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TOM LUONGO
This is a subscription service. Luongo’s Monthly Report is in essay form . This one is particularly well presented . Most analysts are dismissing the Alaska Summit because the Ukranian War has not slowed down and there seems to be still no follow up nor common ground…but Luongo sees much much more….so I am copying it into the comments because it’s DARE I SAY….BRILLIANT !!
STAND BY
INTRO
President Trump is on a mission to end all of the open conflicts
around the world. No better example of that is his rapidly
accelerating the peace process between Russia and Ukraine after
three and a half years of brutal, grinding war.
Trump’s meeting with Putin in Alaska wasn’t just the start of a
process long overdue, it was symbolic of the realignment of
global power.
Two men who their people will fight for forced a subsequent
historic meeting in Washington DC, where Trump confronted eight leaders from
Europe no one will fight for, and sent them home without his support.
Leadership means listening to the people’s needs, not punishing them if they defy
your edicts. That realization is dawning across the world. This issue is focused on
what happens when that realization hits critical mass
SNIP
I’ve watched Putin for over a decade. That phrase, “defeat
common enemies,” is an important one. That’s Putin’s way of
implying that today the two countries are facing the same
enemy that they faced in WWII, which now has its army in
Ukraine. That enemy is an ideology that we’re not now allowed
to talk about, because it has morphed into the technocratic
nightmare in Europe menacing the people there.
Trump’s invoking the “Russia, Russia, Russia” hoax in his
remarks was not boilerplate Trump insecurity either. It was
obviously a big part of his discussions with Putin.
Trump isn’t the same guy the cabal that moved heaven and
earth to keep these two men from any agreement in Trump’s
first term dealt with. They are apoplectic with this new version
that emerged from their attacks on him because this guy acts
first and explains after they sign on the dotted line.
WOW
In a Nutshell
The real WW3 is The Nazi’s ( Europeans and Brits ) vs Putin ( Russia) and Trump ( USA ).
THE NEW RULES BASED ORDER
TRUMP’S ASSAULT GOES GLOBAL
There was a telling moment at the very end of the public
statements by Russian President Vladimir Putin after his
meeting with President Donald Trump in Anchorage, Alaska.
That moment sums up the basic problem both men face, how
do they move forward quickly while Europe stands fast trying
to hold them back?
Trump, smartly, allowed Putin to speak first. Taking the lion’s
share of their fifteen minutes of global scrutiny, Putin came
prepared with remarks that succinctly torched multiple
narratives surrounding US/Russian relations, the war in
Ukraine and the current political reality in Europe.
He opened with the reminder of how close geographically the
two countries are. By meeting in Alaska, however, the
symbolism of how far politically and physically both had to
travel to be at that meeting was quite evident.
Putin used his nine minutes at the podium to speak carefully
about the history of US/Russian cooperation to “defeat common
enemies in the spirit of battle camaraderie,” placing particular
emphasis on the mutual memorials for both Russians and
Americans that died supplying Russia with materiel to repel
Germany and win World War II.
I’ve watched Putin for over a decade. That phrase, “defeat
common enemies,” is an important one. That’s Putin’s way of
implying that today the two countries are facing the same
enemy that they faced in WWII, which now has its army in
Ukraine. That enemy is an ideology that we’re not now allowed
to talk about, because it has morphed into the technocratic
nightmare in Europe menacing the people there.
Trump’s invoking the “Russia, Russia, Russia” hoax in his
remarks was not boilerplate Trump insecurity either. It was
obviously a big part of his discussions with Putin.
Trump isn’t the same guy the cabal that moved heaven and
earth to keep these two men from any agreement in Trump’s
first term dealt with. They are apoplectic with this new version
that emerged from their attacks on him because this guy acts
first and explains after they sign on the dotted line.
While they want to sit and ponder the edge cases of the
Rulebook, Trump is busy playing the game. Before they knew
what hit them, this meeting happened. Neither Putin nor
Trump gave them time to prepare their talking points and build
their media narratives. Ultimately, their meeting in Alaska
organized in less than five days showed the world they have not
only the desire but the power to begin shaping a new global
future the world eagerly looks forward to. And in that new
order, Davos has a much lesser, if any, seat at that high table,
and that dwarfs the relevance of the Ukraine war in ways that
are hard to overstate.
Putin genuinely surprised everyone by affirming Trump’s
talking point that had Trump been President in 2022, the war
in Ukraine would never have happened. That point, which
Trump repeats daily, no longer looks like just another bit of
campaign bluster.
As significant as these moments were, Putin’s last surprise for
Trump was at the end of his remarks. After thanking Trump for
the work he and his staff performed to effect such a productive
meeting, Putin said in English, which he never uses in public,
“Next time, in Moscow.”
The Death March to Anchorage
Those four words, that simple invitation, said so much more
than I think we’ve had time to grasp yet. Not only was it a
gesture of mutual hospitality but also one of trust. It was a
down payment on a peace dividend both countries need. Putin
met Trump on US soil. Putin is telling Trump he’s safe to come
to Russia. By offering to reciprocate he publicly thumbed his
nose at everyone trying to keep them apart but also gave the
world the signal it wanted to see; that peace was possible.
This was a masterstroke in diplomacy.
In the West we talk about the political capital Trump has to
expend to even consider this meeting no less put it together so
quickly and, at first glance, successfully. It’s a game that the
punditocracy likes to flatter themselves with thinking they still
control, by telling us what the rules of the game are.
Putin laying flowers one by one on the graves of the Russian
pilots he talked about at the press conference made their
attempts to whistle past their ever-growing graveyards of media
control look not just wrong but lame.
But think about this. Trump just hosted the Russian President,
the incarnation of evil itself in the minds of deranged neocons,
on American soil, in a state, Alaska, which the Russian Czar
sold to the US in 1867 for a pittance to keep it from falling into
the hands of the British.
Putin may have openly invoked Russia and the US’s “common
enemies,” but Trump set the stage for that point to land
perfectly. If anything, Trump gained political capital lost during
the recent Epstein fracas, paying off months of hard work by his
emissary Steve Witkoff and Marco Rubio’s State Department.
But the same worry about political capital needs to be applied
to Putin as well. He’s facing a growing fire at home over his
handling of relations with the West and his slow rolling the war.
Everyone gets tired of war eventually, even for a man as
popular with his people as Putin is. Hardliners in Moscow, like
those in the US, want nothing more than to punish Europe for
its repeated humiliations and depredations, during peace times
as well as war.
Remember, the normal view in the West is that atrocities
committed against Russians likely happen because Russia
deserved it in some way. When a passenger plane explodes, or
a terror attack/assassination
occurs, there is, at best, a brief
flare of media around it and then
nothing. Those responsible enjoy
their fifteen minutes of “duper’s
delight,” crying crocodile tears
with the punditocracy and then
moving on to the next operation.
Only when an incident that can be
spun negatively, like the MH-17
shootdown, the Skripal “poisoning,” etc., are we allowed to
seriously engage with the Russian side of the story but then,
only within the context of Putin being an evil dictator, always
implying Russians get what they deserve for living under such
a man.
So, Putin greeting Trump on the tarmac in Anchorage, getting
into Trump’s “Beast,” and then holding a three-plus hour
meeting with him and minimal staff to work out a durable
security architecture for both sides is not without its perils for
Putin at home.
He cannot agree to too big a concession from his original
demands, as laid out in the December 2021 offer he presented
to the US and Europe, or he will be eviscerated for having put
Russia in this precarious position of having to trust, at best, a
mercurial US President. His choosing to walk carefully up the
escalatory ladder in the hope of bleeding out political support
for the war in the West is not without its detractors, controlled
or otherwise.
Personally, I’ve agreed with Putin’s strategy. The longer this war
goes on, the more Western leaders sound like the ones on crazy
pills. As the bills for the war and its downstream effects pile up,
the more it uncovers just how little real support the war has
among the people whose leaders are addicted to gaslighting
them.
CNN and Gallup polling television-watching Boomers about
their support for Ukraine is something fundamentally different
than polling those who actually fight in wars. I think part of
Putin’s strategy was to let that percolate while his army
dismembered the one built by NATO through brutal attrition,
while conserving real materiel and men that may be needed for
the NATO-led army waiting to come in once the Ukrainian
military was depleted.
And that moment is becoming more evident by the day.
But that strategy only works up to a point. As I said, this war is
now three and a half years old, it’s time for it to end. Trump’s
willingness to break the Gordian knot domestically which
precluded peace in Trump’s first term was likely a big catalyst
for Putin to show up in Anchorage at all.
So, Putin had to put his best face on, to humanize both himself
and Russia to an audience gaslit into believing something
fundamentally different. Because if he read the room and
Trump’s previous contacts properly, what was on the table was
something a whole lot bigger than Ukraine for the future of not
only all Russians and Americans, but the rest of the world.
In Nixon’s Shadow
I may be the only one who finds this relevant but this meeting
took place on the 54th anniversary of the US ending the dollar’s
convertibility to gold, thereby ending France’s attempts to drain
US Gold reserves trhough recycling trade surpluses gained via the
Marshall Plan to rebuild Europe
after saving it from Hitler and the
Wehrmacht.
And the only response from
rapidly shrinking French President
Emmanuel Macron and his cadre
of EU midwits is to reiterate the
same demands that got us into this
war in the first place. They continue hiding behind banalities
like “European security” and “the Rules-Based Order” to blame
Putin for a war they wanted but which he officially started to
sell their demonic need to extend it indefinitely to everyone
elses detrement.
That was the main subtext of the meeting which took place in
Washington D.C. a few days after Anchorage. Trump
summoned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to the
White House for a one-on-one meeting as well as the rest of the
EU jackals to force them to wait in the kid’s room before sitting
them down for a public struggle session.
Each one in turn was forced to swallow their bile publicly and
pine for a peace they do not want. As much as most of them
hate Trump, with the notable exception of Italy’s Giorgia
Meloni, they were forced into banal flattery while leaving with
none of their positions accepted by Trump. Each tried to push
their talking points, like Germany’s Frederick Merz demanding
a ceasefire as a prerequisite only to be politely slapped down by
Trump.
Of particular note was both Zelenskyy, looking more like a
Hasidic diamond merchant than world leader, and his foster
mom, European Commission President Ursula Von der Satan,
trying to create the anti-Russian narrative that Putin must
return all of the kidnapped Ukrainian children.
Yes, they used the word kidnapped. They didn’t say a word
about this for three years, but since Melania Trump mentioned
children in her letter to Putin, now it’s a thing?
But Trump’s dismissal of them was a reminder that the issues
here are bigger than face-saving narratives.
It was obvious that this time Zelenskyy was coached to be
submissive and flattering of Trump, rather than confrontational
like their last meeting at the White House in March.
There the strategy was to try and get Trump on tilt and lose his
temper publicly so that the media could crucify him with it.
This time they decided that their best strategy was to appeal to
Trump’s ego, using flattery.
But the adage that you can attract more flies with honey than
vinegar is only operative if you mean it.
It’s obvious to me now that whatever their psychological dossier
says about Trump it’s either out of date because something
about him has fundamentally
changed, or it was written by people
who really do believe the character
he plays on TV is the real Donald
Trump.
Given that none of these so-called
world leaders earned their respective
positions, instead having been
handed their status by Davos, I can’t
believe they can assemble competent
staff to give them the information
they need rather than reinforcing the
worldview they already have.
So, in the end, as only Nixon could
go to China start US rapprochement
in the 1970’s, only Putin could go to
Alaska to jumpstart the US/Russian
one, and only Trump could summon
the whole of Europe to the White
House to let them know they can
join up or be left in the kids room.
Maxwell House Rules
There’s this thing called the
“Chatham House Rule” about
meetings. Those at the meeting are
free to use the information in the
meeting but they are not allowed to openly discuss the
information contained therein.
today.
The groundwork started 2017 when newly appointed
FOMC Chair Jerome Powell starting the conversion from LIBOR
to SOFR–the Secured Overnight Financing Rate–which
ultimately gives the US back the control to properly price US
dollars around the world.
The story goes that his advisors handed him Powell as the right
guy to lead the Fed. But who was really behind that advice?
Very likely the Wall Street money center banks, who saw the
opportunity Trump presented to slip the chains of the old
European money masters, centered in City of London,
Luxembourg, Venice and Zurich.
Those meetings that saw Powell handed to Trump by Wall
Street were, in hindsight, conducted under the Chatham House
rule.
Trump never stood a chance in his first term against the
entrenched deep state. He had no idea the array of people
against him, but he figured it out. By the time he did, however,
the Russiagate hoax, the BLM riots,
and a generous amount of now
documented cheating ran out his
term.
In hindsight, one could argue that he
was sent out as Wall Street’s
distraction to drive Davos crazy
while they built the new financial
architecture which would end
foreign monetary control over US
policy, setting the stage for today.
I know this is speculation, but it
describes a viable strategy. Throw
Trump to the jackals while the
wolves of Wall Street sheared the
Davosian sheep. Wall Street didn’t
give Trump any love in his first term,
but they were clearly the hand
behind the tiller which kept the
worst part of the Biden Junta’s
agenda from succeeding during
Trump’s interregnum.
coming over the horizon.
The second rule of Fight Club is you never talk about Fight
Club.
Foreign policy meetings like Anchorage are usually conducted
like this. But it’s really used by those who crafted the insane
“Rules Based Order” we currently live under. This is how their
media campaigns are rolled out in concert, how certain people
always seem to know what legislation is about to be passed,
etc.
Longtime readers of this newsletter know my position on the
rise of the offshore dollar system, undergirded by the London
Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), and its immense financial
suction which systematically drained vitality from the US
economy, its people, and even the land itself.
Whether Trump understood it or not in 2017 when he came to
power is debatable, but he set in motion the events which led to
today. The groundwork started 2017 when newly appointed
FOMC Chair Jerome Powell starting the conversion from LIBOR
to SOFR–the Secured Overnight Financing Rate–which
ultimately gives the US back the control to properly price US
dollars around the world.
The story goes that his advisors handed him Powell as the right
guy to lead the Fed. But who was really behind that advice?
Very likely the Wall Street money center banks, who saw the
opportunity Trump presented to slip the chains of the old
European money masters, centered in City of London,
Luxembourg, Venice and Zurich.
Those meetings that saw Powell handed to Trump by Wall
Street were, in hindsight, conducted under the Chatham House
rule.
Trump never stood a chance in his first term against the
entrenched deep state. He had no idea the array of people
against him, but he figured it out. By the time he did, however,
the Russiagate hoax, the BLM riots,
and a generous amount of now
documented cheating ran out his
term.
In hindsight, one could argue that he
was sent out as Wall Street’s
distraction to drive Davos crazy
while they built the new financial
architecture which would end
foreign monetary control over US
policy, setting the stage for today.
I know this is speculation, but it
describes a viable strategy. Throw
Trump to the jackals while the
wolves of Wall Street sheared the
Davosian sheep. Wall Street didn’t
give Trump any love in his first term,
but they were clearly the hand
behind the tiller which kept the
worst part of the Biden Junta’s
agenda from succeeding during
Trump’s interregnum.
coming over the horizon.
The second rule of Fight Club is you never talk about Fight
Club.
Foreign policy meetings like Anchorage are usually conducted
like this. But it’s really used by those who crafted the insane
“Rules Based Order” we currently live under. This is how their
media campaigns are rolled out in concert, how certain people
always seem to know what legislation is about to be passed,
etc.
We operate in the world of
reflections of these types of
meetings, trying to piece together
what was said by how people act in
the real world after they occur to
glean some insight into what’s
And we must do that because the concentration of power in the
hands of the few is so high, trying to figure out what the
disposition of them relative to each other becomes the
dominant way in which to handicap the future and act
accordingly.
That’s the sad truth of this age and, frankly, it needs to end.
They only meet like this to satisfy their pathological need for
control, freezing everything in a kind of bureaucratic amber
But have you met Donald Trump?
Diplomatic meetings are definitely conducted this way. But
Trump is changing the rules by the day. During the subsequent
meeting in the Oval Office Trump revealed that at one point
Germany’s Frederik Merz said let’s break up and come back in a
month or two, and Trump said, “No, we’ll do it tonight.” And
he called Putin at around 1am Moscow time
That decisive action is what is driving the EU leaders to
distraction. They aren’t getting the time to do their shaping
operations, delaying while they prepare for more war. Instead
of rushing home to scheme amongst themselves, Trump’s
attitude is, “No let’s work this out now,” and orders in some
terrible American coffee to make the pill go down just that
much more bitter.
After Anchorage, they were so scared of what Trump and Putin
discussed that they hastily formulated a plan to support
Zelenskyy’s meeting with Trump hoping to gang up on him to
slow down. It failed, to their detriment, but to everyone else’s
benefit.
With each summoning Trump performed of Europe’s demons,
he drains them of the lifeblood of their old schemes.
What makes the meeting in D.C. so different was Trump first
conducting a public dialogue where everyone at the table had
to plead their case in front of the world, mouthing platitudes
about peace while they finagled for war. And then publicly
telling the world what went on behind the scenes.
And everyone could see them for who they are.
The New World Order
That changes the rules of the game. It almost doesn’t matter
what was said. Instead of lecturing him on protocol, Trump is
like, “Shut up and make a move.” Like the tariffs before this,
the meeting format itself was the message. Chatham House
secrecy doesn’t apply here. The people at this table, the seven
EU leaders and NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte, were not
important enough to be privy to the real state of affairs.
Putin and Trump have them in a classic pincer move, now.
Putin’s army to the East, and Trump’s demands for tribute to
the West. The message that came out of D.C. was even more
substantial than the one that came out of Anchorage, peace
comes at a price for everyone.
Any promises of a “Security Architecture” for Ukraine from
Trump on Europe’s behalf had to be met with similar promises
of one for Russia on Putin’s. This is clearly what the
breakthrough was that led to these events. Trump gave Putin
the roadmap to peace and Putin agreed in principle. He likely
gave up some things he would rather he didn’t have to, like
having further designs on Odessa. But to do that Trump would
have to promise not to be a full partner in any NATO-backed
aggression from Ukraine and restore normalized relations
between Russia and the US, to foster long-term peace.
The war, from the standpoint of international law, would be
over, Ukraine would not have to worry about Russia advancing
further. Both sides would now have a real framework to
delineate any future aggression, rather than the West playing
“We don’t recognize your referenda, or your elections, or any
previous agreements,” games which leave legal definitions of
territory subject to opinion.
It’s clear in Trump’s view of things, the matter is settled. Russia
has earned what it has earned. Europe and Ukraine have lost
what they have lost, and he is not going to commit one more
American life under his command to take back what they lost.
That means it’s time to redraw the maps, sign the territories
away, bring the troops home, and begin rebuilding. The EU 8
ball club that showed up in D.C. don’t want to sign any deal
like that because it precludes spinning up another war in a
couple of years, even if Europe spends 5% of their GDP on
NATO.
This is especially true if the US and Russia normalize trade
flows between them, Russia gets access to capital and expertise,
and the US gets unfettered market access to its wealth.
Putin needs all of that to stave off the advances of his Chinese
“partner,” and develop the vast reaches of central and eastern
Russia, those closest to the US. And thus, the symbolism of
Alaska comes full circle.
The Rules Based Order of the past was essentially a form of
anarcho-tyranny: rules for thee but not for me. There can be
no peace in that arrangement. The only way détente or an end
of hostilities can occur is if “thee” punches “me” in the mouth
and “me” has no choice but to take it
This is what happened over the past three plus years in
Ukraine. A lot of good Ukrainian and Russian men died to
deliver that punch in the mouth.
As things stand today, we’ll find out soon how many more of
them have to die to fight the last battle against a dying Europe.
Hopefully that number will be zero.
So essentially, Trump is breaking away from Kokinda’s London Banking Mafia and their never ending wars.
The two go hand in hand.
Yes
And the European’s too…They are the reconstituted NAZIs
It is obvious now…The NAZIs never went away and they still want the same thing their puppet Hitler wanted …world domination
Thanks for posting FGC.