In a remark at the US Department of State, Donald Trump dismantled Germany’s sitting Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz on four axes — immigration, energy, Ukraine, Iran. What is structurally interesting about this remark is not Trump. It is the asymmetry between what he is saying and what is being said about the same matters in the German public discourse.
On March 24, 2026, Donald Trump posted that he was pausing strikes on Iranian power plants. Minutes before: $580 million in oil futures, opposite bets on stock futures — simultaneously, with no public trigger.
For about a week now, a question has been circulating on X, Instagram, Telegram, and Bluesky: Is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dead? A viral video with a seemingly six-fingered hand, sudden social media silence, and a deleted tweet set the rumor mill spinning. What’s behind it?
