The Real Worlds

09/21/2026

When Joe Biden left office in January 2025, the national average price of diesel was approximately $3.63 per gallon. Today, AAA lists the average at roughly $6.50—an increase of nearly 80% and a new national record.
Well done, MAGA.
Presidents do not personally set fuel prices, and no honest analysis should pretend that one politician controls the global energy market. Diesel prices are being driven by several factors, including restricted global supplies, reduced U.S. inventories, refinery constraints, Russia’s export restrictions, disruptions linked to Ukraine, and—most significantly—the Trump administration’s war with Iran and instability around the Strait of Hormuz.
But Trump and his supporters spent years blaming Biden for every increase at the pump and promising that Republican leadership would deliver cheap energy immediately. Now that diesel has reached record levels under Trump, suddenly Americans are told that high fuel prices are an unavoidable sacrifice.
Diesel powers trucks, farms, construction equipment, delivery networks, and much of the economy. When its price explodes, transportation becomes more expensive, grocery prices rise, and consumers ultimately pay the bill.
MAGA demanded that presidents receive full responsibility for fuel prices.
Fine. Apply the same standard now.
Biden’s final-month average: about $3.63.
Trump’s current average: about $6.50.

09/20/2026

🇷🇺🇩🇪 RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT AIRCRAFT LANDS IN GERMANY AS CONSULATE CLOSURE LOOMS
A Russian Ilyushin Il-96 government plane flew from Moscow to Cologne/Bonn Airport this morning, drawing attention amid a diplomatic dispute between Moscow and Berlin.
Germany ordered the closure of Russia’s Bonn consulate this month after a suspected Russian drone incident at the airport. Russia responded with the closure of Germany’s consulate in St. Petersburg.
The aircraft was reportedly likely sent to bring back documents and personnel from the Russian diplomatic mission in Bonn, though its exact purpose remains unconfirmed.
Is the Il-96 flight connected to the ongoing closure of Russia’s Bonn consulate?

09/20/2026

09/20/2026

BREAKING: Loser Trump tries to invent a win by announcing new Greenland deal that WE ALREADY HAD.

Since the beginning of his second term, Donald Trump has made no secret of the fact that he’s been lusting over Greenland. Both Greenland and Denmark, the EU member that the world’s largest non-continental island is an integral part of, have been giving him nothing but a cold shoulder after Trump declared that he wanted to annex Greenland to become part of the United States.

Trump’s plan is sort of like what Russia has tried to do with Ukraine and what Germany did to Austria, the Sudetenland, Poland, and Czechoslovakia during World War II.

Now, after failing to convince Denmark to accede to his wishes, Trump just declared, via Truth Social, that the United States has secured "permanent control over security, and all other needs" in Greenland, an "Infinite Life" agreement he says will last forever, with, he insists, "NO COST to the United States!"

Read that carefully. The president is describing an arrangement giving America perpetual military control over another sovereign territory's security decisions, veto power over any foreign investment or military presence there, and the "complete ability to do what is necessary" in Greenland, indefinitely, with no expiration date. Trump also announced plans to "immediately begin the process of developing a large Military presence" on the island.

For context, Trump has spent much of his second term openly threatening to simply seize Greenland outright, floating annexation and refusing to rule out military force, alarming Denmark, a NATO ally, and provoking widespread condemnation from European leaders. Now he's framing what sounds like an extraordinary expansion of American military presence and control as some kind of triumphant diplomatic breakthrough no previous president could pull off in "100 years."

Except the U.S. already has three military bases in Greenland — established via a 1951 defense agreement— and the details of this new deal remain conspicuously vague. What exactly did Denmark and Greenland agree to? What does "no cost" actually mean when you're talking about building new military installations? What did Greenland's own government and people actually consent to, versus what Trump is simply declaring unilaterally in a social media post? Trump's announcement reads less like a formal, verifiable treaty summary and more like a victory lap written entirely in his own voice, heavy on superlatives, light on specifics anyone could actually verify or hold him accountable to.

This is the same pattern we've seen throughout Trump's second term: grand, self-congratulatory declarations about renaming lakes, claiming ownership of international straits, and now apparently locking in permanent, infinite American military control over Greenland, all announced via all-caps social media posts rather than through actual transparent diplomatic processes Congress or the public can meaningfully review.

Whether this "agreement" holds up to scrutiny and what strings are actually attached, none of that gets answered by a Truth Social post declaring victory.

After Trump posted about the deal, Danish and Greenlandic officials confirmed that they expected to sign some sort of agreement next week during the UN General Assembly.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen also subsequently announced that “I am pleased that there is the prospect of a good agreement for Greenland, the Kingdom of Denmark and the United States. An agreement that strengthens our common security in the Arctic and the North Atlantic region and is therefore also good for NATO and Europe. And an agreement that at the same time recognizes the Kingdom’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and the Greenlandic people’s right to self-determination.”

With the “prospect of a good agreement” on the table, it remains to be seen exactly what the terms of the deal may be and whether any last minute demands from Trump might derail it.

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09/19/2026

RUSSIA PREPARES RENEWED ARMORED ASSAULTS TOWARD DOBROPILLYA
Russian forces are accumulating armored vehicles for possible mechanized assaults and breakthrough attempts in the Dobropillya direction this autumn.
According to Azov 1st Corps Commander Brigadier General Denys Prokopenko, cited by ISW, Russia may reinforce its existing assault groups—each numbering roughly 200 infantry—with mechanized columns of approximately 50 armored vehicles. This is an assessment of Russia’s preparations; it does not mean a 50-vehicle column has already begun advancing.
Such large armored formations have become less common as Ukrainian drones, mines, artillery and anti-tank teams have made concentrated vehicles increasingly vulnerable. Russia has instead relied heavily on small infantry groups, motorcycles and ATVs. A return to massed armor would suggest another attempt to use speed and weight to punch through Ukrainian defenses.
Dobropillya is a critical defensive and logistical area northwest of Pokrovsk. A breakthrough there could widen Russian pressure across northern Donetsk and threaten Ukrainian supply routes supporting the wider defensive line.
Ukraine is not meeting this threat blind. Its forces have repeatedly detected and broken apart Russian mechanized attacks in this sector, sometimes destroying columns before they reach their objectives. The reported buildup is serious—but every concentration of Russian armor also creates a target for Ukrainian reconnaissance, FPV drones and artillery.
The Russians appear to be preparing another push. Ukrainian defenders are preparing to meet it.

09/19/2026

FICO QUESTIONS ARTICLE 5—AND GIVES MOSCOW THE MESSAGE IT WANTS
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has publicly questioned whether Slovakia should participate in the defense of another NATO member, saying he does not want his country drawn into a war “because of some Article 5.”
Fico asked Slovaks to imagine being ordered to prepare 5,000 or 10,000 soldiers for a conflict without knowing whom they would fight or why. However, this is not how Article 5 automatically works.
Article 5 declares that an armed attack against one NATO member is considered an attack against all. Each ally then decides what action it considers necessary, which can include military force but does not automatically require every country to deploy thousands of soldiers.
Fico has not formally withdrawn Slovakia from its treaty obligations, and his statement does not constitute an official refusal to honor Article 5. Nevertheless, publicly casting doubt on collective defense is damaging because NATO’s deterrence depends upon Moscow believing that every ally will respond.
Slovak President Peter Pellegrini pushed back, stating that Slovakia cannot be a passive NATO member and must remain an active and full participant in collective security.
Some may now question whether NATO needs an ally whose prime minister speaks this way. The alliance’s founding treaty provides a process for a country to leave voluntarily, but it contains no mechanism for expelling a member. NATO can apply diplomatic pressure and adjust military planning, but it cannot simply remove Slovakia.
This is exactly the type of division Russia works to create. Moscow does not necessarily need to defeat the entire alliance militarily if it can persuade individual governments to hesitate, argue and abandon one another during a crisis.
Article 5 is designed to prevent war by making an attack appear hopeless. Every public suggestion that an ally might stand aside weakens that deterrent—and gives the Kremlin another reason to test how united NATO truly remains.

09/19/2026

🇺🇸🇺🇸🚨It Just Happened: Trump Acquires Greenland For America FOREVER…
Denmark just handed over permanent control of Greenland’s security. No cost to the United States. Infinite agreement.
Eisenhower offered $100 million in the 1950s.. Trump got it done for $0. The military is going to be securing areas of strategic importance right away.
The Western Hemisphere just got so much more secure.
The Madman actually did it.
The Donroe Doctrine is in effect.

09/19/2026

🚨New From Trump:🇺🇸🇺🇸