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🚨WOWWW. Head of IRGC counter-intelligence, Ayehart Mohsadh, has defected to the West. Currently under witness protection. Very brave man.

🚨🚨 Breaking: Newly appointed IRGC head of aerial defense, Awe Hellllnaw, has defected. Major blow to regime.

It always cracks me up when people talk about the “sophistication” of the Islamic regime. Sophisticated? These are the same people who thought banning books, censoring media, and forcing ideological conformity would produce obedience—and instead accidentally engineered the opposite. The Islamic Republic regime tried to build a closed system. They ended up running the most effective black-market education program in modern history. And it’s been hollowing out the regime from within. The Islamic Republic, through the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, took away entertainment, filtered the internet, and flooded classrooms with Islamo-Socialist propaganda… so what did people do? They went looking elsewhere. They read what they weren’t supposed to read. They studied what they weren’t supposed to study. And in the process, they stumble onto alternatives and they mastered them. Congratulations. In trying to manufacture ideological conformity, the regime inadvertently raised a generation of young Iranians fluent in Western philosophy, deeply familiar with liberalism, and proponents of free market economics.

Great insight. China wants to lead the world but nobody wants to follow. Xi keeps talking about a “multipolar world.” Don’t buy it. What Communist China really wants is a unipolar world—just with Xi at the very top. Here’s the good news for the world: the Chinese system doesn’t scale. English remains the language of global commerce—Mandarin isn’t fit at all for that role. The USD dominates global finance—China still runs a closed capital account with no real rule of law. And soft power matters: people line up to enter the American system, not the Chinese one. In fact, more and more Chinese elites are choosing to flee China, hence the astonishing amount of capital outflows. Can China integrate diverse cultures, ideas, and talent at scale? Look at Xinjiang. Look at Hong Kong. Look at Taiwan. Look at Jack ma and Li Ka-shing. A true hegemon attracts. It doesn’t coerce. The world doesn't want to learn Chinese, trade in RMB or live like China.

Primorsk, Russia’s largest western oil exporting hub, turns out won’t be benefiting much from Donald Trump’s lifting of sanctions on Russian oil, on the grounds that it was blown to bits this morning by Ukraine.