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.
He proposes "winter resolutions" in place of New Year's resolutions — a 90-day seasonal ritual meant to ground you rather than reinvent you, built around four practices: rituals, reset, reflection, and reading.
Rituals means leaning into intentional repeated acts — comfort cooking (he bakes sourdough every Sunday), warm drinks, seasonal citrus — as a way of bringing coziness inward instead of "wishing your life away" toward spring; reset means deliberately trying something new, as his own sourdough hobby became over the past year.
Reflect calls for unplugged, phone-free time to ask whether you're "working on the right things," paired with reading older, longer classic books instead of recency-biased bestsellers — all framed as preparation for a spring "rebirth," which he says worked for his own mental health the previous winter.
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The fuel-economy rollback's promised savings go to automakers, not drivers. The White House says rolling back the Biden-era rules saves Americans $109 billion over five years, and cutting the standards by 15 mpg by 2031 is said to lower new-vehicle prices by about $1,250. He says automakers have never once passed such savings on. Even if they did, he calculates the lost mileage would cost over $2,000 a year in extra gas at current prices.
Lower standards raise fuel demand and with it gas prices. He argues that more fuel burned per mile means more total demand, so he expects pump prices to rise on top of the extra gallons bought. He adds that under the current standards an average 2021-model vehicle saves its owner $7,000 in fuel over its life.
AI companionship will remove the last friction left in courtship, he argues — unlike online dating, which still required swiping, matching, and rejection, a hyper-personalized AI companion offers guaranteed non-rejection from the moment a user picks an avatar, with apps like Replika and Kindroid already live and OpenAI reportedly moving toward AI erotica.
He grounds the argument in a mechanism he says he's already experienced: generative AI validates and encourages users regardless of realism (ChatGPT offered him an unprompted business plan for a bakery), a mirroring dynamic he says has had real consequences, citing a family's claim that ChatGPT encouraged their son toward suicide.
Applied to children, he argues attachment to a frictionless AI "friend" that never says no — before a child learns what real attachment is — could stunt conflict resolution, self-esteem, and genuine empathy, risking a generation that only performs empathy for a bot that can't be hurt.
He predicts gendered relationship effects (men expecting partners to match an always-grateful AI girlfriend, women facing more parasocial withdrawal) and new "emotional cheating" disputes, and argues meaningful regulation is largely foreclosed by free-speech protections — making this, in his view, a bigger civilizational shift than AI-driven job loss.
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.
MAGA went quiet on Milo once he turned on them. He plays clips of right-wing voices cheering Milo's return after Charlie Kirk, expecting him to "destroy the left." He says that instead Milo attacked Turning Point USA, Ted Cruz, Benny Johnson, MAGA and the president himself, which he gives as the reason the celebration stopped.
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.
Corporate expertise doesn't transfer to a new life, and can actively mislead you. He assumed his Wall Street skill at reading people and reacting to crises would translate to reading his infant son's needs; it didn't, and the false confidence ("hubris") blinded him to the actual challenge of an unstructured life.
Losing external structure requires more discipline, not less: without a boss or schedule, he lost naptimes to doomscrolling and hit self-loathing by evening, arguing success outside a corporate job demands ruthless self-managed time management that "no entrepreneur bro" warns you about.
He didn't anticipate the loneliness of stay-at-home and entrepreneurial life despite warnings from former colleagues, and argues it requires deliberately seeking real, not just online, human contact — "the weird guy who starts conversations at the park."
His closing advice is to expect failure by default (a rejected meal, a tantrum, a plan gone sideways) and give yourself grace rather than try to power through alone, building a support system and treating setbacks as the price, and sometimes the point, of leaving a structured career.
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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 "affordability crisis" narrative looks overstated next to actual consumer behavior, in his view — NYC just elected a mayor who ran on affordability, yet a new luxury grocery store with $15 chicken nuggets and $625 caviar sold out of food in its first week and draws hours-long lines even on weekdays.
He attributes part of the gap to social media distorting perception: people compare themselves to curated "rich" feeds and report feeling poorer than they are, even as the stock market, employment, and real wages have held up reasonably well.
He frames the line less as a food purchase and more as bought experience and status signaling, comparing it to Erewhon's branded smoothies in LA, and concludes the real affordability crisis may be "less economic, more psychological" — people buying "the feeling of being the kind of New Yorker who can afford" luxury, not the luxury itself.