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📰 Allies Shopping for a New Superpower U.S. allies aren’t “drifting” toward China. They’re walking there on purpose — and Trump is holding the door. A new POLITICO–Public First poll in Canada, Germany, France and the U.K. finds people in all four countries now say it’s better to depend on China than on the U.S. after Trump’s return to office. Majorities in Canada and Germany, and large pluralities in France and Britain, say they’re looking to Beijing not because China got more trustworthy, but because America became harder to rely on. ​ Trump’s “America First” foreign policy made that shift feel rational. Allies watched Washington slow walk Ukraine aid, threaten NATO partners with economic punishment, and pull out of institutions from the WHO to the U.N. Human Rights Council — while floating stunts like “liberation day” tariffs, annexing Greenland, or turning Canada into the 51st state. Beijing filled the space: hosting investment forums with Europeans, branding EU–China ties as “partnership not rivalry,” and positioning itself as the predictable player in a world where the U.S. behaves like a tariff‑addicted landlord. Governments are already cashing that in. Canada’s Mark Carney talked about a “rupture” with Washington, then flew to Beijing to launch a new strategic partnership that slashes tariffs and resets trade ties. The U.K. signed multi‑billion export deals in China; Macron and Merz came home from Beijing with purchase orders and photo‑ops, not lectures. It’s not love for Xi — it’s hedging against a White House they increasingly treat as a risk factor, not an anchor. That elite recalibration is reinforced from below. Younger Europeans are far more open to China than their parents and are more supportive of closer ties, and a big share get their idea of China from social media rather than traditional news. Studies cited in the piece show that nearly 70 percent of 18‑ to 25‑year‑olds say they rely on platforms like TikTok and other short‑form video for information about China, which means Beijing‑friendly narratives and curated images of Chinese “modernity” land in a space already primed by frustration with U.S. politics. At the same time, pluralities in key allied countries now think China is ahead in critical technologies — batteries, robotics, EVs, AI — and see decoupling from China as harder than loosening the tie to the U.S. The paradox is simple: Washington still sees itself as indispensable, but its own behavior is helping make Beijing look inevitable. If European leaders start acting as though China’s rise and America’s decline are facts of nature, that perception can easily turn into policy — and then into reality. #trump#china#europe#allies#geopolitics#fakeLeadership 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

📰 Italy’s Meloni Breaks Ranks Over Trump’s “Accidental” School Massacre Giorgia Meloni just called the Minab school strike a “massacre of girls” and said the war is now outside international law — while Trump still insists Iran somehow bombed itself with an American missile. Speaking in Rome, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned the missile strike on the girls’ elementary school in Minab as a “massacre” and said the attack falls “outside the scope of international law,” explicitly demanding that those responsible be identified quickly. She stressed solidarity with the families of the “very young victims” and framed the school bombing as a red line even in the context of U.S.–Israeli operations against Iran. At the same time, multiple investigations and leaks now point straight back to Washington: media probes and a preliminary Pentagon inquiry have found that a U.S. Tomahawk, guided by outdated targeting data, hit the school while aiming at a nearby naval facility. Trump’s response has been to deny, deflect, and improvise — publicly suggesting, without evidence, that Iran might have used a “bought” American missile or that “somebody else” did it, even though Iran does not operate Tomahawks and only a handful of U.S. allies do. For Europe, Minab is the nightmare image of this war: rows of dead schoolgirls, a U.S. president dodging responsibility, and allies being dragged into defending the indefensible. Meloni’s language signals how far things have gone — when even a hard-right Atlanticist leader in Rome says the campaign is breaching international law, it’s a diplomatic way of warning Trump that he’s burning through what’s left of America’s moral credit with its own partners. So you end up with an ugly inversion: Iran, under bombardment, still looks like the one holding its line on sovereignty, while the United States — under Trump’s “make America great” banner — looks like the power that kills children by “mistake,” lies about it in public, and forces its allies to choose between their own laws and Washington’s war. If this war continues on autopilot, there won’t be enough reputational capital to rebuild trust — not in Tehran, and increasingly not in Rome, Berlin, or Paris. #iran#meloni#trump#minab#war#internationalLaw#fakeLeadership 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Trump went to war with Iran and discovered his real enemy was the math. According to AP, two weeks after the first US–Israeli strikes, he’s angrier at the media than at Tehran, still can’t explain why the war started or how it ends, and his approval numbers are sliding while oil and fear go up. Americans see dead service members, $100 oil, red stock screens — and hear a president ranting about “unfair coverage” instead of giving them a story that isn’t pure chaos. Budget analysts now peg the war cost at roughly 1 billion dollars a day when you add operations, munitions, deployments, and replenishment — before interest on the debt and long-term care for the wounded. Iran’s regime is still standing, still controlling the streets, still firing back, while Trump manages to look weak at home and reckless abroad: the worst of both worlds for a guy who sells himself as “America First” and “a winner.” So the political headline writes itself: every 24 hours, Washington burns another billion dollars on a war the president can’t explain and can’t win fast — and the only thing collapsing on schedule is his approval rating. #IranWar#Trump#USA#elections#oil#markets#warCost#taxpayers#fakeLeadership#geopolitics 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Erdogan’s Big War FOMO The biggest Middle East war in a decade began without Erdogan — and that’s his real defeat. Israel and the US hit Iran, oil routes are burning, the regional map is shifting, and Ankara found out from the news ticker, not a secure Washington–Ankara line. Turkey is NATO’s second‑largest army, host to US nukes, self‑styled mediator — and in this war its role is reduced to silent airspace where NATO intercepts Iranian missiles. Alliance air defenses have already shot down multiple Iranian rockets over Turkey. Officially, Ankara is “not part of the conflict”; in reality, it’s participating without a say. Iranian gas delivers billions of cubic meters a year and props up Turkey’s economy, but the war is shredding both energy flows and the informal Kurdish bargain, while in Syria Erdogan’s protégé rules only inside the lines drawn by Israeli airstrikes, not Turkish diplomacy. Erdogan’s project relied on an illusion: NATO pillar and Islamic world leader at the same time; dependent on Iranian gas yet marketed as Tehran’s counterweight. The war exposed that as posture, not strategy. Gulf monarchies quietly live with strikes on Iran without any Turkish “umbrella,” the Palestinian card that built Erdogan’s image has been drowned out by a larger security re‑order, and key decisions are being made with no seat for Ankara. A regional leader is the one you cannot start a war without. Today, Erdogan is just another spectator watching this one unfold in real time. #Turkey#Erdogan#IranWar#NATO#Syria#Kurds#oil#gas#MiddleEast#fakeLeadership 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸