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China calls itself a rising superpower. Meanwhile, villagers are still fighting over fresh steamed rice. Skyscrapers on the outside. Struggle on the inside. The gap between the image and reality couldn’t be clearer.

𝐀 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐏𝐒𝐘𝐂𝐇𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐂𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 “𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐈𝐆𝐆𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐌𝐄𝐃𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋 𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀𝐋 𝐎𝐅 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄” — 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐀 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐇 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐘 𝐉𝐔𝐒𝐓 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐃 𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐑𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓 Dr. Dionne Joseph on GB News, reacting to a massive Finnish register study that tracked gender-referred young people for over two decades. The study examined 𝟐,𝟎𝟖𝟑 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐬 under 23 matched against 𝟏𝟔,𝟔𝟒𝟑 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐬 between 1996 and 2019 (𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘢 𝘗𝘢𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘢, Ruuska et al.). The results are devastating. Before referral, 𝟒𝟓.𝟕% of gender-referred youth had psychiatric morbidity. After gender-affirming interventions — the surgeries, the hormones, the puberty blockers — that number didn’t improve. It got 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞: 𝟔𝟏.𝟕% had psychiatric morbidity two or more years after referral, compared to 𝟏𝟒.𝟔% in the control group. Dr. Joseph was unsparing: “𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳-𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘯𝘰𝘸. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘧𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘥, 𝘮𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘴𝘦”. She went further. The medical establishment “𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘪𝘥, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘰𝘣𝘧𝘶𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥”. She compared it to John Money’s infamous case with the Reimer twins, where the researcher “𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘩𝘦’𝘥 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘵” with his subjects rather than publish the catastrophic outcomes. “𝘞𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘦𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘢 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘰-𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦”. On the suicide argument — the weapon used to bully parents into consent — she was definitive: “𝘖𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘦 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘯 𝘱𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘦 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 101 𝘱𝘴𝘺𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺. 𝘛𝘰 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘦𝘹 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘰 𝘶𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭”. She said therapists telling children they’ll k∗ll themselves without transition are “𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘥𝘢𝘭. 𝘞𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘪𝘵 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨”. Finland’s health authority has already changed course — breaking from WPATH to make 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭-𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 instead of hormones and surgery. The evidence forced their hand. Meanwhile, American hospitals are still performing these procedures on minors and calling it “compassionate care.” 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐝. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐧. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥.

🚨JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon just dropped a truth bomb the left DOESN’T want to hear: “Immigration. What the HELL are we doing? The bottom 20% of Americans? Their wages haven't gone up in 20 years. They're dying 7 years younger. Their schools are failing. Americans should be getting SICK of it!” Mass immigration is CRUSHING working-class families wages, communities, and futures. It’s way PAST time we put AMERICANS first.

I think this touches on something much deeper. Something that, in my view, is quite unique to Western civilization and one of the many reasons why the West has prospered and continues to prosper more than many other parts of the world. When a country like the United States invests enormous resources to bring its people who went MIA home, or when a country like Israel sacrifices so much in order to rescue its people who were kidnapped by Palestinians, it tells you something important about the values of those societies. These are often the same countries portrayed as cruel or immoral in global propaganda. Yet their actions show a very different reality: a profound commitment to the value of human life. Now, let's compare that to regimes that treat their own people as expendable. Putin has sent wave after wave of his own people to die as cannon fodder. The Iranian regime recruits children into the Basij for security duties and in the past even sent young boys into minefields during the Iran Iraq war. Hamas and other Palestinian jihadist movements openly glorify martyrdom and encourage children to aspire to die as “martyrs”. This contrast matters. Civilizations reveal their true values in how they treat human life, especially the lives of their own people. The West is far from perfect. No society is. But the fact that millions of people still strive to immigrate to Western countries and NEVER the other way around, and that the most prosperous and free economies are overwhelmingly Western, is not a coincidence. Do not fall for simplistic propaganda. When you look closely at the values behind the actions, the West remains one of the most humane and advanced civilizations humanity has produced.

『我的這段發言顯然踩到痛點了。我在擔任新聞秘書時的一些朋友，不論是在國內還是國外，都不喜歡我說的話。他們沒有去思考西歐國家應該如何改變，反而只想攻擊唐納・川普。 之所以會踩到痛點，是因為他們知道，這次北約國家真的被追究責任了。他們心裡清楚，自己幾十年來表現不足，而這次拒絕提供飛越權，更是做得太過分。美國人已經受夠了，尤其是對法國和西班牙。川普不會接受這種情況，他們也知道這一點。現在，他們開始害怕自己長期不作為所帶來的後果。 英國方面，和瑪格麗特・柴契爾或東尼・布萊爾時代不同，現在顯得搖擺不定。他們過去常常是很好的盟友，但這一次卻想袖手旁觀、兩邊討好。我們可以使用他們的基地，但僅限於有限的行動。至少英國還願意在國防上投入真正的資金。 法國、西班牙和義大利又是另一回事，加拿大也是如此。這四個國家都沒有認真為北約做出貢獻，表現落後，還試圖混過去。西班牙和法國迫使我們的飛行員在前往伊朗的途中繞行數千英里（我還以為他們很在意碳足跡）。 東歐則完全不同。他們在國防上投入更多，也理解權力的重要性。他們曾經生活在蘇聯統治之下，知道什麼是軟弱，因此不會選擇軟弱。 西歐各國政府，特別是法國，很擅長發表聲明與公報。他們喜歡舉辦會議，也喜歡深思熟慮。但要讓他們採取行動，那又是另一回事——除非是購買俄羅斯液化天然氣，而這件事他們至今仍在做。 世界正在改變。這場戰爭之後，將出現一群更年輕的國家，他們理解真正的力量與實力的重要性。阿聯、科威特、沙烏地阿拉伯、以色列以及東歐，將比以往更加強大。西歐則會持續落後。 至於川普，你可以不喜歡他。他常說出歷任總統不會說的話。但不要低估一件事：美國納稅人已經受夠那些不願承擔責任的國家，還逼得我們的飛行員承擔更高風險、飛更長的距離，只為了讓世界擺脫伊朗這個威脅。 如今的西歐領導人，寧願安撫伊朗、用「贖金」（貿易）來換取關係，也不願支持美國。 現在的局勢已經不同了，我們都知道。 英國、法國、西班牙和義大利（儘管義大利總理另有立場）都將承擔接下來的後果。 他們本可以、也應該支持我們——不是作為北約整體，而是作為各自獨立的自由國家。 我們要的其實很簡單： 只是飛越權，以及完整使用空軍基地的權限。 他們已經做出了選擇，很快就會看到結果。』

美国飞行员坠落在伊朗腹地。 美军硬是把人捞了回来。 他跳伞一落地，立刻激活紧急GPS。 徒步24小时，爬上2000米高山，藏了整整12小时。 伊朗追捕车队越逼越近。 美军的救援直接拉满。 重型空中火力劈头盖脸砸向伊朗车队。 MH-6直升机顶着地面冷枪，强行拔高冲上山顶把人接走。 撤退时却出了致命意外。 负责接应的两架C-130J运输机，降落在10公里外的临时机场。 落地就陷进了烂泥。 飞不起来了。 空军立刻开启大规模空中压制，死死盯住周边的伊朗地面部队。 特种部队在泥地里硬扛了3小时。 最后三架Dash-8特种飞机紧急赶到，拉走了所有人。 走之前，美军干脆利落炸毁了带不走的C-130J和MH-6，一点渣都不留给伊朗。 人必须带走，带不走的装备就地报废。 这本砸几架飞机救一个人的账，全世界没几个国家算得明白。