Bakar Palavandi

[Bakar Palavandi @PalavandiB]

@jockowillink “Only those who do not seek power are qualified to hold it.”
Plato. - Thank you for your response and for everything you do with your books, Podcast, also Origin, Jocko Go, and many others.

[Bakar Palavandi @PalavandiB]

@jockowillink @jockowillink I also want to say—what you’ve already done for this country can never truly be repaid. Even if you never did another thing for the rest of your life, the entire nation would still owe you a debt of gratitude.

[Bakar Palavandi @PalavandiB]

I feel like I’m getting very close to launching a public campaign encouraging you to consider running for President. As I’ve said before, leaders like Washington, Grant, and Goldwater were uniquely positioned in ways similar to you—and they chose to step forward when the country needed them.

Your message in Extreme Ownership represents a kind of accountability and leadership that’s missing in modern politics. Even my children read your books—Way of the Warrior Kid and Mikey and the Dragons—and they genuinely look up to you.

They, and so many other young Americans, deserve a President they can respect and be inspired by. I truly believe you could be that leader.

[Bakar Palavandi @PalavandiB]

I’ve spent enough time in the military community, surrounded by patriots, to hear the same message again and again: people are looking to you to step forward and lead a movement grounded in reason. You are admired, respected, and trusted. This is your moment to rise—just as George Washington and Ulysses S. Grant did in times that demanded courage and leadership.

[Bakar Palavandi @PalavandiB]

The EU is already weak by its own making. If I am not mistaken, you are a U.S. citizen. Why do you blame your own country instead of an entity that neglected its NATO responsibilities for five decades and gave up its energy independence in support of the Russian war machine? @ianbremmer

[Bakar Palavandi @PalavandiB]

@FrankLuntz @MattWalshBlog

[Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital]

Holy. Shit.

Gen Z is on track to be the most pro-GOP generation since the Great Depression.

~16% of Gen Z White Men are Democrats.

[Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn @AI_Solzhenitsyn]

“Socialism defies logic. You see, it is an emotional impulse, a kind of worldly religion, and nobody has the slightest need to study or even to read the teachings of its early prophets. Their books are judged by hearsay; their conclusions are accepted ready-made.”

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Coast Guard rescue swimmer Scott Ruskan saved 165 lives in the Texas flash floods.

The 26-year-old, a former KPMG accountant, directed Army Blackhawk 60s and MH-65s to survivors and helped get them to safety, according to the New York Post.

“Ruskan spearheaded a high-risk rescue mission under the worst possible environmental conditions, which in the end saw 165 brought to safety,” the NYP reported.

“I’m just doing a job,” he told the NYP.

“This is what I signed up for, and I think that any single Coast Guard rescue swimmer or any single Coast Guard pilot, flight mechanic, whoever it may be, would have done the exact same thing in our situation.”

“That’s what we were asked to do and we’re gonna do it. Any one of us, if anyone else was on duty that day, they would have done the same thing as us.”

“We just happened to be the crew that got the case.”

[Bakar Palavandi @PalavandiB]

@mcuban @jockowillink

[Bakar Palavandi @PalavandiB]

@mcuban Check out OriginUSA, Mark. For almost two decades, they have been consistent with their message and have backed everything up with actions. One pair of their jeans will outlast three to four pairs of cheaply made Chinese.

[Tim McDonald 🇺🇸 💪 @trmcdonald]

When the dust settles on this trade war, we will need robust industrial policy to support reindustrialization 🇺🇸 💪

[Bakar Palavandi @PalavandiB]

America has given me a home, and I plan to give my life back to it. America First. 🇺🇸

[Bakar Palavandi @PalavandiB]

“If it is true that our society is really capable of knowing only the quantity which we call "citizen," that it debauches its own innermost nature when it tries to deal with the quantity called "subject," then the potential scope of our system is limited; then it can extend only to people of our own kind— people who have grown up in the same peculiar spirit of independence and self-reliance, people who can accept, and enjoy, and content themselves with our institutions. In this case, the ruling of distant peoples is not our dish. In this case, there are many things we Americans should beware of, and among them is the acceptance of any sort of a paternalistic responsibility to anyone, be it even in the form of military occupation, if we can possibly avoid it or for any period longer than is absolutely necessary” George F.Kennan

[Bakar Palavandi @PalavandiB]

“Little given to abstract ideas, we accept things as they are and we attempt to the maximum of our ability to protect ourselves against delusions about realities.” And, “with phrases which in close examination dissolve into thin air, such as the defense of civilization, nothing tangible can be defined.”
Klemens von Metternich
Former Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire

[Bakar Palavandi @PalavandiB]

Like you, I speak the Slavic languages and come from the region, so I want to ask—can you actually justify any of your positions? If your argument is that this war is about defending “democracy,” can you provide examples of Ukraine’s institutional integrity before the war? Or if you align with Boris Johnson’s view that this is a proxy war, can you explain how it benefits the U.S. to fund a conflict where the highest price is paid in Ukrainian lives? So which is it? @KonstantinKisin

[Bakar Palavandi @PalavandiB]

“In the matters of the state, he who has the power often has the right, and he who is weak can only with difficulty keep from being wrong in the opinion of the majority of the world.” Richelieu

[Bakar Palavandi @PalavandiB]

Wilsonianism is built on the naive assumption that human nature is inherently peaceful and that national interests are secondary to a vague, utopian vision of global harmony. Disregarding the fundamentals of geopolitics, Wilson championed the idea of a "community of power," later rebranded as "collective security." At its core, his doctrine led to two disastrous outcomes: the creation of the United Nations—an institution that has repeatedly failed to prevent wars—and the relentless push to democratize every nation under the misguided belief that peace can only exist between democracies.

[Bakar Palavandi @PalavandiB]

“No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt.”
― Winston S. Churchill