Power Moves: The Real Story Behind Today's Global Diplomacy

spacex's star shield satellite network is running at 420 kilometers an hour across ukrainian positions again this morning in our last episode we tracked tehran's ultimatum over the strait of hormuz and the strain on global shipping lanes today the decisive leverage isn't naval it's digital the united states has fully restored both star shield bandwidth and critical early warning radar alerts for incoming russian ballistic strikes following a quiet diplomatic session in oslo before we unpack what bought that restore switch here is the delta across the other quarters this hour in israel donald trump intervened directly in tuesday's national election issuing a public endorsement for prime minister benjamin netanyahu that arrived just after netanyahu announced on domestic television that israel must prepare an alternative blockchain based economy to bypass future international banking sanctions warning that tens of billions in american military aid will not last forever in ankara turkey's parliament prepares to debate the mecca joint defense agreement alongside saudi arabia and pakistan though defense minister yasser guler insisted on television that turkish troops will not engage yemen's

houthis and in berlin indian commerce minister piyush goyal announced new delhi hopes to sign its free trade agreement with the european union before the end of twenty twenty six that deal covers over $136,000,000,000 in bilateral trade though european parliamentary committees still have not moved the text past the preparatory phase now back to kyiv where the diplomatic price tag of restored satellite reconnaissance is coming into focus ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky confirmed that trilateral talks between kyiv washington and moscow are scheduled to restart in november with preliminary plans pointing to abu dhabi that part is confirmed what remains claimed is whether the format can produce an actual summit between zelensky and vladimir putin here's what actually shifted on the ground washington throttled star shield and held back ballistic strike warnings earlier this month to pressure kyiv into halting drone strikes against russian oil refineries an energy spike the white house wanted squashed ahead of november's midterm elections zelensky took the issue directly to american envoy steve witkoff in oslo the radar alerts and satellite speeds returned early

saturday but the diplomatic conveyor belt started moving immediately behind them the leverage cuts both ways zelenskyy made clear that territorial concessions can only be touched by heads of state not technical working groups while refusing to negotiate limits on ukraine's military size at the same time bipartisan american sanctions codified under the graham act including 500% tariffs on russian goods sit suspended on the president's desk under an executive waiver the balance of power today isn't shifting through grand communiques or peace conferences it is being governed by who controls the circuit breakers whether that is satellite bandwidth refinery targets or statutory tariff waivers that is the picture from here back to you in the studio