Welcome To The Fools-Based Order. The New Diplomatic Brutalism. The Quiet Rise of the Global South. Citizen Musk. And The Man Behind The Helmet! #239

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• Trump’s diplomatic brutalism shatters post-WW2 order, creating China openings;

• Elon Musk wields a new kind of global power, holding EU regulators hostage;

• Xi crafts a systematic response to Trump’s return: retaliate, adapt, diversify;

• Indonesia joins BRICS, marking China’s growing pull over the Global South;

• And Anglo-Saxon warriors – were they the a…