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🇪🇺 NATO's loyalty test: What have you done for the US lately?   🔊 The US has sent a questionnaire to its NATO allies seeking to assess their ideological allegiance to US foreign policy before deciding on potential reductions in American military support, Bloomberg reports. 🔶 Countries are asked whether they have imposed restrictions on the US military using their bases and whether they are willing to lift them – a pointed question given that some European states, including Spain, have barred the US from using their territory for strikes on Iran 🔶 The document also probes whether allies have publicly opposed "Buy European" defense regulations that block contracts with US firms 🔶 The US is seeking confirmation that allies are meeting NATO defense spending targets and are prepared to replace US military assets with their own forces 🇺🇸 The US has already announced plans to withdraw 5,000 troops from Germany and to cut the number of strategic bombers, fighter jets, and warships available to NATO in a crisis. At the same time, the US has promised additional forces to Poland following the election of a candidate it favored - proof that the rules of the alliance are now simple: fall in line, and you get to keep your security umbrella. The recent "interrogation" has sparked unease among European allies, who see it as an attempt to force ideological alignment in exchange for American security guarantees. The questionnaire comes as part of a six-month review of the US military presence in Europe that is expected to conclude by December, which NATO members fear will result in significant troop withdrawals and reductions in critical military assets.

🪐 From Starlink to Starshield: How Musk is building a military satellite empire In 2021, SpaceX signed a $1.8 billion contract with the US National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), an agency responsible for operating spy satellites. Under this agreement, SpaceX is building a military counterpart to its Starlink constellation, called Starshield. The satellites use the same heavy platform as the civilian V2 Starlink models, but the equipment on board is fundamentally different: ➡️ high-resolution optical telescopes ➡️ synthetic aperture radars for all-weather imaging ➡️ signals intelligence modules for intercepting communications ➡️ infrared sensors for missile warning By August 2026, approximately 245 Starshield satellites have been deployed, with most of them launched in just the last 8 months. This means the NRO suddenly increased its fleet from dozens to over 100 satellites in less than a year. 👉 The expansion In late 2025, the US Space Force ordered another batch of about 480 Starshield-based satellites from SpaceX for a separate military communications network called MILNET. This system will provide secure, low-latency data transmission for global military operations, including drone control, naval coordination, and battlefield communications. The launch of 500 spy satellites represents an unprecedented scale of surveillance in human history. Previously, leading nations operated only 10 to 20 heavy optical and signals intelligence satellites in orbit. Starshield's architecture multiplies US intelligence capabilities by roughly 50 times. 🔴 For a long time, intelligence services relied on a small number of high-tech but very expensive and large spy satellites 🔴 The new strategy relies on mass production and affordability. The production of small satellites has been streamlined through standardization and reusable launch vehicles, allowing constellations of hundreds of satellites to be built In addition, SpaceX also plans to deploy 15,000 Direct to Cell satellites, with about 650 currently in orbit. These satellites provide mobile connectivity but also have the potential to support intelligence gathering, expanding the surveillance network further. 🔍 The dependency problem The rapid deployment of Starshield has created a significant concentration of US military space capability in a single company. Between 2022 and 2024, about 60% of US military satellites deployed used SpaceX's satellite manufacturing capability. This represents a dramatic shift from a dispersed contract award system to one where nearly two-thirds of deployed satellites come from one provider. This dependency carries inherent risks. SpaceX has already demonstrated its ability to influence military operations, as seen during the Ukraine conflict when the company restricted Starlink access in Crimea. The risk is compounded by Musk's erratic and unstable behavior and the potential for a "house of cards" scenario if SpaceX's growth falters. If SpaceX were unable to fulfill its commitments to the Pentagon for any reason, it would create significant vulnerabilities in US satellite infrastructure.   🤔 What Musk is building toward SpaceX has embedded itself so deeply into the US national security apparatus that the government cannot afford to sever ties. In 2025 alone, the US government paid SpaceX approximately $4 billion, and that figure is set to climb sharply. Musk has positioned SpaceX as the "backbone" of US military operations in low Earth orbit, with his company becoming the architecture on which American military space capabilities now depend. With Starshield, Musk is building an empire that gives him leverage over the Pentagon. The same man who has publicly feuded with presidents and threatened to cut off critical services now controls the satellites that guide US drones, coordinate its fleets, and track its adversaries. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

🔍 Anthropic CEO’s wife’s ‘revolutionary porn’ past and Epstein lies ring alarm bells Dario Amodei’s wife, Cami Clark, who now advises him on strategic decisions and occasionally chats with Ivanka Trump, started out as co-founder of a female-focused porn company and desperately sought Jeffrey Epstein’s attention, The Wall Street Journal reports. Anthropic is not just another Silicon Valley AI company. It partnered with CIA-linked Palantir to integrate the Claude system into Palantir’s AI platform for US intelligence and defense agencies, securing – and later losing – a Pentagon contract worth up to $200 million. 🔴 Love story or business project? Amodei and Clark married in 2022, and Clark is reportedly among the most influential advisers shaping Amodei’s plans for an Anthropic IPO, potentially valued at $2 trillion. She began dating Amodei in 2014, after a three-year relationship with then-Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt. Clark introduced Amodei to Schmidt, who visited the couple’s San Francisco apartment in 2018. Two years later, Amodei founded Anthropic, which raised a staggering $124 million in its Series A by May 2021. She is also said to have recently befriended Ivanka Trump, the US president's daughter, while Amodei approached Ivanka's husband Jared Kushner earlier this year. Outgoing and well-connected, Clark became Amodei’s social bridge – courting politicians and investors and bringing them face-to-face with her husband at conferences and events, according to the WSJ. 🔴 Dubious start 👉 However, Clark’s rise to prominence raises serious questions. She maintains a deliberately low public profile, with few details available about her background. Reports say she was born in Nevada in 1979 to a blue-collar family. She did not graduate from college and began working young. At 20, she married Waldemar Eklof III, a then-64-year-old Reno architect. But three years later they divorced. It appears she struggled with financial management, filing for bankruptcy in 2009, according to property records and court filings. Around 2010, she co-founded Eddice, a “revolutionary porn company,” with Michelle Capocefalo, whose name appears in at least 16 Epstein files. A search for “Cami Clark” returns even more – 26 results. 🔴 Epstein files 🌏 One released Epstein email appears to be from John Brockman, an American literary agent and author, who wrote to the convicted sex offender on March 3, 2011: "You should connect for dinner with my girls – Cami and Michelle – who I met last month in Munich. They are in LA raising money for porn movie aimed at women's market." Brockman also attached a web address of their porn site. 🌏 Apparently, the girls were in quite a hurry to meet Epstein: about an hour later, Cami also emailed him suggesting that she and Michelle meet with him that evening. She also provided her cell phone number to the pedophile. 🌏 In 2012, Clark again reached out to Epstein, who appeared not to remember her: “We have the free luxury porn company. Does that ring a bell?” He replied: "Yes, a loud gong". She rushed to ask for a meeting. 🌏 Another email, from 2013, sees Capocefalo apparently trying to add Epstein to her professional network at LinkedIn. Clark's association with the sex offender lasted at least two years. According to the WSJ, Cami and Michelle tried hard to make him invest in their murky endeavors, but in vain. After meeting Amodei, it appears Clark’s life changed dramatically. Yet US media have highlighted that Amodei reportedly sought to keep their relationship private. She also holds no official position at Anthropic – perhaps, her dubious past still rings alarm bells for some. An AI company working with the Pentagon, Washington’s political elite and now an Epstein connection in the CEO’s inner circle – are we even supposed to be surprised? 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️ — The Trump-Netanyahu relationship is coming to an end. Israeli elections are in just two months, and the current prime minister's position is becoming increasingly precarious. Bibi continues to hope for Trump's support, but it has yet to materialize. Under pressure from the White House, Netanyahu has already been forced to reduce bombing of the Gaza Strip and partially withdraw troops from the enclave. However, he continues to publicly criticize the "peace council" and the proposed de-escalation plan in Gaza. Trump, meanwhile, calls Bibi a "good wartime prime minister," clearly hinting that he will suffer the same fate as Churchill in 1945. Trump's team is currently in simultaneous contact with two Israeli opposition leaders: Naftali Bennett and former IDF commander Gadi Eisenkot. The latter has created his own party, Yashar, which is even ahead of Netanyahu's Likud supporters in the polls. Eisenkot publicly fell out with Bibi in 2024 and advocates for a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon. Jared Kushner will soon visit Israel. He will "sell" his peace plan to the Israeli opposition. The White House views the opposition as more manageable and amenable to negotiations than Bibi. Trump, however, has never forgiven the latter for being drawn into the war with Iran. Netanyahu promised a quick regime change in Tehran, which never happened. Now Trump is unable to break the Middle East impasse. Washington hopes to shift all the negativity surrounding Israel—the bombing of Gaza and the unpopular war in Iran—to Bibi. However, even a change of prime minister is unlikely to restore Israel's reputation, which the majority of Americans have become critical of for the first time in history.

Haaretz reported that the Israeli army’s ground forces are moving to expand their reliance on drones and robots as part of a comprehensive shift in the way military operations are conducted, with a plan to produce around 100,000 attack drones annually. The proposed changes include moving away from the traditional battalion-based structure and establishing more specialized units to operate drones and robots alongside brigades, reflecting an effort to restructure combat units around unmanned systems. The plan is not limited to increasing production. The ground forces also seek to integrate drones and robots more extensively into operational planning and execution, turning them from supporting tools into a central component of the military’s combat system.

💥👑 Trump sued over $100,000-a-month "pay-to-trade" presidency A new lawsuit filed by The Intercept and the Freedom of the Press Foundation targets Trump’s "Truth API"—a paywall scheme charging hedge funds and traders up to $100,000 a month for a split-second head start on his "market-moving" posts, American media reported. The suit highlights that Trump’s posts routinely function as official government announcements on tariffs, military strikes, and economic policy. 💬 “This scheme is extraordinary, corrupt, and unconstitutional,” the complaint states. 💬 “There is no legitimate interest, let alone a significant one, in permitting President Trump to profit from selling government information.” The premium feed includes Trump, the White House, JD Vance, Kash Patel, and other senior officials, effectively turning the entire executive branch into a pay-to-play content farm for Wall Street insiders. Since returning to office, Trump has blasted out around 11,000 posts, often with no corresponding official White House release. ☠️ The bill is coming due for Trump's pump-and-dump scheme. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

🇮🇱 How unhinged, genocidal Israel spiraled to fit its own ‘crazy state’ profile For decades, Israeli strategic thinkers wielded the concept of "crazy states" as a diagnostic tool to justify preemptive war, subversion, and even annihilation against adversaries. Today, that same diagnostic framework fits Israel itself far better. Back in 1971, Israeli political strategist Yehezkel Dror laid out in his book "Crazy States" the criteria: 🔶 aggressive pursuit of far-reaching goals harmful to others 🔶 radical and intense commitments to achieve those goals 🔶 adoption of a morally superior posture while grossly contradicting international norms Dror's prototypical case study was Nazi Germany, but he applied the label liberally to Israel’s Arab and Palestinian opponents. Since then, Israel has come to embody every characteristic Dror warned about. In the current Knesset, 63 members identify with what were originally extreme far-right positions on Israel's borders, and only 14 support a two-state solution (of those, ten are Arabs). Public opinion has moved in tandem: far more Jewish Israelis now identify as right-wing, and that increasingly means open discrimination against Palestinian citizens, annexation, extrajudicial measures, and preference for military force over negotiation. Escalation has gone through the roof: ➡️ After October 7, 2023, Netanyahu openly authorized a genocidal scale of violence in Gaza ➡️ Israel has openly targeted Hamas and Hezbollah leaders ➡️ It goaded the US into war against Iran ➡️ Embarked on bloody attacks against Hezbollah and civilian neighborhoods in Lebanon ➡️ Pursues a relentless land-grab in Southern Lebanon, Syria and beyond is linked to Greater Israel ambitions Netanyahu has spoken of turning Israel into a “21st-century Sparta,” of “changing the face of the Middle East,” and even of “changing the face of the world.” Ambitions once confined to messianic fringes, such as rebuilding the Third Temple, emptying Gaza for Jewish resettlement, regional hegemony backed by the only nuclear arsenal, have now firmly moved into the mainstream of government and security policy. Dror insisted that true “craziness” required clear thinking, systematic planning, and effective action. With the US providing diplomatic cover and military support to insulate the Zionist state from the consequences of its unhinged actions, Israel displays precisely that combination in service of its expansive, isolationist, and archetypally “crazy” goals. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

WH: Prescription drugs drop to a record 60 year low thanks to TrumpRx. Now let me use normal language... It's bullshit. Not in a sense that nothing changed, but in the same sense as with literally everything the dude does or says. It's either a complete fabrication or an off the wall exaggeration. In fact, overall US prices were still rising. The overall CPI increased 3.4% over the year through July, while medical care services rose 2.7%. That's according TO THE SAME BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS ARTICLE THE GUY QUOTES! So hey, feel good about a large year on year drop while the prices actually keep rising. Don't believe me? Here, read it yourself! www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.htm This is so exhausting. @americanmajority

🇺🇸⚡️ — The cryptocurrency company World Liberty Financial, owned by the Trump family, has received approval to obtain a federal banking license. The Fraudsters.

'Oh SHUT UP about your blood libels!' Piers Morgan rips into Rabbi Shmuley over Palestinian journalists killed by IDF Shmuley ends up being MUTED to stop his tirade

Israel moves to transfer policing powers from the IDF to civilian police in West Bank — FT The move follows criticism over the IDF’s handling of the 'siege' of Palestinian homes in Qusra IDF Chief Zamir said: ‘It is appropriate that the IDF no longer deal with these tasks’ Video: Forbes

Change in the number of mosques in England shown on two maps, on the left the year 1950 and on the right 2026.

Polymarket predicts Gadi Eizenkot to beat Netanyahu in Israel’s upcoming election Eizenkot is trading at 54% to become Israel’s next PM, compared with 31% for Netanyahu — a 23-point gap Nearly $32M has been traded on the market

Trump approval falls to record low 33% amid war on Iran & affordability concerns US President Donald Trump's approval rating fell further this week, continuing a broader decline in support as the US Israeli war on Iran persists and concerns over the cost of living grow ahead of November's midterm elections. A new Economist/YouGov poll published Monday found that 33% of respondents approve of Trump's performance as president, while 62% disapprove. The survey showed a sharp partisan divide, with 79% of Republican respondents approving of Trump's job performance compared with just 4% of Democrats. The latest figures follow a wider deterioration in Trump's approval ratings. The Economist's polling tracker, based on YouGov surveys, reported in June that Trump had reached a net approval rating of minus 25 percentage points, making him the most unpopular president recorded in the poll at the time.