Tag: international relations

How Trump NEGOTIATED a CEASEFIRE Between Israel and Hamas

Posted on by Lone Candle

“If Israel wanted to commit a genocide they could, but they don’t. … If Hamas could commit a genocide, they would.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7LvMcYR_r4

US Marches Towards War With Venezuela

Posted on by Lone Candle

The United States military is making extrajudicial illegal killings of potential drug traffickers, apparently killing a boat of Colombians this time. The U.S. is threatening a regime change war with Venezuela.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HUUKscEspQ

TikTok’s (Sorta) American Owners

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“A coalition of investors from Oracle, MGX, and Silver Lake has agreed to buy TikTok and run an American version of the company, separate from ByteDance’s ownership.

“The deal is aimed at helping TikTok comply with a federal law, which banned the app in the United States in January out of concern that Beijing could use it to gain access to Americans’ sensitive data or to spread propaganda,” reports The New York Times. President Donald Trump “has delayed enforcement of the ban repeatedly. The Thursday order gives negotiators until mid-January to finalize the deal.”

MGX is technically not American; it’s an investment firm that was established by the government of Abu Dhabi in 2024. Emiratis tend to have very strong ties with China.

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it’s not clear that part-Emirati owners will be all that much better, or that the Trump administration’s frequent insistence on meddling in private business affairs sets a good precedent.”

https://reason.com/2025/09/26/tiktoks-sorta-american-owners/

Hundreds of Iranians held on US immigration charges will be deported to Iran, Tehran official says

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It sounds like Trump is helping Iran’s theocracy round up its dissidents.

“In the lead up to and after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, a large number of Iranians fled to the U.S. In the decades since, the U.S. had been sensitive in allowing those fleeing from Iran over religious, sexual or political persecution to seek residency.
In the 2024 fiscal year, for instance, the U.S. deported only 20 Iranians, according to statistics from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Iran has criticized Washington for hosting dissidents and others in the past. U.S. federal prosecutors have accused Iran of hiring hitmen to target dissidents as well in America.

It’s unclear exactly what has changed now in American policy. However, since returning to the White House, Trump has cracked down on those living in the U.S. illegally.

Noushabadi said that American authorities unilaterally made the decision without consultations with Iran.

But The New York Times said Tuesday, citing anonymous Iranian officials, that the deportations were “the culmination of months of discussions between the two countries.””

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/30/iran-deported-us-immigration-00586374

Trump ally Orbán pushes back on pressure to halt Russian oil imports

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“Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Friday that he is putting Hungary’s national interests first in rejecting a call by President Trump for all NATO allies to halt the purchase of Russian fossil fuels.

Orbán, in remarks to state radio and reported by The Associated Press, said he told Trump that ending Russian oil imports would be an economic “disaster” for Hungary that would put the Hungarian economy “on its knees.”

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Trump seemed to cut Hungary and Slovakia some slack in continuing to purchase Russian oil.

“I just don’t want to have people go blaming them when, you know, we spoke to them at length today and it seems like that, for them it’s a little bit,” the president said from the Oval Office on Thursday, trailing off and turning to his pressure campaign on Turkey to stop buying Russian energy.”

https://thehill.com/policy/international/5526962-hungary-nato-russian-oil/?tbref=hp