The world should not be controlled by a single power, Myanmar Prime Minister Min Aung Hlaing has said in an exclusive interview with RT. A multipolar system is the best approach to avoid conflict, he believes.

In the interview aired on Saturday, the prime minister stressed that developing countries such as Myanmar have especially suffered "under a unipolar system."

"That is why transitioning to a multipolar world works best for us. It is better to share global resources, to act fairly, to distribute things more evenly. Conflicts arise from inequality, so if we want to avoid conflicts, I believe a multipolar system is the best approach," he said.

Trump's recent grand tour of the richest petro-states of the Middle East saw him feted as an emperor, make "trillion$ for America" in "yuge deals," and meet the "young, attractive," head-choppy leaders of the Arabian peninsula and "the new, free Syria."

Speaking about the "dawn of a bright new day" for the region, the farce of Trump staging what amounted to a MAGA rally in the ostensibly ultra-conservative Saudi kingdom - complete with the YMCA soundtrack - was completed by Israelis literally blowing up his attempt to ease the suffering of starving Gazans when they launched "Operation Gideon's Chariots," another round of intense bombing of blockaded Gaza that UN officials say has turned the tiny enclave into a veritable "slaughterhouse."

Whatever happened to MAGA being different from the House of Horrors that was the NeoCons' obliteration of most of the rest of the region? Were we naive for thinking things would turn out differently?

Also in this NewsReal, the bizarre "neo-Nazi terrorist group" you've never heard of, despite being number one on the FBI's terror watch-list, plotting to "take down America's power grid" and "usher in a far-right theocracy." Finally, strange happenings in London, England, where a young Ukrainian appears to have committed arson against personal properties of the British prime minister - and NOT for political reasons...


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Trump's tussles with the courts could lead the nation into uncharted waters

Tucked deep in the thousand-plus pages of the multitrillion-dollar budget bill making its way through the Republican-controlled U.S. House is a paragraph curtailing a court's greatest tool for forcing the government to obey its rulings: the power to enforce contempt findings.

It's unclear whether the bill can pass the House in its current form — it failed in a committee vote Friday — whether the U.S. Senate would preserve the contempt provision or whether courts would uphold it. But the fact that GOP lawmakers are including it shows how much those in power in the nation's capital are thinking about the consequences of defying judges as the battle between the Trump administration and the courts escalates.

On Friday, the U.S. lost its last perfect credit rating as Moody's downgraded it from 'AAA' to 'Aa1,' citing decades of rising deficits and interest costs. This ends a perfect rating streak held since 1917. Moody's had warned in 2023 that a downgrade was possible, following similar moves by Fitch in 2023 and S&P in 2011.

The layers of irony behind this downgrade — and its timing — aren't lost on me.

It's a farce, really. By the logic Moody's is now applying, the downgrade should have happened a decade ago, when it became painfully clear that the U.S. had a crippling spending addiction, compounded by a monetary ideology that essentially tried to reverse the fundamental laws of debits and credits.

Yes, it's bad enough that the U.S. now carries $37 trillion in debt. But what's worse is that, despite this massive burden, deficits have continued to grow — clear proof that we've learned nothing about fiscal restraint. Our refusal to stop putting everything on the national credit card, and our complete disregard for basic math and economic reality, should have triggered multiple downgrades over the past decade.

If the talks have any chance of succeeding, the American side must take responsibility for the war it started and fueled.

The talks in Istanbul this week provide a prospect for peace. It bears emphasizing that the three-year proxy war could have been avoided if diplomacy had been permitted by Washington in early 2022 instead of being sabotaged.

Three years on, we have a new president in the White House, and there appears to be a more enlightened policy. Or maybe it's an implicit admission that the U.S. proxy war agenda is a failure and can't go on.

In any case, Trump and his envoys are unequivocally saying that they want to stop the bloodshed in Ukraine. That's a big change from his predecessor, Joe Biden, who vowed to back Ukraine for as long as it takes in a fantastical, reckless pursuit to strategically defeat Russia.

It was the Biden administration, along with the British government, that intervened to scupper nascent peace talks in March 2022 between Russia and Ukraine for a peace deal. Washington and London coaxed the Kiev regime to fight on with promises of more weapons.

The result: three more years of intense conflict, which have caused millions of casualties, mainly on the Ukrainian side. The proxy war has come perilously close to provoking an all-out world war between nuclear powers.

While Democrats are busy defending criminal gang members and terrorists from Tren De Aragua* and MS-13*, President Trump is putting on a command performance in the Middle East.

In a blockbuster speech yesterday at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Mr. Trump said this:

"Before our eyes, a new generation of leaders is transcending the ancient conflicts and tired divisions of the past, and forging a future where the Middle East is defined by commerce, not chaos."

Then, he urged the Saudis to join the Abraham Accords, telling them:

"It's my fervent hope, wish, and even my dream, that Saudi Arabia — a place I have such respect for — will soon be joining the Abraham Accords. ... You will be greatly honoring me and you will be greatly honoring all those people that have fought so hard for the Middle East."

Then, he stunned the audience and drew a standing ovation by announcing that he's lifting American sanctions on Syria.

Donald Trump continues his Jacksonian revision of international policy by substituting trade to war. This week, he is in the Gulf where he has managed to sign historic agreements with Saudi Arabia and Qatar, but has still not recognized the Palestinian state.

US President Donald Trump delivered a speech at the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh on May 13. After recalling his speech eight years ago in the same room, in which he urged Muslim states to stop supporting terrorist organizations, he called for trade to be substituted to war. He sharply criticized "nation builders," "neoconservatives," "liberal NGOs," adding that "In the end, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built, and the interventionalists were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand themselves" and praised the vitality of the people of the Greater Middle East.

He said:

"As I have shown time and again, I am ready to end past conflicts and forge new partnerships for a better and more stable world, even if our differences may be very deep.

"In recent years, far too many U.S. presidents have been afflicted by the idea that it would be our duty to examine the souls of foreign leaders and use U.S. policy to dispense justice in place of their sins.

"If the responsible nations of this region seize this moment, if you put aside your differences, and focus on the interests that unite you, then all of humanity will soon be amazed at what they will see here in this geographic center of the world, the spiritual heart of its greatest religions."

The US president has once again called Vladimir Zelensky 'the greatest salesman in the world'.

US President Donald Trump has said he was concerned that billions of dollars were being wasted on aid to Ukraine.

In an interview aired on Friday, Fox News host Bret Baier asked Trump whether he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is an "obstacle to peace" between Moscow and Kiev. Trump instead directed criticism at Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky:

"I had a real rough session with Zelensky because I didn't like what he said. He was not making it easy. And I always said he doesn't have the cards."

He went on to slam the aid sent to Kiev by his predecessor, former President Joe Biden:

"The money is the money. What bothered me - I hated to see the way it was, you know - excuse me - pissed away. I hated to see the cheques for $60 billion. I think Zelensky is the greatest salesman in the world, far better than me. He comes to Washington - he walks out with a hundred million every time.

"Congress is very upset about it. You know, they're saying, where is all this money going?"

Trump went on to say, however, that Zelensky's ability to lobby for American aid has been "shrinking" over time.

France has been trying to subvert democracy in Romania, Euroskeptic presidential candidate George Simion has said ahead of Sunday's runoff vote.

Simion, a critic of the EU who has been banned from entering Ukraine, won the first round of the presidential election rerun on May 4 with more than 40% of the vote.

The rerun was held after Romania's Constitutional Court annulled the results of a vote held in November, in which independent right-wing candidate Calin Georgescu came first with 23%.

The authorities cited "irregularities" in his campaign, as well as intelligence reports alleging Russian interference in the election - claims Moscow has strongly denied. Simion, the leader of the right-wing Alliance for the Union of Romanians, has backed Georgescu and said he could appoint him prime minister if elected.

Did President Putin really change the game by proposing the resumption of negotiations on the proxy war in Ukraine in Istanbul - over three years after the first ones were scotched by NATO?

It's complicated. And depends on which "game" we're talking about.

What the Russian move instantly accomplished was to throw into total disarray the European warmongering Three Stooges (Starmer, BlackRock chancellor, Le Petit Roi) Cocaine Express.

Irrelevant Europe was not even at the table in Istanbul - except via extensive previous briefing of the low-rent, shabby-dressed Ukrainian delegation. That was compounded by the noisy barking threat in the sidelines advocating "more sanctions" to "pressure Russia".

In March 2022 in Istanbul, Kiev could have stopped the war. Every one of us who were in Istanbul at the time could foresee that Kiev would eventually have to be forced to the table all over again.

So in essence we are back to the same negotiation - with the same top Russian negotiator, competent historian Vladimir Medinsky, heading a delegation composed by pros, but with Ukraine now facing over a million dead; deprived of at least four regions - more on the way; what's left of its mineral wealth de facto controlled by the US; and a horrendous black hole that passes for an "economy". We are talking about country 404 territory.

During the negotiations on Friday, Medinsky went straight to the point:

"We don't want war, but we are ready to fight for a year, two, three - as long as it takes. We fought with Sweden for 21 years [the Great Northern War, 1700-1721, as it is known in Russia]. How long are you ready to fight?"

That's the geopolitical/military state of things for Kiev and their "to the last Ukrainian" warmongering backers: either you capitulate, or we're going to hurt you even more.