YouTube Notes:
Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman take questions on their Thursday livestream for August 27, 2026.
This week, CIA Director John Ratcliffe landed in Moscow on an unannounced C-17 — and London’s war on Trump just ran into a problem it can’t spin. Mark Carney blew up the trade talks Friday night and called it a war. Same system. Same week. Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda take apart why Carney is terrified of the Moscow pivot: a U.S.–Russia channel that cuts the plan to keep the war going.
Then, President Trump named the weapon at home. Monday on Truth Social he called the flood of fake polls “Demoralization Operations” — designed to keep Republicans from voting. If the empire needs you home in November, the polls are the weapon. Susan connects it to the midterm map, ten weeks out.
And Carney’s walkout isn’t about tariffs. Canada cannot win a trade war with the country that takes 72% of its goods exports. Assange said the rupture was for the U.S. midterms. Susan showed the strike force: a Democratic operative running “United States Stakeholder Strategy,” Freeland’s donut strategy, Joly touring “mostly Democrats.” That’s Operation Economic Outcast — and it’s aimed at you.
Plus: Jackson Hole this week, Xi on the September calendar, and Abdul El-Sayed on Jesse Watters.
