Trump Midterms - Balance Sheet of a Bankrupt President

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Trump's oil price fake

US crude export fell under President Biden by 40%, most probably due to a decrease in demand by foreign partners. This is logically leading to a decrease of the crude price. Even though reasons for a lower consumption are mainly positioned abroad, an additional impact of erratic & invasive US politics under the following Trump administration can be expected.

As global crude prices are usually moving around 100 $ per barrel, it is not surprising that such prices had been slightly higher under the predictable rule of Obama and Biden, but didn't pose a problem for US consumers while overall economy was running more quietly without Trump.

From there, any decrease of crude oil prices cannot be
necessarily related to the 'genius' of US president Trump.

As geopolitics still matter, it is quite clear that all kinds of erupting military conflicts and other 'political disturbances' like trade wars are leaving their imprint on the history of crude price development. From time to time, oil extracting countries, united in the OPEC organisation, have to intervene by cutting their production quotes in order to stabilize the global crude oil price:

Last week now, Trump declared his will to partly abandon sanctions on Russia, allowing Putin to sell giant amounts of diesel fuel on the global market. This happened only shortly after urging European nations to melt down part of their strategic reserves, and which was seen as kind of blackmail by US partners in the EU. This was obviously intended to ease fuel prices for his voters in rural areas of the USA that had already been badly treated by some Chinese retaliatory tariffs on certain agricultural products. Only days before Trump's Midterm Elections, it finally became clear that Trump is forced to abandon sanctions much earlier agreed between the USA & their European partners. It is as if he finally recognized the total failure of his own unpredictable way of managing the complex problems of his country. So Trump's political bankruptcy is as well a moral one. As to the wealth his questionable helpers aquired for him during his presidency, he won't be able to enjoy it as an incompetent inventor of facts showing first signs of premature dementia.

China's lever on US soybean export

Soybeans are one of US biggest agricultural exports, and China is the most important buyer. The US exported $16.5 billion worth of soybeans last year, making soybeans the second-largest agricultural export after corn, according to the US Department of Agriculture. China buys more soybeans than every other country because it has limited arable land.

That dependence has made soybeans vulnerable to swings in US-China trade policy. In the years before the first Trump trade war in 2018, the American Soybean Association estimated 28% of all US soybean production was shipped to China. When Beijing then imposed a 25% retaliatory tariff on US soybeans in 2018, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimated farmers absorbed $9.4 billion in soybean losses, costing Iowa $1.2 billion and Illinois $1.3 billion.

That helps explain why Trump focused on soybeans in his dealmaking with Beijing. In November, he struck a deal with Xi under which China committed to buying at least 25 million metric tons of soybeans in 2026, 2027, and 2028. After he met Xi in May, the first time a US president visited China since 2017, the White House announced China agreed to buy at least $17 billion in agricultural products on top of those prior soybean commitments.

But China has options ...

For all of soybeans’ importance to American farmers, China has another supplier: Brazil, a member of the China led commercial alliance of nations BRICS.

Brazil had already overtaken the US as China’s largest soybean supplier over a decade ago, but recent trade tensions have widened the gap. USDA said 71% of China’s soybean imports came from Brazil, and its agricultural attaché in Beijing reported last year that Brazil’s share had continued to grow “at the expense of the United States” which was helped by cheaper prices.

So China left the door half-closed. [Fortune, September 28, 2026]

Germany - Internal Tensions in a Changing World

Today, October 3, Germany celebrates another Anniversary of its Reunification.

What is different this time: A right-wing party recently won two regional elections, in one case only shortly missing absolute majority, in another case kicking out of parliament their most decided competitor.

What is distinguishing voters from political leaders in the times of basic changes, that is a different perception of reality. Such, common people tend to listen to the allegedly stronger leadership of a populist party rather than follow a more realistic approach to emerging problems based on common sense.

=> German History Site (German / English) <=

Bermuda Triangle Yemen برمودا يمن

Video from Al-Mayadeen TV, Beirut:
Yemen ... Triangle of Terror اليمن ... مثلث الرعب

في مثلث برمودا اليمني, تختفي السفن والطائرات. و تُنفذ عمليات خاصة يمنية باستخدام صواريخ كروز و طائرات مسيرة, ما يُجبر حاملات الطائرات على التراجع إلى البحر الأحمر

In Yemen's Bermuda Triangle, ships and aircraft vanish. Yemeni special operations, using cruise missiles and drones, force aircraft carriers to retreat to the Red Sea.

US Cost of War Against Iran

According to a report by US paper Capitol Hill on the 15th local time, quoted by Chinanews on Sept. 16, the US Department of Defense told US Congress on August 13 that the cost of the war on Iran has now climbed to more than $42 billion, which is higher than the latest public estimate by the Department of Defense. The cost increased by $4.5 billion since July 2026.

Some US experts believe that the actual figure is much higher. Linda J. Bilmes, a senior lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, said at the time that the cost of the war was about $100 billion.

Increasing cost might be, at least, partly due to recent Iranian missile and drone attacks on US bases in the Middle East where expensive assets of the US Air Force had been targeted.

قال القناة العربية إرم نيوز في أبو ظبي: طائرة أميركية بوينغ سينتري
متضررة بشدة في قاعدة الأمير سلطان بالسعودية. ايضا كان هجوم على
بوهيرنغ و عريفجان بالكويت. قدر خسائير المعدات 3.7 مليارات دولار

A video from Abu Dhabi based Erem TV is showing a severely damaged 'Boeing E-35 Sentinel' at Prince Sultan airbase in Saudi Arabia, probably a total loss, the cost of replacement being $3 billion. Additional damage of buildings and vehicles is being reported from two other US bases in Kuwait, Camp Boehring and Arifjan. The estimated equipment loss is at approximately $3.7 billion.

In Memoriam September 11

Continuously updated until September 14

يا لحسن الحظ أن الأمريكيين يشتبهون في طـالــبـين فقط، وليس في المدرسة بأكملها Fortunately, the Americans only suspect two students, not the entire school.

Osama bin Laden (r), Ayman al-Zawahiri (l), defunct leadership of Al-Qaeda organisation.

The above joke is based on the fact that Arabic nouns in the singular form not only possess at least one plural form but a dual form as well, for things coming in pairs. That's why the dual of 'student' [spoken: Talib] becomes [Taliban] or 'two students' which is the same expression the Taliban of Afghanistan are using to name themselves. Such, this joke is mocking the Americans who didn't recognize that their enemies in Muslimic countries were far more numerous than they imagined.

After September 11, 2001, the Afghan Taliban were accused of hiding Osama bin Laden, the alleged mastermind behind the disastrous attack. As a consequence, they were "Bombed into Stone Age" on behalf of US President Bush. No wonder they are actually practising some kind of "Stone Age Islam".

This Turkish video by TRT tells us about the disastrous wars on
Afghanistan & Iraq following the 9/11 attacks, and which helped
to create the Islamic State (Daesh or ISIS) out of the remnants
of Al-Qaeda. Their consequences raised a huge wave of human
displacement in Afghanistan, Iraq & Syria, leaving these nations
in a state of unstability.

And here is another suspect in the September 11 case, rarely mentioned together with the sufficiently known terrorists who staged the September 11 attacks: Omar Al-Bayoumi, a Saudi agent with direct contact to some of the terrorists, a direct connection with the Saudi government, and special knowledge of aircraft navigation. Despite his personal background, he was never charged in the frame of FBI investigations. The following video was presented yesterday, September 9, by MONITOR, a special format on the 1st public TV channel of Germany:

If you watch this video directly on YouTube,you
can listen to the auto-dubbed English comment.

Editor's Note:
You might remember the September 11 documentary 'Fahrenheit 9/11' by US activst Michael Moore. I watched the film myself, and I still memember the scene, when it was mentioned that all air traffic was immediately halted that day after the impact of three passenger planes on the WTC twin towers and the Pentagon, emphasizing that only a few Saudi dignitaries, allegedly members of the bin Laden family, were allowed to leave the country in a hurry [background music: "We have to get out of that place"].

=> Mysterious Death of Bin Laden Relatives (2015) <=
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004): A highly controversial critique of the George W. Bush administration, the September 11 attacks, and the subsequent Iraq War. It won the prestigious Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and remains the highest-grossing documentary of all time.

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What is happening elsewhere at the same time:

Oct 7 Attack - Netanyahu Ignored Early Warnings

Update added on September 10

CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour in a live interview with former Israeli PM Ehud Olmert on a neglected warning of PM Netanyahu from UAE, prior to the October 7 attacks of Hamas.

PM Netanyahu has advised his lawyers to sue HAARETZ for their report on the October 7 attack.

Netanyahu caught hushing up the mistakes he made ...

Did he plan to provoke the October 7 attack of Hamas on Israeli
citizens deliberately to have an excuse for the Gaza Genocide ?

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Edwin Samuel Montagu (6 February 1879 – 15 November 1924) was a British Liberal politician who served as Secretary of State for India between 1917 and 1922. Montagu was a "radical" Liberal and the third practising Jew (after Sir Herbert Samuel and Sir Rufus Isaacs) to serve in the British cabinet.

Slave Trade in Medieval Germany

These days, Otto the Great, originally Otto of Saxony, since 962 AD Holy Roman Emperor of German Nationality, found his final resting-place in Magdeburg Cathedral, Eastern Germany. Reason enough to focus on a forgotten chapter of German history: The slave trade crossing wide parts of medieval Europe and which was impossible to realize without imperial protection.

=> Jewish Slave Trade بلاد الصقالبا <=
related PDF file: 1.7 MB, 5 pages, free download

A related article is available
below in its German version:
Die Europäischen Juden - Eine Spurensuche

Replica of the 'Magdeburger Reiter', an equestrian monument
seen as a portrait of Otto the Great (Magdeburg, original 1240)

Trump's Defeat - An Uncompromising Comment

" From Europe with Love "
=> War on Iran - An Uncompromising TV Comment <=