Trump’s Secret War Council: Oil, Blood, and the Final Cash Grab (Plus One Knives Out Escape Hatch)

Two countries, one playbook: kidnap Maduro, carve up Kyiv, and pray the dollar doesn’t crash first

Yesterday’s secret war council, today’s confirmed war-crime probes, and the quiet return of the one Ukrainian general Trump can’t buy. Democracy Now’s Monday headlines just corroborated what multiple sources in Washington, Mar-a-Lago, Kyiv, Caracas, and the Pentagon are saying right now — while most corporate media are still playing catch-up.

Domestic: The Enablers Are Starting to Bleed

• U.S. forces now use Russian “double-tap” tactics – strike once, wait for ambulances and rescuers, then strike again; survivors in the water are deliberately machine-gunned instead of rescued. This is textbook murder, previously only Russia’s signature.

• Pete Hegseth faces Republican-led war-crimes probes – both Senate Armed Services (led by Roger Wicker) and House Armed Services have opened formal investigations into illegal orders and possible violations of the laws of war, including a September 2 boat strike where he allegedly ordered “kill everybody” on survivors.

• White House admits second strike on drug boat – on September 2, U.S. military hit a suspected vessel in the Caribbean twice, killing 11 total including survivors of the initial attack; Hegseth ordered “no survivors,” but White House now claims it was lawful self-defense against “narco-terrorists” under laws of war.

• Legal experts and Dems call second strike a war crime – CNN sources say it targeted incapacitated survivors, violating rules against attacking those “hors de combat”; Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) on CBS: “rises to the level of a war crime”; Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) confirms GOP inquiries.

• Trump is publicly distancing himself from Hegseth – claimed total ignorance of any second strikes, said Hegseth denied them too, and stressed he would never have wanted one because “the first strike was already very lethal and fine”; Hegseth posted a glib meme of Franklin the Turtle firing on boats.

• Trump still can’t fire Hegseth – finding another loyal idiot willing to sign off on war crimes without hesitation or questions is nearly impossible; that exact brand of blind, reckless obedience is extremely rare.

• Kash Patel is safe for exactly the same reason – the “Trump is dumping Kash” leaks to MSNBC are deliberate disinformation; useful, unquestioning morons are far too valuable to throw away.

• Leaked FBI dossier blasts Patel as image-obsessed – 115-page report from agents calls bureau a “rudderless ship” paralyzed by fear; Patel threw tantrum over women’s raid jacket lacking Velcro during Kirk assassination probe; obsessed with social media over casework; fired critics, refused Epstein files release.

• Dan Bongino refused to scrub Epstein files – FOIA-released emails show a direct high-level request to remove Trump’s name from the files; Bongino’s blunt response was essentially “go fuck yourself.”

• 47 House Republicans already quitting – dozens have announced retirement or are quietly planning exits before the 2026 midterms even begin; the rats are abandoning ship at record speed.

• Gates and Zuckerberg folded on day one – the same tech billionaires MAGA once demanded be executed at Nuremberg were photographed grinning next to Trump, desperately offering hundreds of millions more for favor.

• Georgia election interference case against Trump dismissed – Fulton County judge Scott McAfee dropped all charges on Wednesday, ending the last major 2020 probe after prosecutor Pete Skandalakis cited judicial finality; Trump hailed it as victory over a “witch hunt.”

• Afghan national shoots National Guard near White House – Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a former CIA-backed Afghan operative who entered U.S. in 2021 and got asylum in April 2025, killed one Guard member and critically wounded another; Trump called it “act of evil” and halted all Afghan visas and asylum processing.

• Trump targets Democrats with misfit sedition law – after video urging troops to refuse unlawful orders (re: boat strikes), Trump calls for arrests under WWII-era 18 U.S.C. § 2387, even “punishable by death”; experts say it doesn’t apply as message aligns with military law; FBI/Pentagon inquiries launched.

• Third Circuit boots Alina Habba as NJ U.S. Attorney – appeals court upholds lower ruling that Trump’s maneuvers to install loyalist Habba violated appointment laws; could invalidate her decisions, threaten other interim picks in VA, CA.

• White House says Trump’s MRI shows excellent health – Karoline Leavitt: preventative scan for 79-year-old revealed perfectly normal cardiovascular and abdominal results, no narrowing, inflammation, or issues; “confirms he remains in excellent overall health.”

• Reports: Trump governing from isolated bubble – WaPo/Atlantic: no more big rallies, sticks to DC/golf clubs inviting sycophants; fewer trips to disasters/town halls; allies fear detachment from voter woes like affordability; surrounded by flatterers, shuts out dissent.

• Tennessee special election tightens despite Trump nod – Trump-endorsed GOP Matt Van Epps leads Dem Aftyn Behn by slim 2% in deep-red district (Emerson poll); surprise Dem win could erase GOP House margin; turnout key on Dec. 2.

• UnitedHealth CEO murder pretrial heats up – Luigi Mangione’s lawyers seek to suppress backpack evidence (gun, notebook) from arrest, claiming rights violations; weeklong hearing on premeditation/motive; faces life in state case, death penalty federally.

• Knives Out antidote: Wake Up Dead Man – Rian Johnson’s third Agatha Christie–style whodunit is in limited theatrical release right now before it hits Netflix. It’s razor-sharp, laugh-out-loud funny, visually stunning, and exactly the clever, humane, joyfully subversive escape we need while the world burns. Catch it on the big screen while you still can.

International: Two Countries, One Playbook – Regime Change for Profit

• Venezuela 2019 “soft landing” is dead – Maduro, now armed and backed by Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, rebuffed Trump’s weekend call; he wrote OPEC accusing the U.S. of trying to steal Venezuelan oil; China privately warned invasion will trigger defense of its investments.

• Trump answered like a mob boss – immediately closed Venezuelan airspace and waters, posted AI images of himself in 1800s Venezuelan uniforms, ordered B-52 flyovers; secret Sunday war council (Wiles, Miller, etc.) now plans kidnap-or-kill op against Maduro; CIA assets already on the ground; VP Delcy Rodríguez urged OPEC to oppose U.S. attacks.

• Trump escalates Venezuela pressure amid war powers clash – confirmed Maduro call, floats mainland strikes, convenes meeting with Hegseth, Caine, Rubio; Venezuela’s Assembly calls it unlawful; Kaine vows to revive resolution barring war without Congress.

• Miami Ukraine meeting was pure theater – Steve Witkoff, Trump’s real Putin negotiator, hosted at his private billionaire golf club, sat mute and ashen-faced the entire time; actual negotiations with Moscow are being handled by Witkoff, Kushner, and Gentry Beach, not Rubio or the Ukrainians in the photo-op.

• Yermak ousted on Russian orders – the sudden “corruption scandal” was manufactured by Andriy Derkach (former Ukrainian minister turned Russian senator) using kompromat tapes timed to coincide with Trump’s 28-point surrender plan.

• Zelenskyy told “take it or leave it” – cede territory, accept rigged elections, reopen Nord Stream 2, hand over rare-earth minerals and farmland; multiple sources say he is under massive pressure and may fold and leave office as early as January.

• Succession bombshell: Gen. Valerii Zaluzhnyi – the one leader Trump’s team could never buy just returned from the UK, posted “good to be home”; adored by the military and public; could replace Zelenskyy outright or co-lead in a national-unity government.

• Europe’s nuclear option is locked and loaded – EU leaders plus Canada and Japan are quietly coordinating the mass sale of U.S. Treasury bonds to crash the dollar the instant Trump officially abandons Ukraine and green-lights Putin’s land grab; one-shot weapon, but devastating.

• Philippines flood corruption scandal erupts – tens of thousands protest in Manila demanding President Marcos Jr.’s resignation over billions in kickbacks from faulty flood control projects blamed for 250+ typhoon deaths; 37 officials implicated, 7 arrested, Marcos vows more by Christmas but faces calls for his own accountability.

This is the biggest global heist in history: Venezuelan oil, Ukrainian minerals and farmland, Russian pipeline cash – all to outrun justice.

The mobsters are sprinting because the walls are closing faster than they can loot.

Tick-tock.

We stop them now, or we become the next Venezuela.