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@HeLiuLeo @AngelicaOung It's fair to point out your opinions are steeped in personal context. Will you also enumerate the material luxuries and privileges you enjoy as an imperial scholar, or do you deny that those affect your emotional incentive structure?

Objectivity is over fetishized as a normative concept, and anyone who claims so are too deeply mired in their own pretense. Ofc also a properly unfair ask on someone else when, once we strip away of intellectual subjectivity, hollowed out of our experience, morals, observance, what is left of us? What is left of this great ‘objective’ intellectual produce that we produce?

Tankies on X constantly try to write me off. “You don’t know China.” “Go to see Shenzhen, it’s wonderful.” “You hate China.” “You’re at Hoover Institute, so I don’t listen to you.” (Yes they can’t even spell “Hoover Institution” properly) “You haven’t seen the new China.” Please. I’ve lived in and stayed in touch with Shenzhen for more than twenty years, since my kindergarten days in Shenzhen. I have close family and personal friends in most of the booming sectors in Shenzhen for the past thirty years. I’ve got to observe Beijing in close range at its high, low, hiatus, explosive growth, within government, companies, foreign NGOs, local NGOs. Everyone has a complicated relationship with their home. But unmistakably, I love my home. That is precisely why I levy the strongest, most constant and occasionally harsh criticism at things happening in China. I see into the depth of China’s possibilities and its wasteful squandering of potential, through a persistent totalitarian experiment that yields only servitude and suffering. The only moral thing to do, out of love, is to speak up in the most straight-forward, unapologetic voice, and call evil by its name. You’d do the same for anywhere you love, and seeing it being destroyed day by day. And yes I’m at Hoover Institution, also known for having the one of the worldwide best archives on China, the China collection at the Hoover Archive, maintained by my colleague and fellow Oxonian historian Hsiaoting, which houses invaluable resources such as Chiang Kaishek’s diary, Li Rui’s diary, HH Kung’s papers, Lin Zhao’s diary, and countless other materials critical to understanding modern China. The community of China scholars in and around Hoover is impeccable; dare I say the best in the world: Wu Guoguang, former political advisor of general secretary of CCP; Xu Chenggang, Harvard-educated award-winning economist; Elizabeth Economy, former Asia Director at CFR and China Advisor to Sec of Commerce under Biden; Frank Dikotter, bestselling author and renowned historian of modern Chinese history; and ofc Dan Wang, one of the best English-language writers on China right now. You should find easier targets to launch your low-ball attacks at. Realistically, I’m as deep into the Chinese system as any proficient English-speakers will ever be, barring all those who are too close to party royalties that they cannot speak out loud. So tankies, a genuine question for you: have you said thank-you once?

@seftonhanley @okaythenfuture Maybe cause you have a false idea of what socialism must look like..

@okaythenfuture My time there made me feel like they were some of the most free wheeling capitalist folks I have met in asia though. Single party or not, its hard to think of them as socialists much ??

Vietnamese leaders are way too polite and sophisticated to openly gloat about this, But they will feel a DEEP poetic justice over surpassing the Thai economy. Thailand openly and completely allowed American bases and bomber jets to use Thailand as a base for about twenty years to interfere in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. The Thai state was quite vehemently boastful about the need to finish off communism in Asia. In the 1970s, Thailand openly supported the Khmer Rouge and funneled tons of arms and support to that regime which was very openly anti Vietnamese. And despite a huge decades long head start, it didn’t remotely matter. Vietnam is likely going to have the far better 21st century. Socialism won .

@grok @Darcieboo2016 @InaHassan3 @grok don't we have evidence of funding and support for al qaeda affiliates like HTS in syria through programs like timber sycamore?

The Russian Africa Corps claims this was a Western-backed coup attempt using JNIM and Tuareg proxies to repeat the "Syrian scenario" and embarrass Moscow's role in Mali. Independent reporting from Al Jazeera, Wikipedia summaries, and others frames it as a major jihadist offensive by longstanding groups like JNIM (al-Qaeda affiliate), not newly funded terrorists—though Mali's junta and Russia repelled it with heavy losses on both sides, including the defense minister. No public evidence confirms Western funding. If taking the Russian accusation at face value, France had the clearest motive: Mali expelled French forces in 2022-2023 after years of Barkhane ops, shifting to Russia for security and resources. France lost influence, bases, and Sahel leverage it once dominated. The US and UK have far less skin in the game post-withdrawal. Pure speculation either way—jihadists have their own long-running agendas here.

🚨 They tried to do to Mali what they did to Syria. Russia's Africa Corps just dropped their battle report: 10,000 to 12,000 fighters attacked Bamako, Sévaré, Gao, Kidal, and Kati simultaneously. Over 1,000 neutralized. 500 in Gao alone. 300 in Kati. 200 in Bamako. And that's before counting Sévaré and Kidal. They killed the Defense Minister with a car bomb at his own home. And Russia says a Western country was behind it, using proxies to trigger a coup and repeat the "Syrian scenario." The media called it a "terrorist attack." It was a regime change operation. It failed.

@MetaPrime001 If you fell for that shit, what else are you falling for currently?

Too many people unwilling to admit this truth

@JMGreerWriter Isn't that convenient?

It’s quite possible that the historical Gnostics preserved actual teachings of Jesus, but that doesn’t actually matter that much to me or to most modern Gnostics. What matters is the quest for gnosis itself — personal experience of spiritual realities — and historical questions of who taught what aren’t especially relevant to that quest.

@fejau_inc Less national security than imperial supremacy. AI helps control the 'nation' internally as social contract breaks, as much as it helps program other nations.

As I said, winning this race is a national imperative and they will throw everything at it. Ride the wave.

@0ddette Do you find wannabe arms-dealer slop compelling?

“If I had heard myself speaking like this back in 2022, I would have said that some madman was talking… it was all just science fiction,” he said. But he is all in now. “Human life is priceless, whereas robots do not bleed.”

@MysteryGrove Lol believe what you're told retard

@books_rum The Babylonian exile was Judeans, yahwists perhaps. It was not Torah observant Jews as we think of them. There was no widespread observance of Torah until the hasmonean period. Archaeologist Yonatan Adler makes this case. @AdlerYonatan

During the Babylonian exile there were a quarter of a million Jews. Under the Roman Empire millions converted. Without these conversions, as Shlomo Sand says, today there would be practically no Jews in the world. aish.com/the-surge-of-c…

I had been trading professionally since September 1999... many years as a market maker in Dollar Swaps, later Mortgage Passthroughs, US Treasuries, FX and even Credit. I had to retool myself after 2012 when "whatever it takes" spieled by Draghi changed the entire financial world. Nothing worked anymore.... I was a very good macro trader and made a lot of money during events for the banks I worked for, last one being Covid in 2020 but I stopped trading macro in normal times. This is the first time I see macro does not work even during an event which I consider to be much worse than Covid since it is a supply shock we haven't seen before at this magnitude. I saw a similar delay with Covid and expected this one to be similar and to be priced by early April. I was wrong... today VIX hit one month lows... Today, the sitation with #OIL is worse after East-West pipeline in Saudia got hit... no improvement in Hormuz are US negotiators are a bunch of jokers sent there to torpedo any deal. The fact that Chabad Kuschner is there a necessary and sufficent proof. This just shows the magnitude of make-believe system crooks managed to create. This cult will not wake up .... it will just die one day. It is similar to 1978 Jonestown Massacre. Nothing we post or say matters anymore... We will live and see the massacre.

@dampedspring There can be no peace without justice

As a very heavily biased American I wrote down what I hope for as the outcome. It's entirely insensitive to the free will of the people of Iran but as I said it's biased.

@policytensor This analysis confuses strategic aims with tactical pathways. 1) The nuclear issue is optical 2) straight closure is ambivalent 3) Israel is always in alignment 4) Trump's political fate has no bearing The only strategic aim is escalating to confront China by all means

The central problem of war termination was the difficulty of reassuring Iran that it will not be attacked again by the aggressors. This problem is likely mostly solved already: Iran could not have been persuaded by China if the latter had not agreed to guarantee that it would not allow the US or Israel to disarm Iran. Together with a non-aggression pact with the US, that would have to suffice even if does not guarantee Israeli behavior. What JD needs from the Iranians is (1) a credible formula on the nuclear file, (2) reopen Hormuz fully without a tollbooth. (1) was already offered before the war but foolishly rejected. Now that Kushner is out, we should be able to obtain surprise inspections and perhaps even transfer of custody of the enriched uranium. But only if full sanctions relief can be credibly offered. The same is true of (2). The Iranians will likely require full sanctions relief to be approved by Congress. But even without it, they have an excellent deterrent against any reimposition of Western sanctions: Hormuz will be closed to any power that dares to impose sanctions on Iran again. The main challenge for JD is to discipline Israel. This has the potential to break US-Israeli relations if they just don’t obey orders from Washington. What’s clear is that this was the last hurrah of the lobby and the Israeli wars of aggression. The special relationship will be over sooner than most people realize. This is where this is headed.

@policytensor War on russia

It may even be argued that he would not have lost had a launched a war on Iran.

Is it an aberration? What is the civilian kill count per president? We had one guy who did not launch a war and we kicked him out after one term.

@NickHintonn What does this mean to you?

In ancient myths, Venus was born from sea foam formed by Saturn’s castrated gentiles after they were thrown into the ocean. In the occult, the Antichrist is associated with Saturn and the Whore of Babylon is associated with Venus. This makes me think a Saturnian figure will be sacrificed to summon a Venusian goddess. Trump always says he will destroy Isis. But what if Isis decides to destroy him?

@TimelessTrvlr @SantiagoAuFund He wasn't alone. Read your bible.

The Garden of Gethsemane is where Jesus prayed alone in the dark, knowing what was coming.....and chose to face it anyway.

@policytensor Why not reintegrate with Russia? You'd need to oust the elite, but it would be far more productive than ruining society to field an army.

There are only two options for Europe. If it can field a combined arms army under unified command, it will be a great power. Otherwise, it will be a playing field for the great powers. There are no other options now.

@NikLentz The Iranians knew. The world knew. Sacrifice for strategic success is the point. Cope more.

Who knew winning a war meant: - Lose your entire navy - Lose your nuclear capability - Burn through most of your ballistic missiles - Get leadership taken out en masse - Air defense decimated - Missile launch capacity cut in half - Make enemies of neighbors #Winning!

@NikLentz What do you mean?

@BickerinBrattle Yes, and that is victory, just as with Stalin or Kim, two famous resistors of aggression.

@FutureSumer9000 No. They will maintain sovereignty. Trump knows that they know that as like Stalin and Kim, they are ready and able to kill as many required. The terror in end is what they impose on Iran.

Iran knows they lost this war. They also know they maintain sovereignty. Iran is testing Trump with eyes only on midterms. In a way they have joined Trump election staff. That is the deal. They know as soon as US leaves to restock and enter midterms that Israel packs it in