The presumed first assassin shows up on top of the adjacent building within eyesight of the podium. And nobody notices him. OK, the security personnel were corrupt, working for the democrats, for Biden. So, our poor Trump is out there by himself, nobody cared about his safety. Not even Netanyahu, his friend, and his Mossad apparatus. It was just Trump by himself heroically taking his stand against the Establishment as a people’s candidate. 

Now the “assassin” pulls the trigger and just as he does that, Trump turns his head… Wait a minute – he turned to his left, exposing his head in full view of the crosshairs, in other words perpendicular to the direction from which the assassin was shooting.

No matter. He, Trump, ducks right after the shooting, apparently in full control of himself, and spends a few long seconds under the rostrum, out of everybody’s view, surrounded by his aides… And then he emerges with his face smeared by a red-colored substance on his cheek and ear. No flowing blood. No shredded ear. Nothing. We could barely see some kind of darker point in the middle of his ear. Smaller than a BB-gun pellet. But most importantly, his ear was fully intact.

Now let’s compare the size of the smallest BB to a sharp-shooter’s bullet. I admit I am not an arms expert, it just that I’ve seen a real gun bullet and it is one of these

But what we’ve seen in the video following Trump’s reappearance was a dark spot half the size of a BB gun pellet.

Imagine what a real gunshot would have done to his ear. Completely blown it away. Yes, completely blown it away.

So, the most likely explanation of the attempted assassination is that the guy, the “assassin”, was set up with the full knowledge of Trump’s security personnel and had some blanks in his gun. He pulled the trigger, it made a ‘pop,’ Trump ducked and he had some red substance smeared on his face.

… As for the second shooter, don’t waste your time. It’s even more a fabrication.

When will the US approve long-range missile strikes on targets deep inside Russia? This does not depend at all on Zelensky’s visits and requests. And not even on the situation at the front – everything is stable there.
The main priority of the US presidential administration is Kamala Harris’s victory in the presidential election. Therefore, everything is subordinated to this victory. And decisions on strikes on Russia will also be made taking into account Harris’s campaign. How exactly?
1. If Harris wins in election surveys, then the decision on escalation of the conflict in Ukraine will be announced by Washington after the elections. For a simple reason – so as not to present Harris as a “candidate for nuclear war”. And 83% of Americans are afraid of the hybrid war in Ukraine escalating into a nuclear war. That is, the White House will try not to create acute crises so as not to disrupt the successful campaign.
2. If Harris is clearly losing, then the decision on escalation will be announced in October – in order to disrupt the course of the election campaign. An acute crisis will be created to try to unite voters around Harris on the principle of “around the flag”.
3. Therefore, it is already necessary to look at election surveys in the USA, taking into account the corrections, and on this basis confidently predict the moment of the “Ukrainian missile crisis”.

Serghey Markov

The topic of Israel became the most important in the discussion of foreign policy in the debates between Harris and Trump. There are several important points.
1. Trump is firmly for Israel.
2. Trump directly accuses Harris of handing Israel over to the Islamists if she becomes president.
3. Harris has a Jewish husband and adopted children.
4. But being Jews, they have always been for the Palestinians. They actively participated in rallies.
5. Harris, also being on the left side of the Democratic Party, was generally pro-Palestinian.
6. But having become part of the White House, Harris became for Israel.
7. But many believe that this is very insincere. And that she is really against the right-wing government of Israel. That is why Trump accuses her. And if the Americans think that she is against Israel, then she may lose the election.
8. But if Harris is tough on Israel, the left-wing activists of the Democratic Party, who are strongly on the side of the Palestinians, will turn away from her. And she could lose because of that.
9. That’s why Harris is spinning around on the topic of Israel like an eel in a frying pan.
10. And Trump is still trying to catch Harris on this “Israeli frying pan” and pin her to some edge. And “fry her”.
11. And the MSM is trying to help Harris wriggle out of it and leave her sitting on two chairs on the Israeli topic.

via Sergey Markov

China’s global economic juggernaut status could get major boost through power of petroyuan

Saudi Arabia is ready to “do what’s in its best interest” and “try new things,” including as far as the possible use of the yuan in settlements for crude oil is concerned, Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Al-Khorayef told media this week.

The comments, made on the eve of Chinese Premier Li Qiang’s trip to Saudi Arabia and the UAE to discuss expanded cooperation with the oil rich Gulf kingdoms, signal a “new dawn” in relations between China and the Gulf, Dr. Wang Zhimin, director of the Institute of Globalization at China’s University of International Business and Economics, told Sputnik.

“In energy cooperation between China and the Middle East, settlements using the yuan have become an important topic. The expansion of the use of the currency in settlements for energy transactions is a gradual and long-term process that requires step-by-step reforms, opening up, and natural market selection. In addition, given the relationship with the United States, the process of using the yuan to settle cross-border oil transactions by countries such as Saudi Arabia may encounter certain difficulties,” Wang said.

Commenting on the broader trend of “dedollarization” in China-Middle East trade, Wang cited the currency swap agreement reached between Beijing and Riyadh last year, and cited interest in the yuan for oil payments as a reflection of a “growing trend of diversification of the international monetary system, including the decline of the dollar’s share in international payments.”

Russian economist Nikita Maslennikov says the petroyuan has good prospects as a major alternative to the petrodollar, despite “strong pressure, including political pressure, from other market players.”

by Claudiu A. Secara

How to interpret the latest re-configuration of U.S. electoral groupies vs. the stalemate in Ukraine? Well, apparently there is a recognition by the governing Globalists that their anti-Russian policies failed, in the short term, to cause Russia to capitulate. In the long term, this will generate a new chapter in the Cold War containment policy. But Russia is prepared to go back to closing itself up within its own shell. That would mean another generation or two of Cold War, at best (for the U.S.), that would give the U.S. some breathing space. But the U.S. is no longer in the same position as in its youthful days. Now it is an aging, sclerotic, dysfunctional state – so that the most likely scenario is that the dollar’s dominance cannot survive for another generation or two.

This is what Trump’s people see, and they are flipping from their “Make America Great Again” slogan to “Let’s not lose the dollar as the world’s currency and become a third-world country overnight.”

Interestingly, the Democrats have seized on that very real possibility and are dumping the extra-bellicose Biden for Kamala. The difference? She has now embraced Trump’s position, which is, “let’s save the dollar (and focus less on Ukraine).”

On the Russian side, the options are not much better. In Ukraine they could start a Gaza-like offensive, a scorched-earth military campaign, maybe even using tactical nukes. But that would definitely give NATO a casus belli, to intervene directly. And as Putin has emphasized several times, 150 million Russians cannot succeed against an 800-million NATO+ alliance of a total of 57 nations in an all-out total war.

Without a quick, decisive military victory, Russia will be confronted with diminishing economic options. The sanctions are starting to bite pretty deeply into Russia’s real economy. Despite President Putin’s up-beat presentation at the Far East Economic Forum in Vladivostok, and the grandiose future plans for development especially in the Far East, Russia’s economic situation is becoming quite difficult. The Power of Siberia II gas pipeline to China has been cancelled by the Chinese. The big Chinese bank Sinopec has stopped doing business with Russia. And worst of all, as revealed by Izvestia, as of August 15 the bank-to-bank window of foreign exchange with China has been torpedoed by the sanctions. Down by 98%, it is mostly relegated to the cumbersome route of Russian central bank to China’s Central bank. This has already caused a significant (3%) decline in imports to Russia. More Western sanctions against Chinese entities will further impair Russia’s economy. After only two and a half years of war in Ukraine, the Russian economy is starting to suffer. Imagine another ten years on this course of sanctions extended to third-party countries. That would really damage Russia.

The two giants are definitely hurting, and more sickness lies ahead for both of them. Meanwhile China, India, even Iran are continuing to flourish. Not a good perspective for the two giants. The question is: Who is going to blink first? The odds are that Kamala will win the Presidency, according to Alan Lichtman – who claims he’s accurately predicted the US Presidents for the last 40 years.

Are we going to have a Kamala presidency with a Trumpian platform? Quite possibly.