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@ramez The US grid, I think, lags a century behind compared to China's.

Simple. The US is nearly 4x as effective at getting economic value out of electricity as China is. Yes, it's noteworthy that China generates more electricity than the US. The US generates almost twice as much per capita, and uses it to nearly 4x the economic effect.

@zriboua China was a superpower since 2008-09 at least. Its true economy is already at a minimum 2X of America's, as seen from total electricity consumption and other relevant metrics. This war is not about China ascending; it's the US descending and fully collapsing due to losing to Iran

My latest No, the Iran War Will Not Cement China’s Superpower Status Response to The Financial Times Riyadh is coordinating with Washington, not Beijing, on how to contain Iranian aggression. Similarly, the UAE, which signed the Abraham Accords and has spent the years since deepening its defense architecture with Washington, is consolidating its alignment. Superpower status in practical terms means other states call you when the missiles start flying, denominate their reserves in your currency, and trust your diplomatic channels to hold when the pressure is on. On every one of those measures, the Gulf is turning to Washington, not Beijing. zinebriboua.com/p/no-the-iran-…

@BehizyTweets I think this is more indicative of the historic, never-before-seen asset bubble in the US Ponzi economy/society, that can only end in one way.

This is an insane perspective. And it's all because Europe deviated from the free-market and entrepreneurial-freedom ideals that made them rich in the first place.

@CoryBMorgan Because Jordan is under Zionist-Western occupation, that probably won't last much longer???

Why haven't the evil zionists of Israel made incursions into Jordan? Oh yeah. Because Jordan hasn't allowed itself to be used as a staging spot to attack Israel. Rockets aren't coming into Israel from Jordan & Israel leaves Jordan alone. Amazing how that works.

@shaunrein Yeah, but this ground war is "truly different" this time. But not in the way Amerimutts hope. Because it's the final nail in the coffin for that Frankenstein country for good. Bye-bye. There is NO surviving this or returning to the past.

@JEyal_RUSI @yarbatman "How dare you not believe in our Western NK Orwelian brainwashing propaganda?"

@yarbatman Are you seriously arguing that the coverage of events inside Iran is better and more extensive than the availability of information from the Gulf or Israel?

Isn’t this completely backwards? Iranian state media is publishing news about attacks on infrastructure daily. Foreign media have been reporting from the country during the war. Iranian photojournalists and citizens capturing harrowing images of death and destruction. We are seeing a lot of damage in a lot of places. We get nothing like that level of visibility from Israel or the Gulf, and certainly not from CENTCOM. If anything, Iran’s strategy is to show it can absorb the cost of the war, position itself as the victim, and polarize its own public against the conflict.

@Orangeman1992 @yarbatman There will be reparations for all the pointless damage USIS does to Iranian infrastructure, if the US wants to stop the war and prevent its own collapse; if not, then bye, then Iran gets all the GCC in its orbit anyway afterward for reparations. There is no world without reparati

@yarbatman USA & Israel suffer only minor injuries & their equipment suffers only minor damages. Iran lost 90% of its assets & is on the verge of an unconditional surrender because many of their top leaders have been assassinated. But Iran is hiding the information. Did I get it right?

@Orangeman1992 @yarbatman The US had to lift sanctions on Russia and Iran because they are so "successful" on the battlefield, lmao. Btw, Hormuz = petrodollar. No petrodollar, total collapse of the US bubble Ponzi economy, and civil war. But ok, in your primitive westoid brain, 86 yo dying was better.

@Orangeman1992 @yarbatman What a projection. How did assassinating any leader help USIS open Hormuz or change anything strategically? Probably backfired. On the other hand, Iran is annihilating all the US bases, depleting their receptors, tanker fleet.

@Max_Sarcasium1 @MichaelAArouet This is actually the current US turbo capitalist system. They think wealth is social market, meme stocks, crypto, polymarket, AI bubbles, etc, as opposed to actual productivity that is creating value. They have no idea how to build anything outside the dollar system (will vanish)

True, the only issue with that is that capitalism creates uneven distribution of wealth while socialism always creates equal distribution of poverty.

@MichaelAArouet I see no wealth among the lower cohorts in the US society currently; they basically survive on debt, and not many Americans have any savings. Something major happens in an economy (as it always does), and boom, you have a civil war next time. Stop thinking you are superior.

@folkhemmet37 @kc41165 @mandate2049 scmp.com/news/china/sci…

@folkhemmet37 @kc41165 @mandate2049 I am not talking about PPP adjustment (China purposely downplays its own, btw), I am talking about them not even being in the calculation, as they are completely free. You can't normalize the US rent-seeked service consumption with Chinese product-based consumption.

90% of US GDP is fake and inflated prices. The actual productivity of America is incredibly low. A notebook(paper not computer) costs $23 in America. $23 for a notebook. The same thing costs 50 cents in China.

@CarlZha @ForeignPolicy So another stupid clown. It seems that mostly the dumbest of the Chinese emigrate to the West.

Professor Yasheng Huang famously predicted in July, 2003 edition of @ForeignPolicy magazine that India will overtake China

@jsblokland This is because all of them have very weak, ineffective liberal govts. Try to "move out" your money from Russia and China to avoid tax today. Getting all your assets confiscated is the best-case scenario. If you are a plutocracy, you can't do much against big money by design.

Has the limit been reached? Norway raised wealth taxes → $50 billion in assets moved to Switzerland → government revenues fell by $450 million. California wants to tax billionaires more heavily → 30% of taxpayers have already left → expected revenue loss, $25 billion. The Netherlands implements tax on unrealized gains → people start to leave → expected €4 billion in revenues becomes an illusion. This is the Laffer Curve in action. An economic principle that has existed for more than fifty years, and is still being ignored. So, to all taxpayers, policymakers, investors, and politicians alike, at the very least, understand the concept before making decisions. Read our latest newsletter and subscribe now: bloklandfunde.substack.com/p/the-limit-ha…

@FORTRESSMAXXING Why would some lottery ticket holder suddenly start maniacally running in the open highway or go to rob someone else, when he is already set for life? China in the past century was poor, helpless, weak, and had to posture. Sun Tzu: Appears strong when weak, and weak when strong.

@FORTRESSMAXXING The difference is that China is now feeling like it won a lottery with America's endless self-destructive moves, now bringing the empire to the collapse, and the fact that, for example, their industrial profit rose by 15.2% y/y, and the manufacturing sector rose 18.9% y/y.

I find it funny how China's motto has become "do nothing" when prior to 1989, they would always "do something." That something being doing the opposite of whatever the Soviets were doing in Africa or Asia lol. If Soviets backed Group A, China would throw their weight behind Group B. The excuse then was that the Soviets posed an existential threat to China. But does America not pose a similar threat to China today? It was a big deal when Mao purged Lin Biao on grounds of being a Soviet asset in China. Meanwhile over the years, many top Chinese military officials got purged for leaking secrets to America/corruption. Just asking questions.

@DUNBAR74 @aravosis So I doubt they would WANT to sell any to most Mickey Mouse vassals of America any time soon.

@DUNBAR74 @aravosis They actually work (unlike American ones, as seen in direct combat against Houthis, and now against Iran), but they are not sold easy (they are serious countries, wanting to build their own militaries first). It's not only about money, but you also need to show sincerity to them.

Trump has now single-hardly killed the entire United States arms industry. Every country now knows that if you buy weapons from the United States, Trump could simply decide not to send them to you. Who in their right mind would buy weapons from us going forward?