Susan Kokinda argued that recent moves by President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are part of a broader effort to weaken what she described as a post-war globalist system built around supranational institutions, foreign-policy pressure networks and organizations associated with George Soros.
Kokinda began with Trump’s announcement of a major diesel agreement with Russia.
“Yesterday, President Trump dropped an October surprise on Truth Social. He said, “I have just concluded a highly successful discussion with President Vladimir Putin of Russia, wherein it was agreed that Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 tons of diesel fuel to the American and global marketplace. Now that was so big that maybe you missed Marco Rubio’s own Friday surprise.”
Rubio, meanwhile, announced sanctions targeting the International Criminal Court.
“President Trump will never allow the International Criminal Court to prosecute Americans, and that’s why today the United States is sanctioning the International Criminal Court. We will ban transactions with this rogue court, cutting off their resources and crippling their ability to operate against us.”
Kokinda argued that the two actions should be viewed together.
“But here’s what everyone missed: those two announcements are only part of this administration’s war on the post-war globalist system and one of its key architects, George Soros.”
She connected the diesel deal to the ongoing Iran conflict, energy markets and Ukrainian strikes against Russian refineries, claiming high diesel prices had become one of the remaining pressure points affecting the American economy.
Kokinda said Trump first pushed the G7 to release 100 million barrels of oil before announcing the Russian diesel agreement.
“Then came yesterday’s announcement, where the president announced that beyond the immediate 300,000 tons of diesel fuel, Russia will release another 500,000 tons in November and another million immediately after that.”
She said Trump portrayed the agreement as a direct effort to reduce energy costs for Americans, particularly farmers, ranchers and truckers.
Trump later addressed the arrangement publicly.
“I think you heard about the oil deal with Russia. That is a big deal. That is massive amounts of oil coming into our country, and I want to thank President Putin. To be honest with you.”
Kokinda argued that the agreement represented a break from what she described as a long-standing geopolitical strategy of keeping Washington and Moscow in permanent confrontation.
“Nnow only Donald Trump could have pulled this off, because only Donald Trump has the courage to throw the British Empire’s geopolitical playbook out the window-the playbook which perpetually pits the United States against Russia.”
She then turned to critics of the deal, pointing to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the advocacy organization Razom for Ukraine. Kokinda tied Razom to the Open Society network through CEO Dora Chomjak’s past work with Soros-related institutions and argued that opposition to the diesel agreement reflected a larger network of globalist interests.
Her argument then shifted to the International Criminal Court, which she described as another pillar of the same system.
Rubio framed the sanctions in terms of American sovereignty.
“But now, globalist experts that are an ocean away-they don’t care what you think. They want the International Criminal Court to do more. They want to prosecute our elected leaders that are ensuring our national security. They want more power, and they want it at the expense of our sovereignty as a nation.”
Kokinda said the central issue was whether elected governments remain accountable to their own citizens or to international institutions.
“The target is national sovereignty, and that’s not a coincidence, because the ICC was not something that the citizens of any nation dreamed up.”
She further argued that Soros’s Open Society network played a major role in supporting the international legal architecture surrounding the ICC and claimed the court had been directed toward targets favored by that network.
Kokinda also linked the dispute to a broader philosophical argument about Western civilization, truth and self-government. She pointed to Rubio’s recent remarks in Athens.
“It is the conviction that the unknown can be known, the confidence that the world can be charted and measured and mapped and understood, and that there is a rational order to the cosmos governed by certain fundamental laws, laws that men can observe and the mind can come to understand.”
Kokinda contrasted Rubio’s statement with the ideas of Karl Popper, whom she identified as a mentor to Soros and as the intellectual source of the “open society” concept.
“Now, most people have no idea how much those words contradict the ideas of George Soros’s mentor, Karl Popper.”
She argued that the philosophical dispute ultimately comes down to whether objective truth can be known and whether individuals are capable of self-government without being subordinated to international institutions.
“That is the principle of a republic, as Plato understood it, and that is the principle of the American republic. And that’s what Donald Trump believes.”
Kokinda concluded by tying together the energy agreement, ICC sanctions and Rubio’s defense of rational inquiry as parts of the same political and philosophical struggle.
“So the U.S.-Russia diesel deal broke Soros’s geopolitical straitjacket, and the ICC sanctions took a hammer to his legal apparatus. But the real blow was an American president and his Secretary of State declaring that the truth is knowable, and that free men can govern themselves by it.”
Two blows to the globalists on Friday:
Trump cut a deal with Putin for 300,000+ tons of Russian diesel.
Rubio sanctioned the International Criminal Court itself.@SJKokinda on why George Soros is panicking, and the 2,500-year-old idea behind it https://t.co/zhr8Gix8PZ
— Promethean Action (@PrometheanActn) October 10, 2026 [1]