The 130-year arc just closed in Beijing
Trump-Xi finishes what Lincoln started in 1867. The City of London just ran out of moves.
The empire said the quiet part out loud
Lords admit defeat, Carney ditches the rules-based order, UAE walks from OPEC, IRGC broke.
Three pillars cracked in one week
A state visit, a stablecoin, and a CIA reckoning all in five days. The empire is being squeezed in real time.
The visit, Edition 006
King Charles flies to Washington, the NGO state goes on trial, and Iran starts paying in stablecoins.
RICH DOES POLITICS • THE WEEKLY BRIEFING
Week of 14–20 April 2026; No 5 IRAN: THE WAR IS OVER, THE CHOKEPOINT IS BROKEN On the evening of Friday 17 April, Trump posted on Truth Social that the Strait of Hormuz was "completely open and ready for business." The Iran war that began on 28
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RICH DOES POLITICS • THE WEEKLY BRIEFING Week of 30 March – 5 April 2026; No 5 IRAN: TWO READINGS COLLIDE Five weeks in, the split between my guests has never been wider. Alex Krainer and Harley Schlanger, President of the LaRouche Organisation, appeared together and delivered a withering assessment of the
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RICH DOES POLITICS • THE WEEKLY BRIEFING Week of 23–29 March 2026; No 4 IRAN: PEACE TALKS, FALSE FLAGS, AND THE ART OF THE CODE On Monday 23rd March 2026, President Trump announced that the 48-hour warning he had given Iran had been deferred for five days because of constructive
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RICH DOES POLITICS • THE WEEKLY BRIEFING Week of 16–22 March 2026; No 3 IRAN: THE FOG THICKENS Three weeks in, and the war in the Middle East, has entered a strange new phase in which nobody can be entirely sure what is real. Tom Luongo and Xoaquin Flores, appearing
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RICH DOES POLITICS • THE WEEKLY BRIEFING Week of 9–15 March 2026; No 2 IRAN: THE WAR NOBODY WANTED AND NOBODY CAN STOP The war in Iran entered its second week. In that second week, I recorded seven videos on this subject with analysts whose view did not always align.
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RICH DOES POLITICS • THE WEEKLY BRIEFING Week of 1–7 March 2026; No 1 THE WAR IN IRAN: TWO READINGS OF THE SAME EXPLOSIONS On Friday the 28th of February 2026, the US and Israel began bombing Iran. Iran retaliated. I recorded nine videos this week on this issue with