Genghis Khan did not have CNN.
He did not have vetoes at the UN.
He did not have think tanks calling slaughter restraint.
He did not have journalists translating massacres into "security concerns."
That is what makes this era worse.
The barbarian no longer arrives screaming.
He arrives briefed.
He arrives sponsored.
He arrives with legal language and a public relations team.
And that is why modern evil is more dangerous than the old kind.
It is cleaner.
Smarter.
And far more difficult for cowards to admit.
Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region.
Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat.
We live in Orwellian times.
Pete Hegseth said this was "the first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since WWII" (which is false, but that's beside the point), so I decided to look at what happened in WW2 and... this might surprise no-one: turns out the Nazis were more humane than the Americans.
Probably the most abject part here is that the warship had many survivors - 32 to be precise (https://t.co/bS1uARrBtf) - and the U.S. made zero effort to rescue them, despite it being required by the laws of naval warfare and simply being the honorable thing to do.
It took little Sri-Lanka, with its very modest means - especially compared to the $1 trillion US defense budget - to do the honorable thing and launch a (successful) rescue operation.
Even the literal Nazis, during WW2, rescued the survivors of ships their U-boats sank. It was considered a matter of basic honor.
The history of this is actually interesting: the Nazis rescued survivors all the way until the so-called Laconia Incident in 1942 (https://t.co/6wI251aNCv).
The Laconia was a British troopship sunk by U-156, a German U-boat, off the West African coast. Right after the sinking, the Nazis immediately began rescuing over 400 survivors, broadcasting - as was common practice - in plain English their position on open radio channels to all Allied powers nearby, so they wouldn't get attacked during the rescue.
That's when a US B-24 "Liberator" bomber attacked the submarine anyway, even though all the rescued survivors were on its foredeck. The B-24 killed dozens of Laconia's survivors with bombs and strafing attacks, forcing U-156 to cast into the sea the remaining survivors that she had rescued and crash dive to avoid being destroyed.
The American B-24 pilots mistakenly reported they had sunk U-156, and were awarded medals for bravery...
This event completely changed Nazi policy on this matter: Karl Dönitz, commander of the U-boat fleet, issued the "Laconiarefehl" - the Laconia Order - forbidding U-boats from rescuing survivors, because the risk to the submarine was now too high.
In other words, the Americans during WW2 essentially forced the Nazis to abandon survivors - from the allied side (!) - at sea.
Dönitz at least had an excuse.
Putin : 73 years old
Trump : 79 years old
Netanyahu : 76 years old
Narendra Modi : 75 years old
Xi Jinping : 72 years old
Khamenei : 86 years old
All of them have lived their lives and witnessed their peaks already. The next generation wants peace and growth, not World War 3
The world needs young leaders now
The previous falling wedge breakout took place in January 2020, followed by a top in January 2022.
I’m keeping a close eye on another potential falling wedge breakout.
The chart measures the relative strength of small and mid cap altcoins against Bitcoin. A rising value indicates that capital is increasingly flowing into these altcoin segments rather than into BTC, a classic altseason signal indicator.
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$XPL against my better judgment I ended up buying this POS last night and regret it. Thankfully I sized down significantly and I actually entered at first, cut it all, and then thought for 20 minutes and re-entered in the green box. My thought process was that, although this is risky, XPL was the leader yesterday and has retraced 85% from the top.
Catching bottoms is a really tricky process and I even told myself that I would buy it much higher because it's safer. This could still be the relative bottom but it probably won't give you a free ride- i remember when PUMP came off the lows and it was still a choppy experience before it had a super strong move.
I think that XPL is relatively bottomed but it's going to be a hard road to get back up and if you buy, it should probably be with the idea of just doing a spot and hold situation. You're probably happier in like 2-3 months? Idk.
Anyways, as it stands, I'm down 7% and not happy and will cut it on the next move probably