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Palmer Luckey, the CEO of autonomous weapons systems maker Anduril, is being heralded as the potential savior of America’s defense industry. He’s not. But if you want to see end-stage capitalism in its rococo phase, there’s no better term to pop into search than “Palmer Luckey.” .@PalmerLuckey‘s personal arsenal includes helicopters, nuclear missile silos, a […]

Yves here. The Angry Bear post below called a recession watch, but yours truly is upgrading it to a stagflation watch. That is due the fact that inflation persists and Trump tariff effects set to start kicking in over the next few months means relief is not likely….at least until the economy gets a lot

Trump and India are locked in a staredown, and neither side appears prepared to blink. India seemed to have relied overmuch on its perception of its geostrategic importance, along with an earlier Biden Administration go-ahead, in persisting in Russian oil buys. So India appeared to ignore domestic pressures, like Lindsay Graham was stomping around in

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Like LSD, which can convince people they can fly—causing them to jump out of windows—weapons can make people overconfident. Skewing their tactical judgment. -Ng, “Snow Crash” As the US flails about trying to maintain a dominance that’s already gone, it’s often difficult to analyze or predict US actions because they usually appear on their face

Yves here. Before you take Andrew Korybko’s view as extreme, a new story in the Washington Post, framed as Trump hosting a meeting on Friday to try to broker a “peace deal” between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Even though it does not mention the idea of a US lease of the Zangezur Corridor even though that