Join us for a live broadcast, with your hosts Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and Adam Sturman. Thursday October 15th at 11am Eastern, 8am Pacific every Thursday. We take your questions from both the Youtube live chat and our Newsletter Subscribers!

This week: Europe prepares war and censorship, and Zelensky must go. Days after President Trump said Ukraine needs a new president and struck a diesel deal with Putin, Zelensky ran home to London, where King Charles and Prime Minister Burnham promised more war aid. Twelve senators now demand Trump rescind the diesel deal. Meanwhile the censorship model spreads from Australia to Carney's Canada and Germany.

On the board: the senators' letter against the diesel deal, London's war push, the censorship playbook, and the pollsters three weeks before the November 3 midterms.

Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda take your questions live. Bring what's on your mind.

00:00 Thursday Q&A Intro
00:37 Trump and Putin's Diesel Deal
03:13 Zelensky Runs to the King
05:09 Barbara: This Is the End of NATO
11:50 Susan: The Empire Since 1971
15:42 Bessent Fires Back at the IMF
18:42 Nuclear Power: The Globalists' Red Line
32:02 The Polls Are Demoralization Ops
53:21 No Blue States, Only Blue Cities
57:48 Your Gas-Price Questions
1:04:49 Barbara: It's Them, Not Trump
1:13:07 Barbara: The DSA Is the Party
1:16:38 Why Trump Won't Prosecute Obama
1:21:55 Retribution Is Success
1:38:07 Navarro's Manufacturing Briefing
1:41:37 Afraid? Get Your 10
1:52:06 Bretton Woods: Roosevelt Died
2:03:21 Closing: Get 10, 20 People

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Susan Kokinda opens with the European Union's largest expansion of its Russia sanctions list since the war began, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent calling Europe's objections to the U.S. Russia diesel deal "completely hypocritical", since Europe is still Moscow's biggest gas customer. The episode follows the reactions to President Trump's diesel deal, from Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney and Boris Johnson to the EU's foreign ministers, set against President Trump's post on the European Union paying Russia $250 billion for energy and Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak's figure of $320.7 billion since 2022. It then turns to the IMF. World Bank Annual Meetings in Bangkok, where IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said growth alone cannot fix U.S. debt and deficits, the headlines that followed, and the IMF's playbook since Bretton Woods ended in 1971. It closes with Secretary Bessent skipping the meetings for "domestic engagements", and Peter Navarro's White House progress report on America's manufacturing investments: over 500 projects, more than $380 billion in announced investment, mapped across the country.

00:00 Midweek Update Intro
01:41 Trump Forces the Empire's Hand
04:25 IMF Says: Growth Doesn't Work
07:00 The Empty Chair

Credits
Photos
- Boris Johnson and Volodymyr Zelensky, Kyiv, April 9, 2022: Office of the President of Ukraine, CC0
- Kristalina Georgieva, Davos, January 20, 2026: Isaac Castillo/Presidencia de la República del Ecuador, public domain
- Peter Navarro, White House press conference, October 9, 2026: frame from Real America's Voice coverage
Video
- Secretary Bessent on Fox & Friends Weekend, October 11, 2026: U.S. Department of the Treasury
- Kaja Kallas, press conference after the Foreign Affairs Council, Luxembourg, October 12, 2026: © European Union, 2026 (EU Audiovisual Service)
- Kristalina Georgieva, IMF press briefing, Bangkok, October 14, 2026 (AP)
- Peter Navarro's White House press conference, October 9, 2026: Real America's Voice coverage
- President Nixon's address to the nation, August 15, 1971: Richard Nixon Presidential Library (White House Communications Agency), public domain
- Demolition of the Rugeley cooling towers, June 6, 2021: Voice of Clam (Wikimedia Commons), public domain
- Stock footage: Storyblocks
Graphics: U.S. manufacturing investment maps, White House / Office of Trade and Manufacturing
Articles, posts and documents quoted: The Brussels Times (October 12, 2026); Prime Minister of Canada, readout of the call with President Zelenskyy (October 11, 2026); on X: @BorisJohnson (October 10, 2026); Euronews (October 12, 2026); on Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump (October 12, 2026); FRANCE 24 (October 13, 2026); Bloomberg (October 13, 2026); CNBC (October 14, 2026); Reuters (October 9, 2026)
Data: Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA), buyers of Russian gas, December 5, 2022. August 31, 2026

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Barbara Boyd opens with President Trump’s Sunday announcement of an energy ceasefire in the war between Russia and Ukraine, and what led up to it: his remarks to the press that it’s time for Ukraine to get a new president, and Friday’s agreement for Russia to supply diesel to the United States and the world, with a Treasury license authorizing Russian diesel through April 2027. She argues that Trump and Putin have exposed the game being played by the City of London: Ukraine’s drone strikes on Russia’s refineries, which the Washington Post examined, keep fuel prices high ahead of the November 3 midterms, while the Financial Times reports the administration threatened to cut off weapons and intelligence if the attacks continued, and members of Congress move against the deal. After President Zelensky’s interview on ABC’s This Week blaming high prices on the war in the Middle East, the episode turns to the energy wars: Russia’s ban on fuel exports, U.S. diesel above $6 a gallon, no major new U.S. refinery since 1977, and Europe’s emergency diesel stocks, held mainly by Germany and France, until Trump’s export threat brought a G7 release of 100 million barrels of oil and diesel. It closes with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Operation Economic Outcast against Iran’s regime, the petrodollar system and London’s commodity markets since the 1971 collapse of Bretton Woods, President Putin’s case for long-term contracts between producing and consuming nations, the Conservative Treehouse’s argument that the world’s biggest economy is aligning against the financial schemes of London while retaining the dollar, and Secretary Bessent’s chart on prices under Biden and Trump.

00:00 Monday Brief Intro
03:05 The Trump/Putin Trap
05:53 The Energy Wars and the City of London
07:24 Is A New Economic Order at Hand?

Credits
Photos
- Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, Anchorage, Alaska, August 15, 2025: U.S. Department of Defense / Benjamin D. Applebaum, public domain
Video
- President Trump speaking to the press, October 10, 2026: The White House, public domain
- President Zelensky on This Week, October 11, 2026: ABC News
- Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Fox & Friends Weekend, October 11, 2026: U.S. Department of the Treasury / Fox News
- President Zelensky with a U.S. congressional delegation, Kyiv, October 9, 2026 (x.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/2108607485342790142)
- President Nixon’s address to the nation, August 15, 1971: public domain
- U.S. Navy footage (U.S. Naval Forces Central Command, DVIDS), public domain
- Stock footage: Storyblocks
Articles, posts and documents quoted: on Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump (October 9 and 11, 2026); on X: @ZelenskyyUa, @SecScottBessent; U.S. Treasury, OFAC General License No. 135 (October 9, 2026); The Washington Post (October 11, 2026); Financial Times (October 11, 2026); Ukrainska Pravda (October 11, 2026); International Energy Agency (September 17, 2026); U.S. Energy Information Administration, “When was the last refinery built in the United States?”; Reuters (October 1, 2026); BBC News (October 2, 2026); TASS (October 21, 2021); The Conservative Treehouse (October 10, 2026)
Data: U.S. Energy Information Administration, weekly U.S. retail diesel prices

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