The proliferation of mobile missile and unmanned systems throughout the first island chain is the most effective way to counter and defeat CCP aggression.

"Florida International University’s Turning Point USA chapter President Ian Valdes has stepped down from leadership, the school’s club announced on social media, after reporting revealed his involvement in a racist group chat among Miami campus conservatives." 🎁🔗

The biggest hazers are always the weakest and abused. They’re desperate to have power over someone else.

*long quiet* *gentle rustling breeze* *uncomfortable silence* Me: does this mean the F-15 perfect A2A record is toast?

Excellent thread

This is by far my favorite soap opera

Japan to place missiles on Yoniguni Island, nearest to Taiwan, by 2030 news.web.nhk/newsweb/na/n...

In this 2024 interview, Jack Hughes, who just scored the game-winning goal for the US Olympic hockey team, explains why it was important for him to embrace Pride Night when many other NHL players refused to do so.

I spent last week teaching about a potential Taiwan invasion scenario and ended up developing what I’ve started calling “The Three Nevers.” Somewhat tongue in cheek, but grounded in history and operational reality:

Man, this really captures my feelings these days.

OTD in 2022 George Galloway released one of the absolute, all-time classics. He has yet to delete it, show humility, or confirm/deny if this means he in fact being paid to act like an idiot, or if he just does it free. #JustAskingQuestions

“.. A review of the entire day’s programming on both the Fox News Channel and Fox Business found not one single mention of the story all day long Friday until after 6 pm ET ..” @mediaite.com www.mediaite.com/analysis/fox...

Page One. @wsj.com

There’s an inverse relationship between people being called influencers and my belief that they should influence anyone

5 F-35’s worth of nothingness

Yes it’s called a strategy of denial to deter China in the Pacific yes that’s why the priority is restoring the Monroe Doctrine but in Greenland yes where the only foreign base is already ours yes which is why we’re sending a carrier to the Middle East to bomb Iran yes. I am a strategist yes.

BTW the biggest DC power move is to be the first person in your group to send out the latest OPM guidance. @heardindc.bsky.social

This legitimately hard to fathom. The entire surviving CMC now consists of Xi and a political officer. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

PLA having a totally normal “lose two vice chairs in a year” years… maybe… but also holy sh*t

Marco Rubio, June 2012.

I feel so much better about myself now that I know that this story has been confirmed.

Day 1417 of my 3 day war. My invasion has now lasted longer than our war with Nazi Germany. With American supplies & Ukrainian soldiers helping, they advanced 1800km in that time. We have managed about 60. I remain a master strategist.

Rapier

Curtis Yarvin has written a very long screed in defense of his post in which he said, “Hitler spoke the truth.” A sampling of select portions is below and includes, in reference to Jewish people, the words: “The only way to tell is the name and the nose.”

“Do they even have what they say they do? .. “.. John Arnold, the well known former energy hedge fund manager, yesterday on X basically said the 300 billion barrel reserve claim was made up to Hugo Chavez ..” - Boockvar

Hot and crude topic: Venezuela's Self-Reported Oil Reserves Much of the oil is extra-heavy, with low recovery and high production costs. Torsten at Apollo

‘Witchcraft’ flew an incredible 130 combat missions in a year with the 467th Bomb Group of the 8th Air Force. No crewmen were ever injured onboard, and the aircraft never had to abort a mission. 📷 American Air Museum FRE 1970 🧵6/10

One way to read this is that billionaires don’t beat average stock market returns.

This is laughable, but it’s also so emblematic of the cult of victimhood. To them, the suffering, real and imagined, is the end. The ability to persevere and overcome carries no meaning and isn’t part of the conversation.

Tenet Media founder Lauren Chen, who secretly took money from two people with ties to Russian state media to involve conservative influencers in an unwitting propaganda scheme, is back in the US after being deported to Canada under President Biden. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

On one hand, this is a cheap scary force multiplier. On the other, part of what makes containerized missiles so scary is not knowing which vessels carry them. Not much of a concern here.

Two Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-15s scrambled in response to a previously unknown type of aircraft today, sources close to the matter tell me. The aircraft is photographed below:

Finland to expand its reservist force to 1 million. The government will raise the upper age limit for reservists from 60 to 65 years, effective January 1, 2026, adding around 125,000 reservists over the next five years to strengthen national defense.

Libyan MiG-25RB squadron emblem.

Nobody even talks about the Iraqi Super Gun these days

China to fall out of Germany’s top five export destinations for first time since 2010 – Reuters: ‘dropping to seventh place as shipments decline 10% to 81 billion euros ($95.04 billion) this year’ ‘as imports from [China] rise more than 7% to around 168 billion euros, accounting for 12% of all’

The enemy cannot input prompts into the AI if you disable his hand!

1) Impose massive tariffs on China 2) China retaliates by ending its soybean imports 3) Cut deal w/ China so they'll buy our soybeans 4) China buys only 20%, so far, of what it agreed to purchase 5) Offer $12 billion to US farmers so they don't go bankrupt www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

German tankers had a tendency to count their kills very optimistically. #OTD in 1943 instructions were given by the 18th Army, reminding its tankers that not all enemy tanks that were hit counted as destroyed, especially not those that drove away afterwards. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII

Small caps for the win

Well, since one of my clients chose this one, I'm making the European outperformance chart the subject of today's Daily Insight blog post for my X Subscribers only. $STOXX $VGK $EZU $FEZ $VTI $SPY $FXE $USD

Mike is a must follow

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Following the fall of France in 1940, British shipping in came under increasing threat from Luftwaffe aircraft. The FW 200s of KG 40 were a particular concern, initially from bombing attacks but increasingly in shadowing convoys and reporting their position for U-Boats. 📷 airvectors.net 🧵1/10

Pretty impressive record