IT'S OVER: Trump and Iran Just Shut Out the UK and NATO. So, why are Europe and Britain irrelevant at this table? Because their own policies have collapsed their economies, and have stripped them of any leverage. (TRANSCRIPT, 5 min video)

X.com ^ | October 1, 2026 | Susan Kokinda

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ᶜᵒᵐᵐᵉᶰᵗᵃʳʸ Susan Kokinda
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IT'S OVER: Trump and Iran Just Shut Out the
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October 1, 2026

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Susan Kokinda: So, why are Europe and Britain irrelevant at this table?

Because their own policies have collapsed their economies, and have stripped them of any leverage. That was noted with not a little bit of irony by Kirill Dimitriev, the head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund and one of Putin's chief interlocutors with the United States. Here's how he put it:

"Europe can finally enjoy the success of both its Green and Russophobic agendas-no oil, no gas." ~Kirill Dimitriev March 22, 2026

This is not a taunt. That's a statement of physical fact, which even the Telegraph admitted with the headline, "Europe facing fuel shortage within days, says Shell boss."

The EU built its entire post Russia energy strategy on the assumption that Gulf LNG would always flow, because the City of London had always managed those checkpoints just enough to let Europe's Green fantasy be semi-functional. That assumption is gone.

And here's what makes this the Empire's worst nightmare. It's not just that the Strait is disrupted. It's that there are now two energy superpowers who have decisively broken from the Green agenda and the rules based order, and they're not shy about it.

Here's Donald Trump this week posting the numbers on American dominance in fossil fuel production, thanks to his policies.  First in terms of oil production. 

Then in natural gas production, again, all as a result of his policies.

 And here's Dimitriev posting Russia's dominance across all natural resources.

Think about that. The United States and Russia simultaneously flexing their sovereign energy power in the same week while Europe scrambles. No longer playing by free trade rules. No longer deferring to Green energy mandates. Sovereign nations acting like sovereign nations.

So what did Europe do this week when faced with all of this? They blinked. Twice.

The European Union, which has been slow walking a 750 billion dollar LNG deal with the United States for months suddenly fast-tracked it for a vote this Thursday.

And then, quietly, with almost no fanfare, Brussels pulled its scheduled April 15 vote to permanently ban Russian oil imports, citing current geopolitical developments. They haven't put that back on the agenda yet. What that means in plain English: They can no longer afford the ideology.

Dimitriev said it best. Green agenda. Russophobia. No oil, no gas. No seat at the table. And nowhere is that loss of a seat at the table more visible, than in the situation facing Ukraine, because the patron Zelensky always counted on is Europe, and in particular, Britain. And Europe just spent this week proving it has nothing left to offer.

The New  York Times, of all places, captured Zelensky's predicament with this headline: Zelensky Sends Negotiators to the United States Hoping to Revive Peace Talks. But catch the subhead: The Ukrainian president has said that he has a 'very bad feeling' about the effects of the Iran conflict on Ukraine's own war.

The week before dispatching his team to Washington, though, Zelensky himself went to London to try and shore up support from his main sponsor. The Telegraph called it his, "Don't forget about me," tour.

While in London, Zelensky met with King Charles for an unprecedented fifth time and addressed the British Parliament in person for the second time. That's Zelensky working his British relationship as hard as he can because London is the patron he knows.

But here's the problem: Britain has no energy cards left to play. Starmer can sign defense declarations and talk about not losing sight of Ukraine, but he cannot supply what Trump's new world configuration runs on, which is oil, gas and physicial economic leverage. He doesn't have it.

Zelensky's 'very bad feeling' is well-founded. The war in Iran is not a distraction from Ukraine's situation. It's a clarifying lens of a new strategic geometry.

The energy and economic framework that sustained the British directed proxy in Ukraine is being dismantled in real time. Europe can't fund it. Britain can't underwrite it. The United States has moved on to a much bigger stage of history.

So, look at the map. The players shaping the new Middle East are Pakistan, the Gulf States, Egypt, Turkey: sovereign nations engaging with the United States administration that deals in physical reality, not imperial management.

Europe is screaming for the energy it spent years sabotaging it's own access to, and Ukraine's most powerful patron is a country which is pretty much out of cards.

They said Trump had no strategy. The map says otherwise. Iran did send Trump a present this week and the old world order got nothing, because this is a new world being shaped by the principles of economic and political sovereignty and led by Donald Trump.

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ransomnote: I gave this transcript to Grok and asked if, "....the key problem was/is that the EU a) realized very late that they were losing leverage despite obvious signs and or B) the EU has been doing everything it can since the spring and it has no capacity to avoid the predicament they are now in. Your opinion?"

GROK: 

A mix of both, but weighted more toward structural incapacity (B) that was visible for years, with the acute crisis forcing a late, limited recognition (A).

The EU’s predicament did not appear overnight in spring 2026. The combination of post-2022 rapid decoupling from most Russian energy, heavy reliance on imported LNG (including assumptions about stable Gulf and other flows), high industrial energy costs, and the green transition timeline created chronic vulnerability long before the Iran conflict. European energy prices and industrial competitiveness problems were already well-documented for years; the “Green + Russophobia → no oil, no gas” dynamic that Dimitriev mocked was not a sudden surprise. Policy choices reduced redundancy and raised the cost of shocks.

What changed with the Iran war (and the associated Strait of Hormuz disruption) was the severity of the supply shock. That is why the Commission delayed the planned mid-April 2026 proposal for a permanent Russian oil ban/phase-out (targeted by end-2027). Officials framed it as a response to “current geopolitical developments,” not a full ideological reversal. They kept insisting the long-term goal remained, while simultaneously scrambling—fast-tracking the large US LNG arrangement is the clearest example of reactive adaptation once shortages and price spikes became immediate threats.

By October 2026 the options look constrained because the earlier path had already eroded leverage:

• Fiscal and industrial capacity is weaker after years of elevated energy costs.
• Remaining Russian volumes were already small; further bans were more symbolic/ideological than volume-critical, yet even those became politically and economically harder under crisis conditions.
• Alternatives (US LNG, other suppliers) exist but are more expensive, slower to scale in volume, and still subject to global competition and logistics.
• Political commitments (to Ukraine support, climate targets, sanctions cohesion) create path dependence that is costly to abandon quickly.

So Europe was not completely blind (A is overstated), but the response was slow and incremental relative to the accumulating risks. The spring delay and later deal-making show they recognized the immediate bind when it became unavoidable; the deeper problem is that prior policy reduced the degrees of freedom needed to avoid or quickly exit the predicament. That is closer to (B): limited remaining capacity once the external shock hit. The transcript’s framing—Europe stripped of leverage, Britain with few cards left, focus shifting elsewhere—is consistent with that structural reading rather than pure late epiphany.

 

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: trumpiran

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

---- "Trump is now prime minister of Earth, making a shambles of the WEF."

That was worth a chuckle. It is so fascinating to watch various versions of "derangement" from many sides, as the Trump-Vance administration -- which will have a full two years more in office after the midterms -- goes ahead with various plans and policies.

What is certain is that many who thought themselves some sort of "prime minister of Earth" -- including the Idiot Biden recently -- are finding themselves surrounded by political and geopolitical turmoil.

It surely seems to me that the aged Brzeziński doctrine of "regent" of the world is lying on its side and can't get up. :)

[Jeff Chandler]

Germany Since 2010

Type	Approximate Change	Average Power Output
Nuclear	~21.4 GW → 0 GW	—
Hard Coal	~28.4 GW → ~15.1 GW	—
Lignite	~21.3 GW → ~14.8 GW	—
Natural Gas	~23.8 GW → ~35.3 GW	—
Onshore Wind	~26.8 GW → ~71.3 GW	~12.8 GW average
Offshore Wind	~0.08 GW → ~11.4 GW	~3.5 GW average
Solar	~18.1 GW → ~130.3 GW DC	~13.7 GW average
Biomass	~4.5 GW → ~9.1 GW	—
Battery Storage	~0 GW → ~21.4 GW	—
Listed Capacity	~144.4 GW → ~308.7 GW
Actual Capacity	~106.2 GW → ~125.6 GW

[Widget Jr]

Did you read what I wrote about this being a fake X account re-running old and AI enhanced videos?

Or that the real Susan Kokinda has been in politics long enough and is smart enough to know a X account running LaRouche conspiracies could get her in trouble with a real political party?

Because the real Susan Kokinda's real X account is this one x.com/sjkokinda which matches what is on her real facebook page at facebook.com/susan.kokinda.1/

Compare her real X and Facebook accounts to the fake x.com/SusankokindaQ_2/

Notice anything?

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[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

---- "Notice anything?"

I notice that you have the relevant contact information to make complaint to the Michigan GOP.

As to fake accounts and all, they're all over the place. So we could discuss actual policy and politics, if you'd like.

But please, make good on your enthusiasm to see her "fired for cause," since that was your perspective. And it would be interesting to learn of the Michigan GOP's response to your complaint. Thanks in advance.

[PIF]

Putin understood how he was being cutout of the game and went in. You guys aren’t gonna take what’s been ours for 1000 years!

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1,000 years ago, where Moscow is today, it was all swamp and scrub forest. There was a smallish enclave nearby called Moscovia, run by thieves and brigands.

[ransomnote]

In the General/Chat forum, on a thread titled IT'S OVER: Trump and Iran Just Shut Out the UK and NATO. So, why are Europe and Britain irrelevant at this table? Because their own policies have collapsed their economies, and have stripped them of any leverage. (TRANSCRIPT, 5 min video), Widget Jr wrote:

Did you read what I wrote about this being a fake X account re-running old and AI enhanced videos?

Or that the real Susan Kokinda has been in politics long enough and is smart enough to know a X account running LaRouche conspiracies could get her in trouble with a real political party?

Because the real Susan Kokinda's real X account is this one x.com/sjkokinda which matches what is on her real facebook page at facebook.com/susan.kokinda.1/

Compare her real X and Facebook accounts to the fake x.com/SusankokindaQ_2/

Notice anything?

I queried Grok extensively about the information in the video and Grok validated the content and said the upload was recent. Grok reviewed the strategies and causes of the current predicament facing EU, Ukraine etc. and they were valid.

Grok confirms it's not the typical account for Promethean action and discusses imipersonators - so the person getting the clicks is a 3rd party.

Yet the content holds up  - I queried articles from March 2026 mentioned in the video and they're real. The dynamics which Trump set up are real.

Fake account - valid information. I appreciate the head's up and will try to focus on the authenic accounts.

[Poser]

That was good analysis. Thanks for posting.

[Regulator]

Uh, it was around the year 880 when Oleg of Novgorod, a Varangian brigand, captured Kiev, which is generally considered the beginning of the Kievan Rus, i.e. the beginning of Russia.

[bitt]

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[delta7]

Meanwhile:
“According to the latest statistical data, August was the third consecutive record-breaking month for the use of aerial bombs .
-The RuAF dropped at least 8,766 bombs, releasing an average of 283 FABs per day, which equates to nearly 12 bombs per hour.
-12 bombs per hour, for the entire month, without pauses or breaks for sleeping or eating.
-Russian Aerospace Forces are using 4 times more bombs compared to 2024.
-– According to estimates released by specialized channels, about 50% of the bombs launched by the RuAF are used to destroy drone control centers.

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These aren’t ordinary HE, watch the videos, these FABS are decimating entire city blocks.

[griswold3]

There seems to be a Global economic Crisis. This administration is preparing the US to survive it with policies such as Venezuelan oil. Greenland Rare minerals. So they say. If it works and we get through this Trump will be known as a genius. But since this doesn’t fit the MSM “Two Minute Hate”( Andrew Sorkin CNBC did praise DJT recently) few will ever get wind of what is happening. I hope it works. 🤞 Too many plates spinning on poles!

[Bob Ireland]

***Europe today lacks the belief that we are truly a global force***

Don't tell EU Prez, Ursula van der Looney. She is convinced that she is building the United States of Europe to go toe to toe with the U.S. and China. In her mind she is achieving that through her purist ideologies, viz socialism, climate politics, non-representative government, unlimited immigration and roping the United States into providing their defense.

During the U.S. Bitem Autopen Administration she looked pretty good. Then, predictably, the roof caved in. Now the EU pays painters and wall paperers to create lovely pictures that she hopes will fool the folks. Her one trophy is Canada, which is ruled by a non-Canadian globalist who is guiding the Canucks into self annihilation for purity's sake.

[Falconspeed]

“They can no longer afford the ideology.” Woke ideology is based on myths and deceptions. Fact: solar energy is unreasonable and nuclear power energy is reasonable, for sure.

[PIF]

it was around the year 880 when Oleg of Novgorod, a Varangian brigand, captured Kiev, which is generally considered the beginning of the Kievan Rus, i.e. the beginning of Russia.
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Nope.

Russia did not become Russia until Peter the “Great” decided that Moscovia was an inadequate name for his county’s greatness, and stole the name ‘Rus’ from the then long vanished Kivian Rus’ Empire which was, on modern maps, Ukraine.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

---- "EU Prez, Ursula van der Looney. "

Now THAT'S funny. Her family name was Albrecht, and she took the "minor aristocrat" name of her husband.

My bride and I were legal residents of Germany for years, before retiring back to these wonderful United States. When there, I saw how many times she failed in terms of actual governance in minor roles and still succeeded politically to climb to the democratically-unelected pinnacle of the European Commission.

She thinks she is "building" Europe, while actually making it weaker and weaker. Green, multicultural meaning awash with Islam, and corrupt, but these are now among those "European values" of which she speaks so often while never detailing what they are.

A small detail: On one of the EU buildings is a quote from an Italian Communist, Altiero Spinelli. That it where the EU is heading.

"EU Prez, Ursula van der Looney" wants us to think Altiero Spinelli was an "EU pioneer | European Union" from an EU web page, but he was an unabashed Communist. Not mentioned so often in the media these days, eh?

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

A fascinating entry into the comments.

"1,000 years ago" there was no United States of America, no Germany nor Italy, as they were divided into competing principalities, and much more. "1,000 years ago" when used to argue a point is fascinating, as one extends the premise.

No printing press, of course, nor means of speedy communication over distance, Cyrillic script was in its infancy, and so much less than our modern "eyes" think is there. Luther's 95 Theses would have awaited being written, and so no schism in Europe with Rome. So many "1,000 years ago" topics about which one could write and write and write.

Most interestingly, Vladimir's trident, "the emblem of en:Kievan Rus (10th-11th centuries) used on seals and coins" is almost identical to today's Coat of arms of Ukraine, the National emblem of Ukraine which was formally adopted in 1992. Historical oddities can be so interesting.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Thanks for the “coalition of the willing ro wait” seated outside the door.... Some say a picture is worth a thousand words, but that one spakrs a thousand laughs! Kudos!