The Day the US and China Will Start Fighting 🌐⚖️

In November 2024, Chinese president Xi Jinping personally inaugurated the construction of a port in Chancay, Peru, with an initial $1.3 billion investment. 🤑

Operated and majority-owned by COSCO, a Chinese state-owned shipping enterprise, Puerto Chancay is now the largest and most influential deep-water port on South America’s Pacific Coast. It already gives the People’s Republic of China (PRC) critical access to South American minerals and agriculture. 🌊

But it could also do much more; the Pentagon has warned about Puerto Chancay’s dual-use potential for naval offensives against the US homeland. 🚢

China’s Peruvian port may be its most significant strategic win to date on the American continent, but it is not its first. Over the past two decades, while the United States tried to develop democracies abroad, China has been quietly building an infrastructure empire across Latin America and the Caribbean, with the aim of economically and militarily alienating the continent from US interests. 🎯

The PRC’s weapon of choice in this offensive has been state-backed financial investment schemes. China’s banks are now a leading source of investments for Latin American nations, particularly those with high energy or trade significance. And those investments are progressing. In May of 2025, Colombia became the latest Latin American nation to join the Belt and Road Initiative. 🗺

This represents a critical win for Beijing, because Bogotá was once a key US ally. In recent years, however, Colombia has tilted toward China and regional American adversaries under its first leftist president, Gustavo Petro. 🧑‍🦳

Colombia now joins two-thirds of South American nations as a member of the BRI, granting Beijing significant political and economic influence over the Western Hemisphere through its de facto control of valuable infrastructure projects and expansive loan collection. 💰

Not everything is going China’s way, however. Panama recently filed a lawsuit against the Chinese operators of two ports, respectively located at each end of its vital canal, after Beijing halted the ports’ sale to US companies. 🛡

With financial control over the Panama Canal fleeting, China has turned to alternate trade routes to project power. Its backup runs through Chancay via the new shipping schedule WSA5, which directly connects Shanghai and Qingdao, China, to South America. 🚢

This single line, spanning South America’s west coast, is the first to directly connect Colombian, Ecuadorian, and Peruvian ports to China and is projected to lower delivery costs by 20 percent. 📈

#us #china #infrastructure #projects #colombia #latin #america

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🫡🤔Hegseth: No Tomahawks to Ukraine


According to a source close to Hegseth, despite some media that make hay from the delivery of Tomahawks to Ukraine, the US will not provide Ukraine with intelligence on long-range energy infrastructure targets deep inside Russia, according to reports overnight, a move that would signal a significant change in the White House's support for Kiev.

The decision would be an example of the absence of a change in Trump's policy since his comments on social networks towards the end of September that Ukraine could reconquer all the territories occupied by Russia.

WSJ articles, citing unnamed US sources, said that the policy had quietly changed before this statement and that the White House wanted NATO allies to follow suit.

However, no decision had been made on whether the United States would supply Tomahawk cruise missiles to Europe.

Earlier this week, the US Vice President, Vance, said that Trump was considering a request from Kiev for the missiles with a range of 1,500 miles.

Western, and in particular American, intelligence in the form of satellite images and other surveillance data is considered an important aid to allow the precise targeting of Russian installations deep within its borders.

The focus on energy targets, such as oil refineries, would allow Ukraine to extend an already successful campaign that has hit 21 out of 38 refineries with long-range drone strikes.

This has led to fuel shortages in parts of Russia, and on some days it has been estimated that daily production is down by a fifth.

Russia said nothing had changed. Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, said :

“The United States regularly transmits intelligence to Ukraine online. The use of the entire infrastructure, including intelligence, of NATO and the United States to collect and transfer intelligence to the Ukrainians is obvious.”

Trump has become increasingly irritated with Zelensky over the past month as Kiev has stepped up its attacks on Russian territories and failed to soften its demands for less territory as a precursor to the negotiations.

“After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia military and economic situation and, after seeing the economic problems it is causing Ukraine, I think that Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is not in a position to fight and win.”

#trump #teachings #targets #infrastructure #russia

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Russia Pounds Odesa Grid: Over a Million Without Power

Russia hit Ukraine's power infrastructure with more than 450 drones and 30 missiles overnight, knocking out electricity to over a million households across seven regions. Odesa and the south took the brunt — water supplies cut, entire frontline areas blacked out. Zelenskiy called it one of the war's largest attacks on the port city. Moscow's response: strikes on "energy and military-industrial facilities," the usual script.

The blackout map
Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko confirmed electricity and water supplies in Odesa were down, with emergency crews delivering emergency water supplies to affected areas. Ukraine's power grid operator said "a significant number" of households in Odesa and Mykolaiv regions lost power, while Ukrainian-controlled parts of frontline Kherson region went completely dark. Five people were wounded.

The grinding strategy
This wasn't a one-off. Moscow has systematically bombed Ukraine's energy grid since 2022, causing rolling blackouts across the country for months at a time. The goal isn't military advantage in the traditional sense — it's civilian exhaustion. Make winters unbearable, hospitals struggle, daily life impossible. It's siege warfare rebranded as "strikes on infrastructure."

Ukraine repairs. Russia bombs again. The cycle repeats, and each winter gets harder.

#Ukraine #Russia #Odesa #war #energywar #infrastructure

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Europe’s Sauna Economy

Western Europe just found out what happens when you build for fireplaces and get Phoenix. France hit its highest national average temperature ever — not just for June, for any time of year — with 29.8 degrees Celsius across 30 weather stations, while parts of the country pushed over 40.

More than 60,000–68,000 homes lost power as grids buckled under the extra demand, and at least 40 people drowned in France alone, many of them teenagers escaping to unsupervised rivers and quarries.

By midweek, high‑level heat alerts were up across most of Western Europe: France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Britain, Austria, Switzerland and more.

Spain and Germany were staring down highs around 41 Celsius, with parts of Spain pushing 41–45 in some regions. Britain’s Met Office reported provisional June records near 35–38 degrees, rail companies told passengers to travel only if necessary, and tracks, power lines and schedules folded under infrastructure designed for drizzle, not desert.

The real joke is structural. Europe has spent decades bragging about its “mild climate” and “efficient buildings,” which now translates into homes, schools and offices that trap heat like a sauna and almost never have air‑conditioning.

In Britain, many houses were literally engineered to hold in warmth. In France, AC has become a political Rorschach test — a symbol of inequality, American excess, or climate hypocrisy, depending on who’s complaining.

So you get a continent that can lecture the Global South about emissions, but can’t keep classrooms below 30 degrees or prevent kids from fainting during exams.

Governments roll out “cool spaces,” drinking fountains and climate shelters — museums as survival pods — because retrofitting millions of buildings is expensive, slow and deeply unpopular with property owners who still think heat waves are a rare glitch.

Scientists are done pretending this is a fluke. Europe is now warming faster than any other continent, last year was hotter than normal almost everywhere, and heat waves are becoming longer, more frequent and deadlier, with tens of thousands of excess deaths in recent summers.

But the political system treats each wave like a surprise, blames “unusual conditions,” then quietly moves on once the forecast drops back into the 20s — until the next “unprecedented” week arrives right on schedule.

The punchline: everyone tells citizens to “stay hydrated, close the blinds, avoid travel,” because personal responsibility is cheaper than rebuilding the energy grid, redesigning housing stock and admitting that the old climate baseline is dead.

Europe wants to be a climate leader with stone‑age buildings, Victorian rail, and 21st‑century heat — and it’s discovering that moral superiority doesn’t lower the temperature in a third‑floor walk‑up with sealed windows and no fan.

#Europe #heatwave #France #UK #climate #energy #infrastructure #heatdome

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Hormuz Poker: Iran Hits Kuwait, Trump Calls It “Winning Big”

Iran just turned Kuwait into a live‑fire warning that the ceasefire is basically dead, and the US is pretending this is all part of the plan.

After seven straight nights of US strikes on Iranian surveillance sites, logistics hubs, underground weapons storage and maritime capabilities, Tehran answered with one of its heaviest barrages on Kuwait since the war began.

Sirens went off repeatedly from dawn; Kuwait Petroleum Corporation says an unspecified oil facility took “significant material losses,” staff were evacuated and people were injured.

A power and desalination plant was hit, forcing firefighting on critical infrastructure. Kuwait’s airport suspended or rescheduled most flights as the sky turned into a shared risk assessment: do you really want to land planes under Iranian missiles.

This isn’t just about Kuwait’s bad night. Iran is steadily widening the target map: US bases in Kuwait, Jordan, Bahrain; radar and aircraft in Qatar; reports of a ballistic missile aimed at a US base in Saudi Arabia; strikes on Oman’s As Salamah Archipelago sitting on the Strait of Hormuz.

Gulf civil defense systems push overnight alerts to civilians in Yanbu and Kharj, then quietly tell them the danger has “passed” without saying what almost hit them. The message is simple: every host of US hardware around Hormuz now pays in fire.

Markets understand it faster than diplomats. Brent jumped to around the high‑80s, up more than 4% on Friday and logging its biggest weekly gain since April.

At the same time, Axios reports Trump is sending more refueling aircraft to Israel; an Israeli officer confirms the plan to boost the US fleet there. Translation: Washington is preparing for longer, wider operations, not winding them down.

Oil rockets, inflation fears re‑ignite, and the “ceasefire to protect shipping” morphs back into “war that threatens shipping” in under a month.

On paper, all this is happening under a ceasefire agreement meant to reopen Hormuz and build a 60‑day path to a broader peace deal.

In reality, bridges, utilities, port facilities and power plants are being hit on both sides, and Iran is still insisting that ships must seek its permission before sailing the strait.

A Georgetown professor in Doha calls the tit‑for‑tat an escalatory cycle neither side can exit: both have become dependent on the logic of “we can’t back down, so we escalate and call it deterrence.”

Trump goes on TV to tell Americans the US is “winning big in Iran” and that they will see the “fruits of that labor very, very shortly,” before pivoting back to domestic grievances about China and elections.

China and Pakistan, meanwhile, are the ones publicly calling on both Washington and Tehran to stop and talk — Beijing and Islamabad auditioning for the role of grown‑ups while the nominal superpower ties itself up in a blockade plus bombing loop it can’t really control.

So the scoreboard today is this: Kuwait takes real damage; Gulf airports and power plants become targets; crude spikes; US forces expand their footprint; Iran keeps firing and demanding de facto veto power over shipping; and the “ceasefire” turns into a paper prop.

Neither side wants total war; both want leverage. That’s exactly how you get a long, grinding conflict where critical infrastructure, not soldiers, becomes the main bargaining chip.

#iran #kuwait #Hormuz #usa #oil #war #infrastructure #fakeDemocracy

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