As long as the Iran conflict continues, energy speculators have the justification for higher oil, gas, fuel and energy prices. Even if global oil and gas flows return to their pre-conflict levels, so long as the conflict itself is in place the market traders, speculators and manipulators have a justification for higher prices.  The center for this global financial matter is London.

If you are an EU minded ‘climate change’ ideologue having constructed decades of fabricated net-zero objectives, the Iran conflict now serves your interests.  The Iran conflict does not assist the interests of the people of Europe, but rather the interests of the political and powerful elite in finance control who benefit from higher prices of traditional energy.

The blame for higher EU energy costs now shifts from EU climate advocates to Trump.

Here’s where it takes a Machiavellian twist. One way to keep the Iran situation in place is to place ancillary pressure on the key to the solution, Russia.

So long as the EU keeps threatening Russia with expanded conflict, there is no motive for Russia to assist President Trump in the solution within Iran.  Solving the crisis within Iran is against Putin’s security interests, as long as the EU threat holds some reasonable possibility, because Iran -a Russian ally- can strike Europe with their remaining ballistic missile inventory.

What we see is the creation of a Gordian Knot.  You cannot resolve the Iran conflict so long as Russian security interests are threatened, and you cannot resolve the Russian security interests as long as the Ukraine-Russia conflict continues.

President Trump wants the Iran conflict resolved. Russia is the key; which is why President Trump has redirected diplomatic resources to resolve the Ukraine-Russia war.  However, that war underpins the justification for expanded conflict espoused by Europe toward Russia.  The EU take a hostile position toward Russia knowing a peaceful resolution is against their ‘climate change’ agenda.  There are trillions of pre-positioned interests at stake.

Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky (correct name) tells his western supporters that President Trump is too favorable toward the position of Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin. {SOURCE} This is not fully accurate, nor is it entirely false.  The missing element is ‘why’.

Both Trump and Putin want the Ukraine issue resolved.  Resolution of this issue means a significant realignment in U.S-Russia strategic relations around the overarching issue of energy development. However, EU interests do not want the Ukraine issue resolved; instead, they want a western (EU/NATO) conflict to continue against Russia using Ukraine as the proxy war long ago established. Again, a divergent energy aspect.

Ultimately, the EU/NATO threats against Russia are a bluff, as long as President Trump is in office.  If the EU/NATO group want to materialize the threat into something substantive, they need the United States military to lead the conflict; after all, it was the previous Obama/Biden U.S. intelligence, state department and military operation (2014) that created Ukraine as the proxy war.  Trump want’s out, the EU/NATO demand America stays in.

This is a considerable Gordian Knot, and both President Trump and President Putin are visibly frustrated.

Underneath all of this are really small European leaders trying to retain global energy position on the issue of climate change, carbon exchanges, net zero, Paris climate treaty, banking and other financial schemes.  Small soft powers with big financial stakes.  London and the EU Central Bank sit at the center of it.

When the Americans and Russians talk about security, it’s not just about security guarantees for Ukraine. In fact, it’s more about some kind of new security framework between Europe and Russia.

We find this approach a bit strange. Because for 30 years after the Soviet Union collapsed, Europe treated Russia well. And Europe tried to have as much trade as possible, as much cooperation as possible, and as good relations as possible with Russia.

Putin’s wars are really about only his attitude toward others – not some kind of permanent confrontation with Europe that was impossible to avoid. But still, we hear what we hear today.

From an address at the 9th European Political Community Summit. (1/3)

— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) November 12, 2026

If you understand this knot and all of the interests within it, then you understand why President Trump, President Putin and Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping meeting together, privately, at the Nov 18/19 APEC summit in Beijing has all of those EU leaders in a state of visible concern.

President Trump can cut through this knot with a frank, deliberate and direct discussion with Xi and Putin.  Iran doesn’t get nuclear weapons – EVER.  Russia has security guarantees from Trump, and long-term resolution to Europe’s manipulation of Ukraine comes by Chairman Xi leveraging his influential economic status against the scheming and conniving European players.

Trump, Putin and Xi have individual interests, but are also significant enough men of legacy that they can align their common interests.

Trump only has two years left, so Putin needs to rely on another mechanism; that’s where Xi comes in.

Together, the knot gets cut.

Iran gets resolved with strict parameters.  Russia and Ukraine get resolved with borders and security.  Europe gets managed and the conniving western banking interests get overwhelmed by forceful hard power agreements.  Many in the USA (mostly leftist-minded and EU-centric supporters) will not like this outcome.  All of it will be consequential for generations.

If you live in Canada, Europe or Australia, you can prepare your kids for the future by having them learn Chinese.  The Western Hemisphere, including Cuba will be home to technological advancements, increased quality of life and a specific labor market demographic.  The U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy will modify accordingly (the carrot for Xi), meanwhile Russia and the U.S. being a strategic energy-based realignment in the Arctic.

For us, we watch the apoplexy that is about to surface!