Vooit Pac retweeted
Every week someone tells me they vibe-coded their app over the weekend and don't need developers anymore.
Before it touches a paying customer, make sure it includes:
> a schema someone designed, instead of one the AI improvised table by table
> login that still works when someone puts a plus sign in their email
> password reset links that expire and work once
> MFA, plus a recovery path for the user who lost their phone
> sessions that time out, and a way to kill every session for one user
> SSO for the enterprise customer who won't sign without it
> SAML, because that customer's IT team doesn't do magic links
> SCIM, so a fired employee loses access the moment IT offboards them
> roles and permissions deeper than "admin" and "everyone else"
> checks that stop user A from reading user B's data by changing one number in the URL
> tenant isolation, so one customer's bug never shows another customer's records
> an admin "log in as this user" button for support, with an audit trail on every use
> rate limits on login, so nobody can guess passwords at scale
> lockouts that stop attackers without locking out your CFO the night before the board meeting
> database migrations that run forward and roll back
> migrations that don't lock the main table at 2pm on a Tuesday
> indexes, because the query that was instant on 50 test rows times out on 5 million real ones
> connection pooling, so a traffic spike doesn't exhaust the database
> backups every night
> a restore from those backups, tested, because a backup you've never restored is a hope
> point-in-time recovery for the day someone runs a delete without a where clause
> soft deletes, so "I deleted it by accident" is a support ticket and not an incident
> validation on the server, not just in the form
> timezones stored right, so the 9am reminder doesn't fire at 4am
> the customer with an apostrophe in their last name
> emoji, accents and right-to-left text in every field
> money stored as integers, because 0.1 + 0.2 doesn't equal 0.3 in floating point
> currency, rounding and tax rules for every country you sell into
> a data model that survives your second customer asking for "one small change"
> idempotency keys, so a retried payment doesn't charge the card twice
> deduplication for the user who clicks submit four times
> pagination that still works on page 400
> exports, because sooner or later every customer wants their data in a spreadsheet
> imports that survive the CSV someone saved in 2009
> retention rules, and code that deletes what your contract says you'll delete
> secrets out of the code, out of the repo and out of the AI chat history
> rotating every key the AI pasted into a config file last month
> confirming every package the AI installed exists and is the one you meant
> dependency scanning, because the AI pulled in libraries nobody reviewed
> input sanitization everywhere a user can type
> protection against SQL injection, XSS, CSRF and the rest of the OWASP list
> file uploads that get scanned, size-limited and stored where they can't execute
> CORS rules that aren't "allow everything"
> security headers on every response
> encryption at rest and in transit
> least-privilege access for everyone, including the AI agent holding production credentials
> logs that record who did what, without recording passwords, tokens or card numbers
> a penetration test before your enterprise customer's security team runs their own
> answers to the security questionnaire every enterprise buyer sends, with evidence behind each one
> a disclosure process for the day a stranger emails you a vulnerability
> a plan for the day a laptop with production access gets stolen
> SOC 2, which means policies, evidence and an auditor, not a checkbox
> HIPAA, the moment a single patient record touches your system
> a BAA with every vendor that touches that data, including your AI model provider
> audit trails that show who viewed a record, not just who changed it
> PCI scope, and card numbers kept out of your database
> GDPR deletion requests that reach every table, backup and log
> data residency for the customer whose contract says EU only
> quarterly access reviews someone signs off on
> dev, staging and production environments that match each other
> infrastructure written as code, so the setup lives somewhere other than one person's memory
> a deploy pipeline that runs the tests before anything reaches customers
> one-click rollbacks, because Friday deploys happen
> zero-downtime deploys, because your customers don't have maintenance windows
> feature flags, so you can ship the code without shipping the feature
> autoscaling for the Monday morning spike
> a CDN, so the app loads fast in Singapore too
> DNS, SSL certificates, and renewals that don't expire on a Sunday
> background job queues, so slow work doesn't freeze the page
> retries with backoff, so one flaky API call doesn't become a lost order
> a dead-letter queue for the jobs that fail every retry
> cron jobs that don't run twice the day you add a second server
> caching, and clearing that cache when the data changes
> SPF, DKIM and DMARC, so your password resets don't land in spam
> bounce and complaint handling on every transactional email
> storage rules, so you stop paying to keep 2021's temp files
> cost alerts, so a runaway agent loop shows up the same day and not on the invoice (we learned this one for $1,382.59)
> a disaster recovery plan, written down and tested once a year
> a second region, if your contract promises uptime one region can't deliver
> structured logs you can search at 3am
> error tracking that groups the same bug instead of sending you 4,000 emails
> uptime checks from outside your own network
> alerts that page a human, tuned until they stop paging for nothing
> dashboards for latency, error rate and throughput
> tracing for one slow request across every service it touches
> an on-call rotation, and a person who picks up
> runbooks, so the engineer on call knows what "queue depth critical" means
> postmortems that change something
> a status page customers check before they email you
> unit tests written by someone who knows what the logic should do
> integration tests for every third-party API you depend on
> end-to-end tests for signup, checkout and the other flows that make you money
> load testing before the launch email goes out
> test data that looks like production without being production data
> regression tests, so fixing bug 41 doesn't bring back bug 12
> testing on the five-year-old laptop your biggest customer's ops team still uses
> accessibility compliance, because the enterprise contract requires it
> subscriptions, upgrades, downgrades and proration
> failed-payment retries and dunning emails
> invoices with the customer's PO number on them, because procurement won't pay without it
> sales tax and VAT
> refunds, credits and partial refunds
> usage metering that matches what you bill, to the cent
> annual contracts with custom terms your billing logic never planned for
> revenue reports your finance team can reconcile
> webhooks that verify signatures
> webhooks that retry, with a log of every failed delivery
> a versioned API, so you can change it without breaking your customers' integrations
> API keys customers can create and revoke
> API rate limits that protect you without blocking real integrations
> a plan for the day a third-party API changes its response format without telling you
> OAuth token refresh, because tokens expire at the worst possible moment
> a sandbox where customers can test their integration
> protection against prompt injection in every field that reaches the model
> customer and patient data kept out of prompts that leave your network
> a model spend cap per customer, so one heavy user can't run up your bill
> evals, so you find out when a model update makes your answers worse
> a fallback for the afternoon your model provider goes down
> a migration plan for the day your model gets deprecated
> prompt and output logs for debugging, minus whatever you're not allowed to keep
> a human approval step for anything the AI does that can't be undone
> pages that load on hotel wifi
> empty states, loading states and error states on every screen
> error messages a customer can act on, instead of "something went wrong"
> forms that keep what people typed when one field fails validation
> emails that render in every mail client your customers use
> notifications people can turn off
> undo
> keyboard navigation and screen reader support
> translations, with dates and numbers formatted for each locale
> a back button that does what people expect
> code a human can read
> code review on every change
> a branching strategy, so two people can work without overwriting each other
> monthly dependency upgrades, so you're never two major versions behind
> framework upgrades before the old version stops getting security patches
> deleting the dead code the AI left behind from its first three attempts
> splitting up the 2,000-line file the AI kept appending to
> architecture decisions written down, with the reasons
> a README that gets a new engineer running locally in under an hour
> documentation for whoever inherits this
> an admin panel for your ops team
> support tooling, so customer success can answer questions without pinging engineering
> a changelog customers can read
> terms and a privacy policy that match what the code does
> every account, domain and repo in the company's name, not the name of whoever built the prototype
> a bus factor higher than one
Oh, and besides keeping all of this working every day, forever… your vibe-coded app will still need people who know what they're doing:
> reading every line the AI wrote before it ships (a senior engineer)
> designing the data model before your second customer breaks it (a backend engineer)
> explaining why the AI's fix for one bug created two new ones (a senior engineer, again)
> deploys, rollbacks, servers and the cloud bill (a DevOps engineer)
> answering the page at 3am when payments stop (whoever's on call)
> patching the framework the week a vulnerability goes public (security)
> walking an auditor through how patient data moves (security and compliance)
> testing what the AI says it tested (QA)
> running a migration on a live database without losing a row (a backend engineer)
> saying no to the feature that breaks three others (a tech lead)
> turning "works on my laptop" into "works for every customer at once" (an architect)
> debugging the code when the AI that wrote it can't (a senior engineer)
> remembering why it's built this way, a year from now (someone who was there)
…wishing them the best 🫡
Vooit Pac retweeted
9 ud af 10 voldtægtsmænd i den norske Stavanger-region har indvandrerbaggrund.
Politiet kaldet det for overraskende.
Hvordan kan man efter så mange år stadig være overrasket over det? Det skriger jo til himlen.
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🚨CZECH HISTORIAN PAVEL KOSATÍK: POLISH NATIONALISM WAS SHAPED AGAINST RUSSIA, CZECH AGAINST GERMANY — AND “POLES ARE SIMPLY BRAVE, THEY ENTER BATTLES THEY KNOW THEY WILL LOSE” 🇵🇱🇨🇿
Czech historian and writer Pavel Kosatík tries to explain why Poles and Czechs never became as close as their shared Slavic roots might suggest.
According to him, Polish national identity was formed mainly in long struggle against Russia. Czech national identity was formed mainly in resistance to German political and cultural pressure. Because each nation looked toward a different historical rival, they paid less attention to each other. He adds that the strong German influence on the Czechs led some Poles in the past to call them “Slavic Germans” or “Germanic Slavs.”
At the same time Kosatík offers a clear personal observation about the Polish character: “They are simply brave. They do not hesitate to go into a battle they know they will lose.” For Poles, he says, the idea of simply laying down weapons and accepting the situation seems almost impossible.
He also recalls many shared historical threads — early contacts, the cult of Saint Adalbert claimed by both nations, the Jagiellonian dynasty that ruled in both lands, and Czech rulers who were also kings of Poland. He admits he may have oversimplified the reasons for the distance.
Do you agree with the Czech historian’s explanation — both on the different directions of nationalism and on Polish bravery?
Or do you think the deeper Slavic connection was always stronger than these differences?
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Snart 5 tapte år med regjeringen Støre.
2x renten av Sverige
Svak krone
Inflasjon
Strømpriser
Dagligvarepriser
Drivstoff
Skatter og Avgifter kraftig opp
Enorm sløsing med Skattebetalernes penger
Erstatter bedrifter med høy verdiskapning med ⬇️
nettavisen.no/okonomi/ssb-se…
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NEW: Dutch Parliament Member Michel Hoogeveen explains how the 36% unrealized capital gains tax, just passed by the House of Representatives, will work.
Here is a more detailed example:
Step 1. Starting position
You own 500 shares.
Value on Jan 1, 2028: €50,000
Value on Jan 1, 2029: €100,000
So the paper gain is:
€100,000 − €50,000 = €50,000 unrealized profit
You did not sell. But for tax purposes, that €50,000 is treated as income.
Step 2. Apply exemption
You are married, so you get a €3,600 exemption.
€50,000 − €3,600 = €46,400 taxable amount
Tax rate: 36%
€46,400 × 36% = €16,704 tax bill
That bill is due in May, even though you never sold anything.
Step 3. Market falls before you pay
Now suppose by May the shares drop in value.
New total value: €60,000
So your portfolio is no longer worth €100,000. It’s worth €60,000.
But the tax bill is still €16,704, because it was calculated based on the January 1 valuation.
Step 4. You must sell shares to pay tax
To raise €16,704, you sell part of your shares.
After paying the tax, you’re left with:
€60,000 − €16,704 = €43,296
Originally you had 500 shares.
Now you have 360 shares left.
You were forced to sell 140 shares.
140 ÷ 500 = 28% of your shares gone.
Step 5. What happened economically?
Before the correction:
Paper gain was €50,000.
After the correction:
Portfolio is worth €60,000.
Original cost basis was €50,000.
Real gain is only €10,000.
But you paid €16,704 in tax.
So instead of being up €10,000, you are now:
€43,296 − €50,000 = €6,704 below your original starting value.
You turned a €10,000 real gain into a €6,704 net loss.
And you lost 28% of your shares permanently.
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We need to talk about exchanges after what happened.
TLDR: They are a necessary evil.
I will ignore "necessary" and focus on the "evil" part in this long post.
Let's begin with people's favorite, Hyperliquid, then move to the other exchanges and also Ethena.
🔥 Evil 1: Exchange solvency above all others.
After last Friday, many HYPE fans probably woke up from their dream. Anyone with a 2x long on most altcoins got liquidated.
Open interest on the exchange was cut by more than half. Billions lost.
During the madness, Hyperliquid prioritized its solvency above all else. That comes at YOUR expense. This was made clear on Friday and users learned a new term: ADL or automated de-leveraging.
Users that had delta neutral positions or multiple positions across altcoins (that means longs and shorts open) were first auto-deleveraged on their short positions.
Those shorts were in profit preventing user liquidations.
After the ADL system closed their shorts, the exchange proceeded to liquidate users on their long positions which were no longer hedged by shorts. The longs were now naked as prices went to zero. RIP.
Basically, the exchange cut users from additional profits and then liquidated them to protect itself. All in the name of solvency.
Auto de-leveraging is a necessary evil that puts the platform above users. It's a measure of last resort to keep system solvency.
But every winner needs a loser in ADL.
Hyperliquid was the most aggressive liquidator of all DEXs at 56% or $8.2 billion wiped in open interest (see image from @Finch_in_flight).
Based on this data, Hyperliquid is the last place you want to trade on because the odds of getting liquidated there are the highest.
Anyone trading altcoins on Friday got hit. This is why celebrating statements like "Hyperliquid worked flawlessly" or that "the HLP vault made $40 million in 30 minutes" loses sight of what actually happened.
Yes, Hyperliquid worked flawlessly to liquidate their users and keep itself solvent at their expense. In the process, it cut open interest by more than half.
If ADL had failed, then the HLP vault would have been drained next. The HLP vault is mostly user money too.
Who survived?
People that traded Bitcoin or Ethereum.
That whale that shorted BTC/ETH before the crash, took its $200M profit and called it a day. That's because there was enough liquidity on such pairs. BTC does not go to zero in 20 minutes like ATOM.
Why did altcoins go to zero? How is that possible?
Because something went wrong at Binance HQ and market makers pulled out from the orderbooks.
The crash also happened exactly during a scheduled update to their margin price source for wBETH and BnSOL. @yq_acc covered this in detail.
It was a technical error at best that cascaded everywhere or intentional at worst.
Time to introduce another evil.
🔥 Evil 2: All exchanges trade against their users.
When you buy or sell on an exchange, those orders are treated as flow. Most of this flow goes to the exchange trading desk first and their partner market makers.
You're literally being farmed.
On most centralized exchanges, the orderbook you see is FAKE. It's not real. Most of those orders are a market marker or the exchange itself trading AGAINST you!
What happens when they pull out their buy orders? ATOM goes to $0.001 like on Binance and you are liquidated in seconds.
Why is this bad?
Because the exchange also knows your LIQUIDATION price. Suddenly, you realize you're playing a loser game. The odds are against you.
The exchange knows the exact price it needs to hit to nuke you, take your money, and thank you for your time. Then the price goes back up.
Worst, they throttle you while their trading desk nukes everyone. That's why the UI does not work on your end. They are busy taking your money. Afterwards, they blame the market volatility.
But it does not end there.
After centralized exchange liquidate you, they under-report their liquidations. For example, Binance or Bybit only report 1 in 20 liquidations and they blame the API limits.
Why?
So that they look good to their users, or their sheep. They can say Hyperliquid had $8 billion in liquidations and they only had $1 or $2 billion.
At least Hyperliquid can't fake their data, it's honest.
The worst part is that this crash was CEX induced and Hyperliquid fell for it.
That's because Hyperliquid sources asset prices via oracles based on centralized exchange prices, among others. Binance has the highest weight in that price oracle formula.
Since Binance led the charge to zero across most alts, Hyperliquid followed via oracle prices. This is a vector of attack against Hyperliquid which should be mitigated in the future.
We know Binance and others want HL gone. Nuking their users is a good step in that direction. Retail is collateral damage here while exchanges print money fighting each other.
One in two users on Hyperliquid got wiped on Friday, or close to that.
That's why exchanges are not your friends.
🔥 Evil 3: Insiders are always privileged at your expense.
Did you know that Ethena's open positions on Binance or any CEX are not subject to ADL?
While your shorts were closed by the system, the same shorts held by Ethena are excepted. Essentially, users are liquidated first on identical positions!
That's why Ethena's USDe peg did not go to zero, because they were excluded from the liquidation cascade.
Despite this, USDe still lost peg on Binance by 35%. Before this, Ethena boasted that users on most exchanges, including Binance, can use USDe as collateral when trading.
That USDe collateral crashes by 35%, making things worse! You needed even more collateral to cover your longs. Any leverage, including 1.1x, was liquidated once alts crashed 70% on top of 35% from USDe.
DeFi users were mostly spared from USDe related liquidations because on AAVE the USDe peg was hard-coded to the USDT price.
This saved many because only if USDT lost peg, USDe would follow. Another privilege, but this one protected users and Ethena.
🔥 Evil 4: Crypto is a highly extractive industry and exchanges are its biggest promoters.
Want to list a coin on Binance? $1 million please.
Want to market make a coin with Wintermute? 10% of the token supply please.
Want to trade on leverage? Great, looking forward to liquidating you.
The system is designed so that at every stage someone is being farmed. Retail is just the base layer.
Projects and teams are being farmed, VCs are being farmed. Big fish eats smaller fish until the top.
Know the casino you're playing in and exit early to survive.
🎯 How to protect yourself from such evil?
The easiest is to not engage. Nobody can liquidate your Bitcoin stored in a hardware wallet.
Those holding spot positions were not affected, unless they panic sold the bottom. That's just a side event from the liquidation party.
I've been in this space for over 10 years and I can say most of it is just noise. The ultimate alpha is stacking and holding Bitcoin and ignoring most of the other stuff.
Days like Friday prove it.
Who wants to invest in "blue chip" altcoins that crash to zero in minutes? It's all fugazi.
Bitcoin is one of the few real things in crypto and is the reason this industry even exists.
Focus on that.
I began being intentional about it in the last few years. Sold most alts and my portfolio is 90% Bitcoin in a hardware wallet.
This gives me peace of mind and I value that.
Took me a few crashes and bear markets to be here, so if this was your first, keep at it.
It gets better with time.
Like, share, and follow @duonine if you enjoyed this post
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It's extraordinarily revealing to read Stoltenberg's book on his time as NATO Secretary General.
The Guardian just published a long extract of it (theguardian.com/world/2025/o…)
What it reveals, among other things:
**ZERO strategic thinking and ZERO foresight**
In Stoltenberg's own words, he thought that Hillary would win in 2016 based on his "gut feeling" and was "surprised" when Trump won.
Trump's victory made him very "anxious" because "in a television interview towards the end of March, he had said 'Nato is obsolete'."
Think about the insanity of this for 2 minutes. You're the Secretary General of the world's largest military alliance, responsibly for the security of close to a billion people. A country funds 80-90% of your budget. There is an election with 2 possible outcomes - and one candidate has publicly called your alliance "obsolete." Yet you make no plans for his possible victory nor do you even try to dig deeper than media soundbites to understand how he thinks. You prefer to just assume he'll lose based on your "gut feeling" and when he wins, you're "anxious."
You're basically no different from some rando watching CNN in his living room, you add no value whatsoever, this is strategic malpractice of the highest order. As the saying goes 'to govern is to foresee': this means, very concretely, that the world's top military alliance was not actually being governed at all - and Stoltenberg admits this in his own memoir as if it were perfectly normal. Insane!
And it's crystal clear from the excerpt that Stoltenberg wasn't alone: no-one was prepared, all European leaders were purely in reactive mode.
Stoltenberg describes a NATO summit with Trump in July 2018, when he threatened to leave not only the summit but NATO itself if other members didn't immediately increase spending.
The scene, as Stoltenberg describes it, is incredibly pathetic, basically daddy announcing he might cut off your allowance and the kids scrambling to plead their case. Merkel telling Trump about German soldiers dying in Afghanistan "despite intense opposition in my country, where many asked what Afghanistan has to do with us". The Danish PM invoked his country's blood sacrifice for the US too, telling Trump with his "voice shook" that "by population, Denmark has lost more soldiers in Afghanistan than the United States."
Everyone competing to tell daddy Trump what good kids they've been, emotional pleading from a position of total dependence. There is total absence of preparedness and an actual strategic response.
When this could have been the opportunity of a lifetime. Remember, we're in 2018, years before Ukraine, and one year after Macron first started to evoke the need for "strategic autonomy" for Europe (polytechnique-insights.com/e…): Trump was essentially offering strategic autonomy on a gold platter, at a time of peace in Europe, it was perfect! Instead of seizing this as the opportunity it was, Europeans - Macron included - burned all their energy just trying to preserve the status quo and we see what that led to in the years that followed...
It's incredibly damning - and the worse part again is that Stoltenberg writes about it as if he managed a crisis well, he doesn't even understand that he's written a confession of strategic bankruptcy.
**The colonization of the minds**
What's really striking from the extract is how colonized Europe has become, starting from the US election night when Stoltenberg "arranged a party with friends and colleagues at the residence in Brussels. We rigged up a large television in the living room, and hamburgers were served."
In fact the whole extract, and probably much of the book, is about the US: it's obsessively focused on what Americans think, what Americans want, what Americans might do. Europe barely exists as a subject with its own interests, goals, or agency - it's only an object reacting to American moves. The book reads like the diary of an anxious eunuch at the imperial palace, obsessing over the emperor's moods and defining success as keeping favor.
Another part of the extract is immensely telling in that regard. Stoltenberg describes how he instructed everyone at NATO to have "self-discipline" with regards to Trump with "no eye-rolling at Trump’s tweets or public appearances; no mocking laughter over videos; no jokes about golfing or his mannerisms. Zero tolerance was crucial. Just a small group of individuals poking fun can spread through an organisation and trickle out. And should it reach Washington that Nato staff were sitting around laughing at Donald Trump, it would be ruinous."
That's his obsession: not strategic planning, not European interests, but whether anyone in Washington might hear that Europeans are insufficiently reverent toward the emperor.
This is what successful imperialism looks like: the colonized become the colonizers' most zealous enforcers. To an even greater extent than in the imperial core, incidentally: last I checked eye-rolls and jokes about Trump are allowed in the US. But it's forbidden in Brussels 🤷
**Europe is dead as a political entity**
At an even deeper level, what the book reveals isn't just that Europeans lack strategic autonomy or are mentally colonized - it's that they seem to have lost the very concept of what political agency even is, of what politics is all about.
Stoltenberg and EU leaders, as he describes himself and them, aren't Politicians with a capital "P" but merely administrators, small-time bureaucrats.
Look at how Stoltenberg frames his "success": he kept the meeting from collapsing, he got Trump to accept a face-saving formula, he managed not to annoy the boss. But there's zero engagement with the substance - what is this all FOR? What does Europe actually want to achieve? These questions don't even appear to exist in his mental universe.
This goes beyond dependency. I often compare Europe today with the late Qing empire during the century of humiliation. But for all the Qing's faults, they were actually aware of their condition, they knew they were getting humiliated and they understood that there was a greater political objective: national restoration. Politics was alive even in colonization.
But what's Europe's equivalent? Where's the awareness that something fundamental is wrong? Stoltenberg's memoir shows a man who thinks he succeeded based on completely lopsided definition of success. The patient doesn't even know he's sick. European elites today have lost even basic political consciousness.
Emmanuel Todd spoke recently (xitter.cf/RnaudBertrand/status/1…) of a "process of intellectual and moral degeneration" where "all notions of truth, of honor, of reflection" are being lost in Europe.
This book is a perfect illustration of exactly that: a man documenting his own failure to prepare or respond politically, describing scenes of abject subordination and humiliation - and presenting it all as a success story. The degeneration is complete when you describe it as a job well done...
Fascinating geopolitical analysis by Emmanuel Todd, one of the very few great French intellectuals we have left. I added English subtitles for you.
He believes - as I do - that, fundamentally the US is accepting what he calls "defeat" against not only Russia but China as well, and that Trump is effectively trying - clumsily - to manage this defeat and to adapt the US to multipolarity.
He says that the US's defeat in Ukraine isn't like Afghanistan or Iraq but that it represents what he calls "America's first major strategic defeat of its history."
In the war, he says Russia has become "the shield of all the rest of the world who can't stand US guardianship of global finance [and] the exploitation of the working populations in the rest of the world by Westerners."
As he puts it, Russia has demonstrated "that they were able to face the whole West," and with the rise of BRICS financial systems, this represents nothing less than "the end of the American imperium" - a defeat Trump must now manage.
With regards to China he says that the US have in fact "given up" trying to contain them because the balance of power now makes it impossible. He points to "Chinese naval production that will soon make the US Navy a dwarf navy", "US aircraft carriers [that] are irrelevant facing hypersonic missiles" and the fact that China managed to "put the Americans under embargo" for rare earth exports.
Arguments that undoubtedly will sound very familiar to my readers because I make the same ones in my articles (like this one: arnaudbertrand.substack.com/…), which I know Todd reads because, full disclosure, we know each others 😊
In this picture, Todd characterizes (quite rightly) Europeans as "crazy, we are dealing with crazy people" who think they can act as winners and impose conditions despite being the biggest losers of the war.
He is particularly virulent against the media and the general intellectual climate in Europe, speaking of a "process of intellectual and moral degeneration" where "all notions of truth, of honor, of reflection" are being lost.
He says that the end of the US's global hegemony doesn't mean they won't relinquish control of what they still do control, specifically Europeans 😢
I'll let you watch the whole video for more, including his excellent analogy between Trump and former French 4th Republic President Henri Queuille: quite out-of-the-box comparison but actually not bad!
This is part of a longer video (youtube.com/watch?v=Z5FHLciL…).
They actually have an English version of the video here: youtube.com/watch?v=ZJyaBbyA… dubbed with AI if you prefer to watch it in English.
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If you use a Macbook with Intel based chip, update asap!
Stay SAFU!
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The Norwegian state has it's own investment fund named Investinor. Despite not being able to deliver positive returns for a decade, managers keep getting their bonuses. Which depend on the number of female employees, sustainability reporting and its own CO2 emissions. #clownstate
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President Milei delivered a powerful speech at the United Nations General Assembly, boldly announcing that Argentina will break from its long-standing neutrality to actively defend freedom. He sharply criticized the socialist agenda driving the UN’s failed policies and urged member nations to return to the organization’s founding values, embracing the principles of freedom.
This is what true leadership looks like, and I am immensely proud to be part of his administration.
¡Viva la libertad, carajo!
(speech translated to english and with english captions)
@JMilei
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Bravo!
🇮🇹ITALIAN PM: NO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ALLOWED!
Italian PM Meloni:
“From now on, if you enter Italy illegally, you will be immediately deported!”
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NEWS: Norwegian #Bitcoin Mine Closure Causes 20% Increase in Local Energy Costs | @BitcoinPierre @4lexEllefsen @DSBatten @JMellerud fintechs.fi/norwegian-bitcoi…
