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NVIDIA's Market Cap vs. Countries' GDP
NVIDIA: $4.193 trillion
Countries with a larger GDP than NVIDIA's valuation:
🇺🇸 United States — $32.64T
🇨🇳 China — $21.55T
🇩🇪 Germany — $5.47T
🇯🇵 Japan — $4.34T
🇬🇧 United Kingdom — $4.27T
🇮🇳 India — $4.06T
NVIDIA is worth more than the annual economic output of almost every country in the world.
Source: CompaniesMarketCap (Nov 11, 2026); IMF World Economic Outlook (October 2026).
BLINKEN AND POMPEO FIND COMMON GROUND ON ISRAEL AND HAMAS
A rare moment of bipartisan unity as former Secretaries of State Antony Blinken and Mike Pompeo defend Israel’s right to respond to Hamas after October 7.
🇺🇸 Blinken: “The target was Hamas”
🇺🇸 Pompeo: “When you are so fundamentally in the right, and evil is so one-sided and so clear…”
Despite disagreements over Gaza and Iran, both rejected equating Israel’s military campaign with Hamas’s October 7 atrocities.
Two administrations.
Two political parties.
A shared defense of Israel’s sovereignty.
🇺🇦🇷🇺 BUDANOV’S WARNING TO PUTIN: RUSSIA WILL NOT ENJOY PEACE WHILE OCCUPYING UKRAINE!
Kyrylo Budanov has made Ukraine’s position clear: operations inside Russia will continue as long as Moscow occupies Ukrainian territory, with their reach depending on the resources available.
His message challenges a fundamental assumption behind Russia’s invasion.
Moscow cannot expect to wage war across Ukraine while remaining insulated from its consequences at home.
And as Ukraine develops greater long-range capabilities, the distance between the front line and Russian military infrastructure becomes increasingly less reassuring.
For the Kremlin, occupying Ukrainian territory comes with a cost that cannot simply be confined to the battlefield.
Budanov’s warning is ultimately about leverage: until Ukraine’s territorial integrity is restored, Russia should not assume the consequences of its invasion will remain outside its own borders.
There is absolutely no evidence of genocide by Israel. Accusations are part of a political warfare campaign intended to lead to the annihilation of Israel. If you support that campaign you have genocidal intent.
Egypt has designated 35 entities as terrorist organizations for 5 years, including major Muslim organizations across Europe.
The decision follows Egypt’s permanent designation of the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization, replacing its previous system of renewable 3-year listings.
An interesting contradiction in Egypt’s regional policy: Cairo supports Sudan’s Armed Forces (SAF), which have ties to Muslim Brotherhood aligned factions and militias.
While Egypt views the Muslim Brotherhood as a national security threat, its support for the SAF reflects broader strategic interests in Sudan, despite the Islamist factions operating alongside it.
College student:
“Jews are refugees. They have no right to self-determination. Israel has no sovereignty.”
The response that shut the room down:
“Millions of Jews left Auschwitz with nowhere to go.
Not one country on Earth took them in.
A million and a half Jews fought in World War II…
and still couldn’t bomb the tracks to the gas chambers.
Because they had no army.
No country.
No power.
The day Jews could finally defend themselves…
is the day Jews stopped dying.”
Hamas has said it out loud for two years:
They will keep going until every last Jew is dead.
You’re telling Israelis to dismantle their self-defense “for peace.”
Hamas is telling them: “Do it and we’ll slaughter you.”
And somehow… Hamas is winning the argument inside your head.
Go learn the actual history.
Then come back and talk. 🇮🇱
Listen to the words Anjem Chaudary said. Because these aren’t the words of just some “radical extremist”. These are the words we’ve all heard countless times by so many Muslims. We’ve seen it in countless videos, countless news headlines, countless Islamic terrorist attacks.
This is Islam.
🇷🇺🇩🇪🇺🇦 HE HAD A CAREER AS A SURGEON IN GERMANY. HE LEFT IT BEHIND TO FIGHT FOR PUTIN AND DIED IN UKRAINE.
Dmitry Meshcheryakov had something many Russians could only dream of: a professional career in Germany, working as a surgeon, with the opportunity to build a stable life far from the war.
He had access to the security, opportunities and freedoms of a peaceful European country.
Yet he chose to leave that life behind and join Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Meshcheryakov also operated a pro-war Z-channel, publicly supporting the military campaign he eventually joined.
He was subsequently killed in the war.
His story illustrates a striking contradiction.
While Russian state propaganda regularly portrays Europe as decadent, hostile and morally bankrupt, many Russian citizens have built successful lives there, benefiting from its institutions, professional opportunities and stability.
Meshcheryakov had experienced those advantages firsthand.
Nevertheless, he chose to participate in a war launched against a neighboring country rather than continue his medical career.
There is also a bitter irony in a trained surgeon, whose profession is dedicated to preserving human life, choosing to take part in a conflict that has caused so much death and destruction.
His precise motivations remain his own, but the outcome is clear: a medical career in Germany ended with his death in Ukraine.
He had the opportunity to build a future in peace.
Instead, he went to war for Putin.
As the UK is moving quickly toward EU rejoin it's probably a good idea for Brexit supporters to register on a central database so they do not have to enjoy the benefits of EU membership.
They can agree to live as though Brexit still existed with all that entails.
This is the unimaginable brutality of Islamist terrorism. Christians are murdered, families are devastated, and the so-called “enlightened” world? Almost deafening silence.
Where are the screaming headlines? The mass protests? The human rights organizations, celebrities, and students who rush to demonstrate their moral superiority at every opportunity?
Now imagine the exact same atrocity. The same Christian victims, the same brutality, the same number of dead. Only two details change: it happens in Israel, and the perpetrators are Jews.
Can you even imagine the international outrage? The hysterical headlines, worldwide demonstrations, UN condemnations, and demands to punish Israel?
But when the killers are Islamists, suddenly the moral outrage evaporates.
Apparently, what matters isn't just who gets murdered, but who does the murdering.
Welcome to a world where human rights are universal — until they become inconvenient to the narrative.
And they still have the audacity to lecture the rest of us about morality.