🇦🇷🤝🇺🇸 — The President of Argentina, Javier Milei, received U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who, during the meeting at the Casa Rosada, reaffirmed the “full support of the United States for President Milei’s bold economic reforms.”

💰 Bessent’s visit followed the Argentine government’s signing of a new $20 billion agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the announcement of the end of currency controls. In Buenos Aires, Donald Trump’s secretary also praised the Milei administration’s “prompt action” to “reduce barriers to reciprocal trade with the United States,” highlighting a new chapter in the bilateral relationship.

➡️ During the meeting, Bessent also congratulated Milei on the successful negotiations with the IMF and “emphasized the United States’ confidence in President Milei to continue driving Argentina’s positive economic momentum,” according to an official statement released by the U.S. Treasury.

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🇨🇳❌🇺🇸❗️ — Communist China MFA: US agents carried out cyber attacks on our critical infrastructure.

👤🇺🇦🪨🤝👤 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Blinken Says US Rare-Earths Deal Actually Originated With Zelensky | April 14, 2025:

"Former US Secretary of State Antony Blinken made an unexpected admission during a recent CNBC interview while discussing the topic of President Trump's controversial rare earths minerals deal with Ukraine.

Not only did Blinken appear to approve of some kind of rare earth minerals plan which would benefit the US, but disclosed that the Biden administration was working on something similar - albeit he characterized the current White House as having the wrong approach.

"Part of the victory package that [Zelensky] put on the table in the last six months of our administration included us working with them on rare earths, on critical minerals," Blinken told journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin in the televised interview. He also described 'frustrations' between the Biden admin and Zelensky government, but said the White House under Biden was unwilling to make these public."

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🇺🇸🗯😵‍💫🗣🗣 — 📰 ZeroHedge | Trump Slams Biden, Zelensky & Putin For Ukraine War: 'Everybody Is To Blame' | April 15, 2025:

"President Donald Trump while speaking with the press in the Oval Office on Monday once again blasted President Biden for the start of the Russia-Ukraine war, a war which Trump has repeatedly stressed should have never happened.

"That’s a war that should have never been allowed to start and Biden could have stopped it and Zelensky could have stopped it and Putin should have never started it," Trump said. "Everybody is to blame."

Trump added: "If Biden were competent and if Zelenskyy were competent, and I don’t know that he is, we had a rough session with this guy — he just kept asking for more and more."

But he seemed to reserve his most aggressive criticisms for Zelensky, once again blasting him for asking for more and more weapons and money, while knowing full well Ukraine can't defeat Russia, which is "twenty times your size" - as Trump said."

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🇺🇸🤝🏒🇷🇺 — 📰 ZeroHedge | US, Russia Preparing To Hold Hockey Matches In St. Petersburg & Washington | April 14, 2025:

"Last month, during the lengthy phone conversation between Presidents Trump and Putin, the two broached the idea of holding special USA vs. Russia hockey games amid broader efforts at diplomatic normalization. 

The March 18 phone call, which also resulted in the 'energy sites ceasefire' - saw the NHL announce at the time: "We have just become aware of the conversation between President Trump and President Putin" regarding the potential for hosting a big hockey event. 

Now, on Monday Russia’s Sports Minister Mikhail Degtyarev has for the first time confirmed that a series of games are indeed likely given that serious closed-door negotiations are currently in the works."

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🍀👨‍💻⚠️ — Over the past hours, many netizens have erroneously shared this image, claiming to be the "numbers of posts of 4Chan's /pol/ per flag"

However this is a Manipulated image/data.

The screenshot is from 4plebs.org, an unofficial website that tracks and archives 4chan posts, unrelated to the forum per se directly, much less to the recent breach

4plebs.org stopped tracking country statistics in 2021.

Per the final archive of the country statistics webpage in December 2020, Israel only had a total of 936363 posts:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201224040114/https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/statistics/countries

🇪🇨❌🇻🇪🇻🇪 — President of Ecuador’s National Electoral Council (CNE) responds to Nicolás Maduro:

“If he says there was fraud, it means we’re doing things right in Ecuador. What would be truly concerning is if he congratulated us.”

🇺🇸🔒❗️ — Dan Caldwell, top advisor to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, escorted out of the Pentagon after being identified in leaks probe

🇺🇸🤝🇸🇦☢️ — 📰 Reuters | Saudi Arabia, US on 'pathway' to civil nuclear agreement, US Energy Secretary says | April 13, 2025:

"RIYADH, April 13 (Reuters) - The United States and Saudi Arabia will sign a preliminary agreement to cooperate over the kingdom's ambitions to develop a civil nuclear industry, U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright told reporters in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Sunday.

Wright, who had met with Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman earlier on Sunday, said Riyadh and Washington were on a "a pathway" to reaching an agreement to work together to develop a Saudi civil nuclear programme.

Wright, on his first visit to the kingdom as secretary as part of tour of energy-producing Gulf states, said further details over a memorandum detailing the energy cooperation between Riyadh and Washington would come later this year."

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🇺🇸❗️🇨🇳🚲🧪🧲📺 — 📰 ZeroHedge | The US Relies Heavily On Rare Earth Imports From China | April 15, 2025:

"As part of the retaliation against Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs on Chinese goods, China has imposed new export controls on seven additional rare earth elements, temporarily suspending any exports of the valuable minerals.

The newly affected elements, namely samarium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, lutetium, scandium and yttrium, are critical components of a wide range of products, ranging from electric cars and semiconductors to military equipment such as missiles and drones.

While the new rules stop short of a full export ban, the affected metals will require a special export license going forward – granting Chinese authorities an extra layer of control over who is granted export rights.

Once the system is implemented, certain companies, for example U.S. defense contractors, could be banned from importing the crucial supplies, which are very hard to substitute or source elsewhere.

As Statista's Felix Richter shows in the chart below, the U.S. is heavily reliant on rare earth imports from China, which accounted for 70 percent of U.S. rare earth imports between 2020 and 2023, with Malaysia, Japan and Estonia the other three main suppliers of the United States."

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🇨🇳💱😎 — 📰 ZeroHedge | China Limits Stocks Sales To Maintain Impression Of Stability, As Bessent Hints At Boosting Treasury Buybacks If Fed Does Nothing | April 14, 2025:

"Last week we explained how the escalating trade war between the US and China has gradually transformed into a theatrical war of who has the upper hand on any given day. And since it takes a long time for trade obstructions to hit the underlying economy, investors are keenly eyeing the stock, and especially FX, markets for early indications of who has the upper hand.

Only there has been one notable difference: while US stocks have tumbled (and rightfully so, as Trump institutes shock treatment to ween the US out of its debt-funded reserve currency addiction) and the US dollar in freefall, Chinese stocks have been surprisingly resilient, with local stocks barely dipping and the yuan reversing its losses which pushed it to a record low only to rebound sharply higher.

There is just one problem: like everything else out of China, it's market reaction has also been 100% fake."

#Geoeconomics #WWT

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