Nobody blinked. The stakes just got higher. From the Black Sea to the Red Sea, wars are widening while nations prepare for a world less dependent on American leadership.

Part 3 of The Bigger Picture's New World Order series.
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No headline will tell us if of when the old world order is over. And no headline will tell us when the new one has begun.

What we do know is that seemingly unrelated stories around the world are interconnected as power and alliances begin to shift.

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Trump was never doing this alone. Congress had the power of the purse. Republicans had the votes. They also had the ability to say no. They chose not to. That matters as we head toward the midterms.
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Part 2 of our New World Order series: Putin keeps raising the stakes, betting the West will blink first. But what happens when NATO decides it won't? The danger isn't simply escalation. It's miscalculation.

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France just showed up where America didn’t. Macron saw French interests in Saudi Arabia and acted. It’s another sign that the new world order isn’t coming. It’s already taking shape.

#TheBiggerPicture #ForeignPolicy #France #SaudiArabia #Geopolitics #WorldOrder #USForeignPolicy #Europe

ICE has entered the supply chain. Cattle, Crops, Construction and food processing, enforcement is creating labor uncertainty. Markets don't care about political slogans. They care whether workers show up.
#TheBiggerPicture #SupplyChain #Economy #Immigration #ICE #BeefPrices #Agriculture #Inflation

Taking territory is one thing. Holding it is another. With military contingency planning involving Cuba reportedly underway, perhaps the most important question is the one we usually ask too late: How does this end?

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A surprising tariff poll: 26% of Americans support Trump’s tariffs on Canada, while 33% say Canada was right to retaliate. Those two numbers tell quite a story.

#TheBiggerPicture #Canada #Tariffs #TradeWar #USTrade #USCanada #Polling #Economy.

We bought most of our potash from Canada. Next door. Now Trump is talking about a “massive” deal with Belarus. Because apparently that makes sense. Has America’s largest export become uncertainty?
#TheBiggerPicture #Potash #Farmers #Agriculture #TradePolicy #Canada #Belarus #EconomicUncertainty

America is short on munitions. The Iran war keeps expanding. Trump has a solution. An arch.

No, really. And apparently it’s a military complex now.

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Ukraine. Iran. Yemen. NATO. Energy. Alliances. We keep treating them as separate stories. But the lines connecting them may be becoming the bigger story.

#TheBiggerPicture #Geopolitics #Iran #Ukraine #Yemen #NATO #MiddleEast #GlobalSecurity #EnergySecurity

Eight articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth. Then the House headed home before the expected vote. What’s actually in those 34 pages? Quite a lot.

Today’s The Bigger Picture takes a look.
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Trump wanted a rate cut. The Fed gave him a hike.
The unanimous 12–0 vote may say even more than the quarter-point increase itself.

Today’s The Bigger Picture.

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#Inflation #USEconomy #ChelseaFinancialServices #GlobalMarkets #TheBiggerPicture

Trump thinks tariffs are leverage. Canada is treating them as a reason to find new partners. One of those partnerships is designed to last 100 years. That should get America's attention.

#TheBiggerPicture #Canada #TradeWar #Tariffs #Ukraine #USCanada #Geopolitics #GlobalTrade

Trump wants out of Iran. The war has other ideas.
Yemen is heating up. Oil is above $100. The world is rearming. And the nuclear arms race is back.

Wars have a nasty habit of refusing to stay where politicians put them.

#TheBiggerPicture #IranWar #Yemen #Inflation #NuclearArmsRace #Geopolitics

Trump may leave Iran without a nuclear deal.
But his Energy Secretary just described what comes next: keep degrading Iran’s capabilities whenever necessary.

Trump may find the exit. America’s war may not.
#TheBiggerPicture #IranWar #ForeverWar #Iran #USForeignPolicy #MiddleEast #Trump

#MarketUpdate #MarketTrends #TheBiggerPicture #Inflation #ChelseaFinancialServices

Venezuela. Iran. Climate change. Three different stories with one common thread: oil.
We’re still fighting over who controls it while the planet keeps presenting us with the bill for burning it.
That’s The Bigger Picture.
#TheBiggerPicture #ClimateChange #Oil #Venezuela #Iran #FossilFuels

Russia and China don't have to guess about U.S. military readiness. They can watch experienced commanders leave, weapons stockpiles shrink and lessons from Ukraine get ignored.

The enemy didn't do this. We did.
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