Felix Jäger

Narrative violation

This is such a bizarre, and at the same time, obvious chart. If you think money printing is an issue in the United States, have a look at China. Its money supply, measured in dollars, is more than twice that of the United States. The implications are as straightforward as triggering. How do you think China gets its 5% annual GDP growth? Productivity gains? Hard work? Most of that comes from growth financed through debt. Are you wondering if China will buy more gold to try to get rid of the US dollar? The single option it has is to buy loads more, only to keep up with the unprecedented money printing. If China wants to increase trust in the Yuan, gold purchases must actually outpace money printing. Our economic system, whether in the US, the Eurozone, or China, runs on debt financed by new money printed out of thin air. There is nothing illogical about that. The chart tells it all.

This day (April 16) in 1948, the British withdrew from Safed & 100s of Arabs immediately attacked the city’s ancient Jewish community. The Arab commander cabled the Arab Liberation Army: “Our morale is very high, the young people are enthusiastic, we’re going to massacre them." The outnumbered Jews chose to stay and fight rather than flee; and, along with a small garrison of Haganah fighters, they managed to repel the attack. The Arab assault was part of the “civil war” portion of the 1948 War that was launched the moment the UN voted to partition Mandate Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state on November 29, 1947. From day one, the Arabs rejected any Jewish state on any part of the Land. In fact, on this same day (April 16, 1948), as Arab armies massed on the borders to invade the day the British Mandate ended, Jamal Husseini - acting chairman of the Arab Higher Committee - told the UN Security Council: “The representative of the Jewish Agency told us yesterday that they were not the attackers, that the Arabs had begun the fighting. We did not deny this. We told the whole world that we were going to fight.” And “fight” they did. The Arabs answered the UN vote with immediate terror: buses ambushed, passengers shot, the Jewish market in Jerusalem stormed with Arabs armed with knives and axes, entire convoys wiped out on the roads with no prisoners taken and corpses mutilated. Jewish civilians were dying at a rate of more than fifty per week. By March 1948, the Arabs were winning the “battle for the roads” and had the Jewish population on the verge of strangulation and, in Jewish Jerusalem, starvation. This is where the wildly misunderstood Plan Dalet came into effect. It was a desperate military counter-offensive to reopen supply lines and prevent total annihilation. It was never a “blueprint for expulsion” as propagandists like to claim. The real ethnic cleansing intent came expressly and proudly from the Arabs whose war cry was literally: Itbah al Yahoud! — “Slaughter the Jews!” On May 14, 1948, Israel declared independence. The next day, five Arab armies invaded with the explicit goal of wiping the Jewish state off the map before it could even breathe. They failed. That failure is what Arabs originally called the "Nakba" — “the catastrophe.” Its original use had exactly nothing to do with “refugees,” but was meant to give a word to the humiliating Arab failure to destroy the wildly outnumbered Jews and prevent Israel from being born. In reality, the vast majority of local Arabs fled before Israeli forces arrived, urged on by their own leaders who promised a quick victory and return. Those who stayed, by the way, became full citizens of Israel with equal rights; and they make up more than 20% of Israel's population today. Perhaps most importantly, there would NEVER have been a single refugee had the Arabs accepted the UN partition and/or chosen not to invade with genocidal intent. Like so many anti-Israel narratives that reverse cause and effect today, the “Nakba” narrative inverts aggressor and victim. It erases the fact that the Jews were fighting for survival against a war of annihilation explicitly declared by the Arabs from day one. What are some other ways cause and effect is reversed in modern anti-Israel discourse? Let me know your thoughts below.

The future is already on the front line – and Ukraine is building it. These are our ground robotic systems. For the first time in the history of this war, an enemy position was taken exclusively by unmanned platforms – ground systems and drones. The occupiers surrendered, and the operation was carried out without infantry and without losses on our side. Ratel, TerMIT, Ardal, Rys, Zmiy, Protector, Volia, and our other ground robotic systems have already carried out more than 22,000 missions on the front in just three months. In other words, lives were saved more than 22,000 times when a robot went into the most dangerous areas instead of a warrior. This is about high technology protecting the highest value – human life. From the congratulatory address to the workers of Ukraine’s defense-industrial complex (2/3).

🟥والله أريد أن أفهم..... 1⃣ أكبر مسفيد من إغلاق مضيق هرمز هو الولايات المتحدة. لماذا تريد إيران أن تقدم هذه الخدمات التي لاتقدر بثمن على مدى عقود قادمة للولايات المتحدة؟ 2⃣ إغلاق مضيق هرمز يعني عدم وصول النفط والغاز المسال للصين، ومنذ يومين، أوقفت إيران ناقلة غاز مسال قطرية متجهة للصين، لماذا تريد إيران معاقبة حليفتها؟ 3⃣ الطائرات الإسرائيلية التي تقصف الأهداف الإيرانية تطير بوقود من نفط أذربيجاني عن طريق تركيا وقازاخستاني عن طريق روسيا، وإيران ماعندها مشكلة مع أي من هذه الدول الأربعة! ،

𝗩𝗗𝗛: 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗜𝗚𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗦 𝗔𝗥𝗘 𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗣𝗢𝗜𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗦𝗔𝗠𝗘 𝗗𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡. Victor Davis Hanson has spent fifty years studying how wars end. When he says the tide is turning, it's worth listening to why. His argument isn't based on what the Pentagon is saying. It's based on how everyone else is behaving. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗘𝘂𝗿𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗻𝘀. VDH's rule: Europeans never agree to go anywhere near a conflict unless they think the winning side has already been determined. They didn't help in the early days. Now they're starting to move. That movement is not idealism. It's a calculation. They've looked at the battlefield and decided which way this ends. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝘂𝗹𝗳 𝗽𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗼-𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀. The Saudis, the Emiratis, the Qataris — these governments have survived for generations by reading the regional climate with precision. When they expel Iranian military attachés, when they intercept Iranian missiles over their own capitals and say nothing about American strikes, when the UAE reaffirms its $1.4 trillion investment commitment to the United States mid-war — they are not making ideological statements. They are placing bets. And they are betting on the United States. 𝗔𝗹 𝗝𝗮𝘇𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗮. This is the one that should stop you cold. Al Jazeera — the Qatari state media network, historically critical of American military action, the network Tucker Carlson and the anti-war right love to cite against Israel — is now calling the U.S. bombing campaign brilliant and effective, and saying it has been underestimated. When the media outlet of a nation that hosts both the largest American air base in the Middle East and a Hamas political office starts praising American military effectiveness, the message is unmistakable: 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘸𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘪𝘯. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗹. A-10 Warthogs and Apache helicopter gunships are now flying strike missions in Iranian airspace at will. VDH's point: you only deploy those aircraft when there is effectively no air defense left to threaten them. They are slow, low-flying, close-support platforms. Their presence confirms what the Pentagon has been claiming — Iran has no meaningful air defense remaining. Iran's strategy now is rope-a-dope. Run out the clock. Wait for American public opinion to shift. Hope the midterms create political pressure on Trump to stop. It is the only play they have left. VDH's conclusion: if Trump sees it through — and he believes he will — the regime falls. Not in years. 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘁𝘆 𝘀𝗼𝗼𝗻. 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗱𝗼, 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝘀𝗮𝘆. 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘀𝗸𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮.

🛑To everyone bragging that "Iran is strong" and cheering the idea of closing the Strait of Hormuz by attacking oil tankers: 🛑Great plan! The regime wants to trigger a massive oil spill right in the Gulf—the very water their own coastal desalination plants depend on for fresh water. 🛑Because nothing says "smart strategy" like poisoning the source that keeps millions of Iranians from dying of thirst during one of the worst historic droughts in decades.—yet let's risk turning the Gulf into an oil-soaked disaster zone that could cripple their own water supply.

The Trump administration's "America First" investment agreements with trading partners are effectively an industrial policy that is ironically aligned with Biden-era initiatives such as the CHIPS & Science Act. #PIIECharts

This is an ILLEGAL war on Mordor. We’re told Sauron “poses an existential threat,” yet somehow this involves sending hobbits 1,500 miles to a volcano. Regime change in Mordor will only create a power vacuum filled by worse orcs. Sauron is bad, sure. But is he “march to Mount Doom” bad? Meanwhile second breakfast is underfunded. Tell me again how this puts the Shire first?

@NDeitelhoff Wegen Widerstand wohl von wem? Dass 2 der 5 Ständigen Mitglieder des VNSR seither R2P ablehnen, sollte für uns ein doppelter Grund sein, das Völkerrecht im 21.Jhdt hin zum Menschenschutz fortzuentwickeln statt beim traditionellen Regimeschutz zu verharren. R2P zielt genau richtig

europeans prepared to respond… on monday

"Without Mohammed, Charlemagne would have been inconceivable." This quote summarizes Pirenne's thesis that the European Dark Ages began with the rise of Islam because it destroyed the flow of trade across the Mediterranean, ending Antiquity.

We do not want allies shackled by guilt and shame. We want allies who are proud of their culture and heritage and are willing to help us defend it.

🇺🇸🇪🇺 Rubio gets a standing ovation after his speech at Munich Security Conference. 🗣️Rubio: We care deeply about your future and ours. And if at times we disagree, our disagreements come from a profound sense of concern for Europe, to which we are connected—not just economically, not just militarily. We are connected spiritually, and we are connected culturally. We want Europe to be strong. We believe that Europe must survive, because the two great wars of the last century serve as history’s constant reminder. Ultimately, our destiny is—and will always be—intertwined with yours. And I am here today to make it clear that America is charting the path toward a new century of prosperity—and that, once again, we want to do it together with you, our cherished allies and our oldest friends.

The prime age labor force participation ratio is essentially back to all-time highs The unemployment rate is at 4.3% And no one cares b/c all everyone can talk about is how many jobs AI is going to destroy Fun times in the labor market

🇬🇧 For 300 years, North African pirates enslaved over a million Europeans. 🇬🇧 Spain. Italy. France. Ireland. Even Iceland. Entire villages taken. Europe paid ransoms. Begged. No one could stop it. Then Britain sailed into Algiers harbour. 50,000 cannonballs. 9 hours. Every slave walked free. Not just British. All of them. 300 years of terror. Ended in a single day. Be proud of us. 🇬🇧

This is another wild slide. $GOOGL's top line is actually accelerating as it gets larger.

Odds are high that the gold price is heading for a fall. Intraday today, the market cap of gold as a percent of the US money supply (M2) hit an all-time high: higher than its peak in 1980 when inflation and interest rates soared to the mid-teens and, even more shocking...

A couple of more months of these kinds of numbers and the increase in the already large combined mass of the PBOC and state banks will be VERY visible ... $100b a month is real money 6/