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“100 US troops have just arrived in Nigeria to help train local forces in anti-terror operations. It's the first batch. Another hundred or 200 is expected to come in the next several days to weeks.”
“The Russians have started putting those on drones and using those to send drones not the 10, 15 miles you can with a first person drone or a wire drone, but hundreds kilometers so you can attack things deep within the country. The Russians are using this to target things like government buildings and schools and playgrounds and malls and most famously of recently a moving train full of civilians.”
“From a legal point of view, this is a pretty big deal because here in the United States, when something is used in that way with you actively allowing empowering your product to cause death and destruction, it's called a depraved indifference. And if someone dies as a result of that operation, it's a secondderee murder charge.”
“Um, we also have a number of European authorities, French um, most notably starting to raid Elon Musk company's offices, specifically X or Twitter to everybody else.”
“Armenia is now officially for sale to the United States. And if the United States wants to spend 2, three, four, six billion dollars to just buy a country and lock it into the American orbit, this would be the cheapest way to do it.”
“The Trump administration opened up a broad assault against a number of targets across the country of Iran. It seems to be a full-throated attempt to overthrow the government and destroy as much military hardware as possible.”
“And is this something that is going to change the math of rare earth production? Uh probably not. The Minamito Orosima deposit while huge absolutely huge is at the bottom of the seafloor on the abyssal plane under 8 km of water. So you have to bring it up and then dry it and then start the processing. So you're already talking about costs that are on average an order of magnitude higher than anything anywhere else.”
“The limiting factor is the processing capacity which the Chinese basically have a lock on at the moment. So the Chinese will continue have the leverage until such time as countries decide to kind of marry national security to their economic decision-making on these things.”
“What we've discovered in the last 96 hours is that the Russian forces in the area were completely dependent upon Starlink for communication among themselves. And that communication is functionally stopped.”
“the Trump administration's accusation against China that the Chinese did a unofficial and banned nuclear test back in 2020. They're saying that somewhere out in western China, which is the Chinese testing grounds, that there is a subterranean explosion 5 six years ago.”
“The only other theory that is out there that have I heard is that the US administration under Donald Trump wants to restart testing of nuclear weapons. The leading theory is that Donald Trump personally wants to be able to blow up some nukes as examples to push negotiations forward.”
“The defense department under secretary heath has given anthropic which is the company that runs the clawed AI model until tomorrow to basically say that the defense department can use it for whatever it wants without restriction. Or he will force the issue by invoking the defense production act so that Claude and Anthropic have to play ball or he will ban Anthropic from all defense related activities.”
“Claude is by far the most advanced AI system in the world. It has dozens of applications from writing, which I use it for, to surveillance and doing background checks and programming.”
“Uh it looks like the Iranians are running low on missiles, but they got plenty of drones left. We had over 300 drones fired off at various locations, but the number of missiles fired dropped below 100.”
“And if you take 15 to 20% of the world's crude supply offline day after day after day after day, you eventually will get an energy crisis because something as small as a 5% disruption in supply for something that has inelastic demand can generate just awful outcomes over a couple of weeks.”
“The government of Panama has just formally taken control of the series of ports that used to be run and owned by the Chinese. Today was the day that the Panameanian government took formal control of the facilities from the Chinese.”
“Whereas the United States is the strategic guarantor of everything that matters in the region. We're not there yet.”
“The issue that apparently the American government has is upstream of that pipeline on the other side of another international boundary with Kazakhstan. We have some investments by American super majors and those super majors have gone to the US government and said hey and so this US government has gone to Ukraine and said no no no.”
“The issue is targeting. Um, the Iranians can't really go after US vessels because they don't have the guidance that's necessary and the Israelis are a long way away. So, there's plenty of times to detect and shoot down drones and missiles, especially drones. Uh, but for the Arab side of the Persian Gulf, the story is different. So, what we've got going on is instead of going after the Israelis or the Americans, the Iranians are going after the Baharinis and the Kuwaitis and the Amiradis and the Saudis.”
“And the Shaheds that are being thrown against them are less than 50,000. So, in order to reliably shoot down a projectile, you often have to shoot more than one um interceptor. And best guess, and it is a guess, is at the beginning of the conflict, the collective Arab side of the Gulf probably had over 2,000 interceptors, but they've already intercepted over 1,000 things coming at them.”
“danger to the LG facility at Ross Laughen in Gutter has become immense enough that they've shut down operations not just completely but they're putting everything into a cold standby which means from the point that they give the order it'll take a month for it to bring up to normal capacity.”
“Ukrainians now have four years of battle experience doing this. Uh and they've developed a counter Shahed drone that only costs 2 to $3,000 versus a Pack 3 which costs over a million.”
“And now the Ukrainians have uh and they're going to be deploying under British control to probably the United Arab Emirates in the next 48 hours. We will then see in a secondary theater uh whether this can be effective.”
“Uh Sentcom says that day seven compared to day one that the number of missiles that Iran has been fire are down by 86%. That might be a little optimistic, but it's definitely over three quarters.”
“The Trump administration opened up a broad assault against a number of targets across the country of Iran. There have been direct strikes on at least 20 different cities and on top of that at least a half a dozen positions that the Iranians use for naval power projection.”
“According to the literature, which is all glow, it only reduces cognitive decline by like 30% over an 18-month period, which is not enough really to move the needle in any meaningful way.”
“So if you really want to solve this problem from a demographic issue, a labor force issue, a tax receipt issue, you have to extend the age of retirement well past 65, at least to 70.”
“And if these drugs do end up working in the long run as advertised and they can reduce inflammation throughout your body and keep your body weight down, well, there might be a conversation to be had there. But these medications are new. They've only been around 2, three years for any practical data.”
“But that is still the only and best way to extend life that we've figured out so far. Requires a fair amount of elbow grease and you have to start young.”