Why is no one talking about liberating Iran anymore?
I thought we were getting rid of a bad regime, to free Iranians?
I thought we were getting rid of an evil "illegal" leader of Venezuela.
Venezuela isn't anymore free than they were with Maduro.....
It wasn't about freeing the people of those countries.
It was for their OIL!
@angeloinchina Wrong. The US imports most of the food it needs and depends on several countries to manufacture its products. These reckless actions like Venezuela, Greenland, and now Iran will make the world see the US as a country that can't be trusted. BIG problems ahead for the US.
Never forget that the US doesn’t need to win wars.
The US empire thrives through CHAOS.
CHAOS is happening far away from US land.
US is self sufficient and can watch poor countries suffer under a world still managed by a currency the US controls.
US citizens will suffer from CHAOS, absolutely.
But then pedo-Epstein elites will thrive with CHAOS and will become even more powerful.
Wars are opportunities to further empoverish the masses, opportunities for further wealth transfers and further tighten control over the already zombified masses.
I have just spoken with Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian.
I called on him to put an immediate end to the unacceptable attacks Iran is carrying out against countries in the region, whether directly or through proxies, including in Lebanon and Iraq. I reminded him that France is acting within a strictly defensive framework aimed at protecting its interests, its regional partners, and freedom of navigation, and that it is unacceptable for our country to be targeted.
The unchecked escalation we are witnessing is plunging the entire region into chaos, with major consequences today and for the years to come. The people of Iran, like those across the region, are paying the price.
Only a new political and security framework can ensure peace and security for all. Such a framework must guarantee that Iran never acquires nuclear weapons, while also addressing the threats posed by its ballistic missile programme and its destabilising activities regionally and internationally.
Freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz must be restored as soon as possible.
I also urged the Iranian President to allow Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris to return safely to France as soon as possible. Their ordeal has gone on for far too long, and they belong with their loved ones.
@stats_feed None of these side quests will have an everlasting satisfaction. They are just ways of killing time. Once you notice that, you will feel bored again, maybe even depressed. But if you instead focus on contributing in making this world a better place, you will never be bored.
You’re bored because you have no side quests.
Life isn’t just work and lying in bed.
Here are 50 side quests to unlock:
1.Spend 24 hours without social media 📵 2.Learn to cook one perfect sauce 3.Wake up before sunrise and walk without headphones 🌅 4.Write down random phrases you overhear in public 5.Explore a new neighborhood in your city 6.Sit in silence for 10 minutes 7.Start a small herb garden 🌿 8.Fix one thing in your home 🔧 9.Memorize a short poem 10.Have dinner by candlelight 🕯
11.Try a new activity (boxing, pottery, dance) 12.Design an alternative 5-year life plan 13.Go for coffee alone without your phone ☕ 14.Read a physical book outside 📖 15.Give a sincere compliment to a stranger
16.Delete 10 apps you don’t need 17.Take a different route home on purpose 18.Learn how to make proper coffee (no capsules) 19.Start a “no snooze” week 20.Watch the sunset without taking a photo
21.Make bread or pasta by hand 22.Volunteer once — and don’t post about it 🤝 23.Re-read your old journal entries 24.Ask your parents about their youth 25.Declutter and throw away 50 unnecessary items
26.Learn 10 constellations and find them in the sky ✨ 27.Spend a full day without spending money 28.Start a small creative project 🎨 29.Do something socially awkward on purpose 30.Move your body before touching your phone
31.Attend a public lecture 32.Create a playlist for this season of your life 🎧 33.Write a letter you’ll never send 34.Photograph interesting textures around you 📷 35.Learn the basics of first aid
36.Wake up and make your bed perfectly for 7 days straight 37.Cook a dish from a country you’ve never visited 🍝 38.Go to a museum alone 🏛 39.Instead of small talk, ask one real question 40.Learn one self-defense move
41.Stretch your body in a new way 42.Read one book from a genre you usually avoid 43.Spend one evening with no artificial light 44.Start composting ♻️ 45.Draw ordinary objects for 20 minutes a day ✏️
46.Reach out to someone you haven’t spoken to in 2 years 47.Memorize your favorite speech 48.Press and dry leaves or flowers 🍂 49.Plan a small weekend adventure 50.Learn 5 practical skills
I am often asked:
Which is a better investment?
Gold or Bitcoin.
Obviously I would say both for diversification of assets and add silver.
Yet if I had to choose only one asset I would choose Butcoin.
Why?
Because gold is in theory infinite. When the price of gold rises more gold miners, which I am….will dig more more.
Bitcoin, by design is limited to 21 million…. a number which we are near now.
That means….by design….no more Bitcoin can be added after 21 million are mined.
Brilliant. That means the price of Bitcoin should only go up.
Glad I bought my Bitcoin early.
I am still actively mining for gold and drilling for oil.
Take care.
I'm Canadian not American so I'll leave it to Americans to comment on these horrible events and act as they feel is right.
But as an ethnic Russian who lived in Russia until 27 years old and watched Putins regime horrors unfold, I'll say this:
people who can't admit making a mistake and be vulnerable are very very DANGEROUS.
there's no limit to lying aggressing murdering they would do to self-justify.
@MaMoMVPY Exactly. The US fails to see that it depends on the rest of the world to cover its needs. If the US continues with this behavior, the rest of the world will stop trusting it and will look for ways of not depending on it. The US will be left alone and its economy will collapse.
The problem isn't Trump. The problem is the US.
When the outside world observes Trump's insane behaviour and his threats against allies, and we at the same time observe that there is no real action from the US public, Congress, the US Supreme Court, or the US media about this insanity, we will all have to conclude that the US accepts this behaviour.
The public in the US think the US is entitled to a certain position in the world where there is no room for decent behaviour and where there are no norms and rules.
That means that we all have to conclude that the US — not only Trump — has betrayed the international order that the US, with its Western partners, were the main architects of after the Second World War.
This is the conclusion that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney so clearly laid out in his speech at Davos yesterday. We simply cannot trust the US to play by the rules any more. Therefore, we also fundamentally have to ask ourselves — should we trust the financial and economic structure which is an integral part of the global rules-based order?
Americans live in the illusion that the US can do everything on its own, despite the fact that the US for nearly 20 years has lived beyond its means.
US private and government consumption has been funded by, among others, European central banks and pension funds. But we now have to ask ourselves — why would we trade in dollars? Why would we put our savings into US Treasury bonds?
If the US is not a rules-based society, we cannot trust the dollar to be a stable currency, and it would be insane to hold dollars. As domestic US institutions are eroded and governance structures destroyed, the US will be turned into an emerging market economy — or more accurately, a de-merging economy.
If the US threatens the territory of allies, then the US acts as an authoritarian bully nation. Nobody in their right mind would lend money to the US government. If the US doesn't live up to its international obligations and respect the sovereignty of other nations, why would we expect the US government to honour its debts?
If Trump can tariff nations that will not give up their territory, then there is certainly no reason to believe that the US will not introduce capital controls. And if that is a risk, why would you risk investing in the US?
It is not a question about Europe standing up to the US. It is a question about being prudent with our investments — about reducing risks.
Every day Trump remains in office, distrust of the US increases, and the cost for the US will go up day by day. And this is irreversible. It takes years to build trust, but you can destroy it by your actions in minutes.
Europe has now completely lost trust in the US. And so has Canada. It is up to the people of the US to demonstrate that Trump is an 'outlier', and it is up to the American people to stop him.
If you don't do that, we will have to assume that this is what the US is about — whether the name of the President is Trump or something else, whether the President is a Republican or a Democrat.
🇮🇷🇺🇸 TRUMP PLANS FOR IRAN AIRSTRIKES
Trump’s team is already sketching out strike plans on Iran, big ones.
Multiple airstrikes, key military targets, maybe even another hit on Fordow, the underground nuclear site the U.S. bombed last year.
No carriers have moved yet, but the USS Ford just wrapped up Maduro duty, and it's free.
Tehran isn’t playing coy: if the U.S. strikes, Israel and every American base in the region gets lit up.
It’s bombs on the table, and red lines daring to be crossed.
Source: NY Post
🚨🇺🇸🇻🇪🇷🇺 U.S. TRIES TO SEIZE VENEZUELAN OIL TANKER, SO RUSSIA RESPONDS WITH A SUBMARINE
You thought this was just about oil? It’s now a full-on naval showdown.
The U.S. is actively trying to seize the Marinera, a Russian-flagged tanker (formerly Bella 1) carrying sanctioned Venezuelan oil, and Moscow is not having it.
Now, Russia has deployed a submarine to escort the tanker off the Venezuelan coast, in what looks like a direct challenge to U.S. naval enforcement.
So, to recap:
- The U.S. raids Venezuela, takes out Maduro, and claims 30–50M barrels of oil.
- China is furious.
- Russia steps in to block further seizures with military hardware.
If the U.S. seizes the Marinera, it sends a message that American sanctions now come with force.
If Russia stops it, it signals that they’re willing to fight, literally, to protect their stake in the region.
We’re no longer talking about embargoes and backdoor deals, this is open confrontation on the high seas, with oil, power, and global alliances all on the line.
Sources: Reuters, @sentdefender, WSJ