The Biggest Trade Deal Ever Made

Posted on July 28, 2025 by Keld Bach

The United States and the European Union have agreed on a new trade deal, which envisages, among other things, a zero tariff on US imports to the European markets and a 15% baseline tariff on all EU goods coming to the US, including cars, US President Donald Trump said on Sunday.

“I just want to congratulate you. I think it is great that we made a deal today instead of playing games and maybe not making a deal at all … I think it is the biggest deal ever made,” Trump said at a meeting with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in Scotland.

Under the new deal, the EU agrees to purchase $750 billion worth of energy from the United States and “a vast amount” of military equipment, Trump said. The EU will invest an additional $600 billion in the US economy and open up the countries’ markets to trade with the US at zero tariffs.

Source: Sputnik International.

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The Pawn, the Jester, the Puppet

Posted on June 20, 2025 by Keld Bach

Related articles:
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How Vikings Became Brutal Norman Kings

Posted on May 12, 2025 by Keld Bach



They were the Northmen who changed history. Starting as heathen Viking warriors who plundered and settled in Northern France and forged the new Duchy of Normandy, becoming the most ferocious conquerors that medieval Europe had ever seen, and giving England its most famous date: 1066.

In this two part series, Dr Eleanor Janega sets off across Normandy to discover who this band of rugged warriors, settlers and rulers were.

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Trump Envoy: Ukraine Could be Divided Like Postwar Berlin

Posted on April 12, 2025 by Keld Bach

General Keith Kellogg suggests UK and France could lead western zone of control in interview with The Times

President Trump’s envoy to Ukraine has said the country could be partitioned “almost like Berlin after World War Two” as part of a peace deal.

General Keith Kellogg, a leading figure in US efforts to end the three-year war, suggested that British and French troops could adopt zones of control in the west of the country as part of a “reassurance force”, with Russia’s army in the occupied east. Between them would be Ukrainian forces and a demilitarised zone.

Kellogg, 80, said the Anglo-French-led force west of the Dnipro river, which bisects Ukraine from north to south and runs through Kyiv, would “not be provocative at all” to Moscow. He said Ukraine was a big enough country to accommodate several armies seeking to enforce a ceasefire.

“You could almost make it look like what happened with Berlin after World War Two, when you had a Russian zone, a French zone, and a British zone, a US zone,” he said.

Source: The Times.

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Global Policy Institute: ICC Means Absolutely Nothing

Posted on April 8, 2025 by Keld Bach

The International Criminal Court (ICC) has no legal standing whatsoever because it is not an agency of the United Nations and “the great powers” want nothing to do with it, a political expert has told RT.

In an interview on Thursday, George Szamuely, senior research fellow at the Global Policy Institute in Budapest, commented on Hungary’s decision to pull out of the ICC.

According to Szamuely, the court was created by Western powers at the peak of their hegemony in the 1990s “as a mechanism for them to order the rest of the world around.”

However, since nations like Russia, China, and India “chose not to sign on to the Rome Statute” – the ICC’s founding treaty – and the US later revoked its support, the court in effect “means absolutely nothing.”

Source: RT International.

Related: No EU country will arrest Netanyahu on ICC warrant – Belgian PM.

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Coalition of the Walking Dead

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Keld Bach

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has confirmed the UK is ready to deploy troops to Ukraine in an effort to secure peace as part of a previously announced “coalition of the willing.”

Speaking before Parliament on Monday, Starmer said that Kiev’s backers must not settle for “a weak deal” like the Minsk accords, urging the Western allies to “keep the military aid to Ukraine flowing” and ramp up economic pressure on Russia.

The prime minister reiterated his willingness to deploy “boots on the ground and planes in the air,” asserting that “Europe must do the heavy lifting to secure peace on our continent.” However, he added that for this effort to succeed, it must have strong US backing.

Source: RT International.

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Exclusive Interview with Jeffrey Sachs

Posted on March 2, 2025 by Keld Bach

“It may be dangerous to be America’s enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.”

Jeffrey Sachs, economist, public policy analyst, and professor at Columbia University, joined RT to discuss what is happening on the world stage – the change in the American foreign policy. Watch the full interview here.

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How Zelensky Blew It All

Posted on February 28, 2025 by Keld Bach



A heated argument broke out between President Donald Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, and Vice President JD Vance in the White House Oval Office. The confrontation occurred before a deal was supposed to be made between Ukraine and the United States in which Ukraine would give the U.S. critical minerals in exchange for some unspecified help in dealing with Russia’s invasion. Trump and Vance accused Zelensky of being “disrespectful,” ungrateful, and of gambling with starting a global war. Before the argument began, President Trump was asked by reporters if he would provide Ukraine with security guarantees, but he declined to affirmatively answer these questions. President Zelensky said Ukraine needed security guarantees and that a ceasefire would not be sufficient. A scheduled news conference between the two leaders was subsequently canceled after this meeting.

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Jared Kushner Behind Trump’s Plan to Take Over Gaza

Posted on February 7, 2025 by Keld Bach

Former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner was reportedly behind his father-in-law US President Donald Trump’s plan, announced yesterday, for the US to take over Gaza and clear it of Palestinians.

Kushner was involved in crafting Trump’s prepared remarks that he made alongside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House, Puck news reports, citing an anonymous source familiar with the matter.

Source: The Times of Israel.

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War is a Psychosis

Posted on January 11, 2025 by Keld Bach

I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellowmen. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness, to death.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because they imagine it is the one thing that stops women laughing at them….It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women – and absurd. I will tell you what war is. War is a psychosis caused by an inability to see relationships. Our relationship with our fellow-men. Our relationship with our economic and historical situation. And above all our relationship to nothingness. To death.

It’s despair at the lack of feeling, of love, of reason in the world. It’s despair that anyone can even contemplate the idea of dropping a bomb or ordering that it should be dropped. It’s despair that so few of us care. It’s despair that there’s so much brutality and callousness in the world…

By John Fowles at: RickRozoff.Wordpress.

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