🇪🇺🇬🇧 - Bloomberg says companies now face "exit taxes" when departing assets from many European countries including the UK.

Bonne Saint-Jean tout le monde!

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🇨🇦 - Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney: “The military action was also a diplomatic move by Iran. We never welcome, obviously, hostilities and reactions, but it was proportionate, it was de-escalatory, it appears to have been previewed,” he told CNN

Stand-by for major news.

🇨🇳 - #BREAKING Chinese dissident outlets, French intelligence-focused media questions Xi's grip on power in Beijing, with news outlet Intelligence Online saying Xi Jinping will retire from the leadership of the CCP, but not of his other functions, in July during a key party meeting.

🇺🇸 - I can assure you many people around Trump have read How Democracies Die by Levitsky and Ziblatt.

Just like Mobutu and all the African dictators from his cohort all read Luttwak's coup handbook back in the days.

🇺🇸 - Basically Luttwak's coup handbook came out circa 1968 and was used by many African dictators to launch coups. Its a book that described factually how to stage military coups, without inciting people to launch such but clearly being taught of as coup 101.

Levitski and Ziblatt are 2 liberals from Harvard. They've launched a book called "how democracy dies" which explains how democratic backsliding happens, how democracy fades away in authoritarianism, and most importantly gives no real pro-democracy solution beyond "orange man bad". Guess what? All of the serious Trump folks read those books and what happened after is of no surprise.

🇺🇸 - Crude goes down 6%.

🇪🇺 EU’s von der Leyen vows that the next sanctions package against Russia will be a “biting one”

She then felt the need to reassure Zelensky that he is “among friends”

🇺🇸😡 - Trump:’’ Very unhappy with Israel bombing Iran after the ceasefire. They don’t know what the fuck they are doing.’’

Let’s face the truth:

Is israel the only western-like country in the middle east? Maybe.

Will the western governments continue to defend israel’s existence? Realistically yes.

Should Western Nations be dragged in a ground war in Iran because of this? No.

🇺🇸- Trump reacts to ceasefire agreement being violated after 11 minutes