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• China has significantly increased its nuclear energy capacity in the last decade, positioning it to become the world’s largest nuclear energy producer.
• China is actively developing and deploying advanced nuclear technologies, such as small modular reactors and thorium-fueled reactors, outpacing Western development in these areas.
• The cost and time required to build nuclear reactors in China are substantially lower than in the United States, giving China a competitive edge in both domestic and international markets.

China has lapped the rest of the world in terms of nuclear energy deployment, and now it has its gaze set on dominating the nuclear export sector as well. Though the United States has been the biggest nuclear power generator in the world for decades, the American market has significantly slowed in recent decades, with much of its ageing fleet facing terminal decline. Over the same period, China has doubled down on nuclear energy buildout, adding a staggering 34 gigawatts of capacity over the last ten years. As a result, China is now set to overtake the United States (and France) to become the world’s single biggest producer of nuclear energy within the next ten years.

At the same time that China has been rapidly building out its nuclear power capacity, it has also been experimenting with many novel technologies. China has busily rolled out small modular reactors and high-temperature gas-cooled units while similar U.S. designs have languished in regulation limbo. And Beijing has even more ambitious nuclear energy prototypes in mind, including reactor models fueled by thorium instead of uranium.

All of this is to say that the Chinese nuclear sector has definitively cornered global expertise on nuclear technologies and development. Though U.S. scientists have developed similar prototypes in theory, and often before Chinese markets began to consider them, China actually managed to build them and now boast a wealth of experiential knowledge that the West cannot seem to keep pace with.

While the West is aware that it is losing the nuclear energy race, there’s little that the United States or European Union countries can do to close the gap. China is able to build nuclear reactors in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost compared to its Western would-be competitors. “The country’s reactor developers are state-owned enterprises, and receive preferential loans with low interest rates,” the Huffington Post recently reported. “That’s a stark contrast from U.S. and European projects, which can overrun their budgets by billions of dollars each time a regulatory delay holds them up, sending interest on their loans soaring.”

The United States’ newest nuclear reactor, Georgia’s Plant Vogtle, finally fully came online on April 29, 2024, seven years late and $17 billion over budget. This makes it, by some accounts, the most expensive infrastructure project of any kind in U.S. history at a whopping $35 billion. And now that Vogtle is finally finished, there are currently zero nuclear reactors under construction in the United States.

Moreover, electricity provided by Plant Vogtle is estimated to cost the “astoundingly high” sum of $170–$180/MWh. This, too, is a huge issue for the nuclear sector in the United States, where different energy sources have to be cost competitive. In China, where the electricity market is not divvied up in the same way, nuclear plants can “count on steady electricity rates from industrial buyers to help pay off the cost of a multibillion-dollar investment in new reactors” according to the Huffington Post.

Now, Chinese nuclear power is ready to make a mark on international energy markets as well. Beijing is rapidly expanding its presence in emerging markets from Asia to Africa by financing and building nuclear reactors in countries that desperately need reliable and carbon-neutral energy buildout. While Russia currently dominates global nuclear supply chains, China may be on track to overtake that superlative as well.

“We continue to advance comprehensive cooperation with ‘old friends’ such as Russia and France, expand in-depth cooperation with ‘new partners’ such as other key European countries,” Lu Tiezhong, a China National Nuclear Company (CNNC) official, told the Chinese nationalist propaganda outlet the Global Times last year. “We plan to establish a research and development center in Eastern Europe, seize the opportunity of accelerated global innovation resource flow and reshuffling, continuously increase the participation of international scientific and technological talents in CNNC’s scientific research tasks and engineering implementation, coordinate with international development strategies, expand international influence, open up international markets and help CNNC’s full industry chain ‘go global.’”

By Haley Zaremba for Oilprice.com

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Chevron Corp. plans to ratchet up oil exports from Venezuela to a seven-year high as a reset of the country’s relationship with the US eases concerns that trade restrictions will increase.

Exports of synthetic oil from Chevron’s Petropiar project are expected to rise about 50% to about 143,000 barrels a day this month, the highest since March 2018, according to preliminary port schedules compiled by Bloomberg. Petropiar’s output has grown 37% in the past year to 110,000 barrels a day in January, said a person with knowledge of the operations, who asked not to be named because they aren’t authorized to speak publicly.

President Nicolas Maduro is benefiting from the slow revival of Venezuela’s oil industry, the regime’s top revenue producer, after his release of US prisoners and decision to accept immigrants deported from the US — after a meeting with Trump envoy Richard Grenell — calmed fears of additional sanctions. Chevron Chief Executive Officer Mike Wirth said earlier this month that Venezuelan oil could be more important for the US if it imposes tariffs on Canada and Mexico, which produce crude similar to Venezuela’s grades.

“The Trump administration’s immediate priority is immigration, not Venezuela’s re-democratization,” said Fernando Ferreira, Rapidan Energy Group’s director of geopolitical risk. “The Maduro-Grenell meeting is promising for Petroleos de Venezuela SA and Western oil companies operating in Venezuela, and supportive for Venezuelan production.”

Chevron’s ability to expand in Venezuela is still limited by sanctions, which allow the company to boost drilling and operations only within the bounds of contracts it had in 2019. The Houston-based company has bolstered operations by securing electricity supply to drilling pads and replacing equipment such as coiled tubing, a person with knowledge of the situation said.

Chevron said in a statement it continues to carry out business in Venezuela in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

The oil major boosted production at another project, the Petroboscan, by 40% in the past year to 101,000 barrels a day in January, according to a person with knowledge of the situation and PDVSA data seen by Bloomberg. Electricity and gas supply failures that slowed production during previous years have been partially ameliorated, according to the person.

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California is home to 9 International airports, 41 Military airports, 3 of the largest shipping ports in America, as well as more than 30 million registered vehicles, all of which cannot operate without imported foreign oil from other nations like Saudi Arabia, Ecuador, Iraq, Columbia, and Russia. Thus, California is a serious national security risk for America.

In his nearly six years in office, Governor Newsom has aggressively moved to shut down oil production in California. Statewide production has fallen by more than one-third under his watch.

Because California is an isolated energy island market with no incoming oil pipeline connections from other states, Newsom’s shutdown agenda has increased dependence on waterborne crude imports – sourced primarily from foreign countries like Saudi Arabia, Ecuador, Iraq, Columbia, and Russia.

The West Coast gasoline, diesel, and aviation fuels market is isolated from other supply/demand centers as California is an energy island isolated from the States East of the Sierra Mountains. The Sierra Mountains are a natural barrier that prevents the state from pipeline access to any of that excess oil from fracking. As such, the West Coast is susceptible to unexpected outages of West Coast refineries as it is unable to backfill an unexpected loss in supply by quickly supplying additional products from outside of the region.

Newsom’s policies continue to force California, the 5th largest economy in the world, to be the only state in contiguous America that imports most of its crude oil demands from foreign countries. That dependence has increased imported crude oil from foreign countries from 5 percent in 1992 to 60 percent today of total consumption.

Newsom’s administration policies and combative approach have led California to a precarious position as the world’s fifth largest economy now exists in a perpetual supply crunch for crude oil, aviation, gasoline, and diesel fuels, leading to high costs, price volatility, and an increased risk of shortages.

California’s aggressive shift towards unreliable solar and wind for electricity, coupled with its move away from fossil fuels, has made the state more vulnerable to fuel shortages and blackouts. This not only affects the daily lives of Californians but also impacts critical infrastructure and industries that are essential for national security.

California uses 1.45 million barrels of oil each day, or well over 520 million barrels of oil per year, for the aviation, gasoline, and diesel fuels manufactured from crude oil, as well as the oil derivatives manufactured from oil that are the basis of more than 6,000 products in our society.

California transportation fuel demands have staggering numbers:

· With all its airports, California is the largest consumer of jet fuel in America.

· For its 30 million vehicles, California is the second-largest consumer of motor gasoline among the 50 states, just behind Texas. · Diesel fuel is the second largest transportation fuel used in California, representing 17 percent of total fuel sales behind gasoline.

California continues to reduce in-state oil production, which grows its dependency on other nations for crude oil for its shrinking in-state refinery capabilities to meet the in-state demands for aviation and vehicle transportation fuels. With a reduction of California refinery capabilities, the State is heading in the direction of growing its importation of manufactured aviation fuels, diesel, and gasoline, and for the oil derivatives that are the basis of virtually every one of the more than 6,000 products in our society.

Governor Newsom continues his personal mission to have renewables of wind turbines and solar panels to replace fossil fuels. Newsom remains oblivious to the fact that renewables ONLY generate electricity, as they are incapable of making any products or manufacturing any aviation, gasoline, or diesel fuels, or making any of the oil derivatives that are the basis of virtually all the products being used by humanity.

· Renewables are incapable of making aviation fuel for commercial, military, and private planes.

· Renewables are incapable of making any gasoline for the States’ 30 million vehicles.

· Renewables are incapable of making diesel fuel, the second largest fuel used in California.

· Shockingly, renewables themselves cannot exist without the parts and components that are made from the oil derivatives manufactured from crude oil.

In October 2024, Phillips 66 announced that it would close its Wilmington-area refining complex this year, which will further reduce the state’s gasoline, diesel, and aviation fuels production capacity, wiping out more than 8% of the state’s crude oil processing capacity. Losing another 1.3 billion gallons in annual gasoline output will only worsen the state’s supply challenges. With the upcoming closure of the Phillips 66 Refinery in California in 2025, the state will obviously be importing less crude oil, but instead, will be importing fuels manufactured in China.

Asia is the region with the greatest number of future petroleum refineries. As of 2021, there were 88 new refinery facilities in planning or under construction in Asia for manufactured gasoline, diesel, and aviation fuels used by every transportation infrastructure, and the military, as well as the manufactured oil derivatives that are the basis of most every product being used by mankind.

Importantly however, California may not have the necessary port capacity, coastal storage, pipelines, or refinery facilities to support a continued shift in the gasoline, diesel, and aviation fuel supply chain toward imports, and that would exacerbate California’s port pollution problems. Herein lies a massive flaw in Newsom’s crusade to shut down in-state oil production: California may not have the infrastructure to meet demand with imported fuels. Californians should be alarmed. After all, Newsom is demanding a dramatic shift in the fuels supply chain, but we may not have the necessary port capacity, coastal storage, pipelines, or refinery facilities to execute it.

Fuel prices in California are quickly getting out of control. The California Energy Commission warned in August 2024 that the state lacked the refining capacity necessary to meet fuel demand. When you restrict supply and prices go up, the people who are hurt the most are low-income.

At the end of December 2024, a gallon of gas in California cost $4.46 on average. Of that total, Californians paid $1.20 in state and local taxes and fees.

In 2025, amendments to the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) approved by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) come into effect. The LCFS amendments will increase gas prices by 47 cents next year. By 2040, the added cost to the price per gallon could be $1.80.

California Governor Newsom remains unavailable to participate in conversations about Energy Literacy and the educational points to remember that crude oil (products and fuels), renewables (weather dependent generation of electricity), and nuclear power (generation of continuous and uninterruptable electricity) do different things.

If continued, Newsom’s shutdown agenda toward oil production and refinery capacity could leave California with no way to process adequate amounts of crude to meet in-state demands for Saudi aviation fuels, gasoline, and diesel– leading to more supply shocks and price spikes that Californians can’t afford.

California is a crucial and dynamic part of the United States with immense contributions to the nation, but its current trajectory in energy policy to eliminate fossil fuels, without a replacement to support the supply chain demand for products and fuels made from oil, and focus on “renewables” that only generate electricity, could pose risks that impact not just the state but potentially the broader national security landscape.

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The bloc imported nearly $2 billion worth of the fuel in December, according to data

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The two energy firms signed in Cairo on Monday the host government agreement with Egypt and Cyrpus for the exploitation of Cyprus’ Cronos Block 6 resources.

Eni said in a statement this agreement is a “concrete milestone” to establish a gas hub in the Eastern Mediterranean, capitalizing on Egypt’s existing hydrocarbon infrastructure and positioning Cyprus as a gas producer and exporter.

It outlines a comprehensive framework enabling a “rapid” development of the Cronos gas discovery offshore Cyprus.

According to Eni, the gas supplies will be transported and processed in existing Zohr facilities to be then liquefied in the Damietta LNG plant for export to European markets.

Discovered in 2022 and subsequently appraised in 2024, Cronos gas in place is estimated at more than 3 trillion cubic feet (TCF), Eni said.

Additionally, Block 6 encompasses further potential resources under exploration and appraisal, including the Zeus discovery made in 2022

Block 6 is operated by Eni holding a 50 percent interest, while TotalEnergies holds a 50 percent interest as well.

Eni also operates Block 8 and has participating interests in Blocks 7 and 11.

In Egypt, Eni is currently the country’s leading producer with an equity production of approximately 280,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day in 2024.

Eni operates in Egypt through its wholly owned subsidiary IEOC and has a 50 percent share in the Damietta LNG plant.

Back in 2023, the liquefaction plant shipped its 500th LNG cargo since the start of operations in 2005.

The 5 mtpa facility located on the Mediterranean coast, about 60 km northwest of Port Said, started exporting LNG again in February 2021 following a deal between Egypt’s EGPC and EGAS, Eni, and Naturgy.

It stopped operations in 2012 due to declining domestic production, but new finds such as Eni’s giant Zohr field in the East Mediterranean allowed the partners to restart the plant and ship the first cargo in 2021.

Howevher, Egypt again shifted from being an LNG exporter to an importer early last year due to declining domestic gas production and rising demand for cooling amid multiple heatwaves.

To support its growing need for natural gas, Egypt currently hosts the 170,000-cbm Hoegh Galleon FSRU at the Sumed port in Ain Sokhna, with a second unit, the 160,000-cbm Energos Eskimo, set to arrive in June.

In addition, a recent report said that Egypt has signed a deal to deploy one of Turkiye’s operational FSRUs at Egypt’s Ain Sokhna port to cover LNG demand in June-November.

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Top officials from both countries are to discuss ways to end the Ukraine conflict in Riyadh

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The Wolfowitz Plan to Block Russian Natural Gas and Global Geopolitical Realignment has failed

The chief problem of Keitth Kellogg is that he mistook his mission as ending the Ukraine War to save the EU and NATO and mitigate the continual harassment from the mainstream media.

The reality is that the Wolfowitz plan to isolate and break up Russia and Iran as a means of capturing the Persian Gulf and Capsian Sea Petroleum fields and occupying the logistical supply routes has failed.

The Wolfowitz plan shifted the Brzezinski era regime-change destabilization program to a regime-change nation-building program as the means of placing US puppets in charge of the newly formed countries of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan to control the pipeline supply routes to Europe and this project has failed miserably. It merely turned into a continuation of the regime-change destabilization program of Brzezinski instead.

Specifically, Kellogg and his advisors, never realized the difference between the Globalist rhetoric that  “Russia is going to use natural gas as a weapon” and that “Russia is pursuing territorial expansion to revive the Soviet Empire” and the actual geostrategic reasons of super powers forming trading blocs to form a superpower-major power-vassal state hierarchy that enables superpowers to become superpowers.

Cover-for-Action Rhetoric in Contradistinction to Sea Power versus Land Power Strategies

In this context, Kellogg didn’t realize that the neoconservatives and neoliberal Gloablists in the financial and military-industrial complex sectors (a) moved the EU and NATO Eastward to extend the Super Power-Major Power-Vassal State hierarchy by including the former Yugoslavian countries and Warsaw Pact countries into new vassal states; (b) to separate Russia from the European Peninsula market place and form a superpower, major power vassal state hierarchy of their own; or (c) did not realize that the Global War on Terror rhetoric was merely the pretext for the West to move into the Middle East to secure both the Petroleum Fields and the pipeline routes to (d) thwart Russian emergence and cooperation against the Sea Powers by building overland logistical supply routes in Eurasia with China.

It is (a-d) that is achieved by (e) the underlying Sea Power Mackinder-Spykman-style Rimland strategy to encircle Russia and China as a whole. In this strategy the Afghanistan nation-building project was supposed to be a gateway into Central Asia to reinstitute the Great Game strategy of the British Empire discussed at length by Peter Hopkirk in his series of books published in the 1990s.

The “Seven Countries in Five Years” objective of the neocons discussed by General Wesley Clark during his 2007 campaign was the strategy to control the entire Middle East into Central Asia and separate Russia and China to thwart and sabotage their overland pipelines, railway, highway and port system. Brzezinski wrote about this in his 1997 book titled The Grand Chessboard.

Economic Development Strategies in Contradistinction to Geopolitical Sabotage Strategies

The Wolfowitz Plan to Block Russian Natural Gas and Global Geopolitical Realignment has failed

The chief problem of Keitth Kellogg is that he mistook his mission as ending the Ukraine War to save the EU and NATO and mitigate the continual harassment from the mainstream media.

The reality is that the Wolfowitz plan to isolate and break up Russia and Iran as a means of capturing the Persian Gulf and Capsian Sea Petroleum fields and occupying the logistical supply routes has failed.

The Wolfowitz plan shifted the Brzezinski era regime-change destabilization program to a regime-change nation-building program as the means of placing US puppets in charge of the newly formed countries of Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan to control the pipeline supply routes to Europe and this project has failed miserably. It merely turned into a continuation of the regime-change destabilization program of Brzezinski instead.

Specifically, Kellogg and his advisors, never realized the difference between the Globalist rhetoric that  “Russia is going to use natural gas as a weapon” and that “Russia is pursuing territorial expansion to revive the Soviet Empire” and the actual geostrategic reasons of super powers forming trading blocs to form a superpower-major power-vassal state hierarchy that enables superpowers to become superpowers.

Cover-for-Action Rhetoric in Contradistinction to Sea Power versus Land Power Strategies

In this context, Kellogg didn’t realize that the neoconservatives and neoliberal Gloablists in the financial and military-industrial complex sectors (a) moved the EU and NATO Eastward to extend the Super Power-Major Power-Vassal State hierarchy by including the former Yugoslavian countries and Warsaw Pact countries into new vassal states; (b) to separate Russia from the European Peninsula market place and form a superpower, major power vassal state hierarchy of their own; or (c) did not realize that the Global War on Terror rhetoric was merely the pretext for the West to move into the Middle East to secure both the Petroleum Fields and the pipeline routes to (d) thwart Russian emergence and cooperation against the Sea Powers by building overland logistical supply routes in Eurasia with China.

It is (a-d) that is achieved by (e) the underlying Sea Power Mackinder-Spykman-style Rimland strategy to encircle Russia and China as a whole. In this strategy the Afghanistan nation-building project was supposed to be a gateway into Central Asia to reinstitute the Great Game strategy of the British Empire discussed at length by Peter Hopkirk in his series of books published in the 1990s.

The “Seven Countries in Five Years” objective of the neocons discussed by General Wesley Clark during his 2007 campaign was the strategy to control the entire Middle East into Central Asia and separate Russia and China to thwart and sabotage their overland pipelines, railway, highway and port system. Brzezinski wrote about this in his 1997 book titled The Grand Chessboard.

Economic Development Strategies in Contradistinction to Geopolitical Sabotage Strategies

knows nothing about it so the Western electorate, and even the Western military leaders, stays in the dark as well.

Instead of receiving any real news based on any real understanding of the Sea Power versus Land Power strategies, the journalists and the American public are fed a fake news diet crafted by the Wall Street and City of London financial class in one sense, which is amplified into mass conformity perfection by the chorus of USAID and the NED funded Operation Mockingbird alternative media Youtube channels who unwittingly broadcast even more fake news. The Western mainstream and Mockingbird alternative media outlets are a massive misinformation perpetual feedback loop.

The Fake News Cover for Action

The fake news such as “Russia invaded for no reason,” “Russia is going to invade Central Europe,” and Ukraine is winning the War” are trumpeted in the mainstream and Mockingbird alternative media outlets that obscure the underlying foreign policy of the US. This has occurred to such an extent that LTG Kellogg was massively misinformed as well.

The actual concern of the Brzezinski-Wolfowitz strategy was always to contain Russia and China. Professor John Lewis Gaddis has written several books on this topic and the Russians and Chinese have read them too. This is why the Russians, Chinese, and Iran have coordinated their overland logistical supply route counterstrategies to bolster each other economic development and political stability.

Putin and the “Do Nothing” Approach to Western Delusion

The Russian, Chinese, and Iranian counter strategy now has the effect of creating the very Eurasian integration economic and military blocs that the Brzezinski-Wolfowitz strategy was designed to stop. Now, all Putin has to do to realize the Ratzel, Haushofer, and Dugin Eurasian land power dream is simply “do nothing” and let the energy prices soar across Europe.

If the populist parties win in the Danube River Valley countries and rebuild Nordstream to buy Russian natural gas in Rubles to save their economies and societies, then they will have to abandon the petrodollar, the EU, and NATO that are enforcing the sanctions.

On the other hand, if the WEF globalist-backed politicians increase their lawfare and mass censorship of their rivals to win the upcoming 2025 elections, and stick to the Green New Deal net zero delusion, then all Putin has to do is to sit back and watch the deindustrialization policies to run their course and lead the West into a series of cascading bankruptcies that cannot fund their generous welfare states.

Putin and Xi will be fine with either outcome and all Putin has to do is nothing. The Kellogg Plan to deal with Putin from a position of strength was dead on arrival since it was first published back in April of 2024.

Let’s hope the elections in Central Europe are too big to rig and President Trump and Elon Musk go all in and support the populist movements across the UK and Europe. The 2026 midterms will arrive faster than anyone thinks and overcoming the mainstream media mendacity will be the biggest obstacle to overcome.

Part 5: Keith Kellogg Understood Neither the Role of Energy in Geopolitics Nor the Role of Trading Blocs in Geopolitics.

Part 4: Keith Kellogg Had a Layman’s Understanding of the Wolfowitz Proxy War with Russia in Ukraine – All Putin has to do is nothing

Part 3: Understanding the Catastrophic Downside Risk of the Kellogg Plan and Exploring Alternatives

Part 2: Why Keith Kellogg’s Plan is DOA: Shifting the Global Political Center of Gravity Part 2

Part 1: Why Keith Kellogg’s Plan is DOA: Avoiding the Catastrophic Downside Risk of Russo-Ukraine Negotiations

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The Role of Trading Blocs in Geopolitics

The specific purpose of moving the EU and NATO Eastward during the late 1990s, despite the promise by the Reagan administration to Mikhail Gorbachev in 1989, was to prevent affordable Russian natural gas via pipeline from going to the European market for two essential reasons. I wrote about this topic in the seven “Russian Natural Gas and Geopolitical Realignment” articles published on Energy News Beat.

First, the West wanted to prevent Russia from using the profits of the Gazprom natural gas sales to fund an export-led growth import substitution industrialization investment program that would modernize their economy and military which would make them a regional power once again.

Secondly, and most importantly, an overland logistical supply route of natural gas, oil, and railroad infrastructure would allow Russia to re-emerge as a regional power and build alliances with Central Europe, India, China, South Korea, and Japan to form a super Eurasian Economic Union trading bloc that would rival the current North American, Anglosphere Five Eyes and EU/NATO alliance system.

Under the Wolfowitz plan to prevent any near-peer superpower from emerging, a reemergence of Russo-Sino superpower alignment would likely create the scenario where they make the German-World Industrial Power center a major partner in Western Europe as well as Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan in the Pacific Island chain would become partners in a greater Eurasian Economic Union trading bloc as well.

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Or what should President Trump do to end the war?

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The Sea Power Versus Land Power Grand Strategies

In terms of the history of Sea Power Versus Land Power Grand Strategies, such a scenario would become a Friedrich Ratzel, Karl Huashofer, and Aleksandr Dugin overland logistical supply route dream and a Mahan, Mackinder, Sykman, Brzezinski, Wolfowitz nightmare that the RAND 2019 strategic plans were designed to prevent.

The two 2019 RAND articles are titled “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia Assessing the Impact of Cost-Imposing Options” as the short 12-page overview paper that complimented a 354-page detailed strategic plan titled “Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground.”

These articles are online and can be read by anyone willing to spend the time to investigate the actual US strategic plans as opposed to the cover-for-action rhetoric that “Russia invaded for no reason” and the “Russia is going to invade Europe” trope that is broadcast non-stop by the legacy media and Operation Mockingbird USAID and NED funded alternative media channels on YouTube over the last decade.

Kellogg and the Media Need to Read the Wolfowitz and RAND Articles

One would think that a retired three-star general such as Keith Kellogg would understand the difference between the cover-for-action rhetoric in contradistinction to the actual underlying Grand Strategies, but that was obviously not the case.

So why discuss this further than already discussed in the previous articles in this series? Because the mainstream media and Mockingbird alternative media propaganda are so pervasive that the voting electorate is misled and misinformed on purpose.

Besides the general public, way too many Western leaders are misled and misinformed intentionally by the Wolfowitz and RAND Grand Strategists as well and the Western media “journalists” have become stenographers repeating what they are told with no skepticism whatsoever.

Way too many military officers, politicians, and journalists have fallen into the foreign policy misinformation trap that a democratic system cannot exist under such a propaganda campaign.

For President Trump and DOGE to succeed President Trump needs to remain in office all four years and keep control of the House and the Senate for all four years the propaganda machines of the media need to be neutralized by openly discussing the Wolfowitz and RAND foreign policy strategic plans to the general public. It is now the US that needs a glasnost and perestroika.

A Glasnost and Perestroika of the Wolfowitz Plan and the Eurasian Natural Gas Wars

To achieve this, the actual underlying strategic plans that started the war need to be widely understood and disseminated to as much of the general public as possible to keep President Trump and DOGE in office. It is imperative that Trump and the DOGE tackle the twin current account and massive yearly budget deficits that threaten the financial and economic stability of the United States and the entire Western World.

To achieve this, both the domestic and international problems need to be solved, which means displacing the current neoconservative, neoliberal, and Green New Deal Leftists that form the current WEF Globalist parties throughout the collective West and control the media.

It is these three groups that shifted the regime-change destabilization strategies of Zbigniew Brzezinski and Stanfield Turner Operation Cyclone from the late 1970s forward, to the regime-change nation-building strategy of the Global War on Terror, followed by the Big Tech-inspired color revolutions of the Arab Spring, that led to the return of the regime-change destabilization strategies across Eurasia and North Africa since the regime-change nation-building strategies failed.

It is these groups that back what Mike Benz refers to as the “dial-a-riots” where the financial class flies in and busses in professional protesters to cause street violence to overwhelm local police forces and follows Marcuse’s “repressive tolerance,” Alinky’s identity politics and Jean Sharp’s “non-violent” direct action protest protocols perfected by the Central Intelligence Agency during the 1960s protests in Europe and transferred to the National Endowment for Democracy and USAID after the Church Commission hearings in the late 1970s.

One can see that this form of political action was perfected in the 2020 election cycle George Floyd Antifa-BLM riots used to disrupt Donald Trump’s reelection effort.  A “glasnost and perestroika” effort is needed to explain how these professional protest and color revolution techniques evolved from the Frankfurt School devotees in the 1950s and have been perfected by the union of the intelligence and Big Tech communities to bully local communities that do not submit to the single-party socialist state progressive programs.

The Peaceful Protestors and the Need for a Glasnost and Perestroika in the West

The reason why this glasnost and perestroika are needed is that these professional protest methods are used to advance the “Seven P Plan of the Left” strategies to achieve a single-party bureaucratic state in the United States that also controls the EU and NATO trading bloc and military alliance institutions.

Clearly, the Globalists and Leftists are using the Cloward and Piven Plan to bring about the single-party bureaucratic state by profligate government spending on wasteful government programs that are actually money laundering schemes to fund globalist politicians.

The US federal budget deficit was approximately $5.6 trillion in 2000 after President Clinton left office and approximately doubled to $10 trillion under President G. W. Bush when he left office in 2008. The national debt nearly doubled again under President Obama rising to almost $20 trillion in 2016 after President Obama left office. Since the Trump and Biden four-year terms the national debt has risen to $36 trillion as Trump took office in 2025 for his second term. The question is can Trump and Musk stop the increase and grow the economy to balance the budget over the next four years?

The Cloward and Piven Plan to accelerate spending and significantly expand the bureaucracy to achieve the single-party social state has been accelerating over the past four decades and must be reversed by the extensive cost-cutting and department closures that Elon Musk and DOGE are performing within the first month of Trump taking office.

Taken together, the twin current account and budget deficit problems are being countered by the reciprocal tariff policy of Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE. But only so much can be achieved in four years,  and President Trump needs all four years to make a small dent in the twin problems. Trump and Musk not only need to maintain control of both houses through the 2026 midterms but need to maintain control of all three houses (the White House and both Houses of Congress) throughout the next four-year terms as well.

Part 4: Keith Kellogg Had a Layman’s Understanding of the Wolfowitz Proxy War with Russia in Ukraine – All Putin has to do is nothing

Part 3: Understanding the Catastrophic Downside Risk of the Kellogg Plan and Exploring Alternatives

Part 2: Why Keith Kellogg’s Plan is DOA: Shifting the Global Political Center of Gravity Part 2

Part 1: Why Keith Kellogg’s Plan is DOA: Avoiding the Catastrophic Downside Risk of Russo-Ukraine Negotiations

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Biofuels, despite claims of sustainability, cause food inflation, environmental harm, and energy inefficiency, raising concerns over their true impact.

​Biofuels, despite claims of sustainability, cause food inflation, environmental harm, and energy inefficiency, raising concerns over their true impact. 

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