Alberto RFC

Curioso a tiempo completo. Intento no distraerme y huir del ruido. Creando contenido en la 'VisualFaktory' | 🇪🇸 en 🇪🇪

[Kiko Llaneras @kikollan]

La caída de la información web es BRUTAL.

El % de españoles que consumió noticias en webs la semana pasada (fuente: @risj_oxford). Se desploma desde 2016 a 2026:

🔻18-24 años: 80% → 38%
🔻Todos: 72% → 44%

[Antony Blinken @ABlinken]

Thoughts on the “Ceasefire” with Iran:

President Trump should share the ceasefire agreement with the American people.  They deserve to see it and draw their own conclusions about the results of the president’s war. Just as they should have been informed before he launched it.

From what’s been reported, it’s a bad deal to end a misguided war of President Trump’s choosing. The only thing worse would be to continue the war that has proven so costly in lives lost — including U.S. service members — and taxpayer dollars spent without making the American people safer or their lives better.

By President Trump’s own terms, the war is a failure.

The Iranian regime is intact and its military wing more empowered, while the Iranian people are more impoverished, repressed and desperate.

Iran apparently retains a significant supply of missiles and drones and the productive capacity to make more. It has renewed links to lethal proxies in Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere. The ceasefire agreement seems to be silent about these issues

The attempt to “re-obliterate” Iran’s nuclear program — which President Trump claimed to have wiped out last year — failed. Iran still has the highly enriched uranium it had produced before the war started, along with centrifuges to spin the uranium into weapons-grade material. Maybe that will be addressed in the negotiations that are supposed to start this week. But at what price in terms of sanctions relief and assets unfrozen? At best, we’ll get back to something that looks like the JCPOA — the nuclear deal negotiated by President Obama without going to war that put Iran’s nuclear program in a box. President Trump tore up the JCPOA in 2018 and then failed to replace it. There’s reason to doubt we will come away with anything as strong as the JCPOA — which took two years to negotiate in partnership with all the major powers — in 60 days, playing a far weaker hand. And by the way, if the president tries to claim credit for Iran renouncing nuclear weapons as part of any agreement, look no further than the very first paragraph of the JCPOA, which contains the same pledge.

The only “achievement” of the ceasefire is the likely re-opening the Strait of Hormuz — which was open before the war started. And we will apparently pay Iran to do so, in the form of waivers for the export of Iranian crude oil. Iran has now demonstrated the capacity to stop or slow the passage of oil, natural gas, fertilizer and other critical products upon which so much of the world depend. Going forward, it will almost certainly find ways to collect “fees” for safe passage that will help entrench the regime.

Don’t expect a return to normal any time soon, if at all. Crude oil prices will drop from the record highs they reached — but they’re unlikely to fall to pre-war levels. We will all pay for a sustained inflationary effect. It will take time to restart oil and gas production, repair infrastructure, refill dangerously depleted stockpiles, clear mines, and restore confidence. Just as it will take a lot of time to replenish our own supply of offensive and defensive missiles, to the detriment of our deterrent in other parts of the world.

Maybe the only positive development is the world’s renewed focus on renewable energy as a way to break the stranglehold of the Strait. But China will be the big winner as the world’s leader in wind, solar, EV’s and batteries — further expanding its influence — while the Trump administration is paying wind farms to shut down and gutting incentives to make us more competitive in EVs. (I just returned from Norway, where more than 90 percent of the new cars sold last year were full EV’s. Norway may be ahead of the curve, but we’re driving right off the road).

Meanwhile, the administration achieved a terrible trifecta of alienating our partners in Europe (insulted and threatened for two years, not consulted on the war and then lambasted for not helping bail us out), Asia (which bore the greatest impact of high energy prices and rising scarcity) and the Middle East (the primary target of Iranian retaliation), while diminishing our standing and credibility everywhere.

Most of all, President Trump’s war of choice has failed the ultimate foreign policy test: it has failed to make the American people better off. At a time when more and more American families are struggling to make ends meet, this war has made filling everything from the gas tank to the grocery cart to medical prescriptions harder and more expensive.

We should all be glad the war is over — for now. No doubt President Trump will claim credit for ending it. But that’s like an arsonist boasting about putting out a fire he started after half the house has been burnt down.

[Mark Hammond @MarkHam80780803]

“I have totally defeated you and also transferred $300 billion dollars into your bank account”

[Edgars Rinkēvičs @edgarsrinkevics]

OTD in 1940, the Soviet Red Army invaded Latvia, beginning 50 years of Soviet occupation. Brutal repressions and the murder of innocent civilians followed.
Russia has not changed. Its ongoing war against Ukraine and hybrid-war clearly show why the aggressor must be defeated now.

[Asscela Express 🚅 @biz_socks]

Everyday we see real things from the government that the writers of Veep couldn’t come up with on an Ayahuasca retreat

[גיא עזריאל Guy Azriel @GuyAz]

I can now confirm that Israel formally requested access to the Iran MoU and was denied. A remarkable and highly unusual development between close allies on an issue of such critical national security importance.

[Not Jerome Powell @alifarhat79]

The wealthiest people in the world (updated)

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Holy schnikes

[Alberto RFC @albertorfc]

Primero que si era bisutería. Luego que si eran regalos habituales. Ahora que si los 1.3M€ de tasación son fruto de la revalorización del oro ¿? 🤨

Si ha habido un cambio de valor en los diamantes es precisamente a la baja. Dejen de ayudar a ZP, le hunden cada día más.

[Miguel Sebastian @migsebastiang]

Para los expertos en joyas, que ahora abundan en España: el precio del oro se ha multiplicado por más de 7 y el precio de la plata por más de 6 en los últimos 20 años.
Son datos públicos, yo no tengo ni idea del valor de ninguna joya.

[jpartej @jpartej]

Pilotos del Ala 12 ganando experiencia en unas prácticas que pocos habrán hecho antes que ellos.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

A Russian Air Force Tu-22M3 bomber crashed during landing this evening in Irkutsk.

[Ibai @IbaiLlanos]

Qué absoluta desgracia. Qué absoluta tristeza. Y qué mierda es esta vida a veces. No sé ni que decir. Descansa en paz, Gaspi.

Un fuerte abrazo a toda la familia y amigos.

[Miquel Roig @miquelroig]

La línea Maginot se repliega de nuevo.

Evolución:

- lo mío es tener muy poco y dar mucho
- son las joyas de la abuela
- como mucho valdrán todas 50.000€
- a ver si uno no va a poder aceptar regalos de 1,3 millones de euros

[Papa León XIV @Pontifex_es]

Expreso mi gratitud al Señor por el #ViajeApostólico que me ha permitido realizar en España. Agradezco al pueblo español, que me ha acogido con gran entusiasmo y devoción; y, de manera especial, a Su Majestad el Rey. Mi agradecimiento afectuoso va igualmente a los obispos, a las comunidades que he visitado y a toda la Iglesia que está en España. ¡Que Dios bendiga siempre a España!

[Eva Fernández @evaenlaradio]

📍📍📍¡Agradezco al pueblo español que me ha acogido con gran entusiasmo!
¡Que Dios bendiga siempre a #España!

Las preciosas palabras de agradecimiento del #PapaLeónXIV tras su viaje apostólico al finalizar la oración del #Ángelus.

#Roma #Vaticano

[Miquel Roig @miquelroig]

Yo aún no sé si Zapatero ha hecho algo ilegal al cobrar de Análisis Relevante; ni si los 1,3 millones en joyas tienen origen legítimo. Sí sé que ha mentido al menos dos veces:

- cuando dijo que no tuvo nada que ver con la gestación de AR ni con su listado de clientes.

- cuando dijo a su portavoz oficial @LuisArroyoM que el valor de las joyas era de entre 30.000 € y 50.000 €.

[Carlos Barragán @CarlosBarraganT]

My mum fell for a love scammer. I went to Nigeria to find him.

An excerpt of my new book THE YAHOO BOYS in @thetimes https://t.co/G8QoY2Vm05

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

The UK Defence Secretary resigns from Starmer's government, saying the defence investment plan doesn't give him or the country the resources it needs. Healey explicitly cites an intelligence assessment that Russia could be ready for war with NATO by 2030.

[José María de Pablo @chemadepablo]

Si tiene usted 8 minutos, empléelos en ver este video completo. Qué barbaridad.

[Estonian Embassy UK @estembassyuk]

Meanwhile in #Estonia

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