volition

This would be a travesty

𝗩𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗢𝗥 𝗗𝗔𝗩𝗜𝗦 𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗦𝗢𝗡 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗦 𝗘𝗨𝗥𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗡 𝗦𝗖𝗛𝗜𝗭𝗢𝗣𝗛𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗜𝗔. Britain initially refused to let us use Diego Garcia. Then agreed — only for "defensive purposes." Spain refused NATO base access entirely. France and Germany expressed reservations. Trump asked European allies to send a few ships to help patrol the Strait of Hormuz. They declined. And yet: most of Europe's oil comes from the Middle East or North Africa. They need the Strait open. They need the Red Sea clear of Houthi attacks. They are closer to a nuclear Iran than we are. They know it. And they want the United States to handle all of it — while publicly criticizing us for doing exactly that. VDH calls it European schizophrenia. Here's his diagnosis. 𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗺𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗽. Germany opened its borders under Angela Merkel — the German version of Alejandro Mayorkas. Today 16% of Germany's population were not born there, the vast majority unassimilated Muslims. Other European countries run 6 to 12 percent. And the communities that arrived are often 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 than the countries they left — which were radical enough. They don't want to integrate. They believe their birth rates and continued immigration will eventually dominate their host governments. And European governments are terrified of them. So when it comes to confronting Iran or expressing support for Israel — the internal political math makes it nearly impossible. They won't lose the votes. They won't risk the streets. They stay quiet and whisper to Washington: you handle it. 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱: 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘆 𝘀𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲. Germany dismantled its nuclear plants. Shut down coal. Refused to develop its own natural gas. Refused offshore oil. The result: energy costs two to three times higher than economic competitors, and total strategic dependence on the Middle East and Russia. You cannot have an independent foreign policy when your economy runs on energy imported from the very region you're supposed to be confronting. That's not a position. That's a hostage situation they built for themselves. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗱: 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗽𝗶𝗮. After the Cold War ended, Europe decided history was over. So they disarmed. The result: tiny Israel — 10 million people — fields more frontline combat aircraft than Germany, France, and Britain combined. Israel is flying sorties every day with some of the best pilots in the world. Europe's three premier NATO partners cannot match them. This is not a funding gap. It's a failure of will that has been building for thirty years. 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘁𝗵: 𝗱𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗮𝗽𝘀𝗲. American fertility is already a concern at 1.65. European fertility in some countries has fallen to 1.1. There is a cultural consensus in parts of Europe that children are an obstacle to the good life. A civilization that stops reproducing cannot sustain a military, fund a welfare state, or project power abroad. And yet they've added millions of impoverished immigrants demanding entitlements, straining the very socialist safety net they've built their political identity around. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗸𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲. In 1982, Britain needed to retake islands 8,000 miles away. The United States gave them 2 million gallons of fuel, sophisticated intelligence, and the offer of a carrier. Without American help, they likely fail. Now — when we ask to use Diego Garcia to confront a nuclear threat to the entire Western world — Britain stalls and adds conditions. VDH's point is blunt: they forgot what American support looks like when it's withdrawn. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗼𝘁𝘁𝗼𝗺 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲. Europe has 450 million people and a GDP roughly the size of China's. Even burdened by green energy policy, open borders, low fertility, and creeping socialism — it has the resources to be a full military partner. It chooses not to be. It knows what needs to be done. It wants it done. It will not do it. And then it will criticize the country that does. 𝘛𝘳𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘤. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 — 𝘢𝘴 𝘝𝘋𝘏 𝘱𝘶𝘵𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺 — 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤.

Madness

@r0ck3t23 Deregulate the nuclear energy sector.

Elon Musk just exposed the real AI race. It is not about benchmarks. It is measured in gigawatts. And America is losing it. “US power usage on average is 500 gigawatts. China, just in solar that can provide steady state power and batteries, can do half of the US electricity output per year just with solar.” Half of America’s entire electrical output. One energy source. One country. Let that number sit for a second. Every GPU cluster on Earth is a mouth that never stops feeding. Every training run is a transaction paid in raw electricity. Every token generated is physically chained to the grid. The West is forming ethics committees. China is building the grid to run superintelligence at continental scale. This is not a software problem. This is a physics problem. And physics does not negotiate. The American power grid was designed for a world that no longer exists. Crumbling infrastructure. Permitting nightmares. Decade-long approval processes for projects the competition greenlights in months. China treated energy production like a wartime manufacturing order. State coordination. Vertical integration. No public comment periods. No environmental theater. Just relentless, industrial-scale execution. The result is a nation approaching 250 gigawatts of deployable solar capacity while America still argues about where to place the panels. You cannot run superintelligence on a grid that browns out during a heat wave. The most powerful model on Earth is worthless sitting idle in a dark server room. Nations do not capture the century by writing elegant code. They capture it by manufacturing the raw physical power to run that code at infinite scale. China is not competing in AI. China is competing in the physics underneath AI. The country that cannot power the machine does not get to decide what the machine becomes.

Have empathy for the victims, not those who inflict pain on others

@BitcoinAnja Cycling for a little while 🚴 Free diving looks amazing, but please never go alone!

Bitcoiners, what’s your hobby when you’re not stacking sats? I take going deep literally. 😁🫶

Bitcoin Cash: Crypto That Actually Works.#BCH #Bitcoincash

@montana77812 @toobaffled Government changed. The good ones are now in power.

@toobaffled Wow. NZ was one of the worst plandemic followers.

New Zealand has formally rejected amendments to the International Health Regulations, which lay out how World Health Organisation member countries will handle future pandemics. 🔴 Read the Full Story 👉 go.epochtimes.au/KLb7nc

Bitcoin wasn’t meant to be an asset class. It was meant to be cash. Somewhere along the way, that changed… and BCH was the response. Mini short: youtube.com/shorts/xm8dta5…

BREAKING 🚨 US and Japan announce $40 billion nuclear power project

Half of the foreign policy professionals in Washington just clutched their pearls. The Prime Minister of Japan is sitting right there, unbothered, because she came to Washington to accomplish something real, not to audition for a decorum award. This is such a fundamental disconnect: The diplomatic establishment believes relationships between nations are maintained by carefully scripted language. Trump believes they're maintained by results and leverage, while employing the kind of candor that only ever happens when both sides know the relationship is strong enough to handle it. One of these theories keeps producing forever wars and retreat. The other one has Japan's PM volunteering to help build a peace coalition.

Preserve NZ’s nuclear-free legacy: keep banning old reactors, but allow advanced molten salt reactors (MSRs) once commercial. No explosion risk, far less waste, cleaner energy future. Thoughts? #NuclearFreeNZ #MSR #newzealand

@capexbt Thought it was the Epstein saga, not old news.

Nobody is asking why Bitcoin rallied during a war. The answer is Iran. - Iran mines Bitcoin for $1,300 per coin. The cheapest on earth. - The IRGC runs the operation. Every coin gets sold to fund imports and bypass US sanctions. - They’ve been dumping tens of thousands of BTC on the open market for years. Constant invisible sell pressure. - Then the US bombed their power grid. Mining went offline overnight. The hashrate dropped within hours. - The sell pressure that nobody knew existed just vanished. The US accidentally made Bitcoin more scarce by bombing the world’s cheapest mining operation. And nobody is connecting the dots.

I'm finishing Ayn Rand's 1000+ page masterpiece Atlas Shrugged (1957), and if you still think socialism works, this book is your required reading. Every page is a masterclass in why collectivism doesn't just fail economies. It destroys the human spirit. When you punish excellence and reward mediocrity, you don't lift people up. You drag everyone down. "Who is John Galt?" isn't just a question. It's a warning. #AtlasShrugged #AynRand #Capitalism #Liberty #Freedom

@carlworker Much more commonsense with Winston Peters at the helm, no fantasy, the real world.

New Zealand cannot afford a crank foreign minister a day longer. We are starting to look in the world as weird as he looks to all of us at home. Time for a change.

Why $BCH could become mega popular in 2026: Real money people can actually use daily Fast, low-fee global payments Growing adoption by users and merchants Utility that the world will increasingly need Follow Us

#Breaking: Poland sends its 2 aircraft carriers Paweł and Gaweł to the Gulf, being the first European country to positively answer Trump's request. Trump's comment: "Now everyone should follow the lead of our BEST European ally!"

Elon Musk just exposed the most common trap in business strategy. Most founders are obsessed with market share. Musk doesn’t know his competitors exist. Musk: “I don’t really think about competitors. I just think about making the product as perfect as possible.” The moment you benchmark your execution against a rival, you’ve capped your ceiling at their level of mediocrity. You’re no longer setting the pace. You’re reacting to someone else’s. Interviewer: “You don’t think about competitors at all?” Musk: “No. I just think about making what we want to achieve, the Platonic ideal of the perfect product.” You don’t engineer a multi-trillion-dollar monopoly by iterating on existing features. You do it by relentlessly pursuing the absolute theoretical limit of what the product can be. The average founder is trying to build something slightly better than the alternative. Musk is trying to manifest the mathematical ceiling of the concept itself. When your only benchmark is the Platonic ideal, the competitive landscape becomes completely irrelevant. You’re no longer competing. You’re just executing the purest possible form of the architecture. Musk: “As long as you focus on that, you will have a compelling product, obviously.” Dominance is never the goal. It’s the unavoidable byproduct of building something so structurally sound that alternatives stop making sense. Every hour spent calculating competitive positioning is an hour stolen from perfecting the product itself. The most dangerous builders on the board don’t strategize how to defeat their rivals. They engineer a product so fundamentally superior that rivals quietly become irrelevant. The market doesn’t reward the best competitor. It consolidates around whoever stopped competing and started perfecting.

Iran is not Venezuela newideal.aynrand.org/iran-is-not-ve… via @AynRandInst