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Geopolitical strategist, speaker, author. Free Newsletter → - My latest book and NYT Best Seller - …

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Who doesn't love spending their morning trying to understand what the Federal Reserve is doing? Oh, no takers? Well, let's at least look at inflation trends and where I expect interest rates to go. Full Video:
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Just to be clear, this is what an true air superiority fighter can do…on purpose.
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F-22 Hang on
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Anyone know what's going on with Elon Musk. Publicly supporting the propaganda of the two great genocidal regimes of our day in one week, seems a little…odd. Even for him.
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Ukraine just initiated a media blackout on Kherson news. That’s what Kyiv does when it begins big military ops. The final push to liberate the city is beginning…now.
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France and Germany are not used to Finland saying…anything. Now that neutrality is formally over, Europe is having to deal w a bold, direct, unapologetic truth-sayer.
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I keep looking at this and keep discovering new insights. Def one of the best graphics I've ever seen.
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To fans of Russia, Daniel Ortega, Viktor Orban, Jill Stein, and Tucker Carlson….
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If Argentina could get this excited about accounting, it’d rule the world.
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just wow, argentina
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It's time to come out from under your rock and face the music - China is collapsing. If that comes as a shock to you, watch this video to get up to speed. Full Newsletter:
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I don't think MAGA realizes just how much it have alienated the entire military community. Same goes for the business community. And the law & order community. And the fiscal conservatives.
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I'm hearing more & more reports that Russians are evacing Melitopol. This remains UNCONFIRMED. If true, Ukr can reach the Black Sea, blow the Kerch bridge, & utterly destroy every Russia military unit in southern Ukraine and Crimea. And THAT would be a nation-ending event.
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If you haven't heard already, I had the pleasure of jumping on episode #1921 of The Joe Rogan Experience. I'm talking 1 hour and 57 minutes of pure entertainment. More info on the episode at the link below. My Latest:
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After chatting with a few people over the weekend, it appears the concern is that all the crypto exchanges have been floating reserves among themselves in order to make each one look like they have more money. After last weeks events… 1/
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This is going to make it very easy for the Europeans to pick sides.
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Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian
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Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida says the terror group will execute Israeli hostages for every Israeli bombing without warning, and publish footage.
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To be clear: Wagner is already under <heavy> sanction for war crimes committed in many countries. Moscow's official position has always been that Wagner isn't a Russian govt entity, so Moscow isn't liable. Now that the Russian govt has formally admitted that Wagner is an arm of…
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Putin says Wagner was entirely financed by the Russian state through the MOD and the state budget. From May 2022 to May 2023, the state paid Wagner 86 billion rubles and Prigozhin's catering company earned a further 80 billion, Putin says.
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Quick reminder/clarification: Al Jazeera is far and away the best global media outlet. EXCEPT when it comes to the Middle East, in which case it is hot trash.
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Deep breath everyone. The US is literally listening on Putin’s calls. This was almost certainly an accident. There will be repercussions, but not a massive nato action from this one thing.
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This speech is disturbingly honest. Borrell realizes the entire existence of the EU is based upon American security and Russian energy.
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Javier Blas
2 years
MUST READ: The speech by EU top diplomat @JosepBorrellF yesterday about the challenges ahead, saying it as it is (or was): "Our prosperity has been based on cheap energy coming from Russia." Full speech: #EnergyCrisis #OOTT #EnergyTwitter
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You cannot blow up a dam with artillery. You have to use an explosive on the inside. This was definitely the Russians. Biggest outcomes: 1/
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but I think it’s worth noting that Trump went through more national security personnel than any American president in history, and not one of them thinks he should be back in the job.
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Why Canada cannot be trusted.
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Not my fav preson, but wow that's funny!
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Lots going on in Russia. V little can be even partially confirmed. Suggest u ignore anyone who says there’s Russian-on-Russian action w/o video support. & before you get too excited about any particular outcome, reality check yourself. Dwell on what must be true for a coup to…
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The biggest loser out of this war (aside from Ukraine obv) is clearly China. Everything that they thought they had planned meticulously for has gone to shit.
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Is it just me or did Elon musk jump the shark over the weekend?
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1 year
Random thought: The Kh-22 missile that Russians used to destroy an apartment block in Dniepro today (horrifically) is a 1960s anti-ship missile. For it to be in use in Ukraine AT ALL suggests Russia is reaching for completely inappropriate weapons systems.
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I’m no student of balloons, but I’m having a hard time coming up w many missions where a spy balloon could do a better job than a satellite. Perhaps China’s satellites aren’t all that?
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On the upside, we are clearly past Peak Greta.
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Greta Thunberg deletes pro-Palestinian post featuring antisemitic trope, claims she was ‘was completely unaware’
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Wow - every single one of them is a tap line. Zero interconnections. That's nearly a textbook example of neocolonial investment.
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Samuel Ramani
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This map shows China's railway construction plans in Africa.
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Try not to be too hard on @elonmusk - he had a call w Putin & has temporarily fallen for Russian propaganda. Just like Trump, Obama & W. Like them, someone on his staff will set him down w a 3rd grade history book & he'll be back on track. The question is what does he do then?
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Waiting for the bar to open.
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I gotta say, this no-shits-left-to-give version of Mike Pence is far more interesting than what came before.
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Pence: Let’s be clear on this point. It wasn't that they asked for a pause. The president specifically asked me and his gaggle of crackpot lawyers asked me to literally reject votes which would have resulted in the issue of being turned over to the house of representatives
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In completely irrelevant news, I am in Calgary today and I just purchased a chocolate chip cookie the size of my thigh. I am a 6‘5“ tall backpacker. It is a big ass cookie.
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Another weapons system the US military has decommissioned and needs to dispose of. Once again, the Ukrainians are helping us out.
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The US Embassy in Moscow just advised all Americans to vacate #Russia as quickly as possible. They see a complete travel lock down as being imminent.
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1/ Quick sequence of some of my favorite #Russia graphics so you can familiarize yourself with the scope of what is unfolding vis-a-vis #Ukraine . Russians live in the green. The wheat belt. The part of Russia that has temperature and rainfall levels to make habitation possible.
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Yup. About 85% of the sources I follow on the Ukrainian side have gone silent in the past 96 hours.
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Michael MacKay
1 year
Twitter has removed the UA two-letter country code for Ukraine from two-factor authentication. Ukraine has disappeared from Elon Musk’s virtual map of the world. The effect of this change is to reduce the presence of pro-Ukrainian, pro-democracy voices on this platform.
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Random fact of the day: US supercarriers can sail faster than Iranian drones can fly.
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Has anyone else noticed that the volume of (paid) #trolls on Twitter has collapsed in the past few days?
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A gentle reminder that the material inputs required to make a single EV can make 90 hybrids...and hybrid technology already exists.
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If you think our problems are bad, wait until you see our solutions!
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No Context Brits
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Only 2 years left.
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A gentle reminder, that lord of the rings was banned in the Soviet union, because Moscow assumed Tolkien's Mordor was supposed to be Russia.
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(((Tendar)))
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The TV tower in Moscow is burning and it looks like Barad-Dur. #Russia #Moscow
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In Austin this is a 27 year process.
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How the Dutch build a tunnel under a highway in one weekend
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Very obviously China’s statement that it was a weather balloon is a obvious fucking lie. They really are facing a breakdown in decisionmaking. They lack the organizational structure to even make halfway believable propaganda.
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She is admitting that she made it all up. Which is not a surprise because…she made it all up. I can't imagine the prosecutors would've accept a plea bargain without extensive testimony against the other defendants. Including Trump.
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A vessel has been sunk outside of #Odessa . That ends meaningful shipping on the #BlackSea . No company will provide #Insurance . No insurance? No port visits. Big implications for #Wheat and #oil .
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The 20% drop in two years. Following a 40% drop in five years. There's nothing even remotely similar in the historical record.
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I’m at a birthday party for the next four hours. Could somebody please take care of this Russia thing before I get back? Mostly, I just need to know if there’s a coup or not.
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Arguably the dumbest outcome Ive seen of European regulation. They classified wood as a renewable resource, companies started harvesting forests in the US South, compressing the wood in2 pellets & then shipping to Europe to be burned. Stupid stupid stupid.
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Hello from the roof of the continent!
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Fuuuuuuck this will be ugly.
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Clemens Wergin
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Just in case you wondered why Israel needs to hit military targets deep within what should be civilian neighbourhoods
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Yup. That. Once every generation or so countries face cataclysmic losses or outsized opportunities, both which shape things for decades. Russia seems committed to sliding into the first, the US rising to the second.
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To the Republicans complaining about the billions the US is sending to Ukraine I’m going to share with a private opinion from a knowledgeable European official I know Basically, he starts off smiling and saying the US are “absolutely ruthless” with regard to the Ukraine war 1
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Hooooooolyyyyyy shiiiiiit! #Ukraine has blown up one of the major spans of the #Kerch Strait bridge. They caught a fuel train in the explosion, whose resulting fire is at a minimum disabling the rail link for a week. Damage could be much more severe than initially appears. 1/
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…a moderate number of depositors are (reasonably) withdrawing some holdings. But there aren’t sufficient reserves across the space to support any more than light withdraws. This is going to get very…colorful very quickly. 2/end
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Heh
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All administrations have their blind spots. Ukraine is Biden's. Luckily, it is easy to make the case that aid for Ukraine is a core American interest. Biden just needs to address the nation. Just as Clinton did for Kosovo, W Bush did for Iraq, Bush Sr did for Panama, and Reagan…
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The Seventh Fleet - the fleet that counters China - now doesn't have a commander. Republicans need to strip this incompetent of his seat on the Armed Services committee. He clearly doesn't belong there.
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Yup. This is why I've stopped using Google. It isn't a search engine any more.
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God - Sweden is going to be such a fanfuckingtastic NATO ally.
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Why why why WHYYYYY do Americans have such difficulty COUNTING???
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What was once a platform where you could access open-source information that was reliable and free...has now been laid to rest by Elon Musk. Yes, I'm talking about that little blue bird we've known and loved for years. Full Newsletter:
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2 years
Guess what just went to the printer? 🥳
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This made my day 😃
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Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think this is America's newest high-speed rail. I think this is a Americas ONLY high speed rail.
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Jeffrey J. Hall 🇯🇵🇺🇸
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America's newest high speed rail line has opened in Florida. It travels at a speed of up to 120 mph (201 km/h), slightly slower than the 130mph (210km/h) operating speed of the earliest series of Japanese bullet trains that went into service 59 years ago.
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Good article. Good thread. I'll just add this: China's ever-accelerating demographic decay now makes long-term consumption-led growth impossible. The data is literally looking worse by the month.
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how the mainstream media operates
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An attempted coup is in progress in Russia. The mercenary group Wagner, led by a one-time confidant of Vladimir Putin, Yevgeny Prigozin, is attempting to overthrow the Kremlin. The implications for the Ukraine War are…massive. Full Video:
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Next presentation done, two new videos recorded, four new videos uploaded, bonus video posting momentarily, and laundry from my 11-day work trip is finished. I'm going to wander off and think deep thoughts about US politics. Pray for me.
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Hey everybody, I am NOT ignoring you. Twitter has stopped showing me any posts that lack the words "porn" or "bitcoin". I know if no fixes aside from the obvious.
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Apple is far and away the American firm that has ignored the writing on the wall in China these past 10 years. Completely dependent. Completely exposed. #awkward
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Hillary Vaughn
1 year
🚨WATCH: Apple CEO Tim Cook ignores our questions on China as zero-COVID lockdown protests rage in the country. Full video 👇🏻
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I have found myself with a great backdrop this morning. Anyone have a request for a video topic?
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Have you ever seen a couple of 3-year-olds sitting on the playground talking gibberish and acting like they're making life-changing decisions? Well, that's what's going on at the BRICS summit in South Africa this week. Full Newsletter:
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Happy holidays from the Big Apple. 😀
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2 years
Russia will interpret this (correctly) as one step shy of a declaration of war. A 36-strong EU would include all the Balkan and Caucasus states, completely blocking Russia from...nearly everything.
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A reminder that before America’s idiot Right fell for every scrap of Russian propaganda, America’s idiot Left eagerly consumed that stuff for decades.
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Ukraine has unequivocally condemned Hamas, offered military aid, and now maybe a state visit. Goal is pretty straightforward: cool Israel's relations w Russia (who is celebrating Hamas actions).
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Gals and guys, I'm just...floored. #TheEndOfTheWorld just hit #3 on Amazon's bestsellers. I'm just...thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you! 🥹
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BP, Shell & Exxon are all abandoning their multi-decade Russian investments knowing they won't get 1 cent back. Russia can't access USD EUR CAN JPY or CHF. All that's left is crypto. Expect every major government to come for it next. As w real assets in Russia, it'll go to zero.
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I'm giving up for the night. Many (credible) reports indicate the Russians ran out of Isium like watery diarrhea - leaving tanks, artillery, fuel, records, everything. Isium was THE most well equipped Russian position in Ukraine. If true, the next few days will be...historic.
@UAWeapons
🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker
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#Ukraine : Finally, footage from with the city of Izium is emerging- here we see Russian 2S19 Msta-S, 2S19M2 Msta-SM2, and 2S3 Akatsiya 152mm self-propelled howitzers abandoned in the streets.
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It is an honor to announce that my latest book, "The End of the World is Just the Beginning" was chosen as one of the Financial Times Readers' Best Books of 2022. My Latest:
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Peter Zeihan
11 months
She's not wrong.
@NataliaAntonova
Natalia Antonova 🇺🇸🇺🇦
11 months
Russia = admits to financing Wagner. Therefore Russia = state sponsor of terrorism. Simple. Easy. Quote me to your legislators.
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With Russian's position collapsing globally, we should start thinking about the possibility of military action against Russian & former Russian positions. That includes Armenia, Cuba, Syria, Iran, occupied Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, and Fox News HQ.
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1 year
Merry Christmas from Colorado!
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1 year
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you want to surrender in a war, you don’t shoot at the people you are surrendering to. Seems pretty basic, but apparently some people on Twitter are arguing about it today. 🤦🏻
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Peter Zeihan
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Profiles in courage.
@gadishamia
Gadi Shamia
7 months
If you don't live in Israel or consume Israeli media, you don't know who Yair Golan is. He is a 61-year-old retired Major General in the Israel army and a former parliament MP. Spend a minute to read this story. Yesterday, when IDF and the police were in complete chaos, Golan…
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China's outlook is grim. They're facing demographic dissolution, a dying tech industry and a risk-exposed energy sector, and we're barely scratching the surface. They are the single-most internationally exposed country in our collapsing world. My Latest:
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Peter Zeihan
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He’s not wrong.
@ukraine_map
Ukraine Battle Map
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This would be a great moment for Chechens to gain their Independence rather than fighting and dying on the side of Russia who destroyed their cities killing over 160,000 Chechen Civilians and displacing over 500,000 others Russia’s destruction of Chechnya will never be forgotten
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Once again I disagree with the Chinese communist party. Bitcoin is not "utterly worthless". That would be a value of zero. Bitcoin's true value is negative.
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