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We should have an experiment.
Divide a country in two. Half socialist - half capitalist.
#ResistCapitalism
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Arthur Kimes
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Arthur Kimes
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Executive Co-Blogger - AceofSpadesHQ. LET'S RUIN BASEBALL for a 3rd year! ⚾️😁😁⚾️ #Dodgers Your one stop shop for Dis/Mis/Mal-information! My Brain Trembles
Big Spring, TX เข้าร่วม Nisan 2011
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"It can make up around 7% of the blade and each set of three can use up to 40 trees."
zerohedge@zerohedge
Half A Million Balsa Trees Illegally Logged In Amazon Rainforest Every Year To Feed Global Wind Turbine Demand zerohedge.com/political/half…
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@GardaAramis Chinese long range stealth fighters with long range AA missiles.
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Boeing stealth air tanker proposal looks more like a bomber than its docile and benign role.
It goes back to a question whether there's a neef for tankers to fly near high risk areas?
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cc: @AceofSpadesHQ
another RW French election result that doesn't matter.
Inevitable West@Inevitablewest
🚨BREAKING: The RN party has just won over FORTY French cities in the local elections, including Nice, having absolutely CRUSHED the left-wing alliance This is completely unprecedented… It’s undeniably a REVOLUTION! 🇫🇷
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There is a reason countries are shifting more towards hypersonic maneuvering vehicles - successful ballistic missile intercepts in space are becoming routine.
Think about that - this is the tech that critics only 10 years ago (or less) claimed required rigged tests to succeed.
OSINTtechnical@Osinttechnical
Footage of an exoatmospheric (space) interception of an Iranian ballistic missile over Israel this evening.
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@AceofSpadesHQ
this pun is funny enough to steal for the blog.
David Keyes@DavidMKeyes
🚨 Game changer!! The top Basij commander, General Fuqit Immout, has fled Iran. Expect the regime to fall this week.
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Arthur Kimes รีทวีตแล้ว
Iran’s attacks on Qatar’s LNG export plant could be one of the biggest tailwinds yet to the fast-growing US LNG sector 🇺🇸 🚢
🇹🇼 Taiwan said it plans to buy more LNG from the US from June
🇧🇩 Bangladesh is exploring additional American purchases
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Arthur Kimes รีทวีตแล้ว
⚡️Spain is begging for order without wanting to own the violence required to create it.
That is the real content of the post.
The humanitarian language is packaging. The actual message is energy panic. Europe can live with moral fog. Europe cannot live comfortably with a prolonged Gulf energy shock. Open Hormuz. Preserve the sites. Stop the escalation before oil, gas, shipping, inflation, and industrial stress start eating through the continent again. That is what he is really saying.
This also reveals the hierarchy very cleanly. Spain is pleading over the ceiling of acceptable damage. America and the harder coalition actors are shaping the battlefield. Spain is trying to shape the bill. That is the role of a dependent power in a system it does not control.
The deepest truth is that even the softer European voices have now accepted the core reality: Hormuz cannot stay half-governed by Iranian leverage. The artery has to be reopened and the Gulf energy system has to be preserved. They may phrase it in softer, more universal language, but they are converging on the same endpoint as the harder camp. They just want the outcome without fully endorsing the brutality of the mechanism.
So what is really being said here?
Do whatever you have to do to stop this from turning into a long energy regime shock for Europe.
That is the real signal.
And that is why this matters. Once even Spain is speaking this way, the diplomatic center of gravity has already moved.
The argument is no longer over whether the energy system is the real battlefield.
The argument is over how much pain gets inflicted before control is restored.
Pedro Sánchez@sanchezcastejon
The Government of Spain demands the opening of Hormuz and the preservation of all the energy sites of the Middle East. We stand at a global tipping point. Further escalation could trigger a long-term energy crisis for all humanity. The world should not pay the consequences of this war.
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Costa Rica!
TheDebriefing17@TheDebriefing17
🤔Costa Rica just crossed a line you don’t cross unless the system is being forced open. A former Supreme Court judge and former security minister was extradited to the United States on drug trafficking charges in what Reuters says is Costa Rica’s first-ever extradition of one of its own nationals. That only became possible after a 2025 legal reform removed the ban. President Chaves called him “the tip of the iceberg.” Reuters also reports he says he’s willing to testify and name others if his family is protected. 👉That is not random. That is what it looks like when the cleanup moves past street-level traffickers and starts hitting the judicial-protection layer, the political cover layer, and the national-sovereignty shield that used to protect insiders. First the laws change. Then the shields come down. Then the insiders start moving. The timeline never lies. @Homeranger17 @CouchGuy17 @ReckoningTruthZ @burnedspy360 @Great_Upset @ScottZPatriot @WillReagan11 @BeerCan45 @RadicalForLiber @ccblanchard99 @Thucydides17A @AFANGChief @Spaceshot76 @MRSRedVoteR @AstuteActual @Sparkness14 @jwcollins1955 @MarineSigInt
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Forget TSA lines, the real problem with air travel in the coming weeks is fuel.
Some cargoes are already diverting toward the U.S. on a Jones Act waiver, so domestic travel might hold. Europe? Different story.
About 1.77M barrels/day of jet fuel moves by oil tankers and it was already >$202/barrel on March 17, before strikes hit Kuwait’s two key refineries.
Kuwait exports ~260k bpd ~10% of the seaborne Jet Fuel market.
Now look at the water:
According to @WindwardAI 73 LR1/LR2 (LR = Long Range) tankers are currently loaded with Jet Fuel globally but only 10 headed to Europe
8 are stuck west of Hormuz
Europe gets hit first—France, Netherlands, Belgium. They depend on imports. There’s no backup plan.
Europe has little in Jet Fuel in reserves and most of what they do have is for the military.
Less supply. Stuck cargo. Refineries needing major repairs in Kuwait. Even if the Strait of Hormuz opens tomorrow there could still be airline cancelations this summer.
This is how supply chains fail quietly, then all at once.
Watch the tankers.
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Arthur Kimes รีทวีตแล้ว
This is a "Lesson learned" from the 1991 Gulf War.
The Bush Adm. left the Iraqi Ba'athist regime it's helicopter force...
...which crushed the Shia Arab rebellion after the cease fire.
Babak Taghvaee - The Crisis Watch@BabakTaghvaee1
BREAKING: The number of Iranian Army Aviation helicopters destroyed in Israeli airstrikes at the 4th General Support Base in Isfahan and its training facility has now reached over 250. These helicopters had been dispersed across different locations within the base in an effort to protect them from Israeli and U.S. airstrikes. However, due to negligence, they were left unattended and were ultimately bombed and destroyed. You can see them burning—almost all of the CH-47C Chinooks of the Iranian Army Aviation, over 50 AH-1J Cobra attack helicopters, more than 80 Bell 214A Isfahan utility helicopters, and tens of UH-1H Hueys and Agusta-Bell AB.205 and AB.206 helicopters are on fire throughout the base. #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar
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Arthur Kimes รีทวีตแล้ว
This is downstream of the US and Israel destroying Shahed drone factories in Iran.⬇️
Russian Geran drone production relies on the Iranian Shahed factories for major subcomponents like engines.
Jay in Kyiv@JayinKyiv
Panic continues across the Russian blogosphere as Ukraine is now reportedly sending more drones than Russia.
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Arthur Kimes รีทวีตแล้ว
This is the reason federalism is so important. Individual states can become tyrannical but America still has an escape hatch that ensures the future of the whole country. If federalism fails, America does too.
We must protect Texas and Florida with all our being.
Elon Musk@elonmusk
@LorenaSGonzalez Message received
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Arthur Kimes รีทวีตแล้ว
Senior defense sources: Israel needs no more than 2.5 weeks to complete its missions in Iran. Then we can stop and let the Iranian people take the lead (Ynet)
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"We witnessed the resilience of commercial ships to absorb damage in the Red and Black Seas."
"Walk it off" is not what transport owners are going to accept as a strategy.
Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping) 🚢⚓🐪🚒🏴☠️@mercoglianos
These comments by former @CENTCOM commander General Votel highlights a disconnect between the military and economic strategy regarding the Strait of Hormuz. Attacks on shipping and the Strait were expected. When it comes to escorts, General Votel acknowledged that it can not begin until Iranian anti-ship capabilities were degraded. He noted that this could take WEEKS. If that is the case, what were the provisions taken to offset the disruption to 25% of global trade. Also, why were assets, such as minesweepers, amphibious vessels, additional escort ships, and naval reservists to serve as tactical advisors on board commercial shipping, not mobilized immediately or before the start of the operation. General Votel acknowledged the difficulty in minesweeping but does not fully comprehend the issue regarding shipping. Tankers are not thin-skinned but double-hulled. We have seen evidence of the ability of tankers to sustain damage and continue to sail (i.e. SS Bridgeton in 1987). Plus, while the traffic scheme is only 2 miles wide, the navigable area of the Strait is 21 miles. We witnessed the resilience of commercial ships to absorb damage in the Red and Black Seas. twz.com/news-features/…
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Iran has rolled out a new 10 million rial banknote, its largest ever denomination, worth about $7.
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Cyborg-Soldiers
Kyrylo Shevchenko@KShevchenkoReal
⚡️🇺🇦Ukraine’s artillery crews are testing exoskeletons costing $30–40k each. Early tests show +30% less muscle strain and faster firing rates. With a 2 kg device, 17 km battery range & 20 km/h speed, fatigue drops, and like a result operational efficiency rises. ‼️Soldiers normally lift 15–30 shells/day, so battlefield economics is shifting from manpower-heavy to tech-augmented efficiency. #UkraineEconomy #Exoskeleton #DefenseInnovation Photo: open sources
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US Army buying gold-plated $20,000 drones to do what $500-1,000 drones are doing, EFFECTIVELY, in Ukraine.
CJ@CasualArtyFan
Say goodbye to the Skydio X2D (pictured) and hello to the Skydio X10D. Going from $50,000~ for a full system, to $20,000~ with better cameras, better range, better battery life, and a better controller.
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China decline?
Ken Cao-The China Crash Chronicle@Ken_LoveTW
China Is Repeating the Soviet Union’s Fatal Mistake Its economy looks strong on paper: a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus, dominance in EVs, solar, and shipbuilding. But the foundation is cracking. Its share of global GDP peaked at 18.5% in 2021—now down to 16.5% in 2025. Its economy has fallen from ~75% of the U.S. to under two-thirds. Why? Because Beijing shifted from wealth creation to state-driven tech and military expansion. Many of these sectors aren’t profitable. EV and solar industries are locked in brutal price wars. Chips and defense rely on massive subsidies. Meanwhile, real wealth creators are shrinking. This is the Soviet playbook: prioritize power over profit. It looked strong until it collapsed. Economics is simple: wealth first, strategy second. China reversed it. And now the cracks are showing.
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