Viktor Heikel

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I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

Drönarna innebär svårare skador, långa väntetider på evakuering, att evakueringarna tar längre tid och det i sin tur att amputeringar och njurskador blir fler. Många tvingas vänta i dagar på evakuering, med tryckförbanden på. Liv kanske kan räddas, men inte de extremiteter som förbanden ligger på.

Sårade soldater i Ukraina tvingas vänta i dagar på evakuering: ”Vi släpar de skadade tio kilometer genom skogen” Frontlinjen i Ukraina har varit mer eller mindre frusen i år, men förhållandena vid de främre linjerna har förändrats.

Dan Helenius reportage från militärsjukhus i #Charkiv och från fronten med fältsjukvårdare ur #Khartija-kåren. Drönarna innebär att fronten i #Ukraina är ofarbar annat än nattetid. Skadade evakueras med markdrönare, men oftast bärandes och släpandes i upp till tio kilometer. yle.fi/a/7-10084807

Trumps avveckling av biståndet är en katastrof för flyktingarna i Tchad – ”Vi har inte fått vatten på fem dagar” ”Vi har ingenting, inte ens vatten att dricka. Vi har inte fått någonstans att bo, jag sover på mina kläder.”

Vår reporter Lotte Krank-van de Burgt bevittnade hur katastrofal #USAID :s nedläggning redan har blivit vid lägren för flyktingar från Sudan. En långsam tortyr, så beskriver en biståndsarbetare läget. yle.fi/a/7-10083160

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

To be fair, he probably can't remember any of these tweets.

Funking hell

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English Africa's Ghost Reporters I Al Jazeera Investigations

We finally revealed Russia's use of non-existing journalists in francophone Africa as part of an influence campaign that has impacted over a dozen countries. A fee of about $80 per article was paid to the local media in West Africa for publication of disinformation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qnez...

”Jag är ursinnig och besviken”, säger expert om att Finland drar sig ur det internationella avtalet mot personminor Inget försvarar beslutet att dra sig ur Ottawafördraget, säger Alma Taslidžan som växte upp i inbördeskrigets Bosnien.

yle.fi/a/7-10076756

Risken för en rysk bankkris har ökat Rysslands ekonomi ställs inför tuffa utmaningar när globala tullkonflikter och fallande oljepriser slår hårt mot landets finanser.

Ryska krigsekonomin blir allt mer trängd ju lägre priset på olja sjunker. Putin har dragit in privata banksektorn i finansiering av invasionen av #Ukraina och bankernas likviditet är usel. Risken för en bankkris är hög: yle.fi/a/7-10076208

More in No, Other People:

New poll:

“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”

• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree

“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”

• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory

👀👀

just what you want to be doing right now, telling the world that US capital ratios don't include leverage on a class of securities where many of them have large unrealised mark to market losses.

For veterans of the Eurozone crisis, this is quite incredible - today Greece has a lower borrowing cost than both the UK and the US for their 10 year bonds.

I had to check, all of the previous so called 'PIIGS' (Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, Spain) have lower borrowing costs than the US today.

What an epic journey! Still, at least he got paid at every stage of his trek along Hypocrisy Way...

🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett: Russia has not been imposed a tariff because it is in peace talks.

What about Ukraine, which we got 10% tariff?

Support for the European Union has reached unprecedented levels, with 74% of citizens across member states believing that EU membership benefits their countries, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey. It is the highest support since 1983.

Al Capone on the cover of TIME Magazine

Maybe it’s because I spent the weekend in Chicago, but I’ve been thinking a lot about how the exact same qualities that made Al Capone a folk hero in the Roaring Twenties—wealth, excess, ruthlessness, flagrant lawbreaking—made the American public turn on him after the 1929 stock market crash. 🗃️🧵

I’m confused as to how the design and execution of this tariff policy wasn’t flawless. 🇺🇸

Important story that might be buried under another day of Trump induced market turmoil - there is mounting evidence that Russian actors had at least knowledge of some of the terror attacks that heavily influenced Germany‘s election campaign before they happened:

Video Shows Aid Workers Killed in Gaza Under Gunfire Barrage, With Ambulance Lights On (Gift Article) The U.N. has said Israel killed the workers. The video appears to contradict Israel’s version of events, which said the vehicles were “advancing suspiciously” without headlights or emergency signals.

“Forgive me, mother. This is the path I chose — to help people.” Among the last words of the Palestinian paramedic who was found in a mass grave, shot in the head. If these are not war crimes, I don’t know what is.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

This is the thing.

Manufacturing jobs 100 years ago were dangerous, precarious, and poorly paid.

Manufacturing jobs 70 years ago were a golden ticket to the middle class.

The jobs didn't change. What changed was the New Deal and unions.

I'm watching CNBC. These anchors are so angry. They really didn't believe he'd do it. They're actually just now, 10 years into this shit, realizing he's a maniac hellbent on revenge and there's no grand plan for the markets. Better late than never but holy shit.

Markets check: everything is getting killed. US futures are down over 3%, high yield spreads are blowing out, crude is down almost 6% (thanks to OPEC+ for adding more supply than expected this AM), dollar down 1.5%, yield curve bull-steepening. Full-blown recession pricing for the US across assets.

newsmax is ringing the opening bell at the stock market

let’s see who has the unfortunate task of ringing the opening bell tomorrow … ah perfect

Trump Officials Gave Conflicting Tariff Rates for China. White House Calls the Issue a ‘Pointless Aside.’ What does President Donald Trump’s new tariff regime mean for the all-important trading relationship with China—the country that has the widest trade deficit with the U.S.?

I tried to figure out what exactly the new China tariff was last night. The White House wasn’t sure, and then told me it was a “pointless aside” to write about that.

(It’s 79%)

I can’t compete with this