YouTube Notes:
This week:
- Zelensky’s war reaches American oil, and a color revolution comes home.
- Secretary of State Rubio says Ukraine struck ships carrying American-owned oil, “probably not deliberately.” The ships were foreign-flagged tankers.
- Rubio told Zelensky to end the war.
- At home, the Washington Post reports that a small group of national security officials is quietly advising states on how to prepare for possible Trump administration interference in the midterms. Barbara calls it a repeat of the 2020 color revolution playbook: Too Big to Rig vs. Communist Revolution. Leaked recordings published as “The Democracy Files” allegedly lay out “redlines” for declaring the federal government illegitimate.
- On the board: Zelensky’s war vs. Trump’s peace, the Russian diesel deal and the bill to block it, the Post story and the Democracy Files, and the Trump-Putin-Xi alignment with Rubio’s Central Asia and India trip, twelve days before the November 3 midterms.
