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This is a far bigger fuel, fertilizer, food crisis for Asia and Europe than it is for the US.

US dependence on Persian Gulf oil has almost never been lower

A thread by @sstapczynski.bsky.social on how Asia is alreaddy within days facing a destabilizing.
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We're nearing the 1 million drones a year. Expect 2.

Het stikte in Amsterdam van vluchtelingen uit Antwerpen (80 jarige oorlog), Sefardis he joden (10.000 rpnd 1700, grootste gemeenschap in Europa), gelukszoekers en -sters uit Oost-Nederland en Westfalen, kooplieden overal vandaan. Er is geen 'ons'.

Data centers are competing with TikTok influencers for our sympathy, it’s a tough choice

Iran has responded to the attack on the Qeshm desalination plant

Rusland beweert Oekraïne te willen 'denazificeren', maar is intussen spil in een netwerk van internationale fascistische en neonazi-groeperingen. Op 12 september vond in Sint-Petersburg de eerste conferentie plaats van de nieuw opgerichte 'Paladins International Sovereigntist League'.

Een draadje

Iran has destroyed a THAAD system in Jordan, and has damaged the THAADs at Prince Sultan airbase in Saudi and in the UAE.

That is 3 out of 8 globally.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In 2013 Iran signed a treaty restricting its nuclear ambitions (Obama). It seems to have worked. Hence, in 2018 Trump ended it. Iran resumed activities. And now, Dutch politicians want to back Trump. Morons. Utter morons. Fight Maga.

I’ve seen enough—Iran wins

The presumed upcoming El Nino will help cement and quantify global warming acceleration, showing that 2C global warming is likely to be reached in the 2030s, not at midcentury.
See Another El Nino Already? mailchi.mp/caa/another-... Also available on Substack: jimehansen.substack.com/p/another-el...

But there are nice new drapes in the White House...
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Nederland: we hebben begrip, we zijn voorzichtig, we houden juridische kaders in het oog
Pete Hegseth: Death. Fury. Destruction. We will kill them all. Torpedos in everybody's houses. Missiles on every street corner. We will kick them when they're down. No one will escape. Everyone dead. God bless.

The second sentence is right.

For Israel, the air attacks in Iran are just a sideshow. The real offensive is in Southern Lebanon.

I'm getting the uneasy feeling that Hegseth just wants war. Period.

Blasting people out of the water and raining bombs on cities.

That's it.

This is correct

Not the first to state this. But it bears repeating.

How powerful Elon Musk has become.

We hebben woorden nodig. Dit is geen monetaire inflatie. Het is geen bestedingsinflatie. Het is productieschokinflatie. Vergelijk het met de misoogsten van vroeger.

Precies. En hogere rente helpt niet tegen de 1e ronde. Gas oppompen, zon en batterijen en lagere accijns wel. En dat helpt ook tegen de 2e ronde.

The cult that wants to give human rights to robots Anthropic’s ‘Claude Constitution’ reflects the misanthropic, ultra-utilitarian Effective Altruism agenda.

How about if we give human rights to humans first?

www.spiked-online.com/2026/02/22/t...

If Donald the Despicable, conman extra-ordinaire, states that there are enough bombs - there aren't.

Now, play your cards:

- families first
- anti-fundamentalism. Down with Zionism, Christian Nationalism, Islamism
- 1 woman sleeping with 50 men because she wants to is ethically better than sleeping with 1 men when she does not want to
- People have to work. Meaningful work
- Green = investments

Having stated this, more energy independence (solar, batteries, decentralised use and production, in the Netherlands producing our own natural gas instead of buying liquefied gas from the US, Qatar, Russia) is the dominant strategy. Did I mention that liquefying requires tons of energy?

It shows more. It shows that central bank interest rate increases to combat higher oil prices are instrumental in reducing earnings growth of bottom-decile workers while higher incomes are large and by unaffected. Raising high income taxes would be the alternative policy.

By failing to call for an immediate cessation of hostilities and openly backing Trump and Netahjahu's attack on Iran, European leaders (von der Leyen, Merz, Macron, Starmer) undermine the case for international solidarity with Ukraine.

Netanyahu does

Failed state.

dnb.archiefweb.eu#archive

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Aside: this also means that the idea that banks gather savings to lend them to long-term investing companies is a bit... stretched. Banks invest in bonds. And mortgages. They however often do finance stocks etc. Good.

I´ve stated that deposit money (the money in your bank account) is a stablecoin. What do I mean?
Here, the consolidated balance sheet of 42 Dutch banks, directly after WW2. And information from a paper by Bindseil and Malekan. In both cases, ´money tokens´ were largely backed by government bonds.

According to the preeminent expert on the use of air power in warfare, Robert A. Pape, from WW2 to the present the use of air power alone has never achieved regime change. Not once.