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 📲 THE WTF GLOBAL TIMES News: 50% | Satire: 50% | Vibes: Nuclear-Powered! Pakistan plays both sugar daddy and sugar baby in a U.S.-China custody battle over rare earth custody rights By: Brig. Bakwas Singh (Retd.), South Asia Strategic Confusion Analyst & Senior Fellow, Institute for Chaotic Geoeconomics * This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs start tweeting it... then all bets are off. Once again, Pakistan finds itself at the intersection of two global titans: America’s tan-and-orange nationalist Godzilla and China’s panda-faced imperialism with a silent grudge. Welcome to Balochistan, a province with more minerals than stability, more insurgents than diplomats, and more foreign interest than local infrastructure. The U.S. wants rare earths. China already owns the rare earths. Pakistan wants everyone to calm down and keep wiring money. It’s not going great. Chapter 1: Munir, Marco, and the Miracle of M...

  🗞️ THE WTF GLOBAL TIMES News: 50% | Satire: 50% | Vibes: 100% Tariffed Trump Slaps 50% Tariffs on India for Buying Oil and Being Too BRICS-y By:  Manju Venkateswarananda, PhD in Geopolitical Astrology & Masala Market Metrics 👁️‍🗨️ This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs start tweeting it or Modi meditates in CAPS LOCK. In an international diplomatic maneuver that smelled suspiciously like overcooked biryani, President Donald J. Trump — now in his second coming as the Commander-in-Tweet — launched a full-blown trade cannonball at India by hiking tariffs to 50% on all imports, citing "national interest," "oil betrayal," and "weird vibes from BRICS." The executive order, which was written in Sharpie on a Mar-a-Lago steakhouse menu, was announced during Trump’s latest “Buy American, Blame Abroad” rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Holding a plastic globe and pointing somewhere ...

 🗞️ THE WTF GLOBAL TIMES News: 50% | Satire: 50% | Vibes: Mahmoud Lost the Plot How to Lose Friends, Green Cards, and Moral Clarity in 60 Minutes or Less By: Mahmoud Al-Midterms, Adjunct Professor of Satirical Journalism, Gaza School of Victimhood Engineering 👁️‍🗨️This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs start tweeting it. ACT ONE: “WE” HAD TO DO IT? SAYS WHO, BRO? When The New York Times gives you a mic, and your idea of intellectual analysis is: “We couldn’t avoid committing a massacre,” you’re either Mahmoud Khalil or a chatbot fed nothing but Reddit threads and Hamas manifestos for breakfast. Khalil, Columbia’s prodigal anti-Semite-in-residence, took a break from disrupting Jewish prayer vigils and went full Hamas apologist in an interview with Ezra Klein—who bravely nodded like this was all... intellectually stimulating. "We couldn’t avoid such a moment," Khalil said, lamenting that mu...

  📰 THE WTF GLOBAL TIMES News: 50% | Satire: 50% | Vibes: Explosive (literally) When Journalism Forgets Who the Terrorist Is By: Daphne McCringe, Chief Correspondent for Credulous Weeping & Absurd Rewrites * This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs start tweeting it. Then it’s all gloves off. In what might be the most misguided Pulitzer bid since CNN asked the Taliban for fashion tips, the Associated Press has published a full-length, soft-focus, tear-soaked elegy on Hezbollah members injured by Israel’s exploding pagers .  Titled something like "Hearts, Homes, and Hezbollah: The Tragedy of Terrorists with Burnt Thumbs," the piece attempts to paint rocket-firing militants as misunderstood boy scouts with beepers and bad luck. The article opens with a dramatic image of a Hezbollah "religious teacher" who, while passing on spiritual wisdom to other armed radicals, happened to be holding a pag...

 📰 THE WTF GLOBAL TIMES  News: 50% | Satire: 50% | Vibes: Unregulated From Silicon Valley to SkyNet: Altman Builds God, Then Regrets It By: Chip Hackerman, Senior Tech Prophet & AI Panic Consultant * This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless the AI starts tweeting in Sanskrit. What do you get when you cross a billion-dollar tech company, a few gigabytes of Oppenheimer’s guilt, and a language model that can out-think your therapist? You get GPT-5: the new messiah of code, cognition, and collapse. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the Tony Stark of non-existent ethics boards, recently went full “I am become death” in a podcast where he compared GPT-5 to the Manhattan Project. Yes. That Manhattan Project. The one that turned sand into glass and history into a recurring nuclear nightmare. Chapter 1: When Tech Bros Channel Oppenheimer "I felt useless," Altman confessed, after watching GPT-5 solve a problem he couldn't. Which is...

  🗞️ THE WTF GLOBAL TIMES News: 50% | Satire: 50% | Vibes: 100% Tandoori-Tariffed Chaos 👁️‍🗨️ This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs start tweeting it, of course. What do you get when you mix crude oil, curry diplomacy, and a spray-tanned populist with a Sharpie? A 50% customs disaster and a Namaste that's now taxable. By:  Chaipatriot Subramaniam, Global Trade Sherpa & Samosa Economics Analyst 👁️‍🗨️ This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs start tweeting it, of course. In an explosive August 6th executive order that sounded like it was typed entirely in capital letters and Fox News metaphors, President Donald J. Trump shocked the world by slapping a 25% tariff increase on all Indian imports , bringing the total duties to 50% — all because India dared to sip the discounted chai of Russian oil. Trump, in typical form,...

🗞️ THE WTF GLOBAL TIMES News: 50% | Satire: 50% | Vibes: Funeral March for European Security, With Accordion From Bipolar Order to Multipolar Disorder—Europe Fiddles While the OSCE Burns By: Helga von Nostalgiapocalypse, Senior Correspondent for Ghosts of Treaties Past, and Sir Clive Brexit-Lampshade, EU Obituary Editor 👁️‍🗨️ This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs start tweeting it... WTF? Once upon a time in 1975, Europe threw the ultimate diplomatic rave in Helsinki. Thirty-five nations, including the U.S., USSR, and that one guy from Liechtenstein, signed a majestic love letter to peace, respect, and non-intervention— The Helsinki Final Act . It was the prom night of European diplomacy. Everyone looked good in photos. Mutual respect, inviolable borders, and “let’s not nuke each other” vibes. Now? Europe can't even organize a cheese tasting without NATO calling it "strategic dairy deploymen...

 📰 THE WTF GLOBAL TIMES  News: 50% | Satire: 50% | Vibes: Trade Wars, Tantrums & Tandoori Flames Trump Drops a Trade Nuke on India Over Russian Oil, Then Buys Uranium From Moscow. Modi Responds with Curry, Calm, and Chaos. By: Pundit Patel (WTF South Asia Bureau Chief, Also Moonlights as a WhatsApp Group Admin) *This Blog uses WTF strictly in the context of: Weird, True & Freaky. Not as profanity. Unless the Ayatollahs start tweeting it. When Donald J. Trump re-entered the White House in January 2025, Indians everywhere cracked open mango lassis in celebration. "At least he hugs Modi," said one optimistic chaiwala. But now, six months into the mango madness, Uncle Don has gone full spicy vindaloo on Delhi—imposing 25% tariffs on Indian exports, threatening more, and blaming India for funding Putin's war machine with extra virgin, Russian-grade crude. "They don't care how many Ukrainians are dying," Trump bellowed from the White House lawn, wearing a...