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Mar 31 9 tweets 2 min read
This is a nice graphic summary of what I've been writing about for years, but the average American is still sleepwalking - and the average European or Canadian is worse.

Batteries, drones, phones, laptops, the essentials of modern life - we don't make them anymore.
1/ What we take for granted as being our "rights" as privileged citizens of the West, is so far beyond the capabilities of the average person, it's like being a WWII cargo cult Pacific islander watching planes fly far overhead. It's the worst with urban service sector
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Mar 29 9 tweets 2 min read
If something has the right name - does that it mean it performs the task? This is the manipulation at the heart of the trans-Atlantic Leftist narrative for things such as DEI - but it can't handle warfare.

Three links to European warships that can't fight wars follow:
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The Danes sent the HDMS Iver Huitfeldt to the Red Sea in January of 2024 👇, and it promptly experienced critical malfunctions, leaving it unable to defend itself, let alone other ships.
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Mar 28 12 tweets 3 min read
The relationship between geopolitics, international economics & personal standards of living isn't understood by the average person - particularly Europeans & Canadians

Your current standard of living is not your natural standard of living. Instead, you've been very well paid
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by the Global American Empire, to be an obedient part of that empire.

These payments take numerous forms. For your media & elites, they have been receiving vast sums directly via USAID & other sources, along with the much larger indirect income from the financialization
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Mar 25 7 tweets 2 min read
The times are changing faster than in any point since ~1991.

Trend lines that have been continuing for decades are breaking fast, both domestically & internationally.

Most people's opinions on most things have already formed, and cannot handle genuine major change.
1/ 1991 was crucial because the Soviet Union fell that year, the patterns that governed the world since 1945 fell apart, and a vast number of futures opened.

Instead of an incredible future, we got the rise of parasites & financialized whores as the hegemony of the US
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Mar 21 9 tweets 2 min read
Sweden doesn't make its own jet fighters. Ukraine doesn't make its own drones.

Ukraine uses cheap but sophisticated Chinese electronics - high tech - and builds low tech air frames around them. Sweden use highly sophisticated parts - such as jet engines from the US - as well
1/ as other high tech components from the US and numerous other nations, and combines them using domestically produced lower tech products, to make the Gripen.

Below is a thread 👇I did about nine months ago, pointing out that much of what is written
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Mar 20 5 tweets 2 min read
Denmark is a nation of a little less than 6 million people. Smaller than Indiana. The idea of Denmark making its own F35s is ludicrous.

So, it will buy the technology & sophisticated manufacturing from other European nations. Except, wait, the advanced European fighters all
1/ depend on US technology & manufacturing for the most sophisticated parts.

Europe has to decide how it wants to play this. We can be reasonable adults, and in that case, things can be reasonably worked out.

Instead, I see a lot of cry-babies, wanting to bitch slap
Uncle Sam
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Mar 19 5 tweets 2 min read
Watching this, it is very clear that Zelensky & the EU continue to operate in bad faith.

They do not accept even Crimea as being Russian, let alone the Donbass & other occupied territories. They have fantasyland demands in other words.

Trump can negotiate nothing,
1/ with "allies" like this. The flip side of the treachery is Starmer saying that he needs a US commitment for direct military involvement for the troops he proposes sending to Ukraine.

1 + 1 = 2, they are seeking US military involvement to throw the Russians out of Ukraine.
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Mar 18 4 tweets 1 min read
This is not about Trump at all.

This is about the people of America vs evil, tyrannical judicial dictatorship. Boasberg & others are blatantly and unconstitutionally attempting to overthrow Democracy & destroy American

This being done less than 60 days after the inauguration
1/ shows that there is no attempt whatsoever at reconciliation - the weak lickspittles of the "RW" not withstanding.

This is pure polarization & raw political power. Alrighty then, the appropriate response is not to try to be reasonable with a party violating all previous
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Mar 18 7 tweets 2 min read
The messaging is all wrong on Boasberg & the other judges attempting judicial revolution.

"He is making up law trying to destroy America with the Great Replacement."

The American public understands that one sentence. This needs to be about outrage regarding despicable
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actions designed to destroy our nation, rather than the final points of Constitutional Law.

The despicable judges need to be hated by the public - along with their supporters - for one of the greatest acts of treachery in American history.

The Biden Administration
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Mar 12 4 tweets 1 min read
Trump won on the basis of "America First", which is a very clear repudiation of globalism & empire, and an endorsement of nationalism

What we voted for was running American trade, economic & military basis on the basis of prioritizing American interests over foreign interests
1/ Tariffs are widely popular in the Heartland, particularly in the Rust Belt, as it is (correctly) believed that offshoring American jobs in the service of financialization & empire was economically devastating to us.

We understand that will hurt many foreign economies.
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Mar 8 12 tweets 3 min read
Appreciate the support, but the "Right" does not deserve to lose, as the RW is a vast coalition. It includes the best people in the nation.

The RW also includes many toxic, elitist users & losers, grifters & controlled opps, who want to drag the whole RW down with them.
1/ What has created this vast coalition is the opposition to the Evil that has captured most of the West. In the US, more than any other major nation, enough of us have banded together the status quo - at least for now.

For any semblance of freedom to be maintained, we must
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Mar 7 7 tweets 2 min read
The venom I'm getting on this poast is amazing. Time to delete or double down... 😉

First, my wife was 115 lbs. when we got married. 20+ years & 2 children later, she's still beautiful.

The issue is RW men calling women stupid - and then being innumerate idiots themselves.
1/ Many men here bitch & moan about female hypergamy. All the women want the 8-10s only, and refuse average looking guys. The chart below is fascinating. The average female sees the average man as being not a 5, but a 2.5.
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Mar 7 6 tweets 2 min read
The problem is that the Europe of 30-50 years ago, or even 10 years ago, is long gone.

1. As a starting point, there would need to be a reversal of Green Energy policies, and a return to fossil fuels in bulk (from where?)

2. The Social Welfare state of Europe is incompatible
1/ with massive military expenditures, there isn't room for both without very large increases in national debts.

3. The population is aging fast, further increasing social costs over the coming years, thereby further reducing money for military spending.
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Mar 5 7 tweets 2 min read
This is funny. So, you set up the rules where you take a free shot, but the US can't respond because we're a team?

Is a military being able to fight a war, or scoring points during a training exercise?

This matters because the UK is trying to get the US into a war in Ukraine
1/ The purpose of a military is not to win exercises but to win wars. The purpose of the military of a wannabe Great Power is to be able to successfully wage war against another Great Power.

By that definition, the current UK military is a pathetic joke.
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Mar 4 10 tweets 2 min read
Ontario seems to be choosing a long-term economic depression with no exit. But, Ford thinks he is picking up short term political benefit, his voters are anti-American, and oh well, choices made.

Look what Ford is doing:
1) Punish America
2) Harm Red States

In contrast, Trump
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is not actually trying to deliberately harm Canada. Tariffs are domestic for the US, and for as long as nations have existed, they have controlled trade from other nations. Trump is using tariffs to try to boost US industries. Free trade is the historical exception, and it has
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Mar 3 15 tweets 3 min read
Six weeks after Trump's inauguration, and the new shape of the world is becoming clear. On both a international & domestic basis we have a fracturing going on, a deepening of polarization within the West.

A vast Poisonous Viper is revealing itself, the transnational elites
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of the United States, Europe & Canada. They have been destroying traditional culture and populations in the US & Europe for many years, and they are absolutely not accepting defeat in terms of the 2024 US elections.

The US Left is not moving to the center, it continues
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Mar 2 4 tweets 1 min read
The other good response is who are "we"?

Libs have a lot of trouble with this, as with other specifics. Where do the weapons come from? Who -very specifically - does the fighting & dies?

The "game pieces" were already refusing to play even before the 24 elections.
1/ Recruiting has been way off. The military families that provide so many of the soldiers are telling their sons not to join.

When the Left was talking about a draft last year, the RW on Twitter was talking about going to Civil War instead.
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Mar 2 10 tweets 2 min read
What If The Game Pieces Are Self-Aware?

There is a great deal of commentary about what the US needs to do militarily in Europe & Asia. Most people act as if they are playing a strategic game, moving pieces on a map.

The specific pieces are the lower & middle class men
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of the American Heartland. This is disproportionately where the American warrior class comes from, the small & medium-sized towns of the South & Midwest.

The "West", including Japan & so forth, consists of about a billion people, sometimes called the Golden Billion.
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Mar 2 5 tweets 1 min read
Pay very close attention to what is happening here. We know what Starmer is seeking, as he has stated, and it is the same thing that Trump rejected when Zelensky demanded it.

Starmer only wants to send British troops if he can get a security agreement with the US,
1/ where if fighting occurs with Russia, the US military will intervene to save the British & French troops.

No. Trump has quite rightly repeatedly rejected this, and the American people agree. We're not sending my son & many others to die in Ukraine, no possible way.
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Mar 2 5 tweets 2 min read
Europe is more than the governments, it is also the people & the companies. The governments have power over the corporations.

What I suggested was withdrawing a tad more than 1% of American forces in Europe, to send a very concrete message, instead of diplomatic blathering.
1/ The Europeans as well as the American Left live in a fantasy world, where the Narrative & controlling words are everything. They believe if they control what people think, then they control reality - and this is true to a limited extent.
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Mar 2 6 tweets 2 min read
This 1-2 QT from Vance is super-important. This has been routine on Twitter for 3+ years, but is new for the mainstream.

Yglesias presents the pure dumbshittery of the Libtards / neocons / mainstream, where deindustrialization never happened, and the WWII industrial might
1/ of America just flips on like a switch. This is the common world view of sophisticated urban "elites", where food & goods just arrive in boxes when needed, no further knowledge is needed.

In point of fact, as Vance knows quite well, we don't have the defense manufacturing
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