📈 Trump’s advisor nominee proposes up to 50% tariffs

Stephen Miran, Donald Trump's nominee to chair the Council of Economic Advisers, has proposed a sharp increase in US tariffs averaging 20%, with some as high as 50%, compared to the current 2%.

Miran argues that this protectionist approach could boost domestic industries and reduce dependence on foreign imports. But critics warn it could raise costs for consumers and spark global trade tensions.

This signals Trump's intention to continue reshaping US trade policy.

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‘Nyet means nyet’: even the CIA warned NATO against crossing Russia’s red lines

The 2008 NATO Summit in Bucharest, where Ukraine and Georgia were invited into NATO, against the advice of current CIA director William Burns, was the precise moment when the US’s relations with Russia began to turn sour, historian Peter Kuznick told Tucker Carlson.

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🗣Post-Maidan Ukraine threw away Minsk peace plan, ‘started killing’ people in the Donbass - Oliver Stone

Investigating the origins of the Russia-NATO proxy war in Ukraine in an interview with Tucker Carlson, Oliver Stone recalled that the post-Maidan government in Kiev failed to live up to its own commitments in the Minsk peace deal, promising “to respect the autonomy” of residents of the Donbass.

“They never did. They started killing them,” Stone said.

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🗣US energy sanctions threaten Europe with hike in fuel prices - Hungarian FM

The outgoing US administration's new sanctions against the energy sector of Russia and Serbia put Europe at risk of a serious hike in fuel prices, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Sunday.

The inclusion of the Russian-Serbian oil company NIS, where Russian energy giant Gazprom Neft holds 56.15%, will cause a shortage of oil on the European market and, as a consequence, an increase in demand for oil products amid a lack of growth in supply, the minister said.

Hungary will work intensively with regional partners to minimize the damage from the US sanctions, Szijjarto also said.

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❗️The future US special envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg may have canceled his visit to Kiev following a series of statements by Zelensky regarding the conditions for ending the conflict, which reportedly do not align with the vision of Trump's transition team, Ukrainian media report.

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❗️Preparations for the Trump and Putin meeting are underway, Trump's national security advisor says.

Trump believes that a deal on Ukraine is impossible without dialogue with Russia and plans to work on it in the coming months, the advisor to the president-elect says.

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❗️The US believes that the agreement on Ukraine should provide “security guarantees” to prevent a repeat of the conflict - the White house

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❗️The parties to the negotiations on the release of the hostages in Gaza are “very close” to an agreement and may reach it before Trump takes office - the White house

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❗️A phone call between Trump and Putin could take place "in the coming days or weeks," Trump's national security advisor says.

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🔫 Brute force, threats, and hard sell: US overseas land grabs – Part 1 👉 Part 2

As Donald Trump mulls claims to Greenland, the Panama Canal, and Canada, let’s recall how America’s insatiable hunger for power drove its overseas expansion.

🔊 United States Minor Outlying Islands

The US expansion beyond North America started with the 1856 Guano Islands Act. It laid claim to uninhabited islands containing guano fertilizer.

Remaining claims, including Baker Island and Jarvis Island (unincorporated territories) in the Pacific Ocean and Palmyra Atoll (an incorporated unorganized territory) in the Caribbean Sea, are collectively known as the USMOI.

🤝 Transacted territories

🔸 Panama Canal

A US contrived coup forced Panama to break away from Colombia and accept a payoff for a strip of land to build the strategic canal, jurisdiction over which was restored to the Republic of Panama in 1999.

🔸 Corn Islands (Caribbean Sea)

Cash-strapped Nicaragua was swayed to lease the islands in 1914 so the US could build an alternative to the Panama Canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, but the project was dead in the water and the deal scrapped in 1971.

🔸 Philippines

Spain sold its colony the Philippines to the US for $20 million after its defeat in the Spanish-American War of 1898. The Jones Act of 1916 promised Manila eventual independence, which it had to wait 30 years to get.

🔸 Unincorporated American territory Virgin Islands (Atlantic Ocean)

The US pressured Denmark to sell the islands of Saint Thomas, Saint John, and Saint Croix for $25 million in gold coin by threatening a military attack on the neutral nation during World War I.

👉 Part 2

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