{"id":87898,"date":"2026-05-17T23:28:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/?p=87898"},"modified":"2026-05-17T23:31:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T23:31:40","slug":"geopolitics-update-18-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/geopolitics-update-18-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Geopolitics update 18-May"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Geopolitics update 18-May<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Refresh browser for updates.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Second Geopolitics page today (18 May in Australia).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump&#8217;s new ultimatum to Iran; China refuses to validate US president&#8217;s claims | Janta Ka Reporter (20 min)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">The &#8220;inscrutable&#8221; and &#8220;philosophical&#8221; answers by China to Trump&#8217;s claims are amusing.\u00a0 \u00a0Instead of coming straight out by saying NO and Trump is a bullshitter they throw him a face saving bone.\u00a0 They must be laughing behind the scenes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trump&#039;s new ultimatum to Iran; China refuses to validate US president&#039;s claims | Janta Ka Reporter\" width=\"614\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wOU9ZnCmgpo?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>IRAN STRIKES NUCLEAR PLANT, TRUMP TO RESTART WAR &#8211; w\/ Fmr CIA Larry Johnson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"IRAN STRIKES NUCLEAR PLANT, TRUMP TO RESTART WAR - w\/ Fmr CIA Larry Johnson\" width=\"614\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JMXyaZfBoJM?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>Russia Moldova Decree Stuns EU; Assembles Belarus Force; Brushes Off Zelensky Drones; Putin To China (1:20 min)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Russia Moldova Decree Stuns EU; Assembles Belarus Force; Brushes Off Zelensky Drones; Putin To China\" width=\"614\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1hBvMSLYviA?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>After UAE And Iran Scares, Massive Fire Erupts At IDF Base In Negev Near Israel&#8217;s Nuclear Heartland (6 min)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"After UAE And Iran Scares, Massive Fire Erupts At IDF Base In Negev Near Israel&#039;s Nuclear Heartland\" width=\"614\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-tlRMCZFteU?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>Hormuz is all Blocked Up with Ships &#8211; Week 11 | Iran and US Blockade Update (36 min)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hormuz is all Blocked Up with Ships - Week 11 | Iran and US Blockade Update\" width=\"614\" height=\"345\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7ftOkFsKmIo?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geopolitics update 18-May Refresh browser for updates. Second Geopolitics page today (18 May in Australia). Trump&#8217;s new ultimatum to Iran; China refuses to validate US president&#8217;s claims | Janta Ka Reporter (20 min) The &#8220;inscrutable&#8221; and &#8220;philosophical&#8221; answers by China to Trump&#8217;s claims are amusing.\u00a0 \u00a0Instead of coming straight out by saying NO and 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-87898","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\/87898","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=87898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87901,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87898\/revisions\/87901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblaridion.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}