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I have always been more interested in solving mysteries and accomplishment than making money as if that is somehow magnanimous. Many think accomplishment is to add zeros.
That does not make you more important than someone else at the end of your time.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump says Iran was 2 weeks away from a NUCLEAR missile when he launched the war
"I don't feel we had a choice.
They were 2 weeks away from having a nuclear missile."
He then pivoted to Operation Midnight Hammer, the June 2025 B-2 strikes on Fordow and Natanz that he says "obliterated" Iran's program, eight months before this war began.
That leaves a hard question hanging... If the program was obliterated in June, how was Iran two weeks from a nuclear missile by February?
Writer: Daniel
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Pompeo once against lost in the hallucinogenic haze of #TheImaginaryWar.
In the poetic words of Esmaeil Baqaei:
"Between the illusion of victory and the reality of the battlefield there lies a vast chasm."
The Islamic Republic is in its death throes - and as Director Clayton's recent memo shows, an evil regime that has been cornered can become even more dangerous. Let's finish the job so that the world can no longer be threatened by this monstrous dictatorship, and the Iranian people have a chance at freedom.
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It remains to be seen what will come of this initial impulse to find a peaceful balance of powers and interests in West Asia — absent the overruling presence of a western hegemon.
But this meeting tacitly acknowledges Iran's strategic victory and stature as a great power rising.
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Maybe. It could be a gambit to maximize demands with a view to forcing Ukrainian neutrality at a minimum. But I don't think so. The correct framing of this is that there will only be no NATO troops in those countries - other than the militaries of those countries themselves - which means in essence US troop withdrawal to those lines. But those countries will otherwise remain members of NATO. Given Witkoff's statements, Trump's NATO bearishness, general US desire to reduce NATO commitments, it may be a possibility. If one frames it as an alternative to a possible Ukrainian collapse or a pan-European war - of one accepts the premise of either of those being possible - then politically this looks like it could be saleable. Especially if Putin is willing to trade back on some of his Ukraine specific demands, which he should be as his primary security concern will have been addressed. I don't think it's all that far fetched. Not that I think it has a very high likelihood either.
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‼️ ‼️ This is really big. I have said many times that this was coming - but I did not expect it now already. Putin obviously believes that he has the necessary leverage now and it seems from what has been reported about Witkoff saying the European security architecture should be reviewed, that the US supports it.
Moskau holt Europa an den Verhandlungstisch, um dort den Abzug von NATO-Truppen aus Polen, Estland, Lettland, Litauen und Finnland zu verlangen.
Nach Informationen aus diplomatischen Kreisen soll Putin in der nächsten Gesprächsrunde fordern, die NATO auf den Stand von 1997 zurückzuführen. Die Erweiterung des Bündnisses nennt er die „Grundursache" des Krieges. Für die Menschen in Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Warschau und Helsinki hieße das, dass ihre Länder ohne Bündnistruppen dastehen. Neben ihnen läge Russland mit seiner Armee.
Putins Berater Uschakow sagte, mit den USA allein komme kein Abkommen zustande, weil Europa die Ukraine voll unterstütze. Deshalb müsse Europa mit am Tisch sitzen. Trumps Sondergesandter Witkoff hatte Putin in Sankt Petersburg angeboten, über den „breiteren Kontext" der Sicherheit in Europa zu sprechen.
NATO-Generalsekretär Rutte weist den Truppenabzug zurück. Über die „Bedenken" Moskaus will das Bündnis trotzdem reden.
Die europäischen Diplomaten sagen, ihre Haltung sei so fest wie im Februar 2022.
Dieselben Forderungen hatte Russland im Dezember 2021 aufgestellt. Wenige Wochen später begann der Überfall auf die Ukraine.
Quellen: The Telegraph, Focus .ua, Echo FM
This is insane 👇👇
BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg.
Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible.
This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.
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This goes way beyond general national defense preparedness. This has the earmarks of something urgent and much, much larger scale than anything previously contemplated.
Preparations of this nature and magnitude would only be envisioned for an attack on America from a major global power as part of a world war.
Given the urgency with which Pentagon officials are announcing this initiative, I’m worried that they know something is coming and they’re not telling us…
🚨Update: Massive Power Outage Coming! War Department prepares major U.S. milıtary bases to operate for 90 days without outside support, including civilian power grids and global supply chains!
- Fox News
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This refers to the Pentagon's 'FORTRESS' plan for military bases to operate without civilian power or supply chains if a future conflict disrupts infrastructure. It is not an announcement of an imminent power outage and does not involve the civilian grid. foxnews.com/politics/insid… ibtimes.co.uk/pentagon-90-da…
Somehow I don’t hear the western governments encouraging the people on the street to rise up and take back their country …… I guess that’s reserved for Iran only ….
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🚨MAJOR BREAKING: The Rothschild dynasty has been handed the keys to Ukraine's banking system.
On Friday, October 23, 2026, Ukraine's Ministry of Finance signed three-party agreements with the state-owned banks Ukrgasbank and Sense Bank and London-based N.M. Rothschild & Sons Limited, part of the Rothschild & Co group. The firm, hired in consortium with Ukrainian investment bank FinPoint, will not buy the banks — it will prepare and run their sale to foreign investors. Ukrgasbank is roughly 95% state-owned; Sense Bank was nationalized from Russian-linked Alfa Group in 2023. Both are profitable, and both sit among Ukraine's ten largest lenders.
It happened this way because the process was engineered from outside. Rothschild was chosen through a competitive tender, but the framework was laid down step by step: the Cabinet approved privatization preparations on October 1, 2025, approved the adviser-selection rules on October 29, 2025, and opened the tender on March 31, 2026. The real spur is Ukraine's repeated commitment to the IMF to engage an adviser for exactly these two banks, with sales slated to begin around 2027. Rothschild's role will be to value the assets, package them for investors, market them abroad and organize the tender.
The beneficiaries are the foreign financial groups that end up buying in, plus Rothschild itself, which earns a fixed fee and a success fee of up to 3% of proceeds either way. Ukraine benefits in the short term by raising budget cash while the hryvnia sits at an all-time low of 45.20/$ and the IMF projects a $50–55bn financing gap for 2027–28 — but it pays for that by offloading income-producing assets during a war, at a moment when it is forced to be a seller rather than a holder.
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‼️ Ukraine War Casualty Truth
Ian Proud @proud_diplomat has hosted an interview with Alexander Grable @GAWL7014 which is a powerfully revealing corroboration of the massively disproportionate casualty ratio in the Ukraine War.
* HIGHLY RECOMMENDED *
youtube.com/watch?v=61-4uxfw…
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🚨🇦🇱 ALBANIA IS BURNING!
Surreal and chaotic scenes in Tirana right now as furious citizens take to the streets in massive revolts against Edi Rama's corrupt pro-EU regime!
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Scott,
Brent Crude: $117/barrel
WTI: $103/barrel
Diesel: $6.32/gallon
Gasoline: $4.29/gallon
30-Year: 5.327%
10-Year: 5.000%
You’re the house? Your house SUCKS.
Something tells me the Eurostards won’t try to board/seize this vessel …. 😁
