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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Desperate Acts: Venezuela, Russia, China, Iran - America Lashes Out as Its Empire Falters

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The United States is truly 'off the leash' now. Those who were 'sleeping' before Trump came along and rudely shook them awake are horrified to discover that the US government is an aggressive, imperialistic machine that wants control over vast resources and is prepared to do whatever it takes to reach satiation. The abduction of Nicholas Maduro and Trump's brazen claim to 'now run' the country of Venezuela was followed last week with more seizures of oil tankers, preparations to annex Greenland, threats to bomb Iran, and hints that the US may soon 'run' other countries in 'its backyard'.

Truth be told, however, the US has always been like this. The difference, under Trump, is one of degree, tempo, and the (reduced) extent of destructive 'collateral damage'. Dispensing with carefully-crafted narratives facilitated by CIA 'regime change operatives', Trump is far more inclined to tell it like it is: in a world changing from unipolar to multipolar, he's afraid the US will not only surrender its dominant position to its peer competitors, China especially, but become dominated by them. Hence the urgency for maximum access to, and leverage over, key resources like energy and minerals.


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Trump Abducts Maduro, 'Takes' Venezuela's Oil, Says US 'Will Run' Country

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Can the US just do that? Yes, apparently, it can!

It's regime change, but not quite as we know it. With the democratically-elected leader of Venezuela taken to the USA 'to answer for his crimes', Trump has dropped all pretense and admitted that he wants the US to 'run Venezuela' because he wants American oil companies to return in a big way and supplant all Iranian, Russian and Chinese interests there.

It remains to be seen how exactly the Americans will manage Venezuela 'at-a-distance', but in the meantime it looks like a backroom deal was cut such that the Venezuelan military stood down and let American soldiers conduct their raid. The ramifications for Venezuela, as well as the larger geopolitical ramifications, are potentially huge.


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: TPUSA's AmFest 2025 & The Battle For Christians' Souls

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The annual Turning Point USA 'America Fest' took place this week, complete with big name appearances from Right-wing pundits, pastors and politicians, celebrity cameos and gaudy spectacle. To the organization's credit, however, it honored Charlie Kirk's legacy by including Tucker Carlson on the roster - the very thing the organization's founder was pressured by "Jewish donors" to "cancel" during the summer.

As something of a 'finale' to the 'American conservative calendar', AmFest2025 further accentuated the chasm that has been opening all year long up on the Right between those for and against 'special status' for Israel. Besides being a political dispute, this is also a theological one, with voices on each side articulating the merits, or otherwise, of maintaining belief in the peculiar evangelical interpretation of Christianity as 'Judeo-christianity'.

Second hour of this NewsReal: The fallout from last week's atrocity at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, has seen the Canberra government come under intense pressure from certain quarters to outlaw anti-Semitism - defined as including criticism of the Israeli government. How that would stop ISIS terrorists from attacking Jews is anyone's guess, but maybe the point isn't to stop ISIS, but to stop you from 'noticing'?


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Oil Tanker Attacks on 'Shadow Fleets', Massacre of Jews in Sydney

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An Iranian/Venezuelan "shadow fleet" oil tanker seized by the US military somewhere off the coast of Venezuela. Five oil tankers, "part of the Russian shadow fleet," blown up, sunk, or badly damaged in the Black Sea and off the west African coast. "Ukraine" claims 3 of the latter, but who's behind the other two attacks? And is it mere coincidence that the US government has resorted to 'piracy' at a time when the Kiev regime has begun sinking tankers?

Today, a mass shooting targeted Jews gathered at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, to mark Hanukkah, leaving 15 of them dead and many more injured. The deadliest mass shooting of Jews anywhere since the massacre by a right-winger at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018, the Bondi Beach attack appears to have been carried out by two Australian Muslims of Pakistani origin. Was this spontaneous violence motivated by 'revenge for Gaza'? If so, it comes at the worst possible time for free speech in Australia.

Finally, rare guilty confession from the British government this week: "Yes, we have active-duty soldiers in Ukraine, and yes, we know that 'Covid vaccines' are dangerous, but no, you can't see our data on this!"


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: New US National Strategy, the End of Global Hegemony, and Euro Delusions

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"A pretty big turnaround," the Russian government called it. "Aligned with Russia," is how Atlanticist media is describing it. The updated US National Security Strategy is, on paper, something of a 'clean break' with the the United States' past . No longer seeking 'full-spectrum dominance' and stressing the impossibility of being 'policeman for the entire world', the US outlook on global affairs codifies Trump's vision of refocusing on 'the near-abroad', namely the Americas. It also explicitly calls for ending NATO expansion and seeking 'win-win outcomes' with US peer and near-peer competitors.

Timely then, given the sharp spat last week between US and EU officials over censorship and the crackdown on political dissent in Europe, which erupted when the European Commission decided to fine Elon Musk's X platform for not agreeing to quietly censor European citizens on behalf of the Euro regime. The year 2025 is thus bookended by a second charged 'debate' between JD Vance and Musk and European leaders over the what becomes of the EU without its 'US guarantor'.


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Why Does Trump Want to Regime Change Venezuela?

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If it's not really about the drugs, and if it's not really the socialism that bothers him, why is Trump preparing to launch yet another American regime change war against Venezuela? The recent election of 'democratic socialist' Zohran Mamdani as New York City mayor is nowhere near as 'shocking' as right-wing influencers would like you to believe, and Trump demonstrated that by inviting him to the White House for a convivial meeting last week.

The US economy (and certainly its urban social values) is already rather 'socialist' in many respects. So what then is Trump's beef with the 'Chavista' regime of Venezuelan leader Nicholas Maduro? Why is Trump strongly signalling alignment with the CIA - his only real enemy - on this harebrained, and potentially massively destructive, foreign (mis)adventure?


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Trump Peace Plan Shows Ukraine War's Still a Racket

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Trump's 28-point peace plan for Ukraine was announced last week. The Euros say it's "capitulation to Russia," Kiev says it's under pressure from the White House to accept it, "or else," and the Russians say they'll "consider it." Though more realistic than anything proffered by Western leaders thus far, it will likely fail because entrenched money interests want to keep the war going.

Back in the US, Congressman Thomas Massie's Epstein Files Transparency Act has been passed surprisingly quickly. So, a 'win' for MAGA, despite Trump's months-long efforts to kill the bill. And yet, unexpectedly, Trump loyalist Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced her sudden retirement from national politics, stating, "our government is broken beyond repair."

A bad omen for 'Epstein transparency' and thus the remainder of Trump's term. Is MAGA dead in the water?


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Epstein Files - Trump Desperate to Put 'America First' Genie Back in Bottle

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They say dead men tell no tales. Not true in this case. Epstein continues looming large over Trump's second term, with The Epstein Files™ - and specifically the demand to publish them, combined with the efforts to selectively 'massage' and 'tailor' them - practically dictating the schedule and tempo of US domestic politics. Left and Right have come together to force their release, squeezing Trump in the middle, who wants everyone to forget all about them.

Most assume that that's because Trump himself is personally implicated in them. More likely, Israel is, so Trump wants to placate Israeli paranoia in order to focus on making 'big beautiful peace deals' and avoiding another smear campaign like Russiagate, and thus the political chaos of his first term. He thinks he's 'doing MAGA' the only way it can be done, but in the meantime his base is 'noticing' an awful lot and wants the US to completely decouple from Israel.

The divergence is becoming extreme. Can the center hold?


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Fed-surrection - Jan 6th Pipe-Bomber... Was a Female COP?

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In a development that should surprise no one, a Blaze investigation has discovered the (probable) identity of the person placing the pipe-bombs around the US Capitol building on the eve of the January 6th "insurrection" - a female United States Capitol Police officer (who subsequently joined the CIA). The mainstream media will ignore this, as will the Feds will, but at least we're clear on one thing: the terrorists are those in government.

Meanwhile, a year on since Trump's re-election, how's the 'golden era' going? A record-long US government shutdown, record-high grocery prices, far-left candidates winning local elections, and sabre-rattling against the US' Caribbean neighbors. Everybody's feeling it. MAGA? Meh!


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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: Neutralize Tucker! Berserker Reactions to Carlson-Fuentes Interview

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His surprise appearance on Tucker Carlson's show is something of a 'marker event' in the meteoric rise of polemic right-wing commentator Nicholas Fuentes to American political prominence. In the end it was a civil conversation fleshing out background to his controversial takes, and general agreement on what's been taking place in the US recently: growing, significant public backlash against Israel's wars and outsized influence in American politics. So, what pretty much everyone's talking about!

But, for some reason, THESE TWO PEOPLE are apparently 'strictly verboten' from being allowed to meet, much less discuss the 'elephant in the room'. The 'guilty flee where none doth pursue', so the extreme - and childishly inane - reactions of mainstream pundits and politicians betray a sense of 'doom' on their part regarding this 'culture war' shift in the USA. How will 'the enforcers' respond? In their customary manner? Or do their regular tactics no longer work?


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