🇺🇸🇷🇺🛢 Trump considering global oil embargo against Russia

U.S. President Donald Trump is seriously weighing the introduction of tough secondary sanctions against countries that continue to trade oil with Russia — including China, India, and Turkey. The plan involves supporting a bill that would impose a 500% tariff on imports from Russia, effectively amounting to a global oil embargo.

According to The Times, this shift in Trump’s stance is driven by his growing frustration with Vladimir Putin’s refusal to engage in peace talks and continued strikes on civilian targets in Ukraine. Trump had previously called the bill “too harsh,” but now says he is “studying it carefully.”

The outlet notes that the key concern is the risk of economic fallout. The White House wants to ensure that the power to lift sanctions remains with the president, while Congress is pushing for more oversight. Analysts believe that even partial implementation of the measures could significantly damage the Russian economy.

🔗 Visegrad24

🇮🇱🇺🇸🇹🇷 Israel to U.S.: Don’t Sell F-35s to Türkiye

A senior Israeli official has urged the U.S. Congress to block the sale of F-35 jets to Türkiye, warning it would threaten Israel’s military edge and destabilize the Middle East.

The official cited Türkiye’s “neo-Ottoman” ambitions, support for Hamas, and operations in Syria as key risks.

Israeli official warned of a growing risk of military clashes with Türkiye, citing Ankara’s goal to restore the Ottoman Empire and control Jerusalem.

"Israel prefers to avoid conflict but is ready to act if needed."

🔗 Clash Report

🇫🇷🇪🇺 Arnaud Bertrand on X: This might be the most remarkable geopolitical document I've seen come out of a major European institution so far this century.

France’s Parliament has just produced an extraordinary 153-page report that calls for nothing less than a complete strategic realignment of Europe.

The document systematically dismantles the EU's current geopolitical positioning - "vassalized" to the U.S., in the report's words - as a catastrophic failure that has led to the EU seeing "its influence diminish and its interests poorly protected."

The report details 50 recommendations from the "creation of a common world currency" (recommendation #14) to dedollarize the global economy, to "replacing the EU's strategy in the Indo-Pacific region with a cooperative approach including China" (recommendation #11).

In general the report's central recommendation is that Europe break free from Atlantic subordination and instead achieve strategic autonomy by partnering with China.

This would mark a complete historical reversal - for the first time since the colonial era, the historical West choosing equal strategic partnership with a Global South nation as an alternative to Western alliance structures.

The report (which you can find here: https://assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/rapports/due/l17b1588_rapport-information.pdf) is in French so I wrote a detailed article breaking down its most explosive findings and recommendations, an explaining why this could be its last chance to avoid irrelevance in a multipolar world.

https://arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/frances-parliament-calls-europe-to

🔗 Arnaud Bertrand

🇯🇵🇺🇸 Japan PM Ishiba urges less US dependence as Tokyo faces new tariffs

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Thursday his country needed to wean itself from U.S. dependence in such key areas as security, food and energy, as Tokyo faces the prospect of new U.S. tariffs in three weeks.

"If they think Japan ought to follow what America says as we depend heavily on them, then we need to work to become more self-sufficient in security, energy and food, and less dependent on America," Ishiba told a TV news programme.

https://www.reuters.com/business/japan-pm-ishiba-urges-less-us-dependence-tokyo-faces-new-tariffs-2025-07-10/

🇺🇸🪖 New U.S. Army tank platoon doctrine is out.

Includes instructions for targeting quadcopters with the main gun of an M1A2 Abrams MBT.

https://fxtwitter.com/Osinttechnical/status/1943876049802064248