🇵🇱 - Reading that Nawrocki is an organized crime history expert.... and that obviously people are just assuming he's a gangster himself.
🇵🇱 - My advice to Poland would be to go see the Brits and ask for advice on how to break down hooligans groups. That's the way they'll build a proper Football league people want to invest in.
🇫🇷 - France decided debating the war in Gaza itself wasn't enough they wanted to debate the whole history of the 20th century too, so they are considering a bill to make Dreyfus a general. RN and LFI both support the bill, but some folks within LREM wants to bury it because its "too symbolic".
🇺🇲 - Interesting article in the WSJ about how the former UnitedHealth CEO lived in England the whole time and lost his job because he didn't adapt to major US regulatory change re: Medicare.
🇺🇲🇨🇳 - Sens. Jim Banks and Elizabeth Warren criticized Nvidia’s new Shanghai facility, citing national-security concerns in a letter to CEO Jensen Huang - WSJ
🇺🇲 - Congress is examining an interesting bill that is based around the "Let's cut the Humvees manufacturing that is done to please some random congressmen and let's focus on R&D" idea. It is framed as the most radical military reform since Vietnam, and is probably both a good thing and something that wouldn't happen without Trump... hum.... let's say bypassing congress a lot.
🇪🇺🇿🇦 - Rheinmetall establishes new subsidiary in South Africa that will produce 100 million euros a year worth of chemical precursors. The location in South Africa could be aimed at bypassing European regulations.
🇺🇲 - Shares and dollar tumble as tariff tensions flare - Reuters
🇵🇱 - Just having "the talk" on Poland, in case there are younger people out here, or people needing a fresh reminder: Both PiS and Polish liberals support Poland being in the EU and especially Poland being in NATO, both opposes Russia, the only issue is that PiS is conservative on many issues Brussels consider too much because of rule of law concerns and that creates tensions when PiS holds power.
Media is too big
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🇺🇲 - Broadcasting the video out of a will to document society and economical change in the US.
🇫🇷 - French senate discussing an anti-Shein and anti-Temu bill against "Fast Fashion".
Forwarded from Mediterranean Man (Mediterranean Man)
Listen, okay, but let us be serious for a second.
He will never do it, well, I think he will not do it, if he does actually go for it, expect some of the worst LiveLeak footage in this decade.
But, on paper, it is not that hard..
For one, pacification of the locals will depend on several main factors that the Miles "gang" will be able to afford.
1) Can you give the settlements consisting of the Haitian people 1- Money 2- Food Security 3- Stable environment (in terms of making an actual life and actual security) and make it a semi-permanent arrangement?
2) Can YOUR Opponents give them 1- Money 2- Food Security 3- Stable environment AND you have the ability to degrade them from doing that?
3) Can you give them a better, tangible future in terms of materialism while at the same not eroding the core tenants of their lifestyle and freedom?
4) Can "your" Gang militarily overcome your opponents, while at the same time being operationally capable in responding to any unforeseen events?
If Miles feels absolutely confident in all four, then he is free to go for it and see how it goes.
There is a reason why most COIN operations fail.
In the last 20 years, the only "insurgencies" or "rebellious elements" were quashed because the main state actor managed a YES on all four of these pillars.
Examples include Sinai (we beat them to death), Chechnya (It is extremely stable and generally successful after the wars), Eastern Libya (he did the same), Mauritania (its been over a decade since anything happened there), the Macedonians also crushed the Albanians when they tried to start shit, Ecuador did an O.K job too, Hamas in Gaza crushed Al-Qaeda and ISIS elements too, so that counts as well.
What is the common thing between Egypt, Russia, Libya, and Mauritania, Macedonia, Ecuador, Hamas, and Morocco?
The state actor managed to do a YES on all the four questions I just asked, while at the same time having the immense capability of cruelty, violence, and ability to restore order through direct methods, and therefore - they won, as is agreed upon by everyone who is not delusional.
Miles, if he is being serious and not larping, should take heed of what I just wrote.
He will never do it, well, I think he will not do it, if he does actually go for it, expect some of the worst LiveLeak footage in this decade.
But, on paper, it is not that hard..
For one, pacification of the locals will depend on several main factors that the Miles "gang" will be able to afford.
1) Can you give the settlements consisting of the Haitian people 1- Money 2- Food Security 3- Stable environment (in terms of making an actual life and actual security) and make it a semi-permanent arrangement?
2) Can YOUR Opponents give them 1- Money 2- Food Security 3- Stable environment AND you have the ability to degrade them from doing that?
3) Can you give them a better, tangible future in terms of materialism while at the same not eroding the core tenants of their lifestyle and freedom?
4) Can "your" Gang militarily overcome your opponents, while at the same time being operationally capable in responding to any unforeseen events?
If Miles feels absolutely confident in all four, then he is free to go for it and see how it goes.
There is a reason why most COIN operations fail.
In the last 20 years, the only "insurgencies" or "rebellious elements" were quashed because the main state actor managed a YES on all four of these pillars.
Examples include Sinai (we beat them to death), Chechnya (It is extremely stable and generally successful after the wars), Eastern Libya (he did the same), Mauritania (its been over a decade since anything happened there), the Macedonians also crushed the Albanians when they tried to start shit, Ecuador did an O.K job too, Hamas in Gaza crushed Al-Qaeda and ISIS elements too, so that counts as well.
What is the common thing between Egypt, Russia, Libya, and Mauritania, Macedonia, Ecuador, Hamas, and Morocco?
The state actor managed to do a YES on all the four questions I just asked, while at the same time having the immense capability of cruelty, violence, and ability to restore order through direct methods, and therefore - they won, as is agreed upon by everyone who is not delusional.
Miles, if he is being serious and not larping, should take heed of what I just wrote.
BTW, can't send DMs through my old account, so please inbox me on my new account @GIWdude
🇺🇲 - Nate Silver trying to tell democrats that if they read Hayek they'll win in 2028.