Bryan Buddy
96 posts







Gabbard weighs in - obliquely - on the resignation of NCTC Director Joe Kent, a former top aide, who is not mentioned by name. President Trump, as Commander in Chief, "is responsible for determining what is and is not an imminent threat," she writes







Palantir Technologies is a truly dangerous company. CEO Alex Karp says extremely partisan things, and Peter Thiel is one of its founders. All of this makes it too risky for Europeans to buy their services. We need to build our own European companies for these critical tasks




BREAKING: The world is now experiencing its largest oil supply shock in history, losing nearly 20 million barrels of oil supply per day. Top oil supply shocks: 1. Hormuz Closure (NOW): -20 million b/d 2. Iranian Revolution (1978): -5.5 million b/d 3. Yom Kippur War (1973): -4.5 million b/d 4. Iraq-Kuwait War (1990): -4.3 million b/d 5. Iran-Iraq War (1980): -4.0 million b/d 6. Russia-Ukraine War (2022): -2.0 million b/d The current supply shock is roughly the same size as the top 2-6 COMBINED.













President Trump indicates he would be open to talk with what’s left of the Iranian regime. That’s a good thing, the Venezuelan approach: salvage enough of the government to keep the lights on, while working hard to establish a new government that is not captive of the ayatollahs or the revolutionary guard.



BREAKING: US strikes on Iran used Anthropic's Claude, just hours after it was banned by President Trump, per WSJ. Details include: 1. US Central Command in the Middle East used Claude for intel purposes 2. Claude was used for intelligence assessments, target identification, and simulating battle scenarios 3. US government says phasing out a Claude will take 6 months 4. Similar intelligence usage was seen in President Maduro’s capture AI warfare is rapidly accelerating.













