Winners
Chaos Enjoyers - Columbia and UCLA providing exciting evenings to view on streams.
Legacy Media - The Trump trial and election let them put Trump in focus as the boogeyman. It gets eyeballs.
Houthis - Whatever happened with America’s Red Sea maritime police action?
Losers
MTG - She is setting up a vote to remove the Speaker and will either look foolish if the Democrats sneak Jeffries in or go forward with their pledge to save the Speaker.
US Military Bases - Some sad withdrawals in Africa.
Peace Advocates - There is no slow down anywhere. This is with the pressure of an American election making nearly all of DC pump the brakes.
Links
Turkey inking deals. They fall into this quasi-sovereign bucket within the global empire.
Italians investing in... high tech chips?
It does seem like the big players are assembling pieces for a big game of chess.
Great commentary on US meddling in Ukraine since the mid-'10s.
BRILLIANT!
Cosplay Catholics!
I’m an angry Lapsed Catholic myself, Traditionalist of course.
Ah, no I shan’t return.
China and oil (Chess game).
2027 is the USMC/DOD date, not China’s. No matter. We need Taiwan less than we need Ukraine, we only need it for the same reasons.
It’s an enormous mistake to underestimate Anglo-American strategic skills , or our matchless position. We for example don’t fall into agrarian penury without Taiwan- China if it doesn’t take TSMC whole DOES - offshoring has all the aspects of Trap. As does H1B.
If you’re looking at the imaginary wavy lines you think are “positions” that is to say money, consider yourself in a different, and lesser trap, called “The Market.”