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I've lived in Switzerland. I've incorporated there. I've walked the lakeside in Zug at 8pm wondering where everyone went.
250 millionaires a month are moving to Switzerland. Most end up in Zurich or Geneva.
For many it works. But not for all.
I asked friends living there, compared it with the data and assembled this guide. I came to the conclusion there are two approaches to Switzerland for most of us.
A practical and unfiltered Swissmaxing thread 🇨🇭
🧵
250 millionaires a month are moving to Switzerland. Most end up in Zurich or Geneva.
For many it works. But not for all.
I asked friends living there, compared it with the data and assembled this guide. I came to the conclusion there are two approaches to Switzerland for most of us.
A practical and unfiltered Swissmaxing thread 🇨🇭
🧵
Many love the stability, the family life, the capacity of working remotely while immersed in nature.
In the end we all want two things: low taxes and a place where your daughter can walk at night safely.
The baseline: Switzerland has 0% capital gains tax on private investments. Federal level. Every canton.
Everything below is about optimizing on top of that.
Then there's the lump-sum tax, which can also change the math if you're a HNWI. More on that later.
Let's dive into it:
In the end we all want two things: low taxes and a place where your daughter can walk at night safely.
The baseline: Switzerland has 0% capital gains tax on private investments. Federal level. Every canton.
Everything below is about optimizing on top of that.
Then there's the lump-sum tax, which can also change the math if you're a HNWI. More on that later.
Let's dive into it:
1/ Zug 🇨🇭
"All roads lead to Zug." Zug is a beautiful lake town at the foot of the Alps. Clean air, crystal water, mountains in every direction. The old town is charming. Lakeside restaurants where you sit and watch the sunset over the Rigi.
The train station is so clean you could eat off the floor. Everything works. Everything is safe. Kids walk to school alone.
Zug has the lowest corporate tax in Switzerland (11.85%). The administration works for you. Setting up a company, dealing with authorities, the system serves you. One of the few places on earth where that's true.
That's the beauty of canton-competition in Switzerland: cantons market themselves to attract you. It makes the whole system work.
"All roads lead to Zug." Zug is a beautiful lake town at the foot of the Alps. Clean air, crystal water, mountains in every direction. The old town is charming. Lakeside restaurants where you sit and watch the sunset over the Rigi.
The train station is so clean you could eat off the floor. Everything works. Everything is safe. Kids walk to school alone.
Zug has the lowest corporate tax in Switzerland (11.85%). The administration works for you. Setting up a company, dealing with authorities, the system serves you. One of the few places on earth where that's true.
That's the beauty of canton-competition in Switzerland: cantons market themselves to attract you. It makes the whole system work.
Did you know?
the souls in Barzakh remember their loved ones and sometimes, when you miss them, they might be missing you too?
the souls in Barzakh remember their loved ones and sometimes, when you miss them, they might be missing you too?
Sometimes, when your heart aches for someone who’s gone…
It’s not just you missing them.
It might be their soul in Barzakh remembering you.
“And behind them is a barrier (Barzakh) until the Day they are resurrected.”
— Qur’an, 23:100
It’s not just you missing them.
It might be their soul in Barzakh remembering you.
“And behind them is a barrier (Barzakh) until the Day they are resurrected.”
— Qur’an, 23:100
Barzakh isn’t emptiness, it’s the unseen realm between this life and the next.
A world of rest, remembrance, and divine peace. Souls there are conscious, aware, and capable of love.
Because love doesn’t die, it simply changes world
A world of rest, remembrance, and divine peace. Souls there are conscious, aware, and capable of love.
Because love doesn’t die, it simply changes world
Today, we released PEFT v0.19.0 and it's a big one. Not only did we add 9 new PEFT methods, the release also contains a bunch of improvements to make PEFT more useful. Check the thread for details:
The release contains new functions to convert non-LoRA weights into LoRA weights. This allows them to be used in packages like Diffusers and vLLM that only support LoRA. Find more details here: huggingface.co/docs/peft/main…
LoRA fine-tuning can introduce so called "intruder dimensions" which contribute to forgetting (). We now have a utility function to remove intruder dimension, `reduce_intruder_dimension`. Call this on a fine-tuned LoRA model to reduce forgetting.huggingface.co/papers/2410.21…
Most people don't realize the "healthy" foods they eat every day actually build plaque inside their arteries.
Here are 10 foods to reverse the damage and protect your heart (backed by science): 🧵
1. Beets
Here are 10 foods to reverse the damage and protect your heart (backed by science): 🧵
1. Beets
Beets are loaded with nitrates that your body converts into nitric oxide.
Nitric oxide relaxes and widens your blood vessels, lowering blood pressure and improving circulation.
Drink raw beet juice or roast them to protect your arteries.
Nitric oxide relaxes and widens your blood vessels, lowering blood pressure and improving circulation.
Drink raw beet juice or roast them to protect your arteries.
2. Dark chocolate (85%+ cacao)
The flavanols in dark chocolate boost nitric oxide production and improve blood vessel flexibility.
Just 1-2 squares a day can lower blood pressure and reduce arterial stiffness.
Stick to 85% cacao or higher for real benefits.
The flavanols in dark chocolate boost nitric oxide production and improve blood vessel flexibility.
Just 1-2 squares a day can lower blood pressure and reduce arterial stiffness.
Stick to 85% cacao or higher for real benefits.
Some interesting names and organizations popping up in the DOJ's sprawling report documenting how the Biden DOJ weaponized the FACE Act to target pro-life Americans and throw them in jail.
Looky here--it's Matthew Colangelo, who a few months later left DOJ to help Alvin Bragg prosecute the president. Also Sparkle Sooknanan, now a DC district court judge attempting to block Trump's policies including deportation of illegals:
Looky here--it's Matthew Colangelo, who a few months later left DOJ to help Alvin Bragg prosecute the president. Also Sparkle Sooknanan, now a DC district court judge attempting to block Trump's policies including deportation of illegals:
And of course no anti-Trump, anti-conservative operation is complete without the key involvement of Lisa Monaco. She also was heavily involved in the criminal investigations against President Trump, particularly the documents case, and the J6 prosecutions.
After SCOTUS announced the Dobbs decision, Biden's DOJ convened a conference on reproductive rights.
One of the participants was the National Women's Law Center--run by Fatima Goss Graves, the wife of Matthew Graves, who as DC US Attorney at the time was busy criminally charging at least one J6er a day.
As I reported a few years ago, Goss Graves visited the Biden White House nearly 40 times while her husband was destroying the lives of Trump supporters who participated in the events of Jan. 6:
One of the participants was the National Women's Law Center--run by Fatima Goss Graves, the wife of Matthew Graves, who as DC US Attorney at the time was busy criminally charging at least one J6er a day.
As I reported a few years ago, Goss Graves visited the Biden White House nearly 40 times while her husband was destroying the lives of Trump supporters who participated in the events of Jan. 6:
🧵 The First Saudi State’s treatment of Makkah and its inhabitants (1803-1813)
Now that we’ve seen how the Ottomans brutalised Madīnah, let’s draw a comparison by looking at Imām Saʾūd and his rule over Makkah.
[1] Imām Saʾūd’s entry into Makkah
[2] Imām Saʾūd’s letter to the Ottoman Sulṭān Salīm III
[3] The testimony of Ḥasan b. Jamāl al-Rīkī
[4] Sir Harford Jones Brydeges
[5] The testimony of British Government documents
[6] The testimony of Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
[7] The testimony of Maḥmūd Fahmī al-Muhandis
[8] The testimony of John B. Kelly
[9] The testimony of Muḥammad b. Hādī al-ʿAjīlī
[10] The testimony of ʿUthmān b. Bishr
[11] The testimony of Christian Snouck Hurgronje
[12] The testimony of ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb
Now that we’ve seen how the Ottomans brutalised Madīnah, let’s draw a comparison by looking at Imām Saʾūd and his rule over Makkah.
[1] Imām Saʾūd’s entry into Makkah
[2] Imām Saʾūd’s letter to the Ottoman Sulṭān Salīm III
[3] The testimony of Ḥasan b. Jamāl al-Rīkī
[4] Sir Harford Jones Brydeges
[5] The testimony of British Government documents
[6] The testimony of Johann Ludwig Burckhardt
[7] The testimony of Maḥmūd Fahmī al-Muhandis
[8] The testimony of John B. Kelly
[9] The testimony of Muḥammad b. Hādī al-ʿAjīlī
[10] The testimony of ʿUthmān b. Bishr
[11] The testimony of Christian Snouck Hurgronje
[12] The testimony of ʿAbdullāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Wahhāb
1) Imām Saʾūd’s entry into Makkah
Saʿūd and the followers of the Salafī daʿwah then advanced and entered into a state of iḥrām from al-Maghāsil for an ʿumrah, until Saʿūd entered Mecca the Ennobled as one entering in victory, without any fighting, on the 8th of Muḥarram 1218 AH / 30 April 1803 CE, after Sharīf Ghālib had withdrawn from it and departed to Jeddah, carrying with him his treasuries, munitions, some of his possessions, and his armed strength.
Saʿūd and the followers of the Salafī daʿwah then advanced and entered into a state of iḥrām from al-Maghāsil for an ʿumrah, until Saʿūd entered Mecca the Ennobled as one entering in victory, without any fighting, on the 8th of Muḥarram 1218 AH / 30 April 1803 CE, after Sharīf Ghālib had withdrawn from it and departed to Jeddah, carrying with him his treasuries, munitions, some of his possessions, and his armed strength.
2) Imām Saʾūd’s letter to the Ottoman Sulṭān Salīm III
On the tenth of Muḥarram 1218 AH / 3 May 1803 CE, Amīr Saʿūd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Muḥammad b. Saʿūd wrote a letter to the Ottoman Sulṭān Salīm III, in which he said:
“From Saʿūd to Salīm. To proceed: I entered Makkah on the fourth of Muḥarram 1218 AH [26 April 1803 CE], and I granted security to its people over their lives and properties after demolishing what was there of semblances of idolatry. I abolished taxes except those that were rightful, and I confirmed the qāḍī whom you had appointed in accordance with the Sharīʿah. Therefore, you must prevent the Wālī of Dimashq and the Wālī of al-Qāhirah from bringing the maḥmal, trumpets, drums, and flutes to this sacred land, for that is not part of the religion in any way… And upon you be the mercy of Allāh and His blessings.”
On the tenth of Muḥarram 1218 AH / 3 May 1803 CE, Amīr Saʿūd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Muḥammad b. Saʿūd wrote a letter to the Ottoman Sulṭān Salīm III, in which he said:
“From Saʿūd to Salīm. To proceed: I entered Makkah on the fourth of Muḥarram 1218 AH [26 April 1803 CE], and I granted security to its people over their lives and properties after demolishing what was there of semblances of idolatry. I abolished taxes except those that were rightful, and I confirmed the qāḍī whom you had appointed in accordance with the Sharīʿah. Therefore, you must prevent the Wālī of Dimashq and the Wālī of al-Qāhirah from bringing the maḥmal, trumpets, drums, and flutes to this sacred land, for that is not part of the religion in any way… And upon you be the mercy of Allāh and His blessings.”
Six facts that make the Holocaust a singular event in human history, based on Prof. Yosef Ben-Shlomo z"l, one of Israel’s outstanding philosophers.
1.Judenrein - a goal without precedent.
For the first time in history, a government made the annihilation of an entire people a supreme national objective, even though the overwhelming majority of that people did not even live within its borders.
A people that had no historical, political, or territorial conflict with Germany.
Jews constituted less than one percent of Germany’s population.
Yehuda Bauer distilled the Holocaust to its defining core: an unprecedented form of genocide, driven not by territory, power, or circumstance, but by pure ideology - global in scope and total in intent.
No other genocide in human history, not the Armenians, not the Tutsis, not Cambodia was driven by a systematic, explicit ambition to eradicate an entire people everywhere on earth.
For the first time in history, every Jew, everywhere, was marked for death solely for being born.
The difference was not in cruelty or suffering, but in the absolute nature of the aim: nothing less than complete eradication.
1.Judenrein - a goal without precedent.
For the first time in history, a government made the annihilation of an entire people a supreme national objective, even though the overwhelming majority of that people did not even live within its borders.
A people that had no historical, political, or territorial conflict with Germany.
Jews constituted less than one percent of Germany’s population.
Yehuda Bauer distilled the Holocaust to its defining core: an unprecedented form of genocide, driven not by territory, power, or circumstance, but by pure ideology - global in scope and total in intent.
No other genocide in human history, not the Armenians, not the Tutsis, not Cambodia was driven by a systematic, explicit ambition to eradicate an entire people everywhere on earth.
For the first time in history, every Jew, everywhere, was marked for death solely for being born.
The difference was not in cruelty or suffering, but in the absolute nature of the aim: nothing less than complete eradication.
2. Not a single voice of opposition.
Wannsee Conference Jan 1942: Breakfast was served at 9:00. Then 90 minutes of discussion.
At Wannsee they planned the murder of 11 million Jews, including those in Britain, Ireland, Spain, and even 200 in Albania.
No one objected.
Not the army (who needed every man for the front).
Not the bureaucrats.
Not a single word.
Wannsee Conference Jan 1942: Breakfast was served at 9:00. Then 90 minutes of discussion.
At Wannsee they planned the murder of 11 million Jews, including those in Britain, Ireland, Spain, and even 200 in Albania.
No one objected.
Not the army (who needed every man for the front).
Not the bureaucrats.
Not a single word.
3. Germany acted against its own interests
1944. The Eastern Front is collapsing. The Red Army is advancing.
Yet Germany diverts 147 trains and thousands of men to deport 437,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz in just 56 days.
The Holocaust wasn’t a side effect of the war.
It was the war.
1944. The Eastern Front is collapsing. The Red Army is advancing.
Yet Germany diverts 147 trains and thousands of men to deport 437,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz in just 56 days.
The Holocaust wasn’t a side effect of the war.
It was the war.
My latest
The Strait of Hormuz: Iran's Miscalculation, Washington's Opportunity
The Arab World Was Always Keeping Score
What the IRGC failed to account for was the weight of the political debt it had accumulated across the Arab world. For decades, Tehran positioned the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the sacred center of Arab political life, consecrating every Iranian intervention and branding every Arab government that resisted as a traitor to Islam. The goal was to hijack Arab grievances and convert them into cover for the Islamic Republic’s conquest.
The Revolutionary Guard was the instrument of that conquest, deployed across the region to construct parallel states, capture financial systems, and install political figures whose survival depended entirely on Iranian patronage.
In Iraq, 67 armed factions tied to the Popular Mobilization Forces, collectively claiming some 230,000 personnel, consumed roughly $3.5 billion annually from the national treasury while Iraqi prime ministers governed with Tehran’s permission rather than a popular mandate.
In Syria, Iran poured billions into the Bashar al-Assad regime and transformed a once-sovereign Arab state into a forward operating base for revolutionary power projection. In 2013, Mehdi Taeb, the head of the Iranian regime’s Ammar Base think tank, called Syria “Iran’s 35th province.”
Farther south, Houthi commanders answering directly to the IRGC held the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, through which 10 percent of global seaborne trade passes, perpetually hostage.
Every theater followed the same logic: subordinate Arab sovereignty to the Islamic Republic’s revolutionary ambition, then present the occupation as resistance.
Arab populations ground down under this revolutionary machinery had long recognized the enterprise for what it was. As far back as 2017, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman described Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, as “the new Hitler of the Middle East.” During Operation Epic Fury, Faiq al-Sheikh Ali, a former member of the Iraqi parliament, stated that “I am Arab. I see humiliation from the Iranians. I do not see any humiliation from any Israeli.” The Arab world had been keeping score for years, and the IRGC had given it no shortage of reasons to reach that judgment.
This is why the second objective, fracturing Gulf alignment, failed. To make matters worse for Tehran, the regime had spent the weeks before the talks in Islamabad striking the very states on whose neutrality the strategy required, hitting desalination plants and oil facilities across the Gulf and curdling any residual sympathy in those countries into open hostility. Sultan Al Jaber, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) minister of industry and advanced technology, stated that the strait has never been under Iranian control in any manner that would permit Tehran to legally close or restrict international shipping. The Gulf States reinforced the American posture directly, and the political dividend Tehran had assumed would follow from economic disruption never materialized.
What the IRGC failed to account for was the weight of the political debt it had accumulated across the Arab world. For decades, Tehran positioned the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the sacred center of Arab political life, consecrating every Iranian intervention and branding every Arab government that resisted as a traitor to Islam. The goal was to hijack Arab grievances and convert them into cover for the Islamic Republic’s conquest. The Revolutionary Guard was the instrument of that conquest, deployed across the region to construct parallel states, capture financial systems, and install political figures whose survival depended entirely on Iranian patronage.
In Iraq, 67 armed factions tied to the Popular Mobilization Forces, collectively claiming some 230,000 personnel, consumed roughly $3.5 billion annually from the national treasury while Iraqi prime ministers governed with Tehran’s permission rather than a popular mandate.
In Syria, Iran poured billions into the Bashar al-Assad regime and transformed a once-sovereign Arab state into a forward operating base for revolutionary power projection. In 2013, Mehdi Taeb, the head of the Iranian regime’s Ammar Base think tank, called Syria “Iran’s 35th province.”
Farther south, Houthi commanders answering directly to the IRGC held the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, through which 10 percent of global seaborne trade passes, perpetually hostage. Every theater followed the same logic: subordinate Arab sovereignty to the Islamic Republic’s revolutionary ambition, then present the occupation as resistance.
Arab populations ground down under this revolutionary machinery had long recognized the enterprise for what it was. As far back as 2017, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman described Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, as “the new Hitler of the Middle East.” During Operation Epic Fury, Faiq al-Sheikh Ali, a former member of the Iraqi parliament, stated that “I am Arab. I see humiliation from the Iranians. I do not see any humiliation from any Israeli.”
The Arab world had been keeping score for years, and the IRGC had given it no shortage of reasons to reach that judgment. This is why the second objective, fracturing Gulf alignment, failed. To make matters worse for Tehran, the regime had spent the weeks before the talks in Islamabad striking the very states on whose neutrality the strategy required, hitting desalination plants and oil facilities across the Gulf and curdling any residual sympathy in those countries into open hostility. Sultan Al Jaber, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) minister of industry and advanced technology, stated that the strait has never been under Iranian control in any manner that would permit Tehran to legally close or restrict international shipping. The Gulf States reinforced the American posture directly, and the political dividend Tehran had assumed would follow from economic disruption never materialized.
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The Strait of Hormuz: Iran's Miscalculation, Washington's Opportunity
The Arab World Was Always Keeping Score
What the IRGC failed to account for was the weight of the political debt it had accumulated across the Arab world. For decades, Tehran positioned the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the sacred center of Arab political life, consecrating every Iranian intervention and branding every Arab government that resisted as a traitor to Islam. The goal was to hijack Arab grievances and convert them into cover for the Islamic Republic’s conquest.
The Revolutionary Guard was the instrument of that conquest, deployed across the region to construct parallel states, capture financial systems, and install political figures whose survival depended entirely on Iranian patronage.
In Iraq, 67 armed factions tied to the Popular Mobilization Forces, collectively claiming some 230,000 personnel, consumed roughly $3.5 billion annually from the national treasury while Iraqi prime ministers governed with Tehran’s permission rather than a popular mandate.
In Syria, Iran poured billions into the Bashar al-Assad regime and transformed a once-sovereign Arab state into a forward operating base for revolutionary power projection. In 2013, Mehdi Taeb, the head of the Iranian regime’s Ammar Base think tank, called Syria “Iran’s 35th province.”
Farther south, Houthi commanders answering directly to the IRGC held the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, through which 10 percent of global seaborne trade passes, perpetually hostage.
Every theater followed the same logic: subordinate Arab sovereignty to the Islamic Republic’s revolutionary ambition, then present the occupation as resistance.
Arab populations ground down under this revolutionary machinery had long recognized the enterprise for what it was. As far back as 2017, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman described Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, as “the new Hitler of the Middle East.” During Operation Epic Fury, Faiq al-Sheikh Ali, a former member of the Iraqi parliament, stated that “I am Arab. I see humiliation from the Iranians. I do not see any humiliation from any Israeli.” The Arab world had been keeping score for years, and the IRGC had given it no shortage of reasons to reach that judgment.
This is why the second objective, fracturing Gulf alignment, failed. To make matters worse for Tehran, the regime had spent the weeks before the talks in Islamabad striking the very states on whose neutrality the strategy required, hitting desalination plants and oil facilities across the Gulf and curdling any residual sympathy in those countries into open hostility. Sultan Al Jaber, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) minister of industry and advanced technology, stated that the strait has never been under Iranian control in any manner that would permit Tehran to legally close or restrict international shipping. The Gulf States reinforced the American posture directly, and the political dividend Tehran had assumed would follow from economic disruption never materialized.
What the IRGC failed to account for was the weight of the political debt it had accumulated across the Arab world. For decades, Tehran positioned the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as the sacred center of Arab political life, consecrating every Iranian intervention and branding every Arab government that resisted as a traitor to Islam. The goal was to hijack Arab grievances and convert them into cover for the Islamic Republic’s conquest. The Revolutionary Guard was the instrument of that conquest, deployed across the region to construct parallel states, capture financial systems, and install political figures whose survival depended entirely on Iranian patronage.
In Iraq, 67 armed factions tied to the Popular Mobilization Forces, collectively claiming some 230,000 personnel, consumed roughly $3.5 billion annually from the national treasury while Iraqi prime ministers governed with Tehran’s permission rather than a popular mandate.
In Syria, Iran poured billions into the Bashar al-Assad regime and transformed a once-sovereign Arab state into a forward operating base for revolutionary power projection. In 2013, Mehdi Taeb, the head of the Iranian regime’s Ammar Base think tank, called Syria “Iran’s 35th province.”
Farther south, Houthi commanders answering directly to the IRGC held the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, through which 10 percent of global seaborne trade passes, perpetually hostage. Every theater followed the same logic: subordinate Arab sovereignty to the Islamic Republic’s revolutionary ambition, then present the occupation as resistance.
Arab populations ground down under this revolutionary machinery had long recognized the enterprise for what it was. As far back as 2017, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman described Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, as “the new Hitler of the Middle East.” During Operation Epic Fury, Faiq al-Sheikh Ali, a former member of the Iraqi parliament, stated that “I am Arab. I see humiliation from the Iranians. I do not see any humiliation from any Israeli.”
The Arab world had been keeping score for years, and the IRGC had given it no shortage of reasons to reach that judgment. This is why the second objective, fracturing Gulf alignment, failed. To make matters worse for Tehran, the regime had spent the weeks before the talks in Islamabad striking the very states on whose neutrality the strategy required, hitting desalination plants and oil facilities across the Gulf and curdling any residual sympathy in those countries into open hostility. Sultan Al Jaber, the United Arab Emirates’ (UAE) minister of industry and advanced technology, stated that the strait has never been under Iranian control in any manner that would permit Tehran to legally close or restrict international shipping. The Gulf States reinforced the American posture directly, and the political dividend Tehran had assumed would follow from economic disruption never materialized.
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But in the IRGC’s misery there is Washington’s opportunity, and opportunities of this magnitude do not repeat themselves. Properly leveraged, Trump’s blockade could unlock a broader regional consolidation.
The first opportunity lies in expanding the Abraham Accords into a robust regional architecture. The Accords signed in 2020 between Israel, the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco have already delivered measurable cooperation in trade, technology, and security. During Operation Epic Fury, Gulf States coordinated with U.S. Central Command at a level of intimacy unimaginable a decade ago, sharing intelligence, opening airspace, and integrating into a defense posture that functioned as a coherent whole. Bringing additional Gulf partners into a structured framework would convert that wartime alignment into a durable order, with the India-Middle East-Europe corridor providing the economic spine around which the broader architecture could take shape.
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The first opportunity lies in expanding the Abraham Accords into a robust regional architecture. The Accords signed in 2020 between Israel, the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco have already delivered measurable cooperation in trade, technology, and security. During Operation Epic Fury, Gulf States coordinated with U.S. Central Command at a level of intimacy unimaginable a decade ago, sharing intelligence, opening airspace, and integrating into a defense posture that functioned as a coherent whole. Bringing additional Gulf partners into a structured framework would convert that wartime alignment into a durable order, with the India-Middle East-Europe corridor providing the economic spine around which the broader architecture could take shape.
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The second opportunity is more consequential over time. For two decades, the United States attempted to suppress Iranian-backed networks through direct military engagement in states too weak or too captured to act as genuine partners, a model that proved strategically exhausting and produced no durable result.
Strong sovereign states are the only counterterrorism infrastructure capable of producing lasting outcomes, and Washington now has a genuine opportunity to help build them through security cooperation and diplomatic engagement, freeing up American strategic bandwidth for the Indo-Pacific.
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Strong sovereign states are the only counterterrorism infrastructure capable of producing lasting outcomes, and Washington now has a genuine opportunity to help build them through security cooperation and diplomatic engagement, freeing up American strategic bandwidth for the Indo-Pacific.
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1. Today, together with Kovyla Publishing, we are opening the pre-order for my book “Scars and Seeds: Reckonings from Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine.”
This is not a memoir, nor an attempt to tell my personal story. I decided to write this book for a different reason.
This is not a memoir, nor an attempt to tell my personal story. I decided to write this book for a different reason.
2. Over these years of war, we have paid a very high price-in people, decisions, mistakes,and experience. At the same time, we have gained something that cannot be simulated in any training center:an understanding of modern war as it truly is-harsh, fast, and constantly evolving.
3. My main motivation is to ensure that this experience does not remain ours alone.
I want our partners to understand this war more deeply. Not through news or reports, but through how things actually unfold.
I want our partners to understand this war more deeply. Not through news or reports, but through how things actually unfold.
Not all food is real food.
Many everyday staples are engineered with chemicals and fillers.
Here are 5 of the worst ultra-processed factory foods, and why they’re damaging your health:
1/ Ketchup 🧵
Many everyday staples are engineered with chemicals and fillers.
Here are 5 of the worst ultra-processed factory foods, and why they’re damaging your health:
1/ Ketchup 🧵
Most commercial ketchup is made from highly processed tomato paste, refined sugar or corn syrup, and preservatives.
This combination delivers concentrated sugar with minimal nutrients and can contribute to insulin spikes, inflammation, and weight gain.
This combination delivers concentrated sugar with minimal nutrients and can contribute to insulin spikes, inflammation, and weight gain.
2/ Flavored Yogurt
Many flavored yogurts contain added sugar, artificial flavors, and stabilizers, even when labeled as healthy.
These additives reduce nutritional value, raise blood sugar, and can disrupt gut balance, limiting the benefits of real yogurt.
Many flavored yogurts contain added sugar, artificial flavors, and stabilizers, even when labeled as healthy.
These additives reduce nutritional value, raise blood sugar, and can disrupt gut balance, limiting the benefits of real yogurt.
How to keep your family happy:
1. You need to stop spending.
1. You need to stop spending.
1. You need to stop spending
Most family stress is money stress wearing different masks. When spending is uncontrolled, every small issue turns into a fight because everyone feels unsafe.
Start with a simple rule, no random buys for 30 days unless it is food, bills, or health
Most family stress is money stress wearing different masks. When spending is uncontrolled, every small issue turns into a fight because everyone feels unsafe.
Start with a simple rule, no random buys for 30 days unless it is food, bills, or health
2. Build a clear family budget
A budget is not restriction, it is a plan that removes fear. Write down income, fixed costs, debt, savings, and a small fun amount that is allowed.
Keep it simple so it is easy to follow every month. When money has a system, arguments reduce
A budget is not restriction, it is a plan that removes fear. Write down income, fixed costs, debt, savings, and a small fun amount that is allowed.
Keep it simple so it is easy to follow every month. When money has a system, arguments reduce
