Don't Speak News

By Manlio Dinucci at Global Research. Reposted with permission.

Two emblematic news items provide the key to understanding current international events. The first is as follows: Trump wants to increase US military spending from $900 billion to $1.5 trillion by 2027. When combined with the approximately $500 billion in military spending allocated to other departments, US military spending would account for over half of global military spending.

“This will allow us,” Trump said, “to build the dream army we have long been entitled to and, more importantly, one that will keep us safe regardless of who our enemy is.”

The second piece of news: contrary to Western expectations, US tariffs have not caused China’s exports to fall. In 2025, they grew by 5.5%, bringing the trade surplus to a record level of $1.19 trillion.

China has already surpassed the United States in several sectors. For example, the Chinese company BYD has become the world leader in electric car sales, overtaking Tesla. While Tesla’s car sales fell by 16% in 2025 after President Trump eliminated Federal tax incentives for electric car purchases, BYD’s car sales increased by 28%. Meanwhile, the Russian economy did not collapse under the weight of sanctions as predicted in the West. Instead, it opened up new outlets in the East for its energy exports and replaced imports blocked by sanctions with imports from friendly countries or Russian producers.

The United States is preparing to further strengthen its military capabilities, which already allow it to maintain 750 bases in 80 countries and deploy troops to approximately 1,609 locations across all Continents. Its strategy primarily targets not only Russia and China, but also the BRICS countries, of which they are founding members. Unable to prevent the BRICS’ growing development and expansion, or any other coalition of countries escaping Western domination, the United States — the greatest Western power — is resorting to internal subversion and open aggression to dismantle the BRICS and any other coalition challenging its dominance.

This is the context for the kidnapping of President Maduro and the theft of Venezuelan oil by the United States. According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump is planning a wide-ranging initiative to rehabilitate Venezuela’s oil fields and increase production. This would fundamentally change the global oil landscape, placing the United States in control of production in one of the founding members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries.

Oil is also one of the main reasons behind the US attack on Iran, whose proven oil reserves rank third in the world after Venezuela and Saudi Arabia.

While internal groups financed and trained by US and Western secret services were adding fuel to the fire of popular demonstrations in order to spark an armed conflict and cause deaths, President Trump incited revolt with this message on Truth Social:

“Iranian patriots, KEEP PROTESTING – TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Memorise the names of the murderers and violent thugs. They will pay a very high price. HELP IS ON THE WAY. Make Iran Great Again!

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This article was originally published in Italian on Grandangolo, Byoblu TV.

Manlio Dinucci, award-winning author, geopolitical analyst and geographer, Pisa, Italy. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).

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