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Today's Monday Brief (16 Mar) with Susan Kokinda argues that while media attention fixates on Iran, a broader strategic shift is unfolding as great powers act in their own sovereign interests.
Susan highlights President Trump’s statements portraying Putin as willing to make a deal and Zelenskyy as the obstacle, alongside Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth stressing that U.S. objectives in Iran differ from Israel’s, including a reported message to stop striking domestic economic targets.
She then examines Russia’s Foreign Ministry, explicitly blaming Britain for using Storm Shadow missiles in Bryansk and for trying to derail U.S.-led peace efforts, amid Zelenskyy’s threat toward Hungary’s Viktor Orban and EU condemnation.
Finally, Susan notes Russia and China abstaining - not vetoing - a UN Security Council resolution condemning Iran’s missile and drone attacks on Gulf states, framing these moves as evidence that the old paradigm of permanent conflict is breaking down.
Chapters
00:00 The Monday Brief - Intro
02:30 Trump's Endgame: Sovereign Nations, Not Imperial Pawns
05:25 Russia Ups the Ante, Britain Named as the Saboteur
08:16 The New Geometry — Sovereign Nations at the UN
Snapshots and Notes
While all eyes have been focused on Iran this week, President Trump made clear that he is operating on a grander theater of war.
Here’s what the president said...
“I’m surprised that Zelensky doesn’t want to make a deal.
“Tell Zelensky to make a deal because Putin’s willing to make a deal.
“Zelensky is far more difficult to deal with.“
The president just told you who is blocking the peace.
And this week, Russia’s foreign ministry took it a step higher and laid the blame directly on the British.
Two great powers pointing in the same direction - THAT is not a coincidence,
THAT is the sound of the British imperial chessboard being flipped over.
So today, Susan is going to take you out of the fog of the immediate war and all the propaganda around Iran and show you how the strategic map of the entire world is being redrawn in real time by sovereign nations acting in their own interests for the first time in 80 years.
Now, the establishment media wants you totally focused on Iran, whether it’s the CNN narrative that Trump doesn’t have a plan and we’re in for chaos, or the Fox narrative that he’s out for regime change, or that this is a master stroke against Russia and China, they want you trapped in their narrative.
What they don’t want you to see is the big picture as they’re reporting from inside the old paradigm.
But when you zoom out, you’ll see something entirely different.
This week, the outlines of a new world order, a real one, not Mark Carney’s, began to emerge.
Great powers acting in their own sovereign interests, converging against the forces of permanent manufactured conflict.
Our Note:
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HEARING what you are listening to.
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Susan Kokinda has tracked the imperial great game for decades.
Not the puppet show and the headlines, but the real architecture of power.
The empire doesn’t fight its own wars; it manages them.
It needs great powers in a permanent state of conflict because that’s what keeps it in control.
What we are now seeing is that architecture is failing on every front simultaneously.
Here’s what Susan is going to cover in this episode…
Trump’s Endgame: Sovereign Nations, Not Imperial Pawns (02:30)
Starting with what the president actually told us this week, because in the same seven days, President Trump drew a line on the record in his own words, separating American objectives from the agendas of two of the empire’s most important instruments.
And most people missed it because they were watching two different stories instead of one.
So on Ukraine, you already heard what he told NBC: Putin is willing to make a deal, Zelensky is the obstacle.
But there’s a second quote from that same interview that is just as important.
When Zelensky offered to help the United States intercept Iranian drones, Trump’s response was immediate…
Let that soak that in…
The man whose war the entire transatlantic establishment has demanded America fund, arm, and defend at any cost, Trump just told you he’s the last person whose help he wants.
Now turn to Iran.
In the same week at Joint Base Andrews, a reporter asked the president directly whether American objectives in Iran are the same as Israel’s.
Reporter: “Are you speaking with Prime Minister Netanyahu?
“And are your objectives the same in terms of ending the war?”
And here’s what the president said...
Then Defense Secretary Hegseth said the same thing when asked about Israel striking Iranian oil facilities, which was not a stated American objective, Hegseth said…
“Well, I would just state by saying Israel’s been a really strong partner in this effort.
“Where they have different objectives, they’ve pursued them.
“Ultimately, we’ve stayed focused on ours.”
So on two different fronts, Ukraine and Iran, the U.S. is pursuing its own objectives.
On Ukraine, Trump is saying that Putin is the reasonable party and Zelensky is the obstacle.
On Iran, Trump is telling Netanyahu, whose war aims include permanent regime change and an indefinite timeline, that America has different objectives.
And President Trump has already acted on that difference, sending Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Israel after they bombed an oil refinery to tell Israel to stop hitting domestic economic targets.
The US wants a stable Iran with a functioning economy when the fighting is over.
These are not mixed messages.
This is a president who, on both fronts,
refuses to be managed by the empire’s pawns.
And Russia just gave the empire a name.
Russia Ups the Ante, Britain Named as the Saboteur (05:25)
So while President Trump was identifying Zelensky as the obstacle to peace, the Russian foreign ministry took it a step higher.
On March 10th, British Storm Shadow missiles struck a civilian district of Bryonsk in Russia.
Seven people were killed, and dozens were wounded.
Russia’s foreign ministry did not issue a generic condemnation of Western aggression.
They named the British directly, they said…
And then they accused Britain of sabotaging the American-led peace process…
Russia is naming Britain by name.
Chatham House, the empire’s premier foreign policy think tank, came out and bluntly admitted it with the headline, …
Britain’s own brain trust has stated its mission openly, prevent the president of the United States from ending this war.
Then look at what Zelensky did in the same week - he threatened the life of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, a sitting EU head of state.
Zelensky told a government meeting that he would give Orban’s address to Ukrainian soldiers so they could, in his words, call him and speak with him in their own language.
This was so outrageous that even the European Union had to denounce Zelensky, stating that the language used yesterday by President Zelensky is unacceptable and that there must be no threats against EU member states.
Even Orban’s main political opponent in Hungary, who is running against him in next month’s elections, demanded that Zelensky apologize to all Hungarian citizens.
Think about what you just witnessed.
The empire’s primary instrument in Europe, the leader it spent three years portraying as a heroic defender of Western democracy, threatening to have a NATO ally’s head of government killed, and the empire’s own European Union institutions had to publicly repudiate him.
Britain is now named as the opponent of peace.
Zelensky is increasingly isolated, even within his own alliance.
Now, put that in the context of what happened at the UN.
The New Geometry — Sovereign Nations at the UN (08:16)
On March 11th, the United Nations Security Council voted on a resolution brought by the Gulf states and others, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Jordan, condemning Iran’s missile and drone attacks on their territories.
135 nations co-sponsored it.
The resolution passed 13-0, with Russia and China abstaining.
Neither used their veto.
Now, the mainstream media barely reported this (surprise, surprise), but you need to understand what it actually means because you won’t understand it, if you’re in the old geopolitical world that gives you headlines that portray Russia and China as locked into their support for Iran as this one on Fox does, …
… or as the Ukrainian press continues to try to portray Iran, Russia, and China as the new axis of evil.
But every rule of the old Cold War playbook, the binary the empire has relied on for 80 years, by those rules, Russia and China should have vetoed this resolution.
That’s what the script called for...
protect your partner
block the Western initiative
keep the great powers in their assigned corners
But they didn’t.
This is a new strategic reality, one in which nations are taking themselves off the British geopolitical chessboard.
And if you’re paying attention to what President Trump said on March 13th, you’ll actually see it in action.
He was asked by Brian Kilmeade on Fox News if Russia was helping Iran...
President Trump: “I think he might be helping them a little bit, yeah, I guess.
”And he probably thinks we’re helping Ukraine, right?”
Brian: “And you are, right?”
President Trump: “Yeah, we’re helping them also.
“And so he says that, and China would say the same thing, you know.
“It’s like, hey, they do it, and we do it, in all fairness.
“They do it, and we do it.”
Let THAT sink in...
The President of the United States just placed America, Russia, and China on the same plane as sovereign nations acting in their own interests, not as enemies locked in permanent ideological combat, but as countries that do what they do in their own interests and deal with each other on that basis.
And he didn’t just say it, he acted on it.
The United States has announced a temporary lifting of sanctions on Russian oil stranded at sea in order to stabilize the energy markets roiled by the Iran war.
And when he was asked about China, Iran’s largest trading partner, Trump didn’t threaten Beijing.
He said the United States’ efforts to keep the Strait of Hormuz open was in China’s interest too.
That is the sovereign realism at the heart of the administration’s national security strategy and national defense strategy.
Both of those new doctrines explicitly reject the post-war paradigm of permanent great power conflict.
Summary
Now connect this to everything Susan has covered today…
Trump is telling NBC that Putin wants peace, and Zelensky is the obstacle
Trump is telling the press that American objectives in Iran are different from Israel’s
Russia names Britain as the saboteur of the peace channel
Russia and China are declining to shield Iran’s destabilizing behavior against sovereign Arab nations
What you’re looking at is the same thing.
Great powers, the United States, Russia, and China, are beginning to act on converging sovereign interests rather than playing their assigned roles in someone else’s great game.
This is the new strategic map being redrawn.
And the empire, whose entire system depends on keeping great powers in permanent conflict, has no moves left that don’t accelerate its own exposure.
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