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Every system eventually hits a 'correction.' ​The same market correction that saw Armenia realize Russia's protection was a paper tiger is now playing out in the Gulf—but with far more explosive stakes. ​The Gulf paid for a U.S. 'shield' that went bankrupt the moment the Physicalist Reality hit. When Iran can bypass the 'rules-based' umbrella to hit desalination plants and shutdown petrochemical hubs at will, the protection hasn't just leaked—it's insolvent. Geography always wins over narratives.

🇪🇺🇦🇲 The EU is holding its first-ever summit with Armenia. Here's why that's a bigger deal than it sounds: Armenia used to be firmly in Russia's camp, part of its military alliance, dependent on Russian energy, protected by Russian peacekeepers. Then Russia failed to defend Armenia in 2 wars over Nagorno-Karabakh in 2020 and 2023. Armenia started looking west. Today, the EU formalised that shift: energy partnerships to cut Russian dependency, a new EU military mission in Armenia, cyber experts deployed ahead of June elections, and Frontex border cooperation. Europe just gained a foothold in the South Caucasus, right on Russia's doorstep.

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Ford CEO Jim Farley: We should not let Chinese EVs into the US. He said, "It's the most humbling thing I've ever seen. They have far superior in-vehicle tech." Jim himself drove a Chinese Xiaomi Su7 and has been to China 6-7 times a year.

🇺🇸 Ana Kasparian exposes that the Trump administration gave a $17.4M no bid contract to renovate fountains. The exact same job under a competitive contract would cost only $3.3M.

Wealthy investors are all-in on equities: Equity allocation among high-net-worth individuals is up to 65% of total assets, the highest since December 2021. This percentage has risen +7 points since 2023 and is just below the 2021 meme stock frenzy peak of 66%. By comparison, the 2020 pandemic low was 54% while the long-term average is ~57%. At the same time, cash holdings fell to 10%, the lowest since September 2018. High-net-worth individuals now hold just 18% of their capital in bonds. Risk appetite is through the roof.

Warren Buffett just warned that the US dollar could collapse and admitted he doesn't understand most of the stock market anymore. 95 years old, sitting on $380 billion in cash, and the first time watching from the sidelines instead of actively investing. And what he revealed at this weekend's Berkshire shareholder meeting is genuinely concerning: On the market, Buffett didn't hold back. He compared it to "a church with a casino attached" and said the casino has never been more packed. On one-day options: "That is not investing. It's not speculating. It's gambling. Totally." He pointed to the Avis short squeeze THIS WEEK. A rental car company that's been around for 50 years getting meme-squeezed in 2026. The same behavior that blew up retail traders with GameStop is back, except now it's hitting boring legacy companies with zero business being volatile. "We have lots more regulation now, but people spend their time figuring out how to get around the rules rather than follow the rules." That one sentence explains more about the current market than every CNBC segment combined. When asked why he's hoarding $380 billion instead of investing it, Buffett said something no one expected: "I understand fewer of the businesses as a percentage of the whole than I did 10 years ago. I have not learned new industries for some years. I'm not going to have an edge on a whole bunch of younger people that have actually grown up with it." Think about what he's actually saying... This is a man who made $140 billion by understanding businesses better than anyone alive. And he's telling you the current market is so detached from reality that even HE can't make sense of what's being valued and why. He quoted IBM's Tom Watson Sr.: "I'm smart in spots and I stay around those spots." In 60 years of managing money, he said MAYBE five were "really juicy." Five out of sixty. That means 92% of his career was spent WAITING while everyone else gambled. And he still ended up richer than all of them. Then the conversation turned to inflation and that's where it gets really interesting: Buffett said America is "not immune" from runaway inflation. He brought up countries that went bankrupt "six or seven times" in his lifetime. Compared today to right before Volcker had to rescue the dollar, when Americans were borrowing at 12% to buy farmland earning 6% because they believed the dollar would disappear. "Cash is trash" was the mentality. Nebraska farmers collapsed because of it. Entire communities wiped out not by a recession but by a BELIEF that the currency was dying. And Buffett sees that same energy building again. Then someone asked the question everyone wanted answered: Do you see a crash coming? "If you saw it coming, it wouldn't happen. The things people are talking about and thinking about? It's not going to happen. But there are things that can come out of the blue." He compared it to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 that triggered World War I. Nobody was discussing or anticipating it. But it changed the world overnight. "That's particularly true now because of the things that can come out of the sky." A 95yo man who has survived every crash, every war, every crisis of the last six decades just told you the market is a casino, the dollar isn't safe, and the real collapse will be something nobody sees coming. $380 billion in cash is his answer because he believes things are about to get much worse.

Stagflation is intensifying across US manufacturing: The ISM Manufacturing PMI remained steady in April at 52.7 points, the highest since August 2022. However, prices paid surged +6.3 points, to 84.6, the highest since May 2022. Prices paid have risen +25.6 points over the last 3 months, the biggest 3-month increase on record. The surge continues to be driven by surging steel and aluminum prices affecting the entire supply chain, tariffs on imported goods, and higher energy and materials costs driven by the Iran War. Meanwhile, the employment index fell -2.3 points, to 46.4, the lowest since January, marking the 15th consecutive monthly contraction. Stagflation pressures are building again.

@MelikeEcin @WatcherGuru Nah.

@WatcherGuru Would $10 trillion make him happy? He and Trump have one thing in common: miserable.

JUST IN: Elon Musk says his goal is to reach a $10 trillion net worth. "$10T or bust"

Unpopular take: The old global system is now in correction mode. Why? 👇 Hypocrisy is now too dangerous insure. Hypocrisy has hit limit. In market terms, hypocrisy is a form of "hidden debt." When a system claims to be "rules-based" but applies those rules selectively, it creates an enormous amount of geopolitical friction. For decades, the dominant powers could afford to carry that debt because they had the overwhelming "equity" (economic and military might) to back it up. ​But once that equity began to shrink—due to the shift in productive capacity and energy sovereignty—the market (the rest of the world) started calling in the debt. The 'Rules-Based Order' didn't just fail; it went bankrupt. Hypocrisy was the hidden debt on the balance sheet for thirty years. Now that the physical assets—energy, manufacturing, and raw materials—have shifted East and South, the world is no longer willing to subsidize the interest on that debt. We aren't seeing a 'revolt'; we are seeing a massive, automated market correction toward Geopolitical Truth.

Republicans are staring at a midterm wipeout. The midterms won't be a political debate; they will be a market correction for incompetence.

Republicans are staring at a midterm wipeout. ​There is no structural floor left to support them. They’ve managed to alienate the only number that ever mattered to them: the 77 million. ​Here is the breakdown -physical and undeniable: 👉​Economic Plumbing: Real disposable income is being incinerated by a 35% spike in gas prices and a war-driven inflationary spiral. You can't ask for a mandate when the voter’s "plumbing"—their daily cost of living—is bursting. 👉​The 77% Factor: When 77% of the country blames the administration for the current crisis, that original 77m voter base isn't a shield anymore; it’s a list of people feeling "embarrassed" and betrayed. ​Global Disintegration: As Donald Tusk rightly noted, NATO is fracturing. A party that claims "strength" cannot survive the optical humiliation of an alliance disintegrating and troops being pulled from Germany. ​The midterms won't be a political debate; they will be a market correction for incompetence. ​#Midterms2026 #Geopolitics #Economy #Realism

Still wild that Elon set his reputation on fire for a political side quest that looks completely futile. Republicans will likely lose the midterms, Trump will end up being a lame duck with no real power, and Elon spent over $250 million just to become more disliked by the people who used to admire him. What was the point?

The "unthinkable" is now being said out loud: Donald Tusk has signaled that NATO is disintegrating. When the Prime Minister of Poland—the frontline of European security—shifts from "unity" to "disintegration," we aren't just looking at a political spat. We are witnessing the collapse of the post-1945 security "plumbing." The Physical Reality vs. The Narrative: 👉The Trust Deficit is Structural: This isn't just about rhetoric or personalities. It is about the fundamental realization that the U.S. security guarantee is no longer a physical certainty. For Poland, "disintegration" means they can no longer bet their national existence on a 75-year-old treaty that lacks the logistics and political will to back it up. 👉The Nuclear Pivot: Look at the subtext. Tusk isn't just complaining; he is preparing. Poland’s recent signals toward seeking independent nuclear capabilities aren't a whim—they are a direct response to a fracturing NATO. If the "Umbrella" is leaking, you build your own roof. 👉Interests vs. Ideology: We are seeing a hard-pivot back to Westphalian interests. The founding members are fracturing over divergent threats—the U.S. is focused on the Pacific and Middle East operations, while Eastern Europe is staring down a physical, kinetic threat on its border. When interests diverge this sharply, the "Alliance" becomes a ghost. 👉The End of Globalist Comfort: For decades, Europe outsourced its physical safety to Washington. That era of "strategic comfort" is dead. "Disintegration" is simply the market correcting itself. Security is returning to its rawest form: self-reliance and regional power blocs. Bottom line: NATO was a product of a unipolar world that no longer exists. Tusk isn’t being a "doomer"—he is being a realist. The "plumbing" of global security is being re-routed, and the old pipes are bursting. History doesn't care about treaties; it cares about physical capacity and the will to use it. #NATO #Geopolitics #DonaldTusk #SecurityArchitecture #Poland

@Microinteracti1 If the "Umbrella" is leaking, you build your own roof. Donald Tusk is doing just that for his country.

NATO Is Disintegrating, And Only One Country Is Holding the Matches Donald Tusk, the Polish Prime Minister and a man who has spent his entire career watching Russia from uncomfortably close range, said out loud this week what every European leader has been whispering into their wine glasses for months. NATO’s greatest threat, he said, is “the ongoing disintegration of our alliance.” He was not talking about Russia. He was not talking about China. He was talking about the United States of America, which has just announced it will yank roughly 5,000 troops out of Germany over the next six to twelve months, because Washington is apparently furious that Berlin refused to cheer along for the Iran war like a good little ally should. This is, to use the technical term, absolutely mental. NATO has held together for 76 years through the Cold War, the collapse of the Soviet Union, 9/11, and every crisis the modern world could throw at it. It survived all of that. What it is apparently struggling to survive is a single American administration that treats collective defence like a loyalty programme you get kicked out of for not spending enough at the checkout. NATO said Saturday it is working with Washington to “understand the decision.” That is diplomatic language for standing in the kitchen after someone has driven a car through your living room wall, trying very hard to remain calm. The withdrawal would reduce American forces in Germany by about 14 percent. That is not nothing. Germany sits at the geographic and logistical heart of NATO’s European posture. Troops there are not decorative. They are the tripwire, the logistics hub, the signal to Moscow that an attack on one is an attack on all. Poland knows this better than anyone. Poland, which shares a border with both Russia and Belarus, and which has spent decades quietly building itself into one of the most serious military forces in Europe precisely because it understands that geography is destiny and history is not finished. When Tusk says the alliance is disintegrating, he is not being dramatic. He is being Polish. And in matters of Russian aggression and Western reliability, the Poles have an uncomfortable habit of being right. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@Microinteracti1 The only serious adult in the room.

Spot on, and the numbers make the fracture even starker. Alliances aren't immortal. Tusk isn't some wide-eyed alarmist — he's the guy whose country borders the threat and has spent years actually treating Article 5 like it matters, not just a polite dinner toast. Calling out the internal disintegration as the real killer is precise. External enemies test alliances; only internal rot collapses them. The US move — yanking 5,000 troops (roughly 14% of the ~35-36k in Germany) over a public row about Iran strategy- isn't some minor housekeeping. Germany is the central hub: logistics, airlift, medical, command nodes, the physical "tripwire" for the eastern flank. Poland gets this viscerally because geography doesn't do diplomacy. They rearmed and spent seriously while others talked. History taught them that American commitment has been the ultimate backstop, but backstops have conditions. Seventy-six years of NATO endurance through Cold War peaks, Soviet collapse, and post-9/11 isn't nothing. But alliances aren't immortal. Alliances run on shared risk, burden, and strategic alignment, not just inertia. When a major European power publicly frames US actions as "humiliation" in a hot conflict, and Washington responds by adjusting its forward presence, that's not "mental" — it's sovereign countries reacting to diverging interests in real time. The diplomatic "we're assessing the decision" speak is exactly the calm-after-the-car-crash vibe. Europe has long bet on the US carrying disproportionate weight while many members chronically under-spent on defense. Poland (and the Baltic states) have been the adults in the room on this for years. The uncomfortable truth:👇 This isn't the end of NATO, but it's a very visible stress test. If Europe wants reliable American skin in the game, it needs to deliver credible capability and alignment, not lectures. If Washington wants to rebalance, it should do so deliberately, not transactionally over every disagreement. Matches are being held because the house was already showing cracks in burden-sharing and threat perception. Tusk's warning is worth heeding — not as anti-American theater, but as a call for the serious players to fix the foundation before the whole structure shifts. Poland's track record on reading Russia suggests people ignore it at their own peril.

@Megatron_ron The #IranWar‌ "i told you so" moment.

NEW: 🇺🇸 After the collapse of Spirit Airlines, now Delta Air Lines is also canceling a large number of flights Delta Air Lines are now mysteriously canceling hundreds of flights nationwide citing crew restrictions. This come just as Spirit Airlines has officially shut down, adding further stress and uncertainty across the U.S. travel system.

Control disdains Freedom.

@zafarmirzo Control hates freedom.

Freedom still fears those who invented the devil.

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🇷🇺 All eyes are on Moscow. Russia’s Victory Day parade, May 9th. The anticipation is extraordinary. For weeks, Kremlin sources have teased it. A new weapon. The most powerful they have ever produced. The West is sweating. Intelligence agencies are baffled. The world holds its breath to see what Russia will unveil. And then it appears. It doesn’t roll on tracks. It doesn’t fly at Mach 3. It walks. In a suit. With a red tie. And it waves like a man who has never quite figured out what to do with his hands. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

Bernie Sanders will be 85 in September. This is impressive! @BernieSanders

@krassenstein Mark Cuban - a reasonable businessman.

Mark Cuban on Elon Musk: “I said something about a Tesla and he just sends me a text saying fuck you. He’s called me racist, he’s called me poop emoji multiple times... that just gives me license to f*uck with him even more.”