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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

Theodore Postol is a retired MIT physics professor who was a consultant to the Pentagon on nuclear weapons and missile defense. He recently published a presentation on Iran’s nuclear weapons capability, which he summarized in a YouTube interview. Professor Postol explains, in considerable detail, how the construction of a deliverable fission bomb is well within

Yves here. While it’s good to see community groups redoubling their efforts to feed the hungry, the fact that this push is occurring is the result of widespread cuts in Federal food program cuts. The one described below, Food Rescue, takes undamaged surplus products from wholesalers to food banks, schools and food pantries. There are

Trump, whose actions are regularly driven by his (often mistaken) perceptions of weakness in other parties, has decided to have a go at India over its purchases of Russian oil. The fact that so far, India is the only country singled out for this treatment suggests that Trump thinks he is engaging in “Kill the

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