Willy Salomonsson

Intresserad av ekonomi, makro och geopolitik .

[DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics]

PM Edi Rama said that no amount of protesters can stop him, so the Albanians took that as a challenge!!!

Protests against Kushner's Epstein Island 2.0 continue into the night.

[Banana Republic🍌🇺🇸 @BeinKounter1]

@CENTCOM Funny how you are 8000 miles away from home, 40 miles off their coast and claiming self defense.

[Willy Salomonsson @LeksandsIF1]

@Megatron_ron 🤮🤮

[Willy Salomonsson @LeksandsIF1]

@DaveHcontrarian @TheAdvanta16839 @MarcinS55107928 @goldsurfer2020 @Pat_Vierra David, would you say that your goal for XLF requires interest rates to start falling?

[David Lee @DavidLe76335983]

Something to think through
🇺🇸 wasted $4T in Middle East
🇨🇳 spent <$4T and achieved many goals
Are we spending wisely?

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

BREAKING: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 CNN releases a video that shows damage on USS Ford was more severe than the Navy suggested

[Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺 @Alex_Oloyede2]

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Zelensky sent an open letter to President Putin requesting a ceasefire to the conflict.

As you all know by now, this is a stall by Kiev, interestingly a day after attacking St. Petersburg. There's no ceasefire with Ukraine until a permanent security deal is agreed upon.

The two Minsk agreements of 2014-16 were evident enough of how the EU tricked Putin. Former German Chancellor Merkel acknowledged that the Minsk 1&2 were used to stall Russia and funnel weapons into Ukraine.

Zelensky in his letter included an all-for-all exchange of Prisoners of War. Russia holds 10x more PoWs than Ukraine has, why would Moscow agree to this during an uncertain ceasefire? So Kiev would push those men back into the fight? We aren't stupid.

There's no ceasefire until Russia's military objectives are achieved.
- No NATO
- Donbass and Crimea recognized as Russia
- Demilitarization/Denazification
- End to persecution of ethnic Russians by kiev

Zelensky also requested Putin meet with the EU, US and Ukraine in a neutral country. President Putin today during his speech reminded Zelensky that if he was ever serious about peace, he should visit Moscow instead.

The president also questioned the legitimacy of Zelensky, he's not the President, if he signs the agreement, what says it won't be overturned by the next extremist in power?

[Luke Gromen @LukeGromen]

It's fascinating to watch US elites & policymakers try to navigate the following contradiction:

1. China's (AI-fueled) productivity boom is "taking everyone down”

2. The coming US AI-fueled productivity boom (that’s driving the US stock boom) won't hurt US employment at all

🤔

[Willy Salomonsson @LeksandsIF1]

@Mangan150 How do you get too much iron and ferritin?

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

There is a strange development in which academics of international politics are expected to publicly condemn adversarial countries before they are allowed to participate in public discourse. The complexity of international politics is reduced to a moral question of good versus evil, and academics must make moral declarations before even discussing facts, history, strategy, and interpretations. Academics should explain why states behave as they do; they are not moral validators.

What value does it bring to an analysis if the analyst "condemns" one side? After Russia invaded Ukraine, the former Norwegian foreign minister actually argued that "this is not the time to understand, but to condemn". This ridiculous position is pushed on academics. However, understanding is not endorsement, explanation is not advocacy, and ignorance is not strength. I argue it is in Russia's security interest to push NATO away from its borders, it is in Iran's interest to control the Strait of Hormuz, and it is in China's interest to create a new international economic architecture. This is not advocacy, nor is it a normative position about how the world should work; rather, it is a recognition of how the world actually works.

An academic should examine interests, capabilities, and strategic calculations that produce such policies—not participate in ritualised declarations of virtue that contribute absolutely nothing. Furthermore, moralism and condemnation often lead to a lack of understanding and increased conflict. When the conclusion is always that the good guys are confronting the bad guys, then the solution is always "peace through strength", "weapons are the path to peace", and defeating the latest reincarnation of Hitler. If you want war, condemn the other side as pure evil. If you want peace, the first step is to understand the other side.

[Douglas Macgregor @DougAMacgregor]

Anyone with dual citizenship should be prohibited from holding federal appointed or elected office or any role in the U.S. government inside the United States.

[The Sirius Report @thesiriusreport]

It is staggering how after 93 days just how many people still haven't grasped why it is pointless listening to any Trump says wrt the Iran war.

[Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺 @Alex_Oloyede2]

🇷🇺🇫🇷 The French military has seized a Madagascar flagged tanker in the Atlantic Ocean, which was heading from Russia.

According to Macron, the vessel was subjected to "international sanctions". Apparently sanctions by the EU are international?

They don't dare board Russian tankers with Wagner units but instead bully smaller nations. The vessel will be released like all others before it but the oil will be stolen by Paris before they are sent off. Piracy under the guise of defending democracy.

[Iran Observer @IranObserver0]

⚡️NEW: Pakistan is replacing the UAE as an import and transit hub for Iran

Islamabad has fully opened its border crossings with Iran in order to for Tehran circumvent the U.S. naval blockade

Per an Iranian source:

— Moving goods through Pakistan to the Iranian border takes only 2 to 3 hours

— The shorter geographical distance projects a 45% to 55% reduction in overall transport and freight costs compared to sea routes via Dubai

— Pakistan is offering a 40% discount on container handling fees and a 25% reduction in berthing fees to lower entry costs

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Its easy to hate those you do not know. This is why our governments criminalise diplomacy, ban media, smear, censor, cancel, cut people-to-people contact, make it "controversial" to discuss security of opponents, replace discourse with emotional slogans and stereotypes etc.

[RussiaNews 🇷🇺 @mog_russEN]

BREAKING:

President Vladimir Putin UNLEASHES on the West! Breaks his silence for the first time with a brutal, point-by-point takedown over the Romania drone crash, demanding names! 🇷🇴🔥

Putin: "Politicians talk way too much."

Journalist: "No, that’s understood, but what they are saying..."

Putin: "Then why didn't they shoot it down? Why didn't they shoot down this drone, which I don't even understand if it's from Russia, that flew in there?.. Do you hear me? I don't even understand what is being discussed here. Before entering the hall, they told me: 'Do you know that some drone flew into Romania?' I said: 'I don't know.' What drone? Tell me, what information is circulating in the media? That it's ours?"

Journalist: "The drone crashed into a residential building in Romania today, and in Romania, they are saying it's a Russian drone."

Putin: "Who in Romania is saying it's a Russian drone?"

Journalist: "Many in Europe are declaring it."

Putin: "'Many' means nobody. Give me specific names."

Journalist: "Ursula von der Leyen."

Putin: "I don't know, Mrs. von der Leyen wasn't in Romania, and she didn't examine the debris of this drone. No one can determine the origin of any aircraft or drone until a technical expertise and investigation of that aircraft is conducted."

"We know that Ukrainian drones have previously flown into Finland, Poland, and somewhere in the Baltic states. The first reaction was exactly the same as it is now in Romania: 'Help, the Russians are coming, the Russians are striking!' Then, a short time later, it turned out that this had nothing in common with Russian aircraft. Instead, they were drones of Ukrainian origin that lost their course, either under the influence of electronic warfare (EW) systems or for other reasons due to the imperfection of their technical data, causing them to fly in there and crash. And in this case, I think we are most likely dealing with exactly that kind of situation."

Putin concluded: "But if they provide us with some objective data—just as we once passed along information and the remains of drones that tried to strike one of the residences of the President of the Russian Federation to representatives of the U.S. administration for examination... Let them hand it over to us. We will conduct an objective investigation, and only then, in that case, will we give an assessment of what happened."

[Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen]

Bernie Sanders: Equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis "would be the end of the state of Israel, and I support Israel”
* It does not matter who you vote for, its two cheeks of the same ass. If Palestinians cannot have their own state and their mere existence threatens the preservation of an ethno-state, then the only possible policies toward the Palestinians are apartheid, ethnic cleansing or genocide.

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

🇺🇸🇨🇳 Largest trading partners in the world in 2000 and 2024

[healthbot @thehealthb0t]

The world you knew is gone

[Gustav Kasselstrand (AFS) 🇸🇪 @gustavkassel]

Ulf Kristersson skänker 16 Gripenplan till Ukraina och "säljer" ytterligare 20, som ska betalas med EU-lån. När övriga Europa börjar tala om fred i Ukraina talar Sverige om fortsatt krig.