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@balajis this seems like a narrative that MSM would push. what🚽

This could be the offramp the world needs. You can think of it as the best outcome for everyone, under the circumstances. (1) From MAGA’s perspective, if Trump declares victory here and moves on, the US won’t waste yet more blood and treasure in the Middle East. It won’t invade Iran. It also won’t take all the blame for the ongoing global supply chain crisis. It just pulls out and lets everyone work out the regional security equation for themselves. Trump can say he’s fulfilled both his campaign promises: stop Iran from getting a nuke, but also no endless Middle Eastern wars. (2) From Israel’s perspective, Iran has now been shown to be quite hostile to its neighbors, and its military has been substantially degraded. Stopping now is good. Otherwise there’s a danger of overreacting to Oct 7 as Americans overreacted to Sept 11. Israel can stand back and call it a win, because after a US pullout, Iran will have much less excuse for holding the Strait hostage. (3) From the Iranian diaspora’s perspective, it’s unfortunately clear that the current war isn’t going to result in liberalization. Further attacks would push Iran further into fundamentalism, making it even harder to eventually do a liberal reformation. (4) From the long-suffering Iranian people’s perspective, ending the war now would also save countless lives. Otherwise they’ll get hit by friendly fire and drafted by the regime to fight for fundamentalism. (5) Finally, from the world’s perspective, once the US declares victory and goes home, substantial diplomatic pressure will be applied to Iran to simply open the Strait of Hormuz and allow ships through. Iran’s leadership has shown, perhaps surprisingly, that they care about global public opinion…and they would be on the hook for the suffering of billions of people if the Strait remains blocked. TLDR: if Trump declares victory and leaves, Iran no longer has any excuse for blocking the Strait and holding the global economy hostage. Let the matter be worked out diplomatically with pressure from all the 100+ affected countries on Iran. America shouldn’t have to spend a single cent more, or send a single soldier more, to the Middle East.

@1MarkMoss how's this any different to what the US administration (and all it's allies which it shares it's movements with) has been doing for decades?

So after Iran was posting about betting in the markets on the news, this happens... odds they placed their bets before the PR drop?

@coinbureau i find it strange that you would post this garbage

🚨BREAKING: JD VANCE SAYS U.S HAS EVIDENCE OF IRAN TRYING TO BUILD A NUCLEAR WEAPON

@BoringBiz_ Poor example. He should have compared it to existing infrastructure to industries, not existing human sustenance. For example, if you use AI for financing; you compare it to bank branches, back offices, etc, and all the energy required to keep those branches/offices running.

I honestly think the reason we see so much main street pushback against AI is because of how the leaders of the largest companies in the space have framed the technology If they had just said they were building cool technology that helps people be more productive, it would be much more digestible to the every day crowd who don’t keep up with technology But if you keep describing it as something that is coming for your job, or an alternative to humans as a whole, you can easily see why some people might not like it

@KobeissiLetter next up, $TSLA to acquire SpaceX?

IT’S OFFICIAL: Elon Musk’s SpaceX has acquired xAI, here’s the official press release. The biggest IPO in history just got even bigger. Absolutely incredible.

@steve_hanke how many millions in Iran protested in support of the "regime"?

#IranWatch🇮🇷: Yesterday, TENS OF THOUSANDS of Iranian expats gathered across Canada, in protest against Iran's regime.  Today, I measure Iran’s inflation at 79.2%/yr.  I remain the only reliable source for inflation measurements in Iran.

@KobeissiLetter any state that subscribes are for the tip!

BREAKING: President Trump is asking countries who want to serve on his “Board of Peace” to contribute at least $1 billion. The $1 billion “buy-in” would grant 3 years of membership to the board. Trump has already invited a number of world leaders to the board, including Argentina’s Javier Milei and Canada’s Mark Carney. There is some speculation that this will be Trump’s rival to the United Nations. More information is coming shortly.

@steve_hanke STOP funding them then 🙄

BREAKING: The US military has launched airstrikes against ISIS targets in Syria. ISIS JUST WON'T GO AWAY.

@mikealfred Yes, billions of people have spoken up about a current genocide occurring and demanding action from their governments to STOP IT! The ONE country in the world that actually tried to do something about is the unethical one. 🙃

The Western liberal media is ignoring the Iranian uprising because explaining it would force an admission it is desperate to avoid: the Iranian people are rebelling against Islam itself, and that fact shatters the moral framework through which these institutions understand the world. Ideally, to cover an uprising is not just to show crowds and slogans. It requires answering a basic question: why are people risking death? In Iran, the answer is simple and unavoidable. The people are rising up because the Islamic Republic of Iran has spent decades suffocating every aspect of life—speech, work, family, art, women, and economic survival—under a clerical system that treats liberty as a crime. There is no way to tell that story without confronting the nature of the regime. Western media refuses to do so because it has fundamentally misunderstood Islam. Or worse, it has chosen not to understand it. Islam, in Western progressive discourse, has been racialized. It is treated not as a belief system or a political ideology, but as a stand-in for race or ethnicity. Criticizing Islam is framed as an attack on “brown people,” Arabs, or “the Middle East,” as if Islam were a skin color rather than a doctrine. This confusion is rooted in historical illiteracy. Western liberal media routinely collapses entire civilizations into a single stereotype: “all Middle Easterners are Arabs,” “all Arabs are Muslim,” and “all Muslims are a monolithic, oppressed identity group by white European colonizers.” Iranians disappear entirely in this framework. Their language, history, and culture—Persian, not Arab; ancient, not colonial; distinct, not interchangeable—are erased. By treating Islam as a racial identity rather than an ideology, Western media strips millions of people of their ability to reject it. Iranian protesters become unintelligible. Their rebellion cannot be processed without breaking the rule that Islam must not be criticized. So instead of listening to Iranians, the media speaks over them—or ignores them entirely. There is another reason the Iranian uprising is so threatening to Western media is economic issues. As you know, Iran is not only a religious dictatorship. It is a centrally controlled, state-dominated economy where markets are strangled, private enterprise is criminalized or co-opted, and economic survival depends on proximity to political power. Decades of price controls, subsidies, nationalization, and bureaucratic micromanagement have obliterated the middle class and entrenched corruption as the only functional system. The result is not equality or justice. It is poverty, stagnation, and dependence on government’s dark void of empty promises. Covering Iran honestly would require acknowledging that these policies are harmful. They have been tried. They have failed. Catastrophically. This is deeply inconvenient for Western media institutions that routinely promote expansive state control, centralized economic planning, and technocratic governance as morally enlightened alternatives to liberal capitalism. Iran demonstrates where such systems lead when insulated from accountability and enforced by ideology. It shows that when the state controls livelihoods, non-conformity becomes existentially dangerous. That lesson cannot be acknowledged without undermining the moral authority of those who advocate similar ideas in softer language. Western liberal media prefers not to hear this. Acknowledging it would require abandoning the lazy moral categories that dominate modern discourse: oppressor and oppressed, colonizer and colonized, white and non-white. Iranian protesters do not fit. They show that authoritarianism is not a Western invention imposed from outside, but something many societies are actively trying to escape. That is what terrifies Western liberal media. And that is why the Iranian people are being ignored. So the silence continues.

@Investanswers @realMaalouf @grok I find it hard to believe that no matter what some Iranians think of their gov't, they would actually burn a mosque down. They have too much respect and pride of their religion. It's now clear that foreign interference is at play and they just gave themselves up with this act

@realMaalouf @grok is this in iran? is this a mosque and is it live?

BREAKING: Iranian protesters set fire to the Al-Rasool Mosque in Tehran. Iranians are completely done with the Islamic regime.

@steve_hanke i appreciate that the people of Iran are not happy, but i wonder how much of it stems from its government's actions and how much of it from the heavy sanctions for 45+ years by the greatest superpower in human history? how long would any other country/gov survive such sanctions?

#IranWatch🇮🇷: Anti-regime protests are spreading like WILDFIRE.  Today, I measure Iran’s inflation at 88%/yr. I remain the only reliable source for inflation measurements in Iran.

@0xThoor noticed i chose HOOD even though i dont have any but i have HYPE. wtf am i doing?? 🙃🤡

Which performs better in 2026

@steve_hanke 💯

Columbia Prof. Jeff Sachs on Pres. Trump: “[Pres. Trump] is very weak... because his views change by the hour, by the day, depending on who talks to him and who pressures him.”

@steve_hanke let's not pretend that Trump isn't in on it, no matter what he may say publicly. US government is not the good guy, here.

ISRAEL CONTINUES TO BREAK THE GAZA & LEBANON CEASEFIRES. Le Monde reports that in recent days, Israel’s military operations have resulted in over 50 deaths in Lebanon & Gaza, & hundreds of arrests of Palestinians in the occupied territories. Stay tuned.

@steve_hanke Why'd you stop including Trump in these daily images? You can't possibly buy into the side show where he publicly states he's not happy with or supportive of Israel's actions since the ceasefire, can you?

ISRAEL’S BLOODLUST IN GAZA CONTINUES UNABATED. Today, Al Jazeera reports that one Palestinian was shot by Israeli forces near the ‘yellow line’ in southern Gaza. Additionally, 51 bodies were recovered from the ruins in Gaza City. Stay tuned.

@steve_hanke All these posts about Iran failing, no talk about the unjustified sanctions on them for 45 years! My question is how the hell have they lasted and excelled (taking into consideration the whole time they've had one hand tied behind their back) for so long?!

#IranWatch🇮🇷: Iran is in troubled economic waters. Iran’s poverty rate has surged to around 36%, the highest level recorded since 2010. To make matters worse, today, I measure Iran’s inflation at a CRUSHING 63%/yr. IRAN = ECONOMIC DISASTER.

@BULLReturns CEO just resigned. Can that ever be a good sign for a company that was well rated? 😬

$FSY a potential 5mlb capacity project trading at US$100m cap....reasonable potential for 2029 production $AEE a potential 2mlb initial capacity in 2027 scalable to 4mlb in 2029 trading at US$150m #uranium where the value is

Overvalued alert incoming on large #uranium caps, trading at 3-5x the valuation of the sub US$250m cap pre-production segment which we are overweight in.

@PiersUncensored @piersmorgan @megynkelly she's clueless on this topic. don't bother... 😏

Megyn Kelly says Israel "is losing its standing with the rest of the world" with its response in Gaza. "It's losing its moral reputation, its moral high ground... time to wrap it up." 📺 youtu.be/mCoiWisIbuoHa4… @piersmorgan | @megynkelly