𧡠The republicans agree to raise the debt ceiling by 19$ trillion, from 31$ trillion, to be 50$ trillion, over the next 10 years.
In exchange for a budget cuts proposal, which is about cutting EVERYTHING, EXCEPT the defense budget! Actually, they want to raise that while;
β Claw Back Unspent Covid-19 Funds.
β Cancel Student Debt Relief.
β Cancel Biden's plan to raise the taxes on the billionaires.
β Cut Green Tax Incentives for renewable Energy, which will cripple US competitiveness in EV & battery Techs compared to China. thefiscaltimes.com/newsletter/202β¦
β Cut Medicaid.
β Cut Medicare.
β Cut Social Security.
β Increase Incentives to Oil & Gas Companies.
β Increase defense budget by 3% to 5% annually. That's something both parties agreed upon #bipartisanship.
That plan is expected to decrease government spending by 9%. The side effect is, such #austerity measures will reduce the GDP growth by 1% annually over the next 10 years. But that is supposed to save roughly $3 trillion, compared with current projections. reuters.com/world/us/whatsβ¦
No one talks about social unrest or labor strikes expected as a response to #austerity!
No one talks also who is going to lend America the money when the Fed, Japan, China, Switzerland, Brazil, France, Saudi Arabia are selling the US treasuries! ft.com/content/0b4ecfβ¦
βRepublican leadership has been arguing both that President Bidenβs very substantial defense budget proposal is somehow billions of dollars less than it must be to meet our defense needs, defensenews.com/congress/budgeβ¦
and that we must make massive cuts to our discretionary budget to meet their idea of what #FiscalResponsibility would look like,β said Rep. Adam Smith of Washington, the top Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee.
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𧡠China's J-20 5G stealth fighter jet production capacity surpasses America's F-22.
Today China's Air Force (PLAAF) has at least 220 J-20s, while the American (USAF) has at most 195 F-22s. While Russian Air Force has only 4 Su-57s, will receive 22 by 2024 tass.com/defense/1494379
USAF in trouble! J-20 surpasses F-22: China now has more heavy stealth fighter than the US
The Chinese Air Force has at least 220 J-20s
Regardless of whether the J-20 copied the F-22 or not, the J-20 fighter has become a global fighter. inf.news/en/military/81β¦
𧡠Gold is underrated and could be pushed up by #Dedollarization, Bridgewater's Co-CIO said.
"This geopolitical turmoil is not going away. This is a slow-moving secular support for #gold," Karen Karniol-Tambour said.
π #Inflation will also keep interest in gold elevated as well.
𧡠They Really Did It! | The U.S. Confiscates Russian Assets
The US has confiscated the assets of a Russian oligarch for transfer to Ukraine. This has set up a precedent where the next move could be to fully confiscate Russia's central bank assets.
This move will only accelerate the de-dollarization process as countries like China begin to worry about storing their assets in the West. Here's what you must know!
US transfers stolen assets from sanctions-hit Russian Capitalists to send to Ukraine's Nazi Regime
π The move comes amid a growing debate among Ukraineβs sponsors in the west about the extent to which stolen Russian assets can be used to fund the Ukraine. ft.com/content/ef3501β¦
𧡠Obviously, China is NOT going to bailout USA this time.
It's obvious, not because of the US behavior towards China, but because China is already selling the US debt. How do you expect China to buy the new debt, when it's already selling the old debt? globaltimes.cn/page/202302/12β¦
Who bailed out America in 2008?
It was mostly China. The Americans flew to Beijing begging for money "Please Beijing, help us, we are in deep shit." ππ
And Beijing kindly helped. Maybe because China was not prepared back then for the fall of US economy. cfr.org/blog/who-boughβ¦
And if you think Japan (the loyal ally & the Top US Creditor), will bailout US... Well, think again.
Japan's holdings fell 18.5% year over year in November to $1.082 trillion as the Fed's aggressive rate hikes increased hedging costs for foreign investors. spglobal.com/marketintelligβ¦
𧡠The world's first interventional brain-computer interface (BCI) experiment in non-human primates was successfully completed in Beijing on Thursday. It carries important significance in promoting brain science field research and signaled that China's BCI technology -
a sector at the forefront of a white-hot technology war between China and the US - has jumped to internationally leading levels, industry insiders said. globaltimes.cn/page/202305/12β¦
The experiment was led by Nankai University professor Duan Feng's team, and jointly completed by Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital and Shanghai HeartCare Medical Technology Co.
Russia's newest weapon is changing the course of Ukraine war
π Moscow's use of glide bombs, and their below-the-radar effectiveness, could force Kyiv to rewrite its counter-offensive plans telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202β¦
Russia's new weapon 'changing course of war' in Ukraine
π Moscow's new 'glide bomb' has a regular range of between 30 and 45 miles and can evade radar-controlled defence systems by travelling at low altitude. Russia is gaining air superiority. express.co.uk/news/world/176β¦
βAn extremely big threatβ: Russian glide bombs make their debut in the war
π A glide bomb is a stand-off weapon with flight controls which allow it to use a gliding flight path onto a target at a greater distance. wavellroom.com/2023/04/17/rusβ¦