Geopolitical Economy Report

The Donald Trump administration has imposed an extreme oil blockade to prevent Cuba from getting fuel from any country. Marco Rubio wants to collapse the economy, causing millions of civilians to starve and suffer in order to overthrow the revolutionary Cuban government. Ben Norton explains the monstrous history of US imperialism and its siege of Cuba.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ykeYsIRqKQ

Topics
0:00 US oil blockade of Cuba
1:09 USA starves Cuban women & children
2:23 Interview with Cuban mother
3:57 Far-right Miami Congress members
4:40 Shutting down Cuba's free universities
5:41 US blockade is illegal
6:06 Trump threatens tariffs on oil sellers
6:40 US empire attacks international law
7:48 US war on Cuban Revolution
8:08 Goal: "Hunger, desperation, & overthrow"
9:29 Trump's war on Cuba
10:25 (CLIP) Marco Rubio wants regime change
10:58 Marco Rubio, warmonger in chief
12:42 Miami Mafia wants to exploit Cuba
13:16 Narco Rubio's links to drugs
15:12 Trump admin attacks Cuba
16:13 Trump executive order on Cuba
17:05 Monroe to Donroe Doctrine
17:57 Russia vows to send Cuba oil
18:43 USA seizes oil tankers
19:26 (CLIP) Trump vows to steal oil tankers
20:09 China supports Cuba
21:30 US-China trade
22:01 Will Brazil help Cuba?
22:34 Mexico is in a tough spot
23:35 US attack on Venezuela
24:26 World opposes US embargo (UN votes)
26:12 US threatens secondary sanctions
27:28 How the embargo works
29:24 Gains of the Cuban Revolution
30:56 Extremist Miami Congress members
31:36 US politicians call to asphyxiate Cuba
32:06 US corporate colonization
33:33 US imperialism
34:24 Outro

The USA is waging a new cold war on China, and trying to recruit countries in the Asia-Pacific region to join it. Vietnam refuses, and is making plans for a potential second war with the United States. Ben Norton explains the complex geopolitics of Southeast Asia and the US empire's strategy.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NncakfDmrxU

Topics
0:00 Cold War Two against China
1:00 Vietnam's "bamboo diplomacy"
2:18 Vietnam prepares for new war with USA
4:07 US-Vietnam relations
5:38 Fears of US interventionism
7:22 US National Security Strategy
8:10 Monroe (Donroe) Doctrine
9:08 US "Indo-Pacific" strategy
10:55 US imperialism
12:51 China-Vietnam relations
13:38 Non-Aligned Movement
14:10 BRICS
14:49 Vietnam's economy: GDP
15:38 Incomes in Vietnam
16:54 Investment-led growth
17:44 Vietnam's manufacturing exports
18:18 Socialist market economy
19:30 Vietnam's "Four Nos" policy
20:51 Vietnam's "2nd US Invasion Plan"
23:48 US-backed "color revolution" fears
25:03 Shift in US imperial strategy
27:17 Divide and conquer
28:24 Trump, Biden, Obama
29:07 Vietnam & China share vision
30:02 China & Vietnam deepen ties
30:43 China-Vietnam conflict
32:21 ASEAN
33:28 Thailand foreign policy
34:41 Southeast Asian model
35:39 Outro

The United States is waging medieval economic war. Donald Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign on Iran is "designed to collapse its already buckling economy", boasted Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Ben Norton explains how the US is trying to suffocate Iran, Venezuela, and Cuba by collapsing their currencies and causing extreme inflation, using illegal sanctions and blockades.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AQWr6Rtybg

Topics
0:00 Economic war
1:02 USA has sanctioned 1/3rd of countries
1:40 Sanctions kill 560,000 people per year
2:46 US sanctions on Iran
3:54 Trump threatens to bomb Iran (again)
5:20 Map of US troops in Middle East
6:58 Economic war against Iran
8:21 (CLIP) Scott Bessent: "Collapse" Iran
10:17 (CLIP) Bessent: Crash Iran currency
11:13 (CLIP) Bessent: Stop Iran oil exports
11:34 Dollar hegemony & financial system
12:33 "Making Iran broke again"
13:09 Blackstone CEO Stephen Schwarzman
14:20 Inflation & US sanctions on Iran
20:40 Goal: "hunger, desperation and overthrow"
22:25 "Make the economy scream"
23:15 More US sanctions
23:50 UN experts: US sanctions are illegal
25:25 How to help the Iranian people
26:29 Outro

Donald Trump's attacks on longtime US "allies" have forced Western leaders to admit their warmongering foreign policy was hypocritical. Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney said the truth in his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos: the "rules-based order" was "false". Ben Norton explains how the global balance of power is shifting.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTH_rx1mpfE

Check out our related video on Europe improving its relations with China: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpngJ3tC7Xw

Topics
0:00 Hypocrisy of Western foreign policy
1:05 "Rules-based international order"
1:27 Donald Trump, arch-imperialist
3:00 Canada PM Mark Carney Davos speech
3:42 "Middle powers" fear US attacks
5:42 (CLIP) Multilateralism is under threat
6:04 Double standards on international law
6:35 (CLIP) "Rules-based order" was false
6:58 US unipolar domination
7:28 (CLIP) Defending "American hegemony"
7:41 Financial system & US dollar
8:34 (CLIP) Rupture, not transition
9:13 West's exploitation of Global South
9:36 Canada's complicity in imperialism
9:56 Gaza, Palestine, Israel
10:31 Canada sells weapons to Israel
11:54 Canada's whitewashed reputation
12:22 Canada's hypocritical UN votes
13:47 West votes against rest of world
14:21 Canadian conservatives
15:03 Imperial hypocrisy
15:36 USA supports Canadian separatists
16:33 (CLIP) If not at table, on the menu
16:48 Partners in crime
17:34 Macron's message to Trump
18:38 New phase of imperialism
19:38 Sovereignty: Westphalian system
20:40 Decolonization
21:11 Neocolonialism
22:08 Mark Carney's trip to China
23:09 Trump threatens Canada over China
23:51 Canada's trade dependence on USA
24:26 Oil exports
24:59 Canada's oil pipelines
25:49 Chinese car industry investments
27:41 Reducing dependency
28:06 European leaders visit China
28:30 "Human rights" hypocrisy
29:07 EU relations with China
29:32 Outro

As Donald Trump hits the EU with tariffs and threatens to colonize Greenland (an autonomous territory of NATO member Denmark), European leaders are improving relations with China and seeking new trade partners. Is this the end of the political West and the transatlantic alliance? Ben Norton explains.

VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpngJ3tC7Xw

Topics
0:00 Western alliance & US empire
0:59 NATO
2:04 Cold War One
2:42 Rise of China
4:20 Cold War Two
5:11 Europe's trade with China
5:33 Trump strategy: exploit Europe
6:55 Why Trump wants Greenland
8:18 Critical minerals & rare earths
9:37 End of NATO?
10:28 UK PM Keir Starmer visits China
11:07 Europe improves China relations
11:39 Trump threatens Europe over China
12:26 Splits with European Union
13:10 German industry
14:44 Would a Democrat repair EU ties?
15:46 EU trade deal with India
16:25 EU agreement with Mercosur
17:06 EU trade dependence on USA
17:50 UK trade dependence on USA
18:13 Canada trade dependence on USA
19:04 Canada PM Mark Carney visits China
19:33 US military presence in Europe
21:02 EU energy dependency
21:38 US oil exports to EU
22:06 US LNG exports to EU
23:41 EU dependence on US technology
25:52 Artificial intelligence (AI)
26:35 US Big Tech companies
27:05 EU card: ASML machines
28:09 Will EU dump US financial assets?
28:54 European holdings of US assets
29:56 US bond market vulnerability
30:58 Trump threatens "big retaliation"
32:30 INSTEX & US sanctions
34:12 Merkel & Macron promised EU army
35:02 Strategic autonomy?
35:37 Vassals of US empire
36:40 Change will be slow
37:33 Independence would be good
38:26 Outro