Is Western hegemony collapsing under domestic economic pressure? In this exclusive Think BRICS interview, we investigate how the US-Russia diesel deal exposes the West's fatal split. Caleb Maupin breaks down how the quiet authorization of Russia diesel imports shatters the myth of Western unity. Despite official rhetoric surrounding Russia sanctions and Russia oil sanctions, soaring domestic energy costs forced Washington into a calculated move.
We analyze the profound geopolitical fallout: the US Europe split, growing friction across the Western alliance split, and severe tremors throughout the global energy market. Caleb Maupin examines the sharp contradictions within US foreign policy, where the Anglo-American establishment clashes directly with domestic US economic realities.
While European allies endure a worsening energy crisis, Washington bypasses its own hardline posture for short-term relief. We explore how oil and gas geopolitics accelerate the emergence of a multipolar world, granting BRICS nations unprecedented leverage. As Western division deepens over regional energy security and Washington’s enforcement of sanctions, the strategic shift away from unipolar dominance becomes irreversible.
While this briefing delves into the geopolitical implications of the diesel deal, it does not provide an exhaustive econometric model of worldwide petroleum refining capacities. The discussion does not offer investment advice, stock trading tips, or speculative price forecasts for Brent crude or domestic heating oil. We do not detail corporate-level maritime supply contracts, Baltic shipping insurance mechanisms, or specific third-party STS fuel-transfer routes.
Furthermore, this analysis does not review frontline tactical military developments in Eastern Europe, nor does it present partisan election predictions for individual US congressional seats. Instead, our focus remains on macroeconomic realities, Western division, and the shifting balance of power driving the multipolar world forward.
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00:00 – How The US-Russia Diesel Deal Exposes The West's Fatal Split
02:27 – US Energy Crisis & The Russia Diesel Deal: Domestic Price Politics
05:12 – Deep State vs White House: Who Controls US Foreign Policy & Sanctions?
08:58 – US Economy Under Pressure: Sinking Living Standards & Elite Gridlock
11:44 – US Europe Split & Oil Geopolitics: London’s Influence vs Multipolar Reality
14:14 – Arctic Energy Security & Western Alliance Split: Pipelines, Resources & Land
17:51 – Caleb Maupin on Multipolar World Order: Can BRICS Replace Old Monopolies?
21:28 – Think BRICS Analysis: Western Division Gives BRICS Nations New Momentum
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We analyze the profound geopolitical fallout: the US Europe split, growing friction across the Western alliance split, and severe tremors throughout the global energy market. Caleb Maupin examines the sharp contradictions within US foreign policy, where the Anglo-American establishment clashes directly with domestic US economic realities.
While European allies endure a worsening energy crisis, Washington bypasses its own hardline posture for short-term relief. We explore how oil and gas geopolitics accelerate the emergence of a multipolar world, granting BRICS nations unprecedented leverage. As Western division deepens over regional energy security and Washington’s enforcement of sanctions, the strategic shift away from unipolar dominance becomes irreversible.
While this briefing delves into the geopolitical implications of the diesel deal, it does not provide an exhaustive econometric model of worldwide petroleum refining capacities. The discussion does not offer investment advice, stock trading tips, or speculative price forecasts for Brent crude or domestic heating oil. We do not detail corporate-level maritime supply contracts, Baltic shipping insurance mechanisms, or specific third-party STS fuel-transfer routes.
Furthermore, this analysis does not review frontline tactical military developments in Eastern Europe, nor does it present partisan election predictions for individual US congressional seats. Instead, our focus remains on macroeconomic realities, Western division, and the shifting balance of power driving the multipolar world forward.
#usarussia #Geopolitics #EnergyCrisis #BRICS
00:00 – How The US-Russia Diesel Deal Exposes The West's Fatal Split
02:27 – US Energy Crisis & The Russia Diesel Deal: Domestic Price Politics
05:12 – Deep State vs White House: Who Controls US Foreign Policy & Sanctions?
08:58 – US Economy Under Pressure: Sinking Living Standards & Elite Gridlock
11:44 – US Europe Split & Oil Geopolitics: London’s Influence vs Multipolar Reality
14:14 – Arctic Energy Security & Western Alliance Split: Pipelines, Resources & Land
17:51 – Caleb Maupin on Multipolar World Order: Can BRICS Replace Old Monopolies?
21:28 – Think BRICS Analysis: Western Division Gives BRICS Nations New Momentum
Follow Caleb Maupin: @CalebMaupinTV
🌐 https://thinkbrics.world
🌍 @ThinkBRICS_de | @ThinkBRICS_es | @ThinkBRICS_pt
🎥 @ThinkBRICSChronicles | @BRICSbusiness
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00:00the us house just approved the bill it lets the president impose 500 percent tariffs on
00:07anyone buying russian oil do you remember those titles and what do we have now just a few weeks
00:18later few weeks later the u.s treasury quietly um authorized the import of russian diesel
00:28why is that so is it because the price uh diesel price of the united states hit six dollars 28
00:37cents
00:38a gallon or is there something else and another thing european leaders are losing touch with reality
00:48at all so they're pushing russia ukraine conflict to a nuclear nuclear nightmare i can say
00:58so um today i'm talking to journalist caleb mopping caleb welcome to think bricks and today we will
01:10try to understand these massive contradictions so is this just a quick trick to win votes for for trump
01:20or is the western alliance actually actually breaking apart
01:29caleb just one note uh we met uh k with caleb a few weeks back in moscow during a very
01:38interesting
01:38event and we had a very nice conversation so today i'm glad to see caleb as a guest of mine
01:46at three bricks bottom sure glad to be here
01:52so uh let me start with my first question to you um and let's start with numbers because the
02:02authorized diesel volumes it's it's almost nothing we may say it it's just i i don't know um less than
02:10one one week of u.s entire demand correct me if i'm wrong so it is not about fixing u
02:17.s prices i mean
02:19diesel prices at all in your country and it is purely a geopolitical move isn't it
02:27well here's the thing uh right now diesel prices in the united states are at record highs uh it's costing
02:34over one thousand dollars uh for truck drivers to fill up their gas tank they've declared a state of
02:40emergency in the state of texas to deal with it and this is one of the biggest arguments against trump
02:47when it comes to the uptoming midterm elections uh the public is very very upset with the economic
02:53situation however uh donald trump has found a kind of clever way of uh making it look like he's trying
03:01to
03:01resolve this uh by allowing the import of russian diesel uh he's saying look i'm trying to fix this
03:07and the democrats and many republicans in his own party uh that are so loyal to the foreign policy
03:14establishment are obligated to oppose it we have 12 senators who come out and denounce this diesel
03:20deal so now instead of the conversation being look how bad the prices are because of trump's war
03:26because of what trump has done now the conversation is trump is trying to fix it
03:30and the establishment won't allow him to do it uh so it's a it's a clever move on his part
03:35even though
03:35it's not a substantial amount of diesel um and it's also a step towards what he did campaign on
03:42he said he could solve the russia ukraine conflict within 24 hours of taking office and he hasn't done
03:47really anything towards that we did see the anchorage summit uh but nothing really came of it that you
03:53know substantially uh and now we have uh trump actually you know doing slight improvement when it
04:00comes to russia u.s relations which is largely what the public voted for i think you can put this
04:05in
04:05the context of him also sending uh the department of homeland security to raid the home of congresswoman
04:10ilan omar who is widely hated by many of the people in his base and trump is trying to be
04:15the man
04:16that his base voted for uh as the midterm elections are approaching because largely the
04:21people who voted for trump are overwhelmingly disappointed he said no new wars and we got a new war against
04:26iran he said no inflation inflation is through the roof gas prices are through the roof americans are
04:31paying for it so he wants to be fighting the establishment he wants to be looking like he's
04:37delivering on some of his promises uh and he wants to not have the conversation be that he drove the
04:43gas
04:43prices up he wants the conversation to be that he did something to try and improve it and the establishment
04:47is scolding him for it um can we consider his moves like i don't know like washington is trying to
04:58to bypass congress's own laws um to make a backdoor deal with moscow in order just to stop a war
05:08european
05:08leaders of shame well okay so there there are layers to this that are important uh you have the us
05:17foreign policy establishment you have you know the generals you have the the think tanks you have
05:23the council on foreign relations uh and then on top of that you have a layer of the elected officials
05:29that are more beholden directly to uh the economy of the united states right and there are different
05:35economic interests at play um and i think there is a very substantial layer of the u.s economy that
05:43would benefit from improved trade with russia uh and there is a foreign policy establishment that's
05:48very much tied in with europe uh that is fully committed to opposing any improvement of relations
05:54with russia so this is kind of a matter of the domestic u.s economy being at odds with the
05:59overall
05:59foreign policy establishment i would reference uh there's a lot been written about this carl oglesby
06:05wrote a book called the yankee and cowboy war uh the mentor of bill clinton he wrote a book called
06:11the
06:11anglo-american establishment talking about the entrenched power of old money uh that is connected
06:16with britain and the united states versus the military industrial complex and some of the lower
06:20levels that that have money but are not fully on board with the overall globalist agenda uh there is
06:26a clash between the elite trump has largely served the anglo-american establishment in power he hasn't
06:31really done much to oppose them uh but he campaigned and said things uh that were very much appealing to
06:37those who have been at odds uh with the anglo-american establishment in which with the eastern elite you
06:42can call it in the united states so he's once again trying to look like an opponent of that establishment
06:50but all this brings up a huge question who actually controls u.s foreign policy and i i will i
06:58will
06:58explain if trump is making this strong move just two weeks before midterms uh and even telling zelensky that
07:07you should back off uh so why is a top u.s general to nato at nato during a high
07:18-level meeting in kiev
07:19the other day openly threatened russia right now who authorized that so is there a deep state fighting
07:28the white house when you talk about deep state you know it's interesting in the united states we have
07:35many different intelligence agencies um we don't have one central entity right uh you know we have
07:42the national security agency we have the fbi we have the cia uh the u.s army intelligence u.s
07:48marine
07:48corps intelligence u.s coast guard intelligence uh there are many different entities what's clear is
07:53that you know trump has the loyalty of the department of homeland security and ice uh the immigration
07:58customs enforcement is a wing of the department of homeland security they are very very loyal to
08:03trump uh and other agencies within our american intelligence apparatus are not the fbi uh you know
08:10they covered up the hunter biden laptop scandal and very much helped uh the defeat of trump in the uh
08:15the 2020 election for example and bringing joe biden into office the cia uh has often been seen as not
08:22very
08:23friendly to trump and that there are divisions within the american power structure and the american
08:28elite apparatus uh some of those differences uh involve relationships in the middle east when it
08:34comes in particular to somalia uh it's pretty clear that the liberal establishment has imported a lot
08:39of people from somalia uh you know bribed them with visas and brought them to the united states
08:44minneapolis is full of people from somalia and uh ice uh and the trump administration really don't like
08:50this you know this behavior this these ties to somalia that have been established by some other
08:55intelligence agencies so we're seeing that increasingly and that the reality is the economy
08:59of the united states is getting worse i mean living standards are going down the population is becoming
09:04far far less trusting of the government and so the elite are kind of scrambling to manage things and that
09:10there are differences in how to do it however trump has really not governed that different from biden he
09:16said he was going to improve relations with russia he hasn't done it um he said no new wars and
09:21he's
09:21launched a war against iran so trump hasn't governed that differently than other presidents but the
09:27rhetoric that he uses and who he appeals to is certainly different and there are divisions among
09:31uh the elite he's definitely appealing to those that are at odds with that old anglo-american
09:36establishment and uh and he's not speaking uh from the same script as for example the the general that you
09:44just referenced who threatened russia right he's very much speaking from a different script uh but
09:49the the changes are not there marco rubio who donald trump put as secretary of state he is a
09:55neoconservative he is from the miami cuban community uh that have you know an agenda you
10:01know they want to overturn the cuban revolution uh and they are very much tied in with the same you
10:06know u.s foreign policy apparatus the neoconservatives etc uh however there are other figures within
10:11trump's administration who seems to be at odds with them tulsi gabbard was his director of national
10:16intelligence and uh many were very excited she was appointed but now she's out of the administration
10:22so trump has largely repudiated a lot of the forces that brought him into office and helped him secure
10:27victory in 2024 so he's trying to lean into some of what those those forces may have wanted as the
10:33midterms get closer because those forces have more public support but uh it looks like they are like
10:43spiders in a jar fighting each other trying to eat each other but when their fight is okay
10:52they are fighting for power at the same time ordinary people the life of ordinary people is getting worse
10:59from day to day so well yeah yeah living standards in the united states are going down uh the costs
11:08that americans are being forced to pay for basic things like food like housing the cost of housing and
11:13rent has really dramatically increased in the last few years americans are really struggling while the
11:18elite kind of battle with each other and point fingers and blame each other
11:23you did a very nice report on new york streets recently so i like that so much to listen to
11:30ordinary people
11:32what do they think they don't think at all do they know they don't know at all about um the
11:38russia ukraine
11:39crisis and the american involvement and and this crisis let's talk about the landscape um he goes to
11:49london to meet king charles and then he talks tough against trump going to keep destroying russian refineries
11:58and i should say um just one day ago they hit one refinery here near moscow in the region near
12:09moscow
12:10so we know that this strategy is supported by hardliners like kiss keller so are we watching an open clash
12:22i mean is this the old british imperial order which still controls european leadership fighting against
12:30a new multiplayer world where uh the u.s is trying to gain autonomy from london
12:38well in the united states there has always been kind of a push and pull within the power structure
12:43between the the forces that are more concentrated on the continental economy of the united states and
12:50the forces that are more tied in with london and and the british empire um britain has always feared
12:56uh a german russian alliance the idea of germany and russia together uh that would spell the end of
13:03any domination by britain over the european mainland and they've always feared that uh and that's why
13:08you know we saw that when uh the special military operation began the first thing the united states
13:13did was destroy the nordstrom pipeline uh to you know prevent any economic connection between germany
13:19uh and russia they do not want to see those ties increase that has always been their fear going back
13:25centuries um and the the british are very much uh afraid of losing their grip over the european mainland
13:32the rise of the new right is largely a repudiation of of britain it's a lot of these countries saying
13:39that look we're not really gaining from the european union we're not really gaining from nato
13:44we're suffering economically uh as as britain wants to isolate russia and uh we're not really working
13:51in our own economic interest it's kind of a reassertion of sovereignty and you can interpret
13:56alternative for germany and uh marine le pen and a lot of what's going on in the european mainland is
14:01kind of at least an effort to give voice to those sentiments on the part of of many of the
14:07uh people uh
14:08in in kind of the business circles in europe who have lost out as a result of of nato um
14:14meanwhile in
14:15united states you know we do have a layer of people uh who economically uh have a different
14:22interest than that old new england establishment and that's why you know for example i've noticed
14:26that a big talking point of kirill dimitriyev uh is the notion of a bearing sea tunnel connecting
14:32alaska to russia uh and uh there are a lot of people in the united states a lot of wealthy
14:39folks uh who
14:40would benefit from the united states getting closer to the rising bricks economy in the east and further
14:45away from the british empire and the big monopolies uh there's also kind of a very strong interest in
14:52annexing at least western canada trump referenced that just yesterday he referenced canada becoming
14:57the 51st state um and i think that has been almost an obsession of some uh you know in the
15:03trump
15:04faction of the american government they have very much uh wanted western canada at least uh if not
15:11all of canada to join with the united states because uh western canada is not very densely populated but
15:16you know the yukon territory saskatchewan etc they have a lot of minerals um they have a lot of natural
15:22gas
15:23uh and alaska is part of the united states and you know they need pipelines connecting alaska all the way
15:29down to uh california down to uh oregon and washington state um in addition to that the
15:36arctic is going to be a new territory very soon i mean the arctic is already being at the discussion
15:41among the elite and the united states needs to make sure it has a foothold there and
15:45we have alaska but then western canada is uh is largely you know not under our dominion and canada
15:51is part of the british commonwealth um and i think that you know canada's population is largely
15:57concentrated in ontario uh in the east but uh western canada is not very densely populated
16:03but the population there is quite conservative and we saw events like the trucker convoy
16:07and other events kind of indicating that if it were put up to a popular vote i think it would
16:12be close i
16:12think it's possible that the the people in certain western canadian provinces would want to join with
16:17the united states so um this is all going on behind the scenes and you can interpret uh trump's
16:23statements and trump's kind of erratic behavior in the lead up to the midterms i mean
16:26trump is going to experience very big losses uh in the legislative bodies in the congress possibly in
16:32the senate as well um and we expect that trump uh will you know be tied up with impeachment
16:37proceedings i don't think he'll be removed from office i don't think i'll have enough votes to
16:41actually remove him from office but he will spend a lot of time uh in his uh remaining two years
16:47in
16:47office uh he will spend a lot of time fighting impeachment proceedings and it looks like uh the democrats
16:52will try to use impeachment proceedings to impede any peace talks with russia um you know the democrats
16:58are not going to impeach trump for his attack on iran they're not going to impeach trump for
17:02violating the free speech of americans who support palestine etc they're going to go after trump for
17:07trying to make peace with russia and they're already uh you know talking and trying to create
17:12a scandal you know rumors about you know donald trump jr and his wedding and was there some russian
17:17wealthy russian who attended the wedding or or donated or something like that and it looks like
17:22the democrats will use impeachment proceedings to impede the peace process and impede trump from
17:27trying to improve relations with russia which is not a good thing at all so there are many different
17:32angles to this but but ultimately trump has really not delivered for those who oppose the foreign
17:38policy establishment and the old anglo-american elite he hasn't really delivered for them he's
17:42trying to scramble and deliver for them in hopes of getting some votes in the midterm elections
17:46i don't think it's going to work unfortunately i see thank you um do you believe in a pact
17:55between putin trump and the chinese leader xi jinpin oh i do i think that would be tremendous uh you
18:03know there's such economic growth happening in the east and uh the rising bricks economy is the future
18:08and if america could join uh in that economic growth rather than trying to go down with the old colonial
18:14powers uh that are just trying to beat it back uh i think that would be to our benefit as
18:20americans the
18:21domestic economy of the united states is sinking our leaders in the united states seem so committed to
18:25defending the power of these big monopolies but our living standards are dropping and uh the western
18:31system is facing opposition we're going to have a multipolar world and if we could embrace the
18:36multipolar world it could be to our economic benefit uh but it seems like there is a commitment to just
18:41kind of maintaining the monopoly of the old colonial powers uh that are you know their power the western
18:47system you know people talk about atlanticism or globalism imperialism there are many different
18:52ways to understand it but you know this this goes back pretty far in the united states abraham lincoln
18:56very much understood that slavery in the united states was an expression of the of the british empire they
19:02needed the cheap cotton uh for their textile mills etc and that that lincoln uh when he defeated the
19:07slaveholders he was very much asserting the independence of the domestic u.s economy from
19:12the british empire and their free trade system so this is a push and pull that has gone on in
19:16american
19:16politics for a long time i hope that the forces that want a strong domestic economy for the united
19:21states can assert their independence and we can become closer to the brics countries
19:28well uh recently xi jinping went to the united states and trump declared a deal
19:34then recently a deal so-called deal with russian federation with the russian federation do you think
19:42that trump in person or the forces that stand behind him they understand that they can cannot manage
19:52everything by themselves they should be a part of a of a bigger force not to oppose russia and china
20:00not to
20:01oppose russia not to oppose china but to collaborate with them there seem to be some voices in trump's
20:09administration that that understood that for example tulsa gabbard has made statements to the
20:13effect but then she's no longer with the administration um she left saying it was her husband's cancer but
20:19many speculated it was opposition to the war against iran um marco rubio certainly doesn't feel that way
20:24um and there are other voices within trump's camp that seem to just be echoing the standard u.s foreign
20:29policy view though trump very much appealed to people that maybe had such sentiments when he
20:34ran for president since he's been in office uh for his second term in the last two years uh we
20:39really
20:40haven't seen him take moves to that effect um it would be great uh if there could be an improvement
20:44what's interesting also is that it seems like opposing china is something that we hear a lot of in
20:50the trump camp you know we have the epoch times which is the voice of the falun gong the religious
20:54sect
20:55uh that was expelled from china people have left china they're a big voice within the trump camp
21:00uh and opposing china seems to be what we hear primarily from republicans while opposing russia
21:05seems to be what we hear from democrats right democrats are opposed to russia republicans are
21:09opposed to china but at the end of the day there is kind of a u.s foreign policy establishment
21:13that is
21:14opposed to both uh that has kind of sway over both parties so um it's interesting to see how that
21:19plays
21:19out but at the end of the day i think that the foreign policy establishment opposes both it's just a
21:23matter of
21:23emphasis i see thank you well caleb finally let's look at the bigger picture if the u.s and europe
21:33are
21:33openly fighting each other on this how does that challenge the game for bricks i mean does this
21:40chaos give breaks a clearer faster path to build their own financial systems and finally move away from
21:48the u.s dollar what do you think well uh this presents an opportunity for bricks to emphasize
21:56what it's all about because bricks is all about growth uh the bricks economies are about expanding
22:01economic opportunity building infrastructure investment and while the western system is decaying
22:08and while the western leaders are fighting with each other and scrambling over their solution of how
22:12they can maintain their monopoly bricks just has to keep building uh and constructing and showing the
22:18world that they have something better to offer uh and i think that gives them a great opportunity and
22:23the more that there is a division and confusion and finger pointing in the west uh the more the
22:28bricks has the opportunity to just shine and show the world what it has to offer
22:34thank you dear friends geopolitics is not what leaders say in speeches but it's all about where money and energy
22:45flows
22:46caleb thank you so much for your time and to our viewers if you want to understand the real forces
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