Thread by @honzacern1

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This Executive Order isn’t about weapons.

It’s about physical scarcity. 🪙

1/

The America First Arms Transfer Strategy isn’t a foreign-policy memo.

It’s an industrial command.

The key phrase isn’t “arms.”
It’s production capacity.

And capacity runs on physical inputs, not paper.

2/
The order explicitly says the U.S. will use foreign money to expand domestic production.

That means:

– new factories
– new lines
– new inventories

You can’t finance that with ETFs.
You need metal.

3/
Another key word: reindustrialization.

Reindustrialization means:

❌ no just-in-time
❌ no empty shelves
✅ stockpiles
✅ redundancy
✅ physical availability

That’s the opposite of COMEX logic.

4/
The order repeatedly stresses supply-chain resilience and priority components.

Translation:
Some inputs will be treated as non-optional.

If you’re short physical metal into that demand,
price stops matter less than availability.

5/
Defense manufacturing is price-insensitive demand.

When the buyer is the state:

– there is no “wait for the dip”
– there is no substitution
– production does not stop

This is the worst environment imaginable for paper shorts.

6/
Notice what’s missing from the strategy.

There is no talk of:

– futures markets
– hedging efficiency
– price discovery

Because none of that matters when delivery is strategic.

Only who has the metal matters.

7/
This isn’t about war tomorrow.
It’s about preparing for a long rivalry,
where material security beats financial engineering.

That’s why this order targets:

– capacity
– resilience
– physical supply

8/
Paper silver works…
until it doesn’t.

Industrial policy doesn’t settle in cash.
It settles in components.

And components don’t come from screens.

9/
If you’re holding physical silver,
you’re not speculating on price.

You’re positioning for availability.

And in this environment, availability is power.

10/
This is why:

– margins rise
– delivery stress grows
– paper volatility increases

The system senses what’s coming.
You can margin paper.

You can’t margin-call scarcity.
🪙🔥

#Silver
#PhysicalOverPaper

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