﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Littoria]]></title><description><![CDATA[A radical publication featuring news, analysis, culture, and history. ]]></description><link>https://littoria.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!A9rb!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F900659d7-2a59-4613-b1ec-801fff3d479a_1280x1280.png</url><title>Littoria</title><link>https://littoria.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:54:54 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://littoria.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[littoria@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[littoria@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[littoria@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[littoria@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Audio: On Loyalists and Nationalists In Northern Ireland]]></title><description><![CDATA[An Audio reading of &#8220;On Loyalists and Nationalists In Northern Ireland.&#8221;]]></description><link>https://littoria.substack.com/p/audio-on-loyalists-and-nationalists</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://littoria.substack.com/p/audio-on-loyalists-and-nationalists</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:48:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201901176/d237af9be8bd5eff3a5c14131b60d82e.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An Audio reading of &#8220;<a href="https://littoria.substack.com/p/on-loyalists-and-nationalists-in">On Loyalists and Nationalists In Northern Ireland</a>.&#8221;<br><br>If you enjoyed this article, please consider becoming a paid subscriber or leaving a tip at <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/tmst">Buy Me A Coffee</a>.  <br></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Loyalists and Nationalists In Northern Ireland ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, footage of an African migrant brutally stabbing a defenseless disabled white man on the streets of Belfast went viral on social media.]]></description><link>https://littoria.substack.com/p/on-loyalists-and-nationalists-in</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://littoria.substack.com/p/on-loyalists-and-nationalists-in</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:02:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/57b6e5b6-8941-432d-9eb2-f94296e66abb_829x579.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Earlier this week, footage of an African migrant brutally stabbing a defenseless disabled white man on the streets of Belfast went viral on social media. Stephen Ogilvie, likely a Protestant judging from his Scottish surname, was saved from further harm when a group of Catholic Gaels intervened to beat the Sudanese predator with a Hurling stick. <br><br>The incident was followed by an avalanche of internet outrage as well as a brief spurt of rioting targeting foreigners in Loyalist Protestant enclaves, with reports of minor Irish Republican participation. <br><br>Upon hearing the news, British and American conservatives have responded rather sympathetically to the Loyalists. But rather than focusing on advancing a conversation about mass immigration &#8212; the Sudanese migrant was naturalized by the very British <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2026/06/10/top-reform-figures-charge-immigration-belfast-suspect-entered-uk-28719668/">Conservatives claiming to oppose immigration</a> &#8212; the Anglosphere right are using Irish nationalist <em><a href="https://archive.is/MU4W1">lack of participation</a></em> in the Protestant riots as an opportunity to try and discredit the Irish cause on the grounds that it prefers foreigners to natives out of &#8220;third worldism&#8221; (<a href="https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/2065252431097663594?s=20">aka anti-Zionis</a>m).  <br><br>There are three reasons for why Sinn Fein and the IRA kept their distance from the tumult. The first is that Loyalism is not a &#8220;white nationalist&#8221; philosophy conducive to inter-ethnic solidarity, but rather an intensely concentrated form of Negative Ethnocentrism that virulently rejects all connections to the rest of the European family. The favorite slogan of Ulster&#8217;s radical &#8220;Billy-Boys&#8221; (named after the <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/2015-04-22/ty-article/.premium/banker-who-helped-william-win-england-dies/0000017f-e5bb-df5f-a17f-ffff6ea40000">Jewish-funded</a> Dutch conqueror of Britain, William of Orange) is <a href="https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137453945_10">&#8220;Nobody Likes Us And We Don&#8217;t Care.&#8221;</a> <br><br>To be blunt, groups like the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and Ulster Defence Association (UDA) are an irregular force with a nonsensical political ideology, which is why they are as likely to <a href="https://www.thedetail.tv/articles/polish-woman-questions-psni-handling-of-threat-to-burn-down-her-south-belfast-home">burn down the house of a Polish woman</a> and <em>more</em> likely to instigate riots against native Catholics than they are to target the more recent black or Arab migrants. <br><br>Protestant violence towards Catholics is an ongoing problem by no means relegated to the past. Just last year, the UDA <a href="https://www.irishecho.com/2025/9/outrage-over-intimidation-of-catholic-families"> embarked on a campaign to violently evict</a> Irish Catholics from a mixed-residency community within walking distance of the recent stabbing. Every year, Ulstermen make a spectacle of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleventh_Night">burning the Irish flag</a>, even though it symbolizes peace (white) between Protestants (orange) and Catholic Gaels (Green). Naturally, Irish nationalists have no interest in teaming up with groups that are placing them and their family members under a state of permanent physical and psychological siege. <br><br>The second factor for why the Irish stay away is that Ulster paramilitary groups have always been inextricably linked to the gay pedophile infested <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2014/jul/06/leon-brittan-dossier-cover-up-fears">Judeo-British deep state</a>. <br><br>Many observers have praised the Belfast rioters for their excellent  operation security &#8212; solid coordination, masks, gloves, all black outfits and <a href="https://x.com/arisroussinos/status/2064469827742298505?s=20">shutting down &#8220;citizen journalists&#8221;</a>  who create criminal liabilities. By contrast, the Southampton uprising in mother England, triggered by the murder of Henry Nowak, was makeshift, disorganized, and led to multiple arrests. <br><br>But there&#8217;s a catch. The gap in hooligan professionalization is due to Loyalist groups having generations of accumulated knowledge and training on how to operate illicitly provided by the <a href="https://wrp.org.uk/news/inquiry-into-mi5-death-squads-in-north-of-ireland/">British military and MI5</a>, who keep them around in case Irish Catholics decide to stop playing the parliamentary game. According to one 2012 British parliamentary commission report, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-20708070">85% of intelligence</a> used by Protestant groups in terrorist attacks against Catholics came from MI5, the Royal Ulster Constabulary, and army intelligence.  Underground Protestant groups enjoy a degree of tactical protection from the Northern Irish political establishment, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp95vz8pyr7o">primarily the DUP</a>, that Englishmen in England do not get.   <br><br>While some Loyalist organizing is independent and organic, British intelligence services have always kept them under control through a variety of nefarious tactics. For example, an inquiry into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kincora_Boys%27_Home">Kincora Boys Home scandal</a> found that MI5 operatives transformed a foster home for neglected Belfast children into a homosexual pedophile brothel. British intelligence agents photographed <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/kincora-lord-mountbatten-mi5-william-mcgrath-and-tara/id1620386537?i=1000709830353">Unionist politicians</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McKeague">Loyalist commanders</a> as they tortured and raped young boys.  The compromised individuals were blackmailed by the UK&#8217;s security services and utilized as informants and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gladio">GLADIO-style agents</a> in the war against Irish nationalists.  <br><br>Consequently, Irishmen who may sympathize with Loyalists on immigration see the latter&#8217;s corresponding balaclava groups as being widely compromised and entry points for infiltration. <br><br>The final reason for lack of Catholic participation in anti-immigrant activism (aside from Northern Ireland being 96% white) is, as critics won&#8217;t let you forget, Sinn Fein&#8217;s weakness on immigration. <br><br>This dilemma is rooted in the organization&#8217;s misguided long-term strategy for uniting Ireland. <br><br>Irish Republicanism is the plight of a small nation defending itself against a major power. For this reason, Irish nationalists have always courted allies abroad, from the Spanish in the 17th century to the German Nazis in the 1930s, to form broad fronts against Britain. <br><br>During the 1960s the IRA embraced Marxism-Leninism in an attempt to cultivate diplomatic and financial support from the Soviet Union for their mostly political, rather than armed, strategy. This was followed by a more ethnic nationalist, Catholic, and militaristic turn under the Provisional IRA in the 1970s, which received training, funding and weapons from Muhammar Qaddaffi&#8217;s Libya and Yasser Arafat&#8217;s Palestinian Liberation Organization. <br><br>By the 1980s and 90s, the Irish Republican movement had found itself alone in a unipolar, American-led world. To adapt, nationalists sought to lean into the large and politically active Irish-American diaspora. Gerry Adams, president of Sinn Fein from 1983 to 2018, once <a href="https://www.irishcentral.com/news/irish-america-holds-key-to-united-ireland-49381897-237648771">declared that</a> &#8220;Irish-Americans hold the key to a united Ireland.&#8221; <br><br>Irish-Americans are generally assimilated Americans affiliated to the Democratic Party machine, in large part due to their disproportionate involvement with organized labor and public sector work. The Irish nationalist movement&#8217;s <a href="https://www.irishcentral.com/news/politics/friends-of-sinn-fein-raised-1-million-2022">overdependence</a> on funding from the US and political access to the Democratic party in hopes of achieving leverage over the United Kingdom has forced their leaders to align themselves with some of <a href="https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/insight/2024/10/13/smyth-irish-american-voters-biden-harris-kennedy/stories/202410130018">the toxic &#8220;woke&#8221; politics</a> of the Judeo-American left. The Irish left is notorious for indulging imported and astroturfed Sorosite Yank fads such as &#8220;Black Lives Matter,&#8221; &#8220;Trans Rights,&#8221; and a localized version of &#8220;Abolish ICE.&#8221;  <br><br>In addition to this, left-wing nationalists have also embraced the European Union as both a way to make Ireland wealthy and a cudgel to use against the post-Brexit UK. But there are signs that Sinn Fein is starting to reconsider its support for Brussels&#8217; totalizing influence. The party is distinguishing itself by <a href="https://sinnfein.ie/news/government-decision-to-opt-ireland-into-eu-migration-pact-and-hand-over-decision-making-power-to-brussels-was-wrong-mary-lou-mcdonald-td/">firmly opposing</a> the new <a href="https://www.rte.ie/news/2026/0612/1578019-migration-pact-eu-explainer/">EU migration pact</a> that obligates Ireland to re-settle non-Europeans in its territory. As multi-polarity becomes a reality, small nations like Ireland have an opportunity to forge ties to new sovereignist powers like Russia and China, and leverage their geopolitical location to play off all the superpowers against one another to get the best deal possible. <br><br>Most of Sinn Fein&#8217;s right-wing opponents inside of Ireland are not any better. Figures like <a href="https://www.jns.org/antisemitism/could-mcgregors-israel-support-cost-him-irish-presidency">Connor McGregor</a> and Herrmann Kelly are <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5535245-ufc-fighter-mcgregor-trump-matchup/">Trump-grifters</a> and <a href="https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/david-cronin/posing-patriots-irelands-far-right-cheers-israel">Zionist assets</a>. Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s right-hand man, <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/1c574f10-441b-4983-865e-5fa6529ffe08?syn-25a6b1a6=1">Steve Bannon</a>, has been trying to export American Right-Wingism to Ireland for a few years now, but has largely failed. This is not because Irish people are disinterested in nativist nationalism &#8212; polls show Irishmen want to stop immigration &#8212; but instead because Jewish-American <em><a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Finkelthink">Finklethink</a></em> is perceived as stupid, immoral, or a foreign influence operation by the man on the street. <br><br>For this reason, right-wingers in both Britain and America flip-flop between sympathy for Irish nationalists, who they see militantly opposing immigration in the streets of the Republic, to spite when Irish people choose to boycott Israel or roll their eyes at populist scammers in &#8220;Make Ireland Great Again&#8221; hats.  <br><br>Out of this love-hate relationship emerges the phenomenon of attempting to draw support for the Israel-worshipping Belfast Protestant cause from the global right-wing. <br><br>This is doomed to fail. Ultimately, institutions that British Loyalists claim to be fighting for, such as the Presbyterian Church, <a href="https://www.newsletter.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/asylum-seekers-one-of-the-best-opportunities-our-church-has-got-to-fulfil-its-christian-mission-says-presbyterian-report-4672165">are rabidly pro-migration and active in re-settling refugees</a> in Northern Ireland. King Charles III, whose crown Loyalists pledge to defend to the death, is an outspoken <a href="https://capx.co/the-coronation-showed-charles-is-a-truly-modern-multicultural-monarch">anti-white </a><em><a href="https://capx.co/the-coronation-showed-charles-is-a-truly-modern-multicultural-monarch">libtard</a></em>. As for the British state, not only is it a proven enemy of the entirety of the white race, it treats its Protestant subjects in Northern Ireland with special disdain. Protestant areas regularly rank among the most <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-26855040">economically deprived and least educated</a> in the entire United Kingdom. <br><br>In other words, Ulstermen &#8212; descendants of Northern Englishmen and Lowland Scots sent to ethnically cleanse Irish Catholics &#8212; are stranded on an island with no sign that help from London is coming. This could of course change as the Jewish-controlled British and American governments search for ways to punish the anti-Israel Irish. But for now, Loyalism is a sunken cost fallacy grounded on spooky stories about modern Ireland, such as the belief that Gaels in Dublin are waiting for them with a guard of IRA men who will force them to bow before Pope Leo or make them forget English and speak Gaelic instead. <br><br>There&#8217;s no doubt that Sinn Fein has been very misguided on migration questions in recent years, but to use this to try and exacerbate local sectarian conflict is foul. We all hope that one day the orange and the green can put their differences aside to unite as brothers in white against the Washington, London, and Brussels facilitated Great Replacement. But let that dream come true in a united Ireland. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://littoria.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><strong>Littoria is a reader-supported publication. If you enjoyed this article, please consider becoming a paid subscriber or leaving a tip at <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/tmst">Buy Me A Coffee</a>. </strong></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weekly Meander: Counter-Jihad For Generation Z ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Weekly Meander: Counter-Jihad For Generation Z]]></description><link>https://littoria.substack.com/p/weekly-meander-counter-jihad-for</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://littoria.substack.com/p/weekly-meander-counter-jihad-for</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:26:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201354868/28137be1e638957db3434f3467c67fbe.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Weekly Meander: Counter-Jihad For Generation Z <br><br>&#8212;My thoughts on the Remigration Summit, and the keynote speakers, some who<em> don&#8217;t </em>support Remigration of non-Europeans but do support Zionism. <br><br>&#8212;Why nationalist groups must reject capitalism, and why Thatcherite &#8220;national conservative&#8221; populist parties will always be led by Crassus style scammers and sellouts. <br><br>&#8212;How the Post-Modern totalitarianism of liberal democracy, where nothing is real except for power, makes authentic nationalism difficult to organize, and why we need to find solutions to this problem. <br><br><strong>If you enjoyed this segment, please consider becoming a paid subscriber or send a tip at <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/tmst">Buy Me A Coffee</a>. </strong></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Audio Version: The End of Pax Judaica Or The Beginning of World War III?]]></title><description><![CDATA[A radical publication featuring news, analysis, culture, and history.]]></description><link>https://littoria.substack.com/p/audio-reading-the-end-of-pax-judaica</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://littoria.substack.com/p/audio-reading-the-end-of-pax-judaica</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:44:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c4fc9d42-f10e-445a-b34a-d5afe953c213_880x495.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="native-audio-embed" data-component-name="AudioPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;label&quot;:null,&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;a119237f-cfb4-4422-aab1-8dad4bf0620b&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:944.4049,&quot;downloadable&quot;:true,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://littoria.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><strong>Littoria is a reader-supported publication. If you enjoyed this article, please consider becoming a paid subscriber or leaving a tip at <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/tmst">Buy Me A Coffee</a>.</strong></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The End of Pax Judaica Or The Beginning of World War III? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The seeming conclusion of the Iran war, dubbed a humiliating defeat for the soon to be fully integrated US and Israeli militaries, is more than another one of Washington&#8217;s failed Middle Eastern adventures (the sixth in 25 years).]]></description><link>https://littoria.substack.com/p/the-end-of-pax-judaica-or-the-beginning</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://littoria.substack.com/p/the-end-of-pax-judaica-or-the-beginning</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:01:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5fa8683e-e7da-480a-b213-2235d15f6954_880x495.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The seeming conclusion of the Iran war, dubbed a humiliating defeat for the soon to be <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/us-house-rejects-bid-to-remove-us-israel-military-integration-from-defense-bill/3957096">fully integrated US and Israeli militaries</a>, is more than another one of Washington&#8217;s failed Middle Eastern adventures (the sixth in 25 years). This time, <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2026/05/iran-war-trump-losing/687094/">regime insiders</a> are warning that the end of <em>Pax Judaica</em>, the world order established by the Allied victory in 1945 and reinforced with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, is finally here. <br><br>On one side of the global conflict to decide the fate of the world is the Washington consensus, represented by its G7 client states as well as Israel and Ukraine, which costumes itself as normative liberalism while granting sovereign power to a network of Jewish supremacist billionaires and their lackeys. Examples of how this works is the British Labour government&#8217;s ban on ideological fellow traveler Hasan Piker for his criticism of Israel or the high priests of human rights in the Biden administration serving as accomplices in the Gaza genocide.  <br><br>On the other side are the revisionist powers of CRINK &#8212; China, Russia, Iran and North Korean &#8212; who assert the primacy of the state over money and exercise power openly. As civilizational powers, CRINK nations support a pluralistic world order governed by <em>realpolitik</em>, in contrast to the liberal democracies who declare all nations outside of its institutions (NATO, IMF, etc) as illegitimate and thus fair targets for economic and military violence. For this reason, the hard core of CRINK often finds fair weather friends among the numerous middle and small powers who would prefer to pursue their own national interests over Washingtons, such as Turkey. Multipolarity in action. <br><br>A direct war between these two competing forms of geopolitics is <em>fait accompli</em>. In the last few years, we have seen this clash take on kinetic forms &#8212; Russia-Ukraine, US-Israel and Iran &#8212; as well as economic clashes, such as the trade war with China.<br><br>Most neutral observers will conclude that the Ukraine war (especially the failure of economic sanctions against Russia) and the US trade war with China represent strategic defeats for <em>Pax Judaica</em>. While disappointing, the rulers of the West believe they can handle this. <br><br>What is unacceptable, however, is the situation Donald Trump has left in Iran. The demonstration by the Iranians in the Strait of Hormuz, along with the <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/analysis-finds-damage-u-bases-094949922.html">obliteration of American military bases</a> throughout the Middle East, has left the mothership &#8212; Israel &#8212; in one of the worst security positions in its history. Over a decade of horse trading with the Gulf Arabs, hoping to bribe them into signing the Abraham Accords, is now in jeopardy as Iran emerges from the war a geopolitical power. If the leaked details of the Iran negotiated settlement are accurate, and Donald Trump signs off, Iran will come away the new masters of West Asia. <br><br>Credit where credit is due. The will power and rediscovered unity of the Iranian people, produced by American and Israeli atrocities, as well as their ability to improvise and adapt in terrible conditions won them the day. Yet, CRINK is also an important component of this story, as China and Russia provided crucial <a href="https://mei.edu/policymemo/russias-wartime-support-for-iran/">satellite intelligence, weapons and technology</a> that Iran used to expose American and Israeli forces as paper tigers and land devastating blows inside Gulf states to punish their collaborators. <br><br>This relationship now appears to be altering the balance of Israel&#8217;s war in Lebanon. Entering the war, Israel had every reason to believe it could finally eliminate Hezbollah once and for all. These hopes have been dashed in the last three months, with Hezbollah&#8217;s full integration with the IRGC command and control structure. Most importantly, Hezbollah has mysteriously obtained the latest in Russian FPV and fiber optic drone technology &#8212; either directly from Russia or through an Iranian intermediary &#8212; and is <a href="https://www.mintpressnews.com/hezbollahs-cheap-fpv-drones-are-making-israels-high-tech-military-obsolete/290927/">inflicting massive casualties</a> on vulnerable advancing Israeli troops and their vehicles, reducing the Israelis to erratic air strikes against random civilians in Beirut in frustration. The strategic initiative has been recouped by Hezbollah, and now the Shia group is <a href="https://www.axios.com/2026/06/03/israel-lebanon-ceasefire-hezbollah-us">setting the terms for any ceasefire</a> , refusing to allow the IDF to consolidate an inch of Lebanese land. <br><br>The role of Russia and China, as well as more neutral periphery powers like Pakistan and Turkey, as background players undermining the US-Israeli effort cannot be underestimated. The Trump administration&#8217;s plan to blockade the blockade on Hormuz and place Iran under siege <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-pakistan-turkey-russia-caspian-china/33751260.html">has been thwarted by Russia and Turkey</a> opening up land and sea corridors for them to obtain weapons and resources through the Caspian sea and overland routes in Central Asia. Trump has gone so far as to threaten Oman, the neutral Switzerland of the region, for their willingness to engage in talks with Iran on the future management of the Strait of Hormuz. <br><br>As the Jewish Neo-Cons predicted, Russia&#8217;s entry into Ukraine and now Iran&#8217;s potential victory are emboldening more nations, including NATO treaty allies like Turkey, to pursue their own interests regardless of what Israeli cabal behind Trump thinks. The initial plan from the Mossad and CIA to topple the Iranian regime with an armed Kurd uprising was <a href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/defense/artc-mossad-and-cia-covert-operation-armed-kurdish-militias-to-topple-iranian-regime-report">allegedly thwarted</a> last minute by Turkey, who asserted itself against America and promised to respond to any attempt to militarize the Kurds.  <br>On the nuclear front, Russia is actively aiding and deepening Iran&#8217;s access to nuclear capabilities by signing a deal to construct eight new power plants. Moscow is also handsomely profiting from the blockade on the Strait of Hormuz, with <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russias-oil-gas-revenue-seen-up-39-yy-may-thanks-iran-war-2026-05-20/">oil revenues up 40%</a> , partially due to enemies like Britain<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/20/ukraine-war-briefing-britain-to-buy-diesel-and-jet-fuel-made-from-russian-crude-oil"> being forced to buy Russian diesel and jet fuel</a> at a markup to avoid a crisis. China, which has its own bilateral agreement with Iran, is allowed to use the Strait of Hormuz at its leisure, which defeats any incentive to follow <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/world/asia/china-iran-us-trump-hormuz.html">America&#8217;s sole contingency plan</a> of begging China to get it reopened. <br><br>The rising revisionist powers have thus paralyzed the warmongers in Washington and Israel, developing ways to beat their sanctions, match their intelligence capabilities, and most importantly, conduct warfare on a shoestring budget. Perhaps the most alarming takeaway from this war for Washington is the ability of new weapons, often built from parts available on the internet, to <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2026/5/23/missiles-to-munitions-does-the-us-risk-running-out-of-key-weapons">grind down</a> stockpiles of gold-plated, difficult to replace munitions and platforms provided by America&#8217;s corrupt for-profit military industrial base. Iran&#8217;s latest innovation, to inflict pain on the attacking Zionist liberal plutocracies in their homes through strategic denial of vital trade hubs, grants the once cornered nation a new form of escalatory dominance. On Iran, USrael has no choice but to do what Trump does with his many failed businesses: declare bankruptcy and go back to the drawing board. <br><br>The intelligent response to the reality of the situation is for the United States to manage its decline and prepare for a world of mutually beneficial bilateral partnerships instead of vassals corralled for the convenience of Wall Street. The problem is that this is not possible, as the United States &#8212; along with other &#8220;first world&#8221; liberal plutocracies &#8212; has lost much of its historic ability to build or innovate. The industrial base that won World War II and the state directed Research and Development complex that won the Cold War has been replaced with <a href="https://www.ai-supremacy.com/p/the-ai-bubble-grows-ponzi-scheme-symptoms-to-meet-compute-demands">data center ponzi schemes</a> and stock buybacks. Gentile Neo-Conservative intellectual Christopher Caldwell portrays Britain positively for consensually <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/opinion/iran-us-empire.html">reducing its imperial scope</a> to avoid overextension, while noting that America is doing the opposite. If America was run for the benefit of Americans, it could take half of its chips home and retire to rule the Western Hemisphere.   <br><br>But all of Washington&#8217;s latest maneuvers suggest that delusions of trying to sever the Gordian Knot instead have taken hold in the State Department, where non-Zionist voices of reason like Joe Kent, Tulsi Gabbard, and others have either been forced out of the conversation or had their roles minimized. <br><br>Three new developments point to Washington&#8217;s willingness to plunge the world into war. <br><br>The first is the recent decision to provide an additional <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-congress-aid-trump-discharge-petition-c01c9e068b63d195d26e3134ed586a71">$9 billion dollars of aid to Ukraine</a>, certain to be signed by Trump despite the press&#8217; baseless Russiagate intrigue, so that Kiev can hire more mercenaries and obtain weapons so they can continue the war in perpetuity. This is on top of the European Union/NATO&#8217;s <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-formally-approves-ukraine-loan-20th-sanctions-package-against-russia-2026-04-23/">$105 billion dollar cash injection</a> into the imploded Ukrainian economy and military passed in April. <br><br>The second development is Washington&#8217;s year-long campaign to force Europe <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/11/27/2025/europe-quietly-prepares-for-a-war-with-russia">to transition into a war economy</a> in order to stage a conflict with Russia when the time is right. <br><br>NATO military planners are preparing to attack Russia <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-ukraine-russia-ready-for-war-2030/">by 2030</a>. According to leaked plans, American-ruled Europe will draft its young men and <a href="https://united24media.com/latest-news/germany-drafts-secret-1200-page-war-plan-to-rush-800000-nato-troops-east-13815">surge nearly a million troops to </a>Russia&#8217;s borders. NATO generals <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/03/nato-meets-tv-and-film-makers-causing-concerns-it-seeks-propaganda">have begun meeting</a> with movie producers in Hollywood, Britain, Germany and France to produce propaganda films and TV shows designed to whet the <a href="https://archive.is/UO0YV">nervous</a> Western European public&#8217;s appetite for bloodshed through manufactured jingoism. <br><br>A parallel development is occurring in Washington&#8217;s main Pacific territories, <a href="https://news.cgtn.com/news/2026-04-23/Japan-s-accelerated-remilitarization-is-a-fact-and-a-reality-1MzB5RdSWVa/p.html">Japan</a> and <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/12/03/oyew-d03.html">South Korea,</a> who are remilitarizing at a breakneck speed in preparation for a potential war with China. <br><br>The third development, likely to be deployed against both Russia and Iran, is the America&#8217;s attempt to transform Armenia into the next Ukraine. <br><br>Last February, JD Vance concluded a <a href="https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2026/02/13/vance-visit-to-armenia-and-azerbaijan-signals-u-s-push-into-region-dominated-by-russia/">$9 billion dollar</a> investment in Armenia&#8217;s nuclear power. Also inked was a contract to provide American weapons to the country. <br><br>Most importantly, the US is offering Armenia, a close Russian ally since the 19th century, <a href="https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/armenia-the-next-ukraine">membership in the European Union</a> in exchange for breaking off all ties to Moscow. Just as with the Ukraine, the prospect of the European Union taking on yet another mouth to feed is remote, yet Brussels and Washington are still cynically dangling the prospect before the Armenians. Through a highly developed network of foreign NGOs, whose financial and operational inner workings are treated like a guarded state secret in Armenia, the country&#8217;s youth is being reprogramed in an anti-Russian, pro-US direction. <br><br>The Kremlin is already foreseeing another Ukraine-style crisis on its Caucasian flank. Vladimir Putin has threatened to sanction Armenia if it continues down its pro-American, pro-NATO path. Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, who is <a href="https://alphanews.am/en/this-visit-shows-support-for-pashinyan-expert-on-cia-deputy-directors-visit-to-armenia/">handled</a> by Deputy CIA Director David Cohen, has <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/armenias-election-test-pashinyans-peace-drive-after-war-defeat-2026-06-04/">Washington engineering his re-election bid</a> in two days. This election has not garnered much attention, but could be pivotal in producing yet another major world conflict. <br><br>Additionally, an American foothold in Armenia could provide new options for attempting to de-stabilize Iran, another long term ally of the Armenian people. <br><br>All things considered, it&#8217;s clear that the American empire will not follow the path of Britain or the Soviet Union and go quietly. Without a drastic change in world-history, Europe is on track for yet another exterminatory war that could also spill over into Asia. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside The 2026 World Cup Part II: Showcasing America]]></title><description><![CDATA[From its inception, soccer has operated as a white European led cultural good shared with the world to foster good will through athletics.]]></description><link>https://littoria.substack.com/p/inside-the-2026-world-cup-part-ii</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://littoria.substack.com/p/inside-the-2026-world-cup-part-ii</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 06:38:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4ce3b82c-adbf-43d7-9c09-49f3e828fe56_770x385.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From its inception, soccer has operated as a white European led cultural good shared with the world to foster good will through athletics. The spirit of the &#8220;beautiful game&#8221; is articulated under the United Kingdom&#8217;s 2025 Football Governance Act, which regulates the sport as a form of national heritage, mandating financial transparency and responsibility from owners, as well as enshrining the popular input of fans on matters ranging from changing a team&#8217;s names to ticket prices. <br><br>The sport is currently undergoing a revolution under Gianni Infantino&#8217;s pro-American tenure at FIFA as we approach the 2026 World Cup. From inside FIFA&#8217;s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jul/08/fifa-trump-tower-office-new-york-city-world-cup">new office inside Trump Tower</a>, an artistic, athletic and patriotic international spectacle has been transformed into a crass consumerist racket.  <br><strong><br>Financial Vampirism <br><br></strong>The most controversial aspect of the 2026 World Cup so far has been the obscene prices for tickets and associated accommodations compared to previous tournaments. <br><br>FIFA&#8217;s Infantino has countered criticism by citing the &#8220;When in Rome&#8230;&#8221; defense, blaming the American entertainment industry norm of NFL stadiums heavy on VIP seats, a thriving Wall Street led ticket scalping market, and the largely unregulated &#8220;market innovation&#8221; of dynamic pricing. <br><br>Under the guidance of the 2026 FIFA World Cup Task Force, led by Rudy Giuliani&#8217;s son and Donald Trump himself, Infantino has found a welcoming home for his insatiable greed within the American cultural normalization of extracting the maximum while giving as little as possible in return. <br><br>New in 2026 is FIFA&#8217;s reseller policy. The first batch of tickets were sold in a lottery directly to fans already at a massive markup compared to Russia and Qatar, but a large percentage of these tickets are being given to the professional scalpers operating on FIFA&#8217;s official platform as well as private equity middlemen like LiveNation/Ticketmaster. This policy of running the pockets of visitors is exclusive to America, since under both <a href="https://www.goal.com/en-us/news/world-cup-resale-tickets-information/blta98fd2cf01ecfd44">Mexican</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DYB-HHDnB0D/">Canadian</a> law markets ban this style of profiteering and only allow resale at face-value. The official endorsement of scalping amounts to tampering with demand and risks underattended games by charging <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/worldcup/2026/05/20/fifa-world-cup-dynamic-pricing-tickets-2026/90157443007/">10s of thousands to millions of dollars</a> for tickets to games in exchange for FIFA getting a 30% cut of the resale value. <br><br>International fans have responded with exasperation. Both large enterprises and private individuals specializing in treating event tickets as speculative assets and implementing &#8220;dynamic pricing&#8221; is seen as completely normal in America, the land of the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/concert-tickets-prices-expensive-cafb8dd1">&#8220;$1,000 concert ticket,&#8221;</a> but this criminal practice is either strictly regulated or outright banned in much of the world, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/sep/03/european-commission-to-investigate-ticketmasters-dynamic-pricing">especially in South America and Europe</a>, which will make up the bulk of attendees. <br><br>At the 2018 World Cup in Russia and 2022 in Qatar, as in Canada and Mexico during this tournament, resellers had to operate through official FIFA portals that banned inflated pricing, with individual scalpers facing serious criminal penalties in both countries. Fans fear that Infantino&#8217;s 2026 shift to a &#8220;Super Bowl&#8221; turbo-consumerist model that caters exclusively to the wealthy and corporate entities could be permanent, ending access to the sport for ordinary people going forward.  <br><strong><br>Stadium Rentals and the Epstein Network </strong><br><br>The 2018 United Bid was chaired by Robert Kraft, an <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/england-patriots-remain-israels-team-200154579.html">Israeli operative</a> close to Donald Trump. The games were secured for the United States over rival Morocco by a multi-million dollar bribe-a-thon &#8220;lobbying&#8221; campaign <a href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/how-jared-kushner-helped-bring-2026-world-cup-to-north-america?srsltid=AfmBOoquaSOUJwA3G44ZBV-HEWhw1FhOHL40ly3asa0Z41a2jEWvgd80">spearheaded by Jared Kushner</a>.  <br><br>The question of how much money venue owners will make from renting the stadiums and selling concessions remains a closely guarded secret, but is a likely factor calculated into FIFA&#8217;s unusually high ticket prices. It is important to make a distinction between arenas owned by public sports authorities and privately owned stadiums will be used (which will host about 1/4 of the games), as for profit business interests will pocket the money while stiffing the taxpayer for the many alterations and security needs required to accommodate large numbers of people. <br><br>How FIFA picked which venues and cities to utilize for the games is also being kept opaque. FIFA curiously chose to pass up highly viable, technologically superior and more conveniently located publicly owned venues in Washington DC/Baltimore (M&amp;T Bank Field), Chicago (Soldier Field), Las Vegas (Allegiant Stadium) to give an unusually high share of the matches to connected Jewish Epstein associates like <a href="https://dolphinstalk.com/2026/05/miami-dolphins-owner-stephen-rosss-name-surfaces-in-epstein-file-discussions-what-we-know/">Stephen Ross</a> (owner of Miami&#8217;s Hard Rock Stadium), the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7010511/2026/01/30/steve-tisch-epstein-files-ny-giants/">Tisch Family</a> (Metlife Stadium), as well as <a href="https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/doj-files-jeffrey-epstein-urged-031327081.html">Kraft</a> himself. Some of the winners and losers when doling out contracts has been <a href="https://grantwahl.substack.com/p/fifa-names-16-world-cup-2026-host">commonly perceived</a> as a product of influence peddling (in other words, corruption) especially in the case of Kraft, and fans will suffer for it.  <br><br>While advertised as being in Boston, Gillette Stadium is actually an hour away in the suburb of Foxborough, which can only be reached by car and has practically no nearby amenities. A friendly match played last March between Brazil and France tested how Kraft&#8217;s stadium would fare in a World Cup environment. The game wound up causing a massive traffic jam that caused <a href="https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/world-cup-2026-brazil-france-friendly-reveals-potential-traffic-challenges-ahead-foxborough/KCDIP62QPVCNJNJVER3CO7ZLUQ/">7,000 fans to be late to the game</a>. Overwhelmed planners in the Boston suburb of Foxborough have yet to come up with any solutions to this problem, citing innate technical limitations of roadways and a lack of public transportation. <br><br>Ross&#8217; Hard Rock Stadium in Miami, which will also host seven matches, shares many of the same accessibility issues that Gillette Stadium suffers from and is one of the <a href="https://dolphinswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/dolphins/2023/08/22/nfl-stadium-rankings-dolphins-hard-rock-stadium/79602266007/">worst rated venues</a> in America. Hard Rock Stadium is nearly 40-years-old, and despite being located in South Florida, it lacks air conditioning. A noteworthy incident happened at the Copa America final in 2024, when inferior management and infrastructure flaws nearly caused a <a href="https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/44717633/copa-america-final-fan-chaos-security-miami-argentina-colombia">deadly stampede at the soccer final</a>. <br><br>The dirtiest decision was FIFA&#8217;s choice to host the final at the Metlife Stadium in &#8220;New York&#8221; over the world class AT&amp;T Stadium in Dallas, Texas. <br><br>Metlife Stadium, which is co-owned by the billionaire Tisch family, was hastily constructed in 2010 so that the Jewish dynasty and their partners could get out of a profit-sharing contract with the state of New Jersey, which owned the now demolished Giants Stadium, after New York/New Jersey won a bid to host the 2014 Super Bowl. <br><br>While marketed to Europeans and South Americans as being in New York City,  Metlife Stadium is actually 32 miles away in a swamp in New Jersey. The stadium, which was privately financed by the Tisch family on a low budget, lacks the amenities of modern sports facilities such as a retractable roof, interactive screens, and climate control. <br><br>When it comes to transporting fans to the venue, controversies have erupted around low-effort solutions, such as charging spectators $150 dollar train tickets and renting out a fleet of buses where you can ride for $80 dollars a seat. When outrage mounted, both New Jersey transit and New York State reduced the price of the train ticket to &#8220;only&#8221; $98 dollars and are offering rides on yellow school buses for $20 dollars. Many are negatively comparing this to their experiences in Russia and Qatar, which provided World Cup ticket holders with unlimited transportation free of charge and in Qatar&#8217;s case, free rides between stadiums. <br><br>Most intriguing is how Metlife, which is ranked the <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2024/10/03/nfl-stadium-rankings-footballs-30-venues-from-best-to-worst/75461025007/">29th worst NFL stadium out</a> of 30, was able to beat out the ultra-modern and impressive AT&amp;T Stadium, which by contrast is typically listed in the top five.<br><br>The answer to this riddle is the Trumpworld Israeli mafia. According to a November 2024 report from the <em>New York Times</em>, Jared Kushner <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5891523/2024/11/04/donald-trump-united-states-world-cup-2026/">personally intervened</a> to turn the tides at FIFA against previous favorite AT&amp;T Stadium. This decision will take money out of the pockets of the city of Arlington and give it to the Tisch dynasty, who are multi-generation associates of the Kushners through shared membership in the <a href="https://www.lubavitch.com/a-harvard-phenomenon/">Chabad Lubavitch sect</a> and New York City business world.  <br><br>Climate scientists are warning that Metlife Stadium will be <a href="https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/19/world-cup-metlife-heat-climate-public-health-risk-stadium/">dangerously hot</a> for fans and players, risking a sluggish game and potential fatalities. FIFA&#8217;s response has been to monetize this problem by having water breaks every 20 minutes that will double as commercial breaks. <br><br><strong>Integrity Risks </strong><br><br>Sports gambling has long been a part of soccer culture, but America&#8217;s largely unregulated &#8220;Prediction Markets&#8221; in tandem with some suspiciously timed new FIFA reforms practically guarantee that many matches will be fixed. <br><br>Under US law, prediction markets such as Kalshi and Polymarket operate as illicit sportsbooks that are treated like financial exchanges via its system of staking &#8220;contracts.&#8221; <a href="https://www.gamingintelligence.com/legal/229826-brazil-blocks-access-to-prediction-market-platforms/">50 countries have banned</a> prediction markets as a form of gambling, but in America, they operate without restrictions in large part because the Trump family profits from staving off regulation through Donald Trump Jr&#8217;s comically corrupt 1789 Fund, which has a <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/08/26/trump-jr-vc-fund-polymarket">multi-billion dollar stake</a> in Polymarket. <br><br>Studies from organizations such as the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities have suggested that this environment has <a href="https://www.ifhaonline.org/AibResources/Papers/Prediction%20Markets%20Regulatory%20Markets%20and%20Integrity%20Implications_Final.pdf">opened the flood gates of rampant fraud</a> in the world of competitive sports due to unique difficulties in identifying anonymous contract vendors, jurisdiction issues related to money allocation, and unusual activities in prediction markets that would otherwise trigger oversight in ordinary sports books. <br><br>FIFA&#8217;s decision to expand the number of teams at the World Cup from 32 to 48 will only exacerbate this problem by introducing many small, non-competitive teams. If speculators and gamblers in the US military are ready to put their own lives at risk <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-launches-investigation-into-insider-trading-on-prediction-market-platforms/">making insider bets</a> tipping off wars with Iran or Nicolas Maduro&#8217;s abduction, what&#8217;s stopping the players of the Cura&#231;ao National Team from taking certain measures to fulfill a long shot micro-bet, like getting two red cards and scoring an own goal? What&#8217;s preventing a Nigerian referee&#8217;s family members from putting a big bet on an underdog then tilting the game in a certain direction? <br><br>The threat of rigging games is not imagined. Multiple games <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/sports/soccer/fixed-matches-cast-shadow-over-world-cup.html?smid=tw-bna">were fixed</a> at the 2010 South African World Cup by a Singaporean organized crime syndicate. <br><br>In 2024, FIFA decided to move its integrity inspection unit &#8212; agents who monitor gambling sites for unusual influence on games &#8212; to Miami, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jun/06/fifa-legal-department-move-prompts-fears-of-delay-to-sexual-abuse-cases">losing two-thirds</a> of their most experienced staff in the process. With a skeleton crew over seeing hundreds of billions of dollars in bets, one could almost deduce that FIFA is preparing to look the other way. <br><br><strong>America&#8217;s Hellish Atmosphere<br><br></strong>With World Cup tickets and accommodations potentially costing visitors 10s of thousands of dollars, the prospect of being turned away at the US border is keeping many at bay. The hospitality industry servicing hosts cities, initially promised multiple Super Bowls worth of money, are now telling the press that <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2026/05/05/hotels-world-cup-non-event-so-far/">bookings are at or below a typical year</a>. <br><br>Markwayne Mullin, currently the head of the Department of Homeland Security, is viewed inside the United States as the dumbest and least qualified political figure in the country. Mullin has failed to adequately communicate what visa rules will or will not apply to World Cup ticket holders, causing confusion and cancellations. <br><br>The dystopian environment in the United States, related to its favoritism of Jews and Israel, has also chilled eagerness to visit the country. For example, in April 2025, DHS invented a new rule which will force visa applicants to hand over five years of their social media activity to <a href="https://archive.is/HBrm5">be inspected for &#8220;Anti-Semitism.&#8221;</a> The absurd rule grants Customs and Border Patrol the right to turn visitors away if they have ever criticized Israel on the internet. <br><br>Additionally, the Trump administration has decreed the World Cup a National Special Security Event (NSSE), which will grant federal agents sweeping warrantless surveillance powers that can be used against random citizens and tourists in designated zones, as well as potentially create an intimidating, turbo charged militarized environment in cities hosting World Cup games with spy drones and rooftop sharpshooters.  <br><br>But don&#8217;t mistake the suspension of your civil liberties for public safety. At the 2024 Super Bowl victory parade for the Chiefs in Kansas City, a World Cup host city, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Kansas_City_parade_shooting">22 people were shot</a>. Last year in Philadelphia, another 2026 soccer destination, two people <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6137606/2025/02/14/eagles-parade-shooting-philadelphia-super-bowl/">were gunned down</a> at Super Bowl festivities. Tourists who dare venture outside of the immediate vicinity of stadiums and fan zones in America&#8217;s major cities should take it for granted that they will be victims of violent crime, especially if they are white or Asian. <br><br>The Trump administration is by no means the only political faction bound to make guests feel threatened and unwelcome. The &#8220;woke&#8221; city of Seattle is preparing to welcome conservative Muslim players in the Egypt vs Iran game they are scheduled to host by declaring it the &#8220;Pride Match,&#8221; painting the whole stadium in rainbow colors and hosting drag queens and naked men engaging in explicit homosexual acts. It is expected that members of Iran&#8217;s repugnant diaspora will travel north from California to taunt the players with anti-Iranian, pro-Israel flags and symbols. <br><br>The Iranian soccer federation has been appealing to FIFA to show the players respect and keep the mandatory participation in offensive sexual displays and politics out of the stadium or at least move the game to Mexico, but so far they have been frustrated. The combination of threats from the Israeli controlled Trump administration to the players, ranging from visa denials to arbitrary detention, in conjunction with the left-wing attempt at humiliating and insulting the players raises the prospect that <a href="https://www.outsports.com/2026/3/12/24130243/fifa-world-cup-seattle-lgbtq-pride-match-plans/">Iran will simply not play its games</a>. <br><br>The World Cup has in recent years been used as an opportunity for states to showcase the best that their nations can offer. The opposite is bound to happen at USA 2026. Naked greed, corruption, terrible infrastructure, widespread violence and mental illness, and other factors making life in a declining America oppressive and impoverished will serve as a snapshot of what an empire marching towards destruction looks like. <br></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://littoria.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><strong>Littoria is a reader-supported publication. To support our work consider becoming a paid subscriber or leaving a tip at <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/tmst">Buy Me A Coffee</a>. </strong></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Weekly Meander: Can Cuba Fight Back? and America's Chaotic Decline]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Weekly Meander will be a short show with my thoughts on various current events.]]></description><link>https://littoria.substack.com/p/the-weekly-meander-can-cuba-fight</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://littoria.substack.com/p/the-weekly-meander-can-cuba-fight</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 05:53:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/198927462/538ed12248ec7fe1d1adedd568ebd3f1.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Weekly Meander will be a short show with my thoughts on various current events. <br><br>On this week&#8217;s show:<br><br>&#8212;Can Cuba resist a potential US invasion? <br><br>&#8212;Bolivia<br><br>&#8212;The decline of the American people and Judeo-American elites, and why this guarantees instability <br><br>&#8212;Iran <br><br>*small correction, wounded US pilot was flying a NightStalker, not a Chinook and later in episode correct value of Nvidia.  <br><br>If you enjoyed this show, please consider becoming a paid subscriber or<a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/tmst"> buy me a coffee</a>. </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside the 2026 World Cup Part I: How America Got A Tournament It Doesn't Want ]]></title><description><![CDATA[America is merely weeks away from hosting the world&#8217;s biggest game.]]></description><link>https://littoria.substack.com/p/inside-the-2026-world-cup-part-i</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://littoria.substack.com/p/inside-the-2026-world-cup-part-i</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 07:07:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a714603f-ff71-452c-8993-ae532c3612c4_599x428.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>America is merely weeks away from hosting the world&#8217;s biggest sporting event. The opening game on June 11th will feature hometown defenders Team USA against Paraguay, with a Super Bowl style opening ceremony headlined by Katy Perry. Expect to see a tumbleweed or two&#8212; <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/thousands-world-cup-tickets-remain-unsold-including-usa-games-11971265">thousands of tickets</a> remain unsold. <br><br>It is well-known that outside of children, Yuppies, and immigrants, Americans are not interested in soccer. When asked if he would pay to see Team USA for $1,000, the extortionary floor price set for nosebleed seats, President Trump himself said <a href="https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cdxpq70grzlo">he would not</a>.  <br><br>So why did the United States &#8212; with Mexico and Canada as supplementary hosts &#8212; fight for a tournament Americans can&#8217;t afford or aren&#8217;t interested in? And why did FIFA decide to overlook the severe public safety risks, collapsing infrastructure, widespread corruption, and political instability plaguing America? <br><br>Department of Homeland Security head Markwayne Mullin is already <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/homeland-security-chief-says-funding-lapse-hurt-world-cup-security-preparations-in-us/3932770">pre-blaming the Democrats</a> for any major problems that occur during the games. This does not bode well for visitors or players. <br><br><strong>2010 World Cup Bid Controversy <br><br></strong>In 2010, President Obama, Bill Clinton, Morgan Freeman and other stars put in the strongest effort in a generation to make the United States the future home of the World Cup. The case for USA <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/sports/soccer/02bid.html">emphasized</a> the country&#8217;s racial diversity and supposed leadership as a human rights superpower. As the world&#8217;s number one sport, hosting the World Cup &#8212; like the Olympics &#8212; is seen by governments around the globe as a way to showcase their country and build good will, so American foreign policy interests were likely most motivated by Russia <em>not</em> having it. <br><br>When America&#8217;s pitch failed, a temper tantrum ensued. The international FIFA World Cup voting committee chose two countries that reject American liberal values instead: Vladimir Putin&#8217;s Russia for 2018 and the Kingdom of Qatar in 2022, despite incessant side panel lobbying from pro-American figures demanding they be disqualified over &#8220;human rights&#8221; concerns. <br><br>Washington perceived this rejection as a geopolitical slight, but the FIFA committee&#8217;s decision making was sound: America was already given the World Cup in 1994 while the tournament had never been hosted in Eastern Europe or the Middle East, two regions where the population, unlike Americans, actually love the sport. Team USA lost, try again next time. <br><br>Rather than accepting the decision and preparing for a new bid in the future as several other countries do in this situation, US officials, both in government and in sporting, immediately <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/03/sports/soccer/03worldcup.html">began accusing</a> FIFA of corruption to create an aura of stink around the whole process. The American and British Jewish press suddenly began a campaign to snipe at Sepp Blatter, then president of FIFA, who confidently defended the governing body&#8217;s decision and dismissed American concerns about supposed racism and gay rights in Russia and Qatar by telling potential tourists to simply respect their hosts and <a href="https://www.foxsports.com/stories/soccer/blatter-defends-russia-qatar-decisions">refrain from public homosexual activities</a>.<br><br>On May 27th, 2015, two days before the FIFA congress&#8217; presidential vote where Blatter was expected to be re-elected, the US Department of Justice dropped a massive 161 page corruption indictment against 14 FIFA executives who had supported Qatar and Russia&#8217;s World Cup requests over Americas in what is today termed &#8220;FIFAgate.&#8221;<br><br>The act was naturally seen by those targeted as political retaliation and an act of American imperial overreach. Somehow, a federal court in Brooklyn decided it had jurisdiction over men who were not American and did not live in America, as well as FIFA itself, which is based in Switzerland and controlled by Europeans. Nevertheless, some hidden lever of power was pulled behind the scenes and Swiss police dutifully raided the sporting association&#8217;s Zurich headquarters, detaining the wanted men at a hotel bar in preparation for extradition to the US. Through its power over global banking, American intelligence services seized <a href="https://www.christianpost.com/news/fifa-asks-us-government-to-give-back-seized-bribe-money-amounting-to-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars.html">$100 million dollars</a> of FIFA&#8217;s money as &#8220;evidence,&#8221; with no plan to ever give it back.  <br><br>Amidst the commotion, Blatter, who was not named in the indictment, was re-elected by his peers. American intelligence operatives responded to this act of defiance by anonymously <a href="https://nypost.com/2015/06/02/sepp-blatter-shockingly-resigns-amid-fifa-scandal/">leaking to the press</a> that they were planning to get Blatter next if he didn&#8217;t get out of the way. Days after being elected, Blatter promptly resigned from his post. He was never charged in the FBI&#8217;s FIFA case and was eventually cleared of all wrongdoing in a separate Swiss case. <br><br>Waiting to be subbed in was Gianni Infantino, a man <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/05/panama-papers-pull-fifa-uefa-chief-gianni-infantino-corruption-scandal">heavily implicated</a> in corruption himself by the Panama Papers, who was officially put in power in 2016. <br><br>Whether Infantino was recruited as an asset, bribed, or simply operating out of fear is a matter of speculation and debate, but it can&#8217;t be denied that he has been the most deferential to the American empire FIFA president in history. <br><br>Washington&#8217;s &#8220;United Bid&#8221; (USA-Mexico-Canada) for the 2026 World Cup, featuring Zionist Jewish NFL billionaire Robert Kraft (whose football stadium will be rented for the games) as its Chairman, was suspiciously timed with Infantino&#8217;s rise in 2016, ultimately crushing challengers at the 2018 vote by a lopsided 134 to 65 margin. <br><br>Infantino broke with FIFA precedent by personally meddling to lobby in support for the United Bid, <a href="https://www.ksl.com/article/sports/national/fifa-says-president-infantino-wont-meddle-in-world-cup-bids/46289488">handpicking</a> who would be on its exploratory committee, which ignored a laundry list of potential limitations to hosting most of the games in the USA and cartel-controlled cities in Mexico like Guadalajara. Donald Trump then got involved, less tactfully than the perfidious Obama, by publicly stating on the eve of the election that he <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/apr/27/2026-world-cup-bid-usa-donald-trump-fifa-ethics">would sanction</a> any nation whose FIFA representative voted against America as host. <br><br>Under Infantino, FIFA has become a notorious spineless mouthpiece of Judeo-American ideology, going so far as to <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/sports-protests-black-lives-matter-ioc-ban-criticism-tianna-bartoletta-gwen-berry/">officially diverge</a> from the International Olympic Committee by <a href="https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/george-floyd-protests-no-action-bundesliga-jadon-sancho-dfb-a4458836.html">embracing</a> &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; displays on the field in 2020, <a href="https://inside.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/worldcup/qatar2022/media-releases/fifa-uefa-suspend-russian-clubs-and-national-teams-from-all-competitions">banning the entire nation and population of Russia</a> from all soccer events over the Ukraine war in 2022, and then <a href="https://time.com/6692731/fifa-israel-football-ban-letter-middle-east-nations/">brazenly</a> <a href="https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/46465859/fifa-council-takes-no-action-israel-urges-peace">refusing</a> to do the same to Israel amidst global outcry over its genocide in Gaza in 2023, as well as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/jun/06/fifa-legal-department-move-prompts-fears-of-delay-to-sexual-abuse-cases">partially moving</a> its Swiss headquarters to Miami in 2024. <br><br>The humiliating cherry on top came late last year, when Infantino invented the &#8220;FIFA Peace Prize&#8221; and <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/sports/2026/4/28/before-world-cup-fifa-slammed-for-politicising-sport-with-trump-prize">handed it to Trump</a>, a president who has a year and a half into his term attacked several countries, murdered or abducted countless innocent people and world leaders, and is Israel&#8217;s top partner-in-crime in its Middle Eastern rampage. <br><br>Infantino is thoroughly Americanizing a spectacle stolen by a nation that doesn&#8217;t want it. Thanks to Infantino, tourists from all over the world will soon experience America in its 250th year: a police state ruled by runaway greed and scams, poverty, violence, and Zionism.<br><br><em>Part 2 will cover the coming World Cup disaster. </em><br><br></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://littoria.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><strong>Littoria is a reader-supported publication. To  support my work, consider becoming a paid subscriber or <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/tmst">buy me a coffee</a>. </strong></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[ICE Left Out In The Cold ]]></title><description><![CDATA[On December 5th, Jaylani Hussein, executive director of CAIR Minnesota, delivered a press conference warning of a leaked document exposing a Jewish-funded marketing campaign, through an Israeli foreign ministry contract with PR firm Stagwell, to target Minneapolis-St Paul&#8217;s Somalis in an attempt to manufacture anti-Muslim animosity among MAGA supporters who have been souring on US support for Israel as of late.]]></description><link>https://littoria.substack.com/p/ice-left-out-in-the-cold</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://littoria.substack.com/p/ice-left-out-in-the-cold</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2026 06:42:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/154ec252-87ea-479d-8f03-e1feecd449be_1817x2271.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In early December, Jaylani Hussein, executive director of CAIR Minnesota, delivered a press conference warning of a leaked document exposing a potential <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investigations/3903339/cair-spins-anti-israel-narrative-about-somali-fraud-as-scrutiny-grows/">Jewish-funded marketing campaign</a>, citing an Israeli foreign ministry <a href="https://www.odwyerpr.com/story/public/23596/2025-09-16/stagwell-floods-zone-with-pro-israel-messaging.html">contract</a> with PR firm Stagwell, to target Minneapolis-St Paul&#8217;s Somalis. The goal, according to Hussein, was to manufacture anti-Muslim animosity among MAGA supporters in hopes of reversing opinion polls showing Trump voters are souring on Israel. <br><br>According to Hussein, &#8220;There is a major reverse in the United States, particularly on the conservative side, to review whether America First means America First, or does America First mean Israel First? And because of that debate currently taking place these PR firms have provided some clarity on what is a good tactic. And that tactic is, and I quote here, &#8216;Israel&#8217;s best tactic to combat this, <a href="https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/leaked-israel-reputation-survey-research-mark-penn-stagwell">according to the study</a>, is to foment fear of radical Islam and jihadism.&#8217;&#8221; <br><br>Two days before Hussein&#8217;s speech, Donald Trump suddenly began <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/politics/trump-somalia.html">publicly attacking</a> the Minnesota Somalis. The president did not hide that his animosity was linked to the community&#8217;s support for congresswoman Ilhan Omar, which the <a href="https://archive.is/EnlYr">Israel lobby</a> has put at the top of their enemies list and is spending enormous amounts of money to defeat in the midterms later this year. <br><br>The president then baffled the public by ordering the largest DHS operation in history, Operation Metro Surge, which flooded the Twin Cities with thousands of ICE and CBP agents. These agents were <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/02/us/ice-operation-somali-migrants-minneapolis">allegedly being dispatched to arrest and deport Somalis</a> following a conservative media campaign alleging welfare fraud and money being used to fund Islamic terrorism in Africa, but there is a major problem with the plan: the majority of Somalis who live in Minnesota are legal residents and US citizens. <br><br>Opposition to the federal agents swarming the cities was light at first. Minneapolis&#8217; <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minneapolis-mayor-jacob-frey-speaks-out-against-palestine-event/">Progressive-Except-Palestine Jewish Mayor</a>, Jacob Frey, who was himself almost defeated by anti-Israel Somali candidate Omar Fateh last November, initially <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5683533-minneapolis-mayor-fraud-scandal/">welcomed</a> the DHS operation against Somalis in his community.  State Governor Tim Walz, who as Kamala Harris&#8217; 2024 running mate <a href="https://theconversation.com/on-the-us-mexico-border-the-records-of-trump-and-harris-reflect-the-national-mood-of-less-immigration-not-more-237269">campaigned on increasing immigration enforcement</a>, surprised the nation by announcing that he would not be running for re-election in lieu of the supposed Somali scandal. <br><br>Failing to find Somalis to deport, the thousands of ICE and CBP sent to Minnesota with confusing objectives defaulted to apprehending Mexican and Central American illegals. According to a <a href="https://archive.is/9YIkT">report</a> from <em>The Atlantic</em>, the Ford Foundation funded open borders pressure group Unidos-MN trained 65,000 people in tactics and strategies in preparation to resist this kind of immigration enforcement. Soon enough, Minneapolis&#8217; population of aging Millennial &#8220;woke&#8221; crusaders were activated and began taking direct action to pull ICE agents away from their lawful duties by luring them into meticulously filmed rat races. <br><br>On the flip side, the Trump administration has deliberately sought to transform immigration enforcement into a traveling partisan circus for <a href="https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-hiring-surge-is-already-a-disaster">owning the libs</a>, which also serves as a distraction from the agency&#8217;s stated duties. ICE issued vehicles now sport the blue and gold color scheme of the Trump Corporation and receive a meager 47 days of training &#8212; an ode to the 47th president. New agents, some recruited in targeted &#8220;American Nationalist&#8221; ads online made to appeal to the type of person that would join the Proud Boys or Patriot Front, are subjected to the lowest educational standards and vetting of any federal agency. <br><br>These recent ICE recruits, some as young 18, were thrown into the prepared Minnesota cauldron, even though<a href="https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads"> local police and the FBI</a> are refusing to protect them from the feral liberals trained to antagonize, attack, and in some cases <a href="https://x.com/Chinoy200096633/status/2012332012682482069?s=20">kill them</a>. Until a little over a week ago, immigration agents were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/21/ice-arrest-pepper-spray-protesters-minnesota">hamstrung by court orders</a> declaring that they are not legally allowed to pepper spray or detain local agitators trying to jam them. The institutional abandonment of ICE agents is so great that Minneapolis Police Department chief Brian O&#8217;Hara has brazenly suggested that officers <a href="https://minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/14/minneapolis-is-distancing-police-from-ice-showing-reform-is-possible/">&#8220;have a duty to intervene&#8221;</a> on behalf of persons interrupting agents doing their job. All things considered, the shootings of activists Renee Good and Alex Pretti was predictable.  <br><br>Trump, Noem, Homan and Stephen Miller have not bothered to explain exactly why they have sent so many ICE agents to Minnesota in the first place. The state is 80% white and ranks 20th for illegal alien population. They have also failed to use the Department of Justice to punish Mayor Frey, Governor Walz, or the other Democratic political leaders openly inciting their citizens to fight federal law enforcement, instead, Trump has taken a highly conciliatory tone towards the Democrat seditionists while <a href="https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/01/26/congress/trump-justice-department-ilhan-omar-00746103">continuing to threaten</a> Rep. Omar . By choice, the Trump administration is rushing to throw the ICE and CBP agents they are responsible for under the bus, starting with Greg Bovino, a performative clown made the face of the Minnesota spectacle only to be <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-throws-greg-bovino-under-214706948.html">hung by the king he serves</a> in the town square.  <br><br>To make matters worse, none of this commotion is justified. Estimates provided by the Brookings Institute, the Migration Policy Institute, and TRAC reveal that total deportations for 2025 are in the low to mid 300,000s, which is on par or in some years substantially lower than ICE removals under Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barrack Obama. <br><br>A cynic could conclude that Trump is befouling the immigration enforcement he explicitly won a mandate to perform <em>on purpose</em>. <br><br>For the past year, Trump has been hinting that he wants a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-immigrants-can-return-legally-must-self-deport-now-floats-potential-60-day-deadline">back-touch amnesty system</a> to bring back deportees &#8220;legally&#8221; and to <a href="https://www.firstalert7.com/2025/11/12/trump-says-us-doesnt-have-talent-fill-jobs-needs-foreign-workers/">radically expand the legal immigration system</a>. The media-induced flurry of controversy &#8212; including recent anti-ICE editorials in the Zionist Trumpian amen corners of NY Post, Wall Street Journal, and on Fox News &#8212; could give the president the perfect excuse to pull the rug out from underneath his supporters and the amateur agents who answered his X.com Help Wanted ads.   </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://littoria.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em><strong>Littoria is a reader-supported publication. 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Supporters of US interventionism have taken to justifying the attack under the guise of the Monroe, or &#8220;Donroe,&#8221; Doctrine, while leaders of the American left such as Bernie Sanders have largely ignored the moral implications by fixating on the legalistic aspect of the spectacle. <br><br>Practically nothing substantial has been presented to the public justifying military intervention in Venezuela. US officials have made half-hearted attempts at blowing the cobwebs off the Reagan-era Cold War boogeyman trope, but the Venezuelan state of Maduro last year spent only <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/371925/ratio-of-government-expenditure-to-gross-domestic-product-gdp-in-venezuela/?srsltid=AfmBOoplVdR8z2kWRf49eJ1xJZLGDphdARX-LLYYyiS34FdWy2RHmFYq">18% of its GDP on public expenditures</a>, making the US (37%) twice as &#8220;communist.&#8221; It should also be noted that Venezuela&#8217;s Communist Party has long been part of the heterogenous US-backed anti-Maduro opposition and is perceived inside the country as a front for the CIA.  <br><br>The next ginned up fable accuses Maduro, in a Brooklyn federal court case overseen by <a href="https://forward.com/fast-forward/794704/maduro-judge-alvin-hellerstein-jewish-venezuela/">92-year-old Zionist Jew Alvin Hellerstein</a>, of being a global cocaine kingpin.  <br><br>The original Department of Justice case was cobbled together during Trump&#8217;s first term but was pursued heavily by the successive Biden administration, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/world/americas/biden-bounty-nicolas-maduro.html">which introduced a $25 million dollar bounty</a> in hopes that someone inside the regime would capture Maduro for them. Critics have dismissed the charges as both baseless and hypocritical, pointing out that several current <a href="https://www.semafor.com/article/12/23/2025/ecuadorian-presidents-family-banana-business-smuggled-drugs-investigation-finds">US-installed leaders</a> in Latin America are running <em>actual </em>narco regimes. The well of irony goes deeper: the very Delta Force unit responsible for capturing Maduro is <a href="https://reason.com/2025/08/12/how-elite-special-operations-troops-created-a-drug-cartel/">itself a violent cocaine trafficking ring</a>, as journalists documenting JSOC operator&#8217;s use of military planes to import millions of dollars worth of cocaine from Colombia to Fort Bragg for both personal use and illicit profit have shown.  <br><br>The last excuse, tossed to the nihilists in the MAGA base as red meat, is that America wants to steal the oil to make gas prices cheaper. During World War II, the United States strong-armed Venezuelan oil into the hands of American businesses <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Venezuelan_oil_industry">to fuel the Allied war effort</a>, but the 30 to 50 million barrels of oil Trump is <a href="https://apnews.com/article/venezuela-trump-democrats-9d16138866bebdc2644eb009c6326066">demanding for America</a> is only enough to last two months. Venezuela&#8217;s low-quality crude requires refining infrastructure that experts believe could cost 10s of billions of dollars in investment and potentially a decade to come to fruition, meaning that the US would have to pay a hefty price to produce the product in order to <em>&#8220;steal&#8221;</em> it. <br><br>Military action for oil makes no sense. For nearly a decade, Maduro&#8217;s government has been desperately reaching out to the US to negotiate an end to the devastating sanctions crippling the Venezuelan economy and bring back American oil companies, with extraordinary gestures such as a <a href="https://fortune.com/2026/01/06/venezuelas-new-president-delcy-rodriguez-citgo-trump-2017-inauguration-500000/">$500,000 donation</a> to Trump&#8217;s 2017 inauguration festivities. These overtures were ignored. <br><br>Realist arguments for removing opponents of the American empire from the Western Hemisphere also seem inadequate. Many nations that have strong links to Russia and China, such as Hungary, also have close relations to the Trump administration. Neither Russia or China are interested in or able to meddle in the Western Hemisphere, as the May 2024 8000 word Sino-Russian joint statement <a href="https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/05/24/china-russia-joint-statement-new-era-75th-anniversary/#:~:text=Eurasia-,China%2DRussia%20joint%20statement%20marking%20'new%20era'%20on%2075th,translation%20below%2C%20for%20educational%20purposes.">calling for non-interventionism reveals</a>. <br><br>The remaining outstanding issue, what separates friend-to-all Hungary from Venezuela and is likely real <a href="https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/01/06/israel-middle-east-maduro">cause</a> of the conflict is Maduro&#8217;s <a href="https://alhurra.com/en/10132">militant anti-Zionism</a>, which has been put into practice through Hugo Chavez-era infrastructure of sanctions-busting trade with Iran, who the Zionist hawks in Washington are trying to isolate further. Venezuela has become an outlier in Latin America, where regimes propped up by the US are rapidly embracing the pro-Israel <a href="https://www.theoccidentalobserver.net/2025/12/26/the-isaac-accords-a-new-diplomatic-front-opens-in-latin-america/">Isaac&#8217;s Accords.</a>  What exactly the Israelis want in Latin America remains a matter of speculation, but this question is important enough to compel Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado to repeatedly declare <a href="https://en.royanews.tv/news/66321/Machado%E2%80%99s-past-comments-showed-support-for-'Israel'%2C-called-for-embassy-move">her devotion</a> to the Jewish state and openly plan to make Israel a central focus of her potential future government. <br><br>The notion that Trump was settling accounts on behalf of Israel, rather than America, appears to be taken for granted by both Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-maduros-capture-rubio-links-operation-to-fight-against-iran-and-hezbollah/">cited the security interests of Israel</a> for cause, as well as Maduro&#8217;s successor Delcy Rodriguez, who has publicly declared that the president&#8217;s kidnapping has <a href="https://jewishlouisville.org/venezuelas-acting-leader-says-zionist-undertones-marked-us-capture-of-maduro/">&#8220;Zionist undertones.&#8221;</a> <br><br>It is not yet clear if the British and French educated lawyer Rodriguez, the daughter of a communist guerrilla tortured to death by the CIA, is herself an American asset tasked with gradually taking apart the Bolivarian revolution from within, but the decision to keep her in power was made <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2026-01-06/cia-advised-trump-against-supporting-venezuelas-democratic-opposition">by the same group</a> that murdered her father. The new president was initially <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/world/venezuela/delcy-rodriguez-courted-trump-rose-to-power-rcna252772">purged</a> from Hugo Chavez&#8217;s political circle in 2006, only to be brought back by Maduro in 2013 for her magical ability to operate around American sanctions and defeat diplomatic onslaughts. <br><br>Delcy&#8217;s power within the Maduro government grew after she was able to <a href="https://elpais.com/internacional/2017/06/24/mexico/1498315118_075145.html">single-handedly defeat</a> an attempt by the Organization of American States to officially ostracize Venezuela in 2017. She has been able to broker <a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delcygate">large sanctions violating underground financial transactions</a> on behalf of her country in Europe and, as head of Venezuela&#8217;s oil sector, has been the actively lobbying the US to return to take it over. She has been criticized in socialist circles for her campaign re-dollarizing the Venezuelan economy, which has exacerbated poverty and inequality in the country. Her links to enemies of Venezuela are an open secret and include <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/13/venezuela-blackwater-founder-erik-prince-delcy-rodriguez">secret meetings</a> with mercenary leader Erik Prince even as his outfit was actively trying to overthrow Maduro. Her years of unusual unofficial welcome in Washington and the wealth it has provided some corrupt elements in the world of <em>Chavismo</em> has allowed her to accumulate enough power domestically to, over the years, root out elements suspicious of her rise. <br><br>For now, Rodriguez is urging calm and the armed forces appear to be taking her at her word that she is a good faith pragmatist rather than a traitor. The next six months of her presidency will be crucial as a boots on the ground intervention by America continues to loom. <br><br>The flood of fake videos on social media of showing celebrations of Maduro&#8217;s removal do not reflect the reality on the ground. Approval for Trump&#8217;s actions is a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/only-33-americans-approve-us-strike-venezuela-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2026-01-05/">minority opinion</a> in both the United States and Venezuela.  General sentiment is that the populations of both America and Venezuela will suffer the consequences of yet another Washington military adventure if the Trump administration goes any further. <br><br>Supporters of American imperialism &#8212; again, a minority opinion &#8212; have sought to distance themselves from the spoiled &#8220;neo-conservative&#8221; brand and argue that this new emphasis on Latin America will be different from the disastrous War On Terror. But interventions of the kind just witnessed with Maduro in the Western Hemisphere have historically fared no better than Iraq. <br><br>A case that comes to mind is the 2009 <a href="https://jacobin.com/2019/08/us-honduras-coup-manuel-zelaya-exile-excerpt">US overthrow</a> of President Manuel Zelaya, who like Maduro, was abducted and taken to face trial in Costa Rica on flimsy drug charges. Successive American backed governments (including an actual cocaine trafficking president <a href="https://www.wola.org/analysis/juan-orlando-hernandez-pardon-implications-for-u-s-foreign-policy/">Trump recently pardoned</a>) mismanaged Honduras to the point of making it the <a href="https://www.visionofhumanity.org/country-close-up-honduras/">most violent country</a> in the world. This situation provoked a massive exodus to the US, producing a large percentage of the hundreds of thousands of so-called Northern Triangle illegal immigrants, with Honduras regularly populating the bulk of the notorious migrant caravans. From 2010 to 2020, the Honduran population in the United States increased from 490,000 to at least 1.3 million, and this is only of those we know of. More than 10% of Honduras&#8217; population now lives in America, many of them illegally. <br><br>The removal of Maduro is a regime change campaign going back 20 years, with the blame for this latest conflict shared by Democrats and Republicans equally. The substance of Washington&#8217;s global terrorism is decided by permanent bureaucrats and high finance, with the president only serving to influence the style and execution. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://littoria.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em><strong>Littoria is a free publication. If you found this article useful or informative, consider becoming a paid subscriber to support our work. </strong></em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eulogy For A Jewish "Nazi" (Update 1/06/2026)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most dismiss Vladimir Putin&#8217;s assertion that the West is arming and funding Jewish Nazis to mass murder Russians for Sorosite liberalism as Kremlin schizophrenia.]]></description><link>https://littoria.substack.com/p/eulogy-for-a-jewish-nazi</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://littoria.substack.com/p/eulogy-for-a-jewish-nazi</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 23:25:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/338c06db-8968-4fbe-a411-14765ee359fa_945x585.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OY0F!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2be69c26-4e23-4836-a1ac-cd9a6a49a29d_945x585.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OY0F!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2be69c26-4e23-4836-a1ac-cd9a6a49a29d_945x585.jpeg 424w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>Update: Denis Kapustin&#8217;s handlers in the Ukrainian intelligence services <a href="https://www.trtworld.com/article/bb5c3acb8c65">faked his death</a>.  </em><br><br>Most dismiss Vladimir Putin&#8217;s assertion that the West is arming and funding Jewish Nazis to mass murder Russians for Sorosite liberalism as Kremlin schizophrenia. But the strange bedfellows coming together to honor the recently deceased Russian Volunteer Corps (RKD) commander Denis &#8220;White Rex&#8221; Kapustin causes one to give this seemingly delusional narrative a second look.  <br><br>On one side, Australian National Socialist Network (NSN) leader Thomas Sewell <a href="https://x.com/HavryshkoMarta/status/2005273045611553023?s=20">spoke in a slowed, grief-stricken tone</a>, reflecting on his Aryan superhero and ideological inspiration being whisked away to Valhalla by Valkyries while he mowed his lawn.<br><br>Elsewhere in Tel Aviv, Leonid Nevzlin &#8212; the Israeli oligarch who helped fund RKD and is famous for calling Slavic Russians &#8220;slave cattle&#8221; &#8212; put out a mournful statement <a href="https://x.com/leonidragozin/status/2005222421926719528?s=20">blessing Kapustin&#8217;s memory</a>, stating that &#8220;WhiteRex was real power.&#8221; <br><br>In various George Soros funded publications that saturate the Ukrainian media space, they took a pause from their usual screeds against racism, homophobia, and authoritarianism to honor Kapustin &#8212; the man whose best-known literary contribution to politics is to popularize Australian mass shooter Brenton Tarant&#8217;s manifesto in Eastern Europe &#8212; as a noble freedom fighter. <br><br>What kind of man simultaneously has the owner of <em>Haaretz</em> sitting shiva and a self-described &#8220;Esoteric Hitlerist&#8221; performing an Odinist sendoff at his funeral? <br><br>Denis Kapustin may have died, but his innovation of combining a regime-compatible lifestyle brand that uses Nazi aesthetics, radical music, and networks built through MMA tournaments continues to influence some newer, &#8220;Gen Z&#8221; targeted iterations of nationalist politics around the world today. In Ukraine, Kapustin, through his partnership with the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/world/europe/cia-ukraine-intelligence-russia-war.html">CIA agent</a> Ukrainian HUR chief Kyrlo Budanov, showed Washington and NATO that it is possible to manipulate soccer hooligans, black metal edgelords and even genuine nationalist romantics who in theory should be fighting their own government to instead fight <em>for</em> it. <br><br>Kapustin, a Russian-born emigre to Germany, would go on to become leader of the international &#8220;neo-Nazi&#8221; fight club movement, an important ambassador for the Azov Battalion, and later a commander in the pro-Ukrainian Russian Volunteer Corps (RKD). He was an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190621191011/https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/rechtsextremer-kampfsportler-der-neonazi-krieger-aus-moskau-a-1253163.html">ethnic Jew</a> whose family sought asylum from supposed Russian anti-Semitism under a 1990 update to Germany&#8217;s Kontingentfluchtlingsgesetz (Refugee Quota Act). The extent of Kapustin&#8217;s Jewish ancestry is unknown, but under the German law, refugee resettlement was reserved only for those whose Soviet passport registered their nationality as Jewish. <br><br>First in Cologne and later in Moscow, Kapustin grew close to nationalist soccer firms despite later stating that he is not a fan of the sport. In 2008, Kapustin began an MMA clothing company called White Rex, and by 2011 began marketing his business by hosting unlicensed but highly professionalized fighting tournaments featuring the world&#8217;s toughest skinheads, bikers, and soccer hooligans pummeling one another.  The novelty of a white nationalist themed fighting league was new at the time and encountered a great deal of success. The majority of &#8220;White Rex&#8221; tournaments were hosted in Russia, including one St Petersburg event that drew 2,000 spectators. <br><br>Following the beginning of the 2014 ethnic Russian insurgency in Ukraine, many self-described Russian &#8220;Nazis&#8221; embraced the Euromaidan coup and began migrating to areas controlled by the Azov Battalion to start music labels, MMA gyms, and t-shirt stores in Eastern Ukraine. Kapustin, who had spent much of the 2010s networking with nationalist groups across Europe, was invited by Azov battalion leaders to help recruit right-wing war tourists, eventually joining them in 2017. Ukraine has hate speech laws similar to those in the European Union that have become s<a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-passes-antisemitism-law/31473362.html">ignificantly more draconian</a> since 2014, but an exemption was carved out specifically for Ukrainian &#8220;Nazis&#8221; volunteering to fight Russian-speaking Ukrainian citizens in Kharkiv and Mariupol, granting them a lot of leeway to produce propaganda and host large events to give some parts of the nationalist world the impression that they were creating the Fourth Reich. <br><br>During this time, Azov&#8217;s international secretary, Olena Semeniaka, began soliciting support from nationalists for the Ukrainian cause. Most hierarchal, rooted, ideologically coherent Nationalsocialist and Fascist organizations, such as Golden Dawn in Greece, Forza Nuova, Marian Kotleba&#8217;s Our Slovakia, etc, prioritized a worldview that is anti-NATO, against Washington&#8217;s influence, and anti-Zionist, so Azov struggled to find an audience.  <br><br>Ukrainian recruiters were then forced to fish in a smaller, more polluted pond, seeking out eccentric internet-based organizations full of teenagers and police informers that grew out of the Iron March forum, which was run by an anti-Putin fanatic and Azov supporter from Uzbekistan. Iron March users bathed in nihilism, expressing a fascination with accelerationism, Charles Manson, school shooters, and the <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/the-dangerous-exploits-of-an-extremist-fbi-informant/">FBI controlled</a> satanic cult, the Order of 9 Angles. Kapustin and his partner, the black metal musician Alexei Levkin &#8212; an avowed satanist, mental patient, and murderer &#8212; <a href="https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/the-rdk-and-the-o9a-iv-and-pmc-wagner">began using</a> groups like Misanthropic Division and Wotanjugend as a feeder to talk these mentally disturbed young people into moving to Ukraine and joining the Azov Battalion. <br><br>While the Azov Battalion&#8217;s internet publicists at the time sold the group as a Nazi revolutionary force to impressionable young people, the truth about the militia&#8217;s origins contradict this. Azov <a href="https://davidfishman.substack.com/p/the-war-in-ukraine-jewish-news-51">was co-founded</a> by Rabbi Natan Khazin, an Israeli Defense Forces veteran, who incorporated his &#8220;Jewish Hundreds&#8221; into the so-called &#8220;neo-Nazi&#8221; group and provided them with training and <a href="https://www.972mag.com/israel-arms-exports-neo-nazis-ukraine/">Israeli weapons</a>. <br><br>One would think that the choice between being a Jew and a neo-Nazi would be a binary one. But here, the toxic confusing odor of both Ukrainian Nationalism and Denis Kapustin lingers. A key tenet of Kapustin&#8217;s ideology, now ubiquitous in both Eastern Europe and abroad, is convincing dupes that they can somehow build bridges to the avowed enemy of nationalism &#8212; post-1945 Western liberal plutocracy &#8212; by fighting and dying on its behalf. <br><br>But another factor is at play here: Jews who fund and support this activity increasingly see mimetic, ideologically defenestrated, pop culture forms of Nazism as a useful recruitment tool for irregular armies ordered to enact vengeance against Russians and others they hate and fear as blood enemies. Kapustin, by extracting anti-Semitism from NS ideology, creates a product that looks and feels like a dynamite stick but has no nitroglycerin. <br><br>Throughout his career, Kapustin presented himself as a liberator of the Holy Rus against Putin&#8217;s Islamo-Mongolian hordes. Aside from the obvious absurdity of fighting on behalf of a state that outlaws Russian language and culture in the name of Russia, Kapustin&#8217;s fighting group, the Russian Volunteer Corps (RKD), showed nothing but contempt for the Russian people during their relatively few military operations.  <br><br>In March 2023, Kapustin&#8217;s RKD were ordered to infiltrate Russian villages in the Bryansk region near the Belarusian border and cause mayhem. Before being repelled by security forces, the RKD began shooting random civilians, including <a href="https://smotrim.ru/article/3231681?ysclid=mjqv256lou584057424">a 10-year-old boy</a>, even taking some hostages in their hasty retreat from the poorly planned assault. The aftermath of the RKD&#8217;s sadistic and cowardly rampage was so discrediting to the Ukrainian war effort that when images of bullet ridden cars full of dead civilians were <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-incursion-volunteer-corps/32298081.html">shown by Russian media</a>, the Ukrainian government <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/what-russian-volunteer-corps-hostages-taken-russia-ukraine-1785038">initially dismissed</a> the RKD incursion as a Russian false flag to make Ukraine look bad.  <br><br>Rather than a Russian patriot, Kapustin&#8217;s pattern of behavior is more akin to a dime a dozen mafia enforcer. It is a known fact that Israeli anti-Russian figure Leonid Nevzlin helped fund the RKD, which uses the symbols of General Vlasov&#8217;s pro-Hitler Russian Liberation Army. Anonymous sources have <a href="https://theins.ru/news/274727">sought to dispute</a> the extent of Nevzlin&#8217;s financial support for Kapustin&#8217;s project, but Nevzlin is even controversial among anti-Putin activists for his employment of ultranationalist soccer hooligans in Kapustin&#8217;s sphere <a href="https://russian.rt.com/world/article/1369642-nevzlin-perepiska-rdk-ukraina-naemniki">to attack his personal rivals</a>. Text messages published in Russian media reveal Nevzlin and Kapustin apparently <a href="https://russian.rt.com/world/article/1369642-nevzlin-perepiska-rdk-ukraina-naemniki">plotting to frame</a> another Ukrainian military liaison for embezzlement so that they can both access the public funding being allocated to RKD for themselves. <br><br>All lingering doubts were cleared last October, when prominent anti-Putin Jewish figures such as Garry Kasparov, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and Nevzlin himself provided explicit full-throated support for both Kapustin and the Russian Volunteer Corps at their <a href="https://www.forumfreerussia.org/en/announcements/2025-10-16/statement-by-the-free-russia-forum-2">Free Russia Forum</a>.  <br><br>There&#8217;s no question that Kapustin and his model has been enormously influential. Kapustin is the co-founder of the Active Club movement, which today has nearly 200 chapters worldwide, and was <a href="https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/from-kickboxing-to-adolf-hitler-the-neo-nazi-plan-to-recruit-angry-young-men-20210817-p58jfq.html">involved</a> in organizing and inspiring the National Socialist Network in Australia which is always in the news. Germany&#8217;s Der III Weg, Italy&#8217;s CasaPound and Poland&#8217;s NOP have also been indelibly marked by Kapustin and his brand of Ukrainian nationalism. In America, figures such as Richard Spencer and <a href="https://vxtwitter.com/fuentesupdates/status/2002529451439960126">Nick Fuentes</a>, consciously or subconsciously, have embraced a more clean-cut version of Kapustinism, arguing to nationalists in America that it is their duty to save Zionist controlled Washington from its geopolitical enemies. <br><br>The guaranteed fate for all who embrace spook manufactured epistemically incoherent worldviews is that they will be used and discarded once the powers they serve find no more use for them. Kapustin and several other RKD members have perished this week in Zaporizhzhia in what military analysts describe as a suicide mission. Only the naive do not realize that these &#8220;neo-Nazis&#8221; are being fed into the Russian combine harvester at a procrastinated rate on purpose as the end of the war approaches. <br><br>Denis Kapustin&#8217;s end is indeed symbolic.    <br></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://littoria.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em><strong>Littoria is a free publication. If you enjoyed this article, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. </strong></em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Old Right Authenticity Against New Right Pragmatism]]></title><description><![CDATA[In a recent recording, Austrian Identitarian leader Martin Sellner lamented the success of the &#8220;Old Right&#8221; &#8212; organizations perceived as being of a Nationalsocialist or Third Positionist orientation such as Die Heimat and Der Dritte Weg &#8212; in activating and mobilizing the youth.]]></description><link>https://littoria.substack.com/p/old-right-authenticity-against-new</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://littoria.substack.com/p/old-right-authenticity-against-new</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:28:01 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f5b9f72e-39fe-4854-aa02-f6f637389532_863x575.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In a <a href="https://martinsellner.substack.com/p/die-alte-rechte-ist-zuruck?r=ypwyd&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;triedRedirect=true">recent recording</a>, Austrian Identitarian leader Martin Sellner lamented the success of the &#8220;Old Right&#8221; &#8212; organizations perceived as being of a Nationalsocialist or Third Positionist orientation such as Die Heimat and Der Dritte Weg &#8212; in activating and mobilizing the youth. Sellner, a figure who has sought to ingratiate himself in National Conservative circles with his slogans, polished marketing and choreographed protests, has expressed concern over the &#8220;wild youth&#8221; and its seeming lack of interest in the mainstream access he has worked for years to cultivate by aggressively distancing himself from &#8220;anti-Semitism,&#8221; Fascism, and other liberal taboos.<br>  <br>The New Right, which Sellner is a disciple of, is a current in thought associated with Alain De Benoist and his organization GRECE. Its argument against the Old Right is largely pragmatic: radical nationalists should seek to influence existing social institutions instead of organizing as confrontational political agents to avoid frightening the bourgeoisie, triggering state repression, and escaping &#8220;ghettoization&#8221; produced by mainstream media boycott and censorship. The experience of the Second World War has irreparably sullied the reputation and marketability of the Old Right, say these critics, and so activists should seek to ingratiate themselves in mainstream institutions while not triggering any of the numerous landmines placed in front of political dissidents. In the eyes of the New Right, the Old Right is responsible for the deaths of 10s of millions of Europeans, and this psychic trauma has made independent radical organizing impossible post-1945.   <br><br>This view of the &#8220;Old Right&#8221; is baseless. Figures such as Oswald Spengler accurately prophesized the demise of the West and the decline of the white race before Hitler was sworn into power, for example. The &#8220;Old Right&#8221; did not cause these problems, it emerged in response to a series of atrocious episodes conducted by sadistic Western Judeo-liberalism, such as the unleashing of Moroccans and Senegalese soldiers to rape German women and girls in the Rhineland following the First World War. Blaming the Old Right for the same racial attack repeating itself in every Western capital following the Second World war can only be described as motivated reasoning. <br><br>In his 1936 lecture on Schiller, Martin Heidegger described the political revolutions spearheaded by Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler as <em>Authentic</em> (per <em>Being and Time</em>), albeit incomplete, counter-nihilist metaphysical reactions to degenerating and abusive liberalism.  An honest assessment of Nationalsocialism, Italian Fascism, the Spanish revolution and similar developments is that these movements were selfless feats emanating from Europe&#8217;s finest geniuses, artists, warriors, and prophets, who under the spell of Jung&#8217;s <em>Wotan</em>, chose to fight to the death instead of surrendering to the state of darkness, dehumanization and depravity we now endure. <br><br>Sellner&#8217;s perplexity at his group&#8217;s relative lack of appeal to young Europeans, in lieu of their increasing access to mainstream conservative institutions, is a product of a failure of imagination and ideological blinkers. The youth of the West was thrown into a world where money and law are not in their hands and never will be. They have no stake in the current order, they don&#8217;t care about respectability, and through radical and at times wild racial struggle, they begin the process of rediscovering their authentic selves. The Old Right may not have the money and famous people on its side, but we have something greater and more enduring: a dangerous and beautiful salvific mission we have inherited and are called to continue regardless of what our enemies think. <br><br>A cursory look at world history produces the revelation that acts of superhuman will guided by <em>Authentic</em> humanity &#8211; Boer and Irish uprisings against British imperialism, the Palestinian incursion of October 7, Russia standing alone against the hegemonic Atlanticist tsunami, and yes, a united Europe behind Germany and Italy presenting Hegelian battle against the mechanized civilizational drift of Bolshevism and liberalism -- indeed culminate in immense, undeniably causative, suffering of the active agent. But through these selfless realizations of will, a metaphysical shock and recalculation is produced, which in retrospect, alters and will continue to alter the trajectory of all of our destinies as these compounds under pressure explode and we become what we were always meant to be. The first resolute eagle who shatters the iron bars of his cage to fly free may be soon shot dead by its captors, but through his daring feat he overturns all established conventions, revealing a new path that against time will inevitably triumph.  A &#8220;New Right&#8221; that seeks to abolish and sever its link to the &#8220;Old Right&#8221; in hopes of being allowed for a two-minute segment on Rupert Murdoch owned media rips the germ out of its mission, interrupting continuity by erasing hard fought gains in how we understand politics and the world.  Defense of the Old Right is not a call to fight the last war, of course new concepts are also necessary, but seeing how often the New Right compares our modern regimes with the Weimar Republic, it is patently absurd to completely ignore the insights from the only political force in history that successfully vanquished the Weimar system simply because it is not allowed.    <br><br>Inherited standards of political validity under Anglo and European liberal democracies are founded on deliberate moral and intellectual distortions, libels, and fraud, hence it is debris to combat and fundamentally unworthy of our respect. It is not the &#8220;old right&#8221; who is guilty of dogmatism, it is those on the &#8220;New Right&#8221; who take an accommodationist position towards the present illegitimate elite welded onto us against our will &#8212; via Talmudic nepotism, military violence, and high finance &#8212; who twist themselves into pretzels to uphold established doctrines and taboos that <em>we did not create and we do not want</em>. <br><br>Ultimately, the only outcome the New Right can produce by glomming on to the latest system approved right-wing fad is to strengthen the status quo of white European irrelevance and subjugation. This hijacking of our destiny, the ahistoricity of the Western white man, does not mean we get to quietly retire from the world stage. On the contrary, as engineers, teachers, workers and soldiers we have been consigned to the role of servant, where our air force pilots, military thinkers, economies &#8212; our respective nations writ large &#8212; must stain their reputations and violate their conscience to murder starving, frightened and defenseless Palestinian children on behalf of a planetary organized crime conspiracy that has only in the last two years slightly paused its perpetual assault on the white race solely for short-term utilitarian purposes. Our true existential form is that of the noble hearted Knight, not our current status of hired and conscripted gangster enforcers. Rather than meet the new awakening among the youth as the sign of heightened consciousness we have been waiting for, the New Right seeks to restrain it, imploring that the aforementioned eagle flap its wings to obtain the concession of a slightly expanded cage instead of using the captor&#8217;s loss of balance to free ourselves. <br><br>Most frustrating is the fact many on the New Right share the Old Rights true distinctions -- right and wrong, heroic and nihilistic, vital and decaying &#8211; but this shared consensus drowns in the New Right&#8217;s glass of water, one of the Gramscian &#8220;war of position&#8221; that manifests as pompous, meticulously scripted displays in rooms full of a few hundred old reactionaries, retracing the same failed tactical debates while refusing to consider the power of authenticity and pushing <em>through</em>. There&#8217;s no doubt that winning hearts and minds is important, but Stalin famously ignored pleas to help the obnoxious Gramsci, opted for him to rot in prison instead. The astute Georgian peasant knew in his gut that to gain hegemony over institutions inevitably requires submitting to them, thus making the whole exercise pointless. The set outcome of Gramscian conspiracies seeking &#8220;cultural hegemony,&#8221; inevitably at the expense of authenticity, is a rudimentary misunderstanding of how power works. Taken to its logical end point, you end up with the inorganic monstrosity known as the Sorosite Left &#8212; a tool of the US State Department and international Jewry quickly eliminated and tossed in the garbage bin as soon as it is no longer useful to the real power brokers. We must take great care that the &#8220;right&#8221; does not follow in its path.   <br><br>Jared Taylor&#8217;s recent interview with the liberal Zionist Renaud Camus, only serves as a mallet to drive home this position. The New Right&#8217;s fixation on the lower intelligence of black Africans, the backwardness (at times, presented as a antithetical to liberal values) of Muslims, or in some sections of it (including De Benoist), blaming the long defeated and forgotten institutions of organized Christianity for the policies currently being set by homosexual atheists, rapacious capitalists, and Jewish elites. The global cabal currently bringing about the Great Replacement, simultaneously, in every Western nation from Argentina to Australia, cannot be truly persuaded by IQ charts or concerns about migrants bringing anti-gay and anti-Jewish grievances with them since the current system bringing about our race&#8217;s demise has brought these elites an unprecedented period of felicity. For the New Right, the solution to the ongoing crisis of representative democracy is always the same: we must further reduce and process our people&#8217;s preferences, dreams and desires down even further, since it is still too threatening to the ruling class and thus not &#8220;safe enough&#8221; for the latest controlled conservative entertainer to interact with.  <br><br>From a Gramscian perspective, the identity right (thanks to the <a href="https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/what-was-alt-right">frontal assaults against the system by the Old Right</a>) has soundly won the metapolitical battle on questions of ethnic self-determination, civilizational self-doubt (&#8220;Wokeism&#8221;), and the irreparable harm of mass immigration. The spontaneous and ferocious anti-immigration riots in Dublin and Southport reveal that the man on the street is in fact more radical on these questions than those who spend decades grooming themselves in hopes of one day being invited to the President&#8217;s office as regime interlocutor. All across the West, political figures ranging from the center-left to the populist right have been repeatedly elected on mandates to end mass immigration. And every time, it amounts to lip service without policy, perhaps occasionally addressing symptoms but never root causes. <br><br>The last 50 years have shown us that electing phony populists or orienting all of our resources around repeating the slogan &#8220;Immigration Bad&#8221; in hopes some bought off politician repeats it to get elected does not work.  We need a complete revolution in our political thinking, its application, and in the end, a completely new elite untainted by the prestigious institutions that exist to breed traitors to manage our decline. <br><br>The future of Europe lives in the wild youth of the Old Right, nowhere else. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://littoria.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em><strong>Littoria is a free publication. If you enjoyed this article, please consider supporting us by becoming a paid subscriber.</strong></em> </p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts On The Israeli Embassy Shooting and The Inevitability Of Left-Wing Terrorism]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thoughts On The Israeli Embassy Shooting and The Inevitability Of Left-Wing Terrorism]]></description><link>https://littoria.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-the-recent-israeli-embassy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://littoria.substack.com/p/thoughts-on-the-recent-israeli-embassy</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 23:37:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/164197643/8adcd47e1179ece14b815bbbac8aeb58.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thoughts On The Israeli Embassy Shooting and The Inevitability Of Left-Wing Terrorism </p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Giorgia Meloni and Matteo Salvini's Italy: Accelerating The Great Replacement]]></title><description><![CDATA[On May 17th activists connected to the youth wings of Flanders&#8217; Vlaams Belang, Portugal&#8217;s Chega, Alternativ F&#252;r Deutschland, and other New Right populist groups will be hosting the Remigration Summit in Milan.]]></description><link>https://littoria.substack.com/p/giorgia-meloni-and-matteo-salvinis</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://littoria.substack.com/p/giorgia-meloni-and-matteo-salvinis</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 08:22:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1a3109d2-f48a-488c-a202-9c79af317e37_1050x788.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On May 17th activists connected to the youth wings of Flanders&#8217; Vlaams Belang, Portugal&#8217;s Chega, Alternativ F&#252;r Deutschland, and other New Right populist groups will be hosting the Remigration Summit in Milan. The event is being marketed as an attempt to de-demonize discussion on European immigration restriction and reframe the conversation around mass deportations in hopes of influencing established conservative and populist parties. <br><br>Italian media <a href="https://www.editorialedomani.it/politica/italia/remigration-summit-milano-lega-salvini-au9ic5oz">has connected</a> the summit to Lega, a member of Italy&#8217;s ruling coalition whose leader Matteo Salvini serves as deputy Prime Minister under Fratelli Di Italia&#8217;s Giorgia Meloni. Salvini was one of the first in Europe to embrace and utilize the slogan of &#8220;Remigration,&#8221; which his identitarian supporters have cited as their inspiration. <br><br>Now in power, the Italian right has mimicked Donald Trump in the United States, representing a new meme-driven populist politics that is falling through the gap between what they say and what they do.  The present Italian government sailed to victory in 2022 on a mandate of ending non-European immigration, featuring unambiguous promises to embark in the mass deportation of illegal immigrants. The media saavy Salvini&#8217;s profile grew to prominence in 2018, when he was summoned to run the country&#8217;s interior ministry as an olive branch hoping to blunt grassroots anti-immigration protests &#8212; often led by Fascist and radical ethno-nationalist organizations &#8212; which swelled to the thousands, producing whirlwinds that began destabilizing Italy&#8217;s notoriously corrupt and undemocratic political patronage system. <br><br>The Italian populist right&#8217;s commanding victory has produced skin-deep symbolic victories in the fight against immigration, but in executed policy it has been responsible for accelerating the problem. Once the votes were counted, the emphasis was shifted to the legalistic issue of irregular migration, with elected officials brazenly dismissing the spirit of the people&#8217;s grievance: too many Asians and Africans in Europe. <br><br>Conservative supporters of Prime Minister Meloni and her coalition partners have countered accusations of electoral betrayal by pointing to tangible deliverables on the question of <em>illegal</em> immigration, such as <a href="https://www.jpost.com/international/article-806228">paying the Tunisian government</a> to prevent migrant boat expeditions and later a deal with Albania to build detention centers for asylum seekers to await deportation off Italian soil. Indeed, following an initial surge of migrant arrivals, the Meloni government has succeeded in reducing illegal border entries by <a href="https://ine.org.pl/en/italys-evolving-approach-to-illegal-immigration-under-giorgia-meloni/">60% from 2023 to 2024</a>, crediting the craftiness of her Albanian deal for the results. <br><br>This curtailment of illegal boat migrants, mildly impressive on the surface, has been completely overshadowed by the Italian government&#8217;s shocking 2023 overhaul of the Flussi Decree, leading to <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23248823.2024.2330805">the country&#8217;s biggest expansion in legal migration</a> from Asia and Africa since the early 2000s. <br><br>Under the Flussi Decree, Meloni and Salvini have achieved the opposite of remigration. Instead of the mass deportations promised, the alteration to immigration law solves the problem of illegal immigrants by simply granting those illicitly living on Italian soil residency permits, making it significantly more difficult for future governments to deport them. <br><br>Additionally, Meloni&#8217;s updated Flussi Decree has drastically jacked up the quota for legal immigration from non-EU countries from <a href="https://www.oliverpartners.it/decreto-flussi-when-are-we-likely-to-know-the-2020-quota/">30,850</a> under her center-left predecessor Giuseppe Conte to at least <a href="https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/60346/italys-new-flows-decree-stricter-controls-and-expanded-work-visas-for-migrants">452,000</a> for the period between 2023 and 2025. University of Milan migration expert Maurizio Ambrosini estimates that Meloni&#8217;s 452,000 new legal migrants are in reality 1.5 million due to Italy&#8217;s lax family reunification laws, which enables chain migration and will radically, perhaps permanently, change Italy&#8217;s ethnic balance. <br><br>The origin of the problem lies in the strong links between Lega and FdI to Italian big business. Meloni, who has governed, to the disappointment of supporters and joy of global elites, as an <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/melonis-bluff-italys-covert-return-to-austerity-as-eu-debt-rules-eat-into-health-budget/">economic Thatcherite</a> and an <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/no-just-peace-without-security-guarantees-to-ukraine-italian-premier/3494387">Atlanticist neo-conservative</a>, has enthusiastically embraced industrialist, banking, agribusiness and tourism sector claims that Italy&#8217;s aging population and low birth rate requires radical increases in imported labor, despite data showing Italy is one of the Eurozone&#8217;s leaders in youth unemployment (20%). Meloni&#8217;s regime has sought to present its decision to flood the nation with an almost unprecedented number of non-Europeans as a compromise, pointing to a study her government commissioned in 2023 calling for Italy<a href="https://www.governo.it/it/articolo/comunicato-stampa-del-consiglio-dei-ministri-n-42/23077"> to import at least 833,000 migrants</a> in three years simply to stay economically competitive. <br><br>Even if one were to grant the questionable liberal capitalist premise of perpetual labor shortages, the state under Meloni has gone out of its way to actively show a preference for non-white migrants. Following an Italian media generated scandal in 2024 over awarding Argentinian president Javier Milei Italian citizenship (seven of eight of Milei&#8217;s great grandparents were immigrants from Italy, the other being Croatian), the Meloni regime was accused of racism for giving a &#8220;foreigner&#8221; an Italian passport under the country&#8217;s <em>jus sanguinis</em> law while denying the same for Africans and Middle Easterners who have lived in Italy for years. Approximately 40% of Argentinians and 30% of Uruguayans are descended from Italian migrants.   <br><br>In response to the supposed controversy, the Italian government reacted by substantially tightening Italy&#8217;s citizenship by descent rules so that it that it prevents most working age descendants of 19th century Italian-Americans, Italian-Argentines, Italian-Uruguayans, and Italian-Brazilians from receiving citizenship and immigrating to Europe. Around 46,000 Argentinians received Italian citizenship from 2023 to 2024 alone, suggesting the existence of a potential pool of 10s of millions of highly assimilable people from the Western Hemisphere that can be attracted to the country. Additionally, the regulatory change has also made it difficult for the children of native-born Italian parents who live abroad to obtain citizenship, potentially making them stateless.  <br><br>Some Italian political commentators have celebrated these changes, citing that many don&#8217;t live in Italy, don&#8217;t pay taxes, and don&#8217;t speak Italian, in a demonstration of politically correct xenophobia. Shutting the door to new world Italians while whisking it open to Asia and Africa effectively trades Italian-Argentines like Ren&#233; Favaloro, the father of coronary bypass surgery, and Raul Pescara, credited by some with inventing the helicopter, for ethnically incompatible Moroccan and Nigerian Doordashers and Uber drivers. <br><br>Lega, a junior partner in the Meloni government, has sought to distance himself from these policies, but Italian patriots have broadly concluded that their performance has been unsatisfactory in respects to politically resisting these changes. Deputy Prime Minister Salvini continues to occasionally gives fiery speeches against immigrants and the corruption of the status quo, but stops short of tending his resignation, making him an accomplice to the largest wave of non-white immigration Italy has seen in decades. <br><br>Those seeking remigration beyond campaign slogans and viral antics should look elsewhere. <br><br></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://littoria.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em><strong>Littoria</strong></em><strong> is a free publication. If you found this article interesting, please consider becoming a paid subscriber.</strong></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump's Coming Big Beautiful (Legal) Immigration Flood ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump&#8217;s mandate is clear: end immigration.]]></description><link>https://littoria.substack.com/p/trumps-coming-big-beautiful-legal</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://littoria.substack.com/p/trumps-coming-big-beautiful-legal</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 19 Dec 2024 07:56:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/958817a2-c274-40a0-9ddb-af217595fb22_1200x720.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s mandate is clear: end immigration. <br><br>The president-elect has yet to take office, but <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-immigration-deportation-promises-worried-allies-6b78418d">his supporters</a> are already intuiting that we are about to get more of the same, <em>or worse.</em> <br><br>Polls <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/tag/immigration-poll/">consistently show</a> majorities across the board want to a hard stop to migration, including legal immigration. Aside from the enormous pressure millions of immigrants are putting on public services and real estate prices, the majority of new employment opportunities produced by Joe Biden&#8217;s attempt at a &#8220;New Deal&#8221; <a href="https://cis.org/Camarota/Most-Employment-Growth-Pandemic-Has-Gone-Immigrants">have gone to foreigners</a>.  <br><br>On the issue of mass deportations, most observers and insiders agree we will instead see business as usual. As usual, Trump has been deploying a rhetorical sleight of hand to get the mass media chirping &#8212; in recent news cycles, making empty, impossible threats to end birthright citizenship &#8212; to cover up the fact that his administration plans to, at best, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/18/politics/tom-homan-donald-trump-barack-obama-deportation/index.html">return to the Obama norm</a> on enforcement.  <br><br>The Brookings Institute estimates that if Trump returns to the same policies of his first administration, <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/articles/immigration-and-the-macroeconomy-second-trump-administration/">close to six million new immigrants</a> will be imported to the country by the end of his term. Lower than the record eight million under Biden&#8217;s administration, but not nearly what Trump&#8217;s supporters are expecting.   <br><br>But there is reason to believe Trump will not merely go back to his first term&#8217;s policies. Trump&#8217;s second administration is being strongly influenced by Silicon Valley tech oligarchs, who have been one of America&#8217;s most vocal lobbies for drastic increases in legal immigration.  <br><br>Last summer, Trump, who has repeatedly suggested letting in a lot of people &#8220;legally&#8221; in off the cuff interviews elsewhere, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blqIZGXWUpU">developed this idea</a> to his new &#8220;Crypto and AI Czar&#8221; David Sacks. In the podcast, Trump vowed that his administration will seek to give automatic residency permits to any foreign student who graduates from an American university or two-year college. For context: during the period of 2023-24, the US hosted 1.1 million foreign students, the majority of them from India and China. Under Trump&#8217;s plan, we can safely forecast that many more will pour into our universities to enjoy this fast track to a green card. <br><br>While voters and &#8220;informal advisors&#8221; like Kris Kobach draw up <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-immigration-mass-deportations-kobach-kansas-1918efac421cf5772a932917757a4642">fantasy immigration agendas</a>, lobbyists and donors who actually have Trump&#8217;s ear are pushing the eager to be used new president to increase legal immigration to record highs. <a href="https://spectator.org/beware-viveks-plan-for-work-visas/">Vivek Ramaswamy</a> and <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1859420066284028183">Elon Musk</a> both support substantial increases in legal immigration, with Musk recently starting a &#8220;debate&#8221; in support of a <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/should-i-get-a-green-card-indian-origin-ceos-post-goes-viral-elon-musks-reply-sparks-debate-on-us-immigration/articleshow/116358904.cms">green card giveaway</a>. <br><br>As highly visible Trump promoters, Musk and Ramaswamy have been shy about publicly floating an exact number for how many more legal immigrants they want during the campaign season, but some numbers thrown around by advocates for increasing this type of migration range from two to five million per year. <br><br>Sniffing around on the periphery are other <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/11/mark-zuckerberg-launches-immigration-group">open borders activists</a>, such as Mark Zuckerberg, whose company Meta recently donated $1 million dollars to Trump&#8217;s inauguration. A rogue&#8217;s gallery of wealthy Indian and Jewish tech capitalists laser focused on <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/business/economy/trump-tech-h1b-visa.html">massively expanding the pool of cheap labor</a> are coming out on top in the scrum in Trump&#8217;s orbit. <br><br>In the think-tank sphere, groups like the <a href="https://www.stimson.org/2024/broken-immigration-policy-undercuts-potential-us-advantage/">Stimson Center</a>, Council on Foreign Relations, and others <a href="https://www.cfr.org/blog/compete-china-united-states-needs-fix-immigration">have made the case</a> that America cannot compete with China, Russia and Iran in the imperial Great Game unless it imports millions of Indian engineers. <br><br>These concerns are merited. Russia produces <a href="https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/countries-with-the-most-engineering-graduates.html#:~:text=Here%20are%20some%20top%20countries,the%20United%20States%20with%20237%2C826.">454,436 engineers</a> annually, while the United States produces 237,826 (Iran is virtually tied with the US for third). This helps explain why American military planners are baffled by technology such as Russia&#8217;s hypersonic Oreshnik missile or the construction of the Crimea Bridge, which has been referred to as an <a href="https://evendo.com/locations/ukraine/crimea/landmark/crimean-bridge">engineering marvel</a>.   <br><br>There are several solutions to this gap in building and innovation. One is to train Americans, especially the country&#8217;s talented but institutionally discriminated against white population, in STEM. Additionally, talented and intelligent people in America are often pulled into non-productive fields such as law and finance due to the fact that these are far more profitable and socially prestigious than being a scientist or engineer. Another potential fix is to give up on the idea of being a world hegemonic empire and learn to live in a multipolar world. But America&#8217;s elites are closed off to these perspectives, so their answer appears to be to simply bring all of India, whose <a href="https://www.globalindiantimes.com/p/why-most-indian-engineering-degrees">engineers are of low quality</a>, to the US. <br><br>Political cogs appear to be quietly moving in this direction. In an <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/sa/podcast/the-election-did-not-change-the-gop-we-must-do-it-11-21-24/id1065050908?i=1000677815561">interview</a> with Daniel Horowitz last month, Republican Congressman Chip Roy hinted that he was working on a behind-the-scenes bipartisan immigration deal that would trade some immigration enforcement against illegal aliens for a huge increase in legal immigration. <br><br>If what Trump is telegraphing comes to fruition, the GOP and Silicon Valley&#8217;s solution to Biden&#8217;s open southern border will be to fly the aliens in, legally. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://littoria.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em><strong>Littoria is a free publication. Please consider supporting our work by becoming a paid subscriber.</strong></em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Turkish Opportunism and Multipolarity In Syria ]]></title><description><![CDATA[The fall of Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s government in Syria marks a turning point.]]></description><link>https://littoria.substack.com/p/turkish-opportunism-and-multipolarity</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://littoria.substack.com/p/turkish-opportunism-and-multipolarity</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 09 Dec 2024 10:02:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/17d77c8d-2671-48d6-a0ed-5c1a4e0ee9a9_297x170.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The fall of Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s government in Syria marks a turning point. Prior to the start of the 2011 civil war, Syrians were among the most highly educated people in the Arab world. Syria&#8217;s flourishing middle-class, high quality universities, and advanced pharmaceutical industry allowed them to punch above their weight class in influencing the Middle East. As a middle power, Assad&#8217;s Ba&#8217;athist social-nationalist government sought to retain good ties with all players, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/feb/19/syria-us-ally-human-rights">including the United States</a> at one point, though its commitment to combating Zionist expansionism ultimately led to its targeting for destruction by the very United States it had sought to keep good terms with. <br><br>With Iran and Russia behind it, Syrian forces emerged victorious over Zionist backed Islamist forces in 2018, but this victory was incomplete and led to a period of stagnation in the country. Syria has been unable to recover from the brain drain wrought by the <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2013/12/09/the-middle-class-syrian-refugee/">exodus</a> of educated professionals &#8212; teachers, physicians, engineers, etc &#8212; to Europe and Turkey. The strict sanctions regiment imposed on Syria by the United States and other Zionist powers has made it difficult for the state to participate in global commerce, leading to economic isolation and stagnation. A culture of corruption and cynicism has flourished under the weakened and demoralized Assad, seen everywhere from organized crime groups recruiting the country&#8217;s unemployed chemists to become the region&#8217;s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/05/world/middleeast/syria-drugs-captagon-assad.html">top producer</a> of crystal meth and Captagon, to the sad display of Syrian Arab Army forces <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-syria-rebels-stars-aligned-assads-ouster-2024-12-08/">unable to move tanks and airplanes</a> to confront rebels due to their commanders having stolen and sold all the fuel. <br><br>Both Russia and Iran have their own reasons for wanting to cut their losses with Assad. The two nations are distracted with their own existential wars against the American-Israeli Zionist order, which is why the Russian presence in Syria was small (a handful of jets) and the Iranian one was already withdrawing from strategic areas such as Idlib.  <br><br>Hezbollah&#8217;s supply routes, which run through Homs and Palmyra, were highly surveilled and regularly targeted by Israel &#8212; sometimes attacked a dozen times a day &#8212; likely due to corrupt Syrian officers informing on them to the Zionists, making these routes increasingly difficult to use. In one instance, IRGC experts were killed by an Israeli airstrike just blocks away from Assad&#8217;s private residence, which Iranian intelligence traced to information obtained from bought off Syrian officials, yet Assad <a href="https://newlinesmag.com/argument/assads-next-move/">demonstrated</a> a lack of will or capacity to root out the compromised operatives. Syria has gone out of its way to keep a low profile and stay out of the conflict over Gaza since October 7th, including <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/houthis-say-assad-closed-down-their-embassy-exchange-saudi-arabia">cutting ties</a> with the Houthis in Yemen, which has upset many of its Axis of Resistance allies who expended large amounts of blood and treasure keeping Assad in power. <br>    <br>On the Russian side of the equation, Moscow has been frustrated with Assad&#8217;s inability to combat corruption or make an effort to bring about an official end to the conflict. Both Russia and Iran have sought to reintegrate Syria in a post-American geopolitical environment, but Assad was intransigent despite being the weakest party in the alliance. <br><br>Following the 2023 Chinese brokered detente between Iran and Saudi Arabia, which whipped the rug from underneath Washington&#8217;s feet, an attempt was made by Beijing, Moscow and Tehran to organize a solution to conflicting Turkish and Syrian interests. Assad rejected this offer, stating that <a href="https://www.indiatoday.in/opinion/story/turkey-president-recep-tayyip-erdogan-dual-strategy-syria-nato-russia-opinion-2646753-2024-12-08">negotiations were off the table</a> until Turkish troops withdrew from Syrian territory. <br><br>Turkey has emerged as a highly antagonistic but transactional actor, leveraging its massive army, network of terrorists, and intelligence apparatus at times to do the bidding of America and Israel when their interests intersect, while also carving out a sovereignist position that also deals with Russia and Iran when it benefits Ankara.<br><br>The Armenian-Azerbaijani war exemplifies this dynamic. The Armenian government, which had made its own bed by publicly insulting and seeking to distance itself from its Russian and Iranian allies in hopes of winning the favor of America, Israel and Western Europe, was instead caught isolated and alone when Turkish and Israeli backed Azeri forces launched a sudden invasion of Nagorno-Karabakh in late 2020.     <br><br>Both Russia and Iran avoided a potential war with Turkey by staying out of its way. In exchange, they have reaped tangible benefits from allowing the Turks to achieve their objectives in what they see as their natura sphere of influence. In the aftermath of the Armenian conflict, Azerbaijan, under Turkish protection, has defied Washington by providing a <a href="https://carnegieendowment.org/russia-eurasia/politika/2024/05/the-cost-of-russias-friendship-with-azerbaijan?lang=en">trade corridor</a> for Russia to transport goods to Iran as well as becoming a vital lifeline for Russian energy amidst Ukrainian sanctions.  <br><br>Turkey has in the past defied Washington, largely because America increasingly needs Turkey more than Turkey needs America. Turkey has been regularly bombing Kurdish communist groups who have since 2018 served as the main American asset in Syria, such as the YPG, and have especially defied Washington in regards <a href="https://archive.is/ORtN0">to their relations</a> with Russia. Turkey&#8217;s emergence as a regional power is an issue neither the United States or Russia appear capable of combating, and both seek to get what they can out of this new reality.  <br><br>In Syria, there appears to have been a similar arrangement to the one over Armenia behind closed doors between Assad&#8217;s government, Iran, Turkey and Russia, who are <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-iran-russia-meet-doha-saturday-discuss-syria-turkish-source-says-2024-12-06/">currently meeting</a> in Doha without any official American, Western or Israeli presence. Hussein Ibish of <em>The Atlantic</em> <a href="https://archive.is/D5jx6">believes</a> a post-Assad Syria could be divided up among ethno-religious lines, with Russia being able to maintain its port in Tartus through an Alawite protectorate. <br><br>As for Iran, which media outlets and analysts are declaring the biggest loser from Assad&#8217;s fall, it would be more prudent to wait and see what happens.  Hay&#8217;at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the Islamist militia serving as Turkey&#8217;s proxy, has sought to distance itself from its al-Qaeda origins and so far avoided organized persecution of Christians and Shi&#8217;ites, as Iranian media has testified. Such a development suggests that they are under Turkish orders to behave in a restrained fashion, perhaps through an agreement with Russia and Iran. While HTS is unlikely to have launched its offensive with Hezbollah being forced to surge its material and men to South Lebanon, they have sent message to Shia fighters that they do not seek hostilities with them. <br><br>The status of the weapons transfer corridor to Hezbollah, however, could be in jeopardy and Israel has capitalized on this by pushing into Syrian territory, but ultimately both the United States and Israel appear to be in the passenger seat at the behest of Turkey. There is potential for Iran to convince Sunni militants in the new Syrian government to preserve their ability to support Hezbollah out of anti-Israel solidarity. Rather than a carefully calibrated Western-led regime change, the renewed Turkish aggression appears to be in the context of a vacuum in Central Asia and the Near East that a weakened Washington has no choice but to support on Ankara&#8217;s terms, which they prefer to Iranian or Russian influence, but which also introduces variables out of Washington&#8217;s control. <br><br>As NATO member, Turkey has long sought to utilize strategic agreements with America and Israel for its own morally ambiguous economic and geopolitical self-interest, including maintaining <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/new-evidence-reveals-oil-shipments-turkey-israel-continue-despite-embargo">the financially lucrative oil pipeline</a> to Israel, but they nevertheless reserve the right to retain a degree of independence. Turkey <a href="https://www.meforum.org/mef-online/turkey-seeks-to-drive-a-wedge-between-syrian-kurds-and-their-u-s-allies">has been diligent</a> in demanding the US break ties with its Kurdish fighters in Syria, and while HTS rebels have largely avoided major battles with Iran-backed Shia groups and Russian forces, both the Turkish military and HTS are <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/world/middleeast/syria-turkey-kurds.html">currently eviscerating</a> the positions long held by US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (who are Kurdish) in Northern Syria while Washington impotently tells them to stop. <br><br>It is unclear in the immediate aftermath if America and Israel are really the major winners or simply opportunistically getting their licks in amidst the chaos. Turkey has likely already agreed with the US to allow Israel to <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/12/08/syria-israel-golan-heights-assad">steal Syrian territory</a> in exchange for a free hand, but this doesn&#8217;t mean Iran won&#8217;t also be allowed to develop an alternative way to aid its allies in Lebanon in a separate agreement. One can recall the aftermath of Saddam Hussein, overthrown by the US due to his stalwart opposition to Israel and replaced with a weak puppet regime that ultimately created an unforeseen vacuum, allowing Iran to cultivate a new and increasingly important branch of its Axis of Resistance via Popular Mobilization Units.   <br><br>For Iran, which appears to be <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/irans-nuclear-leap-extremely-serious-hurts-diplomacy-western-source-says-2024-12-07/">preparing</a> for a war with the incoming Trump administration, avoiding an intervention in Syria preserves weapons and funds needed in Lebanon and at home, but also avoids reigniting cooling sectarian tensions by avoiding attacking Sunnis to preserve the rule of a Shia minority. The prospect of unchallenged American hegemony in Syria, which would&#8217;ve transpired without outside intervention in the 2011 civil war, is an acute threat to both Iran and Russia, so the decision to allow the rebels to take Damascus should be observed with this in mind. The truth of the matter is that the rebels, armed with Turkey&#8217;s state of the art drones and other new battlefield dynamics the Syrian army was unprepared to defend against, were easier to accommodate than fight.   <br><br>The big picture mission for Iran in the new security landscape is to undercut American and Israeli machinations by uniting Shia and Sunni Muslims for the Palestinian cause, which appears to be bearing some fruit. Iran has successfully pitched a united front against Israel to win over unlikely Sunni militant allies, such as Hamas and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Detente between Saudi Arabia and Iran seems to be <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/10/saudi-armed-forces-chief-visits-iranian-counterpart-for-rare-meeting">taking the form of entente</a>, as seen with the two country&#8217;s increased military cooperation. Last March, Hezbollah&#8217;s foreign minister Wafiq Safa <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hezbollah-official-makes-landmark-visit-uae-sources-say-2024-03-20/">was welcomed by officials</a> in the Sunni United Arab Emirates, considered by many to be a pivot away from the United States. In Lebanon, Sunni militias once seen as rivals of Hezbollah have put aside their differences to <a href="https://carnegieendowment.org/sada/2024/06/quwwat-al-fajr-and-hezbollah-unlikely-allies-against-israel?lang=en">fight alongside</a> the Shia resistance group against Israel. The hard truth for Gulf States, who under the first Trump administration were being organized into a proxy army for Israel, is that the Yemen war, where Saudi oil refineries were destroyed, showed them the United States is unable or unwilling to provide them with the kind of security guarantees needed for them to fight Iran and its allies. It will remain to be seen what Trump&#8217;s second administration, which is directed almost exclusively by Israel&#8217;s well-being, will offer to bring the Saudis back to the negotiating tables.  <br><br>The US and Israel unleashing the Turkish juggernaut could be interpreted as a recalibration and reaction to increased collaboration between Shia and Sunni nations elsewhere, who have been brought together by the genocide in Gaza as well as the rise of BRICS. Though Turkey is a Sunni nation, various Arab states from Egypt to Saudi Arabia fear the Muslim Brotherhood and other forms of political Islam backed by Ankara. One could argue that empowering Turkey, which has decent relations with Russia, could also drive a wedge between Moscow and Tehran in the long-run as most of the Middle East, including Iran, reject neo-Ottoman influence. <br><br>It is doubtful that relying on Turkey was Washington&#8217;s first choice in the Middle East. A comparison could be made with the Atlanticist embrace of Joseph Stalin during the Second World War. The Turks, both as a society and state, largely reject the liberal values America and its Jewish policy makers seek to impose on the world, especially in the realm of foreign policy. In the last two years, Turkey has sought to circumvent Western sanction on <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/erdogan-eyeing-more-trade-with-iran-says-turkey-weighing-opening-new-border-2024-01-25/">Iran</a> and <a href="https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2022-003495_EN.html">outright refuses</a> to acknowledge their sanctions on Russia, seemingly unafraid of any Western retaliation. <br><br>The nightmare of trying to control Turkey is bound to cause the liberal West a major headache down the line. Recep Erdogan&#8217;s stated imperial ambitions do not stop at Armenia and Syria, he has also repeatedly called for increasing influence or outright invading his supposed NATO &#8220;allies&#8221; <a href="https://www.aei.org/op-eds/turkey-threatens-to-invade-greece-and-armenia/">Greece</a>, <a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/tensions-in-bulgaria-flare-up-after-turkish-bulgarian-party-meets-erdogan/">Bulgaria</a>, and <a href="https://pressone.ro/the-gang-of-five-how-president-erdogan-is-building-his-influence-in-romania-and-the-world-through-construction-companies-loyal-to-the-regime">Romania</a>. Turkey functions as a gangster state, <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/world/exclusive-eu-fumes-at-turk-migration-blackmail-mulls-more-money-for-ankara-idUSKBN20Q2EJ/">extorting Europe</a> out of billions of dollars by threatening to flood the continent with migrants. Whatever short-term benefits to their geopolitical infrastructure the US and Israel obtain from helping unleash Turkish savagery on the world is tantamount to running with scissors. <br><br>Though it is too early to tell, the largely bloodless and apparently consensual exit of Assad, with the US and Israel as beneficiaries but still secondary actors, could be looked back upon as a product of multipolarity, rather than a refutation of it. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://littoria.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em><strong>Littoria</strong></em><strong> is a free publication. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to support our work. </strong></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Ethnography of American Foreign Policy]]></title><description><![CDATA[At a recent briefing of the Russian SVR, the Kremlin&#8217;s intelligence agency disclosed information suggesting a recalibration of American and British backed media entities and NGOs, who have been instructed by their handlers to launch an information assault seeking to recreate the Ukraine conflict in other nations bordering Russia.]]></description><link>https://littoria.substack.com/p/the-ethnography-of-american-foreign</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://littoria.substack.com/p/the-ethnography-of-american-foreign</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 05 Dec 2024 11:41:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6a03d06e-da11-4f3c-af51-49bd25aef279_1280x961.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At a recent briefing of the Russian SVR, the Kremlin&#8217;s intelligence agency disclosed information suggesting a <a href="https://www.mikehampton.co.uk/p/russias-cia-svr-sats-nato-freezing-conflict-ukraine?utm_source=multiple-personal-recommendations-email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;triedRedirect=true">recalibration</a> of American and British backed media entities and NGOs, who have been instructed by their handlers to launch an information assault seeking to recreate the Ukraine conflict in other nations bordering Russia.<br><br>Both the CIA and MI6 appear to be importing the Syrian model to Eastern Europe, where instead of unleashing Jihadists on geopolitical opponents of Zionism, <a href="https://purdue.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=01PURDUE_PUWL:PURDUE&amp;mode=advanced&amp;tab=Everything&amp;offset=0&amp;docid=alma99169220833101081&amp;query=sub,contains,north%20atlantic%20treaty%20organization%20military%20policy,AND&amp;context=L&amp;adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&amp;pfilter=pfilter,exact,books,AND&amp;sortby=rank&amp;search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&amp;lang=en">GLADIO</a> revanchists and parochial nationalists are being indoctrinated, armed and trained by American, British and Ukrainian intelligence to provoke violence and instability in Belarus, Georgia, and through groups like the &#8220;Russian Volunteer Corps,&#8221; in Russia proper.   <br><br>In the SVR&#8217;s presentation, care is taken to distinguish Europe from the United States and Britain. It is the latter nations, referred to as Anglo-Saxons in Russian reporting, that have decided to <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/what-can-stop-the-cycle-of-escalation-in-ukraine">perpetually escalate</a> all conflicts towards the unthinkable (such as an exchange of nuclear strikes) and set the world on fire, while Europe is portrayed as a reluctant vassal in this project. <br><br>But just how ethnically Anglo-Saxon are the pro-war parties in America? In France, Jewish neo-conservative Bernard Henri-Levi can be viewed as the most unapologetically pro-war public figure in the country. In the UK, media fixture Paul Mason, also of Jewish ancestry, has recently <a href="https://archive.is/H05a1">penned an article</a> calling for Britain to declare war on Russia, China, Iran, <em>and</em> North Korea. These pro-war voices have no base of popular support and the electorate regularly rejects them, yet they continue to get their way. <br><br>The ethnography of warmongers in America follows in this pattern. Jewish sociologist Eric Kaufmann&#8217;s work, <em>The Rise and Fall of Anglo-America, </em>details how the historic WASP elite was uninstalled as the dominant power bloc and removed from most American institutions by the end of the 1960s. When observing the outgoing Biden administration, we see largely a panel of Jewish actors steering the American ship globally, while the incoming Trump administration has placed figures such as billionaire Zionists Howard Lutnick and Miriam Adelson in charge of appointing a cabinet of obedient politicians and various celebrity-seeking self-promoters vetted for their ability to read a script and look good on television without asking any questions. <br><br>Pushed out of institutions, prominent WASPs such as Tucker Carlson have reconstituted themselves as critics of the American empire, much like ethnic Russian patriots like Alexander Solzhenitsyn developed into leading opponents of the Soviet empire. WASPs who were once held in good-standing with the American regime, such as Carlson, Douglas MacGregor, and Michael Hudson, are today some of the most prominent critics of America&#8217;s support for Israel and do not hide their sympathies for Russia.  <em>  </em>   <br><br>Many in this dissenting WASP faction on the periphery of American politics have gone all-in on Donald Trump, but there is no sign Trump plans to reciprocate. A recent clash between America&#8217;s Jewish foreign policy establishment and WASP outsiders that exemplifies this dynamic emerged when Elbridge Colby&#8217;s name appeared as a potential pick for National Security Advisor.  <br><br>Colby is what passes in Washington for a &#8220;realist.&#8221; As an opponent of aid to Ukraine and for Russian detente, as well as a supporter of trying diplomacy with Iran, he has been maligned in the press as an &#8220;appeaser.&#8221; But this WASP faction should not be viewed as isolationist, instead, <a href="https://www.newstatesman.com/ns-interview/2024/07/elbridge-colby-i-am-signalling-to-china-that-my-policy-is-status-quo">Colby seeks</a> to pursue historically familiar Anglo-Saxon geopolitical imperatives, such as destroying economic competitors through force and monopolizing international trade routes. In order to take on this difficult task, Colby has suggested pulling out of Europe and the Middle East to concentrate on battling China. <br><br>Colby&#8217;s foreign policy views are bellicose, interventionist and dangerous in their own right, but they diverge from most in Washington in that at least they are self-aware and self-interested from an American perspective, and thus geopolitically rational.<br><br>When rumors began to swirl that Tucker Carlson, the realist Quincy Institute, and others in this milieu were lobbying Trump to appoint Colby, Jewish media outlets such as the <em>Jewish Insider</em> began to <a href="https://archive.is/blcOg">ring alarm bells</a>. Matthew Kassel compares Colby&#8217;s indifference towards Iran and Israel to Barack Obama and a &#8220;source of contention within Republican foreign policy circles,&#8221; quoting unnamed figures from Trump&#8217;s own inner circle who inferred that there was nothing to worry about because they got the last say in who would serve in the administration. <br><br>Ultimately, Trump, whose financial base of support is <a href="https://forward.com/news/669961/jdca-rjc-fundraising-2024-trump-harris/">heavily Jewish</a>, disappointed his MAGA backers by rejecting Colby for the conventional neoconservative Israel-firster Mike Waltz. While Colby&#8217;s name continues to appear in conservative publications for a potential role elsewhere in the administration, the reality of WASP political impotence in the shadow of America&#8217;s Jewish plutocratic core means that Colby would struggle to clear the Senate confirmation process in the off chance of being nominated.   <br><br><strong>The</strong> <strong>Ethnography of America&#8217;s Pro-War Elite  </strong><br><br>Rivals of American hegemony such as Vladimir Putin, the Iranian government, and Xi Jinping often remark that Washington&#8217;s foreign policy decisions often needlessly weaken its power and economic interests for little discernible benefit. Examples cited are the weaponization of the US dollar or the freezing of Russian assets, which have reduced confidence in the world reserve currency and scared the elites of vassal states into considering options <a href="https://www.energyintel.com/00000192-de3b-de51-a19a-fe3bc5fb0000">that hedge against</a> the waning American empire. <br><br>The world&#8217;s exhaustion with Washington&#8217;s abuse of unilateral global attitude adjustment measures has, from an attempt to impose international sanctions on Russia to America&#8217;s role as blank check and accomplice to Israel&#8217;s genocide in Gaza, marked a period of increasing American diplomatic isolation. The recent decision by the United States to threaten the International Criminal Court with penalties for issuing arrest warrants for Israeli war criminals has <a href="https://archive.is/p23Wp">discredited</a> the American empire&#8217;s assertion of being uniquely qualified to lead a &#8220;rules-based liberal order.&#8221; When the United States created the World Trade Organization in 1995, the purpose was to impose a free trade system on the world that ensured American access. Now that China is successfully challenging the United States, Washington has been one of the major breakers of its own rules and is <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-12-12/supply-chain-latest-us-snub-of-wto-called-a-step-back-for-trade">actively undermining</a> the very system it engineered.   <br><br>When examining American hegemony and the way its global institutions operate we observe little in the way of ideological consistency beyond anarchic diplomacy, Machiavellian power plays, and breath-taking displays of moral nihilism (as seen in Gaza). <br><br>Some of the more erratic decisions can be explained by the wild overrepresentation of Jews among the American empire&#8217;s policy makers goes a long way in explaining the obsession of figures like Anne Applebaum (who is still angry that her <a href="https://www.svaboda.org/a/29500489.html">family was forced to</a> flee Czarist Russia) with keeping Russia poor and weak, while the prominence of individuals with personal ties to Israel helps explain the seemingly irrational decision to make an enemy of the whole resource rich Muslim world so a Jewish supremacist state can thrive. <br><br>American policy decisions are not made by elected officials, but instead by an elaborate web of think-tanks and non-governmental organizations financed and led by the same billionaires who leverage their role as major donors to both parties to impose their political will. <br><br>Through the influence of wealthy Jewish billionaires, individuals of Jewish ancestry have been able to emerge as clear Pareto elites in the direction of US foreign policy by forming either an ethnic plurality or occupying leadership positions in America&#8217;s most powerful interventionist globalist think-tanks and NGOs. This disproportionate Jewish representation is so great that it has not been seen since the first decade and a half of the Soviet Union, which had an equally aggressive and internationalist foreign policy.  <br><br>Due to the immense diversity of non-Jews at these think-tanks &#8212; a proverbial ethnic grab-bag with infinite obscure agendas &#8212; Jews form an ethnic plurality of policy authors in all of them. The overrepresentation of individuals of Jewish ancestry is as follows.   <br><br><strong>Council On Foreign Relations</strong><br><br><strong>Leadership</strong>: CFR&#8217;s Chairman (David Rubenstein), Vice Chairman (Blair Effron), and President (Michael Froman) are Jewish. <br><br><strong>Experts</strong>: At least 36 of 97 (38%) of full-time experts were identified as Jewish. <br><br><strong>The Atlantic Council </strong><br><br><strong>Leadership</strong>: Adrienne Arsht (Vice Chairman) and Jenna Ben-Yehuda (Executive Vice President) are Jewish. <br><br>The Atlantic Council&#8217;s president Frederick Kempe is married to a Jewish woman from Washington DC, Pamela Meyer, as is WASP Chairman of the Board John Rogers whose wife is Deborah Lehr. <br><br><strong>Experts</strong>: At least 77 of 300 (25%) full-time experts being identifiably Jewish.  <br><br><strong>Brookings Institute<br><br>Experts: </strong>A minimum of 62 of 250 (25%) are Jewish. <strong><br><br>Carnegie Endowment For International Peace<br><br>Leadership: </strong>At least six (with an additional two highly likely but unconfirmed) of 12 <a href="https://carnegieendowment.org/senior-leadership?lang=en">Senior leaders</a> are Jewish, including Senior Vice President for Policy Research Dan Baer and COO Alison Markovitz. <br> <br><strong>Hudson Institute<br><br>Leadership</strong>: Chairman of Board of Trustees is Sarah Stern, who is the daughter of deceased Chairman Emeritus Walter P. Stern. <br><br><strong>Center For The Institute Of International Studies </strong><br><br><strong>Leadership</strong>: Thomas Pritzker (Chairman)   <br><br>At regime change NGOs a similar dynamic is at play. At the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a think-tank that was designed to replace the CIA in foreign destabilization operations, 7 of 24 (29%) ((note that two are honorary)) active board members are Jewish. At the infamous Open Society Foundation, three of six board members are Jewish, with a fourth being George Soros&#8217; wife.  Freedom House&#8217;s president is the Jew Jane Harman, the Carter Center&#8217;s CEO is the Jew Paige Alexander, and so on. <br><br>In the House of Representatives, Jewish congressmen are only slightly overrepresented at 6%, but their relatively few numbers are strategically concentrated in the area of foreign and imperial affairs. Three of 12 members of the Subcommittee on Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia are Jewish, with Dean Phillips of Minnesota serving as Ranking Member (co-chair). In previous iterations of Congress, such as the 115th session, both the head Republican (Ileana Ros-Lehtinen) and Democrat co-chair (Ted Deutsch) were Jewish. <br><br>In the Subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations, three out of 10 members (Kathy Manning, Susan Wild and Sara Jacobs) are Jewish. <br><br>In the Senate, the Foreign Affairs Committee is controlled by Maryland&#8217;s Jewish Senator Ben Cardin. Cardin has emerged as an understated American foreign policy figure. As chairman of the Subcommittee State Department &amp; USAID Management, International Operations, &amp; Bilateral International Development he oversees departments in the federal government dedicated to organizing havoc and civil strife abroad. Cardin, one of only nine Jews in the Senate, leads an additional four foreign policy related work groups dealing with everything from spreading liberal values throughout the Western Hemisphere to the subcommittee on the &#8220;Near East and Counter-Terrorism.&#8221; <br><br>It is difficult to identify any power bloc in Washington besides the Jewish one. In some instances, non-Jewish national security officials such as <a href="https://mondoweiss.net/2008/10/and-much-of-mccains-braintrust-has-ties-to-jinsa-so-this-is-a-pro-jinsa-anti-jinsa-election-remember-when-cool-waspy-hubs/">Colin Powell</a> and <a href="https://www.aei.org/op-eds/does-jake-sullivan-see-israel-as-a-liability/">Jake Sullivan</a> have expressed reluctance about the policies they are instructed to implement by the Zionist foreign policy establishment, yet due to lack of direction and the non-existence of an alternative power bloc, end up dutifully executing the will of AIPAC and JINSA.  <br><br>Not only does America have no independent WASP faction &#8212; a George Marshall to counterbalance a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgenthau_Plan">Henry Morgenthau </a>&#8212; America doesn&#8217;t even have a coherent non-Jewish faction to offer debate on diplomatic affairs.   <br><br>Those who have sociologically and anthropologically profiled the Jewish people in the past have often remarked that they are a people whose ambitions outstrip their size and abilities. The America of the 21st century is what it looks like when they have seized the reins of a military and economic juggernaut. <br></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://littoria.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em><strong>Littoria is a free publication. Please consider supporting our work by becoming a paid subscriber. </strong></em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trump's Second Term: Foreign Policy ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump&#8217;s 2024 campaign revived his 2016 outsider crusade against the Washington&#8217;s military adventures.]]></description><link>https://littoria.substack.com/p/trumps-second-term-foreign-policy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://littoria.substack.com/p/trumps-second-term-foreign-policy</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Jordan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 11:12:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a1d715cd-ebeb-48fb-b1cc-c115394b3b13_266x190.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s 2024 campaign revived his 2016 outsider crusade against the Washington&#8217;s military adventures. In his latest run, the president-elect struck a remarkably sober tone on the many conflicts that have erupted in the last few years &#8212; which Jewish think-tanks <a href="https://jinsa.org/how-trump-will-approach-the-middle-east-in-a-second-term/">calmly dismiss</a> as baseless vote-getting &#8212; though he provided scant details on how he would approach Ukraine and the Middle East. The realities of America&#8217;s current geopolitical predicament were muffled under his questionable mantra that &#8220;no new wars&#8221; were prosecuted when he was in office. <br><br>Buffing Trump&#8217;s everything-to-everyone shtick were a series of former left-wing anti-war influencers, such as Jimmy Dore, Dave Smith, and Tulsi Gabbard, who have in recent years hitched themselves to the MAGA wagon, citing the movements supposed non-interventionism as their reason. Perhaps Trump&#8217;s most audacious deception was his campaign&#8217;s outreach to the Arab community, led by the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/politics/trump-arab-americans.html">gay Zionist Ric Grennell</a>, which <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-harris-arab-americans-michigan-dearborn-aea96b9161a77de1fa47d668e23edb98">successfully capitalized</a> on their anger over Israel&#8217;s rampage in Gaza and Lebanon.     <br><br>Voters who <a href="https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/arab-americans-who-voted-for-trump-urge-him-to-demand-cease-fire-in-palestine-lebanon/3392324">took a chance</a> on Trump are instantly expressing buyer&#8217;s remorse before he&#8217;s even been sworn in. The 47th president&#8217;s new foreign policy team is composed of a rogue&#8217;s gallery of Washington&#8217;s most ardent and bloodthirsty neo-conservative Zionists. Figures such as Marco Rubio, Mike Walz, Elise Stefanik, Pete Hegseth, Mike Huckabee and Brian Hook have well-documented views on Iran, Russia and China that are arguably more bellicose and loudly unhinged than even the infamous Bush administration.  <br><br>There is still a degree of unpredictability in how Trump&#8217;s administration will move on the world stage, primarily in style rather than substance, especially since obvious solutions other than diplomacy are not present. However, we have enough information to hypothesize on what will come next based <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/us/politics/miriam-adelson-trump-israel.html">off of the interests</a> financing Trump and internal discussions publicized by the media. <br><br><strong>Shifting The Blame For Israeli Barbarism To White Christians <br><br></strong>There&#8217;s no question that the world is experiencing a wave of anti-Semitism not seen since the 1930s. Outrage over the Jewish state&#8217;s almost unprecedented atrocities &#8212; livestreamed in gruesome detail to billions of phones and computers around the world &#8212; has spurred a visceral universal disgust towards the Jewish people that transcends traditional left-right, racial, and religious divides. <br><br>These feelings of indignation have escaped the Middle East and <a href="https://archive.is/wip/a9pY1">touched the Jewish diaspora</a>, which <a href="https://archive.is/a9pY1">overwhelmingly supports Israel</a> despite generally operating as the spear tip of liberal and progressive causes in Western nations.  <br><br>The war transpiring under a Democratic administration and the steep reputational price the American empire has been willing to pay to let Israel operate without any red lines has discredited theories by left-wing figures such as Noam Chomsky that Israel is an attack dog of US imperialism politically bolstered by Evangelical Christian Republican voters, rather than Jewish billionaire money. Polarized Trump fans, who are assumed to be Israel&#8217;s natural Gentile support base in America, have not been eager to rally behind Joe Biden on this issue. The high visibility of liberal Zionist figures like Jacob Lew, Amos Hochstein and Antony Blinken &#8212; who has taken <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240927-blinken-faces-calls-to-resign-after-misleading-congress-to-cover-for-israels-genocide/">extreme and illegal measures</a> to undercut his own State Department employees to protect Israel from any consequences &#8212; has forced a highly exposed global Jewry to own the openly Jewish supremacist Israeli governing coalition and embrace its naked criminality without any plausible deniability or fronts. <br><br>Trump&#8217;s new administration is conspicuously free of Jews, yet these personalities have well-earned reputations of being paid off stooges for AIPAC who specializing in following instructions written for them by the Jewish lobby, as Trump himself <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/653884577300267008">once stressed</a> about his new Secretary of State Rubio. These nominees were <a href="https://archive.is/Sr9qc">personally selected</a> by Jewish billionaire Howard Lutnick, a little-known figure who has largely lingered in the shadows in Trumpworld. Lutnick is candid about his sole priority in Trump&#8217;s orbit: securing the geopolitical interests of Israel.   <br><br>Familiar Fox News performers like Pete Hegseth, appointed to lead the Pentagon, are well-known promoters of Evangelical Zionism. Hegseth has claimed to adhere to the bizarre <a href="https://youtu.be/7wP5wEEt-uQ?si=CJHp3y1ZMKrqpHhc">&#8220;third temple prophecy,&#8221;</a> which calls for the destruction of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem. Hegseth&#8217;s record of making wild and horrific threats towards foreign nations are too many to cite, such as his televised appeal for the United States to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/fox-host-pete-hegseth-tells-trump-to-bomb-iranian-homeland-2020-1">bomb Iranian cultural sites</a>.  <br><br>Former Governor Mike Huckabee, Trump&#8217;s nominee for ambassador to Israel, is another unusual choice. Huckabee will be the first non-Jewish person politically appointed to fill this role since the Nixon administration. <br><br>The lack of Jews allocated to go before the world and justify the next and possibly more brutal phase of Israeli genocide will likely polarize the Gaza issue back to its usual left versus right divide, as well as provide at least some reputational relief to the global Jewish community. This will allow Jewish operatives on the left, who are <a href="https://archive.is/s4NZz">struggling to prevent</a> anti-Zionist discourse from veering into broader conversations about Jewish power, to spin their familiar narrative about doomsday prophecy believing white Christians directing <a href="https://archive.is/Qr5t1">reluctant Jews</a> for their own benefit. When all is said and done, white Christian Americans could end up as a scapegoated screen for Israel&#8217;s actions if a drastic escalation, such as a full Palestinian expulsion, occurs. <br><br><strong>End Saudi-Iranian Rapprochement </strong><br><br>One of the biggest surprises of the past four years was the <a href="https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2023/06/23/saudi-iran-deal-a-test-case-of-chinas-role-as-an-international-mediator/">Saudi-Iranian peace deal</a> brokered by China in 2023. This diplomatic breakthrough has largely ended the Sunni-Shia sectarian warfare that has killed millions and plagued the Middle East for decades, as well as helped derail the first Trump administration&#8217;s project to create a Gulf Arab military alliance to contain Iran on Israel&#8217;s behalf. <br><br>This detente has rapidly evolved into what looks like the beginning of an alliance. In recent days, Saudi Arabia has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/12/middleeast/saudi-mbs-accuses-israel-genocide-gaza-intl/index.html">publicly accused</a> Israel of genocide, condemned Israeli bombing of Lebanon, and increased its <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/10/saudi-armed-forces-chief-visits-iranian-counterpart-for-rare-meeting">military cooperation with Iran</a>. <br><br>Trump has repeatedly stated that his administration will seek to bring the Saudis back to the negotiating table on the Abraham Accords, which would normalize Saudi relations with Israel in exchange for extensive US military support and investment. <br><br>The new president&#8217;s Middle East envoy, Jewish real estate mogul Steve Witkoff, has no diplomatic or political experience. One <em>Times of Israel</em> profile describes Witkoff as a &#8220;conduit to the Jewish business community,&#8221; suggesting that Trump&#8217;s team may be reduced to an offer to bribe the Saudi royals into formalizing ties with Israel. Hideously corrupt displays, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2024/03/21/jared-kushners-2-billion-investment-from-saudi-arabia-what-to-know-after-republicans-delay-subpoena/">such as the multi-billion dollar Saudi real estate deal</a> previously brokered by Abraham Accords point man Jared Kushner, serve as a precedent for what Trump and Witkoff have in store.<br><br>Yet it remains to be seen if the Saudis will play ball this time around. During Trump&#8217;s first presidency, his team <a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/world/defying-congress-trump-sets-8-billion-plus-in-weapons-sales-to-saudi-arabia-u-idUSKCN1SU25O/">goaded the Saudis</a> into a war with the Houthis in Yemen that ended with the Gulf kingdom&#8217;s <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/25/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-yemen-houthis-gaza.html">humiliating defeat</a>. <br><br>The Saudi Kingdom&#8217;s hand was burned by the Iranian stove after a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/world/middleeast/saudi-arabia-refineries-drone-attack.html">brazen drone strike</a> by the Houthis on Saudi oil refineries believed to have been conducted with Iranian weapons and logistical support.  Additionally, the war in Gaza has made engagement with Israel political and potentially physical suicide for Arab leaders, as Saudi king Mohammed bin Salman <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/saudi-crown-prince-personally-doesnt-care-palestine-issue">implied</a> to Blinken.  <br><br>It is unlikely the Saudis will consider Trump&#8217;s offer to become Israel&#8217;s Muslim bodyguard without significant security guarantees, massive weapon&#8217;s transfers, and a <a href="https://www.fpri.org/article/2023/10/atoms-for-peace-2-0-on-negotiations-between-israel-and-saudi-arabia/">US provided nuclear program</a>. The prospect of handing a regime that has <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hillary-clinton-wikileaks-email-isis-saudi-arabia-qatar-us-allies-funding-barack-obama-knew-all-along-a7362071.html">previously funded</a> terrorist groups such as ISIS and Al Qaeda the infrastructure to build nuclear weapons is alarming, but the Trump administration has previously shown willingness to throw caution to the wind and <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/trump-admin-gave-green-light-nuclear-permits-saudi-arabia-after-n1013826">began moving in this very direction</a> in 2019. <br><br><strong>Russia and the Ukraine War </strong><br><br>Trump has stated on the campaign trail that he would immediately bring an end to the Ukraine war once in office, without elaborating further. <br><br>Trump&#8217;s foreign affairs team is composed of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/11/us/politics/trump-rubio-secretary-of-state.html">some of the most hardline</a> anti-Russian politicians in America, which has soothed some of the concerns from Ukraine&#8217;s liberal establishment. <br><br>What will transpire is not clear. Trump insiders are concerned with Russia&#8217;s growing support for Iran, which has caught Washington and Israel off balance and spurred discussion of <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/middle-east/2024/11/12/pollak-trump-has-opportunity-for-big-wins-in-the-middle-east-peace/">giving Russia whatever it wants</a> in Ukraine in order to pry them out of the Middle East.<br><br>One <a href="https://censor.net/en/news/3519782/trumps_peace_plan_for_a_buffer_zone_between_ukraine_and_russia_pentagon_comments">Trump peace plan</a> leaked to the media would grant Russia much of its territorial demands, defer Ukrainian membership in NATO, and establish a demilitarized zone patrolled by European NATO forces. <br><br>The plan is absurd. Vladimir Putin&#8217;s stated reason for entering the Ukraine, aside from the oppression of ethnic Russians in the country&#8217;s east, is that he does not want NATO forces on his border. At best, Putin will insist on a neutral United Nations peacekeeping force on the border, if that. <br><br>Furthermore, Trump&#8217;s plan to force Germany and the European Union <a href="https://www.gmfus.org/news/pricing-ukrainian-reconstruction#:~:text=Ukraine%20faces%20immense%20challenges%20in,billion%20over%20the%20next%20decade.">to finance</a> the estimated $486 billion reconstruction of Ukraine would be tantamount to looting a Europe <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/03/america-europe-post-pandemic-growth-comparison/677617/">barely staving off economic catastrophe</a> as is. <br><br>A more plausible scenario is that the Trump administration will kick domestic energy production into overdrive in hopes of tanking global oil prices, which would harm the Russian (and Iranian and Venezuelan) economy. But this ambitious plan <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-lower-gas-prices-exxonmobil-ceo-oil-boom-2024-11">is not as feasible</a> as it sounds. A war on oil prices would likely require the Saudis to ramp up oil production &#8212; a mission Biden <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2022/07/23/bidens-saudi-adventure-an-oil-strategy-failure-and-beyond/">failed to accomplish</a>. <br><br>Another scenario is that Trump will try to force the Russians into negotiating before all their objectives are achieved by providing Ukraine with long range weapons that can strike within Russian territory. The Ukrainian military, which is suffering massive desertion, a high median age, and manpower problems, has come under increasing pressure from American politicians to <a href="https://www.econlib.org/u-s-politicians-push-for-ukraine-to-reduce-freedom-further/">lower its conscription age to 18</a>, something the Trump administration could persuade Kiev to agree to in exchange for weapons that can hit Moscow. Such a stunt would is within Trump&#8217;s arsenal of bad ideas, but in practice would amount to pouring gasoline on a fire and triggering an unpredictable response. <br><br>Judging from his public statement&#8217;s, Trump wants<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/23/donald-trump-nuclear-weapons-russia"> to bluff</a> the Russians with the threat of nuclear weapons. It is doubtful that this will work, as Putin has already stated a willingness to use his own. <br><br>A full Ukrainian capitulation is also on the table. Russia <a href="https://apnews.com/article/russia-iran-satellites-space-launch-944a6bc87aa2511e38acf58e37c02c28">has been aiding Iran&#8217;s space program</a>, which Israeli intelligence believes is a cover for Iran&#8217;s Russian-advised <a href="https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/israel-freaked-out-how-close-iran-icbm-213595">ICBM program</a>. Ultimately, Russia can bring Washington to its knees by providing or <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-iran-arms-deal-military-power-2024-10">threatening to provide</a> high tech weapons transfers to Iran that could shift the Middle Eastern strategic edge in the Islamic Republic&#8217;s favor. <br><br><strong>Indo-Pacific <br><br></strong>Trump&#8217;s new cabinet will include some of the fiercest China hawks in the country, but the fundamentals may restrain them. <br><br>The trade war mounted by the Trump administration during his first term caught Beijing off-guard, but since this provocation the Chinese government has reduced its reliance on exports to the United States through its &#8220;dual circulation&#8221; program, as well as started retaliating against American companies. <br><br>It remains to be seen if Trump will make good on his promise <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/06/companies-race-to-get-imports-to-us-with-trump-win-vow-on-new-tariffs.html">to place tariffs</a> on all imported goods. Wall Street analysts believe Trump wasn&#8217;t serious about this proposal. Under such a scenario, America&#8217;s weak industrial base will struggle to replace tariffed imports and prices for many goods, both basic and technical, would soar. <br><br>An emergent challenge for America&#8217;s project in Asia is the resolution of the long-standing Indian-Chinese <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/22/asia/india-china-border-agreement-intl-hnk/index.html">border dispute</a> last month. China&#8217;s unexpected diplomatic breakthrough with India is a setback to &#8220;The Quad&#8221; &#8212; an attempt to unite Japan, Australia and India in a NATO-like anti-China military alliance. <br><br>Trump&#8217;s National Security Adviser Mike Walz, who is uniquely situated as both a &#8220;China hawk&#8221; as well as a member of the <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/trump-picks-mike-waltz-china-hawk-house-india-caucus-co-chair-as-nsa-101731381806299.html">House India Caucus</a>, will undoubtedly seek to use his abilities to try and reignite tensions between the two nuclear powers. <br><br>On Taiwan, president-elect Trump is already in talks with the Taiwanese government to <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/7b218d0f-31dc-4b74-b993-797388767b85">sell them $15 billion dollars</a> in American weapons. This shocking deal, if successful, could heighten the possibility of a war in the South China Sea. <br><br><strong>Middle East</strong> <br><br>Trump&#8217;s stated foreign policy priority is the defense and advancement of Israeli interests. <br><br>Following a phone call with Trump, Benjamin Netanyahu told the press that the two leaders see <a href="https://www.euronews.com/2024/11/11/israeli-prime-minister-netanyahu-says-he-and-donald-trump-see-eye-to-eye-on-iran">&#8220;eye-to-eye&#8221;</a> on Iran. Netanyahu is convinced that a direct strike on Iran&#8217;s nuclear facilities <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-to-iranians-another-attack-on-israel-would-cripple-irans-economy/">is feasible</a> as long as the United States <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4847984-netanyahu-is-dragging-the-us-down-a-dangerous-path-on-iran/">fully supports them</a> if a war breaks out. <br><br>The likelihood of American involvement in a conventional war are highest in the Middle East. Trump&#8217;s former national security adviser, John Bolton, a bellicose Zionist in his own right, has taken to the media to warn that the new president will be <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2022/07/23/bidens-saudi-adventure-an-oil-strategy-failure-and-beyond/">completely unrestrained</a> on Iran in his second term. Former Trump cabinet officials have gone public with accusations that the president sought to <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/youre-gonna-have-a-fucking-war-mark-milleys-fight-to-stop-trump-from-striking-iran">directly attack Iran</a> during his term&#8217;s lame duck session but was narrowly prevented from doing so by his advisors. <br><br>Experts believe Trump will first seek to soften the Iranian regime up by <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2024/11/08/a-sneak-peak-on-trumps-iran-policy-00183727">bringing back his maximum pressure sanctions</a> to collapse the Islamic Republic&#8217;s economy. John Ratcliffe, Trump&#8217;s new CIA director, is <a href="https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/11/trumps-cia-pick-john-ratcliffe-seen-loyalist-insider-hawkish-iran">singularly fixated</a> on regime change in Iran. Ratcliffe will use every intelligence tool at his disposal to foment civil war and terrorist attacks within Iranian territory in hopes of overthrowing the Iranian state. <br><br>A potential counterweight is the fact that the landscape in 2024 is not the same as the one in 2016. If left without <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/iran-nuclear-weapons-israel-attack-1966488">diplomatic recourse</a>, Iran is expected to build and publicly test a nuclear weapon and get Chinese and Russian diplomatic cover to do so. While there is a chance to reduce Russian support for Iran in exchange for massive concessions on Ukraine, China has emerged as an <a href="https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3279946/china-offers-iran-moral-support-shadow-israel-hezbollah-hostilities">important Iranian ally</a>. Meeting Iran&#8217;s pro-American president Masoud Pezeshkian half-way and brokering a new nuclear agreement with the intent of pulling Iran away from Russia to destroy them later would be the prudent Zionist foreign policy approach, but the general thrust of Trump&#8217;s new administration does not seem to value patience.   <br><br>In Gaza, Trump&#8217;s circle of advisors support <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/us/politics/trump-gaza.html">the full expulsion</a> of the Palestinian population and the annexation of both <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev">Gaza</a> and the <a href="https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/a-propos/20241113-trump-likely-to-fully-back-selective-annexation-of-west-bank-colonies-historian-says">West Bank</a>. Where these ethnically cleansed Palestinians will go remains a mystery, as Arab countries have already resisted attempts by the Biden administration and <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-war-netanyahu-lobbied-eu-push-egypt-accept-gaza-refugees">international finance</a> to resettle them in their nations. Israeli officials have <a href="https://archive.is/1B64V">previously called</a> on Palestinians to be expelled to Europe. Would a reckless, single-issue Trump administration consider it? <br><br>It should be noted that Biden has by and large <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/11/11/no-trump-will-not-be-worse-than-biden-for-palestine-and-the-middle-east">continued</a> Trump&#8217;s genocidal policies towards the Palestinians, even as he publicly condemned Netanyahu or made <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/biden-administration-israel-hamas-war-aid-gaza-arms-transfer-continue-1984738">bogus election year threats</a> to stop transferring arms to Israel. The difference may lie in Trump officials mismanaging the status quo, or target nations taking more aggressive measures due to the perception of an increased threat from the new president&#8217;s team of celebrity Zionist warmongers, such as Hegseth. <br><br><strong>Europe </strong><br><br>President Trump appears to have a general disdain for the European Union, a supposed US ally. <br><br>Aside from the wild and presumptuous plan stiffing Western Europe with the bill for Ukraine&#8217;s reconstruction, the US is expected to <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/11/11/europe-braces-for-a-swift-and-brutal-transition-to-the-world-of-trump">redouble</a> its demand that Europe begin remilitarizing out of their own pockets. If Trump&#8217;s tariff program comes to fruition, Europe will simultaneously face <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/business/economy/europe-economy-donald-trump.html">economic decimation</a>. Europe&#8217;s welfare states will likely suffer cuts in order to bolster projected increases in military spending no matter what. <br><br>Not gaining much attention is the <a href="https://www.dailysabah.com/politics/news-analysis/trump-return-opens-window-of-opportunity-in-turkish-us-ties-experts">expectations</a> of an eager embrace of Turkey under Trump. Last spring, the Atlantic Council called on Europe to integrate itself with Turkey further in order to secure the Central Asian Middle Corridor &#8212; a new &#8220;Silk Road&#8221; circumventing Russian trade routes which China and Iran are <a href="https://www.rferl.org/a/azerbaijan-china-brics-sco-corridor-russia/33088846.html">both seeking to claim for BRICS</a> &#8212; for the <a href="https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/turkeysource/theres-an-alternative-to-russian-based-trade-routes-but-it-needs-support-from-the-us-eu-and-turkey/">Atlanticist powers</a> instead. This idea seems like it would be a geopolitical outcome intuitively popular in Trump&#8217;s circle. <br><br>Shortly after Trump&#8217;s election, Turkish president Recep Erdogan gave a speech to the European Political Community summit in Budapest <a href="https://www.turkishminute.com/2024/11/08/erdogan-call-on-eu-to-revive-turkeys-membership-process/">demanding</a> that Turkey be allowed into the European Union, a project that the EU has stalled for decades. If Turkey were to be granted EU membership, 85 million cultural and ethnic non-Europeans would instantly be given the right to flood Europe. Turkey, whose military is the second largest in NATO, has been making <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/will-turkeys-bid-to-join-brics-speed-up-eu-accession/a-70208316">diplomatic overtures to BRICS</a>, which observers believe is a negotiating tactic to force the country&#8217;s consideration for EU ascension. <br><br>Europe&#8217;s vassal like acquiescence to Washington has placed it in a war footing towards Russia, the continent&#8217;s historical protector against Near Eastern invasion, and in an alliance with Turkey, which in the 19th and 20th century killed millions of white Christians. Rather than express contrition for Turkey&#8217;s historic crimes against Europe, Erdogan is a proud advocate of <a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/36837/chapter-abstract/322011260?redirectedFrom=fulltext">Neo-Ottomanism</a> and <a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/erdogan-threatens-greek-islands-with-invasion-at-night/">routinely threatens Greece</a> with military invasion, while also being responsible for sending millions of refugees into Europe in the last two decades <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/10/turkeys-erdogan-threatens-release-of-refugees-to-europe-over-syria-criticism.html">as a political weapon</a>.   <br><br>For Trump and company, increasing Turkey&#8217;s presence in Europe could serve as a practical solution to a lot of the problems plaguing NATO that prevent America from moving more troops to the Middle East and Pacific: weak and small militaries, inability to plausibly threaten Russia, and low civic commitment to the physical defense of Western liberal ideologies. <br><br>Depending on how faithful Trump is to his promises, his new administration could force everyday Europeans to reconsider their humiliating relationship with the United States, a view held by the rising East German wing of the Alternativ Fur Deutschland party, even if the thoroughly Atlanticist but weakening deep states of Germany and France seek to continue it. </p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://littoria.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em><strong>Littoria</strong></em><strong> is a free publication. 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