I've always liked you, Matt, but as a Korean, in a country where China's influence runs deep, I find this point very disturbing.
“Pointless war"? Follow the oil.
China buys more than 80% of Iran's shipped oil.
That's 1.38 million barrels a day in 2025, per Kpler.
Nearly every barrel Tehran sells under sanctions goes to Beijing.
Add Venezuela.
More than half of its oil exports went to China too.
Together, Iran and Venezuela supplied about 15-17% of China's crude imports.
Much of it was cheap, sanctioned oil, relabeled "Malaysian" to hide where it came from.
Now Greenland.
China controls about 60% of the world's rare earth mining and over 90% of the processing.
Those minerals go into missiles, fighter jets, EVs and chips. Greenland sits on the Arctic shipping routes Beijing calls the "Polar Silk Road."
So what connects Iran, Venezuela and Greenland?
They're three pillars of China's cheap energy and supply chain. Cut them and you raise the cost of Beijing's military buildup without firing a shot at China.
That is America First.
China is the only rival big enough to replace the U.S.
Letting it fuel up on discount oil from America's enemies is not "restraint."
It's surrender on the installment plan.
Gas prices hurt.
I get it.
But if Beijing runs the world's energy and minerals, groceries won't be the worst thing you can't afford.
Think one move ahead.
Je houdt het niet voor mogelijk. Terwijl extreemlinks Franse steden teistert met geweld, vernielingen en gewonden, richt het Franse gerecht zijn pijlen op schrijver Michel Houellebecq. Zijn misdaad? Uitspraken over moslims uit 2022.
Een politiek systeem dat liever woorden vervolgt dan geweld bestrijdt, hééft geen probleem. Het ís het probleem.
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Milad Malak, a 20-year-old Egyptian Coptic Christian and church deacon, was abducted, tortured, and killed by Islamist militants in Libya after repeatedly refusing their demands to abandon Christianity and convert to Islam.
Milad had traveled from his home village of Sabrbay, near Tanta in Egypt's Gharbia Governorate, to Libya on September 2, 2026, hoping to find employment and financially support his family.
He traveled with two Muslim friends from his village. However, while working in the western Libyan city of Zliten, the three were kidnapped alongside other Egyptian workers by an armed group.
According to his sister, Madonna Malek, the family last spoke to Milad on October 4. Two days later, on October 6, they received a message informing them that he had been abducted and was being tortured.
His kidnappers demanded a ransom of $4,700 for his release.
The families of his two Muslim companions paid the ransom, and both men were released. Milad's family also transferred the requested $4,700, but his captors refused to free him.
According to testimony from the two survivors and his family, the kidnappers discovered that Milad was the only Christian among the captives and began demanding that he renounce Jesus Christ and embrace Islam.
He endured days of beatings, torture, and death threats but refused to abandon his Christian faith.
His sister recounted his response to the kidnappers: "Even if you were to hack me to pieces, I would never renounce my faith."
He was subsequently killed.
The killing has revived memories of the 21 Christian martyrs murdered by ISIS on a Libyan beach in February 2015, when 20 Egyptian Coptic Christians and one Ghanaian Christian were beheaded after refusing to renounce their faith.
@AnneTomato3@fallawanna Or you took some or worse, you gave it to your child.
If it is a lie, you don't have to worry and get emotional. Everything will be all right.
Right?
FEMYSO op de zwarte lijst gezet. Door Egypte.
Maar in Nederland werd iedereen die kritisch was op een recente FEMYSO-voorzitter als Kamerlid van *GroenLinks*, ""huhuuu islamofoob!!1!"" genoemd.
Overigens is ze nu verslaggever voor een nieuw onafhankelijk 🤔 mediaplatform. Tja
Wat ik telkens zeg bij @Nieuwsvandedag_ en elders: we delen paspoorten uit als zoete broodjes aan mensen die he le maal niks met de Nederlandse cultuur, geschiedenis en normen en waarden hebben. Pure zelfmoord als een natie en als een gemeenschap. En 'progressief' Nederland vindt het allemaal best:
Een nieuw "onafhankelijk" media platform, tot de nok gevuld met PRO-prominenten (een v/h GL- campagnestrateeg, een v/h mdw van GL wetenschappelijk bureau, een v/h GL Kamerlid e.a.).
Gefinancierd door Oxfam, Greenpeace, FNV, HV.
En dat noemen ze .... "Tegenmacht" ?🤨🤔
Watch as I confront Chinese-Paid Activist Medea Benjamin.
Co-founder of Code Pink, Medea is closely tied to Neville Roy Singham who regularly attends CCP propaganda forums
Neville is married to Medea’s co-founder, Jodi Evans
What’s that thing that was invented in the Middle Ages in England, when you make up lies about Jews being super evil so other people will kill them, and it ended up with there being no Jews in England?
No joke: Tomorrow at 10 am, the U.N. plans to elect the Islamic regime of Iran to its main subsidiary organ shaping priorities on women's rights, counter-terrorism and peacekeeping. We urge all states who nominated Tehran — 🇨🇦🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇪🇸🇳🇱🇳🇴🇫🇮🇨🇭🇦🇹🇦🇺🇨🇭— to reverse course and vote No.