Intro LO: I recommend reading this recent PS article - and opinion. In my view, it's a fact though. For several years, I've been making the same point as the writer below: the end of American hegemony. However, in my view, Trump is just / only accelerating its tipping point: 6 November 2025: A new Moscow on the Hudson (6) 2 September 2025: Done with USA (2) 22 July...
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A new Moscow on the Hudson (6)
6 Nov, 2025
Following American election results (eg, New York City, New Jersey, Virginia), I doubt that Europeans can and/or will truly understand Americans. European socialism is dead, while European nationalism is surging. “Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York in a historic victory that will put an avowed democratic socialist — and the first Muslim...
The 1 October 2025 American shutdown
30 Sep, 2025
Intro LO: Given the American president's common use of reverse psychology, his threat to shutdown the American government should imply that he will - once again - reverse course, and blame Democrats for his decision. UPDATE(s): Axios title: ⛔️ The shutdown begins By: Mike Allen Date: 1 October 2025 "It's official: The federal government shut down at midnight....

What if there’s no ideology behind the American chaos??
29 Sep, 2025
My 2016 triangle of 3 dimensions, Love, Knowledge & Power, including 7 Belief systems: (1) Love (1x Love), (2) Money, Politics, Religion (3x Power), and (3) Philosophy, Science, and the Truth (3x Knowledge). Please see my - still evolving - diagram below: Source: my 2020 blog Source: my 2025 blog is it possible that the 2025 American political chaos does not...
Bearish bets on the dollar continue to grow (Axios)
22 Sep, 2025
Intro LO: The one thing that the American president cannot hide (eg, U.S. labour statistics), and/or control (eg, Fed interest rates) is the international currency valuation of the US$. Hence, this article's title - that the market's bearish bets on the dollar continue to grow - should hardly come as a surprise. Moreover, lowering American interest rates in an...
Red sun rising
17 Sep, 2025
The recent raid by the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on an American factory, as operated by the South Korean companies Hyundai Motor Company (cars) and LG Electronics (batteries), reminded me of the 1992 novel Rising Sun by Michael Crichton (1942-2008). "Although a detective/murder mystery novel at first glance, Rising Sun deals...

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