@alwaysadblock @teortaxesTex The issues usually occur when there are economic issues.
You generally don't want to have 90% of the population only being there because of money.
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@teortaxesTex It's risky for sure but it's not a native local caste and most importantly it's mostly men or maids without kids. Their alternative is going home which is awful
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It has just occurred to me, the UAE basically doesn't exist. There are more Indians than Emiratis there. The latter are rich and idle and imagine themselves very clever, but historically, such states do not last. A little push, and it turns into a pure economic zone.
𝐓𝐌𝐓@TMT_arabic
🚨 BOMBSHELL | UAE - BAHRAIN - ISRAEL The UAE and Bahrain announce full media normalization with Israel. Official TV channels from UAE and Bahrain officially merge with Israel's Channel 12, exchanging opening greetings in Hebrew.
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@Brutal_Realist_ @devchart @Nostre_damus The UAE is a tax heaven for the investor class.
They can't even accept paying taxes in their home country, they're not going to die for an economic zone.
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@devchart @Nostre_damus You laugh because you don’t understand it.
People don’t defend places just because of paperwork.
They defend where they built something real.
You’ve never had roots — that’s why it sounds funny to you.
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native Emiratis are only 12% of the entire population
If the UAE is going to declare war on Iran, are they going to draft tourists into the military?
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@edvin_kornelius @markomihkelson @igorsushko I think they need the fertilizer to grow food.
Could be wrong though, food doesn't seem that important.
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@markomihkelson @igorsushko Can anyone explain what's going on? Why the US should help Belarus regime to profit?
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Easing sanctions toward Belarus is a major mistake. Belarus is de facto occupied by Russia. Such a move would only further encourage Russia to continue its aggression.
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@6Voodoo @jdogman67581897 Chyna.
They will just produce 10 missiles and drones for every single US solider in existence.
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Anyone arguing that minor damage to a US aircraft, sustained while lollygagging over hostile airspace is an epoch altering event is arguing the US military is so strong that the mere damaging of one of its weapons is a great feat.
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@teortaxesTex This is actually a good thing for Russia and should have been done like a year ago.
Maybe the CB was opposed because they were worried about inflation, but it was a really strange decision to keep the ruble high.
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the funny thing is that for the longest time it was common knowledge that Ruble/USD roughly tracks oil/USD. But now that we have a war, Ruble is in free fall. Trump is, indeed, Winning?
Agni@xii_ai7
@teortaxesTex brent on the other hand...
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@malmesburyman Being a military ally is equivalent to buying oil?
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@BanAnimu Western Europe has continued to buy oil and gas from Russia throughout the war, their energy spend actually exceeded their defense spend until Trump came back in. Moron.
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This is the most interesting and frankly puzzling question right now to me. It’s as if Russia were gaining the upper hand against Ukraine, and so Ukraine started firing missiles at Western Europe, hitting American tourist hotels and ports that ship French wine and German cars.
Edward N Luttwak@ELuttwak
Iran threatened Israel with destruction. Then mass produced ballistic missiles to attack it. Which they did 3 times last year. When the Israel & the USAF targeted the missile plants & and bases, Iran counter-attack against it but also against the emirates & the KSA . Why ?
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@Imullium @teortaxesTex That's the US aim.
Israel benefits from any outcome where its power increases relative to Iran and the GCC states.
Which seems likely, unless Iran can get nukes.
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lol
I guess it's time to admit that I also was wrong on how well and how quickly this will go for the US. It'll probably end in… a few more weeks, but it was a bad idea.
Israel is fine and advancing towards its strategic goals though, and that's all that really matters.
Steve Hou@stevehou
Until a few days ago, advocates for the Iran attack like @zriboua argued we should ignore pessimistic pundit assessments in the news. Instead, they pointed to the declining number of missile attacks from Iran as evidence that Iran’s capacity to launch retaliatory attacks was severely compromised by the US/Israel and argued that the war was enter a “de-escalation phase”. Now, focusing on the same line of argument, it seems that Iran may have been indeed conserving strength and re-consolidating attack plans. Their retaliatory attacks using both missiles and drones have both increased in intensity, going in the wrong direction, just like inflation trends in the US, putting enormous pressures on US policymakers. The Chinese idiom is 骑虎难下.
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@Why__Knot @DoggyDog1208 Are you trolling?
There's a counterparty for each of those transaction.
Currency/debt are financial assets.
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@DoggyDog1208 No, that is false.
Foreign reserve and foreign holdings can stay domestic, and imbalance can be settled by buying sovereign debt, paying debt, paying interest. Only a fraction is investment.
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O… M… G… noob 🤦♂️
China ran a $1.2T trade surplus last year. By mathematical definition, $1.2T of capital exited China. This is balance of payments 101.
China isn’t giving goods away for free, dumdum.
BRI investments/construction had a record year… twice as much as previous highs.
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@DoggyDog1208 @matthewstoller @niubi You said that asean needs capital; but China is not providing much capital. China got burned on many bad loans and it realized it can’t collect. So it switched to frugal mode two years ago.
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@chickenhawkwork @witte_sergei He's just not very smart.
Previous US presidents were too worried about the risks to go along with Israeli plans.
Nothing more to it.
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@witte_sergei He was the first to start an actual direct war with Iran though.
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Israel has the USA fully on the hook which means they can unilaterally drag the whole region up the escalation ladder.
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@fejau_inc Extreme cope and trying to rationalize stupid decisions.
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@MaximusThinkin @large_shelf @turtlekiosk Statistically speaking, it (almost) doesn't.
Most important factor in future earnings is parent's earnings and that has been growing for the past few decades.
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@large_shelf @turtlekiosk It’s not permanent right now. Upwards mobility exists
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@3nnadi Because it accomplishes nothing.
The goal is cause damage to the global economy because that's their only pressure point against the US.
Targeting Israel does not advance that goal.
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@0xamericanspiri @redhairshanks86 He could accept his punishment for commiting a crime.
Too much to ask for these days I suppose.
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@redhairshanks86 He basically has no other choice. Dems have completely shut him off. Barack and Michelle Obama are producing a Netflix FTX drama that will demonize him
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what sbf is doing is so OBVIOUS
- he is literally applauding anything that trump is doing to win over his sympathy
- he never tweeted about this stuff before, only now that he started his plan to get a pardon
- his true intentions (pardon) are so painfully obvious that you cringe if you read his tweets
- he uses chatgpt to write his tweets, can't even be fuqed to think about it for 30 min himself, just told intern to shoot these digital blow jobs out en masse
SBF@SBF_FTX
The costs of striking Iran are real. But so is the nuclear threat. Iran entered 2026 with enough uranium for 10 nuclear bombs. Before the June strikes, it was days away from enriching enough for 1 bomb—a level far beyond plausible civilian needs. Operation Epic Fury is working. We are systematically dismantling Iran’s war machine: missiles, drones, air defenses, navy, nuclear sites, defense industry, proxy networks, central command. In under 3 weeks, the supreme leader is dead, his successor wounded, and Iranian ballistic missile and drone launches are down 90%+. Iran is losing capacity faster than it can create chaos. "War is never clean. But the strategy—the actual strategy, measured in degraded capabilities rather than cable news cycles—is working." Excellent article. aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/…
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@Henrik_on_HL I could do it by going long on it for 20$ worth.
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@qinirqti My reputation is to point out the obvious, which is that this is an extremely risky war that is unlikely to achieve anything that looks like success without tanking both the global economy and the viability of populist politics in the West.
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The dates are beginning to extend into May.
First Squawk@FirstSquawk
Cathay Pacific Airways: All flights to Dubai and Riyadh, including cargo, canceled up to April 30
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@beugmartin @CryptoPicsou @SBF_FTX @Fityeth It wasn't worth that much at the time.
You cannot expect bankruptcy lawyers to predict what speculative investments will be worth in the future.
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@beugmartin @CryptoPicsou @SBF_FTX @Fityeth It was sold for ~1b which is what it was worth at that time.
Wtf is this obsession with defending criminals?
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SBF is literally right tho. The trustee managing FTX assets has a fiduciary duty to the get the highest/best FMV for creditors when liquidating assets to make creditors whole. Creditors should have the right to decide when or how the trustee liquidates highly lucrative investments.
Massive massive miss for FTX creditors.
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@armanhaghighik @teortaxesTex People generally don't like when their country is gets attacked no matter how much they might dislike the government.
Iran being completely destroyed is a much more likely possibility than an Israel friendly regime coming into power.
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The funniest outcome would be if repeated US/Israeli killings purged the IRGC of djinn-brained retards and made it an actually legitimate institution with sound policies and broad public support
But they'll still hate the US and Israel for wanton acts of war. What then?
Steve Hou@stevehou
Is it possible for the US/Israel to inch or even march towards final victory simply by repeated decapitation or assassination of the remaining Iranian hardliner leaders? Combined with the disruption of their economic and payroll system, per @zriboua, this could really eat into the regime’s ability to maintain hold over the IRGC or other cadres and foot soldiers? This seems to favor the political fortunes of the Iranian foreign minister guy who’s been doing live English interviews on western media channels and seems generally liberal and open-minded enough? I’m guessing as a total newb who doesn’t know anything. But apparently he was allegedly texting with the US Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff just recently?
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