G7 rare earths took center stage in Paris, May 2026, as finance ministers warned of China's 90% stranglehold on global processing. With the Strait of Hormuz virtually closed and oil above $103, the West is finally treating mineral dependency as the national security emergency it always was.
ECB President Lagarde just admitted Europe is losing the dollar digital dominance war. Tether and Circle control 90% of a $310,000 million stablecoin market — 98% pegged to the U.S. dollar. Trump's GENIUS Act turns every new stablecoin into demand for U.S. Treasury debt. BRICS has no answer. Europe has no plan. America wins again.
China touted a consumer boom on May Day 2026, sounding more capitalist than communist, while Cuba, North Korea, and Vietnam staged the usual red-flag spectacles. American socialists joined in, demanding economic blackouts, open borders, and wealth taxes. Once again, the global left revealed how state control crushes the very freedoms it claims to defend.
