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Follow the argument to its conclusion. Question everything. Be bold. Think deeper. Am I insane or is the world around me?
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Jul 20, 2022 25 tweets 8 min read
Ok here we go. "Real economy" time.

The Russia Ukraine war and the resulting sanctions has illuminated something very important about the "global economy"

The "on paper" stats showing economic size and prowess are bunk.

1/20 Western commentators and intralexuals mocked Russia for "having an economy smaller than Texas, same size as Italy" assuming that historic sanctions would cripple Russia in weeks etc...

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May 17, 2021 8 tweets 3 min read
The underlying context here is that a "chad" Russian/Chinese army is going to crush the "soyed" out american/western armies. I'm not so sure about that, and history hints otherwise.

Thread 1/8 As the west transforms in the midst of its biolenininst revolution, its armed forces will increasingly also transform to better reflect the existing population and its values. Yes that's true.
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Jan 2, 2018 25 tweets 11 min read
1/ Im seeing a lot of bad takes and empty counter signalling on the alt-media twitter side regarding the #IranProtests
This thread will clarify the situation within a framework that we have successfully used to analyze western politics (deep state, overton window, demographics) 2/ To understand the #IranProtests you have to understand the roots of the Iranian Regime. The ‘79 revolution was a broad popular uprising by many factions against royal rule that was hijacked by Shia clerics who successfully sidelined socialists,liberals and took full power