🇷🇺𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚’𝐬 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐒: 𝐀 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐬𝐲,... 𝐄𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧🇷🇺 (Staying ignorant at this point is a choice) Russia still plays the eternal underdog with a superiority complex. Dump enough lies into American feeds and the West collapses, right? Moscow rebuilds the empire on the ruins. How’s that working so far? Their psychological ops are just old Soviet active measures with internet paint. Getting busted, indicted, and watching domains get yanked by the target country somehow counts as winning. 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟔 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐜𝐭: This was the year they went big, loud, and obvious. They did not just pick one side. They poured gasoline on every existing American fire so both parties would keep swinging at each other instead of looking outward. • Internet Research Agency + GRU cranked racial tensions, police stories, and partisan rage on both sides • Fake Black Lives Matter pages and Democrat accounts to tank minority turnout • Pro-Trump posts and hard-right groups juiced at the same time • Goal: trash faith in democracy, hammer Clinton, boost Trump when useful, and flip whenever it's convenient • Real aim: make Republicans and Democrats hate each other so America fights itself • Senate committee laid it out • Result: America still stands, NATO bigger, Russia limping on sanctions dodges and Chinese favors 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭: Once the template worked, they just scaled it up with better tools and more money. Same goal of maximum division, now dressed up in AI and fake news sites that look almost real until you look twice. • 2022–2024 Doppelganger operation: cloned Western news sites (fake WaPo, Fox, Reuters) • AI junk questioning Ukraine aid, calling Americans scumbags, selling isolationism •Hit swing states, minorities, gamers, conservatives • Bot farms poking progressive sore spots and border arguments • DOJ seized domains and charged the operators • $10 million through RT to a Tennessee company paying influencers across the spectrum • Content on immigration, inflation, anti-Ukraine lines aimed at isolationist Republicans and restless Democrats 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠: This is not a one-off campaign. It is a standing unit with a permanent brief: keep America distracted, distrustful, and looking inward so Russia can operate with less pushback. The GRU is Russia’s military intelligence agency – the one that runs cyber attacks, special operations, assassinations, and psychological warfare alongside traditional spying. Think of them as the armed forces’ dirty-tricks department. • GRU Unit 54777: fake emails to senators, long-term grooming of Western voices • Storm-1516 and similar: hundreds of millions of views via deepfakes, fake videos, bots • U.S. assessments: Russia is the top foreign election threat • Chip away at institutional trust • Split left and right • Kill support for Ukraine so Moscow faces less resistance in Europe • No permanent favorite party • Feed isolationists on the right, progressive fights on the left • Chaos is the only consistent goal 𝐎𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐝, 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠: Russia has always known that recycled Jew hatred is cheap fuel for division. They forged the classic texts a century ago and still sprinkle the same tropes into modern ops because it works on both extremes. • Tsarist secret police forged the Protocols of the Elders of Zion in the early 1900s • That document still fuels conspiracy theories worldwide • Soviet regimes mixed state antisemitism with anti-Zionist cover • Same tropes still drip into modern ops • Inflame extremes on left and right • Keep Americans distracted and divided • Classic Moscow move: recycle old hate, stir the pot 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐮𝐩𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞: When the bots and fake sites get too obvious, they switch to the high-brow version. Bring in the ideologue, hand him a friendly American mic, and let the anti-Western ideas travel under the cover of “just asking questions.” • Alexander Dugin (Eurasianist thinker tied to Kremlin circles) sat down with Tucker Carlson in Moscow, 2024 • Railed against Anglo-Saxon liberalism, vanishing collective identity, Western individualism • Perfect match for Russia’s “U.S. order is finished, multipolar world incoming” line • Carlson handed him the mic to millions • Dugin later bragged about hitting the American mainstream • Sanctioned Russian voice gets clean airtime with skeptical audiences • Anti-Western points spread from the inside • Tucker has become their favorite new propaganda mouthpiece • Nods along while the messages land • Keeps chatting up Western figures, fraying cohesion across party lines • Meanwhile Russia’s military and economy stay stuck in the mud 𝐁𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧, 𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐎, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐰: Biden administration policies and NATO’s continued expansion gave Putin the opening and the public excuse he needed to launch the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. That does not turn Russia into the good guys. It does not erase what they keep doing to American security and culture. They took the pretext and ran with it while still running the same division machine against the United States. • Their psyops keep hammering U.S. security and culture either way • Target both parties, erode trust, push division • A distracted America is easier to handle • The invasion pretext changes nothing about the ongoing work against our institutions and social fabric 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞: This is a regime that cannot keep its soldiers supplied or its currency steady, yet still treats information combat as its main peacetime weapon. Shape the target’s thinking so the target chooses the moves that help Moscow. • Still burns money on information fights because tanks and missiles fall short • Doctrine treats it as endless peacetime combat • Mass-produce synthetic media • Lean on proxies and friendly podcasters like Tucker on both sides of the aisle • Still get caught by the FBI, Treasury, and anyone following the crypto and planning notes 𝐎𝐮𝐭𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐟𝐚𝐫: Here is the uncomfortable part. The fracturing is real. Cultural trust is eroding. Americans are more suspicious of each other, of institutions, and of shared reality than they were a decade ago. Russia did not invent those cracks, but they keep pouring accelerant on them and the fire is spreading. • Polarization keeps deepening • Shared cultural ground keeps shrinking • Both parties stay locked in mutual contempt • Russia’s ops are messy and often exposed, yet the division they feed keeps delivering • Agencies and platforms disrupt the accounts and domains • The cultural damage still lands and sticks • Moscow keeps sketching the next project or lining up another guest for Tucker’s show • They do not need total control. They just need America too busy tearing itself apart to push back effectively Real impressive stuff, comrades. Keep throwing cash at these ops while your forces slog through reality. America spots a lot of it, tracks it, and shuts pieces down. But the broader cultural tear is advancing anyway. Russia’s psychological warfare is not sophisticated genius. It is a drawn-out, opportunistic tantrum with nicer production and Tucker Carlson as the latest compliant mouthpiece. The harder they push to split America from outside and inside, hitting both parties for pure chaos, the clearer it gets that this crude method is still producing results they can use. This is just Russia's part in tearing America apart... Once you throw in the CCP, Qatar and others, we are fending it off from all sides and Americans are ripping each other and our country apart, because it's all working.show more

🇺🇸 DALLAS IS ABOUT TO BECOME THE CAPITAL OF... THE AMERICA FIRST MOVEMENT! For the first time in party history, Republicans are holding a midterm convention. Not a debate stage. Not a press conference. A full blown convention, September 9th and 10th, right in the heart of Dallas. The Democrats aren't ready for this! Trump called it exactly what it is. "It has never been done before, and will be a truly Historic Event." Think about that for a second. Presidential conventions happen every four years like clockwork. Midterm conventions do not happen at all, because most parties do not have anything worth celebrating in the off year. The GOP just decided they do. RNC Chairman Joe Gruters is already calling it Trumpapalooza. That is not a typo. That is the energy level we are talking about. This is not just a rally. It is a two day showcase of the Great American Comeback. No tax on tips. No tax on overtime. Falling oil prices while the administration denuclearizes Iran. A border that finally has a lock on the door. Trump is not asking Republicans to imagine the wins. He is putting them on a stage in Texas and pointing at them. And Texas is not a random choice. It is the epicenter of this year's fight for Congress, with Ken Paxton battling for Senate and multiple House seats hanging in the balance. Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson called it exactly right, an event that will "energize our party, strengthen the conservative movement, and help build momentum." Now look across the aisle. Democrats floated the idea of their own midterm gathering. Then they quietly shelved it. No unifying message. No standout headliner. No comeback story to tell voters, because they do not have one. That is the difference in one sentence. Republicans are throwing a party because they have something to celebrate. Democrats are staying home because they do not. Midterms usually punish the party in power. Trump just decided to rewrite that rule in Texas, in front of the cameras, with the whole country watching. Buckle up. Trumpapalooza is coming, and the other side has nothing on the calendar to answer it with.show more

‼️An interesting interview with Lavrov Sergey Lavrov regularly gives... interviews, and almost every one of them is an information operation designed to create an alternative reality. The March 26 interview with France Télévisions is no exception. Let's break it down and point out where there are lies and where there is manipulation. 1. Lavrov claims that Russia is supposedly defending international law while speaking in the "language of principles" regarding Iran. What's wrong: it's basic role reversal. Moscow is trying to speak from the position of a "guardian of the law," even though it is waging an aggressive war against Ukraine. In the case of Iran, Lavrov is also deliberately omitting half the picture: yes, the US withdrew from the nuclear deal, but Iran also faced non-proliferation concerns raised by the IAEA. Why it matters: It is an attempt to whitewash Russia's crimes through someone else's crisis and to present the aggressor (Russia) as the judge. 2. Russia does not provide Iran with intelligence; the coordinates of US bases are "already known to everyone." What's wrong: it's an evasive statement, not a complete refutation. There is no independently verified evidence of specific target marking data transfers in open sources, nor can there be, but the Kremlin's "we have nothing to do with it" claim has no basis for being automatically considered true. Why it matters: A typical Kremlin tactic - to deny anything that does not align with Russia's interests and to continue operating in a gray area. 3. Saudi Arabia and the UAE have denied the US access to their airspace, so Russia is right about the "American venture." What's wrong: The caution of Gulf countries is real, but Lavrov turns it into a crude anti-Western caricature. Regional politics are more complex than the Kremlin's narrative that "everyone understands everything, only the US is pushing the world into chaos." Why it matters: The Kremlin takes a partial truth and builds a convenient political myth around it. 4. Russia isn't waging wars for its own gain; it's the US that wants to control the energy sector, the Strait of Hormuz, and the markets. What's wrong: It's pure projection. It is Russia that has used energy as a weapon for years, and after 2022, turned petrodollars into fuel for war. Why it matters: Moscow accuses others of doing what it does systematically - this is one of the central techniques of its propaganda. 5. Since 2014, Ukraine has been ruled by a "Nazi regime" that came to power through a coup. What's wrong: After Yanukovych fled, Ukraine held snap presidential elections, which the OSCE recognized as meeting international standards and being competitive. The claim of a "Nazi regime" is a political label, not a description of reality. Why it matters: "Nazism" in Kremlin rhetoric is a tool for dehumanizing Ukraine and justifying the war. 6. The Russian language is allegedly completely banned in Ukraine. What's wrong: Ukraine has strengthened the role of the state language, but this does not mean a total ban on Russian. The law does not apply to private communication and does not criminalize the everyday use of the language. Why it matters: The Kremlin is exaggerating language policy to the level of a "linguistic apocalypse" to sell the war as a supposed humanitarian mission. 7. Ukraine is allegedly at war with Orthodoxy and has "banned the canonical church." What's wrong: This is not about "banning a faith," but about a law regarding religious organizations linked to the Russian Orthodox Church. Even criticism from human rights activists does not support the Kremlin's claim of "persecution of Orthodoxy." Why it matters: Moscow is using the language of religious protection to cover up its network of influence in Ukraine. 8. The West allegedly cynically exploited the Minsk agreements as a respite to arm Ukraine. What's wrong: The Minsk process was collapsing because of the Kremlin's desire to use the agreements to establish de facto control over Ukraine, not because of some "cunning plot" by Paris and Berlin. Why it matters: The Kremlin is rewriting history retroactively to portray its own aggression as a supposedly forced response to "universal betrayal." 9. Russia does not attack civilians; its targets are solely facilities associated with the AFU. What's wrong: It's an outright lie. For years, the UN and independent sources have documented systematic Russian strikes on cities, residential areas, energy facilities, and civilian infrastructure. Why it matters: This is no longer just propaganda, but a cynical denial of documented terror against civilians. 10. The Bucha massacre is allegedly "not proven": there are no names, no evidence, and journalists haven't shown anything. What's wrong: This is one of the most mendacious claims. There are UN documents, testimonies, criminal investigations, identified suspects, and evidence of executions and killings of civilians. Why it matters: The Kremlin is not trying to refute the crime, but to wear down the audience with doubt and turn mass murder into "one of the versions." 11. Russia wants peace and negotiations. What's wrong: In the Kremlin's vocabulary, "peace" does not mean an end to aggression, but rather acceptance of its results. "Realities on the ground" means occupation; "root causes" means demanding recognition of Russia's right to punish neighbors for their political choices. Why it matters: Lavrov isn't offering peace. He's dressing up surrender in softer language. 12. Europe is supposedly dragging out the war, while Russia is looking for a solution. What's wrong: Russia started this war itself. European aid to Ukraine is a response to the aggression, not its cause. Why it matters: This is the main inversion of Kremlin logic - to make the audience forget who attacked first and shift the discussion from aggression to a "conflict that has dragged on too long." 13. RT and Sputnik are victims of censorship, and France has no right to speak about freedom of speech. What's wrong: RT and Sputnik were banned not as "ordinary media," but as state-run tools of disinformation. Their role as propaganda channels has been publicly acknowledged both in the EU and in France. Why it matters: The Kremlin wants to portray the defense of democracies against malicious information operations as a restriction of free speech. 14. France and Europe have made Russia an enemy; Moscow is merely reacting. What's wrong: The cause of the rift is not "Russophobia," but Russia's invasion, war crimes, blackmail, and influence operations against Europe. Why it matters: The Kremlin is systematically trying to reverse the cause-and-effect relationship: it is not that "Russia destroyed relations," but that "the West rejected Russia." 15. Individual real episodes - the tanker, incidents in France, disputes among allies - allegedly prove Western hypocrisy and justify Russia. What's wrong: Lavrov takes a real but local fact and uses it as a smokescreen. None of these incidents erases Russia's crimes or the very fact of its aggression. Why it matters: This is a favorite Kremlin method - using others' difficulties and whataboutism to cover up its own crimes.show more

Next up in the long line of right-wing media... figures lifting up Woke Right retards who waste our time, Patrick Bet-David just had on the spectacular retard Curtis Yarvin who said this idiot nonsense: America has always been a Leftist experiment. No it hasn't, except barely from the perspective of European reaction and counter-revolutionary thinking, which is part of what constitutes the European, but not American, Right. (I AM ONCE AGAIN TELLING YOU ALL THAT "LEFT" AND "RIGHT" ARE NOT ADEQUATE TERMS FOR POLITICAL DISCUSSION FOR A LOT OF REASONS, MOSTLY THAT THEY DESCRIBE LOCATIONS IN A PARTICULAR ROOM AT A PARTICULAR TIME AND NOT COHERENT POLITICAL PROGRAMS.) America is actually founded on a tradition completely alien and separate to either the "Left" or the "Right" as it is conceived of in the European mind. It is overwhelmingly something completely different that dispensed wholesale with all the idiotic Continental philosophies the European "Left" and "Right" relied upon. America was not "Leftist" because "Leftist" referred to Jacobinism specifically at the time of the Founding, in line with the thinking of Rousseau's esoteric French Romanticism, whereas America was founded on SCOTTISH COMMON SENSE. America's founders specifically REJECTED Jacobinism and built their system to reject and safeguard against it, but Jacobinism is specifically the thing called "Leftism" in the original context. If you go back to the National Assembly in France, where were the Jacobins? To the left of the king. Hence, "Leftism" for their philosophy and political program. Where were the Scottish Common Sense people? IN SCOTLAND AND AMERICA, doing something completely different and totally awesome, not in the room at all. If you look at what these guys were thinking, it was that Common Sense precedes all these idiotic European philosophical theories, but that the brain-genius philosophers of Europe were so smart that they got the relationship backwards. The Euros thought philosophy precedes common sense, but the Americans knew philosophy must begin with common sense or it's merely idle (and dangerous) speculation. The "Right," if we consider it the side that "resists the Left" (what a poor definition, but that's its definition, isn't it?), in revolutionary France was a motley mix of monarchists, counter-revolutionists, and theocrats. Those would be exactly the people Americans threw out and told to go f- themselves. The "Right," if we must use the term, in America is the side that defends the American tradition, which is based on Common Sense. Most Americans until quite recently were more or less mostly common-sense people in their general orientation to life, hence the long-standing saying that America is "a center-right country." That's what it actually means, outside of these dumb directional terms posing as political orientations. So, this is stupid. Just stupid, but look how much time and energy it takes to deal with the illiterate stupidity of a twelve-second clip pumped to a million viewers who don't have time, interest, background, or inclination to take it apart (because most of them are too common-sense to want to read all this crap but still tribal enough to fall for Yarvin's). Truly, it takes an order of magnitude (or two) more work to take apart bullshit than it does to produce it. Woke, both Right and Left, is such a waste of valuable time and always has been.show more

This weekend a Ukrainian crew pushed the Wovkulaka Spitfire... FPV interceptor out to 84.7 km before it smoked a SuperCam whose operators thought they were safely parked somewhere in the south. Manufacturer's previous record was 69 km. That is not a incremental upgrade. That is the kind of leap that rewrites operational math on the entire theater. Every extra kilometer we add to the reach of cheap, mass-produced Ukrainian drones is another chunk of Russian rear area that stops being a safe haven. It is not glamorous. It is not the kind of thing that gets NATO generals excited in PowerPoint slides. But it is exactly the asymmetric grind that turns Moscow's quantitative advantage into an unaffordable liability. They lose more meat trying to take villages that had fewer residents before the war than the monthly body count we are stacking with systems like this. Their "meat is cheap" doctrine only works until the bill comes due in rubles, barrels, and replacement pilots they no longer have. This is why the endless Western hand-wringing about "escalation" and "negotiated settlement" sounds so hollow from Kyiv. Every new Ukrainian long-range strike capability demonstrated on the battlefield is proof that the cheaper European security architecture is the one where we keep handing Ukraine the tools to finish the job, not the one where we let Moscow consolidate gains and then face the same threat again in five years at triple the cost. Arming Ukraine is not charity. It is the discount bin on continental defense. Moscow wins and the price tag for Poland, the Baltics, and everyone behind them goes vertical. Their hybrid war, their information sewage, their axis with Tehran and Pyongyang, all of it gets oxygen as long as the Kremlin believes it can outlast Western attention spans. The crew that just set this record does not need lectures about "peace processes" from people who still cannot name a single Ukrainian city on a map. They need scaled production, components that do not get slow-walked by bureaucratic cowardice, and the political cover to keep pushing the frontier of what cheap autonomous systems can do. Because every additional kilometer we own is another square kilometer of Ukrainian sky that Russian recon birds no longer fly with impunity, another logistics node that burns at night, another data point proving that imperial projects die when the math no longer works. Ukraine is not waiting for permission to exist. We are building the future European defense model in real time while half the continent still debates whether it is polite to admit that. The Spitfire record is just the latest receipt. Moscow keeps pretending it is winning by capturing ruins at grotesque cost. We keep extending the kill chain until their empire runs out of both ruins and the bodies required to take them. The trajectory is clear to anyone not paid to look away.show more

Pauline Hanson is now the preferred Prime Minister, as... the establishment reels in shock. They did it to themselves. First the Liberals, and now Labor. They followed each other down the path to oblivion. There’s an old saying, “you have two ears and one mouth”, a sign that you should listen twice as much as you speak. But instead, the establishment just preached at us. They shamed and attacked us. They forgot us, and worse, ignored us completely. They gave each other jobs and titles as they pretended we admired them as much as they admire themselves. The establishment misread the rise of the Teals as a total rejection of social conservativism and personal ambition. Of a detest for masculinity and the total embrace of the politics of climate and mass immigration. But it wasn’t that. It was a frustration with the status-quo; an anger at the captured Liberal establishment, which made them almost indistinguishable from Labor. Albanese’s great appeal was that he was not Morrison, and Dutton actually looked somehow less prepared. But it was never a great embrace. It was more of a, “well I guess it’s you then”. Labor don’t really have a mandate for change, but they are convinced that Australians are a bunch of jealous fools that are too stupid to see the total erosion of our freedoms and way of life. Those in power are too blind to notice that everything they talk about and touch has set us backwards. But we see them. Albanese is just about the most inarticulate and incompetent Prime Minister we’ve ever had, and his vision for Australia does not extend beyond his comfortable, taxpayer funded retirement on the beach. The self-interest of the establishment is at record levels, and rather than listen, adapt and fix the problems they've caused, they just double down. And double down again. Both sides have grown transactional and prefer to shoot their messengers. They expel and slander those who have tried to do the right thing over the last decade, and now both sides are left with a talentless pool of transactional twits. There is not a capable government to be formed between them, and their time is up. I don’t think it will matter what Pauline Hanson says or does between now and the election, her popularity will continue to climb as she looks less and less like them… and they panic their way into helping her do that. The public have had enough, and Hanson is their pathway to showing the world that the Australian establishment is done. This is the beginning of a long journey to a more informed electorate and a better government. It has begun. We are going to get Australia back.show more

The political establishment in Australia is not entirely stupid,... they just think you are. As they lament the rise of One Nation, they pretend they don't understand it. Because if they showed us that they understand the resons, they then have to make a major admission. Hanson's rise is all their fault. Because the major parties and the faux independents have been on a unity ticket on all of the big problems they have jointly caused for decades. They can’t hide from the messes they have caused, so now they want to blame everyone else but themselves. Today, on ABC’s Insiders, Annabel Crab belled the cat, as Karvelas did the two step crab walk. Annabel correctly diagnoses the political situation here right now. It is not a love for Hanson, or One Nation that is causing the surge, but a total lack of faith in the other offerings. It almost does not matter what Hanson says or does, because her greatest strengths are that she is there, and she is not one of them. Those are enduring traits and the more the major parties hit her, the more the media carry on about her, and the more the establishment present her as a “deplorable”, the more people they will push in her direction. It is like they are in quicksand... the more they struggle, the deeper they sink. People are growing ready for wild political change. A worsening economy and a growing collapse in social cohesion has put the nation on edge. The big end of town want to pretend everything will be fine when the latest special envoy delivers their newest report, but nothing changes. Nothing changes because nothing is supposed to change. Because the government, the opposition and their Green Teal cheer squads want things just the way they are. They didn’t just pass all of the enabling legislation for no reason. There are real beneficiaries of these things, it is just that none of the beneficiaries are the Australian people. Australians have broadly been the target of the changes made to benefit foreign interests, the political class and major corporations. We have been targeted for so long it is impossible not to feel the cross-hairs of the scope resting on our forehead. Hanson and her team simply have to talk about that feeling... they don’t even have to have a solution. Because when the establishment continues to pretend the problems don't exist, just acknowledging the pain is enough to earn a vote. Annabel nails this sentiment in just a few words. Right as Karvelas changes the subject, because it is not that this isn’t obvious, it is because Karvelas is there to cover it up, and hit Hanson’s credibility again. Fuelling the vicious cycle of the rise of the outsider. Unless something significant changes in the establishment, and I don’t expect it will, there will be major upheaval at the next election. Most people will not be voting for their favourite party or person, they will primarily be voting against the status quo, because in their minds, it could not possibly be worse than what we have experienced for decades... but it just might be a little bit better. And that is a risk worth taking. After all most of us like a punt. I just want Australia back.show more

Arms sales: China Needs More Responsibility Instead of Glorifying... the Market It's been a while since Beijing stopped picking sides in wars, they just want to win at all costs. They sell weapons, components, or drones to both contenders, rake in huge profits, and still claim to be "neutral and peaceful." Pragmatism without hypocrisy, and it's nothing new. In Ukraine, at the start of the war, components and drones served both sides. Later, they cut off direct supplies to both, but everyone kept buying through third parties, and the Chinese obviously know about it. Profit guaranteed. In the recent Thailand-Cambodia war, they sold VT-4 tanks and S26T submarines to Thailand, and guided missiles - to destroy the tanks sold to Thailand?-, rockets, and artillery to Cambodia. Chinese weapons exchanging fire from both sides, but the Chinese say it's just "normal defense cooperation." Israel and Iran is another perfect example: a Chinese state-owned company has been operating the port of Haifa in Israel since 2021 and is now involved in rebuilding the destruction caused by Iranian missiles, while selling ballistic missile components to Iran to repeat the feat and financing Iran's reconstruction until Israel repeats it too. In Africa, the effect is the same: in Sudan, they sold to the government, and weapons ended up with the RSF paramilitaries because they were also bought by the Emirates and passed on to Sudanese rebels; in the DRC, they sell to the government, but Chinese weapons also end up with militias like M23 through resale by Uganda and Rwanda; in Libya, they sold to Gaddafi, but right after his fall, they kept doing business with both main factions, and still do today. None of this started now. A classic from the 80s: in the Iran-Iraq war, China was the biggest supplier to BOTH sides at the same time, billions in tanks, missiles, and artillery for each. Obviously, this kind of policy was done by the West a long time ago, but it always faced criticism from the media. Anyone in the arms market knows that the Chinese maintain strict control over their sales. Even simple price quotes are centralized and selective. There's no way the government doesn't know exactly where the weapons are going. They're making the same mistakes the West made in the past.show more

🚨 STARMER’S WAR ON FREE SPEECH: WHY HE WANTS... X SILENCED AND BRITAIN CONTROLLED Keir Starmer’s government is rapidly becoming one of the most despised in modern British history — and for good reason. This is not a cabinet that rose on hope. It is a cabinet that rose on fear, censorship, and managed decline. In just a short time, Starmer’s Labour government has managed to alienate almost every pillar of British society: Working people crushed by taxes and energy costs. Farmers facing land grabs and inheritance raids. Veterans watching Britain give up strategic territory. Families struggling while billions are sent abroad. And citizens silenced for daring to speak out. This is not incompetence. It is ideology. Starmer governs as if Britain is an obstacle to be managed, not a nation to be defended. His cabinet speaks the language of global institutions, not the language of the British people. They treat borders as optional, sovereignty as outdated, and free speech as dangerous. And nothing exposes that more clearly than their obsession with shutting down X. They do not fear “misinformation.” They fear information. X is one of the last platforms where ordinary people can still challenge power in real time — where whistleblowers, journalists, dissidents and citizens can bypass the gatekeepers of the BBC, the Guardian, and the permanent political class. That is why Starmer wants it controlled, regulated, or banned. Because control of speech is control of reality. The same government that is prepared to hand away the Chagos Islands, weaken Britain’s strategic position, and bend to foreign pressure now wants to decide what you are allowed to read, say, and share. They are not governing. They are managing decline. They are not protecting democracy. They are containing it. And the public knows it. Polls show historic distrust. Protests are growing. Support is evaporating. Starmer’s cabinet is not unpopular because it failed to communicate. It is unpopular because people can see exactly what it is doing. And what it is doing to Britain is unforgivable.show more

They say “America has no culture” and what they... mean is that the Constitution and Bill of Rights, English common law, the language itself, Thanksgiving and the 4th of July, the nuclear family, the work ethic, rock n roll, country, plus every innovation that turned this place into the world’s superpower don’t count as real culture. It’s just “whiteness,” this blank or oppressive thing that exists only to be critiqued and replaced. And this line has become so dominant, so institutionalized in schools, media, HR departments, and elite culture that it’s now the standard water everybody swims in. Most people don’t even clock it anymore because it’s treated like obvious truth instead of the radical self-erasure project it actually is. But this isn’t a good faith argument at all, and it carries clear ulterior motives to justify the erasure of America’s historic core and the people who built it. Because once you get Americans to accept that their culture is either nonexistent or evil, then mass demographic change, open borders, and tearing down the old traditions suddenly look like moral progress instead of an existential attack on everything that made the country function in the first place. The reality though is that America has one of the strongest and most distinctive cultures on earth, forged from Western and Christian roots and supercharged by liberty and merit. And the World Cup visitors are reminding us of exactly that right now. Germans are going viral saying if you want to hate America watch the news but drive through it and meet the actual people. Europeans are shocked by how genuinely warm, friendly, and generous Americans are in real life and can’t stop talking about the hospitality and customer service. Japanese fans are writing poetry about unlimited free chips and salsa, while others are losing it over Texas brisket, ranch dressing on everything, Waffle House at 2 am, Buc-ee’s, the ridiculous size of Walmart, and free drink refills that never end. These outsiders are cutting straight through the institutionalized narrative and showing us what we’ve been gaslit into taking for granted, and that is an abundant, open, high trust, high energy culture that actually works. Americans built it, they live it every day, and they are not apologizing for it or handing it over.show more

Slow Progress is the New Reality of Modern Wars... There are many people commenting on Russian difficulties and coming up with numerous reasons for their alleged collapse. I absolutely do not see any collapse; on the contrary, Russia has already normalized a state of war in Ukraine, which boosts its economic and industrial growth. The difficulties faced by Russia today are the same as at the beginning of the war, with soldiers having to spend up to half of their initial salaries on their own equipment, delays in pensions, and a series of other problems that are mirrored on the Ukrainian side, even with all the support from allies. The war today is much less lethal than it was months ago, and both Russian and Ukrainian losses have significantly decreased during this phase. Lethality has fallen, but Russian advances persist. And why are they slow? Is it a Ukrainian tactic? No. They are slow because they are accompanied by the deployment of communication infrastructure like signal repeaters for drones, the advancement of artillery guided by drones, maneuvers using FAB and more recently ODAB bombs against Ukrainian drone operators' facilities, infiltration by reconnaissance teams, saboteurs, and a series of protocols they have developed. That conventional war with rapid advances no longer exists, and in the context of a battlefield dominated by drones, it is unlikely to return. Modern wars will have slow progress, as seen in the attacks and counter-attacks of the Russians and Ukrainians in this war. Contemporary military forces are still unable to see this new reality of war. When analyzing the Russian advance, it's important to consider that all these maneuvers take days to unfold, but the point is that the Russians have already adapted to this pace, not bothered whether a particular advance will take 3 weeks or 3 months. They advance continuously following tactical protocols with little threat from Ukrainian forces, which, without new equipment, have had their defensive tactics remain almost unchanged over the past two years, relying mainly on drones and making it easier for Russian studies of countermeasures. And what can Ukraine do in this situation? I see few options, but one would be to delay the Russian advance with a good number of missiles, though personally, I find it unlikely that they will reach Ukrainian hands. It wouldn't have the power to change the balance of the war, but it would guarantee more time, which is important because the battlefield is dynamic, and the implementation of new tactics based on innovative weapons can change everything overnight. A war that seems almost lost today could take a different turn in weeks. Time is crucial for Ukraine, which has fronts only about 130 km from cities like Zaporizhia and Dnipro.show more

WHY ARE WE STILL PAYING ALMOST FOUR DOLLARS A... GALLON WHEN OIL IS NEARLY $70 A BARREL?! Oil is trading in the seventies right now. Go back and check the history books. The last time crude sat in that range for any real stretch, gas was closer to two dollars and sixty cents a gallon. Today the national average is sitting near four dollars. Something does not add up, and Americans know it. There is an old saying in this business. Prices rise like a rocket and fall like a feather. Economists even have a name for it. The rocket and feather effect. When oil spikes, the pump reacts overnight. When oil drops, that same speed mysteriously disappears. The industry has a story ready every time. They say they are still selling expensive oil bought weeks ago, so prices cannot fall yet. Fine. But watch what happens the moment tensions with Iran flare up. Oil ticks up four or five dollars a barrel and somehow pump prices jump forty or fifty cents overnight, on oil the stations already had sitting in the ground bought at the old cheaper price. You cannot have it both ways. Slow to fall because of old inventory, instant to rise regardless of it. That is not a supply chain. That is a shakedown. Trump has pushed harder than any president in a generation to open up drilling, cut red tape and increase the actual supply of American energy. That is supposed to be the whole point. More supply, lower prices, real relief for working families filling up their trucks. Families are doing the math at the pump every single week. They are not confused. They can see a rocket going up and a feather coming down, and they are done pretending it is a coincidence.show more

hypergamy is going to hit women like a 50-megaton... thermonuclear bomb, and the reason is because these women are hypergamous themselves female hypergamy hit society first due to the natural supply/demand gap between the sexes, and it's certainly caused somewhat of a death spiral of intersexual relations, but the outcome will not be this hypercompetition between men for women, but rather men checking out of the game entirely as the juice stops being worth the squeeze porn is only getting more immersive and sex bots are on the way, and social media exposes men to 10/10 women nonstop; why then would men break their backs for a crumb of attention for mediocre women? even men with genuine value to bring struggle in the current dating market, the fatigue is beginning to set in for women there are two options: a) make the squeeze easier, or b) make the juice more worthwhile a) would require that they lower their standards and expectations, make themselves more accessible, accept a man with less to offer when they know someone better is out there they don't have that in them, so they resort to b) b) means making the juice tastier, it mean tightening up the juice's nasolabial folds and waist-to-hip ratio. it means injecting the juice with hyaluronic acid fillers and, when that isn't enough to get ahead, it means making real changes to the juice's recipe like getting structural surgery there is a very small supply of beautiful people on this planet, but in the age of the internet that small supply is accessible to everyone at all times instead of being a random beautiful stranger you may rarely come across on the street. everyone’s perceptions of what is accessible to them is being distorted, and even if only 1% of people are truly beautiful themselves that is enough for 99% of the subpar masses to feel like they can share. past a certain point of abundance a person cannot comprehend the difference between 10 million people and 1 billion, it’s just a lot. if 1 billion compete for 10 million it still feels like an infinite prize pool. this has corrupted women tremendously, but it is absolutely going to and already beginning to do the same with men as men get more and more immersed in and addicted to cheap hits of sexual dopamine such as porn, social media, online dating (which is a corrupting force for both genders) they will be less and less willing to settle for a girl who is any less than perfect because quite frankly, she probably just won’t be worth it to them anyway there is already a long cultural precedent for women going to extreme measures to looksmaxx for male attention, if men start to become fed up with them and hypergamy increases on both ends the blackpill will explode with women. already women know when they are left on delivered by chad that if they were prettier this wouldn’t be happening, they are beginning to make this observation en masse and it is driving the rise in radfem and “femcel” (i.e. girl who can’t bag chad) ideology. women are realizing that body positivity and self-love was a scam, and that looks are law i’m betting all in on the upcoming female blackpill trend, putting my stock in it. i’d keep an eye out for it because it has already begun and it’s only going to get biggershow more

Today, I heard the most wonderful and uplifting thing.... Andrew Bragg gave a commitment to leave the Liberal Party if it dropped Net Zero and exited the Paris Accord. A treaty that should never have been signed. It is the shadowy figures behind Andrew Bragg, Alex Hawke and the rest of the useless Labor/Teal-“moderate”-left-faction of the Liberal Party that got the party and the country into this mess. They rolled Tony Abbott, who won a mandate, promising to scrap the carbon tax. They have betrayed that promise ever since. Our energy woes have been a long time coming. We didn’t just wake up one day in an energy poor and deindustrialised nation. We have been under sustained attack for decades, an attack that has been marshalled by the left of politics. They control Labor, they have ruined the Liberals and have overrun just about every institution in the country. It is why the business council, sounds the same as the Australia Institute, and they both sound the same as the Greens. We are a nation in a hole, and Bragg admitted as much in his interview on Insiders today. We really need more coal, because the energy transition is failing. It is worse than that, the transition has failed. It was a bad idea, just like the rest of Net Zero. Our predicament is the result of irresponsible governments across Australia. Labor and Liberal, both have set policies that destroyed coal as the backbone of our grid, as they duchessed the Green grifters around their respective states across Australia. They played along with whatever bad idea the Greens were spouting at the time. Close this facility, replace it with a windmill. No to nuclear. No to gas. Close it, shut it, and replace it with fantasy. Turnbull, Kean, Perrottet, Berejiklian, Andrews, Morrison Albanese, and all of the rest, on a unity ticket that flushed our energy future down the toilet. All because they were afraid to upset Greta Thunberg. Because they were afraid to upset a youth, that they allowed our institutions to indoctrinate into a cult of ignorance. The world is slowly pulling in a new direction. Because hard reality has chased down fantasy. They’re waking up to the monorail that is ‘green’ energy, and ripping out the tracks. The National Party spurred by One Nation have cottoned on, and the Liberals will be dragged into the modern era, kicking and screaming. There is no doubt that if they don’t drop the Net Zero cake, and all of the icing that goes with it, they will never be a party of government again. Which brings us back to Andrew Bragg. Australia would be better off if he was not pretending to oppose Labor from the Liberal benches. We need people in opposition that understand the problems we have as a nation, and how to solve them. Not people who have only ever worked in the industry of politics, sending happy snaps along the way. Bragg knows his only chance at a job in the red house is through the blue team. He knows that blue voters don’t prioritise action on climate. But he sits there wasting a space advocating against the things the people that vote for him want. So if he had any decency, he would go, today. Because with friends like Andrew Bragg, you don’t need enemies. I just want Australia back.show more

Alaska. Putin and Trump. The meeting that was both... awaited and feared. The outcome. By Roman Alekhin To discuss this further, the key point to understand is this: Two and a half hours behind closed doors is too little for leaders of nuclear powers if they are just starting a conversation—but too much if they were merely posing for cameras. This means the real work happened earlier—quiet, working discussions “behind the door” that never made it into the official communiqué. These are what stopped Trump from imposing secondary sanctions; this is where the exchange of conditions took place, terms that won’t be disclosed until both leaders decide the time is right. I suspect Syria was discussed, as well as the “Trump Bridge” (instead of Zangezur), the Middle East, and much more that isn’t yet visible to the naked eye. The public part? Pure theater. The point wasn’t to negotiate in front of the world or sign something, like Trump did with Armenia and Azerbaijan—minor players, important only tactically. The point was to send a signal: the presidents of Russia and the U.S. are shaking hands and smiling again, no knives behind their backs. This signals that a new reality has arrived, one that Europe, Ukraine, and everyone accustomed to building their worldview around the idea of “Russia’s isolation” will now have to reckon with—including those within our own countries. Trump’s comments on Fox News were deliberately vague—he’s a master at leaving room for maneuver. But the key takeaway is clear: the pressure will now shift from Moscow to Kyiv and Brussels. This is evident even in the final format—not a word about a “no-conditions” ceasefire, which was Europe and Zelensky’s main demand. This means the discussion on a final peace has been postponed, but within a clear framework: Zelensky must exit the war in a way that lets Europe save face. Russia’s red lines have long been clear: non-aligned status for Ukraine, return of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk regions within their administrative borders (not the frontlines), lifting of sanctions, and real democracy in Ukraine without persecution of the Russian language or the Orthodox Church. These conditions will prolong the conflict for some time. Zelensky will need to stage a fighting retreat to the administrative borders—this will allow Europe to save face. But the logic is already visible: Ukraine’s defeat will be framed not as a “crushing” but as a “peaceful settlement.” Six months—that’s the timeframe in which we’ll see the dynamics. If the front accelerates, the deal is working. If it stalls, not all pieces are in place yet. But the main thing is already done: Russia is back in the game, not through gray negotiating formats but through a handshake on American soil—even if it’s chilly Alaska. (Though we have warm ties to the region, as seen in the wreath-laying for the “Heroes of ALSIB” and the meeting with Archbishop Alexy of Sitka and Alaska.) For the world, this is an image where smiles are worth more than signatures. For Trump—a chance to show he’s the only one who can “make peace.” For Putin—a symbolic victory: Russia is not a besieged enemy but an equal player. For Europe and Ukraine—the beginning of a painful new phase where they’ll have to accept the inevitable. In these talks, there were no winners or losers in Alaska. In Alaska, both presidents won, while those who weren’t there—lost, or at the very least, didn’t win.show more

America is witnessing history at Super Bowl LIX as... President Donald Trump and his daughter Ivanka Trump stand proudly, applauding the U.S. flag and the players on the field, embraced by a roaring crowd. It’s a moment of pure patriotism, a striking contrast to the division that has plagued the nation for years. This is more than just a sports event; it’s a reminder of what a united America looks like—something that has felt out of reach for far too long. As Trump works tirelessly to clean up Washington, where establishment forces are desperate to cling to power, the energy in the South tells a different story. Here, the people are standing together, celebrating the values that truly matter. The stadium is electric, the atmosphere charged with a sense of renewal and national pride. This is not about left or right, but about an America that refuses to be torn apart by those who profit from division. While the political elite bicker and scheme behind closed doors, real Americans are here, standing shoulder to shoulder in a moment of unfiltered unity. The contrast could not be more obvious. Washington may still be tangled in its own corruption, but the heart of the country beats strong and undivided. Trump’s presence at this historic event is more than symbolic—it’s a testament to his unbreakable bond with the American people. While his enemies try to destroy him with endless lawfare and media attacks, the people show where they truly stand. His reception tonight is proof that the connection between Trump and the nation he fights for has never been stronger. The cheers, the flags, the roaring applause—it’s a reminder that despite all the attempts to silence and control, the spirit of America cannot be extinguished. This moment is a glimpse into what the country can and should be—unapologetic in its patriotism, fearless in its unity, and unwavering in its belief in American greatness. The establishment may try to dictate the narrative, but the people have already spoken. Tonight, under the bright stadium lights, America is reminded of its true strength: its people, standing together, honoring their flag, and refusing to back down. It’s a sight to behold, and one that will not be forgotten.show more

The Australian government does not deserve our trust, or... our respect. Today, Minister Penny Wong sat back in her chair grappling for words, desperately looking for the right lie to tell. It is worse than dishonest - it is an absolute lack of care. Penny Wong came to this country when she was 8 years old. She came to a country that afforded her the ability to become who she is, and she is now doing her part to destroy it. Back in the 70’s, when she came, Australia was a fair-minded place and a great place to be. Yet here she is... Here in Australia. Undermining our country and lying to our faces. Because she can’t tell the truth. Because if she did, it would destroy any semblance of care for Australia tied to her old party’s Labor brand. It would say the quiet part out loud. The truth. The truth that the Albanese government is more interested in the fortunes of the ISIS brides, women who chose to leave this country to go and fight against our people, than those of us that can’t find or afford a place to live here at home. I am tired of being told how to think by people that completely lack morals and couldn’t care less. People that are elected and paid to operate in the national interest but always put their twisted ethics and back pockets ahead of our nation and our people. I don’t know when Labor stopped caring about Australian workers or worse, when they started hating Australia, but they have and they do. The absolute lack of opposition, the lack of authentic choice has pushed us into a place where these absolute traitors to the interests of the people who pay them - goes entirely unchecked. We are careening out of control, unchecked migration, an energy grid that is just about to collapse, no industry to speak of, and no good reason to start or maintain a business in this place. It happened fast, but those of us who pay our taxes and take risks to make Australia a better place, are being undermined and white-anted by our politicians. The people we are forced to trust, and must pretend to respect, because they have the force of law on their side. Not because they are any good at their jobs. Not because they have earned our affection. No. Simply because they are in charge and there is little to nothing that can be done about it. It is becoming apparent that the two party system has outlived its useful life. Too much corruption, too many words too carefully chosen in a pantomime between to political forces that don’t really want to change anything. They just want to have their go, to have their turn to jam their grubby hands into the till. Surely with this major and catastrophic failure by the so-called Honourable Minister Senator Wong, the people will be able to see through the veil and into the absolute and irresponsible lack of care at the heart of this deceitful Labor government. They lie about everything, and they can, because they don’t have an opposition worthy of the title. I am growing more confident by the day that the only solution to our woes is a new political force, a fresh, Australia first force, that will act in the national interest and put all these corrupt and useless used-car salesmen red and blue in the dustbin of history. It can’t come soon enough. Time is short. I just want Australia back.show more

❗️Girl shouts 'help' and the world closes its eyes❗️... The Iranian regime is sending morality police back onto the streets. “From Sunday, units of the moral police will go out on foot and by car across the country to detect violations”, according to Iran's Isna news agency. The fact that they want to take very strict action again, to maintain the oppression of women, is only thanks to the self-confidence that the ayatollahs and terrorists like Zakani are given by the West. Because whatever they do, it is not punished by the west, on the contrary...it is even rewarded. Zakani, the mayor of Tehran, better known as the Butcher of Tehran, installs cameras to identify, catch and punish women who commit a "violation" of the dress code with whipping or even murder, as they did with #MahsaAmini. And the Belgian government gives such a person a visa to come to Brussels so he can give a speech at city hall on how to deal with “security” in a big city. It seems like a sick joke but unfortunately it is true. And then terrorist Zakani returns to Iran, is promoted because of his successful trip and family in Iran of dissidents in Belgium, who have taken to the streets against his coming to Brussels, are intimidated, and I am discussed and threatened on Iranian state television as an "opposition leader". Doesn’t Belgium see the direct result of what they are now causing in Tehran? No, they are just once again soothing their non-existent conscience by continuing to justify the unnecessary presence of that "mayor" under the guise of "diplomacy". And this while brave girls and women are the only freedom soldiers standing up against the dogmas of religious oppression by those Islamists at the risk of their lives. While the West offers nothing of support and only exhibits hollow words and deeds, thus only supporting the regime. Iranian women will continue. It is up to the west to really support them instead of continuing to be so hypocritical. Not just for Iran, but for the world.show more

Putin is one of the GREATEST leaders of ALL... TIME! Putin Has No Equal at the Moment Among Western Politicians Putin outplayed Trump and the West: Ukraine as a graveyard of the neoliberal model. The war in Ukraine is progressing at a slow but steady pace in Moscow's favor. Putin is the only political leader in the world who explains his policies in extreme detail – and in all sorts of formats: official statements, interviews, press conferences, broadcast marathons in the media and online that last several hours. Putin has outplayed everyone. Ukraine has long been defeated. ***Putin: We do not have unfriendly nations, we have unfriendly elites in those nations. ***RUSSIA did not start any hostilities in Ukraine, we are trying to end them! - Putin ***"Strategic risks that have accumulated this century are due to the West, their destabilizing doctrines and strategic military programs in attempt to disrupt parity, and to obtain dominance." — Putin ***Putin: Russia will either be independent and sovereign, or it will not exist at all! Putin: The United States is the only country in the world that has used nuclear weapons twice, destroying the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Western countries have been claiming for centuries that they bring freedom and democracy to other nations. Everything is exactly the opposite. Instead of democracy, there is suppression and exploitation. Instead of freedom, there is enslavement and violence. Putin: US manipulates the world by controling the internet. ‼The theft of Russian assets in the West will not go unpunished - Putin. ⚡ ***Putin: The United States are actually occupying Germany, Japan, the Republic of Korea and other countries, and at the same time cynically call them equal allies. I wonder what kind of alliance this is. But the whole world knows that the leaders of these countries are being watched. The first persons of these countries are being set up not only in their offices, but also in their living quarters. This is a real disgrace, a disgrace for those who do this and for those who, like slaves, silently and mercilessly swallow this impudence. They call the orders and rude insulting slogans against their vassals the Euro-Atlantic solidarity. ***Professor Jeffrey Sachs NOT Putin Caused the War The war in Ukraine is a war that the US caused, not a war that Putin caused, but a war that the US caused by expanding the military alliance, NATO, eastward, and trying to set up a military base or bases in Ukraine, and in the South Caucuses, especially the country Georgia. ***‘Putin has been the MOST EFFECTIVE leader in my lifetime’ – Tucker ***Ex-Zelensky adviser Arestovich DEMOLISHED Western PROPAGANDA on Putin Putin is too kind and good a person compared to how they portray him. ***Henry Kissinger (2014): "For the West, the demonization of Vladimir Putin is not a policy; it is an alibi for the absence of one" ***JD Vance describes the REAL Vladimir Putin ‘He’s soft-spoken in a certain way, he’s very deliberate, he’s very careful’ ‘Fundamentally he’s a person who looks out for the interests…of Russia’show more

China's central bank has now bought gold for 19... months straight, the largest official buyer on earth. And this week, as gold broke 4,000 dollars, China's biggest banks moved to push ordinary Chinese out of leveraged gold trading, with at least one warning it will liquidate any position not closed by month-end. Both are true at once, and together they explain what this crash really is. Start with what is being banned, because the words matter. ICBC and a string of other banks are shutting down retail trading in what the Chinese themselves call paper gold, the margined, leveraged contracts where you bet on the price without ever owning a bar. Some banks lifted the margin requirement to 140 percent to choke the leverage off before closing the products outright. Physical gold, meanwhile, stays wide open. Coins, bars, savings plans, ETFs, all fine. It is only the paper, the leverage, the casino, that is being shut, the last step in a five-year retreat that the crash just finished. Officially this is about protecting small investors, and that part is real. The same kind of leverage wiped out a wave of Chinese retail in a 2020 commodity blowup. But set the ban beside what the state is doing and something larger comes into view. While its citizens are pushed out of the paper, the People's Bank of China has spent those same 19 months buying the physical metal, more than two thousand three hundred tonnes of it now, accumulating straight through a 28 percent crash that scared everyone else out. Beijing is not trading gold. It is hoarding it. That is the strategy in one frame. China looked at the two things both called gold, the paper bet and the physical bar, and made a choice no Western government would make. It is taking the metal for the state and closing the casino for everyone else. The reason sits in a single date. 2022, when Russia's reserves were frozen with a keystroke. That taught every country outside the Western system one lesson: dollars in an account can be switched off, gold in your own vault cannot. So China is building its monetary independence out of the one asset nobody can freeze, and it does not want that foundation in the hands of leveraged traders who panic-sell in a crash, or priced by a paper market it does not control. Watch this month and the two worlds split in real time. Western investors were forced out of their gold by margin calls and a rate scare. China's central bank bought that exact dip with both hands. One side treats gold as a trade. The other treats it as the floor under a currency. The West is selling paper gold and calling it a crash. China is buying physical gold and calling it a foundation. In ten years, only one of them will look like it understood what gold was for. The metal is already moving to that side.show more