equivalent analytical attention.

Experts working on the EV file have noted that tariffs alone will not
restore European competitiveness. The European Parliament=E2=80=99s own res=
earch
service stated that =E2=80=98stakeholders and experts have warned that tari=
ffs will
not be enough to protect EU competitiveness in the EV industry, stressing
the need for investment and other measures.=E2=80=99 Hungary, notably, resp=
onded to
the Commission=E2=80=99s tariff posture not by reducing Chinese investment =
but by
becoming the primary European destination for Chinese EV and battery
manufacturing investment, demonstrating that the geography of production
remains flexible in ways that tariffs on imports do not fully address. The
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman=E2=80=99s observation, that EU =E2=80=98=
diversification=E2=80=99
measures are incompatible with the bloc=E2=80=99s stated commitment to mark=
et
economy principles and free trade, sits uncomfortably alongside the
Commission=E2=80=99s own internal analysis, which acknowledges the limits o=
f its
protective instruments.

The broader geopolitical dimension of what European policymakers call
de-risking becomes clearer when set alongside developments in the American
relationship with India. At the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi on 5 March
2026, United States Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau offered a
candid account of Washington=E2=80=99s commercial intentions toward its dev=
eloping
partner. Landau, speaking in the context of a US-India trade deal described
as nearly finalised, said that the United States would not repeat what he
characterised as the mistake of enabling China=E2=80=99s export-led growth.=
 His
precise words, as reported by multiple press sources, were that Washington
would not allow India =E2=80=98to develop all these markets and then the ne=
xt thing
you know, you are beating us in many commercial things,=E2=80=99 adding tha=
t the
administration would =E2=80=98make sure that whatever we do is fair to our =
people.=E2=80=99

These remarks, delivered at a major international strategic conference
organised by the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and the Observer
Research Foundation, were not a diplomatic accident.=E2=81=B5 They represen=
t a
stated American policy of managed commercial containment, the same policy
that Washington has applied to China through tariffs, technology export
controls, and supply-chain legislation, now explicitly extended to India as
a function of its economic trajectory. Landau framed this as preventing a
repetition of past =E2=80=98mistakes=E2=80=99 rather than as an exercise in=
 deliberate
suppression of foreign competition, but the operational content of the two
framings is identical. A country that grows too successfully commercially
will be subjected to trade conditions calibrated to prevent it from
outcompeting American industry. The language of partnership, mutual
benefit, and democratic solidarity accompanies this posture in public
communications; the mechanism of restriction operates regardless.

The significance of Landau=E2=80=99s remarks extends beyond the specific US=
-India
relationship. They provide, in unusually direct language, the underlying
logic of Western trade policy toward competitive economies in the
developing world: market access is extended instrumentally and
conditionally, and is adjusted or restricted when the recipient economy
becomes a commercial rival rather than a commercial dependency. This is the
framework that China experienced through the 1990s and 2000s, as WTO
accession and manufacturing integration proceeded alongside sustained
pressure on intellectual property, currency management, and industrial
subsidy, pressure that intensified precisely as Chinese export
competitiveness sharpened. The European Commission has maintained, publicly
and consistently, that its own protective measures are categorically
different: targeted, proportionate, WTO-consistent, designed not to close
markets but to restore fair competition. The Chinese Foreign Ministry=E2=80=
=99s
repeated characterisation of these measures as protectionism with superior
paperwork is not analytically unreasonable.

European businesses operating in China have registered their own
dissatisfaction with the direction of commercial policy, though not always
in the manner that Brussels might prefer. The China Chamber of Commerce to
the EU=E2=80=99s November 2025 report on the development of Chinese enterpr=
ises in
Europe found that 90 per cent of Chinese business respondents reported that
the EU=E2=80=99s de-risking agenda had negatively affected their operations=
 and
market confidence, and over 40 per cent described differential treatment
linked to their Chinese corporate identity. The report noted that overall
ratings of the EU business environment among Chinese companies had declined
for the sixth consecutive year. Jens Eskelund, president of the European
Union Chamber of Commerce in China, characterised European firms operating
there as becoming =E2=80=98collateral damage in disputes not triggered by E=
uropean
actions=E2=80=99, a formulation that could be applied with equal justice to=
 Chinese
firms operating in Europe.

Germany=E2=80=99s trade deficit with China reached a record =E2=82=AC90 bil=
lion in 2025, a
figure that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz raised with Chinese President
Xi Jinping during their February 2026 meeting, noting that Chinese
industrial capacity had developed to levels =E2=80=98far exceeding market d=
emand.=E2=80=99
The Chinese foreign ministry=E2=80=99s response to Merz=E2=80=99s public ch=
aracterisation
was notably restrained, suggesting that Beijing regards the structural
argument, that Chinese production has exceeded domestic absorption, as
weaker than the operational argument, which is that Chinese manufacturers
produce what the global market has demonstrated it will purchase. The
distinction matters. Overcapacity in a technical supply-demand sense
requires evidence that production exceeds not merely current domestic
consumption but global demand at prevailing prices. That Chinese electric
vehicles, solar equipment, batteries, and consumer electronics are finding
buyers across multiple continents suggests the overcapacity framing is at
minimum incomplete.

The Chinese foreign ministry spokesman=E2=80=99s citation of the Confucian =
maxim at
the 11 June 2026 press conference was a rhetorical device, but not an empty
one. The principle of reciprocity, that one should not subject others to
conditions one would find unacceptable for oneself, illuminates the
structural asymmetry in European trade discourse with reasonable precision.
When European luxury goods, automotive products, chemicals, and machinery
entered the Chinese market across the 1990s and 2000s, no Chinese foreign
ministry spokesman accused European exporters of creating strategic
dependency within Chinese supply chains. China absorbed the competition,
invested in domestic capability development, and over two decades built the
industrial capacity that European governments now describe, in succession,
as unfair, distorting, overproduced, and strategically threatening. The
vocabulary changed in direct proportion to Chinese competitive success.

None of this is to suggest that state subsidy plays no role in Chinese
industrial development, or that concerns about supply-chain concentration
are inherently illegitimate. State support has been a feature of industrial
development in every country that has successfully industrialised,
including the United Kingdom through its nineteenth-century navigation acts
and colonial preference systems, the United States through its tariff
regimes, public procurement practices, and defence-linked research
expenditure, and Germany through its post-war Mittelstand support
infrastructure and energy pricing arrangements. The analytical question is
whether the instruments now deployed against Chinese industry are
meaningfully distinguishable from the instruments that those same countries
regard as normal features of their own industrial history, and whether the
threshold for intervention correlates with evidence of genuine market
distortion or with the competitive threat posed to incumbent industries.

The available record suggests the latter correlation is stronger. The solar
panel tariff came when Chinese manufacturers had captured 80 per cent of
the European market. The Huawei exclusion came after Chinese
telecommunications companies had achieved a dominant global position in
fifth-generation network equipment. The EV tariff came as Chinese brands
expanded from under 2 per cent to over 14 per cent of European EV sales in
four years. In each case, the protective measure arrived after Chinese
competitiveness had already been demonstrated and after European
alternatives had already failed to develop at scale. The tariff functions
not as an instrument of fair-competition restoration but as a holding
action against a competitive dynamic that European institutions had not
anticipated and European industry had not matched.
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understand that we not gonna make with same mistakes with india that we
made with China=E2=80=9D)*

What the Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said at that June 2026 press
conference was, at its analytical core, a restatement of a position that a
growing body of trade economists and geopolitical analysts have reached
independently: that the EU=E2=80=99s de-risking agenda conflates legitimate
security concerns with commercial protection in ways that its own stated
principles do not support, and that the vocabulary of strategic autonomy
and supply-chain resilience, whatever its genuine utility in specific
sectors, is being deployed at a breadth and speed that correlates more
reliably with competitive threat than with demonstrable security risk. He
said it in measured diplomatic language, citing classical philosophy and
bilateral goodwill. He did not need to say more. The record speaks with
adequate force on its own terms.

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tom:16px"><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:2=
6px">When a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman stood at a lectern in Beijin=
g on 11 June 2026 and addressed a Bloomberg News correspondent=E2=80=99s qu=
estion about European supply-chain legislation, he said little that the For=
eign Ministry had not said before. The EU=E2=80=99s proposed directive comp=
elling companies to reduce over-dependency on single suppliers was, the spo=
kesman observed, simply the outcome of choices made by European firms based=
 on cost, technology, and efficiency, choices that European policymakers ha=
d reframed as a structural vulnerability the moment they became politically=
 inconvenient. Citing the old Chinese proverb about not imposing on others =
what one does not desire for oneself, he suggested the bloc=E2=80=99s so-ca=
lled =E2=80=98diversification=E2=80=99 policy was protectionism wearing mar=
ket-economy clothing, and urged Brussels to resolve disagreements through d=
ialogue rather than legislation designed to penalise superior competitivene=
ss.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px=
">The response was characteristically measured. It was also, on the availab=
le evidence, largely accurate. Tracking the European Union=E2=80=99s commer=
cial relationship with China across three decades reveals a pattern that re=
sists the official narrative of strategic foresight: a bloc that benefited =
enormously from Chinese manufacturing integration when it suited European c=
apital, discovered the language of risk only when Chinese industry became f=
ormidably competitive, and has since generated a vocabulary, de-risking, st=
rategic autonomy, overcapacity, unfair subsidy, that functions primarily to=
 justify protective measures the WTO system was designed to prevent. The hi=
storical record, across solar energy, telecommunications, automotive manufa=
cturing, and energy supply, tells a story less about Chinese distortion tha=
n about European complacency and the structural consequences of outsourcing=
 industrial policy to financial markets for a generation.</p><p style=3D"ma=
rgin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">The solar panel epi=
sode is among the most instructive. In July 2012, EU Pro Sun, an associatio=
n of approximately twenty European solar panel producers, filed a complaint=
 with the European Commission alleging that Chinese manufacturers were dump=
ing photovoltaic products on the European market. The Commission opened an =
investigation in September 2012. By June 2013, provisional anti-dumping tar=
iffs of 11.8 per cent were imposed, rising to 47.6 per cent by August of th=
at year. The Commission framed the measures as necessary to protect an esti=
mated 25,000 jobs in European solar manufacturing. The Chinese delegation t=
o Brussels responded by threatening countermeasures, and Beijing shortly af=
terwards launched an anti-dumping investigation into European wine exportsx=
, a signal that the trade relationship had more to lose from escalation tha=
n either party cared to acknowledge publicly.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px=
 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">At the time of the dispute, Chi=
nese manufacturers held roughly 80 per cent of the European solar market, a=
nd in 2011 alone had exported =E2=82=AC21 billion in solar panels to the EU=
.=C2=B9 The Commission=E2=80=99s stated objective, restoring a level playin=
g field to save domestic jobs, was contested from the outset by a different=
 coalition of European commercial interests, namely the installers, develop=
ers, and electricity utilities who had built business models around cheap C=
hinese photovoltaic equipment and who argued, correctly, that tariffs would=
 raise the cost of Europe=E2=80=99s energy transition. The settlement reach=
ed in July 2013, which imposed a minimum export price of =E2=82=AC0.56 per =
watt-peak and a volume cap of seven gigawatts annually, resolved the immedi=
ate diplomatic confrontation without addressing the underlying industrial q=
uestion. European solar panel manufacturing did not revive.</p><p style=3D"=
margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">The political mem=
ory of that episode has been buried under subsequent events, but its logic =
repays examination. The tariff regime that Brussels constructed to protect =
a domestic industry it described as strategically significant proved incapa=
ble of generating the investment, scale, or technological development neces=
sary to compete. European governments had already reduced feed-in tariff su=
bsidies in response to falling panel prices - prices that fell, in large pa=
rt, because Chinese manufacturers were building the volume and supply-chain=
 integration that European producers were not. Imposing import barriers at =
that late stage did not change the underlying industrial calculus; it merel=
y raised costs for European consumers and delayed the energy transition at =
the margin, until political and economic pressure eventually forced Brussel=
s to reopen the market. The industry the Commission sought to protect remai=
ns, for most practical purposes, absent from European manufacturing.</p><p =
style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">The Huaw=
ei and ZTE question produced a different kind of institutional failure, tho=
ugh one with comparable financial consequences. From roughly 2018 onwards, =
European governments came under sustained diplomatic pressure from Washingt=
on to exclude Chinese telecommunications equipment vendors from their fifth=
-generation network deployments, on the grounds that Huawei=E2=80=99s infra=
structure posed an unacceptable national security risk. The United Kingdom =
moved first among major European economies, with Culture Secretary Oliver D=
owden announcing in July 2020 that all Huawei components would be removed f=
rom British 5G networks by 2027, at an estimated cost of up to =C2=A32 bill=
ion and a network rollout delay of between two and three years. European op=
erators had, at various stages, deployed Huawei equipment across their exis=
ting network infrastructure, and the cost of removal was distinct from the =
cost of replacement.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55)=
;line-height:26px">A report from GSMA, the industry association representin=
g mobile network operators, estimated that a full European exclusion of Hua=
wei and ZTE would cost operators approximately =E2=82=AC55 billion and dela=
y 5G rollout by up to 18 months.=C2=B2 The security case for the exclusion =
rested substantially on inference and political alignment rather than demon=
strated evidence of malfeasance. The British signals intelligence agency GC=
HQ, through its Huawei Cyber Security Evaluation Centre, a body that had ex=
amined the company=E2=80=99s equipment since 2010, concluded that it had ne=
ver discovered a deliberate backdoor, though it identified, in 2020, defect=
s characterised as =E2=80=98serious and systematic=E2=80=99 in Huawei=E2=80=
=99s software engineering practices. The agency stated explicitly that it d=
id not believe these defects resulted from Chinese state interference. The =
United States government, which had pressed most forcefully for the exclusi=
on, produced no public technical evidence of malicious functionality. Swede=
n=E2=80=99s telecoms regulator, citing advice from its armed forces and sec=
urity service, described China as =E2=80=98one of the biggest threats again=
st Sweden,=E2=80=99 but offered no technical demonstration that Huawei hard=
ware contained exploitable Chinese state access.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px =
0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">What the exclusion campaign =
unambiguously produced was measurable economic damage to the European opera=
tors who had staked capital on Chinese equipment and were then required to =
remove it. In Portugal and Romania, operators installed Huawei hardware in =
advance of government bans, only to face removal and reinstallation costs w=
hen those bans arrived. By February 2024, the European Commission=E2=80=99s=
 own records showed that only ten of twenty-seven member states had impleme=
nted meaningful restrictions on Huawei or ZTE, notwithstanding years of Com=
mission urgings. Germany, Europe=E2=80=99s largest economy, proposed removi=
ng critical 5G core components only by 2026. The security imperative that E=
urope=E2=80=99s political class proclaimed urgently in public was not, by t=
he behaviour of most European governments, treated urgently in practice. Th=
e episode illustrates a recognisable pattern: a geopolitical posture adopte=
d under American pressure, executed expensively and incompletely, at substa=
ntial cost to European network competitiveness, justified by security argum=
ents that the available evidence did not fully support.</p><p style=3D"marg=
in:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">Energy dependency pre=
sents the starkest case in the political economy of European strategic self=
-deception. The International Energy Agency=E2=80=99s analysis of the 2022-=
2023 energy crisis documents that Russian natural gas grew from roughly 30 =
per cent of EU supply in 2010 to over 45 per cent by 2019. This was not an =
accident or an oversight; it was the cumulative result of deliberate commer=
cial and policy choices by European governments and corporations who found =
Russian pipeline gas cheap, contractually stable, and convenient. The warni=
ngs were not absent. Russia had interrupted pipeline supply to Ukraine in 2=
006 and 2009, with downstream consequences for EU member states. Germany, w=
hich became the primary importer of Russian gas and the political champion =
of Nord Stream 2, pursued deeper energy integration with Moscow through rep=
eated diplomatic and commercial crises.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;=
color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">When Russia=E2=80=99s full-scale inva=
sion of Ukraine in February 2022 forced a reckoning, the European Commissio=
n launched its REPowerEU plan in May 2022, committing to rapid diversificat=
ion of energy supply. EU dependence on Russian gas fell from approximately =
45 per cent in 2021 to around 15 per cent by 2023, achieved through a combi=
nation of accelerated liquefied natural gas imports, reduced industrial con=
sumption, and emergency demand aggregation mechanisms.=C2=B3 The adjustment=
 was remarkable in its speed, but its cost was enormous. EU natural gas sub=
sidies, which had hovered between =E2=82=AC7 billion and =E2=82=AC10 billio=
n annually before 2022, increased fivefold in 2022 to protect households an=
d industries from price shocks, and remained four times above pre-crisis le=
vels in 2023. European industrial electricity prices rose to levels that ma=
de energy-intensive manufacturing economically unviable in several sectors.=
 Companies across the continent began assessing relocation to the United St=
ates, where the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 offered substantial subsidi=
es for industrial investment, or to Asia, where energy costs had not collap=
sed comparably.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line=
-height:26px">The political and journalistic response to these dislocations=
 rarely assigned responsibility to the thirty-year policy of European energ=
y dependency that had created the vulnerability. The crisis was presented, =
overwhelmingly, as an external shock caused by Russian belligerence, which =
it was, rather than as the consequence of a structural dependency that Euro=
pean governments had deliberately cultivated and persistently deepened agai=
nst contrary advice. The language of dependency, of strategic risk, of over=
dependence on a single supplier, the precise vocabulary now deployed agains=
t Chinese commercial integration, had been notably absent from European pub=
lic discourse during the decades in which Russian gas penetrated deeper int=
o European industrial and domestic supply chains.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px=
 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">The electric vehicle tariff=
 imposed by the European Commission in October 2024 brings the pattern into=
 its contemporary form. The Commission=E2=80=99s investigation concluded th=
at Chinese-made electric vehicles had benefited from state subsidies, with =
countervailing duties ranging from approximately 17 per cent to 38 per cent=
 imposed on top of an existing 10 per cent tariff. The Chinese share of Eur=
opean EV sales had grown from 3.5 per cent in 2020 to 27.2 per cent by the =
second quarter of 2024, with Chinese brands specifically, as distinguished =
from Tesla and other foreign manufacturers using Chinese production, expand=
ing from 1.9 per cent to 14.1 per cent of the market. The Commission charac=
terised the Chinese advantage as the product of state distortion; the compl=
ementary explanation, available in the same European Parliament research do=
cuments, was that China had built overwhelming scale and supply-chain integ=
ration across the entire electric vehicle value chain, from battery chemist=
ry to manufacturing process, over roughly fifteen years of committed indust=
rial development, while European manufacturers defended internal combustion=
 platforms and hybrid technologies that Chinese competitors, unburdened by =
an existing industry to protect, had not prioritised.</p><p style=3D"margin=
:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">Mario Draghi=E2=80=99s =
2024 report on European competitiveness, commissioned by the European Commi=
ssion itself, was frank about this tension. Draghi acknowledged that relyin=
g more heavily on Chinese manufacturing represented =E2=80=98the cheapest a=
nd most efficient route to meeting our decarbonisation targets=E2=80=99 but=
 argued that =E2=80=98China=E2=80=99s state-sponsored competition also repr=
esents a threat to our productive clean tech and automotive industries.=E2=
=80=99=E2=81=B4 The formulation is politically serviceable but analytically=
 incomplete. The European automotive industry=E2=80=99s competitive positio=
n relative to China reflects decisions made across decades, about electrifi=
cation timelines, battery investment, platform architecture, and manufactur=
ing geography, that were the product of European corporate strategy and Eur=
opean government incentive structures, not Chinese subsidy design. BYD, to =
cite the most prominent example, received =E2=82=AC2.1 billion in direct go=
vernment subsidies in 2022, a figure that European critics have cited repea=
tedly; European automotive manufacturers received comparable state support,=
 through a combination of diesel emissions regulatory leniency, scrappage i=
ncentive programmes, COVID-19 sectoral aid, and indirect subsidy through fa=
vourable electricity tariffs for manufacturing, that has not attracted equi=
valent analytical attention.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(5=
4,55,55);line-height:26px">Experts working on the EV file have noted that t=
ariffs alone will not restore European competitiveness. The European Parlia=
ment=E2=80=99s own research service stated that =E2=80=98stakeholders and e=
xperts have warned that tariffs will not be enough to protect EU competitiv=
eness in the EV industry, stressing the need for investment and other measu=
res.=E2=80=99 Hungary, notably, responded to the Commission=E2=80=99s tarif=
f posture not by reducing Chinese investment but by becoming the primary Eu=
ropean destination for Chinese EV and battery manufacturing investment, dem=
onstrating that the geography of production remains flexible in ways that t=
ariffs on imports do not fully address. The Chinese foreign ministry spokes=
man=E2=80=99s observation, that EU =E2=80=98diversification=E2=80=99 measur=
es are incompatible with the bloc=E2=80=99s stated commitment to market eco=
nomy principles and free trade, sits uncomfortably alongside the Commission=
=E2=80=99s own internal analysis, which acknowledges the limits of its prot=
ective instruments.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);=
line-height:26px">The broader geopolitical dimension of what European polic=
ymakers call de-risking becomes clearer when set alongside developments in =
the American relationship with India. At the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi =
on 5 March 2026, United States Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau=
 offered a candid account of Washington=E2=80=99s commercial intentions tow=
ard its developing partner. Landau, speaking in the context of a US-India t=
rade deal described as nearly finalised, said that the United States would =
not repeat what he characterised as the mistake of enabling China=E2=80=99s=
 export-led growth. His precise words, as reported by multiple press source=
s, were that Washington would not allow India =E2=80=98to develop all these=
 markets and then the next thing you know, you are beating us in many comme=
rcial things,=E2=80=99 adding that the administration would =E2=80=98make s=
ure that whatever we do is fair to our people.=E2=80=99</p><p style=3D"marg=
in:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">These remarks, delive=
red at a major international strategic conference organised by the Indian M=
inistry of External Affairs and the Observer Research Foundation, were not =
a diplomatic accident.=E2=81=B5 They represent a stated American policy of =
managed commercial containment, the same policy that Washington has applied=
 to China through tariffs, technology export controls, and supply-chain leg=
islation, now explicitly extended to India as a function of its economic tr=
ajectory. Landau framed this as preventing a repetition of past =E2=80=98mi=
stakes=E2=80=99 rather than as an exercise in deliberate suppression of for=
eign competition, but the operational content of the two framings is identi=
cal. A country that grows too successfully commercially will be subjected t=
o trade conditions calibrated to prevent it from outcompeting American indu=
stry. The language of partnership, mutual benefit, and democratic solidarit=
y accompanies this posture in public communications; the mechanism of restr=
iction operates regardless.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54=
,55,55);line-height:26px">The significance of Landau=E2=80=99s remarks exte=
nds beyond the specific US-India relationship. They provide, in unusually d=
irect language, the underlying logic of Western trade policy toward competi=
tive economies in the developing world: market access is extended instrumen=
tally and conditionally, and is adjusted or restricted when the recipient e=
conomy becomes a commercial rival rather than a commercial dependency. This=
 is the framework that China experienced through the 1990s and 2000s, as WT=
O accession and manufacturing integration proceeded alongside sustained pre=
ssure on intellectual property, currency management, and industrial subsidy=
, pressure that intensified precisely as Chinese export competitiveness sha=
rpened. The European Commission has maintained, publicly and consistently, =
that its own protective measures are categorically different: targeted, pro=
portionate, WTO-consistent, designed not to close markets but to restore fa=
ir competition. The Chinese Foreign Ministry=E2=80=99s repeated characteris=
ation of these measures as protectionism with superior paperwork is not ana=
lytically unreasonable.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,=
55);line-height:26px">European businesses operating in China have registere=
d their own dissatisfaction with the direction of commercial policy, though=
 not always in the manner that Brussels might prefer. The China Chamber of =
Commerce to the EU=E2=80=99s November 2025 report on the development of Chi=
nese enterprises in Europe found that 90 per cent of Chinese business respo=
ndents reported that the EU=E2=80=99s de-risking agenda had negatively affe=
cted their operations and market confidence, and over 40 per cent described=
 differential treatment linked to their Chinese corporate identity. The rep=
ort noted that overall ratings of the EU business environment among Chinese=
 companies had declined for the sixth consecutive year. Jens Eskelund, pres=
ident of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China, characterised Eur=
opean firms operating there as becoming =E2=80=98collateral damage in dispu=
tes not triggered by European actions=E2=80=99, a formulation that could be=
 applied with equal justice to Chinese firms operating in Europe.</p><p sty=
le=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px">Germany=E2=
=80=99s trade deficit with China reached a record =E2=82=AC90 billion in 20=
25, a figure that German Chancellor Friedrich Merz raised with Chinese Pres=
ident Xi Jinping during their February 2026 meeting, noting that Chinese in=
dustrial capacity had developed to levels =E2=80=98far exceeding market dem=
and.=E2=80=99 The Chinese foreign ministry=E2=80=99s response to Merz=E2=80=
=99s public characterisation was notably restrained, suggesting that Beijin=
g regards the structural argument, that Chinese production has exceeded dom=
estic absorption, as weaker than the operational argument, which is that Ch=
inese manufacturers produce what the global market has demonstrated it will=
 purchase. The distinction matters. Overcapacity in a technical supply-dema=
nd sense requires evidence that production exceeds not merely current domes=
tic consumption but global demand at prevailing prices. That Chinese electr=
ic vehicles, solar equipment, batteries, and consumer electronics are findi=
ng buyers across multiple continents suggests the overcapacity framing is a=
t minimum incomplete.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55=
);line-height:26px">The Chinese foreign ministry spokesman=E2=80=99s citati=
on of the Confucian maxim at the 11 June 2026 press conference was a rhetor=
ical device, but not an empty one. The principle of reciprocity, that one s=
hould not subject others to conditions one would find unacceptable for ones=
elf, illuminates the structural asymmetry in European trade discourse with =
reasonable precision. When European luxury goods, automotive products, chem=
icals, and machinery entered the Chinese market across the 1990s and 2000s,=
 no Chinese foreign ministry spokesman accused European exporters of creati=
ng strategic dependency within Chinese supply chains. China absorbed the co=
mpetition, invested in domestic capability development, and over two decade=
s built the industrial capacity that European governments now describe, in =
succession, as unfair, distorting, overproduced, and strategically threaten=
ing. The vocabulary changed in direct proportion to Chinese competitive suc=
cess.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26=
px">None of this is to suggest that state subsidy plays no role in Chinese =
industrial development, or that concerns about supply-chain concentration a=
re inherently illegitimate. State support has been a feature of industrial =
development in every country that has successfully industrialised, includin=
g the United Kingdom through its nineteenth-century navigation acts and col=
onial preference systems, the United States through its tariff regimes, pub=
lic procurement practices, and defence-linked research expenditure, and Ger=
many through its post-war Mittelstand support infrastructure and energy pri=
cing arrangements. The analytical question is whether the instruments now d=
eployed against Chinese industry are meaningfully distinguishable from the =
instruments that those same countries regard as normal features of their ow=
n industrial history, and whether the threshold for intervention correlates=
 with evidence of genuine market distortion or with the competitive threat =
posed to incumbent industries.</p><p style=3D"margin:0px 0px 20px;color:rgb=
(54,55,55);line-height:26px">The available record suggests the latter corre=
lation is stronger. The solar panel tariff came when Chinese manufacturers =
had captured 80 per cent of the European market. The Huawei exclusion came =
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*https://www.juancole.com/2026/06/agrees-trump-retweets.html
<https://www.juancole.com/2026/06/agrees-trump-retweets.html>*

*In Rare Step, Iran FM agrees with Trump, Trump retweets him*

*Juan Cole <https://www.juancole.com/author/jcedit> 06/13/2026*

*Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) =E2=80=93 The announcement by President Trump=
 on
Friday that he had decided not to pursue further attacks on Iran for the
moment after a round of tit for tat strikes midweek provoked two different
reactions in Iran*

*Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi confirmed that negotiations are nearing
success, saying that the Islamabad MOU =E2=80=9Chas never been closer. =E2=
=80=9CThis sort
of response from Tehran is rare. Often Trump announces breakthroughs in the
talks that are denied by Tehran, and the American public suspects he is
just manipulating the stock market. But this time, the Iranian foreign
minister concurred. In part, this alacrity may have been intended to
forestall further American strikes, some of which hit radar installations
and so blinded the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps in their attempt to
keep tight surveillance on civilian vessels in the Gulf so as to maintain
as much of its Hormuz blockade as it can. That blockade is Iran=E2=80=99s o=
nly
leverage over the US, and it is eroding.*

*In an incredible development, Donald Trump actually reposted Araghchi=E2=
=80=99s
message on his Truth Social. For Trump to retweet Araghchi is an unexpected
and remarkable development.*

*Earlier, on June 11, sources close to the hardliners in the Iranian
Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) denied  <https://t.me/farsna/441418>that
a new round of talks had begun. It is not clear what this assertion meant,
since talks have been ongoing, with Pakistani, Qatari and other mediation.
It could just be that the IRGC sinply did not want to look weak while Iran
was being attacked. Another IRGC source denied
<https://t.me/farsna/441418> that a final draft of the agreement was ready.
( H/t to BBC Monitoring  <https://monitoring.bbc.co.uk/>for links.)*

*During the most recent two days of exchange of fire between the US and
Iran, the IRGC had announced the the Strait of Hormuz was completely closed
<https://farsnews.ir/sepahnews/1781132626746270533> to shipping. As the US
was striking Iranian infrastructure, including petrochemical plants and a
water reservoir
<https://www.juancole.com/2026/06/deliberately-reservoir-endangers.html> in
the south (a war crime), the head of Iran=E2=80=99s Air Force or as they st=
yle it
=E2=80=9CAerospace Forces,=E2=80=9D Brig. Gen. Majid Musavi, warned
<https://t.me/Tasnimnews/421771> the US against meddling with the =E2=80=9C=
sacred
[muqaddas] Strait of Hormuz,=E2=80=9D saying that Iran could make the regio=
n =E2=80=9Chell=E2=80=9D
for America. *

*Photo by Alireza Akhlaghi: Pexels
<https://www.pexels.com/photo/milad-tower-in-tehran-15062010/>*

*I thought Musavi=E2=80=99s terminology here interesting. I hadn=E2=80=99t =
seen an Iranian
official call the Strait =E2=80=9Choly=E2=80=9D before, and there isn=E2=80=
=99t really a good basis
for so considering it as far as I know in Islamic or Shia sacred geography.
There is of course an old, pre-Islamic Zoroastrian notion that all of the
land of Iran, Iranzamin, is holy. And French Islam specialist Henri Corbin
argued that Iranian Shiism accepted many Zoroastrian ideas and symbols.
Corbin was certainly right; even some Zoroastrian angels are accepted. *

*It is a reminder of the different stakes for Iran and the United States.
The Iranian government is fighting for control of its own soil, which
Netanyahu and Trump tried to deny it. From Tehran=E2=80=99s point of view, =
that is
sacred territory.*

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=
=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr"><b><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, s=
erif"><a href=3D"https://www.juancole.com/2026/06/agrees-trump-retweets.htm=
l" target=3D"_blank">https://www.juancole.com/2026/06/agrees-trump-retweets=
.html</a></font></b></div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><b><font c=
olor=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><br></font></b></div><div><h1 styl=
e=3D"line-height:1.2141em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;max-width:100%=
"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif" size=3D"4"><i>In Rare Ste=
p, Iran FM agrees with Trump, Trump retweets him</i></font></h1><div style=
=3D"margin-bottom:1.45em;max-width:100%"><p style=3D"margin:0px;max-width:1=
00%;display:inline"><b><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><spa=
n style=3D"margin:0px;max-width:100%;clear:both;display:inline"><a href=3D"=
https://www.juancole.com/author/jcedit" rel=3D"author" style=3D"text-decora=
tion:none;margin:0px;max-width:100%;display:inline" target=3D"_blank"><span=
 style=3D"margin:0px;max-width:100%">Juan Cole</span></a></span><span>=C2=
=A0</span><span style=3D"margin:0.07em 0.45em 0px;padding:0px;max-width:100=
%;display:inline"></span>06/13/2026</font></b></p></div><p style=3D"max-wid=
th:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">Ann Arbor (Info=
rmed Comment) =E2=80=93 The announcement by President Trump on Friday that =
he had decided not to pursue further attacks on Iran for the moment after a=
 round of tit for tat strikes midweek provoked two different reactions in I=
ran</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000" fa=
ce=3D"georgia, serif">Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi confirmed that negoti=
ations are nearing success, saying that the Islamabad MOU =E2=80=9Chas neve=
r been closer. =E2=80=9CThis sort of response from Tehran is rare. Often Tr=
ump announces breakthroughs in the talks that are denied by Tehran, and the=
 American public suspects he is just manipulating the stock market. But thi=
s time, the Iranian foreign minister concurred. In part, this alacrity may =
have been intended to forestall further American strikes, some of which hit=
 radar installations and so blinded the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps =
in their attempt to keep tight surveillance on civilian vessels in the Gulf=
 so as to maintain as much of its Hormuz blockade as it can. That blockade =
is Iran=E2=80=99s only leverage over the US, and it is eroding.</font></b><=
/p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font col=
or=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">In an incredible development, Donald=
 Trump actually reposted Araghchi=E2=80=99s message on his Truth Social. Fo=
r Trump to retweet Araghchi is an unexpected and remarkable development.</f=
ont></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"=
georgia, serif">Earlier, on June 11, sources close to the hardliners in the=
 Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"htt=
ps://t.me/farsna/441418" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" targ=
et=3D"_blank">denied<span>=C2=A0</span></a>that a new round of talks had be=
gun. It is not clear what this assertion meant, since talks have been ongoi=
ng, with Pakistani, Qatari and other mediation. It could just be that the I=
RGC sinply did not want to look weak while Iran was being attacked. Another=
 IRGC source<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://t.me/farsna/441418" style=
=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">denied</a><span>=
=C2=A0</span>that a final draft of the agreement was ready. ( H/t to<span>=
=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://monitoring.bbc.co.uk/" style=3D"text-decora=
tion:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">BBC Monitoring<span>=C2=A0</spa=
n></a>for links.)</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=
=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">During the most recent two days of exc=
hange of fire between the US and Iran, the IRGC had announced the the Strai=
t of Hormuz<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://farsnews.ir/sepahnews/1781=
132626746270533" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_b=
lank">was completely closed</a><span>=C2=A0</span>to shipping. As the US wa=
s striking Iranian infrastructure, including petrochemical plants and<span>=
=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.juancole.com/2026/06/deliberately-reser=
voir-endangers.html" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=
=3D"_blank">a water reservoir</a><span>=C2=A0</span>in the south (a war cri=
me), the head of Iran=E2=80=99s Air Force or as they style it =E2=80=9CAero=
space Forces,=E2=80=9D Brig. Gen. Majid Musavi,<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=
=3D"https://t.me/Tasnimnews/421771" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width=
:100%" target=3D"_blank">warned</a><span>=C2=A0</span>the US against meddli=
ng with the =E2=80=9Csacred [<i style=3D"max-width:100%">muqaddas</i>] Stra=
it of Hormuz,=E2=80=9D saying that Iran could make the region =E2=80=9Chell=
=E2=80=9D for America.<span>=C2=A0</span></font></b></p><p style=3D"max-wid=
th:100%"><img src=3D"https://media.juancole.com/images/2026/06/pexels-alire=
za-akhlaghi-official-15062010.jpg" alt=3D"" width=3D"378" height=3D"412" st=
yle=3D"margin:0.5em 0px 0.5em auto;display:block"><i style=3D"max-width:100=
%"><small style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georg=
ia, serif">Photo by Alireza Akhlaghi:<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://=
www.pexels.com/photo/milad-tower-in-tehran-15062010/" style=3D"text-decorat=
ion:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">Pexels<span>=C2=A0</span></a></f=
ont></b></small></i></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#0000=
00" face=3D"georgia, serif">I thought Musavi=E2=80=99s terminology here int=
eresting. I hadn=E2=80=99t seen an Iranian official call the Strait =E2=80=
=9Choly=E2=80=9D before, and there isn=E2=80=99t really a good basis for so=
 considering it as far as I know in Islamic or Shia sacred geography. There=
 is of course an old, pre-Islamic Zoroastrian notion that all of the land o=
f Iran,<span>=C2=A0</span><i style=3D"max-width:100%">Iranzamin</i>, is hol=
y. And French Islam specialist Henri Corbin argued that Iranian Shiism acce=
pted many Zoroastrian ideas and symbols. Corbin was certainly right; even s=
ome Zoroastrian angels are accepted.<span>=C2=A0</span></font></b></p><p st=
yle=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">I=
t is a reminder of the different stakes for Iran and the United States. The=
 Iranian government is fighting for control of its own soil, which Netanyah=
u and Trump tried to deny it. From Tehran=E2=80=99s point of view, that is =
sacred territory.</font></b></p></div></div>
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*https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/tulsi-gabbard-reveals-over-12=
0-us-funded-biolabs-worldwide
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/tulsi-gabbard-reveals-over-12=
0-us-funded-biolabs-worldwide>*

6/13/26

*Tulsi Gabbard reveals over 120 US-funded biolabs worldwide*

*The US' Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard has released
new evidence revealing that the United States government has funded more
than 120 biolabs
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/Economy/us-strategic-oil-reserve-nears=
-four-decade-low-since-reagan>
across
over 30 countries, including facilities in Ukraine that remain vulnerable
amid the ongoing war with Russia.*

*According to a press release issued by the Office of the Director of
National Intelligence, the newly uncovered information ends months of
searching through Intelligence Community holdings. The DNI alleges that
until now, the full extent of the labs' existence
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/trump-s-credibility-erodes--f=
acts-shatter-his-iran-narrative>
and
funding had been "knowingly withheld" from the American public.*

*=E2=80=9CThe information surrounding the existence, history, locations, an=
d
funding of these US-funded biolabs has been intentionally covered up by
powerful people
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/majority-of-americans-doubt-j=
ustice-was-served-in-epstein-ca>
falsely
claiming that they do not exist and accusing anyone who says otherwise to
be foreign assets and traitors to America,=E2=80=9D the release states.*

*The ODNI warned that some of these facilities, particularly in Ukraine,
are at risk of compromise due to the Russia-Ukraine war. The Intelligence
Community had previously cautioned that a US-funded lab in Ukraine
likely housed dangerous pathogens and remained vulnerable
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/health/ebola-facility-for-americans-in=
-kenya-triggers-protests--leg>
to
Russian attack, seizure, or damage.*

*According to the findings, many of these government-funded biolabs are
currently or have previously engaged in research using hazardous and highly
contagious pathogens, including, in some cases, dangerous Gain-of-Function
(GoF) research, often with little visibility or oversight.*
Gabbard takes a jab at Biden administration

*President Trump took executive action on May 25, 2025, signing Executive
Order 14292 to end federal funding of Gain-of-Function research worldwide.
=E2=80=9CPresident Trump understands the serious threat dangerous
Gain-of-Function research poses to the American people
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-attacks-disrupted-iaea-nuc=
lear-inspections--gharibabadi>,=E2=80=9D
the release noted.*

*In a statement, DNI Gabbard sharply criticized former government health
officials and the previous administration.*

*=E2=80=9CDespite the obvious potential for catastrophic global impact rese=
arch on
dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have, politicians, so-called health
professionals like Dr. Fauci, and entities within the Biden
administration=E2=80=99s national security team lied to the American people=
 about
the existence of U.S.-funded and supported biolabs, and threatened those
who attempted to expose the truth
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/pentagon-blacklists-major-tec=
h-firms--claims-aiding-china-s>,=E2=80=9D
Gabbard said.*

*She added that the ODNI will continue to work with partners
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/gabbard-accused-by-nsa-whistl=
eblower-of-deviating-from-proto?utm_source=3Dmango-searchx&utm_medium=3Dtit=
le_and_relatives&utm_campaign=3DGabbard>
across
the government to identify the locations of the labs and the pathogens they
contain, with the goal of ending dangerous GoF research that threatens
public health and national security.*

*Gabbard has also issued new guidance to the Intelligence Community
directing increased intelligence collection on these overseas laboratories
and facilities. The ODNI reports that this directive is already
providing new details on clinical trials underway
<https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/dni-gabbard-s-appearance-at-f=
bi-ballot-seizure-sparks-legal?utm_source=3Dmango-searchx&utm_medium=3Dtitl=
e_and_relatives&utm_campaign=3DGabbard>
at
these sites, raising =E2=80=9Csignificant ethical, financial, and security
concerns=E2=80=9D regarding the public health initiatives and US national s=
ecurity.*

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ir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr"><span style=3D"font-family:georgia,serif">6=
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in-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" size=
=3D"4"><i>Tulsi Gabbard reveals over 120 US-funded biolabs worldwide</i></f=
ont></h1><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif" color=
=3D"#000000">The US&#39; Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabb=
ard has released new evidence revealing that the United States government<s=
pan>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://english.almayadeen.net/news/Economy/us-=
strategic-oil-reserve-nears-four-decade-low-since-reagan" rel=3D"noopener" =
style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">has funded =
more than 120 biolabs</a><span>=C2=A0</span>across over 30 countries, inclu=
ding facilities in Ukraine that remain vulnerable amid the ongoing war with=
 Russia.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia=
, serif" color=3D"#000000">According to a press release issued by the Offic=
e of the Director of National Intelligence, the newly uncovered information=
 ends months of searching through Intelligence Community holdings. The DNI =
alleges that until now,<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://english.almaya=
deen.net/news/politics/trump-s-credibility-erodes--facts-shatter-his-iran-n=
arrative" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" ta=
rget=3D"_blank">the full extent of the labs&#39; existence</a><span>=C2=A0<=
/span>and funding had been &quot;knowingly withheld&quot; from the American=
 public.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia=
, serif" color=3D"#000000">=E2=80=9CThe information surrounding the existen=
ce, history, locations, and funding of these US-funded biolabs has been<spa=
n>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/majo=
rity-of-americans-doubt-justice-was-served-in-epstein-ca" rel=3D"noopener" =
style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">intentional=
ly covered up by powerful people</a><span>=C2=A0</span>falsely claiming tha=
t they do not exist and accusing anyone who says otherwise to be foreign as=
sets and traitors to America,=E2=80=9D the release states.</font></b></p><p=
 style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif" color=3D"#000000=
">The ODNI warned that some of these facilities, particularly in Ukraine, a=
re at risk of compromise due to the Russia-Ukraine war. The Intelligence Co=
mmunity had previously cautioned that a US-funded lab in Ukraine likely<spa=
n>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://english.almayadeen.net/news/health/ebola-=
facility-for-americans-in-kenya-triggers-protests--leg" rel=3D"noopener" st=
yle=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">housed danger=
ous pathogens and remained vulnerable</a><span>=C2=A0</span>to Russian atta=
ck, seizure, or damage.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font =
color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">According to the findings, many o=
f these government-funded biolabs are currently or have previously engaged =
in research using hazardous and highly contagious pathogens, including, in =
some cases, dangerous Gain-of-Function (GoF) research, often with little vi=
sibility or oversight.</font></b></p><h2 style=3D"max-width:100%"><font siz=
e=3D"2" color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">Gabbard takes a jab at Bi=
den administration</font></h2><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"=
georgia, serif" color=3D"#000000">President Trump took executive action on =
May 25, 2025, signing Executive Order 14292 to end federal funding of Gain-=
of-Function research worldwide. =E2=80=9CPresident Trump understands the se=
rious threat dangerous Gain-of-Function<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https:=
//english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-attacks-disrupted-iaea-nuclear-in=
spections--gharibabadi" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-=
width:100%" target=3D"_blank">research poses to the American people</a>,=E2=
=80=9D the release noted.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><fon=
t color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">In a statement, DNI Gabbard sha=
rply criticized former government health officials and the previous adminis=
tration.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia=
, serif" color=3D"#000000">=E2=80=9CDespite the obvious potential for catas=
trophic global impact research on dangerous pathogens in biolabs can have, =
politicians, so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci, and entities wi=
thin the Biden administration=E2=80=99s national security team lied to the =
American people about the existence of U.S.-funded and supported biolabs, a=
nd threatened<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://english.almayadeen.net/n=
ews/politics/pentagon-blacklists-major-tech-firms--claims-aiding-china-s" r=
el=3D"noopener" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_bl=
ank">those who attempted to expose the truth</a>,=E2=80=9D Gabbard said.</f=
ont></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif" co=
lor=3D"#000000">She added that the<span>=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://eng=
lish.almayadeen.net/news/politics/gabbard-accused-by-nsa-whistleblower-of-d=
eviating-from-proto?utm_source=3Dmango-searchx&amp;utm_medium=3Dtitle_and_r=
elatives&amp;utm_campaign=3DGabbard" rel=3D"noopener" style=3D"text-decorat=
ion:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank">ODNI will continue to work with =
partners</a><span>=C2=A0</span>across the government to identify the locati=
ons of the labs and the pathogens they contain, with the goal of ending dan=
gerous GoF research that threatens public health and national security.</fo=
nt></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif" col=
or=3D"#000000">Gabbard has also issued new guidance to the Intelligence Com=
munity directing increased intelligence collection on these overseas labora=
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The UK has sentenced four anti-genocide activists to years in prison on
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policy analyst for criticizing the war in Iran.

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on Friday for breaking into a UK weapons factory owned by Israeli company
Elbit Systems in 2024 and damaging some of the genocide machinery contained
therein. The judge refused to allow the activists to explain to the jury
why they did what they did, and also refused to notify the jury that the
defendants could receive terrorism sentences if convicted.

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that this is believed to be the first time anyone has received a terrorism
sentence for property damage. Amnesty International has slammed the
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UK Palestine Action Activists Hit With =E2=80=98Completely Disproportionate=
=E2=80=99
Terrorism Sentences for Israeli Weapons Sabotage Amnesty UK said the
defendants "were sentenced as terrorists because prosecutors want to make
an example of them." commondreams.org/news/palestine=E2=80=A6

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The UK has previously made headlines with its ridiculous classification of
Palestine Action as a terrorist group, leading to mass arrests
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of activists who hold signs saying =E2=80=9CI support Palestine Action=E2=
=80=9D.

Meanwhile in the United States, the Trump administration is reportedly
targeting foreign policy analyst Trita Parsi for his criticism of the
US-Israeli war on Iran.

According to Zionist outlet The Free Press
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citizen. Free Press quotes an unnamed State Department official as saying
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stomp out domestic foreign policy dissent. Previously the State Department
was only working to deport unknown university students like Mahmoud Khalil
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Report: State Dept. Opens Probe of Iranian-Born Trita Parsi, Critic of
Trump=E2=80=99s War

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It=E2=80=99s a war on the human conscience. Sentencing anti-genocide activi=
sts as
terrorists. Working to deport mainstream foreign policy experts for
criticizing an American war. They=E2=80=99re actually punishing people for =
not
acting like sociopaths.

It=E2=80=99s the same war on the conscience that saw the empire persecute J=
ulian
Assange, crush pro-Palestine demonstrations on university campuses,
investigate peace activists for bringing aid to Cuba, and dramatically ramp
up the suppression of free speech to silence criticism of Israel.

In a healthy society, a person of conscience would thrive while a sociopath
would be shunned and marginalized. In western society it=E2=80=99s the exac=
t
opposite: people of conscience are sent to prison, and sociopaths are made
president of the United States.

That=E2=80=99s what you get when you live under an empire established on an=
d driven
by sociopathic values. The agenda to dominate and control the entire human
population is evil, because it can only be accomplished through nonstop
war, militarism, propaganda, deception, and tyranny.

That=E2=80=99s why the truth-tellers are branded traitors, the anti-genocid=
e
demonstrators are branded anti-semites, and the peace activists are branded
terrorists. We live in a backward dystopia with backward values, so the
good are beaten down while the wicked rule the world.

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rget=3D"_blank">Reading by Tim Foley</a></em><span>:</span></p>
                    <a href=3D"https://substack.com/redirect/2c17d4f5-724f-=
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                    <p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-=
height:26px;font-size:16px">The
                      UK has sentenced four anti-genocide activists to
                      years in prison on terrorism charges, and the US
                      is working to deport a prominent foreign policy
                      analyst for criticizing the war in Iran.</p>
                    <p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-=
height:26px;font-size:16px"><span>Four
                        members of the group Palestine Action </span><a hre=
f=3D"https://substack.com/redirect/b1bb74e6-3864-4a36-ab70-69b0274438ff?j=
=3DeyJ1IjoiM2FydnAifQ.CjSQnuBczHCy1BFS9fzFEtIoBnIxDO9eO0lGKOKHBh0" style=3D=
"color:#cb48c6;text-decoration:none" target=3D"_blank">were sentenced</a><s=
pan>
                        to a combined total of </span><a href=3D"https://su=
bstack.com/redirect/de3a2d7a-a1d6-43e4-877a-5d63e42c4854?j=3DeyJ1IjoiM2Fydn=
AifQ.CjSQnuBczHCy1BFS9fzFEtIoBnIxDO9eO0lGKOKHBh0" style=3D"color:#cb48c6;te=
xt-decoration:none" target=3D"_blank">25 years in prison</a><span>
                        on Friday for breaking into a UK weapons factory
                        owned by Israeli company Elbit Systems in 2024
                        and damaging some of the genocide machinery
                        contained therein. The judge refused to allow
                        the activists to explain to the jury why they
                        did what they did, and also refused to notify
                        the jury that the defendants could receive
                        terrorism sentences if convicted.</span></p>
                    <p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-=
height:26px;font-size:16px"><span>The
                        BBC </span><a href=3D"https://substack.com/redirect=
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FS9fzFEtIoBnIxDO9eO0lGKOKHBh0" style=3D"color:#cb48c6;text-decoration:none"=
 target=3D"_blank">reports</a><span> that
                        this is believed to be the first time anyone has
                        received a terrorism sentence for property
                        damage. Amnesty International has </span><a href=3D=
"https://substack.com/redirect/cfdc0c9c-10fe-4207-b647-6204de780cb0?j=3DeyJ=
1IjoiM2FydnAifQ.CjSQnuBczHCy1BFS9fzFEtIoBnIxDO9eO0lGKOKHBh0" style=3D"color=
:#cb48c6;text-decoration:none" target=3D"_blank">slammed the sentencing</a>=
<span>
                        as =E2=80=9Ccompletely disproportionate=E2=80=9D to=
 the crime.</span></p>
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height:26px;font-size:16px"><span>The
                        UK has previously made headlines with its
                        ridiculous classification of Palestine Action as
                        a terrorist group, leading to </span><a href=3D"htt=
ps://substack.com/redirect/61bba2e7-8c24-4d49-893e-d3260ec1331b?j=3DeyJ1Ijo=
iM2FydnAifQ.CjSQnuBczHCy1BFS9fzFEtIoBnIxDO9eO0lGKOKHBh0" style=3D"color:#cb=
48c6;text-decoration:none" target=3D"_blank">mass arrests</a><span> of
                        activists who hold signs saying =E2=80=9CI support
                        Palestine Action=E2=80=9D.</span></p>
                    <p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-=
height:26px;font-size:16px">Meanwhile
                      in the United States, the Trump administration is
                      reportedly targeting foreign policy analyst Trita
                      Parsi for his criticism of the US-Israeli war on
                      Iran.</p>
                    <p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-=
height:26px;font-size:16px"><span>According
                        to Zionist outlet </span><a href=3D"https://substac=
k.com/redirect/95664cbc-13d1-4b2d-badf-56675bdad238?j=3DeyJ1IjoiM2FydnAifQ.=
CjSQnuBczHCy1BFS9fzFEtIoBnIxDO9eO0lGKOKHBh0" style=3D"color:#cb48c6;text-de=
coration:none" target=3D"_blank">The Free Press</a><span>,
                        the US State Department has launched an
                        investigation into the possibility of revoking
                        the green card status held by Parsi, an
                        Iran-born Swedish citizen. Free Press quotes an
                        unnamed State Department official as saying
                        =E2=80=9CAnyone who seeks to undermine the U.S., we=
=E2=80=99re
                        taking a hard look at,=E2=80=9D which would include
                        =E2=80=9Cpeople who support adversaries of ours and
                        whose work furthers their agenda and undermines
                        our security.=E2=80=9D</span></p>
                    <p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-=
height:26px;font-size:16px"><span>This
                        is a significant expansion of the Trump
                        administration=E2=80=99s efforts to stomp out domes=
tic
                        foreign policy dissent. Previously the State
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height:26px;font-size:16px">It=E2=80=99s
                      a war on the human conscience. Sentencing
                      anti-genocide activists as terrorists. Working to
                      deport mainstream foreign policy experts for
                      criticizing an American war. They=E2=80=99re actually
                      punishing people for not acting like sociopaths.</p>
                    <p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-=
height:26px;font-size:16px">It=E2=80=99s
                      the same war on the conscience that saw the empire
                      persecute Julian Assange, crush pro-Palestine
                      demonstrations on university campuses, investigate
                      peace activists for bringing aid to Cuba, and
                      dramatically ramp up the suppression of free
                      speech to silence criticism of Israel.</p>
                    <p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-=
height:26px;font-size:16px">In
                      a healthy society, a person of conscience would
                      thrive while a sociopath would be shunned and
                      marginalized. In western society it=E2=80=99s the exa=
ct
                      opposite: people of conscience are sent to prison,
                      and sociopaths are made president of the United
                      States.</p>
                    <p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-=
height:26px;font-size:16px">That=E2=80=99s
                      what you get when you live under an empire
                      established on and driven by sociopathic values.
                      The agenda to dominate and control the entire
                      human population is evil, because it can only be
                      accomplished through nonstop war, militarism,
                      propaganda, deception, and tyranny.</p>
                    <p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-=
height:26px;font-size:16px">That=E2=80=99s
                      why the truth-tellers are branded traitors, the
                      anti-genocide demonstrators are branded
                      anti-semites, and the peace activists are branded
                      terrorists. We live in a backward dystopia with
                      backward values, so the good are beaten down while
                      the wicked rule the world.</p>
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*Rising Voice from New Delhi: BRICS's New World Order ManifestoUmur Tugay
Y=C3=BCcel 11.06.2026 18:01Author*
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*The BRICS Foreign Ministers' Meeting, which was held in New Delhi, the
capital of India, on May 15, 2026, has a meaning far beyond being an
ordinary diplomatic meeting. At this meeting, one of the most comprehensive
political documents showing what kind of world order BRICS envisiged in
2026 was signed. Looking between the lines of the document, in addition to
being just a meeting of foreign ministers, the outline of a comprehensive
alternative vision for the current Western-based international system is
also revealed. This document should actually be read as one of the
political manifestos of the changing balances and the rising new world
order of the global power struggle that has accelerated in recent years.The
main theme that dominates the entire document is "The Rise of the Global
South". BRICS members argue that the current international order is not
fair, not representative enough, and does not reflect the interests of
developing countries. For this reason, they emphasize that institutions
such as the UN, IMF, World Bank, World Trade Organization (WTO) should be
restructured. Thus, BRICS now positions itself as the spokesperson of the
world outside the West. Today, the world is going through a period when the
international system established after the Second World War is dragged into
a serious crisis of legitimacy and representation. Developments such as the
Ukrainian war, the Iranian war, the Lebanon war, the Gaza crisis, global
trade wars, the transformation of sanctions into weapons, energy security
problems and technological competition reveal that the current system is
now difficult to reflect global realities. BRICS countries are moving from
this point and send a clear message to the world with the New Delhi Outcome
Document: =E2=80=9CThe current order is no longer sustainable.=E2=80=9DOne =
of the most
remarkable aspects of the document is that it makes it clear that BRICS no
longer sees itself as just an economic collaboration platform. BRICS, which
has been focussing on economic development, trade and finance for a long
time since its establishment, has reached a much more ambitious point
today. Security, geopolitical crises, artificial intelligence,
cybersecurity, climate policies, energy transformation and international
governance reforms take a central place as well as the economy in the New
Delhi Conclusion Document. This shows that BRICS' goal of becoming a
founding actor in global politics is getting stronger. Looking between the
lines of the document, the strongest emphasis is in the concept of
"multipolar world". The idea that the international order, which was
Western-centered and largely American-led for almost two decades after the
end of the Cold War, is no longer the only option, is the basic approach of
BRICS. The phrases of the "fairer", "more representative", "more
democratic" and "more inclusive" international system, which are repeatedly
used throughout the declaration, are actually a direct criticism of the
current global power distribution.Especially the sections related to United
Nations Security Council reform are extremely important. One of the most
critical political parts of the document is the call for UN reform. BRICS
countries clearly state that the current structure does not reflect the
realities of today. They argue that Africa, Latin America and rising Asian
powers are not adequately represented in decision-making mechanisms. What
is even more remarkable is that China and Russia have re-explained their
support for India and Brazil to take a greater role in the Security
Council. This situation primarily shows us that India and Brazil have risen
to global power status. Then it proves that political harmony within BRICS
has increased. Finally, II. We see that the order established after the
World War is questioned.Another prominent element in the document is harsh
criticism of the sanctions policies of the USA and the West. In recent
years, the intensive use of economic sanctions as a foreign policy tool has
created a common inconvenience in BRICS countries. In the text, it is
emphasized that unilateral sanctions are against international law and
especially affect the economic development of developing countries
negatively. Although this statement is not named directly, it can be read
as a strong criticism of practices such as US sanctions against Iran,
Russian sanctions, Venezuela sanctions, Cuban embargo. This approach is a
continuation of the criticism of "armament of the economy" that BRICS has
long expressed. In fact, one of the most strategic sections of the report
emerges here. Because BRICS no longer just criticizes the current financial
system. It is also trying to develop alternative mechanisms. Headings such
as cross-border payment systems, trade with local currencies, financial
integration and strengthening the New Development Bank can be read as signs
of a search for a long-term alternative to the dollar-centered global
economic structure. It is not yet possible to talk about a system that can
replace the dollar. However, the steps taken by BRICS are starting to show
that the current financial order is not the only option.Again, one of the
important political parts of the New Delhi Document is the issue of Gaza
and Palestine. We are witnessing one of the strongest BRICS stances on
Gaza. The document contains very harsh statements about Gaza and Palestine.
The emphasis on the independent Palestinian state on the basis of 1967
borders draws attention. In addition, the lawsuit filed by South Africa
against Israel and the decisions of the International Court of Justice are
directly recalled in the document. BRICS countries have shown one of the
clearest common stances so far in the face of recent attacks and
humanitarian crisis. The demand for a ceasefire, the demand for the
unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid, the support of the Palestinian
state and the emphasis on international law are among the strongest
political messages of the statement. This situation can also be considered
as an indicator of BRICS' desire to be a more visible and more effective
political actor in global crises.On the other hand, the text does not
completely hide the differences within BRICS. It is clearly stated that
there are different views among the members, especially on the Middle East.
This is important because today BRICS is not a structure consisting only of
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. With new members such as
Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Ethiopia and Indonesia, it has
become a much more complex geopolitical structure. Interestingly, it is
clearly stated in the document that there are different opinions instead of
a common attitude on some issues. It has been accepted that the members
have different positions, especially in issues such as Iran, Gulf countries
and Yemen. Despite this, the fact that the union can create a common ground
shows that the diplomatic capacity of BRICS has increased. From this point
of view, the New Delhi process also represents an important diplomatic
achievement of India. With the latest wave of enlargement of BRICS, the
accession of new members such as Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt,
Ethiopia and Indonesia to the union has increased the geopolitical
diversity of the platform on the one hand and complicated the joint
decision-making processes. Due to the deep differences of opinion between
Iran and the Gulf countries, especially during a period of the Iran war,
many experts predicted that BRICS would have difficulty in creating a
common political ground and that the meeting would be the scene of serious
diplomatic tensions. However, despite all these differences, India has
managed to bring together members whose interests and priorities are
separated around the same platform, showing that BRICS maintains its
capacity to produce dialogue instead of fragmenting. In this context, the
result in New Delhi is not limited to the content of the published common
text. The remarkable success is that the diplomatic ground has been
preserved that allows members who are directly confronted on some issues in
an environment of extremely sensitive and polarizing crisis to continue to
negotiate under the umbrella of BRICS by agreeing on other issues.In
addition, one of the most important messages of the document is in the
field of technology. It is no coincidence that topics such as artificial
intelligence, digital infrastructures, data security and cyber security are
widely addressed. Because the global power struggle of the future will also
be shaped by technological superiority. BRICS countries make it clear that
they are aware of this fact and want to act together in the technology
race. Especially in terms of artificial intelligence governance, the search
for alternatives to Western-centered norms draws attention. It seems that
BRICS has developed a different approach to energy and climate policies.
Instead of rapid energy transformation, which is often emphasized by
Western countries, the concept of "fair energy transformation" is
highlighted. The basis of this approach is the idea that the economic
growth needs of developing countries should not be ignored. BRICS countries
advocate establishing a balance between environmental responsibility and
the right to development. This points to an important area of separation
that will become more prominent in the coming years in global climate
debates.When all these topics are evaluated together, the picture that
emerges is quite clear. BRICS is no longer just a platform where economic
interests are protected. BRICS is a powerhouse that is starting to create
its own vision of how the international system should work. The basis of
this vision is the goal of more representation, more sovereign equality,
more multipolarity and the goal of developing countries to have more say in
their global decision-making processes.The New Delhi Document, which was
put on the table at the BRICS Foreign Ministers' Meeting, is one of the
important documents of the historical transformation in global politics
rather than a meeting result text. While the world is rapidly moving away
from the single-centered structure, BRICS is becoming one of the most
powerful political and economic carriers of this transformation. Today,
many rules of the international system may still be determined by the West.
However, the rising message from New Delhi is this: Many more actors now
want to take part in the table for those rules to be rewritten. BRICS is no
longer an economic club. This structure is turning into a political,
diplomatic, financial and technological power center. The claim to be the
common voice and compass of the Global South is getting stronger. A
strategy that is both an alternative to Western-based institutions and
tries to transform them is being followed. BRICS has not yet established
institutions to replace the UN, IMF, World Bank or WTO. However, it is
trying to change the rules of these institutions and the distribution of
power.President India's Foreign Ministers' Meeting 2026 New Delhi Document
can be considered one of the most comprehensive strategic documents in the
20-year history of BRICS. The text is a political manifesto of a period in
which the unipolar period led by the USA and the West has come to an end,
the rising powers want to have more say, and the Global South's quest to
build a permanent weight in the international system has accelerated.The
essence of the document can be summarized in a single sentence: BRICS is a
platform that adapts to the rules of the current international order, but
it is becoming a global actor who wants to rewrite these rules.Umur Tugay
Y=C3=BCcel-Politics Scientist =E2=80=93 is the author of the book =E2=80=9C=
The Regression of
American Power and Rising Powers=E2=80=9D (China-Russia-India-Brazil).X:
@umur_tugayRising Voice from New Delhi: BRICS's New World Order Manifesto*

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=
=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr"><b><a href=3D"https://harici.com.tr/yeni-delh=
iden-yukselen-ses-bricsin-yeni-dunya-duzeni-manifestosu/" target=3D"_blank"=
>https://harici.com.tr/yeni-delhiden-yukselen-ses-bricsin-yeni-dunya-duzeni=
-manifestosu/</a></b></div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><br><b><font f=
ace=3D"georgia, serif"><font size=3D"4"><i>Rising Voice from New Delhi: BRI=
CS&#39;s New World Order Manifesto</i></font><br><br><font size=3D"4"><i>Um=
ur Tugay Y=C3=BCcel 11.06.2026 18:01Author</i></font></font></b></div><div =
dir=3D"ltr"><img src=3D"cid:ii_mq9or0io0" alt=3D"image.png" width=3D"412" h=
eight=3D"247"><br><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><br>The BRICS Foreign Mi=
nisters&#39; Meeting, which was held in New Delhi, the capital of India, on=
 May 15, 2026, has a meaning far beyond being an ordinary diplomatic meetin=
g. At this meeting, one of the most comprehensive political documents showi=
ng what kind of world order BRICS envisiged in 2026 was signed. Looking bet=
ween the lines of the document, in addition to being just a meeting of fore=
ign ministers, the outline of a comprehensive alternative vision for the cu=
rrent Western-based international system is also revealed. This document sh=
ould actually be read as one of the political manifestos of the changing ba=
lances and the rising new world order of the global power struggle that has=
 accelerated in recent years.<br><br>The main theme that dominates the enti=
re document is &quot;The Rise of the Global South&quot;. BRICS members argu=
e that the current international order is not fair, not representative enou=
gh, and does not reflect the interests of developing countries. For this re=
ason, they emphasize that institutions such as the UN, IMF, World Bank, Wor=
ld Trade Organization (WTO) should be restructured. Thus, BRICS now positio=
ns itself as the spokesperson of the world outside the West. Today, the wor=
ld is going through a period when the international system established afte=
r the Second World War is dragged into a serious crisis of legitimacy and r=
epresentation. Developments such as the Ukrainian war, the Iranian war, the=
 Lebanon war, the Gaza crisis, global trade wars, the transformation of san=
ctions into weapons, energy security problems and technological competition=
 reveal that the current system is now difficult to reflect global realitie=
s. BRICS countries are moving from this point and send a clear message to t=
he world with the New Delhi Outcome Document: =E2=80=9CThe current order is=
 no longer sustainable.=E2=80=9D<br><br>One of the most remarkable aspects =
of the document is that it makes it clear that BRICS no longer sees itself =
as just an economic collaboration platform. BRICS, which has been focussing=
 on economic development, trade and finance for a long time since its estab=
lishment, has reached a much more ambitious point today. Security, geopolit=
ical crises, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, climate policies, ener=
gy transformation and international governance reforms take a central place=
 as well as the economy in the New Delhi Conclusion Document. This shows th=
at BRICS&#39; goal of becoming a founding actor in global politics is getti=
ng stronger. Looking between the lines of the document, the strongest empha=
sis is in the concept of &quot;multipolar world&quot;. The idea that the in=
ternational order, which was Western-centered and largely American-led for =
almost two decades after the end of the Cold War, is no longer the only opt=
ion, is the basic approach of BRICS. The phrases of the &quot;fairer&quot;,=
 &quot;more representative&quot;, &quot;more democratic&quot; and &quot;mor=
e inclusive&quot; international system, which are repeatedly used throughou=
t the declaration, are actually a direct criticism of the current global po=
wer distribution.<br><br>Especially the sections related to United Nations =
Security Council reform are extremely important. One of the most critical p=
olitical parts of the document is the call for UN reform. BRICS countries c=
learly state that the current structure does not reflect the realities of t=
oday. They argue that Africa, Latin America and rising Asian powers are not=
 adequately represented in decision-making mechanisms. What is even more re=
markable is that China and Russia have re-explained their support for India=
 and Brazil to take a greater role in the Security Council. This situation =
primarily shows us that India and Brazil have risen to global power status.=
 Then it proves that political harmony within BRICS has increased. Finally,=
 II. We see that the order established after the World War is questioned.<b=
r><br>Another prominent element in the document is harsh criticism of the s=
anctions policies of the USA and the West. In recent years, the intensive u=
se of economic sanctions as a foreign policy tool has created a common inco=
nvenience in BRICS countries. In the text, it is emphasized that unilateral=
 sanctions are against international law and especially affect the economic=
 development of developing countries negatively. Although this statement is=
 not named directly, it can be read as a strong criticism of practices such=
 as US sanctions against Iran, Russian sanctions, Venezuela sanctions, Cuba=
n embargo. This approach is a continuation of the criticism of &quot;armame=
nt of the economy&quot; that BRICS has long expressed. In fact, one of the =
most strategic sections of the report emerges here. Because BRICS no longer=
 just criticizes the current financial system. It is also trying to develop=
 alternative mechanisms. Headings such as cross-border payment systems, tra=
de with local currencies, financial integration and strengthening the New D=
evelopment Bank can be read as signs of a search for a long-term alternativ=
e to the dollar-centered global economic structure. It is not yet possible =
to talk about a system that can replace the dollar. However, the steps take=
n by BRICS are starting to show that the current financial order is not the=
 only option.<br><br>Again, one of the important political parts of the New=
 Delhi Document is the issue of Gaza and Palestine. We are witnessing one o=
f the strongest BRICS stances on Gaza. The document contains very harsh sta=
tements about Gaza and Palestine. The emphasis on the independent Palestini=
an state on the basis of 1967 borders draws attention. In addition, the law=
suit filed by South Africa against Israel and the decisions of the Internat=
ional Court of Justice are directly recalled in the document. BRICS countri=
es have shown one of the clearest common stances so far in the face of rece=
nt attacks and humanitarian crisis. The demand for a ceasefire, the demand =
for the unhindered delivery of humanitarian aid, the support of the Palesti=
nian state and the emphasis on international law are among the strongest po=
litical messages of the statement. This situation can also be considered as=
 an indicator of BRICS&#39; desire to be a more visible and more effective =
political actor in global crises.<br><br>On the other hand, the text does n=
ot completely hide the differences within BRICS. It is clearly stated that =
there are different views among the members, especially on the Middle East.=
 This is important because today BRICS is not a structure consisting only o=
f Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. With new members such as I=
ran, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Ethiopia and Indonesia, it has become=
 a much more complex geopolitical structure. Interestingly, it is clearly s=
tated in the document that there are different opinions instead of a common=
 attitude on some issues. It has been accepted that the members have differ=
ent positions, especially in issues such as Iran, Gulf countries and Yemen.=
 Despite this, the fact that the union can create a common ground shows tha=
t the diplomatic capacity of BRICS has increased. From this point of view, =
the New Delhi process also represents an important diplomatic achievement o=
f India. With the latest wave of enlargement of BRICS, the accession of new=
 members such as Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Ethiopia and Indone=
sia to the union has increased the geopolitical diversity of the platform o=
n the one hand and complicated the joint decision-making processes. Due to =
the deep differences of opinion between Iran and the Gulf countries, especi=
ally during a period of the Iran war, many experts predicted that BRICS wou=
ld have difficulty in creating a common political ground and that the meeti=
ng would be the scene of serious diplomatic tensions. However, despite all =
these differences, India has managed to bring together members whose intere=
sts and priorities are separated around the same platform, showing that BRI=
CS maintains its capacity to produce dialogue instead of fragmenting. In th=
is context, the result in New Delhi is not limited to the content of the pu=
blished common text. The remarkable success is that the diplomatic ground h=
as been preserved that allows members who are directly confronted on some i=
ssues in an environment of extremely sensitive and polarizing crisis to con=
tinue to negotiate under the umbrella of BRICS by agreeing on other issues.=
<br><br>In addition, one of the most important messages of the document is =
in the field of technology. It is no coincidence that topics such as artifi=
cial intelligence, digital infrastructures, data security and cyber securit=
y are widely addressed. Because the global power struggle of the future wil=
l also be shaped by technological superiority. BRICS countries make it clea=
r that they are aware of this fact and want to act together in the technolo=
gy race. Especially in terms of artificial intelligence governance, the sea=
rch for alternatives to Western-centered norms draws attention. It seems th=
at BRICS has developed a different approach to energy and climate policies.=
 Instead of rapid energy transformation, which is often emphasized by Weste=
rn countries, the concept of &quot;fair energy transformation&quot; is high=
lighted. The basis of this approach is the idea that the economic growth ne=
eds of developing countries should not be ignored. BRICS countries advocate=
 establishing a balance between environmental responsibility and the right =
to development. This points to an important area of separation that will be=
come more prominent in the coming years in global climate debates.<br><br>W=
hen all these topics are evaluated together, the picture that emerges is qu=
ite clear. BRICS is no longer just a platform where economic interests are =
protected. BRICS is a powerhouse that is starting to create its own vision =
of how the international system should work. The basis of this vision is th=
e goal of more representation, more sovereign equality, more multipolarity =
and the goal of developing countries to have more say in their global decis=
ion-making processes.<br><br>The New Delhi Document, which was put on the t=
able at the BRICS Foreign Ministers&#39; Meeting, is one of the important d=
ocuments of the historical transformation in global politics rather than a =
meeting result text. While the world is rapidly moving away from the single=
-centered structure, BRICS is becoming one of the most powerful political a=
nd economic carriers of this transformation. Today, many rules of the inter=
national system may still be determined by the West. However, the rising me=
ssage from New Delhi is this: Many more actors now want to take part in the=
 table for those rules to be rewritten. BRICS is no longer an economic club=
. This structure is turning into a political, diplomatic, financial and tec=
hnological power center. The claim to be the common voice and compass of th=
e Global South is getting stronger. A strategy that is both an alternative =
to Western-based institutions and tries to transform them is being followed=
. BRICS has not yet established institutions to replace the UN, IMF, World =
Bank or WTO. However, it is trying to change the rules of these institution=
s and the distribution of power.<br><br>President India&#39;s Foreign Minis=
ters&#39; Meeting 2026 New Delhi Document can be considered one of the most=
 comprehensive strategic documents in the 20-year history of BRICS. The tex=
t is a political manifesto of a period in which the unipolar period led by =
the USA and the West has come to an end, the rising powers want to have mor=
e say, and the Global South&#39;s quest to build a permanent weight in the =
international system has accelerated.<br><br>The essence of the document ca=
n be summarized in a single sentence: BRICS is a platform that adapts to th=
e rules of the current international order, but it is becoming a global act=
or who wants to rewrite these rules.<br><br>Umur Tugay Y=C3=BCcel-Politics =
Scientist =E2=80=93 is the author of the book =E2=80=9CThe Regression of Am=
erican Power and Rising Powers=E2=80=9D (China-Russia-India-Brazil).<br><br=
>X: @umur_tugay<br><br><br>Rising Voice from New Delhi: BRICS&#39;s New Wor=
ld Order Manifesto</font></b></div>
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["*The weapons they fund and build, the wars they prosecute, all the
shredded human bodies, and for what?" ]*

*It Doesn't Matter What We Think About War and Military Spending Until It
Does *
*Bill Astore* <https://substack.com/@bracingviews>   6/13/26

*Sad to say it doesn=E2=80=99t seem to matter what we the people think abou=
t war
and military spending.. President Trump doesn=E2=80=99t care that at least =
70% of
Americans are against the Iran War. Dick Cheney infamously replied, =E2=80=
=9CSo?=E2=80=9D
when he was told by a reporter that Americans opposed further escalation in
the Iraq War.*

*It might matter what we thought if we lived in a democracy, but we don=E2=
=80=99t.
We live in a kleptocracy, a kakistocracy.*

*First, we must recognize we=E2=80=99ve lost our say--that we don=E2=80=99t=
 have a
government that represents us--then we need to reform, re-create, or
otherwise change that government.*

*Again, in the main, Americans don=E2=80=99t want militarism and wars--but =
there
are other forces at work that do want these things, for their reasons, and
they are in control.*

*Americans, I believe, don=E2=80=99t want more nuclear weapons. We=E2=80=99=
re getting them
anyway. Read this article by Bill Hartung on the profiteers of Armageddon
<https://whartung.substack.com/p/profiteers-of-armageddon>.*

*Americans, I believe, don=E2=80=99t want to spend between $1.5 trillion to=
 $2.3
trillion each year on the Pentagon and war (read this POGO report on
the true total U.S. military budget
<https://www.pogo.org/reports/the-true-total-u-s-military-budget>), but the
warmongers and the military-industrial complex spend that money anyway.*

*As George Carlin said, the owners don=E2=80=99t care about you=E2=80=94at =
all! At all! At
all! Your preferences, your needs, simply don=E2=80=99t matter. You have no=
 say. To
=E2=80=9Cour=E2=80=9D leaders, the owners, inflation is good=E2=80=94just a=
sk President Trump.
Rising gas prices are great=E2=80=94for fossil fuel companies. Rising credi=
t card
balances and debt are healthy=E2=80=94for bankers.*

*We need to act. We need to change American-made destruction into
American-made construction. We must become builders again, not destroyers.*

*The weapons they fund and build, the wars they prosecute, all the shredded
human bodies, and for what? What morally abject fools the weapons makers
and warmongers are. Why do we allow them to get away with it?*

*Until we regain our morality and our nerve, until we cast aside the
kakistocrats and kleptocrats ruling us, we will remain stuck in the malaise
of mindless militarism and endless war.*

*Withhold your consent. Run for office yourself. Organize and protest. Talk
to your neighbors. Even write a blog. Whatever you can do to derail the war
train rushing toward Armageddon is a good thing. *

*And don=E2=80=99t ever give up.*

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=
=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr"><b style=3D"font-family:georgia,serif"><a hre=
f=3D"https://bracingviews.substack.com/p/it-doesnt-matter-what-we-think-abo=
ut?utm_source=3Dpost-email-title&amp;publication_id=3D1156402&amp;post_id=
=3D201794299&amp;utm_campaign=3Demail-post-title&amp;isFreemail=3Dtrue&amp;=
r=3D210kv&amp;triedRedirect=3Dtrue&amp;utm_medium=3Demail" target=3D"_blank=
">https://bracingviews.substack.com/p/it-doesnt-matter-what-we-think-about?=
utm_source=3Dpost-email-title&amp;publication_id=3D1156402&amp;post_id=3D20=
1794299&amp;utm_campaign=3Demail-post-title&amp;isFreemail=3Dtrue&amp;r=3D2=
10kv&amp;triedRedirect=3Dtrue&amp;utm_medium=3Demail</a></b></div><div dir=
=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div style=3D"font-family:georgia,serif"><br></di=
v><div style=3D"font-family:georgia,serif"><span style=3D"font-family:Arial=
,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face=3D"georgia, serif">[&quot;<b style=3D"col=
or:rgb(27,27,27)">The weapons they fund and build, the wars they prosecute,=
 all the shredded human bodies, and for what?&quot; ]</b></font></span></di=
v><div style=3D"font-family:georgia,serif"><br></div><div><h1 style=3D"line=
-height:1.2141em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;max-width:100%;color:rg=
b(27,27,27)"><font size=3D"4" face=3D"georgia, serif"><i>It Doesn&#39;t Mat=
ter What We Think About War and Military Spending Until It Does=C2=A0</i></=
font></h1><div style=3D"font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;margin-bott=
om:1.45em;max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><a href=3D"https://substack.c=
om/@bracingviews" style=3D"text-decoration:none;margin:0px;color:rgb(27,27,=
27);max-width:100%;display:inline" target=3D"_blank"><b>Bill Astore</b></a>=
=C2=A0 =C2=A06/13/26</div><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><=
b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Sad to say it doesn=E2=80=99t seem to matte=
r what we the people think about war and military spending.. President Trum=
p doesn=E2=80=99t care that at least 70% of Americans are against the Iran =
War. Dick Cheney infamously replied, =E2=80=9CSo?=E2=80=9D when he was told=
 by a reporter that Americans opposed further escalation in the Iraq War.</=
font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=
=3D"georgia, serif">It might matter what we thought if we lived in a democr=
acy, but we don=E2=80=99t. We live in a kleptocracy, a kakistocracy.</font>=
</b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"ge=
orgia, serif">First, we must recognize we=E2=80=99ve lost our say--that we =
don=E2=80=99t have a government that represents us--then we need to reform,=
 re-create, or otherwise change that government.</font></b></p><p style=3D"=
max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">Again,=
 in the main, Americans don=E2=80=99t want militarism and wars--but there a=
re other forces at work that do want these things, for their reasons, and t=
hey are in control.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,2=
7,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><span style=3D"max-width:100%">Amer=
icans, I believe, don=E2=80=99t want more nuclear weapons. We=E2=80=99re ge=
tting them anyway. Read this article by Bill Hartung on the<span>=C2=A0</sp=
an></span><a href=3D"https://whartung.substack.com/p/profiteers-of-armagedd=
on" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:100%" tar=
get=3D"_blank">profiteers of Armageddon</a><span style=3D"max-width:100%">.=
</span></font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><f=
ont face=3D"georgia, serif"><span style=3D"max-width:100%">Americans, I bel=
ieve, don=E2=80=99t want to spend between $1.5 trillion to $2.3 trillion ea=
ch year on the Pentagon and war (read this POGO report on the<span>=C2=A0</=
span></span><a href=3D"https://www.pogo.org/reports/the-true-total-u-s-mili=
tary-budget" style=3D"text-decoration:none;color:rgb(65,110,210);max-width:=
100%" target=3D"_blank">true total U.S. military budget</a><span style=3D"m=
ax-width:100%">), but the warmongers and the military-industrial complex sp=
end that money anyway.</span></font></b></p><div style=3D"max-width:100%;co=
lor:rgb(27,27,27)"><p></p></div><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,=
27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">As George Carlin said, the owners don=
=E2=80=99t care about you=E2=80=94at all! At all! At all! Your preferences,=
 your needs, simply don=E2=80=99t matter. You have no say. To =E2=80=9Cour=
=E2=80=9D leaders, the owners, inflation is good=E2=80=94just ask President=
 Trump. Rising gas prices are great=E2=80=94for fossil fuel companies. Risi=
ng credit card balances and debt are healthy=E2=80=94for bankers.</font></b=
></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georg=
ia, serif">We need to act. We need to change American-made destruction into=
 American-made construction. We must become builders again, not destroyers.=
</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font fac=
e=3D"georgia, serif">The weapons they fund and build, the wars they prosecu=
te, all the shredded human bodies, and for what? What morally abject fools =
the weapons makers and warmongers are. Why do we allow them to get away wit=
h it?</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><fon=
t face=3D"georgia, serif">Until we regain our morality and our nerve, until=
 we cast aside the kakistocrats and kleptocrats ruling us, we will remain s=
tuck in the malaise of mindless militarism and endless war.</font></b></p><=
p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, se=
rif">Withhold your consent. Run for office yourself. Organize and protest. =
Talk to your neighbors. Even write a blog. Whatever you can do to derail th=
e war train rushing toward Armageddon is a good thing.<span>=C2=A0</span></=
font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=
=3D"georgia, serif">And don=E2=80=99t ever give up.</font></b></p></div></d=
iv>
</div>
</div></div>

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Rajan Menon=E2=80=99s Newsletter
8
8
The Art of the CapitulationThat's what the Trump, author of The Art of the
Deal, has demonstrated in his emerging Memorandum of Understanding with Ira=
n
Rajan Menon <https://substack.com/@rajanmenon468622>
Jun 13, 2026

*[1,745 words: a 9-minute read.]*

I=E2=80=99ll cover two aspects of the ongoing negotiations between the US a=
nd Iran
in this post: First, some of President Trump=E2=80=99s recent strange state=
ments
and moves. Second, the details=E2=80=94as best as can be pieced together=E2=
=80=94of the
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that the US and Iran have been
negotiating, via the intermediaries: Pakistan and Qatar.

Trump said recently that he had ordered the US military to carry out a
=E2=80=9Csecret=E2=80=9D operation that succeeded in moving 100 million bar=
rels
<https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/10/trump-strait-hormuz-iran-oil-tanker-navy.h=
tml>
of
oil through the Strait of Hormuz, despite Iran=E2=80=99s closure of the wat=
erway
since the US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28=E2=80=94the second tim=
e in
less than a year. Trump=E2=80=99s claim is odd: If indeed the operation was
=E2=80=9Csecret,=E2=80=9D why announce it in public and give Iran time to t=
ake
countermeasures? Moreover, while 100 million barrels of oil may sound like
a lot, it amounts to slightly less than one day=E2=80=99s worth of global
consumption=E2=80=94not nearly enough to have any positive effect on prices=
.

Trump also told reporters on Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz has been
open =E2=80=9Cfor a number of months
<https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/you-just-didn-t-know-about-it-trum=
p-loses-his-grip-on-reality-claims-fake-news-falsely-reports-strait-of-horm=
uz-is-closed/vi-AA25qde0>=E2=80=9D=E2=80=94and
that they just hadn=E2=80=99t known about it. But anyone who has been follo=
wing the
news even occasionally knows that this claim is not accurate. Some 138 ship=
s
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w39lg84w2o> on average transited the
Strait each day before the war began on February 28. Since then, while some
have managed to sneak through, under cover of darkness and with their
transponders turned off, or with Iranian permission, the volume of traffic
is not even remotely close to what it was before the war, and about 20-25%
of the global trade in oil and LNG remain trapped inside the Persian Gulf.

What was even more perplexing about Trump=E2=80=99s statement was that, in =
touting
the MOU as a great achievement, he said that the Straits would be open in a
few days=E2=80=94odd given his claims moments earlier that the waterway had=
 been
open for months. If the Strait has been open for months, why say that it
would open in a few days?

Trump continues to claim that Iran=E2=80=99s armed forces, including radars=
, have
been obliterated. Yet during the periodic skirmishes between US and Iranian
forces, the Trump administration has said that US forces acted in
self-defense=E2=80=94a strange assertion about a country whose military has
supposedly been demolished.

If further proof were needed that Iran retains its drone and missile
forces, when Trump has tried to coerce Iran into making additional
concessions, it has struck US military assets in the Persian Gulf countries
and in Jordan. Tehran has also shown a willingness to extend the war into
Israel, which it did when Israeli forces struck Beirut, a move Iran deemed
a violation of the ceasefire Trump had arranged between Israel and Lebanon.

Trump claimed recently that he would hit Iran =E2=80=9Cvery hard=E2=80=9D i=
f they dragged
out the negotiations, adding that they wouldn=E2=80=99t because they were =
=E2=80=9Cbegging=E2=80=9D
for a deal, which they need more than the US does. But when Trump added
amendments to the draft MOU, to which the mediators had obtained agreement
from American and Iranian negotiators, Iran flatly rejected the additional
terms inserted by Trump, and when he launched strikes on Iran, Tehran fired
back, showing that it is prepared to fight rather than accept a deal that
doesn=E2=80=99t contain terms that it has long insisted on, particularly a =
full
ceasefire that includes Lebanon, the unfreezing, up-front, of part ($12
billion) of frozen Iranian assets, the phased lifting of sanctions, and the
end to the US naval blockade. This is not the behavior of a country that
has no military power left and is pleading for a deal. In fact, in a bid to
steady oil markets, it=E2=80=99s the administration that has been saying th=
at an
agreement is imminent=E2=80=94a claim Trump himself has made on 39 occasion=
s.

Now to the details of the MOU:

Iranian media, and more importantly, Iran=E2=80=99s foreign minister, Abbas
Araghchi, have been revealing the outlines of the Memorandum of
Understanding that the US and Iran appear to have hammered out and that
awaits signature.



Here=E2=80=99s a synopsis:



=E2=80=94*Phase 1*, to begin after a 60=E2=80=94day ceasefire on all fronts=
, including
Lebanon, is in place. The following points will presumably be agreed upon,
in principle, in advance of that 60=E2=80=94day period:



=E2=80=94An end to the US naval blockade on Iran.



=E2=80=94The unfreezing and transfer to Iran of part of its assets, likely =
$12 bn.
[The rest will be transferred once there is a final deal based on the MOU]



=E2=80=94An end to all restrictions on Iran=E2=80=99s energy exports.



=E2=80=94The opening of the Strait of Hormuz, but with Iran retaining (unsp=
ecified)
authority, over it, along with Oman, which is located on the opposite shore
of the Strait. [Iran=E2=80=99s foreign minister has stated that this will i=
nclude
the right to levy some sort of fee for ships transiting the Gulf to cover
the costs of services that are provided to them.]



=E2=80=94The lifting of all sanctions on Iran. [The timeline and pace at wh=
ich this
will be implemented remain unclear and will be worked out during the 60=E2=
=80=94day
negotiations.]



=E2=80=94The negotiation of a plan for the reconstruction of Iran in light =
of the
damage it has sustained as a result of US and Israeli strikes. [The details
and dollar amount are unclear, but Iran is not calling this war
reparations, which would be an outright humiliation for Trump.]



=E2=80=94*Phase 2*, to be negotiated during the 60 day period.



=E2=80=94 The details of sanctions relief, the unfreezing of the remainder =
of
Iranian assets, and the modalities of Iran=E2=80=99s authority over the Str=
ait will
be finalized during this period. But the focus will be on the future of
Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear program.



Some observations:



1) Assuming the American side confirms these details on the MOU, it=E2=80=
=99s hard
to see how Trump can spin this framework agreement as a win, given that
Iran=E2=80=99s assets will be unfrozen, the blockade will be lifted, and Ir=
an will
have a degree of authority over the Strait that it has never had=E2=80=94an=
d
probably never imagined it would. And all of this with no up-front
commitments regarding its nuclear program.

And the decision of the UAE, the Gulf state that=E2=80=99s most hostile to =
Iran, to
hand over $10 billion (and according to some reports as much as $20 billion
<https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/uae-unlock-billions-dollars-iran=
-sources-say-2026-06-12/>)
of Iran=E2=80=99s frozen assets=E2=80=94and has already delivered $3 billio=
n=E2=80=94 so as to stay
out of harm's way shows that Iran=E2=80=99s position in the Persian Gulf re=
gion has
become stronger as a result of Trump=E2=80=99s war.



2) Contrary to what Trump and Netanyahu have implied, Iran has in fact made
no up-front commitment that the final deal will include the removal of
Iran=E2=80=99s enriched uranium out of the country or the dismantling of it=
s
nuclear infrastructure. Recall, that these were key objectives of Trump and
Netanyahu.

Trump keeps insisting that the final deal will be a major achievement
because Iran will never have nuclear weapons. Iran has long publicly
renounced nuclear weapons=E2=80=94not only in line with a religious ruling =
by the
late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but, in writing, in the preamble of the 2015
JCPOA, which Trump withdrew the US from in 2018.



4) Neither has Iran agreed to limit the number, range, and production
volume of ballistic missiles. Recall that this has been one of Netanyahu=E2=
=80=99s
principal objectives.



5) Nor has Iran made any apparent commitment to end its support for
regional partners such as Hezbollah in Lebanon and Ansar Allah in Yemen.
This, too, was an important goal for Netanyahu.



6) I remain skeptical that the technical details related to uranium
enrichment issue other aspects of Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear program can be wor=
ked out
in 60 days, given that it took years to finalize the JCPOA.



7) Trump will claim that the opening of the Strait and Iran=E2=80=99s commi=
tment
not to develop a nuclear weapon are major victories. But, again, both of
these conditions existed before the war began.



8) An unknown, given that the cease-fire encompasses Lebanon, is whether
Netanyahu now in effect has veto power over the durability of a final
agreement because he could resume the war in Lebanon. This is important:
Israel has no reason whatsoever to like this Memorandum of Understanding.
If Netanyahu attempts to derail a final deal, there are two possibilities,
assuming Iran follows through on its pledge to retaliate if Israel attacks
Beirut=E2=80=94which it may do if Israel breaks the ceasefire: the US gets =
drawn
into the war, or Israel is left to fight alone. The former outcome could
lead to a return to a full-scale war and once again push up the price of
oil and other essential commodities. The latter outcome would create a
crisis in US-Israeli relations, and Trump=E2=80=99s abandonment of Israel w=
ill
denounced by individuals and groups in the US that insist on
near-unconditional American support for that country and have also been
prominent backers of Trump.



9) Assuming that the White House confirms the Iranian statements on the
MOU, it=E2=80=99s clear that this war has achieved nothing that Trump can b=
rag
about. What remains to be seen is whether his MAGA acolytes believes his
spin=E2=80=94as always=E2=80=94and whether he gets some credit for easing t=
he economic
hardships produced by his needless, ruinous war.



10) As he has already done once, Trump could try to insert new provisions
into this framework agreement. But as in the past, Iran will reject it,
leaving Trump with the option of restarting the war to pressure Tehran. The
problem with that option is that Iran has shown that it will fight back and
extend the war to the rest of the Persian Gulf, which will prolong the
closure of the Strait and increase the steep toll that the closure has
already taken on the global economy, and even create a recession. Trump can
say, as he has, that he doesn=E2=80=99t care about this, but with the midte=
rm
elections approaching and his poll numbers sinking, it=E2=80=99s safe to as=
sume
that he very much does care. It=E2=80=99s also safe to assume that Iran kno=
ws that
he=E2=80=99s under pressure. The war has doubtless created economic hardshi=
p in
Iran as well=E2=80=94by increasing inflation, forcing business closures, an=
d
accelerating the decline
<https://www.reuters.com/business/irans-currency-drops-record-low-level-18-=
million-rials-dollar-isna-reports-2026-04-29/>
in
the value of its currency, the rial. What is less clear=E2=80=94considering=
 that
gaining relief from sanctions and restrictions on oil exports are arguably
Iran=E2=80=99s most important goals in the negotiations=E2=80=94is the exte=
nt to which this
economic hardship is putting pressure on Iran to conclude a deal without
dragging out negotiations. So far, if it=E2=80=99s indeed facing pressure, =
it has
been effective in disguising that fact.

11) If a Memorandum of Understanding is indeed signed based on these
points, it=E2=80=99s clear that Trump=E2=80=99s war was unnecessary, achiev=
ed no positive
results, and that the Iranians have prevailed.

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ord"><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px"><strong>[1,745 word=
s: a 9-minute read.]</strong></p><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0=
px 20px">I=E2=80=99ll cover two aspects of the ongoing negotiations between=
 the US and Iran in this post: First, some of President Trump=E2=80=99s rec=
ent strange statements and moves. Second, the details=E2=80=94as best as ca=
n be pieced together=E2=80=94of the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that =
the US and Iran have been negotiating, via the intermediaries: Pakistan and=
 Qatar.</p><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px">Trump said re=
cently that he had ordered the US military to carry out a =E2=80=9Csecret=
=E2=80=9D operation that succeeded in moving=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.cn=
bc.com/2026/06/10/trump-strait-hormuz-iran-oil-tanker-navy.html" style=3D"c=
olor:rgb(54,55,55)">100 million barrels</a>=C2=A0of oil through the Strait =
of Hormuz, despite Iran=E2=80=99s closure of the waterway since the US and =
Israel attacked Iran on February 28=E2=80=94the second time in less than a =
year. Trump=E2=80=99s claim is odd: If indeed the operation was =E2=80=9Cse=
cret,=E2=80=9D why announce it in public and give Iran time to take counter=
measures? Moreover, while 100 million barrels of oil may sound like a lot, =
it amounts to slightly less than one day=E2=80=99s worth of global consumpt=
ion=E2=80=94not nearly enough to have any positive effect on prices.</p><p =
style=3D"line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px">Trump also told reporters o=
n Thursday that the Strait of Hormuz has been open =E2=80=9C<a href=3D"http=
s://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/you-just-didn-t-know-about-it-trump-los=
es-his-grip-on-reality-claims-fake-news-falsely-reports-strait-of-hormuz-is=
-closed/vi-AA25qde0" style=3D"color:rgb(54,55,55)">for a number of months</=
a>=E2=80=9D=E2=80=94and that they just hadn=E2=80=99t known about it. But a=
nyone who has been following the news even occasionally knows that this cla=
im is not accurate. Some=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/=
c3w39lg84w2o" style=3D"color:rgb(54,55,55)">138 ships</a>=C2=A0on average t=
ransited the Strait each day before the war began on February 28. Since the=
n, while some have managed to sneak through, under cover of darkness and wi=
th their transponders turned off, or with Iranian permission, the volume of=
 traffic is not even remotely close to what it was before the war, and abou=
t 20-25% of the global trade in oil and LNG remain trapped inside the Persi=
an Gulf.</p><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px">What was eve=
n more perplexing about Trump=E2=80=99s statement was that, in touting the =
MOU as a great achievement, he said that the Straits would be open in a few=
 days=E2=80=94odd given his claims moments earlier that the waterway had be=
en open for months. If the Strait has been open for months, why say that it=
 would open in a few days?</p><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px =
20px">Trump continues to claim that Iran=E2=80=99s armed forces, including =
radars, have been obliterated. Yet during the periodic skirmishes between U=
S and Iranian forces, the Trump administration has said that US forces acte=
d in self-defense=E2=80=94a strange assertion about a country whose militar=
y has supposedly been demolished.</p><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;margin:0=
px 0px 20px">If further proof were needed that Iran retains its drone and m=
issile forces, when Trump has tried to coerce Iran into making additional c=
oncessions, it has struck US military assets in the Persian Gulf countries =
and in Jordan. Tehran has also shown a willingness to extend the war into I=
srael, which it did when Israeli forces struck Beirut, a move Iran deemed a=
 violation of the ceasefire Trump had arranged between Israel and Lebanon.<=
/p><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px">Trump claimed recentl=
y that he would hit Iran =E2=80=9Cvery hard=E2=80=9D if they dragged out th=
e negotiations, adding that they wouldn=E2=80=99t because they were =E2=80=
=9Cbegging=E2=80=9D for a deal, which they need more than the US does. But =
when Trump added amendments to the draft MOU, to which the mediators had ob=
tained agreement from American and Iranian negotiators, Iran flatly rejecte=
d the additional terms inserted by Trump, and when he launched strikes on I=
ran, Tehran fired back, showing that it is prepared to fight rather than ac=
cept a deal that doesn=E2=80=99t contain terms that it has long insisted on=
, particularly a full ceasefire that includes Lebanon, the unfreezing, up-f=
ront, of part ($12 billion) of frozen Iranian assets, the phased lifting of=
 sanctions, and the end to the US naval blockade. This is not the behavior =
of a country that has no military power left and is pleading for a deal. In=
 fact, in a bid to steady oil markets, it=E2=80=99s the administration that=
 has been saying that an agreement is imminent=E2=80=94a claim Trump himsel=
f has made on 39 occasions.</p><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px=
 20px">Now to the details of the MOU:</p><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;marg=
in:0px 0px 20px">Iranian media, and more importantly, Iran=E2=80=99s foreig=
n minister, Abbas Araghchi, have been revealing the outlines of the Memoran=
dum of Understanding that the US and Iran appear to have hammered out and t=
hat awaits signature.<br><br><br><br>Here=E2=80=99s a synopsis:<br><br><br>=
<br>=E2=80=94<strong>Phase 1</strong>, to begin after a 60=E2=80=94day ceas=
efire on all fronts, including Lebanon, is in place. The following points w=
ill presumably be agreed upon, in principle, in advance of that 60=E2=80=94=
day period:<br><br><br><br>=E2=80=94An end to the US naval blockade on Iran=
.<br><br><br><br>=E2=80=94The unfreezing and transfer to Iran of part of it=
s assets, likely $12 bn. [The rest will be transferred once there is a fina=
l deal based on the MOU]<br><br><br><br>=E2=80=94An end to all restrictions=
 on Iran=E2=80=99s energy exports.<br><br><br><br>=E2=80=94The opening of t=
he Strait of Hormuz, but with Iran retaining (unspecified) authority, over =
it, along with Oman, which is located on the opposite shore of the Strait. =
[Iran=E2=80=99s foreign minister has stated that this will include the righ=
t to levy some sort of fee for ships transiting the Gulf to cover the costs=
 of services that are provided to them.]<br><br><br><br>=E2=80=94The liftin=
g of all sanctions on Iran. [The timeline and pace at which this will be im=
plemented remain unclear and will be worked out during the 60=E2=80=94day n=
egotiations.]<br><br><br><br>=E2=80=94The negotiation of a plan for the rec=
onstruction of Iran in light of the damage it has sustained as a result of =
US and Israeli strikes. [The details and dollar amount are unclear, but Ira=
n is not calling this war reparations, which would be an outright humiliati=
on for Trump.]<br><br><br><br>=E2=80=94<strong>Phase 2</strong>, to be nego=
tiated during the 60 day period.<br><br><br><br>=E2=80=94 The details of sa=
nctions relief, the unfreezing of the remainder of Iranian assets, and the =
modalities of Iran=E2=80=99s authority over the Strait will be finalized du=
ring this period. But the focus will be on the future of Iran=E2=80=99s nuc=
lear program.<br><br><br><br>Some observations:<br><br><br><br>1) Assuming =
the American side confirms these details on the MOU, it=E2=80=99s hard to s=
ee how Trump can spin this framework agreement as a win, given that Iran=E2=
=80=99s assets will be unfrozen, the blockade will be lifted, and Iran will=
 have a degree of authority over the Strait that it has never had=E2=80=94a=
nd probably never imagined it would. And all of this with no up-front commi=
tments regarding its nuclear program.</p><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;marg=
in:0px 0px 20px">And the decision of the UAE, the Gulf state that=E2=80=99s=
 most hostile to Iran, to hand over $10 billion (and according to some repo=
rts as much as=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/ua=
e-unlock-billions-dollars-iran-sources-say-2026-06-12/" style=3D"color:rgb(=
54,55,55)">$20 billion</a>) of Iran=E2=80=99s frozen assets=E2=80=94and has=
 already delivered $3 billion=E2=80=94 so as to stay out of harm&#39;s way =
shows that Iran=E2=80=99s position in the Persian Gulf region has become st=
ronger as a result of Trump=E2=80=99s war.</p><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em=
;margin:0px 0px 20px"><br><br>2) Contrary to what Trump and Netanyahu have =
implied, Iran has in fact made no up-front commitment that the final deal w=
ill include the removal of Iran=E2=80=99s enriched uranium out of the count=
ry or the dismantling of its nuclear infrastructure. Recall, that these wer=
e key objectives of Trump and Netanyahu.</p><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;m=
argin:0px 0px 20px">Trump keeps insisting that the final deal will be a maj=
or achievement because Iran will never have nuclear weapons. Iran has long =
publicly renounced nuclear weapons=E2=80=94not only in line with a religiou=
s ruling by the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but, in writing, in the preamb=
le of the 2015 JCPOA, which Trump withdrew the US from in 2018.<br><br><br>=
<br>4) Neither has Iran agreed to limit the number, range, and production v=
olume of ballistic missiles. Recall that this has been one of Netanyahu=E2=
=80=99s principal objectives.<br><br><br><br>5) Nor has Iran made any appar=
ent commitment to end its support for regional partners such as Hezbollah i=
n Lebanon and Ansar Allah in Yemen. This, too, was an important goal for Ne=
tanyahu.<br><br><br><br>6) I remain skeptical that the technical details re=
lated to uranium enrichment issue other aspects of Iran=E2=80=99s nuclear p=
rogram can be worked out in 60 days, given that it took years to finalize t=
he JCPOA.<br><br><br><br>7) Trump will claim that the opening of the Strait=
 and Iran=E2=80=99s commitment not to develop a nuclear weapon are major vi=
ctories. But, again, both of these conditions existed before the war began.=
<br><br><br><br>8) An unknown, given that the cease-fire encompasses Lebano=
n, is whether Netanyahu now in effect has veto power over the durability of=
 a final agreement because he could resume the war in Lebanon. This is impo=
rtant: Israel has no reason whatsoever to like this Memorandum of Understan=
ding. If Netanyahu attempts to derail a final deal, there are two possibili=
ties, assuming Iran follows through on its pledge to retaliate if Israel at=
tacks Beirut=E2=80=94which it may do if Israel breaks the ceasefire: the US=
 gets drawn into the war, or Israel is left to fight alone. The former outc=
ome could lead to a return to a full-scale war and once again push up the p=
rice of oil and other essential commodities. The latter outcome would creat=
e a crisis in US-Israeli relations, and Trump=E2=80=99s abandonment of Isra=
el will denounced by individuals and groups in the US that insist on near-u=
nconditional American support for that country and have also been prominent=
 backers of Trump.<br><br><br><br>9) Assuming that the White House confirms=
 the Iranian statements on the MOU, it=E2=80=99s clear that this war has ac=
hieved nothing that Trump can brag about. What remains to be seen is whethe=
r his MAGA acolytes believes his spin=E2=80=94as always=E2=80=94and whether=
 he gets some credit for easing the economic hardships produced by his need=
less, ruinous war.<br><br><br><br>10) As he has already done once, Trump co=
uld try to insert new provisions into this framework agreement. But as in t=
he past, Iran will reject it, leaving Trump with the option of restarting t=
he war to pressure Tehran. The problem with that option is that Iran has sh=
own that it will fight back and extend the war to the rest of the Persian G=
ulf, which will prolong the closure of the Strait and increase the steep to=
ll that the closure has already taken on the global economy, and even creat=
e a recession. Trump can say, as he has, that he doesn=E2=80=99t care about=
 this, but with the midterm elections approaching and his poll numbers sink=
ing, it=E2=80=99s safe to assume that he very much does care. It=E2=80=99s =
also safe to assume that Iran knows that he=E2=80=99s under pressure. The w=
ar has doubtless created economic hardship in Iran as well=E2=80=94by incre=
asing inflation, forcing business closures, and accelerating the=C2=A0<a hr=
ef=3D"https://www.reuters.com/business/irans-currency-drops-record-low-leve=
l-18-million-rials-dollar-isna-reports-2026-04-29/" style=3D"color:rgb(54,5=
5,55)">decline</a>=C2=A0in the value of its currency, the rial. What is les=
s clear=E2=80=94considering that gaining relief from sanctions and restrict=
ions on oil exports are arguably Iran=E2=80=99s most important goals in the=
 negotiations=E2=80=94is the extent to which this economic hardship is putt=
ing pressure on Iran to conclude a deal without dragging out negotiations. =
So far, if it=E2=80=99s indeed facing pressure, it has been effective in di=
sguising that fact.</p><p style=3D"line-height:1.6em;margin:0px 0px 20px">1=
1) If a Memorandum of Understanding is indeed signed based on these points,=
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Congress has lost its grip on funding the government

The legislature showed again this week it is really struggling to follow
its own normal budget-making process, and programs Americans love could be
at stake.


The Washington Post, 13 June 2026

(Washington Post illustration; iStock)
By Jarrell Dillard <https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/jarrell-dillard/>

Congress=E2=80=99s most important job is deciding how federal money is spen=
t. It
hasn=E2=80=99t passed annual funding bills on time since 1997.

And the normal act of budget-making has become all but impossible, with
partisan gridlock and President Donald Trump=E2=80=99s push for Republicans=
 to go
it alone, opening new cracks in an already-battered system.

The breakdown in bipartisan budgeting every year threatens public programs =
that
millions of Americans rely on
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/06/09/social-securitys-reserv=
es-could-be-depleted-by-2032/>
and
further endangers the government=E2=80=99s long-term fiscal health
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/11/gop-tax-law-deficit-cos=
ts-cbo/>
.

=E2=80=9CThe process at this point is completely broken, and the political
environment is completely poisoned,=E2=80=9D said Maya MacGuineas, presiden=
t of the
Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. =E2=80=9CThere needs to be a gr=
oup of
lawmakers who are willing to work together to say: getting the budget done,
the government funded, and being willing to compromise to do so is more
important than the political food fight that the annual appropriations
process has become.=E2=80=9D

Earlier this week, Republicans narrowly passed funding for two immigration
enforcement agencies through a =E2=80=9Cfast-tracked=E2=80=9D process calle=
d reconciliation
designed to overcome the filibuster, because it can be passed with a simple
majority in both chambers, bypassing Democrats.

Trump is also urging Republicans to again sidestep negotiations with
Democrats and pursue a new set of spending priorities, including $350
billion in defense funding, outside of the traditional appropriations
process.

This week=E2=80=99s events underscore a breakdown in the government funding
process. The appropriations committees, once among the most coveted
assignments in Congress, are sidelined, as lawmakers turn to reconciliation
to bypass the traditional bipartisan process. The shift could impart
greater consequences for government funding, if the pattern continues.

Already the federal government has shut down three times
<https://history.house.gov/Institution/Shutdown/Government-Shutdowns/> sinc=
e
Trump took office for his second term and new signs of a fourth are looming=
.Ask
The Post AIDive deeper

=E2=80=9CIt=E2=80=99s clearly getting worse as tensions are getting deeper,=
 and at the same
time we=E2=80=99re seeing a huge rejection of basic budgeting norms,=E2=80=
=9D MacGuineas
said. =E2=80=9CEverything from misusing baselines to trying to fund the gov=
ernment
in ways that was never intended.=E2=80=9D

Also, things are looking bad when it comes to the regular appropriations
process for next year, which lawmakers are already behind on. This week,
Senate appropriators traded public criticisms as they deadlocked over the
budget, which must be passed by Sept. 30, leading them to cancel meetings
to revise the legislation for a second week in a row. Key Senate
Republicans said this week that they are not on board with Trump=E2=80=99s =
ongoing
push to go it alone with another reconciliation bill.

Already, the Trump administration has taken bold efforts to wrestle
appropriation power from Congress
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/19/trump-budget-congress-i=
mpoundment/>
, withholding billions of dollars from low-income housing services,
education assistance, medical research grants and other programs approved
by Congress, centralizing sweeping authority in the executive branch.

In a more recent example, the Justice Department established a nearly $1.8
billion payout fund for individuals who claim they were wrongfully
prosecuted by the federal government, drawing from a Judgment Fund, which
Congress permanently appropriated to pay court judgments against the
federal government. Lawmakers from both parties denounced the move, and it
has been temporarily blocked by a judge before the Trump administration
said it would abandon the fund.

=E2=80=9CConsolidation of executive powers has happened under both parties,=
=E2=80=9D
MacGuineas said. =E2=80=9CYou hear rumblings in Congress about taking back =
the
power of the purse, but to really go back to the norms we had before in
regular order, or some new version of regular order, the two parties would
have to cooperate and come up with some big fundamental reforms and
overhauls.=E2=80=9D

Now, with Trump pressing Republicans to pursue spending levels outside of
the recent norm and Democrats holding firm on their demands, the
appropriation system is growing more fractured =E2=80=94 setting the stage =
for
another funding fight ahead of the Sept. 30 shutdown deadline.

It is not unusual for Congress to fail to make its own budget deadlines.
Lawmakers have passed nearly 140 temporary stopgap measures to avoid a
shutdown in the last 30 years. And once again, the appropriators can=E2=80=
=99t seem
to get the annual funding process on track as they are stuck in a standoff
over how much to spend in each area.

Trump has requested $1.5 trillion in military funding for the next fiscal
year beginning in October, a 44 percent increase from 2026 fiscal year
funding levels. He has only asked for $660 billion for nondefense funding,
a 10 percent cut compared to the prior year.Ask The Post AIDive deeper

Democrats are refusing to agree to defense funding increases without a
comparable boost in domestic spending.

=E2=80=9CWe made it clear to Republicans that we are not going to accept a =
gigantic
war budget offer,=E2=80=9D Sen. Patty Murray (Washington), the lead Democra=
t on the
Senate Appropriations Committee, told reporters Monday. She called
Republicans=E2=80=99 offer =E2=80=9Clopsided and unreasonable.=E2=80=9D

On Thursday, Trump called on Republicans to pass another reconciliation
bill that includes $350 billion in defense spending to help meet his goal
of $1.5 trillion for defense spending, without Democrats help.

=E2=80=9CI am hereby calling on Republicans in Congress to IMMEDIATELY adva=
nce and
pass the forthcoming $350 Billion Reconciliation Bill (Recon 3.0) =E2=80=94=
 which,
at the request of our Great Department of War =E2=80=94 will include THE SA=
VE
AMERICA ACT as well. No games, no delays, and no weak compromises! Do this
ASAP,=E2=80=9D Trump wrote on Truth Social
<https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116728850395743386> on Thursday.

But such an endeavor faces an uphill battle in the Senate.

=E2=80=9CI am skeptical that a third reconciliation package would be approv=
ed,=E2=80=9D said
 Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the chair of the Senate Appropriations
Committee, to reporters Thursday. =E2=80=9CAnd I also don=E2=80=99t think i=
t=E2=80=99s the best
route for us to follow.=E2=80=9D

Also, the reconciliation effort that Congress passed this week upset at
least one Republican appropriator. Reconciliation is normally used to
supplement the normal annual funding process. Congress this week used
reconciliation for the first time to replace federal agencies=E2=80=99 norm=
al
appropriations and fund those agencies
<https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/06/10/trumps-deportation-a=
genda-secures-funding-that-could-outlast-his-presidency/>
for
multiple years.

=E2=80=9CI think another round of reconciliation is going to be very, very,=
 very
challenging,=E2=80=9D Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) told reporters Thursda=
y. She
was the only Senate Republican who voted against the Immigration and
Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol funding bill, because she
said she opposed forgoing the normal appropriations process to fund
agencies.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) said Thursday that,
ideally, military funding would be passed through a supplemental bill or
the normal appropriations process, but he=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Copen to using =
reconciliation=E2=80=9D
if there=E2=80=99s something Republicans can agree to.

Chances of another reconciliation bill passing the House are also unclear.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (Louisiana) told The Washington Post on
Thursday that House Republicans are discussing a third package but are =E2=
=80=9Cnot
at consensus yet.=E2=80=9D Scalise said he=E2=80=99d like a package to incl=
ude some
military funding, as well as provisions in government fraud and
affordability.

Margins in both chambers are tight, meaning Republicans need near-unanimous
support to advance another package.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (Connecticut), the top Democrat on the House
Appropriations Committee, said Thursday using reconciliation removes
accountability and erodes Congress=E2=80=99s constitutional spending power.=
Ask The
Post AIDive deeper

=E2=80=9CThe power of the purse resides in the Appropriations Committee, an=
d this
administration has been trying to eviscerate that power from the outset,=E2=
=80=9D
DeLauro said.

*Theodoric Meyer and Anna Liss-Roy contributed to this report.*

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:border-box">By=C2=A0</span><a class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-wpds-c-PJLV=
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>Jarrell Dillard</a></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><div c=
lass=3D"gmail-meteredContent gmail-grid-center" style=3D"box-sizing:border-=
box"><div class=3D"gmail-teaser-content" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box"><d=
iv class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-article-body gmail-type-text" style=3D"=
box-sizing:border-box;max-width:640px"><p class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF gmai=
l-wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css gmail-overrideStyles gmail-font-copy" dir=3D"null=
" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;font-family:georgia,&quot;Times=
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m">Congress=E2=80=99s most important job is deciding how federal money is s=
pent. It hasn=E2=80=99t passed annual funding bills on time since 1997.</p>=
</div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-article-body gmail-type-text" s=
tyle=3D"box-sizing:border-box;max-width:640px"><p class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-heF=
NVF gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css gmail-overrideStyles gmail-font-copy" dir=
=3D"null" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;font-family:georgia,&qu=
ot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;padding-bottom:24px;line-height:1.6;font-siz=
e:1.25rem">And the normal act of budget-making has become all but impossibl=
e, with partisan gridlock and President Donald Trump=E2=80=99s push for Rep=
ublicans<span style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">=C2=A0</sp=
an>to go it alone, opening new cracks in an already-battered system.</p></d=
iv></div><div style=3D"box-sizing:border-box"></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpd=
s-c-PJLV gmail-article-body gmail-type-subscribe-cta" style=3D"box-sizing:b=
order-box;max-width:640px"></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-arti=
cle-body gmail-type-text" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;max-width:640px"><=
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Styles gmail-font-copy" dir=3D"null" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:=
0px;font-family:georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;padding-bottom:24=
px;line-height:1.6;font-size:1.25rem">The breakdown in bipartisan budgeting=
 every year threatens public programs=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.washingto=
npost.com/politics/2026/06/09/social-securitys-reserves-could-be-depleted-b=
y-2032/" rel=3D"" target=3D"_self" title=3D"https://www.washingtonpost.com/=
politics/2026/06/09/social-securitys-reserves-could-be-depleted-by-2032/" c=
lass=3D"gmail-js-itid-click" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(17,17=
,17);text-decoration:underline 0.0625em rgb(17,17,17);border-bottom:0px">th=
at millions of Americans rely on</a>=C2=A0and further endangers the=C2=A0<a=
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icit-costs-cbo/" rel=3D"" target=3D"_self" title=3D"https://www.washingtonp=
ost.com/business/2026/02/11/gop-tax-law-deficit-costs-cbo/" class=3D"gmail-=
js-itid-click" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(17,17,17);text-deco=
ration:underline 0.0625em rgb(17,17,17);border-bottom:0px">government=E2=80=
=99s long-term fiscal health</a>.</p></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV =
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h:none;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;width:2048px"></div><div class=3D"g=
mail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-article-body gmail-type-text gmail-subtype-from-the-=
source" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;max-width:640px"><p class=3D"gmail-w=
pds-c-heFNVF gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css gmail-overrideStyles gmail-font-=
copy" dir=3D"null" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;font-family:ge=
orgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;padding-bottom:24px;line-height:1.6=
;font-size:1.25rem">=E2=80=9CThe process at this point is completely broken=
, and the political environment is completely poisoned,=E2=80=9D said Maya =
MacGuineas, president of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. =
=E2=80=9CThere needs to be a group of lawmakers who are willing to work tog=
ether to say: getting the budget done, the government funded, and being wil=
ling to compromise to do so is more important than the political food fight=
 that the annual appropriations process has become.=E2=80=9D</p></div><div =
class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-wpds-c-PJLV-bHCGeL-isStandardLayoutAd-true=
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argin-right:0px;width:2048px"></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-a=
rticle-body gmail-type-rail-ad gmail-subtype-rail" style=3D"box-sizing:bord=
er-box;max-width:inherit;margin:0px 50px;width:300px;height:782px;display:f=
lex;float:right"></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-article-body g=
mail-type-text" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;max-width:640px"><p class=3D=
"gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css gmail-overrideStyles gma=
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amily:georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;padding-bottom:24px;line-he=
ight:1.6;font-size:1.25rem">Earlier this week, Republicans narrowly passed =
funding for two immigration enforcement agencies through a =E2=80=9Cfast-tr=
acked=E2=80=9D process called reconciliation designed to overcome the filib=
uster, because it can be passed with a simple majority in both chambers, by=
passing Democrats.</p></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-article-b=
ody gmail-type-text" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;max-width:640px"><p cla=
ss=3D"gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css gmail-overrideStyle=
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ont-family:georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;padding-bottom:24px;li=
ne-height:1.6;font-size:1.25rem">Trump is also urging Republicans to again =
sidestep negotiations with Democrats and pursue a new set of spending prior=
ities, including $350 billion in defense funding, outside of the traditiona=
l appropriations process.</p></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-wp=
ds-c-PJLV-bHCGeL-isStandardLayoutAd-true gmail-article-body gmail-type-inli=
ne-ad gmail-subtype-mobile" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin-right:0px=
;max-width:none;margin-left:0px;width:2048px"></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpd=
s-c-PJLV gmail-article-body gmail-type-text" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box=
;max-width:640px"><p class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV=
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f;padding-bottom:24px;line-height:1.6;font-size:1.25rem">This week=E2=80=99=
s events underscore a breakdown in the government funding process. The appr=
opriations committees, once among the most coveted assignments in Congress,=
 are sidelined, as lawmakers turn to reconciliation to bypass the tradition=
al bipartisan process. The shift could impart greater consequences for gove=
rnment funding, if the pattern continues.</p></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds=
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:24px;line-height:1.6;font-size:1.25rem"><span class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-cEkrQs=
" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;display:inline">Already the federal govern=
ment has shut down=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://history.house.gov/Institution/Sh=
utdown/Government-Shutdowns/" rel=3D"" target=3D"_self" title=3D"https://hi=
story.house.gov/Institution/Shutdown/Government-Shutdowns/" style=3D"box-si=
zing:border-box;color:rgb(17,17,17);text-decoration:underline 0.0625em rgb(=
17,17,17);border-bottom:0px">three times</a>=C2=A0since Trump took office f=
or his second term and new signs of a fourth are looming.</span><button typ=
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ght:1px;overflow:hidden;color:currentcolor">Ask The Post AI</span></span><s=
pan class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-hSyDQc" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;font-size:=
14px;font-weight:300;white-space:nowrap">Dive deeper</span></button></p></d=
iv><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-article-body gmail-type-text" styl=
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.25rem">=E2=80=9CIt=E2=80=99s clearly getting worse as tensions are getting=
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c budgeting norms,=E2=80=9D MacGuineas said. =E2=80=9CEverything from misus=
ing baselines to trying to fund the government in ways that was never inten=
ded.=E2=80=9D</p></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-wpds-c-PJLV-bH=
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=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-article-body gmail-type-rail-ad gmail-subtype-r=
ail" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;max-width:inherit;margin:0px 50px;width=
:300px;height:638px;display:flex;float:right"></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpd=
s-c-PJLV gmail-article-body gmail-type-text" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box=
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f;padding-bottom:24px;line-height:1.6;font-size:1.25rem">Also, things are l=
ooking bad when it comes to the regular appropriations process for next yea=
r,<span style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">=C2=A0</span>whi=
ch lawmakers are already behind on. This week, Senate appropriators traded =
public criticisms as they deadlocked over the budget, which must be passed =
by Sept. 30, leading them to cancel meetings to revise the legislation for =
a second week in a row. Key Senate Republicans said this week that they are=
 not on board with Trump=E2=80=99s ongoing push to go it alone with another=
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PJLV gmail-article-body gmail-type-text" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;max=
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der-box;margin:0px;font-family:georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;pa=
dding-bottom:24px;line-height:1.6;font-size:1.25rem">Already, the Trump adm=
inistration has taken bold=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.washingtonpost.com/b=
usiness/2025/08/19/trump-budget-congress-impoundment/" rel=3D"" target=3D"_=
self" title=3D"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/08/19/trump-bud=
get-congress-impoundment/" class=3D"gmail-js-itid-click" style=3D"box-sizin=
g:border-box;color:rgb(17,17,17);text-decoration:underline 0.0625em rgb(17,=
17,17);border-bottom:0px">efforts to wrestle appropriation power from Congr=
ess</a>,<span style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">=C2=A0</sp=
an>withholding billions of dollars from low-income housing services, educat=
ion assistance, medical research grants and other programs approved by Cong=
ress, centralizing sweeping authority in the executive branch.</p></div><di=
v class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-article-body gmail-type-text" style=3D"b=
ox-sizing:border-box;max-width:640px"><p class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF gmail=
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New Roman&quot;,serif;padding-bottom:24px;line-height:1.6;font-size:1.25rem=
">In a more recent example, the Justice Department established a nearly $1.=
8 billion payout fund for individuals who claim they were wrongfully prosec=
uted by the federal government, drawing from a Judgment Fund, which Congres=
s permanently appropriated to pay court judgments against the federal gover=
nment. Lawmakers from both parties denounced the move, and it has been temp=
orarily blocked by a judge before the Trump administration said it would ab=
andon the fund.</p></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-wpds-c-PJLV-=
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l-subtype-desktop gmail-preceding-anchor" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;ma=
rgin-right:0px;max-width:none;margin-left:0px;width:2048px"></div><div clas=
s=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-article-body gmail-type-rail-ad gmail-subtype-=
rail" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;max-width:inherit;margin:0px 50px;widt=
h:300px;height:694px;display:flex;float:right"></div><div class=3D"gmail-wp=
ds-c-PJLV gmail-article-body gmail-type-text" style=3D"box-sizing:border-bo=
x;max-width:640px"><p class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJL=
V-css gmail-overrideStyles gmail-font-copy" dir=3D"null" style=3D"box-sizin=
g:border-box;margin:0px;font-family:georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,ser=
if;padding-bottom:24px;line-height:1.6;font-size:1.25rem">=E2=80=9CConsolid=
ation of executive powers has happened under both parties,=E2=80=9D MacGuin=
eas said. =E2=80=9CYou hear rumblings in Congress about taking back the pow=
er of the purse, but to really go back to the norms we had before in regula=
r order, or some new version of regular order, the two parties would have t=
o cooperate and come up with some big fundamental reforms and overhauls.=E2=
=80=9D</p></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-wpds-c-PJLV-bHCGeL-is=
StandardLayoutAd-true gmail-article-body gmail-type-inline-ad gmail-subtype=
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gin-left:0px;width:2048px"></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-arti=
cle-body gmail-type-text" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;max-width:640px"><=
p class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css gmail-override=
Styles gmail-font-copy" dir=3D"null" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:=
0px;font-family:georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;padding-bottom:24=
px;line-height:1.6;font-size:1.25rem">Now, with Trump pressing Republicans =
to pursue spending levels outside of the recent norm and Democrats holding =
firm on their demands, the appropriation<span style=3D"box-sizing:border-bo=
x;font-weight:bolder">=C2=A0</span>system is growing more fractured =E2=80=
=94 setting the stage for another funding fight ahead of the Sept. 30 shutd=
own deadline.</p></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-article-body g=
mail-type-text" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;max-width:640px"><p class=3D=
"gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css gmail-overrideStyles gma=
il-font-copy" dir=3D"null" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;font-f=
amily:georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;padding-bottom:24px;line-he=
ight:1.6;font-size:1.25rem">It is not unusual for Congress<span style=3D"bo=
x-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">=C2=A0</span>to fail to make its ow=
n budget deadlines. Lawmakers have passed nearly 140 temporary stopgap meas=
ures to avoid a shutdown in the last 30 years. And once again, the appropri=
ators can=E2=80=99t seem to get the annual funding process on track as they=
 are stuck in a standoff over how much to spend in each area.</p></div><div=
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e-atp-questions" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;max-width:640px"><p class=
=3D"gmail-wpds-c-dxBimu gmail-overrideStyles gmail-font-copy" style=3D"box-=
sizing:border-box;margin:0px;font-family:georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot=
;,serif;padding-bottom:24px;line-height:1.6;font-size:1.25rem"><span class=
=3D"gmail-wpds-c-cEkrQs" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;display:inline">Tru=
mp has requested $1.5 trillion in military funding for<span style=3D"box-si=
zing:border-box;font-weight:bolder">=C2=A0</span>the next fiscal year begin=
ning in October, a 44 percent increase from 2026 fiscal year funding levels=
. He has only asked for $660 billion for nondefense funding, a 10 percent c=
ut compared to the prior year.</span><button type=3D"button" aria-haspopup=
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=3D"gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css gmail-overrideStyles =
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t-family:georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;padding-bottom:24px;line=
-height:1.6;font-size:1.25rem">Democrats are refusing to agree to defense f=
unding increases without a comparable boost in domestic spending.</p></div>=
<div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-article-body gmail-type-text gmail-su=
btype-from-the-source" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;max-width:640px"><p c=
lass=3D"gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css gmail-overrideSty=
les gmail-font-copy" dir=3D"null" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px=
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line-height:1.6;font-size:1.25rem">=E2=80=9CWe made it clear to Republicans=
 that we are not going to accept a gigantic war budget offer,=E2=80=9D Sen.=
 Patty Murray (Washington), the lead Democrat on the Senate Appropriations =
Committee, told reporters Monday. She called Republicans=E2=80=99 offer =E2=
=80=9Clopsided and unreasonable.=E2=80=9D</p><p class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-heFNV=
F gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css gmail-overrideStyles gmail-font-copy" dir=
=3D"null" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;font-family:georgia,&qu=
ot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;padding-bottom:24px;line-height:1.6;font-siz=
e:1.25rem"><span style=3D"font-size:1.25rem">On Thursday, Trump called on R=
epublicans to pass another reconciliation bill that includes $350 billion i=
n defense spending to help meet his goal of $1.5 trillion for defense spend=
ing, without </span>Democrats help<span style=3D"font-size:1.25rem">.</span=
></p></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-article-body gmail-type-te=
xt" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;max-width:640px"><p class=3D"gmail-wpds-=
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a,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;padding-bottom:24px;line-height:1.6;fon=
t-size:1.25rem">=E2=80=9CI am hereby calling on Republicans in Congress to =
IMMEDIATELY advance and pass the forthcoming $350 Billion Reconciliation Bi=
ll (Recon 3.0) =E2=80=94 which, at the request of our Great Department of W=
ar =E2=80=94 will include THE SAVE AMERICA ACT as well. No games, no delays=
, and no weak compromises! Do this ASAP,=E2=80=9D Trump wrote on=C2=A0<a hr=
ef=3D"https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/116728850395743386" rel=3D""=
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50395743386" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(17,17,17);text-decora=
tion:underline 0.0625em rgb(17,17,17);border-bottom:0px">Truth Social</a>=
=C2=A0on Thursday.</p></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-wpds-c-PJ=
LV-bHCGeL-isStandardLayoutAd-true gmail-article-body gmail-type-inline-ad g=
mail-subtype-mobile" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin-right:0px;max-wi=
dth:none;margin-left:0px;width:2048px"></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJL=
V gmail-article-body gmail-type-text" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;max-wi=
dth:640px"><p class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css gm=
ail-overrideStyles gmail-font-copy" dir=3D"null" style=3D"box-sizing:border=
-box;margin:0px;font-family:georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;paddi=
ng-bottom:24px;line-height:1.6;font-size:1.25rem">But such an endeavor face=
s an uphill battle in the Senate.</p></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV =
gmail-article-body gmail-type-text gmail-subtype-from-the-source" style=3D"=
box-sizing:border-box;max-width:640px"><p class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF gmai=
l-wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css gmail-overrideStyles gmail-font-copy" dir=3D"null=
" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;font-family:georgia,&quot;Times=
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m">=E2=80=9CI am skeptical that a third reconciliation package would be app=
roved,=E2=80=9D said<span style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:bolder=
">=C2=A0</span>Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), the chair of the Senate Approp=
riations Committee, to reporters Thursday. =E2=80=9CAnd I also don=E2=80=99=
t think it=E2=80=99s the best route for us to follow.=E2=80=9D</p></div><di=
v class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-wpds-c-PJLV-bHCGeL-isStandardLayoutAd-tr=
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e;margin-left:0px;width:2048px"></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail=
-article-body gmail-type-rail-ad gmail-subtype-rail" style=3D"box-sizing:bo=
rder-box;max-width:inherit;margin:0px 50px;width:300px;height:726px;display=
:flex;float:right"></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-article-body=
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=3D"gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css gmail-overrideStyles =
gmail-font-copy" dir=3D"null" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;fon=
t-family:georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;padding-bottom:24px;line=
-height:1.6;font-size:1.25rem">Also, the reconciliation effort that Congres=
s passed this week upset at least one Republican appropriator. Reconciliati=
on is normally used to supplement the normal annual funding process. Congre=
ss this week used reconciliation for the first time to=C2=A0<a href=3D"http=
s://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/06/10/trumps-deportation-agenda=
-secures-funding-that-could-outlast-his-presidency/" rel=3D"" target=3D"_se=
lf" title=3D"https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/06/10/trumps-d=
eportation-agenda-secures-funding-that-could-outlast-his-presidency/" class=
=3D"gmail-js-itid-click" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(17,17,17)=
;text-decoration:underline 0.0625em rgb(17,17,17);border-bottom:0px">replac=
e federal agencies=E2=80=99 normal appropriations and fund those agencies</=
a>=C2=A0for multiple years.</p></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-=
article-body gmail-type-text gmail-subtype-from-the-source" style=3D"box-si=
zing:border-box;max-width:640px"><p class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF gmail-wpds=
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oman&quot;,serif;padding-bottom:24px;line-height:1.6;font-size:1.25rem">=E2=
=80=9CI think another round of reconciliation is going to be very, very, ve=
ry challenging,=E2=80=9D Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) told reporters Thur=
sday. She was the only Senate Republican who voted against the Immigration =
and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Patrol funding bill, because=
 she said she opposed forgoing the normal appropriations process to fund ag=
encies.</p></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-wpds-c-PJLV-bHCGeL-i=
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rgin-left:0px;width:2048px"></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-art=
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g:border-box;max-width:640px"><p class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF gmail-wpds-c-=
heFNVF-iPJLV-css gmail-overrideStyles gmail-font-copy" dir=3D"null" style=
=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;font-family:georgia,&quot;Times New Ro=
man&quot;,serif;padding-bottom:24px;line-height:1.6;font-size:1.25rem">Sena=
te Majority Leader John Thune (R-South Dakota) said Thursday that, ideally,=
 military funding would be passed through a supplemental bill or the normal=
 appropriations process, but he=E2=80=99s =E2=80=9Copen to using reconcilia=
tion=E2=80=9D if there=E2=80=99s something Republicans can agree to.</p></d=
iv><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-article-body gmail-type-text gmail=
-subtype-from-the-source" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;max-width:640px"><=
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Styles gmail-font-copy" dir=3D"null" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:=
0px;font-family:georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;padding-bottom:24=
px;line-height:1.6;font-size:1.25rem">Chances of another reconciliation bil=
l passing the House are also unclear. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (=
Louisiana) told The Washington Post on Thursday that House Republicans are =
discussing a third package but are =E2=80=9Cnot at consensus yet.=E2=80=9D =
Scalise said he=E2=80=99d like a package to include some military funding, =
as well as provisions in government fraud and affordability.</p></div><div =
class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-wpds-c-PJLV-bHCGeL-isStandardLayoutAd-true=
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x-sizing:border-box;margin-right:0px;max-width:none;margin-left:0px;width:2=
048px"></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-article-body gmail-type-=
text" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;max-width:640px"><p class=3D"gmail-wpd=
s-c-heFNVF gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css gmail-overrideStyles gmail-font-co=
py" dir=3D"null" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;font-family:geor=
gia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;padding-bottom:24px;line-height:1.6;f=
ont-size:1.25rem">Margins in both chambers are tight, meaning Republicans n=
eed near-unanimous support to advance another package.</p></div><div class=
=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-article-body gmail-type-text gmail-subtype-atp-=
questions" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;max-width:640px"><p class=3D"gmai=
l-wpds-c-dxBimu gmail-overrideStyles gmail-font-copy" style=3D"box-sizing:b=
order-box;margin:0px;font-family:georgia,&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;=
padding-bottom:24px;line-height:1.6;font-size:1.25rem"><span class=3D"gmail=
-wpds-c-cEkrQs" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;display:inline">Rep. Rosa De=
Lauro (Connecticut), the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee=
, said Thursday using reconciliation removes accountability and erodes Cong=
ress=E2=80=99s constitutional spending power.</span><button type=3D"button"=
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s:9999px;border-width:medium;min-height:unset;min-width:unset;vertical-alig=
n:middle"><span class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-kWzNnS" style=3D"box-sizing:border-bo=
x;display:flex"><span class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-iSKIAI" style=3D"box-sizing:bor=
der-box;border:0px;padding:0px;white-space:nowrap;width:1px;height:1px;over=
flow:hidden;color:currentcolor">Ask The Post AI</span></span><span class=3D=
"gmail-wpds-c-hSyDQc" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;font-size:14px;font-we=
ight:300;white-space:nowrap">Dive deeper</span></button></p></div><div clas=
s=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-article-body gmail-type-text" style=3D"box-siz=
ing:border-box;max-width:640px"><p class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF gmail-wpds-=
c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css gmail-overrideStyles gmail-font-copy" dir=3D"null" style=
=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;font-family:georgia,&quot;Times New Ro=
man&quot;,serif;padding-bottom:24px;line-height:1.6;font-size:1.25rem">=E2=
=80=9CThe power of the purse resides in the Appropriations Committee, and t=
his administration has been trying to eviscerate that power from the outset=
,=E2=80=9D DeLauro said.</p></div><div class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-PJLV gmail-art=
icle-body gmail-type-text" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;max-width:640px">=
<p class=3D"gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF gmail-wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css gmail-overrid=
eStyles gmail-font-copy" dir=3D"null" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin=
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4px;line-height:1.6;font-size:1.25rem"><i style=3D"box-sizing:border-box">T=
heodoric Meyer and Anna Liss-Roy contributed to this report.</i></p></div><=
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Trump as Don Corleone: =E2=80=98Every time he does somebody a favour =E2=80=
=A6 he expects a
quid pro quo=E2=80=99

Barbara McQuade=E2=80=99s book is a piercing expos=C3=A9 of how Trump is er=
oding
democracy by turning the US into a mafia state
[image: David Smith]

David Smith <https://www.theguardian.com/profile/davidsmith> in Washington
Sat 13 Jun 2026

=E2=80=9CI believe in America.=E2=80=9D So says Amerigo Bonasera, a humble =
funeral
director, in the opening scene of the 1972 film The Godfather
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeZHsmb4ezEk>.
As Barbara McQuade recounts at the start of her new book
<https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/818454/the-fix-by-barbara-mcquade=
/>,
Bonasera has come to the shadowy office of Vito Corleone to ask him to
avenge a brutal attack on his daughter. Ultimately, Corleone agrees,
whispering: =E2=80=9CSomeday, and that day may never come, I=E2=80=99ll cal=
l upon you to do
a service for me.=E2=80=9DThe lesson that McQuade, a former federal prosecu=
tor,
draws from this is that Corleone is demanding fealty.
 =E2=80=9CWhat he=E2=80=99s saying is I=E2=80=99m going to do this thing fo=
r you but now you=E2=80=99re
beholden to me.=E2=80=9D And for Don Corleone, she says, read Donald Trump
<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/07/donald-trump-america=
-mafia-state>.
=E2=80=9CEvery time he does somebody a favour, whether it=E2=80=99s an appo=
intment or
something else, he expects there to be a quid pro quo.=E2=80=9D
It is a principle that informs The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption
of a Mob-Style Government, a piercing expos=C3=A9 of how the president is
eroding democracy by turning the US into a mafia state =E2=80=93 with some
proposals for how ordinary citizens can fight back. There is even a cover
blurb from the Godfather Part II star Robert De Niro
<https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/06/robert-de-niro-trump-is-a-rea=
l-racist-a-white-supremacist>
.
McQuade, 61, is a professor at the University of Michigan Law School
<https://michigan.law.umich.edu/faculty-and-scholarship/our-faculty/barbara=
-l-mcquade>
and
legal analyst for the MS Now network. From 2010 to 2017 she served as the
US attorney for the eastern district of Michigan. She has prosecuted
high-profile corruption cases, including that of the former Detroit mayor
Kwame Kilpatrick, as well as the =E2=80=9Cunderwear bomber=E2=80=9D Umar Fa=
rouk
Abdulmutallab and the Volkswagen emissions scandal.
Now she turns her prosecutorial gaze on the occupant of the White House and
makes the case that Trump governs like a mob boss. =E2=80=9CHe uses his pow=
er to
try to control others, especially would-be critics,=E2=80=9D she says, sitt=
ing
outside Comet Ping Pong, a Washington pizza joint targeted in 2016 by an
armed man motivated by the baseless conspiracy theory that it was
harbouring children as part of a Democratic-led child sex-trafficking ring.

=E2=80=9CHe uses any leverage he can get, inflicting pain to try to coerce =
them to
come to the table to negotiate their own punishment. He=E2=80=99s done it w=
ith law
firms and the media and universities and even foreign allies with tariffs.=
=E2=80=9D
[image: a woman speaking]View image in fullscreen
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/13/trump-don-corleone-book#im=
g-2>
Barbara McQuade, former attorney for the eastern district of Michigan, at a
House committee hearing on the Mueller report on Capitol Hill in
Washington, on 10 June 2019. Photograph: Andrew Harnik/AP

McQuade draws on an example from her home state of Michigan. =E2=80=9CHe ha=
s
threatened to hold up the opening of the Gordie Howe bridge between Detroit
and Canada and there=E2=80=99s an owner of a private span next to it who ma=
de a
million-dollar donation to the Maga SuperPac at around the same time. The
fix is in: rigging the system to amass power and exert control.*=E2=80=9D*

It is an approach that McQuade argues Trump learned decades ago from his
notorious lawyer, Roy Cohn, who represented Trump and his father in the
1970s when the justice department sued them for racial discrimination.

Cohn, a former assistant US attorney and counsel to Senator Joseph
McCarthy=E2=80=99s red scare hearings and various mob figures, taught Trump=
 the
dark arts of surviving legal peril.* =E2=80=9C*He showed Trump the way to d=
eal with
being charged or attacked is to always fight back, to never admit to
anything, to always turn the tables and accuse your accusers and we see him
do that to great success,=E2=80=9D McQuade says.

While Trump=E2=80=99s first term was somewhat constrained by traditional go=
vernment
officials who pushed back against his worst instincts, his second term is
different. =E2=80=9CHe has learned this time around that what he should pri=
ze
instead of expertise and competence is loyalty =E2=80=93 people who will do=
 his
bidding and sing his praises as he wishes*.=E2=80=9D*

McQuade notes that democratic institutions were turned against the people
in 1930s Germany while oligarchs and loyalists replaced public servants in
post-Soviet Russia. Hungary and Turkey offer contemporary examples of
democracies hollowed from within. In America the dynamic manifests in what
McQuade =E2=80=93 borrowing a phrase from the House Democratic leader, Hake=
em
Jeffries
<https://apnews.com/article/trump-100-days-jeffries-schumer-democratic-lead=
ers-587b5dc7ea0d525e9ebae28a6dcf355e>
=E2=80=93
calls the three Cs of the Trump era: corruption, cruelty and chaos.

The corruption is ostentatious
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/27/trump-flaunting-corruption=
>.
McQuade points to Trump=E2=80=99s pardons for January 6 rioters and politic=
al
donors, his acceptance of a $400m plane from Qatar and his cosying up to
tech billionaires seeking favourable merger regulations in violation of the
constitutional emoluments clause.

The cruelty is performative and is the point. It is there in Trump=E2=80=99=
s
rhetoric and official White House social media accounts, including
dehumanising memes about locking up and deporting immigrants with
Hollywood-style music. Last month the White House launched a sci-fi-style
web page, aliens.gov <https://www.whitehouse.gov/aliens/>, that seems to be
about the search for extraterrestrial life and declares =E2=80=9CThey walk =
among
us,=E2=80=9D but then reveals: =E2=80=9CThese =E2=80=98Aliens=E2=80=99 are =
the millions of ILLEGALS =E2=80=A6
Deport them all.=E2=80=9D

McQuade reflects: =E2=80=9CThe effect is to chip away at our humanity. The =
cruelty
is the enjoyment of inflicting harm on other humans, which is just not the
way the United States has conducted itself in the world, at least in the
post-World War II order.*=E2=80=9D*

The chaos is a product of what historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat terms =E2=80=9Cengi=
neered
incompetence=E2=80=9D. Cabinet appointments are no longer based on merit bu=
t
subservience. McQuade points to the surreal reality of a vaccine denier,
Robert Kennedy Jr, leading the Department of Health and Human Services and =
Pete
Hegseth
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/pete-hegseth-pentagon-trum=
p-iran>,
a former Fox News host with no senior leadership experience, running the
Pentagon at a time of war.

=E2=80=9CIf you put people in these very high-level positions, who don=E2=
=80=99t deserve to
be there and wouldn=E2=80=99t be there under any other administration, they=
 feel
beholden to the leader who put them there and, even though nobody ever has
to say so out loud, they understand you got this job for one reason and one
reason only. I talk about the story that [former FBI director] Jim Comey
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/19/the-capitol-riot-was-our-c=
hernobyl-james-comey-on-trump-the-pee-tape-and-clintons-emails>
tells
in the first administration when he said Trump invited him to dinner and
said, I expect loyalty. That=E2=80=99s not how this works.*=E2=80=9D*

Trump uses both carrots and sticks to extort compliance. When he pardoned
the Texas congressman Henry Cuellar, indicted on corruption and money
laundering charges, Trump was subsequently outraged to learn that Cuellar
still intended to run for re-election as a Democrat. McQuade interprets:
=E2=80=9CIf I do something for you, you are now beholden to me. I control y=
ou. I
own you.=E2=80=9D
[image: a book cover]
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/13/trump-don-corleone-book#im=
g-3>
The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government by
Barbara McQuade. Photograph: Penguin Random House

The sticks are equally insidious. McQuade details how Trump issued
executive orders to punish elite law firms that had previously employed
attorneys who investigated him, such as Robert Mueller or Andrew Weissmann.
These firms lost security clearances and access to federal courthouses.
Most of these powerful firms succumbed to the president=E2=80=99s demands,
prioritising their business over the rule of law.

=E2=80=9CWhen an extortionist makes a demand, so often what I=E2=80=99ve se=
en in my career
is people will make a payout and think there, now I=E2=80=99m done, it=E2=
=80=99s over and I
can get back to business as usual. But that=E2=80=99s not the case because =
the
bully always comes back for more =E2=80=93 it=E2=80=99s the bully and your =
lunch money.
It=E2=80=99s the extortionist and their prey. They know you=E2=80=99re an e=
asy mark and so
they=E2=80=99ll come back for more.

=E2=80=9CThe way we=E2=80=99ve seen that play out with the law firms is the=
y=E2=80=99ve been
sidelined from challenging any of President Trump=E2=80=99s programmes or e=
xecutive
orders*. *In some ways, Trump has bought silence from his most stringent
challengers and critics.*=E2=80=9D*

That applies to sections of the media, too. McQuade, who in 2024
published Attack
from Within
<https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/16/attack-from-within-book-dang=
ers-of-disinformation>:
How Disinformation is Sabotaging America, highlights CBS settling a
baseless =E2=80=9Cconsumer fraud=E2=80=9D lawsuit filed by Trump over stand=
ard editing of a
60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris.

=E2=80=9CA big part of it is they are more focused on money than on journal=
istic
ethics. These big media companies now are interested in mergers. They have
to get approved by the federal government and so they are performing
favours for President Trump in hopes that they will get favourable
treatment.=E2=80=9D

McQuade praises the Associated Press for refusing to change the name Gulf
of Mexico to Gulf of America, the Wall Street Journal for defying threats
to publish Trump=E2=80=99s birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/18/trump-libel-lawsuit-wsj-do=
w-jones-rupert-murdoch>
and
news organisations that refused to sign a Pentagon pledge to only report
approved news. =E2=80=9CThe heroes of this administration when the history =
is
written will be those who did resist and fight back,=E2=80=9D she says.

If some institutions of civil society are faltering, what about the courts?
McQuade offers a mixed assessment. Lower court judges =E2=80=93 regardless =
of the
party of the president who appointed them =E2=80=93 have largely held the l=
ine
against the administration=E2=80=99s most egregious overreaches.

The supreme court, however, is a different story. McQuade does not believe
the conservative justices are simply =E2=80=9Cin Trump=E2=80=99s pocket=E2=
=80=9D, but warns that
their ideological commitment to the =E2=80=9Cunitary executive theory=E2=80=
=9D (which holds
that the president possesses sole authority over the executive branch) is
disastrously timed. =E2=80=9CAs Justice [Ketanji Brown] Jackson has said, n=
ow is
not the time to allow the executive to kind of run wild. Now is the time to
stand up for what we do here in courts.=E2=80=9D

In a scene reminiscent of The Godfather Part II, Trump showed up at a
supreme court hearing on birthright citizenship
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/01/supreme-court-birthright-c=
itizenship-case>,
staring at the justices and sending a message by his mere presence. McQuade
recalls: =E2=80=9CI=E2=80=99ve seen that in court cases where there are gan=
g members and
others in an organisation who will just sit in the courtroom and look at
them as they testify and remind you who=E2=80=99s boss and it can be very
intimidating.=E2=80=9D

But her title, The Fix, has a second, more hopeful meaning. McQuade, who
lives with her husband in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and has four children,
outlines a roadmap for civic action. She cites research by the Harvard
political scientist Erica Chenoweth
<https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr/publications/35-rule-how-small-mi=
nority-can-change-world>,
who found that when just 3.5% of a population engages in peaceful,
sustained protest, they can bring down an authoritarian government.

McQuade points to No Kings rallies
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/30/no-kings-pr=
otest-crowds>
as
evidence of this energising force. Visiting a protest in Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, she found =E2=80=9CAmericana=E2=80=9D in action: priests, tea=
chers, students
and ordinary citizens holding signs. The author also urges Americans to run
for local office, work on campaigns and join grassroots organisations such
as the League of Women Voters
<https://www.lwv-rma.org/be_informed.php?gad_source=3D1&gad_campaignid=3D23=
574753035&gbraid=3D0AAAABC27ImsSYQM8LZ17BeKO7Yb5ZA940&gclid=3DCj0KCQjw54nRB=
hDCARIsAMcY_SDZiBNTTpaOR_dQ8EQ84LffK0pdTDQ4VZypkK3mmRTkBWKmoRd3ElUaAgsiEALw=
_wcB>
to
combat election disinformation.

Crucially, she believes the political opposition must rethink its strategy.
Drawing on the recent success of the Hungarian lawyer P=C3=A9ter Magyar
<https://www.theguardian.com/world/peter-magyar> in challenging the
country=E2=80=99s illiberal leader Viktor Orb=C3=A1n, McQuade argues that U=
S politicians
must stop retreating to their partisan bases and instead forge alliances
between progressives and rural populists.

=E2=80=9CWe need to get back to governing for the majority of the people. L=
et=E2=80=99s
focus on the things where we have things in common, what we can do, what we
can achieve. Let=E2=80=99s address affordability. Let=E2=80=99s address the=
 housing crisis.
Let=E2=80=99s talk about jobs. Let=E2=80=99s talk about how we=E2=80=99re g=
oing to get our arms
around AI and climate change.=E2=80=9D

She insists that the authoritarian =E2=80=9Chouse of cards=E2=80=9D will ev=
entually
collapse, as voters realise that Donald Corleone cannot deliver on its
promises amid rising gas prices and foreign entanglements in Iran. =E2=80=
=9CWe have
the power to fix what=E2=80=99s wrong with us,=E2=80=9D she adds. =E2=80=9C=
We the people have the
power to take back our democracy. We have the power to run for office, to
work on campaigns, to control our own destiny and what I hope is people
will read this book and be inspired to do just that.=E2=80=9D

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15;font-family:&quot;GH Guardian Headline&quot;,&quot;Guardian Egyptian Web=
&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-fea=
ture-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(199,0,0)"><a rel=3D=
"author" href=3D"https://www.theguardian.com/profile/davidsmith" style=3D"b=
ox-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:normal;fo=
nt-variant:inherit;font-weight:700;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;l=
ine-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kernin=
g:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(1=
99,0,0);text-decoration:none" target=3D"_blank">David Smith</a><span style=
=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;ve=
rtical-align:baseline">=C2=A0in Washington</span></div></address><span styl=
e=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;v=
ertical-align:baseline">Sat 13 Jun 2026=C2=A0</span><span style=3D"box-sizi=
ng:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align=
:baseline"><br></span><span style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;paddi=
ng:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span st=
yle=3D"font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&qu=
ot;,Georgia,serif;font-size:1.0625rem;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-v=
ariant-caps:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(18,18,=
18)">=E2=80=9CI believe in America.=E2=80=9D<span class=3D"gmail_default" s=
tyle=3D"font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">=C2=A0</span></span>=
<span style=3D"font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptia=
n Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size:1.0625rem;font-variant-ligatures:inheri=
t;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rg=
b(18,18,18)">So says Amerigo Bonasera, a humble funeral director, in the=C2=
=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeZHsmb4ezEk" style=
=3D"font:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:=
0px 0px 1px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentc=
olor rgb(220,220,220);vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rg=
b(199,0,0)" target=3D"_blank">opening scene of the 1972 film The Godfather<=
/a><span style=3D"font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyp=
tian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size:1.0625rem;font-variant-ligatures:inh=
erit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color=
:rgb(18,18,18)">.=C2=A0</span><span style=3D"font-family:GuardianTextEgypti=
an,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size:1.0625rem=
;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-style:inheri=
t;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(18,18,18)"><br></span><span style=3D"font-f=
amily:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,s=
erif;font-size:1.0625rem;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:i=
nherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(18,18,18)">As Barba=
ra McQuade recounts at the start of=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.peng=
uinrandomhouse.com/books/818454/the-fix-by-barbara-mcquade/" style=3D"font:=
inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1=
px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(=
220,220,220);vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(199,0,0=
)" target=3D"_blank">her new book</a><span style=3D"font-family:GuardianTex=
tEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size:1.=
0625rem;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-style=
:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(18,18,18)">, Bonasera has come to th=
e shadowy office of Vito Corleone to ask him to avenge a brutal attack on h=
is daughter. Ultimately, Corleone agrees, whispering: =E2=80=9CSomeday, and=
 that day may never come, I=E2=80=99ll call upon you to do a service for me=
.=E2=80=9D</span><span style=3D"font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guar=
dian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size:1.0625rem;font-variant=
-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight=
:inherit;color:rgb(18,18,18)">The lesson that McQuade, a former federal pro=
secutor, draws from this is that Corleone is demanding fealty.</span><span =
style=3D"font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-cap=
s:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardi=
an Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size:1.0625rem;color:rgb(18,1=
8,18)"><br></span><span style=3D"font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:=
inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:GuardianT=
extEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size:=
1.0625rem;color:rgb(18,18,18)">=C2=A0=E2=80=9CWhat he=E2=80=99s saying is I=
=E2=80=99m going to do this thing for you but now you=E2=80=99re beholden t=
o me.=E2=80=9D And for Don Corleone, she says,=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https=
://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/07/donald-trump-america-mafia=
-state" style=3D"font:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;=
border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:currentc=
olor currentcolor rgb(220,220,220);vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:=
none;color:rgb(199,0,0)" target=3D"_blank">read Donald Trump</a><span style=
=3D"font-style:inherit;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inh=
erit;font-weight:inherit;font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Te=
xt Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size:1.0625rem;color:rgb(18,18,18)=
">. =E2=80=9CEvery time he does somebody a favour, whether it=E2=80=99s an =
appointment or something else, he expects there to be a quid pro quo.=E2=80=
=9D</span><span style=3D"font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Te=
xt Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size:1.0625rem;font-variant-ligatu=
res:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inheri=
t;color:rgb(18,18,18)"><br></span><span style=3D"font-family:GuardianTextEg=
yptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size:1.062=
5rem;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-style:in=
herit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(18,18,18)">It is a principle that infor=
ms The Fix: Saving America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government, a=
 piercing expos=C3=A9 of how the president is eroding democracy by turning =
the US into a mafia state =E2=80=93 with some proposals for how ordinary ci=
tizens can fight back. There is even a cover blurb from the Godfather Part =
II star=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/06=
/robert-de-niro-trump-is-a-real-racist-a-white-supremacist" style=3D"font:i=
nherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1p=
x;border-style:none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(2=
20,220,220);vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(199,0,0)=
" target=3D"_blank">Robert De Niro</a><span style=3D"font-family:GuardianTe=
xtEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size:1=
.0625rem;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-styl=
e:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(18,18,18)">.</span><span style=3D"f=
ont-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Geor=
gia,serif;font-size:1.0625rem;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-c=
aps:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(18,18,18)"><br=
></span><span style=3D"font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text=
 Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size:1.0625rem;font-variant-ligature=
s:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;=
color:rgb(18,18,18)">McQuade, 61, is a professor=C2=A0</span><a href=3D"htt=
ps://michigan.law.umich.edu/faculty-and-scholarship/our-faculty/barbara-l-m=
cquade" style=3D"font:inherit;box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;=
border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:currentc=
olor currentcolor rgb(220,220,220);vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:=
none;color:rgb(199,0,0)" target=3D"_blank">at the University of Michigan La=
w School</a><span style=3D"font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian =
Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size:1.0625rem;font-variant-liga=
tures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inhe=
rit;color:rgb(18,18,18)">=C2=A0and legal analyst for the MS Now network. Fr=
om 2010 to 2017 she served as the US attorney for the eastern district of M=
ichigan. She has prosecuted high-profile corruption cases, including that o=
f the former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, as well as the =E2=80=9Cunderw=
ear bomber=E2=80=9D Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab and the Volkswagen emissions =
scandal.</span><span style=3D"font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardi=
an Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size:1.0625rem;font-variant-l=
igatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:i=
nherit;color:rgb(18,18,18)"><br></span><span style=3D"font-family:GuardianT=
extEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size:=
1.0625rem;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-caps:inherit;font-sty=
le:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(18,18,18)">Now she turns her prose=
cutorial gaze on the occupant of the White House and makes the case that Tr=
ump governs like a mob boss. =E2=80=9CHe uses his power to try to control o=
thers, especially would-be critics,=E2=80=9D she says, sitting outside Come=
t Ping Pong, a Washington pizza joint targeted in 2016 by an armed man moti=
vated by the baseless conspiracy theory that it was harbouring children as =
part of a Democratic-led child sex-trafficking ring.</span><span style=3D"f=
ont-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Geor=
gia,serif;font-size:1.0625rem;font-variant-ligatures:inherit;font-variant-c=
aps:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-weight:inherit;color:rgb(18,18,18)"><br=
></span><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.75rem;padding:0p=
x;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;f=
ont-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;lin=
e-height:1.4;font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian =
Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-=
feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:break-word;colo=
r:rgb(18,18,18)">=E2=80=9CHe uses any leverage he can get, inflicting pain =
to try to coerce them to come to the table to negotiate their own punishmen=
t. He=E2=80=99s done it with law firms and the media and universities and e=
ven foreign allies with tariffs.=E2=80=9D</p><div id=3D"m_48781149102909996=
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ox-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertica=
l-align:baseline">Barbara McQuade, former attorney for the eastern district=
 of Michigan, at a House committee hearing on the Mueller report on Capitol=
 Hill in Washington, on 10 June 2019.=C2=A0</span>Photograph: Andrew Harnik=
/AP<p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.75rem;padding:0px;bor=
der:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-v=
ariant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;line-hei=
ght:1.4;font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&q=
uot;,Georgia,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-featu=
re-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:break-word;color:rgb=
(18,18,18)">McQuade draws on an example from her home state of Michigan. =
=E2=80=9CHe has threatened to hold up the opening of the Gordie Howe bridge=
 between Detroit and Canada and there=E2=80=99s an owner of a private span =
next to it who made a million-dollar donation to the Maga SuperPac at aroun=
d the same time. The fix is in: rigging the system to amass power and exert=
 control.<em style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0=
px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:=
inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;fo=
nt-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">=
=E2=80=9D</em></p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.75rem;=
padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian=
:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0=
625rem;line-height:1.4;font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text=
 Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inh=
erit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:break=
-word;color:rgb(18,18,18)">It is an approach that McQuade argues Trump lear=
ned decades ago from his notorious lawyer, Roy Cohn, who represented Trump =
and his father in the 1970s when the justice department sued them for racia=
l discrimination.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.75r=
em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-as=
ian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:=
1.0625rem;line-height:1.4;font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian T=
ext Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:=
inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:br=
eak-word;color:rgb(18,18,18)">Cohn, a former assistant US attorney and coun=
sel to Senator Joseph McCarthy=E2=80=99s red scare hearings and various mob=
 figures, taught Trump the dark arts of surviving legal peril.<em style=3D"=
box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inheri=
t;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:in=
herit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;fon=
t-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">=C2=A0=E2=80=9C</em>He =
showed Trump the way to deal with being charged or attacked is to always fi=
ght back, to never admit to anything, to always turn the tables and accuse =
your accusers and we see him do that to great success,=E2=80=9D McQuade say=
s.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.75rem;padding:0px;=
border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;fon=
t-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;line-=
height:1.4;font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian We=
b&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-fe=
ature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:break-word;color:=
rgb(18,18,18)">While Trump=E2=80=99s first term was somewhat constrained by=
 traditional government officials who pushed back against his worst instinc=
ts, his second term is different. =E2=80=9CHe has learned this time around =
that what he should prize instead of expertise and competence is loyalty =
=E2=80=93 people who will do his bidding and sing his praises as he wishes<=
em style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-va=
riant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;li=
ne-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning=
:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">.=E2=80=9D<=
/em></p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.75rem;padding:0p=
x;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;f=
ont-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;lin=
e-height:1.4;font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian =
Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-=
feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:break-word;colo=
r:rgb(18,18,18)">McQuade notes that democratic institutions were turned aga=
inst the people in 1930s Germany while oligarchs and loyalists replaced pub=
lic servants in post-Soviet Russia. Hungary and Turkey offer contemporary e=
xamples of democracies hollowed from within. In America the dynamic manifes=
ts in what McQuade =E2=80=93 borrowing a phrase from the House Democratic l=
eader,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://apnews.com/article/trump-100-days-jeffries-s=
chumer-democratic-leaders-587b5dc7ea0d525e9ebae28a6dcf355e" style=3D"box-si=
zing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-styl=
e:none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(220,220,220);f=
ont:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(199,0,0)=
" target=3D"_blank">Hakeem Jeffries</a>=C2=A0=E2=80=93 calls the three Cs o=
f the Trump era: corruption, cruelty and chaos.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:b=
order-box;margin:0px 0px 0.75rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeri=
c:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;f=
ont-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.4;font-family:Guardia=
nTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-siz=
e-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertica=
l-align:baseline;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(18,18,18)">The=C2=A0<a hre=
f=3D"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/27/trump-flaunting-corrup=
tion" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0p=
x 0px 1px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcol=
or rgb(220,220,220);font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:no=
ne;color:rgb(199,0,0)" target=3D"_blank">corruption is ostentatious</a>. Mc=
Quade points to Trump=E2=80=99s pardons for January 6 rioters and political=
 donors, his acceptance of a $400m plane from Qatar and his cosying up to t=
ech billionaires seeking favourable merger regulations in violation of the =
constitutional emoluments clause.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;marg=
in:0px 0px 0.75rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font=
-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:in=
herit;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.4;font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,=
&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size-adjust:inher=
it;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseli=
ne;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(18,18,18)">The cruelty is performative a=
nd is the point. It is there in Trump=E2=80=99s rhetoric and official White=
 House social media accounts, including dehumanising memes about locking up=
 and deporting immigrants with Hollywood-style music. Last month the White =
House launched a sci-fi-style web page,=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.whiteho=
use.gov/aliens/" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;bord=
er-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:currentcolor=
 currentcolor rgb(220,220,220);font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-de=
coration:none;color:rgb(199,0,0)" target=3D"_blank">aliens.gov</a>, that se=
ems to be about the search for extraterrestrial life and declares =E2=80=9C=
They walk among us,=E2=80=9D but then reveals: =E2=80=9CThese =E2=80=98Alie=
ns=E2=80=99 are the millions of ILLEGALS =E2=80=A6 Deport them all.=E2=80=
=9D</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.75rem;padding:0px=
;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;fo=
nt-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;line=
-height:1.4;font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian W=
eb&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-f=
eature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:break-word;color=
:rgb(18,18,18)">McQuade reflects: =E2=80=9CThe effect is to chip away at ou=
r humanity.<em style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border=
:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-siz=
e:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;=
font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"=
>=C2=A0</em>The cruelty is the enjoyment of inflicting harm on other humans=
, which is just not the way the United States has conducted itself in the w=
orld, at least in the post-World War II order.<em style=3D"box-sizing:borde=
r-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:in=
herit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-famil=
y:inherit;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settin=
gs:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">=E2=80=9D</em></p><p style=3D"box-sizin=
g:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.75rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-num=
eric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inheri=
t;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.4;font-family:Guar=
dianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-=
size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vert=
ical-align:baseline;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(18,18,18)">The chaos is=
 a product of what historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat terms =E2=80=9Cengineered incom=
petence=E2=80=9D. Cabinet appointments are no longer based on merit but sub=
servience. McQuade points to the surreal reality of a vaccine denier, Rober=
t Kennedy Jr, leading the Department of Health and Human Services and=C2=A0=
<a href=3D"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/08/pete-hegseth-pen=
tagon-trump-iran" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;bor=
der-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:currentcolo=
r currentcolor rgb(220,220,220);font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-d=
ecoration:none;color:rgb(199,0,0)" target=3D"_blank">Pete Hegseth</a>, a fo=
rmer Fox News host with no senior leadership experience, running the Pentag=
on at a time of war.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.=
75rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east=
-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-si=
ze:1.0625rem;line-height:1.4;font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardia=
n Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerni=
ng:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-break=
:break-word;color:rgb(18,18,18)">=E2=80=9CIf you put people in these very h=
igh-level positions, who don=E2=80=99t deserve to be there and wouldn=E2=80=
=99t be there under any other administration, they feel beholden to the lea=
der who put them there and, even though nobody ever has to say so out loud,=
 they understand you got this job for one reason and one reason only. I tal=
k about the story that [former FBI director]=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.th=
eguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/19/the-capitol-riot-was-our-chernobyl-james-=
comey-on-trump-the-pee-tape-and-clintons-emails" style=3D"box-sizing:border=
-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:none none=
 solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(220,220,220);font:inherit=
;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(199,0,0)" target=3D=
"_blank">Jim Comey</a>=C2=A0tells in the first administration when he said =
Trump invited him to dinner and said, I expect loyalty. That=E2=80=99s not =
how this works.<em style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;bo=
rder:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font=
-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adjust:inhe=
rit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:basel=
ine">=E2=80=9D</em></p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.7=
5rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-=
asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-siz=
e:1.0625rem;line-height:1.4;font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian=
 Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kernin=
g:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:=
break-word;color:rgb(18,18,18)">Trump uses both carrots and sticks to extor=
t compliance. When he pardoned the Texas congressman Henry Cuellar, indicte=
d on corruption and money laundering charges, Trump was subsequently outrag=
ed to learn that Cuellar still intended to run for re-election as a Democra=
t. McQuade interprets: =E2=80=9CIf I do something for you, you are now beho=
lden to me. I control you. I own you.=E2=80=9D</p><div id=3D"m_487811491029=
0999697gmail-img-3" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;b=
order:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><span style=3D"box-sizing:b=
order-box;display:block"><img alt=3D"a book cover" src=3D"https://i.guim.co=
.uk/img/media/6cd7932495ffbf5d5bfaf79a387ae6688c7ab232/114_51_645_995/maste=
r/645.jpg?width=3D120&amp;dpr=3D1&amp;s=3Dnone&amp;crop=3Dnone" width=3D"12=
0" height=3D"185.11627906976744" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;=
padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:block;h=
eight:216px;width:140px;object-fit:cover"></span><a href=3D"https://www.the=
guardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/13/trump-don-corleone-book#img-3" aria-hidden=
=3D"true" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;=
font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:140px;height:216px" target=3D"_b=
lank"></a></div><span style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 4px 0px 0px=
;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:inline=
-block;width:1em"></span><span style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;pa=
dding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">The Fix: Saving =
America from the Corruption of a Mob-Style Government by Barbara McQuade.</=
span>=C2=A0Photograph: Penguin Random House<p style=3D"box-sizing:border-bo=
x;margin:0px 0px 0.75rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inheri=
t;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stre=
tch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.4;font-family:GuardianTextEgy=
ptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size-adjust=
:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:=
baseline;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(18,18,18)">The sticks are equally =
insidious. McQuade details how Trump issued executive orders to punish elit=
e law firms that had previously employed attorneys who investigated him, su=
ch as Robert Mueller or Andrew Weissmann. These firms lost security clearan=
ces and access to federal courthouses. Most of these powerful firms succumb=
ed to the president=E2=80=99s demands, prioritising their business over the=
 rule of law.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.75rem;p=
adding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:=
inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.06=
25rem;line-height:1.4;font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text =
Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inhe=
rit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:break-=
word;color:rgb(18,18,18)">=E2=80=9CWhen an extortionist makes a demand, so =
often what I=E2=80=99ve seen in my career is people will make a payout and =
think there, now I=E2=80=99m done, it=E2=80=99s over and I can get back to =
business as usual. But that=E2=80=99s not the case because the bully always=
 comes back for more =E2=80=93 it=E2=80=99s the bully and your lunch money.=
 It=E2=80=99s the extortionist and their prey. They know you=E2=80=99re an =
easy mark and so they=E2=80=99ll come back for more.</p><p style=3D"box-siz=
ing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.75rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-n=
umeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inhe=
rit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.4;font-family:Gu=
ardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;fon=
t-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;ve=
rtical-align:baseline;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(18,18,18)">=E2=80=9CT=
he way we=E2=80=99ve seen that play out with the law firms is they=E2=80=99=
ve been sidelined from challenging any of President Trump=E2=80=99s program=
mes or executive orders<em style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;paddin=
g:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inhe=
rit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-size-adj=
ust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-ali=
gn:baseline">.=C2=A0</em>In some ways, Trump has bought silence from his mo=
st stringent challengers and critics.<em style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;mar=
gin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;fon=
t-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit=
;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inheri=
t;vertical-align:baseline">=E2=80=9D</em></p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-=
box;margin:0px 0px 0.75rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inhe=
rit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-st=
retch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.4;font-family:GuardianTextE=
gyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size-adju=
st:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-alig=
n:baseline;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(18,18,18)">That applies to secti=
ons of the media, too. McQuade, who in 2024 published=C2=A0<a href=3D"https=
://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/mar/16/attack-from-within-book-dangers-of=
-disinformation" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;bord=
er-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:currentcolor=
 currentcolor rgb(220,220,220);font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-de=
coration:none;color:rgb(199,0,0)" target=3D"_blank">Attack from Within</a>:=
 How Disinformation is Sabotaging America, highlights CBS settling a basele=
ss =E2=80=9Cconsumer fraud=E2=80=9D lawsuit filed by Trump over standard ed=
iting of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris.</p><p style=3D"box-sizi=
ng:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.75rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-nu=
meric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inher=
it;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.4;font-family:Gua=
rdianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font=
-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;ver=
tical-align:baseline;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(18,18,18)">=E2=80=9CA =
big part of it is they are more focused on money than on journalistic ethic=
s. These big media companies now are interested in mergers. They have to ge=
t approved by the federal government and so they are performing favours for=
 President Trump in hopes that they will get favourable treatment.=E2=80=9D=
</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.75rem;padding:0px;bo=
rder:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-=
variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;line-he=
ight:1.4;font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&=
quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feat=
ure-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:break-word;color:rg=
b(18,18,18)">McQuade praises the Associated Press for refusing to change th=
e name Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, the Wall Street Journal for defyi=
ng threats to publish=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2=
025/jul/18/trump-libel-lawsuit-wsj-dow-jones-rupert-murdoch" style=3D"box-s=
izing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-sty=
le:none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(220,220,220);=
font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(199,0,0=
)" target=3D"_blank">Trump=E2=80=99s birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein</a>=
=C2=A0and news organisations that refused to sign a Pentagon pledge to only=
 report approved news. =E2=80=9CThe heroes of this administration when the =
history is written will be those who did resist and fight back,=E2=80=9D sh=
e says.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.75rem;padding=
:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inheri=
t;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;=
line-height:1.4;font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egypti=
an Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;fo=
nt-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:break-word;c=
olor:rgb(18,18,18)">If some institutions of civil society are faltering, wh=
at about the courts? McQuade offers a mixed assessment. Lower court judges =
=E2=80=93 regardless of the party of the president who appointed them =E2=
=80=93 have largely held the line against the administration=E2=80=99s most=
 egregious overreaches.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px=
 0.75rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-e=
ast-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font=
-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.4;font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guar=
dian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-ke=
rning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-br=
eak:break-word;color:rgb(18,18,18)">The supreme court, however, is a differ=
ent story. McQuade does not believe the conservative justices are simply =
=E2=80=9Cin Trump=E2=80=99s pocket=E2=80=9D, but warns that their ideologic=
al commitment to the =E2=80=9Cunitary executive theory=E2=80=9D (which hold=
s that the president possesses sole authority over the executive branch) is=
 disastrously timed. =E2=80=9CAs Justice [Ketanji Brown] Jackson has said, =
now is not the time to allow the executive to kind of run wild. Now is the =
time to stand up for what we do here in courts.=E2=80=9D</p><p style=3D"box=
-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.75rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-varia=
nt-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:=
inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.4;font-famil=
y:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif=
;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inheri=
t;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(18,18,18)">In a s=
cene reminiscent of The Godfather Part II, Trump showed up at a supreme cou=
rt=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/01/supreme-=
court-birthright-citizenship-case" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0p=
x;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:none none solid;border-=
color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(220,220,220);font:inherit;vertical-alig=
n:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(199,0,0)" target=3D"_blank">heari=
ng on birthright citizenship</a>, staring at the justices and sending a mes=
sage by his mere presence. McQuade recalls: =E2=80=9CI=E2=80=99ve seen that=
 in court cases where there are gang members and others in an organisation =
who will just sit in the courtroom and look at them as they testify and rem=
ind you who=E2=80=99s boss and it can be very intimidating.=E2=80=9D</p><p =
style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.75rem;padding:0px;border:0p=
x;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant=
-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.=
4;font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,G=
eorgia,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-set=
tings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(18,18=
,18)">But her title, The Fix, has a second, more hopeful meaning. McQuade, =
who lives with her husband in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and has four children, o=
utlines a roadmap for civic action. She cites research by the Harvard polit=
ical scientist=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.hks.harvard.edu/centers/carr/pub=
lications/35-rule-how-small-minority-can-change-world" style=3D"box-sizing:=
border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:non=
e none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(220,220,220);font:i=
nherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(199,0,0)" tar=
get=3D"_blank">Erica Chenoweth</a>, who found that when just 3.5% of a popu=
lation engages in peaceful, sustained protest, they can bring down an autho=
ritarian government.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.=
75rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east=
-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-si=
ze:1.0625rem;line-height:1.4;font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardia=
n Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerni=
ng:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-break=
:break-word;color:rgb(18,18,18)">McQuade points to=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://=
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/mar/30/no-kings-protest-cro=
wds" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px=
 0px 1px;border-style:none none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolo=
r rgb(220,220,220);font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:non=
e;color:rgb(199,0,0)" target=3D"_blank">No Kings rallies</a>=C2=A0as eviden=
ce of this energising force. Visiting a protest in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania=
, she found =E2=80=9CAmericana=E2=80=9D in action: priests, teachers, stude=
nts and ordinary citizens holding signs. The author also urges Americans to=
 run for local office, work on campaigns and join grassroots organisations =
such as the=C2=A0<a href=3D"https://www.lwv-rma.org/be_informed.php?gad_sou=
rce=3D1&amp;gad_campaignid=3D23574753035&amp;gbraid=3D0AAAABC27ImsSYQM8LZ17=
BeKO7Yb5ZA940&amp;gclid=3DCj0KCQjw54nRBhDCARIsAMcY_SDZiBNTTpaOR_dQ8EQ84LffK=
0pdTDQ4VZypkK3mmRTkBWKmoRd3ElUaAgsiEALw_wcB" style=3D"box-sizing:border-box=
;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:none none sol=
id;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(220,220,220);font:inherit;ver=
tical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(199,0,0)" target=3D"_bl=
ank">League of Women Voters</a>=C2=A0to combat election disinformation.</p>=
<p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.75rem;padding:0px;border=
:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-vari=
ant-alternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height=
:1.4;font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot=
;,Georgia,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-=
settings:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(18=
,18,18)">Crucially, she believes the political opposition must rethink its =
strategy. Drawing on the recent success of the Hungarian lawyer=C2=A0<a hre=
f=3D"https://www.theguardian.com/world/peter-magyar" style=3D"box-sizing:bo=
rder-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 0px 1px;border-style:none =
none solid;border-color:currentcolor currentcolor rgb(220,220,220);font:inh=
erit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(199,0,0)" targe=
t=3D"_blank">P=C3=A9ter Magyar</a>=C2=A0in challenging the country=E2=80=99=
s illiberal leader Viktor Orb=C3=A1n, McQuade argues that US politicians mu=
st stop retreating to their partisan bases and instead forge alliances betw=
een progressives and rural populists.</p><p style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;=
margin:0px 0px 0.75rem;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;=
font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-alternates:inherit;font-stretc=
h:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.4;font-family:GuardianTextEgypt=
ian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Georgia,serif;font-size-adjust:i=
nherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;vertical-align:ba=
seline;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(18,18,18)">=E2=80=9CWe need to get b=
ack to governing for the majority of the people. Let=E2=80=99s focus on the=
 things where we have things in common, what we can do, what we can achieve=
. Let=E2=80=99s address affordability. Let=E2=80=99s address the housing cr=
isis. Let=E2=80=99s talk about jobs. Let=E2=80=99s talk about how we=E2=80=
=99re going to get our arms around AI and climate change.=E2=80=9D</p><p st=
yle=3D"box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 0.75rem;padding:0px;border:0px;=
font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-variant-a=
lternates:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:1.0625rem;line-height:1.4;=
font-family:GuardianTextEgyptian,&quot;Guardian Text Egyptian Web&quot;,Geo=
rgia,serif;font-size-adjust:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-setti=
ngs:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;word-break:break-word;color:rgb(18,18,1=
8)">She insists that the authoritarian =E2=80=9Chouse of cards=E2=80=9D wil=
l eventually collapse, as voters realise that Donald Corleone cannot delive=
r on its promises amid rising gas prices and foreign entanglements in Iran.=
 =E2=80=9CWe have the power to fix what=E2=80=99s wrong with us,=E2=80=9D s=
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President Trump now says the U.S.=E2=80=93Iran deal will be *signed tomorro=
w.*
Pakistan is announcing a signing ceremony. Iranian clerics are signaling
unity behind a decision. Headlines are exploding with certainty. But as I
walk through in this episode, the reality beneath the surface is far
murkier =E2=80=94 and far more dangerous =E2=80=94 than the public narrativ=
e suggests.

For any agreement to be real, *both sides must sign the exact same text.*
Yet the U.S. and Iran remain on =E2=80=9Cdifferent planets=E2=80=9D on the =
core issues.
Iran=E2=80=99s senior officials have repeatedly insisted that *=E2=80=9Cif =
there=E2=80=99s no money
up front, there=E2=80=99s no deal=E2=80=A6 if sanctions aren=E2=80=99t lift=
ed up front, there=E2=80=99s no
deal=E2=80=A6 if Israel doesn=E2=80=99t withdraw from Lebanon, there=E2=80=
=99s no deal.=E2=80=9D* Those
were categorical red lines as of *last night.*

And yet today, President Trump is declaring victory in advance =E2=80=94 ev=
en as
Iran=E2=80=99s state=E2=80=91controlled Fars News Agency says the agreement=
 *=E2=80=9Chas not been
finalized and will definitely not take place on Sunday.=E2=80=9D* That is n=
ot a
small discrepancy. That is a fundamental contradiction.

I also break down why this moment is so volatile:

   -

   There have been *no direct negotiations* =E2=80=94 only intermediaries p=
assing
   messages that take days.
   -

   The hardest issues =E2=80=94 sanctions, frozen assets, Lebanon, the bloc=
kade =E2=80=94
   remain untouched.
   -

   Iran=E2=80=99s military leadership is openly warning that if talks fail,=
 they
   will expand the war into the Red Sea, Bab al=E2=80=91Mandab, and the Med=
iterranean.
   -

   And Trump=E2=80=99s own history shows he has repeatedly walked away from=
 deals
   at the last minute.

This episode matters because the public narrative =E2=80=94 =E2=80=9Cdeal t=
omorrow, war
over=E2=80=9D =E2=80=94 is colliding with the hard reality of diplomacy, le=
verage, and
political constraints. Someone is going to have to back down dramatically.
And if neither side does, we may be hours away from a renewed escalation in
the *Iran war*.

=F0=9F=91=89 *Watch the full episode =E2=80=94 before tomorrow=E2=80=99s an=
nouncement becomes
tomorrow=E2=80=99s crisis.*

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initial;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;width:100%;word-break:break-word;ma=
rgin-bottom:16px;font-family:&#39;SF Pro Display&#39;,-apple-system,system-=
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egoe UI Symbol&#39;;font-weight:400"><p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rg=
b(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px;margin-top:0"><span>President T=
rump now says the U.S.=E2=80=93Iran deal will be </span><em>signed tomorrow=
.</em><span> Pakistan is announcing a signing ceremony. Iranian clerics are=
 signaling unity behind a decision. Headlines are exploding with certainty.=
 But as I walk through in this episode, the reality beneath the surface is =
far murkier =E2=80=94 and far more dangerous =E2=80=94 than the public narr=
ative suggests.</span></p><p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55)=
;line-height:26px;font-size:16px"><span>For any agreement to be real, </spa=
n><strong>both sides must sign the exact same text.</strong><span> Yet the =
U.S. and Iran remain on =E2=80=9Cdifferent planets=E2=80=9D on the core iss=
ues. Iran=E2=80=99s senior officials have repeatedly insisted that </span><=
strong>=E2=80=9Cif there=E2=80=99s no money up front, there=E2=80=99s no de=
al=E2=80=A6 if sanctions aren=E2=80=99t lifted up front, there=E2=80=99s no=
 deal=E2=80=A6 if Israel doesn=E2=80=99t withdraw from Lebanon, there=E2=80=
=99s no deal.=E2=80=9D</strong><span> Those were categorical red lines as o=
f </span><em>last night.</em></p><p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54=
,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px"><span>And yet today, President Tru=
mp is declaring victory in advance =E2=80=94 even as Iran=E2=80=99s state=
=E2=80=91controlled Fars News Agency says the agreement </span><strong>=E2=
=80=9Chas not been finalized and will definitely not take place on Sunday.=
=E2=80=9D</strong><span> That is not a small discrepancy. That is a fundame=
ntal contradiction.</span></p><p style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55=
,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px">I also break down why this moment is =
so volatile:</p><ul style=3D"margin-top:0;padding:0"><li style=3D"margin:8p=
x 0 0 32px"><p style=3D"color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin-bottom:=
0;box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:4px;font-size:16px;margin:0"><span>The=
re have been </span><strong>no direct negotiations</strong><span> =E2=80=94=
 only intermediaries passing messages that take days.</span></p></li><li st=
yle=3D"margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style=3D"color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26p=
x;margin-bottom:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:4px;font-size:16px;mar=
gin:0">The hardest issues =E2=80=94 sanctions, frozen assets, Lebanon, the =
blockade =E2=80=94 remain untouched.</p></li><li style=3D"margin:8px 0 0 32=
px"><p style=3D"color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;margin-bottom:0;box-si=
zing:border-box;padding-left:4px;font-size:16px;margin:0">Iran=E2=80=99s mi=
litary leadership is openly warning that if talks fail, they will expand th=
e war into the Red Sea, Bab al=E2=80=91Mandab, and the Mediterranean.</p></=
li><li style=3D"margin:8px 0 0 32px"><p style=3D"color:rgb(54,55,55);line-h=
eight:26px;margin-bottom:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding-left:4px;font-size=
:16px;margin:0">And Trump=E2=80=99s own history shows he has repeatedly wal=
ked away from deals at the last minute.</p></li></ul><p style=3D"margin:0 0=
 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:16px"><span>This epi=
sode matters because the public narrative =E2=80=94 =E2=80=9Cdeal tomorrow,=
 war over=E2=80=9D =E2=80=94 is colliding with the hard reality of diplomac=
y, leverage, and political constraints. Someone is going to have to back do=
wn dramatically. And if neither side does, we may be hours away from a rene=
wed escalation in the </span><strong>Iran war</strong><span>.</span></p><p =
style=3D"margin:0 0 20px 0;color:rgb(54,55,55);line-height:26px;font-size:1=
6px;margin-bottom:0"><span>=F0=9F=91=89 </span><strong>Watch the full episo=
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Watch now (3 mins) | The NY Times has confirmed The Grayzone's 2025 report
on Israeli agents planting tracking devices on a Secret Service vehicle.
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F*ork Found in Kitchen: Israelis Have Discovered the Occupation - Opinion*
[image: An Israeli settler and IDF soldiers in the village of Jalud, south
of Nablus, West Bank.]
*An Israeli settler and IDF soldiers in the village of Jalud, south of
Nablus, West Bank. Credit: Itai Ron*

*Nice to meet you, my name is Jewish Terror. I'm new in your world and on
your screens, but I've been in the neighborhood for many years. After
October 7's deliverance, I decided to raise my head and you decided you
could no longer ignore me. Suddenly, you recognized me. Suddenly I exist
among you. Well, for your information, those who know me well call me the
Occupation. You can call me that too, even if you find it difficult. What's
with occupation now, of all times, you'll say. So, feel free and call it
"Jewish terror." After all, you know how to lie to yourselves and you're
used to living in denial.*

*Very slowly, with the caution of a mating hedgehog, Israel's centrist
media outlets are starting to show a budding interest in reality. It's true
that on liberal "investigative reporting" TV programs they are still deeply
immersed in October 7. And truly, what's to investigate in the Occupation?
In Ilana Dayan's "Uvda" program and in Raviv Drucker's "Hamakor," the
"second greatest Jewish calamity after the Holocaust" still constitutes the
rock of investigative reporting's existence =E2=80=93 with as many tears an=
d as
much bravery as possible =E2=80=93 but on public broadcaster Kan's "Zman Em=
et"
program they suddenly had a true report on the wild militias called the
"regional defense units." News broadcasts and printed media have also been
showing promising signs. See, after thrill-seeking soldier shot and killed
a baby lying on its mother's lap, some twitches could be discerned in the
media. The daily pogroms in the West Bank are also starting to find an echo
in what we call the nightly news and newspapers, which in practice are
filled with nothing but tawdry programs meant to brainwash on demand.*

*After decades of denial and concealment, reality has started to seep out
from behind the reality shows. The baby from Hebron was still not worthy of
the front page in Israel Hayom or a main headline in Yedioth Ahronoth =E2=
=80=93
after all, this was a terrorist, or at least the son of one =E2=80=93 but o=
n the
last day of his brief life, seven-months-old Sam Fahed Abu Haykal managed
for a brief moment to make it through to Israelis' awareness. He succeeded
where 1,000 dead babies in Gaza could not before. Unlike them, Sam had a
face and a mother and father who are university lecturers, and even a
grandmother who was a legendary school principal. You may soon find Israel
calling them a "bereaved family," but that is a long way away. Calling them
"terror victims" is unthinkable; "state-sanctioned terror" or an "army of
occupiers" is something you can't even dream of. But nevertheless, Sam came
to our attention, and with him the recognition that Jewish soldiers are
killing Palestinian babies during their work hours and then fleeing
immediately after doing so, without providing any first aid.*
[image: Fahed Abu Haykal holds the body of his son, 7-month-old Sam Fahed
Abu Haykal, who was killed by IDF fire on Friday, during the funeral on
Saturday.]
*Fahed Abu Haykal holds the body of his son, 7-month-old Sam Fahed Abu
Haykal, who was killed by IDF fire on Friday, during the funeral on
Saturday. Credit: Mahmoud Illean/AP*

*The state and the army still stand behind them and no one would even
consider expressing sorrow or an apology. Why would they? What happened? *
[image: Kanaan Abu Haykal, Sam's half-brother, with a picture taken of the
infant just hours before he was killed.]
*Kanaan Abu Haykal, Sam's half-brother, with a picture taken of the infant
just hours before he was killed. Credit: Alex Levac*

   - *Welcome to the 60th year of Israel's occupation of the West
   Bank Michael Sfard*
   - *They shoot babies: IDF jargon masks a child's killing Haaretz
   Editorial*
   - *UN inquiry finds Israeli forces shield settlers during attacks on
   Palestinians Reuters*

*The season of serial wars launched by Benjamin Netanyahu two years and
nine months ago should have rattled Israelis' impenetrable mindset, even a
little bit. Even the fanciest Deepsea Challenge Rolex will fail at some
underwater depth. Gaza is out of sight, out of mind, and they are all
Hamas; the Israel Defense Forces is the holy of holies and its soldiers are
the most moral in the world, which is maybe why the masked settlers with
their long sidelocks and gigantic kippot may shatter, at least to some
degree, the protective layer enveloping Israelis. Maybe they will be the
agents of change leading people to confront reality.*

*How pleasant was our blindness. Whatever wasn't reported didn't exist.
There is no genocide and no apartheid, and there isn't even an occupation.
There is only a people that has returned to its deserted land and
Palestinians who were born to kill. Sixty years of denial did not end
overnight. But the last few weeks show that the first cracks have formed.
And as with any other addiction, recognizing the problem is the first stage
on the path to recovery. Such recognition is still far away, and recovery
even farther. But the shame of 60 years of betrayal and dereliction of duty
by media outlets in Israel is approaching its end. Nice to meet you, my
name is Occupation.*

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ld and on your screens, but I&#39;ve been in the neighborhood for many year=
s. After October 7&#39;s deliverance, I decided to raise my head and you de=
cided you could no longer ignore me. Suddenly, you recognized me. Suddenly =
I exist among you. Well, for your information, those who know me well call =
me the Occupation. You can call me that too, even if you find it difficult.=
 What&#39;s with occupation now, of all times, you&#39;ll say. So, feel fre=
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yourselves and you&#39;re used to living in denial.</font></b></p><p style=
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still deeply immersed in October 7. And truly, what&#39;s to investigate in=
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&quot;regional defense units.&quot; News broadcasts and printed media have =
also been showing promising signs. See, after thrill-seeking soldier shot a=
nd killed a baby lying on its mother&#39;s lap, some twitches could be disc=
erned in the media. The daily pogroms in the West Bank are also starting to=
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and.</font></b></p><div style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,27)"><div s=
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line in Yedioth Ahronoth =E2=80=93 after all, this was a terrorist, or at l=
east the son of one =E2=80=93 but on the last day of his brief life, seven-=
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lis&#39; awareness. He succeeded where 1,000 dead babies in Gaza could not =
before. Unlike them, Sam had a face and a mother and father who are univers=
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hat is a long way away. Calling them &quot;terror victims&quot; is unthinka=
ble; &quot;state-sanctioned terror&quot; or an &quot;army of occupiers&quot=
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ur attention, and with him the recognition that Jewish soldiers are killing=
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ter doing so, without providing any first aid.</font></b></h5></div></div><=
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turday. Credit: Mahmoud Illean/AP" alt=3D"Fahed Abu Haykal holds the body o=
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"georgia, serif">The state and the army still stand behind them and no one =
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#39;s half-brother, with a picture taken of the infant just hours before he=
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rgin-bottom:0.25em">Credit: Alex Levac</span></font></b><ul style=3D"max-wi=
dth:100%"><li style=3D"margin-left:15px;max-width:100%"><a style=3D"color:r=
gb(65,110,210);max-width:100%"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif"><span style=
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><span style=3D"max-width:100%"></span>They shoot babies: IDF jargon masks =
a child&#39;s killing=C2=A0<span style=3D"max-width:100%">Haaretz Editorial=
</span></font></b></a></li><li style=3D"margin-left:15px;max-width:100%"><a=
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erif"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"></span>UN inquiry finds Israeli forces=
 shield settlers during attacks on Palestinians=C2=A0<span style=3D"max-wid=
th:100%">Reuters</span></font></b></a></li></ul><p style=3D"max-width:100%;=
color:rgb(27,27,27)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">The season of serial =
wars launched by Benjamin Netanyahu two years and nine months ago should ha=
ve rattled Israelis&#39; impenetrable mindset, even a little bit. Even the =
fanciest Deepsea Challenge Rolex will fail at some underwater depth. Gaza i=
s out of sight, out of mind, and they are all Hamas; the Israel Defense For=
ces is the holy of holies and its soldiers are the most moral in the world,=
 which is maybe why the masked settlers with their long sidelocks and gigan=
tic kippot may shatter, at least to some degree, the protective layer envel=
oping Israelis. Maybe they will be the agents of change leading people to c=
onfront reality.</font></b></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;color:rgb(27,27,2=
7)"><b><font face=3D"georgia, serif">How pleasant was our blindness. Whatev=
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eid, and there isn&#39;t even an=C2=A0<a style=3D"color:rgb(65,110,210);max=
-width:100%">occupation</a>. There is only a people that has returned to it=
s deserted land and Palestinians who were born to kill. Sixty years of deni=
al did not end overnight. But the last few weeks show that the first cracks=
 have formed. And as with any other addiction, recognizing the problem is t=
he first stage on the path to recovery. Such recognition is still far away,=
 and recovery even farther. But the shame of 60 years of betrayal and derel=
iction of duty by media outlets in Israel is approaching its end. Nice to m=
eet you, my name is Occupation.</font></b></p></div></div>

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See below the scathing critique of the emerging Iran-US deal by Professor
Foad Izadi, professor of international relations at Tehran University. He=
=E2=80=99s
not the only prominent Iranian to issue a criticism. Iranian MP Seyyed
Mahmoud Nabavian of the hardline Paydari Front already has done so.

=E2=80=9CDetails of the 14-article draft memorandum of understanding betwee=
n Iran
and America, meaning

1- Opening the #StraitofHormuz in the first step. That is, resolving
Trump's economic and political problems. Countries usually do not hand over
their most important lever of power to the opposing side in the first step.

2- After the opening of the Strait of Hormuz and the reduction in oil
prices:

America's oil reserves will be replenished again.

And in the opportunity created, the military systems of America and Israel
will be repaired and rebuilt.

3- This means repeating the cycle of attack, ceasefire, negotiation,
attack. The enmity of those who martyred the Supreme Leader of the Islamic
Revolution against Iran has not diminished. Finding an excuse to withdraw
from the memorandum of understanding will not be difficult for Trump. Trump
should not be able to claim that the cost of a second military attack on
Iran was tolerable. America and Israel will use this breathing opportunity
to prepare for the next attacks. Planning for a second coup is also on the
agenda.

4- The main sanctions against Iran are the congressional sanctions, not the
executive branch sanctions. In this way, Trump will renege with the excuse
that he cannot force Congress to lift the sanctions.

5- Since 2015, any agreement with Iran under the INARA law requires
Congress's affirmative vote. Given the influence of the Israeli lobby,
Congress will not vote yes to lifting sanctions against Iran. Netanyahu's
influence among Democratic and Republican representatives is greater than
Trump's.

Solution:

1- Please do not sign this memorandum of understanding.

2- Please publish a list of Iran's targeted desalination facilities and oil
facilities in the region. In the event of another attack on Iran, these
facilities must be destroyed in such a way that their reconstruction takes
at least two years.

Limited destruction does not create the necessary deterrence. Trump views
the limited destruction of these facilities as a reconstruction project for
American companies. But extensive destruction will keep global oil and gas
prices high for at least two years and create the necessary deterrence.
Alternative routes to the Strait of Hormuz must be Iran's top priorities.

3- Please do not open the Strait of Hormuz for at least another two months.
In the past three months, Iran has sold more than $30 billion worth of oil;
this amount is sufficient for managing the economy for the next two months.

4- Please do not forget to collect tolls from the Strait of Hormuz. Based
on international estimates, the tolls from the Strait of Hormuz can be more
than twice the oil sales. Part of the solution to the country's economic
problems lies here, not in the delusion of lifting sanctions.=E2=80=9D
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=99s not the only prominent Iranian to issue a criticism. Iranian MP Seyyed=
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style=3D"text-overflow:ellipsis;word-break:break-word;line-height:21px;marg=
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ndum of understanding between Iran and America, meaning</p><p style=3D"text=
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erflow-x:clip">1- Opening the #StraitofHormuz in the first step. That is, r=
esolving Trump&#39;s economic and political problems. Countries usually do =
not hand over their most important lever of power to the opposing side in t=
he first step.</p><p style=3D"text-overflow:ellipsis;word-break:break-word;=
line-height:21px;margin:6px 0px;overflow-x:clip">2- After the opening of th=
e Strait of Hormuz and the reduction in oil prices:</p><p style=3D"text-ove=
rflow:ellipsis;word-break:break-word;line-height:21px;margin:6px 0px;overfl=
ow-x:clip">America&#39;s oil reserves will be replenished again.</p><p styl=
e=3D"text-overflow:ellipsis;word-break:break-word;line-height:21px;margin:6=
px 0px;overflow-x:clip">And in the opportunity created, the military system=
s of America and Israel will be repaired and rebuilt.</p><p style=3D"text-o=
verflow:ellipsis;word-break:break-word;line-height:21px;margin:6px 0px;over=
flow-x:clip">3- This means repeating the cycle of attack, ceasefire, negoti=
ation, attack. The enmity of those who martyred the Supreme Leader of the I=
slamic Revolution against Iran has not diminished. Finding an excuse to wit=
hdraw from the memorandum of understanding will not be difficult for Trump.=
 Trump should not be able to claim that the cost of a second military attac=
k on Iran was tolerable. America and Israel will use this breathing opportu=
nity to prepare for the next attacks. Planning for a second coup is also on=
 the agenda.</p><p style=3D"text-overflow:ellipsis;word-break:break-word;li=
ne-height:21px;margin:6px 0px;overflow-x:clip">4- The main sanctions agains=
t Iran are the congressional sanctions, not the executive branch sanctions.=
 In this way, Trump will renege with the excuse that he cannot force Congre=
ss to lift the sanctions.</p><p style=3D"text-overflow:ellipsis;word-break:=
break-word;line-height:21px;margin:6px 0px;overflow-x:clip">5- Since 2015, =
any agreement with Iran under the INARA law requires Congress&#39;s affirma=
tive vote. Given the influence of the Israeli lobby, Congress will not vote=
 yes to lifting sanctions against Iran. Netanyahu&#39;s influence among Dem=
ocratic and Republican representatives is greater than Trump&#39;s.</p><p s=
tyle=3D"text-overflow:ellipsis;word-break:break-word;line-height:21px;margi=
n:6px 0px;overflow-x:clip">Solution:</p><p style=3D"text-overflow:ellipsis;=
word-break:break-word;line-height:21px;margin:6px 0px;overflow-x:clip">1- P=
lease do not sign this memorandum of understanding.</p><p style=3D"text-ove=
rflow:ellipsis;word-break:break-word;line-height:21px;margin:6px 0px;overfl=
ow-x:clip">2- Please publish a list of Iran&#39;s targeted desalination fac=
ilities and oil facilities in the region. In the event of another attack on=
 Iran, these facilities must be destroyed in such a way that their reconstr=
uction takes at least two years.</p><p style=3D"text-overflow:ellipsis;word=
-break:break-word;line-height:21px;margin:6px 0px;overflow-x:clip">Limited =
destruction does not create the necessary deterrence. Trump views the limit=
ed destruction of these facilities as a reconstruction project for American=
 companies. But extensive destruction will keep global oil and gas prices h=
igh for at least two years and create the necessary deterrence. Alternative=
 routes to the Strait of Hormuz must be Iran&#39;s top priorities.</p><p st=
yle=3D"text-overflow:ellipsis;word-break:break-word;line-height:21px;margin=
:6px 0px;overflow-x:clip">3- Please do not open the Strait of Hormuz for at=
 least another two months. In the past three months, Iran has sold more tha=
n $30 billion worth of oil; this amount is sufficient for managing the econ=
omy for the next two months.</p><p style=3D"text-overflow:ellipsis;word-bre=
ak:break-word;line-height:21px;margin:8px 0px 0px;overflow-x:clip">4- Pleas=
e do not forget to collect tolls from the Strait of Hormuz. Based on intern=
ational estimates, the tolls from the Strait of Hormuz can be more than twi=
ce the oil sales. Part of the solution to the country&#39;s economic proble=
ms lies here, not in the delusion of lifting sanctions.=E2=80=9D</p></div><=
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Iran has flat out REJECTED Trump's latest claim that a deal will be signed
tomorrow.

IRGC affiliated FARS News Agency says the whole stunt is being staged
around Trump's birthday as an insecure victory lap.

They are calling it a cheap propaganda stunt made for television.

The Iranian negotiating team is calling it ceremonial manipulation.

The memorandum of understanding has not been finalized.

There is no deal.

There will be NO signing on Sunday.

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Iran has flat out REJECTED Trump&#39;s latest claim that a deal will be signed tomorrow.<br>
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IRGC affiliated FARS News Agency says the whole stunt is being staged around Trump&#39;s birthday as an insecure victory lap.<br>
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They are calling it a cheap propaganda stunt made for television.<br>
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The Iranian negotiating team is calling it ceremonial manipulation.<br>
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The memorandum of understanding has not been finalized.<br>
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There is no deal.<br>
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The merger between the U.S. and Israel has a third piece almost nobody is
talking about. While Section 224 fuses the militaries, Section 622 moves to
fuse the intelligence services...

Buried in a 192-page intelligence authorization bill from Sen.Tom Cotton,
Section 622 would legally require the president to "expand and enhance
intelligence sharing" with Israel across nearly every topic of intelligence
interest in the Middle East.

It would prohibit any reduction in that sharing except for a "specific and
identifiable national security concern," then force a detailed report to
Congress within 15 days justifying it.

Read that mechanism again carefully.

It strips the president of the ability to limit what America tells Israel,
then makes any attempt to do so a political fight the Israel lobby can
frame as being "against Israel's security."

It welds the intelligence spigot open by law.

Now stack the three pieces moving through Congress at once:

-The Stutzman resolution phases out visible aid.

-Section 224 integrates the militaries.

-Section 622 mandates intelligence sharing.

Each one is less publicly accountable than the last.

Aid is a line item voters can see.

Intelligence liaison happens in the dark, where no price tag ever appears.

The strategy is to move the relationship out of public view precisely as
public support collapses.

And the timing is the most scandalous part.

The Pentagon just rated Israel a "critical" espionage threat.

Congress's response to all of it is to legally mandate that America share
more secrets with the country its own spy agencies say is robbing it.

Source: Responsible States Craft

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=3D"https://x.com/MarioNawfal/status/2065917752615792932" rel=3D"noreferrer=
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><br>
The merger between the U.S. and Israel has a third piece almost nobody is t=
alking about. While Section 224 fuses the militaries, Section 622 moves to =
fuse the intelligence services...<br>
<br>
Buried in a 192-page intelligence authorization bill from Sen.Tom Cotton, S=
ection 622 would legally require the president to &quot;expand and enhance =
intelligence sharing&quot; with Israel across nearly every topic of intelli=
gence interest in the Middle East. <br>
<br>
It would prohibit any reduction in that sharing except for a &quot;specific=
 and identifiable national security concern,&quot; then force a detailed re=
port to Congress within 15 days justifying it.<br>
<br>
Read that mechanism again carefully. <br>
<br>
It strips the president of the ability to limit what America tells Israel, =
then makes any attempt to do so a political fight the Israel lobby can fram=
e as being &quot;against Israel&#39;s security.&quot; <br>
<br>
It welds the intelligence spigot open by law.<br>
<br>
Now stack the three pieces moving through Congress at once:<br>
<br>
-The Stutzman resolution phases out visible aid. <br>
<br>
-Section 224 integrates the militaries. <br>
<br>
-Section 622 mandates intelligence sharing. <br>
<br>
Each one is less publicly accountable than the last. <br>
<br>
Aid is a line item voters can see. <br>
<br>
Intelligence liaison happens in the dark, where no price tag ever appears.<=
br>
<br>
The strategy is to move the relationship out of public view precisely as pu=
blic support collapses.<br>
<br>
And the timing is the most scandalous part. <br>
<br>
The Pentagon just rated Israel a &quot;critical&quot; espionage threat.<br>
<br>
Congress&#39;s response to all of it is to legally mandate that America sha=
re more secrets with the country its own spy agencies say is robbing it.<br=
>
<br>
Source: Responsible States Craft<br>
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*https://thecradle.co/articles/us-military-begins-construction-of-huge-base=
-outside-gaza-to-oversee-trumps-colonization-plan
<https://thecradle.co/articles/us-military-begins-construction-of-huge-base=
-outside-gaza-to-oversee-trumps-colonization-plan>*

*US military begins construction of 'huge base' outside Gaza to oversee
Trump's colonization plan*While talks in Cairo center on disarming Hamas,
Israel has kept killing hundreds of Palestinians without accountability and
is expanding its control over the strip despite an alleged 'ceasefire'

*News Desk  6/13/26*

*The US military has begun constructing a =E2=80=9Chuge base=E2=80=9D on th=
e Gaza envelope
to implement US President Donald Trump=E2=80=99s plan to =E2=80=9Ctake over=
=E2=80=9D the
strip, Israel Hayom
<https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/06/10/us-building-military-base-on-gaza-b=
order-with-no-clear-purpose/>
reported
on 13 June.*

*The US base, being built near the Israeli military base at Reim
settlement, will function as both a military and civilian headquarters for
the organizations and forces arriving in the area to implement the Trump
plan.*

*In February 2025, Trump proposed a US =E2=80=9Ctakeover=E2=80=9D of the Ga=
za Strip. *

*The plan called
<https://www.brookings.edu/articles/trumps-proposal-to-take-over-gaza-would=
-put-americans-at-risk-of-prosecution/>
for
the forced displacement of approximately two million Palestinians to
neighboring lands and redeveloping the territory as a high-tech business
and tourism hub that Trump said would become the =E2=80=9CRiviera of the Mi=
ddle
East.=E2=80=9D*

*The new base will replace the US facility in the Israeli town of Kiryat
Gat, established under the direction of Trump=E2=80=99s Board of Peace in t=
he wake
of the October 2025 =E2=80=9Cceasefire.=E2=80=9D*

*Representatives from more than 24 countries staffed the multinational
headquarters and were tasked with overseeing the ceasefire and the entry of
humanitarian aid.*

*The Kiryat Gat base was also meant to direct the operations of an
International Stabilization Force (ISF) tasked with providing security in
Gaza.*

*However, Israel has continued to severely restrict the entry of aid into
Gaza, recently suspending all shipments, while the ISF has yet to be
formed.*

*After the US and Israel launched a war on Iran on 28 February, the
overwhelming majority of personnel left Kiryat Gat.*

*Israel Hayom noted that plans for the new US base include the construction
of a tower intended for the command and control of forces in the field. *

*The US military has already begun issuing tenders to private contractors,
including for the supply of mobile structures to house personnel and serve
as a headquarters until permanent buildings are established at the site.*

*The new base will also host troops from the ISF if it is formed. *

*Five countries previously agreed to send forces to Gaza, namely Indonesia,
Morocco, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, and Albania. Bangladesh, Pakistan, and
Azerbaijan have expressed a willingness to participate but have made no
firm commitment.*

*Currently, no countries are willing to send troops due to fears that their
forces will be tasked with disarming the Palestinian resistance, as well as
concerns about the ongoing US-Israeli conflict with Iran.*

*The construction of the new US base is being fully coordinated with the
Israeli Defense Ministry. Military officials expect the base to be
constructed and staffed within a few months.*

*The report comes as talks continue
<https://thearabweekly.com/hamas-disarmament-remains-sticking-point-cairo-t=
alks-gaza>
between
Hamas and Israel via negotiators in Cairo. *

*Israel persists in demanding Hamas disarmament before progressing the
ceasefire, while simultaneously continuing to kill Palestinians in Gaza
without consequences and expanding its occupation rather than withdrawing
from the territory seized during the genocide.*

*Israel has killed nearly 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza and expanded its
control of the strip from 50 percent to at least 60 percent since the
ceasefire.*

*One security source told Israel Hayom that the =E2=80=9Cchance of renewed =
fighting
in the Gaza Strip is greater than the possibility that Hamas will actually
be disarmed through a diplomatic agreement.=E2=80=9D*

*=E2=80=9CDemilitarizing Gaza became a bigger aim than stopping Israel=E2=
=80=99s genocide;
such is the absurd truth,=E2=80=9D wrote
<https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260612-the-board-of-peace-extends-isra=
els-security-narrative/?amp>
author
Ramona Wadi.*

*While =E2=80=9Ccolonial expansion as the reason behind Israel=E2=80=99s ge=
nocide in Gaza,
utterly exposed for the entire world to see, [it] is never discussed by the
international community. On the contrary, the Board of Peace promotes it
and sets the conditions that justify colonialism instead of preventing it,
using an extension of the same narrative Israel used to destroy Gaza,=E2=80=
=9D Wadi
added.*

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<div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir=
=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr"><b><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, s=
erif"><a href=3D"https://thecradle.co/articles/us-military-begins-construct=
ion-of-huge-base-outside-gaza-to-oversee-trumps-colonization-plan" target=
=3D"_blank">https://thecradle.co/articles/us-military-begins-construction-o=
f-huge-base-outside-gaza-to-oversee-trumps-colonization-plan</a></font></b>=
</div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><b><font color=3D"#000000" fac=
e=3D"georgia, serif"><br></font></b></div><div><h1 style=3D"line-height:1.2=
141em;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0.5em;max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#00=
0000" face=3D"georgia, serif" size=3D"4"><i>US military begins construction=
 of &#39;huge base&#39; outside Gaza to oversee Trump&#39;s colonization pl=
an</i></font></h1><h2 style=3D"line-height:1.27275em;max-width:100%"><font =
size=3D"2" color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif">While talks in Cairo c=
enter on disarming Hamas, Israel has kept killing hundreds of Palestinians =
without accountability and is expanding its control over the strip despite =
an alleged &#39;ceasefire&#39;</font></h2><div style=3D"margin-bottom:1.45e=
m;max-width:100%"><p style=3D"margin:0px;max-width:100%;display:inline"><a =
style=3D"margin:0px;max-width:100%;display:inline"><font color=3D"#000000" =
face=3D"georgia, serif"><b>News Desk=C2=A0 6/13/26</b></font></a></p></div>=
<div style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-bottom:1.15em;line-height:1.5em"><img s=
rc=3D"https://thecradle-main.oss-eu-central-1.aliyuncs.com/public/articles/=
8eab015c-6736-11f1-9a60-00163e02c055.webp" alt=3D"" style=3D"margin:auto 0p=
x auto auto;display:block;clear:both" width=3D"412" height=3D"232"></div><p=
 style=3D"max-width:100%"><font face=3D"georgia, serif" color=3D"#000000"><=
b><span style=3D"max-width:100%">The US military has begun constructing a =
=E2=80=9Chuge base=E2=80=9D on the Gaza envelope to implement US President =
Donald Trump=E2=80=99s plan to =E2=80=9Ctake over=E2=80=9D the strip,<span>=
=C2=A0</span></span><a href=3D"https://www.israelhayom.com/2026/06/10/us-bu=
ilding-military-base-on-gaza-border-with-no-clear-purpose/" style=3D"text-d=
ecoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank"><span style=3D"max-width:1=
00%"><i style=3D"max-width:100%">Israel Hayom</i></span></a><span style=3D"=
max-width:100%"><span>=C2=A0</span>reported on 13 June.</span></b></font></=
p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><font color=3D=
"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><b>The US base, being built near the Isra=
eli military base at Reim settlement, will function as both a military and =
civilian headquarters for the organizations and forces arriving in the area=
 to implement the Trump plan.</b></font></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:10=
0%"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia,=
 serif"><b>In February 2025, Trump proposed a US =E2=80=9Ctakeover=E2=80=9D=
 of the Gaza Strip.=C2=A0</b></font></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%">=
<font face=3D"georgia, serif" color=3D"#000000"><b><span style=3D"max-width=
:100%">The plan<span>=C2=A0</span></span><a href=3D"https://www.brookings.e=
du/articles/trumps-proposal-to-take-over-gaza-would-put-americans-at-risk-o=
f-prosecution/" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_bl=
ank"><span style=3D"max-width:100%">called</span></a><span style=3D"max-wid=
th:100%"><span>=C2=A0</span>for the forced displacement of approximately tw=
o million Palestinians to neighboring lands and redeveloping the territory =
as a high-tech business and tourism hub that Trump said would become the =
=E2=80=9CRiviera of the Middle East.=E2=80=9D</span></b></font></p><p style=
=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.4em"></p><p style=3D"ma=
x-width:100%"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=
=3D"georgia, serif"><b>The new base will replace the US facility in the Isr=
aeli town of Kiryat Gat, established under the direction of Trump=E2=80=99s=
 Board of Peace in the wake of the October 2025 =E2=80=9Cceasefire.=E2=80=
=9D</b></font></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><span style=3D"max-wid=
th:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><b>Representatives=
 from more than 24 countries staffed the multinational headquarters and wer=
e tasked with overseeing the ceasefire and the entry of humanitarian aid.</=
b></font></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><span style=3D"max-width:10=
0%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><b>The Kiryat Gat base =
was also meant to direct the operations of an International Stabilization F=
orce (ISF) tasked with providing security in Gaza.</b></font></span></p><p =
style=3D"max-width:100%"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000=
000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><b>However, Israel has continued to severely r=
estrict the entry of aid into Gaza, recently suspending all shipments, whil=
e the ISF has yet to be formed.</b></font></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:=
100%"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgi=
a, serif"><b>After the US and Israel launched a war on Iran on 28 February,=
 the overwhelming majority of personnel left Kiryat Gat.</b></font></span><=
/p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0.4em;margin-bottom:0.4em"></p><p =
style=3D"max-width:100%"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000=
000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><b><i style=3D"max-width:100%">Israel Hayom</i=
><span>=C2=A0</span>noted that plans for the new US base include the constr=
uction of a tower intended for the command and control of forces in the fie=
ld.=C2=A0</b></font></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><span style=3D"m=
ax-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><b>The US mi=
litary has already begun issuing tenders to private contractors, including =
for the supply of mobile structures to house personnel and serve as a headq=
uarters until permanent buildings are established at the site.</b></font></=
span></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><font c=
olor=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><b>The new base will also host tro=
ops from the ISF if it is formed.=C2=A0</b></font></span></p><p style=3D"ma=
x-width:100%"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=
=3D"georgia, serif"><b>Five countries previously agreed to send forces to G=
aza, namely Indonesia, Morocco, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, and Albania. Bangladesh=
, Pakistan, and Azerbaijan have expressed a willingness to participate but =
have made no firm commitment.</b></font></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:10=
0%"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia,=
 serif"><b>Currently, no countries are willing to send troops due to fears =
that their forces will be tasked with disarming the Palestinian resistance,=
 as well as concerns about the ongoing US-Israeli conflict with Iran.</b></=
font></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><span style=3D"max-width:100%">=
<font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><b>The construction of the =
new US base is being fully coordinated with the Israeli Defense Ministry. M=
ilitary officials expect the base to be constructed and staffed within a fe=
w months.</b></font></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><font face=3D"ge=
orgia, serif" color=3D"#000000"><b><span style=3D"max-width:100%">The repor=
t comes as<span>=C2=A0</span></span><a href=3D"https://thearabweekly.com/ha=
mas-disarmament-remains-sticking-point-cairo-talks-gaza" style=3D"text-deco=
ration:none;max-width:100%" target=3D"_blank"><span style=3D"max-width:100%=
">talks continue</span></a><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><span>=C2=A0</spa=
n>between Hamas and Israel via negotiators in Cairo.=C2=A0</span></b></font=
></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><font color=
=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><b>Israel persists in demanding Hamas =
disarmament before progressing the ceasefire, while simultaneously continui=
ng to kill Palestinians in Gaza without consequences and expanding its occu=
pation rather than withdrawing from the territory seized during the genocid=
e.</b></font></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%;margin-top:0.4em;margin-=
bottom:0.4em"></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><span style=3D"max-width:100%=
"><font color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><b>Israel has killed near=
ly 1,000 Palestinians in Gaza and expanded its control of the strip from 50=
 percent to at least 60 percent since the ceasefire.</b></font></span></p><=
p style=3D"max-width:100%"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><font color=3D"#0=
00000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><b>One security source told<span>=C2=A0</spa=
n><i style=3D"max-width:100%">Israel Hayom</i><span>=C2=A0</span>that the =
=E2=80=9Cchance of renewed fighting in the Gaza Strip is greater than the p=
ossibility that Hamas will actually be disarmed through a diplomatic agreem=
ent.=E2=80=9D</b></font></span></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><font face=
=3D"georgia, serif" color=3D"#000000"><b><span style=3D"max-width:100%">=E2=
=80=9CDemilitarizing Gaza became a bigger aim than stopping Israel=E2=80=99=
s genocide; such is the absurd truth,=E2=80=9D<span>=C2=A0</span></span><a =
href=3D"https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260612-the-board-of-peace-exten=
ds-israels-security-narrative/?amp" style=3D"text-decoration:none;max-width=
:100%" target=3D"_blank"><span style=3D"max-width:100%">wrote</span></a><sp=
an style=3D"max-width:100%"><span>=C2=A0</span>author Ramona Wadi.</span></=
b></font></p><p style=3D"max-width:100%"><span style=3D"max-width:100%"><fo=
nt color=3D"#000000" face=3D"georgia, serif"><b>While =E2=80=9Ccolonial exp=
ansion as the reason behind Israel=E2=80=99s genocide in Gaza, utterly expo=
sed for the entire world to see, [it] is never discussed by the internation=
al community. On the contrary, the Board of Peace promotes it and sets the =
conditions that justify colonialism instead of preventing it, using an exte=
nsion of the same narrative Israel used to destroy Gaza,=E2=80=9D Wadi adde=
d.</b></font></span></p></div></div>
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*https://www.voiceofemirates.com/en/news/2026/06/14/maritime-restrictions-i=
n-the-red-sea-disrupt-global-trade/
<https://www.voiceofemirates.com/en/news/2026/06/14/maritime-restrictions-i=
n-the-red-sea-disrupt-global-trade/>*

*Maritime Restrictions in the Red Sea Disrupt Global Trade*Dozens of Ships
Rerouted Due to Ongoing Security Tensions

*Tampa, USA =E2=80=93 The US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the impact=
 of
security tensions. Consequently, these events in the Red Sea have led to
the rerouting of 141 commercial ships. Moreover, 9 ships were directly
disrupted due to the ongoing crisis. As a result, international maritime
traffic faces unprecedented significant disruption. Thus, global shipping
companies are forced to take urgent and costly precautionary measures.*
Supply Chain Disruptions and Rising Transportation Costs

*Security measures included redirecting ships through longer maritime
routes. Accordingly, companies aim to avoid passing through the Red Sea and
areas with increased risks. In addition, these maritime disruptions
directly affected global supply chains. Conversely, frequent rerouting
caused increased voyage times and higher insurance and transportation
costs. Therefore, the global economy faces additional challenges due to
delayed vital goods.*
International Efforts to Protect Vital Shipping Corridors

*Naval forces of the international coalition continue their security and
military operations. On the other hand, these moves aim to ensure freedom
of navigation and protect commercial ships. Consequently, the Red Sea and
the Bab el-Mandeb Strait represent a vital artery for trade and energy
between Asia and Europe. Ultimately, international efforts continue to
contain tensions and avoid broader economic repercussions. Accordingly,
economic circles hope for a quick return of stability to maintain the
smooth flow of global trade.*

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