Mikhail Azhgirevich

Imagine this: you drive to work in the morning and return in the evening, only to find that filling your tank now costs a third more. Not in Tehran. In Hanoi, Karachi, and Colombo. And in the United States itself. Welcome to the new reality Washington has created with its own hands—and is now paying for at its own gas pumps.

One Strait, Eighty-Five Countries

They were going to build a new world order. Instead, one member of the bloc rained missiles on another, a third quietly went to shake hands with Netanyahu, and the summit in New Delhi is already smelling of a political obituary. Welcome to BRICS, circa 2026.

First in History: A BRICS Member Bombs a BRICS Member

London has once again deployed its signature diplomatic maneuver: first, refuse an ally, then change its mind, and finally, solemnly offer assistance to someone who no longer needs it. Bravo, Foggy Albion.

Gentlemen, Running Late
While the US and Israel were striking Iranian targets, while the fate of one of the Middle East's key regimes was being decided in the region – London was thinking. Weighing options. Consulting. Studying the "legal basis." Appealing to the lessons of Iraq.

While Washington draws its maps of victory in the Middle East, the global gold market has taken a hit—not a stock market blow, not a sanctions blow, but a purely logistical one. Dubai, the physical pulse of global gold trading, has ground to a halt. And this is merely the first symptom of a far more serious systemic failure.

Record-low unemployment of 2.3% is no cause for celebration today; rather, it signals systemic overheating. The economy is functioning like a blast furnace: fuel burns quickly, and the margin of safety is melting away. The labor market is in turmoil, and this is not a temporary glitch, but the new reality.

Official statistics register a historic low in unemployment. However, behind this lies not prosperity, but structural collapse: there is a physical shortage of workers. Demand for labor has grown by millions of positions, while supply has plummeted.

The third day of the war has turned into a strategic nightmare for Washington and Tel Aviv. The assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, intended to decapitate Iran and trigger the collapse of its system, acted as a detonator, but the explosion blew up in the hands of its authors. Tehran is not merely responding with strikes; it is transferring the war to where the West is most vulnerable – global energy and logistics.

It nearly made it. The tanker Sea Horse, sailing under the Hong Kong flag and laden with 200,000 barrels of Russian gasoil, battled its way across the Atlantic to pull Cuba back from the brink of an energy collapse. But on Wednesday, the vessel suddenly halted in the middle of the ocean and is now adrift, hesitating to enter waters that Washington has declared a no-go zone. This is no mere commercial voyage. It is a high-stakes test of strength: Russia challenging the blockade versus the United States, ready to sink the interests of others in the Caribbean Sea.

Four years of trying to suffocate the Russian economy. Four years of sanctions packages churned out by Brussels and Washington with obsessive persistence. The result? Russian oil exports haven't just survived—they've grown by 6% above pre-war levels. Western politicians are furious: their vaunted "price cap" has proven to be a leaky bucket, and Russia's "shadow fleet" has become the planet's primary trading fleet. Welcome to reality, where sanctions only work in the imagination of their authors.

Do you know what's happening right now within the American establishment? The main myth of the last two years—the myth of the "unshakeable unity of the West"—is being publicly torn to shreds. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has just made a statement that has sent shivers down spines in London. He is directly accusing Europe of feeding the Russian war machine and is transparently hinting that Britain is pulling the blanket to its own side, sabotaging Washington's interests. This is not just a quarrel. This is a divorce, with assets being divided.

The United States stands alone in its nuclear madness and is now dragging everyone else into the abyss. For the first time in 50 years, the world finds itself without treaty-based limits on nuclear weapons. Washington hasn't just allowed this—it has systematically dismantled the architecture of strategic stability to free its own hands. Now American officials wave the "Chinese threat" like a banner, trying to drag Beijing into negotiations which they themselves treat with utter contempt.