Trump’s Global Strategy Raises Questions About a New World Order

purported deal with Venezuela tells us something deeper is going on and I believe it relates

“to spheres of influence and I believe that CIA director John Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow”

to meet with his counterpart there. The head of the intelligence community there had to do with

spheres of influence. The Trump regime has always viewed the world as being divided according to

three spheres of influence. The United States controls the Western Hemisphere, Russia controls Ukraine and all of Europe and China controls all of Asia with the Middle East and Africa up for grabs. Marco Rubio at the beginning of this Trump regime said as much. He said the old world order where the US was the only superpower and led organizations like NATO. He said that is done. We are in a multi-polar world and he said the polls include United States

and includes China and it includes Russia. And so when this trip happened by CIA director John

“Ratcliffe this past week I believe that he tipped off the Russian head of intelligence about”

what was going to take place with Venezuela and further they packed that existed of you stay out of our hemisphere. We're going to do our part to stay out of your hemisphere and Donald Trump as you've seen continues to attack NATO. He continues to tap Zelensky along. I'm going to give you

interceptors. I'm going to give you interceptor licenses but then that never happens and I also think

that the message was delivered at this time as well because it was before the Venezuelan deal was announced and also it's before the Shanghai Cooperation organization is set to meet and correct a stand which is about to take place in the next day or two and then there's going to be the bricks meeting that's going to be taking place several days after that in New Delhi, India. And so I think you have this coordination at play. I also think that what's going on between

Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel and Erdogan, the president of Turkey, is also part of this broader spheres of influence campaign that's taking place. Netanyahu being the proxy of the Trump regime and I believe that Erdogan focusing more closely on bringing the Muslim countries together, the Arab countries together with a potential leaning in a direction that would obviously be counter to the Abraham Accords, which was Donald Trump and Jared Kushner's initiative.

And so I think we have this dynamic at play. Someone who agrees with me and I want to share it with you, who I think that she's been spot on a few times is Patricia Marin's. She says the quiet around Venezuela is especially unsettling, not a word from European capitals from Beijing, from Moscow, from Brazil, from anyone. The silence feels like indifference and we're like a negotiated pack. One that ties Taiwan, Ukraine, Venezuela and not far behind Cuba in the same unspoken bargain.

And so I think that was also what was discussed in a spoken bargain, if you will, when Ratcliffe went over there to Russia. I think one of the main topics as well was Cuba, because obviously Cuba is being held by Russia and China. And I think the broader discussion was

“not Ratcliffe delivering a message to Putin saying, you need to stop bullying NATO and you need to”

stop bullying Ukraine and stop the invasion. Okay, if you've been following the Trump regime, you know that everything Donald Trump has done was a tak NATO and undermine Ukraine. So why would you think that Ratcliffe would be there to deliver that message when Donald Trump's out there attacking NATO and deceiving Ukraine on a daily basis? I mean, come on, it's pretty obvious, I believe. That Ratcliffe was there saying, look, spheres of influence. Here's how it's going to go down.

We're going to do this deal with Venezuela where we're going to say we get 65 billion barrels of

their oil. That's what we're going to do next. We're going to look to Cuba. We're going to try to unwind this catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran, although they're not going to phrase it that way. Iran is going to be showing up at the bricks meeting as well as the Shanghai Cooperation organization. You have besinned holding off, although he's, you know, too scared to do this anyway, sanctions against China or other allies of Iran. Donald Trump knows that this catastrophic and unlawful

crushed at here at home. He's by far the worst president in American history, his trade war

“trade war against the world has been another disaster. Ice and border patrol Gestapo, killing”

people, other disaster covering up the Epstein files I can go on and on. But Donald Trump wants to act like he's doing deals and he's getting wind. So he did this thing with Delcy Rodriguez. We get 65

billion barrels of oil. It's going to immediately fill our strategic petroleum reserves and it's

going to be great and gas prices are going to go down. I debunk this like multiple times, but just to go over it one more time. There's no infrastructure in Venezuela at this point to be able to actually extract the 65 billion barrels. It's hypothetical also. It's very sour and viscous and dense crude, that doesn't go into our strategic petroleum reserves. Like the blend literally doesn't work. You'd have to make billions and billions of dollars of investments that will take multiple

years to even allow the Venezuelan oil to even get into our strategic petroleum reserves. And then to make that oil accessible more broadly and start to get them into refineries. You're going to have to build refineries and infrastructure and that's going to take years and years and years and also it's likely unlawful or definitely unlawful in the United States without congressional authorization and it's unlawful in Venezuela as well. Under their constitution and this whole idea that the pentagon

is creating its own pentagon Trump company that's going to own a stake in a Venezuelan oil company. And already there's discrepancies. But what Trump said we have majority control, Delcy Rodriguez says it's 35% control given to the United States. It's not written down. In any event as Michael Paulberg explains, China is owed $10 billion in loans from Venezuela

that they never paid back. Russia is owed $3 billion by Venezuela and paid for decades to keep

Cuba afloat. She and Putin are happy with this spheres of influence model because they made bad bets and got burned. Trump has yet to figure this out. And so Xi Jinping, he'll be coming to the United States end of September for a day or two. What do you think he's going to be talking

“about? Of course, he's going to be talking about Taiwan. And what do you think the discussion is here?”

Why do you think the CIA director's flying in on a military plane to meet with his counterpart there? What do you think is being discussed here? You think it's him saying you better be careful. You better be careful. We're not out of our weapons here in the United States. We're going to strike back. No, that's not what they're discussing. I think they're discussing these deeper issues.

Here's what we're doing in Venezuela. We know that rat cliff had been to Cuba. It's about

Venezuela and Cuba. So freaking obvious, it's staring us in our face and spheres of influence. He went to Cuba recently to threaten Cuba and Cuba's being helped right now significantly by Russia and China. So he's delivering the message. Those are ours. This is my opinion, of course, you know, a China word will not be helpful in Taiwan. Look, we've already moved away. The USS George Washington, the name eight aircraft care. The only remaining US supercarrier aircraft

carrier in the Pacific has now been moved to the Middle East. And for the Trump regime, I mean the horrible conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln was also the perfect cover for them. They also don't treat our military service members at all with the respect they deserve and don't give them the basic supplies and services. But then the Trump regime can say, aha, the USS Abraham Lincoln, we have you all wanted us to move. It's a we move that away. And now we're bringing in

and now we're bringing in the George Washington. And so now the US isn't going to have a aircraft carrier really in the region that's capable of projecting power. And so, you know, China, Taiwan, Russia, Ukraine, Russia's gearing up for its big winter offensive against you

“crane right now. And then I think you see these battles taking place amongst the kind of mid-power”

as well. And you know, you have escalation of Netanyahu's rhetoric saying as it relates to Turkey. I mean, you know, and saying, you know, Turkey's the enemy. We're going to, you know, we're not going to hesitate to strike Turkey. You have Erdogan and Turkey who just announced the involvement of Turkey in the Mecca pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan saying that, you know, look, we're going to of course defend ourselves against Netanyahu. You have Netanyahu striking the airport in

Syria, which they claim was being built by Erdogan. And so this is what's happening throughout the world right now. And you want to know who speaks this way of spears of influence. Basically, the

in an interview is, Ukraine is part of Russia's sphere of influence. It's a fact, just like Canada

is part of America's sphere of influence. And Le Pen, Marine Le Pen, is the maga candidate in France. She was previously barred from the 2027 election on appeal of her, she was convicted in March 2025 of embezzling European Parliament funds. She was banned from office for five years, but that was reduced. So she was actually allowed to run. And so her guy, Jordan Bardella,

“who was going to run in her place gave her the spot. And that's what she's saying. And Donald Trump's”

attacks of Canada as 51st date. This is the spheres of influence being accelerated. And I also don't think it's a coincidence that this followed and that Donald Trump's acceleration of the attacks on Canada also followed that meeting in Russia. I think this is all being choreographed together and amongst Trump and Putin and she. I will remind you that back in February of 2025, Rubio spoke about his views of spheres of influence playing this clip.

Those again. So it's not normal for the world to simply have a unit polar power that was not wasn't anomaly. It was the product of the end of the Cold War. But eventually you were going to reach back to a point where you had a multi-polar world, multi-great powers and different parts of the planet. We face that now with China and to some extent Russia. And then you have rogue states

“like Iran and North Korea, you have to deal with. So now more than ever, we need to remember”

that foreign policy should always be about furthering the national interest of the United's

in February of 2026 before the U.S. got involved in the catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran. But after the U.S. invaded Venezuela, Rubio says the old world is gone. We live in a new era of geopolitics. And this language is exactly the language that Putin uses. And the kind of Orban La Pen, that whole right-wing, far right-wing leaders in the maga style around the world. They all speak like that. I mean, here's what Rubio said.

The world is changing very fast, right? On a verb. No. The old world is gone. The world is hiking up and we live in a new era of geopolitics. And it's been over the corner all of us for a reason. And what that looks like is what our role was going to be. And it's we've had many of these conversations with the pirates, many of our allies, you know, our allies. And even continue to have those conversations. And I think Saturday, hopefully, in the meeting

why I'm there, when I'm looking for them. And then Rubio also said a few days after that. February 15, 2026, we in America have no interest in being polite caretakers of the West managed decline. And again, this is the approach. This is exactly these are the words that Putin uses. Here play this clip. For witty in America, have no interest in being polite and orderly caretakers of the West managed decline. You know, because previously right around that time period

of March of 2025, Lavrov basically said the following. He said Rubio recognizes multi-polar

worlds where countries power is defined by its strength. Smaller countries are second rate. We will want other Ukrainian territories where ethnic Russians live. You got to pay attention to what all these people, you know, what what what they're saying, how they're behaving, what international

“meetings are taking place. And that's what leads me to believe. That's what rat cliff was actually”

doing there in Russia. Should also note when Donald Trump was asked about what was going on there. Trump's like, yeah, I was just I hate to I hate to let people down, but it was just fairly routine what was going on fairly routine here at play this clip. Can we put something to rest here, the because the speculation is crazy. The CIA director hours is in Russia. Rumors are saying Putin is going to test NATO resolve all the way to speculation that is crazy. He's going to strike

England. All the way to this is maybe the U.S. telling them about the Iranian sanctions saying we're serious about him. Can you tell me why our CIA director flew in the middle of the night to meet with the Russians? Well, none of the above. He's there on very sort of semi-routine. I hate to

part of conversations to say, hey, let them know here's what we're going to be doing in Venezuela.

Here's what we're going to be doing in Canada. Obviously, you know, the U.S. can't so obviously

“go after, you know, Ukraine, but I think this is part of a plan that Trump and Putin have had”

for some time. I think this idea of tapping Zelensky along further about these interceptor licenses when Putin called Trump on July 4th. In my opinion, that 90 minute phone call focused on that plan as well. Putin's going to Putin summoned Lukashenko, the leader of Belarus recently, and I believe that there's a high likelihood that you may see a northern front open in the invasion of Ukraine as we head into the winter. And I think the U.S. has set this up for Putin so that

it's been choreographed in a way that Putin has what he wants right now going into the winter. Zelensky doesn't have the interceptors, doesn't have the licenses, out of a lot of defensive capabilities. We've seen movements right along the border and in other areas that Russian control, that Russia controls, building out the ability to project deeper and deeper strikes into Ukraine. Lots and more ballistic missile launchers. You know, we've been seeing that set up. Russia's really ramping

up its shot, he drone production, really ramping up its ballistic production for this winter.

“Ukraine doesn't have a lot of resources to defend itself. So that's what I think Trump delivered”

for Putin in my opinion. On the other side, men as well, Cuba, I think that's being set up as well. And then as it relates to China, you have Xi stopping by for really only one day right there. And I think that the U.S. attack on South Korea and saying, you know, we support, you know, Trump saying I support Kim Jong-un, Trump's refusal to give Taiwan weapons that they need over there. I think that's the delivery for Xi. If you follow how Donald Trump has,

basically did what he did to Ukraine, but he's doing that to Taiwan right now. That's the gift over there.

“I think the silence from the European countries and the mid-powers over what Trump's doing in”

Venezuela is acknowledging that what I just described is really what's at play right here, but they're doing everything they can to cement their relationship with Canada and elsewhere for them to unite and prepare for what they see is coming in the coming months, which is a real this idea that you have this world at war. And so you have Prime Minister Karni, he's going to be speaking in front of the European Union Parliament for their state of the Union.

He'll be there the next day. He's there honorary guest. So that's the dynamic to me. That's at play, you know, at, you know, at these meetings. You tell me, you tell me what you think,

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