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BREAKING: Trump "threatened to leave" NATO and "unloaded his frustration" at NATO Secretary-General Rutte in their latest meeting, using the meeting as a "venting session." An EU official says the meeting "went shit," and the "conversation was nothing but a tirade of insults"

🚨Governor DeSantis says the United States should reconsider being close allies with the United Kingdom because they have imported the Third World and we do not share a common culture anymore.

Teortaxes just made me realize that the recent efforts by the EU to mandate use of homegrown software systems in government (like France’s recent Zoom clone) are even more self-defeating in light of Mythos. Such moves create unique indigenous vulnerabilities that the U.S. and China will not share. When USG develops or acquires exploits, there is a choice they make: do we keep this to ourselves or do we inform the developer? The benefit of the former is obvious, but the tradeoff is that if it’s a globally used software system, the government itself may be vulnerable to the exploit as well. But foreign governments who force themselves to use homegrown software are eliminating this tradeoff, since no U.S. government agency or business has any dependency on France’s Zoom clone. Yet another reminder that public policy very often does the opposite of what it says on the tin. These domestic software mandates are meant to ensure “digital sovereignty,” and yet they diminish it. Note that this analysis applies only to Middle Powers and not to China, since China has its own frontier AI capability.

Abundance discourse is really, really into the idea of an American Pearl River Delta getting built in America, ideally in the Bay Area, but we actually already have one. It's Greater Houston, and it's on track to be 10 million people in 2040.

Joy Reid's warning about the far-right: "Their plan? 0 income tax, 0 regulation, earn as much as you want, your family inherits it all!"

Europe is a vassal. They lack the political will to nuke their welfare state which is a requisite step in building a military sufficient to keep their borders secure. If the U.S. leaves it knows China is the default inheritor of the vassal. Because China is our primary adversary we will not leave Europe intact economically on our way out. We will rip away its access to energy. We will nuke its access to dollar liquidity and throw its existing over-indebted financial system into a tailspin. We will block Europes export access to any country in our sphere. That includes Japan. And most importantly we will fragment Europe on the way out. We will rip it apart from the inside. Not because we hate Europeans. We don’t. Because Europe is a vassal. A resource of empire. And just because it forgot this due to our benevolence doesn’t mean China will view it as anything other than a resource to extract from. And you don’t leave the enemy resources. You blow it the fuck up and leave a pair of star-spangled boxers in the wreckage on the way out. 🫡