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At first it looks like it is about Taiwan, but in reality it is about subverting the global order. If you noticed, their moves are not limited to Taiwan anymore. They want absolute domination of the Asia region, even if it destroys other Nations' Sovereignty. 1/

"If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever." —Thomas Aquinas

• be Konosuke Matsushita • born into a wealthy Japanese family in 1894 • your father gambles the entire family fortune on the rice market and loses everything when you are 4 years old • forced to drop out of school at age 9 to sweep floors in a bicycle shop just to survive • you look around and realize electricity is the future, so you join the Osaka Electric Light Company and quickly become their youngest inspector • at 22, you invent an improved, highly efficient light socket in your spare time • you show it to your boss. He tells you it's useless and will never sell. • most people would accept the rejection and stay at the safe corporate job • you immediately quit, take your life savings of 100 yen, and start a company in your tiny dirt-floor apartment with your wife and teenage brother-in-law • you nearly starve. You literally have to pawn your wife’s kimono just to buy food. • finally, you get a hit with a two-way socket, but you notice a bigger problem: bicycle lamps in 1920s Japan use candles, which constantly blow out in the wind • you engineer a bullet-shaped, battery-powered bicycle lamp that lasts for 40 hours • you take it to the massive wholesalers. They laugh at you and refuse to stock it. • you execute the ultimate asymmetric marketing hack: you completely bypass the gatekeepers • you take the lamps directly to local bicycle shop owners, leave them in the stores for *free*, and tell them: "Turn it on. If it stays lit, pay me. If it dies, keep it." • the lamps work perfectly. The public goes crazy. You have successfully hacked the distribution network. • you formulate the "Water-Tap Philosophy": the stoic belief that an entrepreneur's duty is not just to make money, but to mass-produce goods until they are as cheap and abundant as tap water, eradicating poverty through sheer industrial scale • WWII happens. The Allies dismantle your massive company and order you to be fired and purged from the industry. • your own factory workers—who you treated with radical respect instead of viewing them as disposable cogs—literally protest the US military government • your union petitions General Douglas MacArthur himself, demanding you be reinstated as CEO • the US military is so confused by a labor union fighting *for* their corporate boss that they actually agree • you rebuild from the ashes to create **Panasonic** • live to 94, leaving behind a legacy built on the idea that business is a philosophical pursuit of human betterment "If you make an honest mistake, I will forgive you. But if you compromise on our core values, I will fire you."

Someone already tweeted about it, but with the current situation making it harder and harder for people to make ends meet, some people will likely resort to crimes to survive. If that happens, never forget that the government and global superpowers had a direct hand in this.

BREAKING: Chinas 55% tariff on Australian beef kicked in today. They’ve also cut off all fuel to Australia. Funny how it doesn’t go both ways and Australia is still selling itself short.

Global food supply is facing a 'dangerous bottleneck' due to fertilizer prices climbing as a 'result of disruptions in the Middle East, putting global food supplies at risk', according to NY Times report.

In the near future it will finally “click” for people how bad this situation is. Hormuz Closure and Oil are the tip of the iceberg. Soon we see supply chains breaking, massive food shortages, and energy costs skyrocketing. It’s already in motion, why is everyone complacent?

SECRETARY RUBIO: The only thing worse than a communist is an incompetent communist. 🎯

Japan’s Coast Guard seized an illegal Chinese fishing boat in its EEZ, the first since 2022 & arrested the captain. China's repeated incursions are just testing our limits & deliberately challenging us. Yet, a firmer response is overdue @rutasosabu @michaelturton @yuc

Australian miners will have to cut down production on lack of fuel supply for trucks and equipment soon

The important thing is that Trump is out of attractive options. Hormuz has to open, or the global economy dies. Iran won’t negotiate and ground wars are messy. Given the size and population of Iran, we likely need a force generation that is a few times that of Iraq 1. As you can imagine, most Americans want nothing to do with an adventure like this. At the same time, Trump cannot simply go home, as that would be a defeat. As terrible as it seems, Trump is slowly realizing what I said a few weeks ago, the only way out of Iran, is through Iran. Are you ready for what’s coming..?? They’ve been prepping for 45 years…

Rinse and repeat.

While GCC LNG capacity is getting decimated in the Middle East, a cyclone knocked out ~8% of global LNG capacity.

The long-term plan is to require digital IDs to access the internet and post on social media, making online anonymity impossible. Dissidents will be arrested, tried in rigged courts without juries, and ruthlessly persecuted; free speech completely destroyed.

BREAKING: Yemen's Houthi Group, an Iranian ally, says it is "ready to intervene" in the Iran War if new allies join the US and Israel or if the Red Sea is used to launch attacks on Iran. The Houthis have strong influence over the Bab al-Mandab Strait which controls over ~6 million barrels of daily oil supply. Total offline capacity between the Strait of Hormuz and al-Mandab would near 25 million barrels per day, or ~25% of global supply, if Bab al-Mandab is closed.

When Chinese leaders & diplomats talk about "peace" & international laws & rules based order, show them this! China Maritime Militia vessels swarming Filipino fishermen inside the Philippines’ Exclusive Economic Zone & harassing innocent Filipinos.

BREAKING: Russia announces its banning the export of gasoline

RUSSIAN OIL PRODUCERS WARN BUYERS ABOUT POSSIBLE FORCE MAJEURE ON OIL SUPPLIES AS BALTIC PORTS FACE DRONE ATTACKS, SOURCES SAY

The reason many of our leaders hate people like Nayib Bukele in El Salvador is because he has quickly proven that crime and societal decline are not inevitable or beyond control… It’s a deliberate choice allowed by weak leaders, terrible policies and suicidal empathy.

Australia is on track to run out of diesel, petrol and jet fuel in 30 days. If things don't change soon the Australian government will be forced to implement a national emergency lockdown within weeks. In practice this would look like: - Priority allocation to emergency services, defence, hospitals, police - Bans on recreational driving and non-essential vehicle use - Suspension of domestic flights except essential routes - Mining and construction effectively halted - Agricultural machinery grounded at a critical time of year for harvests The Australian government will blame Trump. The truth is that the Labor Party and the Liberal Party are the ones most at fault. For the past ten years there have been voices in the Australian political wilderness warning that Australia was crazy for keeping just three weeks of fuel reserves while shutting down almost the entirety of our domestic refinery capacity. This would never happen in China. I hate the CCP but I believe in studying and learning from your enemies. I believe in the Dengist maxim of ultimate pragmatism - ''it doesn't matter if a cat is black or white so long as it catches mice.'' So look at what our enemies do. The Chinese have a ruthlessly pragmatic approach to energy security, treating energy as a sovereign capability rather than a market commodity. They keep reserves totalling 1.3 BILLION barrels - enough for up to 6 months depending on rationing. They have strategic foresight. They don't give a fuck about environmentalist protests - they will never voluntarily deindustrialise to meet the whims of progressives. They produce 4 million barrels of oil a day. They build massive refineries across their country and keep them open. They also made EVs a national priority - not for stupid woke reasons, but so as to try limit their dependence on foreign imports. Just contrast their approach to energy security to Australia's suicidal approach. We used to have eight oil refineries. Four closed under the Liberals and two under Labor. The last two of these closures took place in 2021 under Scott Morrison's Liberal government. 25 years ago we were almost completely self sufficient in fuel. We consumed 850,000 barrels of oil a day in 2000 and produced 820,000 barrels domestically. 95% self sufficient. Net oil imports in 2000 were just 12,000 barrels per day, essentially a rounding error. Now we consume 1,145,000 barrels of oil a day while producing just 200,000 barrels. We need to import about 900,000 barrels a day for our economy and society to function. What happened? Our mature oil fields ran out while endless environmental approvals and protests from activist groups hampered new production. The far-left Extinction Rebellion campaigns against new shale development and oil and gas production in Australia now stand exposed as essentially campaigns of terrorism against the national interest. But our political class gave these lunatics a crucial assist by strangling new development to meet their whims. A significant section of the Australian public demanded this, maybe about 30-40% of the left-leaning voting population - and they held the nation hostage. So their willingness to indulge infantile leftist whims is a big part of it. But the most fundamental problem I think is that our political class - like most post-Cold War political elites across the Western world - were simply sleep walking through the end of history. They believed the ''international rules based order'' - ironically a phrase LITERALLY coined by Kevin Rudd while Prime Minister - would hold forever. This is because they failed to understand the real source of political power. As Chairman Mao said, power comes from the barrel of a gun. Real life is not like a university debating society or an Aaron Sorkin West Wing TV script. You cannot simply win the day with the perfect argument, the perfect comeback. The only thing that our ideological enemies understand is force and sovereign capacity. Western political elites fundamentally failed to construct a theory of mind for their opponents. They believed that the entire world shared the same liberal psychology of educated upper middle class Western elites. They failed to understand that some of our opponents have radically different world views. The Iranian regime for example is run by men who truly believe that they will help bring on a religious apocalypse to hasten the return of the Hidden Imam the twelfth and final Imam in Twelver Shia Islam, believed to have entered a state of occultation (concealment) to protect his life from Abbasid persecution. This is literally what these men believe. It may seem strange and quaint to upper middle class liberals in the West but other human beings from radically different societies and cultural backgrounds believe different things to them. And given the fact that these political enemies are religious extremists, we cannot convince them with clever arguments and appeals to international law. Do the Iranians care for international law when they hit random civilian shipping in the Strait of Hormuz? No, of course not. They don't care. So blame Trump all you like. Khamenei deserved to die, the mullahs are apocalyptic madmen trying to murder suicide the world economy. The Iranian regime is clearly already willing to murder-suicide the entire world economy for its objectives. It is better that they do it now when they are weak and on their knees rather than later when they have nuclear weapons and ICBMs that can reach London and Paris. Take them down now when they are weak or get North Korea on the Strait of Hormuz. Trump I believe understands this, other Western political leaders in their fantasy sleepwalk fail to understand. Build sovereign capacity, project strength. That is the only option. Australia should always be a close brother nation ally to the United States. I will always believe in Western civilizational unity. But we must adopt a defensive Gaullist posture in terms of sovereign capacity and capability. Otherwise we are a useless ally anyway. What use is an ally with 20 days fuel reserves? My solution's for Australia. Politically we must restart domestic oil production, open up shale production, rebuild refineries, build 50 nuclear power plants like France's Messmer Plan. Build nuclear weapons. Culturally we must wake up from our post-Cold War slumber and re-enter history as a sovereign actor.

This is bad. This is really bad. First the Persian Gulf, then Russian O&G facilities get hit, a major refinery in Texas explodes and now this…. 😳😳