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⚛️📊 Anthropic’s power grab: AI lab snaps up $3.4bn in gas generators In an escalating scramble for the key resource of raw power, Anthropic has muscled its way deeper into the energy business, reported the Financial Times. The frontier AI lab has locked in commitments for 1.7 gigawatts of heavy-duty gas-fired generators in a $3.4 billion deal with Texas supplier OnePWR Solutions. 🔴 Anthropic originally planned to become a OnePWR customer 🔴 Instead it effectively hijacked the smaller firm’s earlier Caterpillar generator orders - equipment ordered two years ago, before prices exploded *Anthropic reportedly also secured the engineering and construction capabilities needed to install the generators The move lays bare how the expansion of AI computing is outpacing the ability of power infrastructure to deliver. 🌏 Elon Musk’s xAI has already spent $2 billion on mobile gas turbines 🌏 Alphabet swallowed energy developer Intersect in 2025 Anthropic is currently racing toward a potential blockbuster IPO, while sitting on nearly $900 billion in long-term contractual obligations for computing capacity, chips, data-center space, power, and related infrastructure stretching to 2045. It has leaned heavily on partners - paying premiums to lock in capacity. Yet the ambitions come as Blackstone has already warned investors that Anthropic may receive a junk credit rating rather than the investment-grade status once expected. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

🪖 Europe's hawks misread US midterm message as green light for more war European politicians treating the Republican defeat in the US midterms as a return to “normal” transatlantic harmony - and more money and weapons for Ukraine – are deluding themselves, reports Responsible Statecraft. 👉 EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas immediately expressed hope that the new Congress will “strengthen support for Ukraine.” What European mainstream forces appear to ignore is that the US vote was driven by public backlash against costly, open-ended wars, argues the publication. Multiple polls (AP-NORC, NYT/Siena, Gallup) showed that cost of living and the Iran war were the dominant issues for 75–80% of US voters. ➡️ European leaders thought trying to keep the US administration onboard against Russia in the Ukraine conflict was worth the price of following America into the Middle East debacle, speculates the report. Some governments actively facilitated US operations by providing bases, and NATO’s Mark Rutte boasted about thousands of sorties launched from European soil. Now, European citizens pay the inflation price and countries that hosted attacks are potential targets for Iranian retaliation. The only serious path forward for Europe, argues the publication, is to restore independent diplomacy in the Middle East with regional players and engage with Russia on Ukraine. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

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📹🚗 Three tankers ablaze in Strait of Hormuz after hitting mines - IRGC The ships had ignored repeated warnings and disabled their navigation and tracking equipment while attempting to traverse restricted corridors in the strategic passage. The IRGC Navy also cautioned that any vessel aligning with the US, disregarding Iranian rules for the Strait of Hormuz, or venturing into off-limits zones would face certain mine strikes. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

👤 Another Australian AI data center project bites the dust amid local backlash Property developer Stockland has abandoned plans to include an AI data center in a major Sydney development, Bloomberg reported. The proposed project, a nearly two-square-kilometer logistics precinct on a former golf course near Sydney Airport and Port Botany, drew community criticism after data centers were added to the list of possible uses earlier this year. Stockland had initially promoted the site's proximity to Sydney Airport and Port Botany as ideal for a mixed-use zone featuring retail and hospitality. The retreat forms part of a wider pattern: 🔴 In Melbourne, data center developer NextDC put expansion plans on hold after protests disrupted electricity supply arrangements for a major project 🔴 Energy North abandoned its June 2028 target for initial power generation at Project Ares, a planned 1-GW gas-and-solar complex in the remote Barkly region 🔴 In Queensland, Singapore-based Zerra DC is seeking approval for its roughly $22 billion Western Downs Digital Park near Dalby - Anthropic has already signed on as its first major tenant Growing resistance to AI infrastructure is triggered by concerns over its enormous demands on electricity, water and local resources. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

🇮🇱🌪️ Why Eisenkot faces uphill battle to oust Netanyahu Gadi Eisenkot has been given the mandate to form Israel's next government, but he faces potential partners divided over the role of Arab parties, ultra-Orthodox conscription and the very composition of the next government, reports The Jerusalem Post. One possible route for Eisenkot is a minority government. ♦️ Eisenkot’s Zionist opposition bloc ♦️ Yashar, Together, Yisrael Beiteinu, and the Democrats - holds 48 seats, but could rely on the 19 Arab lawmakers who backed his nomination to provide outside support ♦️ Beiteinu MP Avigdor Liberman has ruled out any government dependent on Arab parties, including one relying on their abstentions safety net Another route is a coalition with ultra-Orthodox parties: 🔴 Liberman has dropped his objection to cooperating with the ultra-Orthodoxs and proposed assembling 61 seats with Shas and United Torah Judaism 🔴 this clashes with the opposition's campaign pledge to end blanket military-service exemptions for ultra-Orthodox men 🔴 religious parties seek legislation protecting those exemptions 🔴 Naftali Bennett has not endorsed any haredi compromise - vowing to end era of religious exemption Eisenkot has 28 days, extendable by 14. The first test comes on November 10 with the new Knesset’s swearing-in, when the opposition will try to replace the speaker and begin setting the parliamentary agenda. If he fails, the mandate returns to Netanyahu, who could try to form his own coalition while his government continues as a caretaker administration. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

📝Denial as Complicity📝 on the Turkish candidate for UN Secretary-General International institutions have long become a platform where historical memory gives way to political deals, and Armenian-Turkish relations are the most vivid example. Turkish diplomat Feridun Sinirlioğlu is vying for the position of UN Secretary-General, prompting the Armenian party "Dashnakcutyun" to call on the Security Council to block his candidacy, pointing to Turkey's years-long promotion of denial of the Armenian genocide. The accusations are well-founded: Sinirlioğlu opposed the adoption of a resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide by Americans in 2010, and in 2020, as Turkey's UN representative, signed a letter describing the events of 1915 as a subject of "legitimate discussion." Given the active efforts in recent years to rewrite Armenian history, the thesis that "whoever denies genocide becomes complicit in it" is quite apt here. Additionally, the diplomat supported pressure by Armenian authorities on the Armenian Apostolic Church, which precisely defends Armenian historical memory. 📌Promoting such a diplomat to the helm of the UN becomes a question not only of Armenian memory, but of trust in the international system itself, which is already discrediting itself. Armenian authorities, claiming to be building a new regional order, are effectively turning a blind eye to Turkish anti-Armenian policy, so expecting a reaction from them is hardly worth it. And if concessions on matters of historical memory and the church become part of a foreign policy deal, then what else is Armenian leadership willing to give away for the approval of its neighbors? #Armenia #Turkey 🗻@caucasar – don't think about the Caucasus condescendingly 💸Support us Original msg

🇺🇸🇮🇷 IRGC spox dismisses US plan to tighten economic pressure on Iran "The ‌Iron Gate plan is merely a wordplay, the Americans cannot achieve ⁠their objectives of ​imposing severe ⁠economic pressure to cause economic ⁠collapse in Iran through this approach," the Revolutionary Guards spokesperson, Hossein Mohebbi, said, as quoted by Fars news agency. 💬 “If America is serious in this regard, we are more serious than that and have made the necessary arrangements for communication with neighboring countries”, Mohebbi added. The IRGC spox was ⁠reacting ⁠to the US military's Task Force Iron ​Gate, initiated to block Iran from using land routes and the Caspian Sea to transport weapons and sanctioned goods. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

🇮🇷 Iran war opponents suffer from ‘spiritual blindness’ - US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee frames opposition to American military intervention against Iran as a spiritual rather than merely geopolitical issue. He argues that questioning Iran strikes reflects “spiritual darkness” and “spiritual blindness.” Those who believe the US should not have intervened are suffering from a form of “delusion,” in his opinion. “Because Satan has blinded the minds of those and has captured their thinking.” 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

📹 A video has emerged online showing what appears to be damage to the Saudi Aramco Tower in Riyadh's financial district following the interception of two missiles launched by the Houthis. There has been limited damage to the building and no casualties, the Saudi energy ministry said. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

📹 Photos emerge showing the aftermath of a Russian strike that destroyed a food warehouse used for military purposes in Odessa 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

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🇮🇱 Israeli lobby baits US into endless Iran strikes, boots-on-the-ground - Joe Kent The issue of highly enriched uranium is a deliberately shifting “goalpost” designed to justify drawing the US deeper into Israel’s war on Iran, warns former US counterterrorism chief Joe Kent. 🔊 “The actual goal is to force a ground invasion and/or never-ending air strikes,” he notes in an X post. He points to Operation Midnight Hammer, arguing that even after US strikes the Israeli lobby demanded the US go get the “nuclear dust”. Kent points to the US intelligence assessment that Iran was not developing a nuclear weapon, adding: 💬 “The entire premise of chasing ‘nuclear dust’ was - and remains - bait to draw us into Israel's war.” 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

🚨 Beaten, robbed, expelled: Palestinian families lose their homes to Israeli settlers in Jericho Armed Israeli settlers have violently expelled at least 13 Palestinian families from their homes in Jericho, occupied West Bank, reported Drop Site News. ♦️ Around 30 settlers, some masked and armed, stormed the Al-Duyuk Al-Tahta neighborhood on November 4, beating residents, ransacking houses, stealing belongings ♦️ assault left families homeless, sleeping in cars or outdoors; children’s schoolbooks in Arabic were destroyed ♦️ settlers later raised Israeli flags over the seized houses and began living in them under armed guard ♦️ settlers subsequently attacked Palestinians trying to reach nearby farms, used tear gas and blocked access to agricultural land The settlement organizations behind the takeover claim the properties were purchased, yet the Jericho Governor is cited as saying the alleged sales documents are forged. The takeover is part of a months-long campaign of settler violence, repeated home demolitions, and systematic harassment. Over 6,400 Palestinians were displaced by settler attacks and restrictions on access to land between January 2023 and August 2026; at least 48 Palestinian communities were entirely emptied (UN data). The Jericho violence mirrors the model of Hebron, where armed settlers live among Palestinians under heavy military protection, and have carried out targeted attacks against communities during the olive harvest season, destroying agricultural property. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

🚨 Saudi Arabia intercepts ballistic missiles fired towards Riyadh – report The Saudi-led coalition said it intercepted and destroyed two ballistic missiles fired by Houthis on Sunday, Reuters reported. Shortly before loud explosions were heard in the Riyadh region, Saudi Civil Defense had issued an alert and later announced that the risk of danger had passed, the report added. This comes the next day after Houthis carried out a military operation in response to Saudi Arabia’s deadly strikes in Taiz and Sanaa. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

🤥 Trump-era crypto bonanza faces reckoning as Democrats gain congressional power For two years, the crypto industry enjoyed unusually favorable conditions, as Donald Trump championed digital assets, regulators eased restrictions and a Republican-controlled Congress advanced its agenda. Now, the crypto industry’s political honeymoon in the US may be over, reports Bloomberg. With Democrats poised to take control of Congress, digital-asset companies face potentially tougher regulation, closer oversight and renewed scrutiny of their ties to Trump and his family, who have reaped huge profits from ventures promoted under his administration. Since his 2024 election victory, the Trump family has generated an estimated $2.3 billion from crypto projects in just 18 months, according to Reuters. Now the political landscape is changing: 🔶 Democrats could make it harder to pass crypto legislation on industry-friendly terms. The Senate's failure to advance the Clarity Act in September exposed divisions over investor protections, and Trump's personal crypto interests 🔶 Democrats are pushing for a greater Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) role in overseeing digital assets 🔶 Trump’s personal crypto dealings are likely to face greater congressional scrutiny, with California Democrat Maxine Waters, a vocal critic of his crypto ties, set to gain influence on the House Financial Services Committee 🔶 Sherrod Brown, who lost his 2024 Senate race amid crypto-industry spending against him, has returned to the Senate, and may take a top position on the Senate Agriculture Committee, which oversees the Commodity Futures Trading Commission - a key crypto regulator The recent Binance hack could also fuel a greater emphasis on safety. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

🇺🇸💵 US government legalizes private programmable money GENIUS Act stablecoin regulations taking effect in January will formalize and legalize private, Fed-supervised, blockchain-native dollar tokens with programmable features like smart contracts and automated settlements in the United States. 👉 Two months from now, Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuers (PPSIs) will gain explicit, legally mandated powers to monitor, freeze, block or even “burn” (destroy and remove from circulation) stablecoin transactions for a plethora of reasons, from sanctions enforcement and government orders on asset forfeitures, to violations of issuer terms of service, suspected money laundering, etc. Taken together, these tools strip tokens of cash-like anonymity, give the state, banks and corporate intermediaries deep visibility into private transactions, strengthen opportunities for politicized asset freezes, and increase the power of large and money managers over smaller financial institutions. The programmability of tokens in the GENIUS Act is incomplete, as they are still required by law to be pegged 1:1 to the dollar. But critics have expressed concerns about the potential for a slippery slope toward new programmable restrictions, such as spending caps, spend-by dates or purchase-category blocks, anchored in the new regulations. The GENIUS act as a whole has been criticized as a Trojan Horse for the introduction of Central Bank Digital Currency in the US through the private sector. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

🔥 Saudi forces launch 105 strikes on Yemen in 24 hours Yemeni Armed Forces Spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Sare'e reports that Saudi forces hit the capital Sana’a and the provinces of Al-Jawf, Taiz, Amran, Hajjah, Sa'adah, Marib, and Lahj, killing dozens of civilians. He noted that the total number of Saudi air and missile attacks since the latest escalation began has now reached 4,369. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

🚨 Gaza drowns in first winter storm as Israel blocks rescue equipment The first winter storm tore through the Gaza Strip on November 7, flooding roughly 70,000 tents in just 12 hours, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office. Dozens of buildings already weakened by Israeli bombardment collapsed, injuring civilians. Civil Defense crews could not pump out the water or open drainage channels, all because of severe fuel shortages and destroyed equipment. 🔴 About 10 rainwater suction trucks have been held at the crossings for a year. 🔴 Municipalities haven't received fuel for their heavy machinery since March. 🔴 Diesel is so scarce and expensive that generator owners are resorting to burning cooking oil. This is the fourth winter Gaza's displaced population has spent in tents. A year into the ceasefire, the Israeli occupation still restricts the entry of tents, tarps, caravans, and building materials. 👍 Substack | Chat | @geopolitics_prime