{"id":87839,"date":"2026-05-16T14:10:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T14:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/?p=87839"},"modified":"2026-05-16T23:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:34:52","slug":"the-empire-strikes-back-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/the-empire-strikes-back-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Empire Strikes Back?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The Empire Strikes Back?<\/h1>\n<p>Will the USA go quietly into that long dark night?\u00a0 Somehow I doubt it. Israel will not let it happen. If you think BRICS is going to save you read this:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-theme=\"dark\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rjJAGCLxEZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/rjJAGCLxEZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elijah (@CherithElijah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CherithElijah\/status\/2055651696089678242?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 16, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<strong>INTEL Roundtable w\/ Johnson &amp; McGovern &#8211; Weekly Wrap 15-May (30 min)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"INTEL Roundtable w\/ Johnson &amp; McGovern  - Weekly Wrap  15-May\" width=\"614\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u4JqT8QCmTc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xi-Trump Summit, Big Foreign Policy Questions Left Unanswered (24 min)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Xi-Trump Summit, Big Foreign Policy Questions Left Unanswered\" width=\"614\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wuxpK9uUGLA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE CHINESE ARE MASTERS OF PATIENCE &#8211; w\/ Defense Analyst Pravin Sawhney (11 min)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE CHINESE ARE MASTERS OF PATIENCE - w\/ Defense Analyst Pravin Sawhney\" width=\"614\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fD3Hrf3qE3g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Russian economy: SANCTIONS backfire, return to growth, investment surge (13 min)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Russian economy: SANCTIONS backfire, return to growth, investment surge\" width=\"614\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7FpoioPRNHI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Post China Summit, will Trump escalate Iran war? 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Will the USA go quietly into that long dark night?\u00a0 Somehow I doubt it. Israel will not let it happen. If you think BRICS is going to save you read this: https:\/\/t.co\/rjJAGCLxEZ \u2014 Elijah (@CherithElijah) May 16, 2026 INTEL Roundtable w\/ Johnson &amp; McGovern &#8211; Weekly Wrap 15-May (30 min) Xi-Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7507],"tags":[8007,114,714,7395,994,5448,75,7523,13188,358,8656,736,5396,610,15648,875,118,115,13334,3911,635,79,9959,104],"class_list":["post-87839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-brics","tag-china","tag-eu","tag-geopolitics","tag-hypersonic","tag-indonesia","tag-iran","tag-kiev","tag-kim","tag-macron","tag-medvedev","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-nato","tag-parade","tag-persia","tag-putin","tag-russia","tag-sco","tag-taiwan","tag-ukraine","tag-venezuela","tag-xi-jinping","tag-yemen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87839"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87862,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87839\/revisions\/87862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}