A European-led NATO would fracture and invite Russian influence. He argues from World War I, World War II and the major European wars from the 1400s to the late 1800s that European members would bicker and resent whoever led, so one dominant leader is better for keeping Russia at bay.
He doubts Washington really wants Europe leading NATO by 2027. He reads the US push as aimed at shifting intelligence, equipment and military infrastructure onto Europe, and points out that the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, which he calls NATO's most powerful military seat, remains an American post.
His single standard for a president is staying awake on camera. He calls Biden "Sleepy Joe" an accurate label and gives the current president the nickname "Dozy Donald," saying he'll tolerate incoherent speech but not visible dozing.
Age itself isn't the disqualifier, in his view — Putin is also in his 70s and "looks great on camera." He argues Putin's judgment has still slipped regardless, pointing to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine and what he calls a "joke" of a military machine as evidence.
He proposes a consumer spending strike, not street protests, as the way to force both parties toward better candidates. He argues dramatically cutting consumption is the only leverage strong enough to "terrify the system" into offering different options.
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A president should at minimum stay awake on camera. He says the "sleepy Joe" charge against Biden was accurate and that Trump, whom he has privately been calling "Dozy Donald", is now doing the same; he argues the presidency's stress demands long hours and hard decisions he doubts someone in their 70s can manage.
He extends the age argument to Putin's decision-making. In his reading Putin, also in his 70s, looks fine on camera but has been deciding badly, citing the 2022 invasion of Ukraine and a military he calls "a joke".
Cutting consumption is the protest that would force better candidates. He rejects street marches and argues only a dramatic drop in spending would frighten the system into giving Democrats and Republicans candidates voters want.
Why is China 🇨🇳 so nervous about Ukraine 🇺🇦 ? #china #taiwan #ukraine #drones #warfare
China's deeper worry is Ukraine's drone revolution, not just Russia's drain. Crediting a journalist for the point, he grants that the war weakens China's key ally and slows the global economy and China's trade, but argues the bigger issue is a small, outresourced country withstanding a much larger military through drone innovation.
Ukraine has scaled drone production at unprecedented speed. Citing a policy-institute article, he says monthly deployments reached tens of thousands within a few years, backed by a civilian-military innovation ecosystem, with design-to-deployment cycles cut from months to weeks using real-time battlefield feedback.
Ukraine's lessons are flowing directly to NATO. He says what Ukraine learns goes to NATO intelligence and Western weapons developers working out how to scale it in case they must fight Russia.
NATO has floated striking Russia over repeated airspace violations. He reports this alongside Putin's reply that Russia is not seeking trouble but is "ready" for war, and concedes Russia is more battle-hardened after 3 years of full-scale war and self-sufficient in steel, food and energy, so hard to blockade.
Even without the US, NATO outmatches Russia on paper. From his own table: active personnel of 2.10 million against Russia's 1.32 million, with NATO's troops far less depleted; about 2,000 more modern fighters against Russia's roughly 1,000; and more modern, layered air defense.
Bombers are Russia's one clear advantage, which he discounts. Russia has dozens of bombers to European NATO's few, since the US is the main bomber producer, but he argues they would have to get past those 2,000 fighters and NATO's air defenses.
Singapore shows capitalism can deliver broadly shared prosperity. He says an island with no natural resources became one of the world's wealthiest places through engineering and investment, with top-tier safety, schools and infrastructure ahead of China and the US, and calls it among the most capitalist places, not socialist, just with "more common sense".
He blames America's lag on corrupt leadership serving the wealthy. In his view the United States has "no excuse" for trailing Singapore, attributing the gap to politicians who keep feeding the rich rather than distributing wealth.
France's military is far stronger than its leaders appear. He says only the United States, China and possibly the United Kingdom could beat France in an all-out war, and that Macron and the previous five to eight French leaders look weak without reflecting the military's strength.
The 1940 collapse was a leadership failure, not a military one. He attributes the quick surrender to Germany to choosing Pétain, and argues France has maintained expeditionary forces for centuries before and since, fighting constantly abroad, mostly in Africa, with special forces and the Foreign Legion known for brutality he compares to Russia's.
America's apparent incompetence coexists with its interests advancing. He calls envoy Steve Witkoff a "buffoon" who he says was coaching a Russian diplomat on persuading Trump to accept a Russian-pushed peace deal, yet asks whether US interests have suffered, implying the bumbling image may be convenient.
Ukraine's energy strikes are pushing Russia toward a debt crisis. He says deep strikes on Russian energy infrastructure are crippling the economy, citing about 10 trillion rubles of bad loans that he expects will leave soldiers' promised sign-on bonuses unpaid.
Blocking the tanker cuts off Venezuela's ability to export oil. He reports a US destroyer turned back a Russian tanker three times, apparently in international waters, and says its cargo was naphtha, which Venezuela needs to dilute its heavy, sour crude into exportable oil.
He reads Russia as habitually backing down from US tests. Against concern that this is a major escalation, he argues the US has a long record of chasing off Russian vessels because Russia does not follow through on its bluffs.
X's location feature exposed foreign-run American political influencer accounts. He says the new "about this account" feature, showing location and join date, revealed accounts posing as American voices run from Russia, Bangladesh, Serbia, Nigeria and India, and hints at confusion over where a Homeland Security account is based.
This matters because he thinks most Americans don't fact-check. He calls most Americans gullible, arguing that is why foreign-run accounts pushing anti-American propaganda, some from officially friendly countries, have been effective.
Russian oil prices are the best gauge of the war. He says new sanctions pushed them to their lowest since 2023, $23 below Brent at about $61.79, putting real sales near $38 a barrel against an official Urals figure of $55, as Russia discounts to China and India while Saudi Arabia also discounts.
Russia's central bank is sitting on a balance-sheet time bomb. He puts it at 10 trillion rubles, about $120 billion, expects Russia eventually unable to pay soldiers and citizens, and reports the central bank selling physical gold reserves to mitigate the damage.
The Netherlands seized Nexperia from its Chinese owner. It used a 1952 Cold War-era law allowing takeover of any company on national security grounds; the semiconductor maker had been owned by a Chinese entrepreneur since 2019. A Dutch interim manager now runs it, pending a decision on permanent leadership.
The seizure costs China a rare foothold in Dutch chips. He says China is furious because the Netherlands, through ASML, is the only maker of the lithography machines used to produce semiconductors, so any position inside the Dutch industry was a major win for Beijing.
The stated driver is Nexperia chips reaching Russia. He says Nexperia semiconductors went into Chinese equipment sold to Russia with dual-use application, which could be stripped down and the chips reused in missiles, drones or other military technology. He calls it a major escalation in the West–China semiconductor war.
He argues the move is lifted from China's own playbook. He cites GlaxoSmithKline being hit with corruption charges in 2014, staff detained and Chinese subsidiaries forced into sale, plus antitrust and cybersecurity actions against Samsung and Nortel. He says Tesla, Micron, Apple, LinkedIn and Yahoo subsidiaries lost operational control since 2018, and leaves open whether more Chinese subsidiaries in Europe will be seized.
Foreign dollar buying acts as a fail-safe under the dollar. He argues other countries buy US dollars with their own currency to keep their trade competitive, which cheapens their currencies, strengthens the dollar, and so automatically stops it from going into "too much of a free fall."
#Europe, #China #Japan start printing more of their own #money when the US goes on a printing spree
US money printing forces rivals to print their own currency. He argues that when American products become cheaper, Europe, China and Japan print more money to keep their exports competitive against the US. He says the People's Bank of China, the Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank issue that currency by buying billions of US dollars and trading them for their own.
China's larger money supply is not explained by population alone. He says China, the EU and the US hold about 90 trillion of the roughly 140 trillion in global money supply. He grants population is part of China's lead, but notes that in the early 2000s, with over a billion people against roughly 250 million Americans, China's money supply was slightly smaller than or equal to the US's; the clip cuts off before he completes the point.