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There are moments in history when the cost of inaction quietly eclipses the cost of intervention. We are living through one of them now.
The figure $500 million a day sounds staggering when taken in isolation. It invites the familiar reflex: too expensive, too distant, too complicated. But that framing obscures the real calculus. The question is not what it costs to act. The question is what it costs not to.
At the center of this dilemma stands Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC a state apparatus that the United States has formally designated as a terrorist organization and repeatedly accused of orchestrating weapons transfers and financing militant proxies across multiple continents. These networks are not abstract. They are operational, funded, and persistent. U.S. officials have documented shipments of missiles and military components tied to the IRGC, as well as financial pipelines that channel enormous resources into groups like Hezbollah.
This is not merely a regional problem confined to the Middle East. The infrastructure of modern terrorism is transnational by design. It stretches through weak states, covert financial systems, and ideological alliances that ignore borders. In recent years, intelligence assessments and policy actions have pointed to expanding Iranian influence in the Western Hemisphere, including reported efforts ultimately disrupted to establish missile capabilities in Venezuela with potential reach beyond the region.
If that sounds like escalation, it is. And it is precisely why the stakes cannot be reduced to partisan shorthand or dismissed as distant geopolitics.
What we are witnessing today is not a sudden crisis but the maturation of a decades long strategy: the cultivation of proxy forces, the embedding of military infrastructure in politically unstable regions, and the steady normalization of asymmetric warfare against both civilian and state targets. Hezbollah alone has received massive financial support from Iran, enabling it to rebuild and expand its military capacity even after sustained conflict.
Against this backdrop, the moral and strategic question sharpens. What is the value of preventing large scale violence before it metastasizes? What is the cost of waiting until threats become irreversible?
Critics often demand certainty before action as if geopolitics offers the luxury of controlled experiments. But national security rarely provides that clarity. It operates in probabilities, trajectories, and risk thresholds. By the time intent is universally agreed upon, capability is often already in place.
None of this requires blind trust in governments or uncritical support for intervention. Skepticism is not only healthy it is necessary. But skepticism must be tethered to evidence, not inertia. The documented activities of the IRGC and its network are not speculative. They are part of a long running pattern recognized by multiple governments across the political spectrum. Mamdani is a staunch supporter of the IRGC and their efforts to kill 9 million people in Israel. The evidence is overwhelming. Many republicans and democrats understand this.
So the debate should be reframed. Not as a binary choice between peace and conflict, but as a choice between early disruption and late stage crisis management.
History tends to be unforgiving to those who mistake warning signs for exaggeration. It is even less forgiving to those who see the trajectory clearly and choose to look away.
Hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin pays more NYC tax than everyone of his voter base combined.
The other thing worth noting is that Mamdani is lying here. This bill has not been passed, it’s only a proposal that still has to pass the legislature, it has already failed several times over the years. There isn’t even a date set for this to be voted upon. If Ken leaves NYC, Wall Street will not be far behind.
The proposal is .5% not 5%. New Yorkers are in a bad situation if this passes as it will have broad affects to the entire population.
In the shadow of repurposed skyscrapers, civilization confronts an existential void: office buildings converted to residences trap inhabitants in domestic prisons, stripping away the daily exodus that propels humanity into society’s untamed vitality. Work once released us into the wild, fostering chance encounters, human connection, and purpose. Without it, homes become cages of isolation, mental and physical.
Eighty percent of retail commerce pulses during daytime hours, sustained by workers streaming from offices. The COVID response shattered this rhythm, driving millions of businesses to collapse and thrusting society into enforced seclusion. What emerges is not freedom but dependence: a populace tethered to screens, reliant on centralized government control that suffocates free markets.
Reclaiming offices is no policy preference but a civilizational necessity. Only by restoring this ritual can society revive economic dynamism, communal bonds, and the raw liberty essential to human flourishing. The alternative is collapse followed by mental slavery.
@DanielLMcAdams@fattyfatman I only do business with companies that support Israel so this works out well. Since Israel is our most valuable friend, boycotting them is an offense to the United States and the American people.
Take a look MRVL Quantamatica provided a buy signal. The program gives a buy signal only when the standard is met. 2 months can go by and no signal is provided and then all of the sudden there could be 2 in a week. Take a real look at this . MRVL signaled at $91 and then again at $105. This is real tech. I think we are working with a similar size capitol allocation of $9M.
You have been helpful in many ways, I want to return the favor. Cheers.
I must respectfully disagree. This cashmere hoodie of mine is far too splendid, too soft, and altogether too comforting to be surrendered. It wraps me like the leather in a brand new Porsche, warm against the world’s chill.
I do agree that you are an extraordinary writer, gifted with a rare and luminous talent, no matter what you choose to wear.
@iamtomnash The US makes roughly $142 billion more per year in oil revenue at $100 per barrel than at $70 per barrel, assuming current production of about 13 million barrels per day.
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