Rome is often compared to modern America. History rhymes. We examine a pair of decaying superpowers, perhaps doomed to collapse.
In this thread, I will explore 2 questions:
What are the parallels? Major differences?
When can we expect to find our CAESAR?
🇵🇰 ⚔️🇮🇳Pakistan’s PM Shehbaz Sharif on India:
After the defeat in the war last year, India proved itself an enemy of peace by unilaterally and illegally suspending the Indus Waters Treaty.
I declare in clear terms that every single drop of Pakistan's water is our red line.
If India does not come to its senses, it will be responded to directly.
#August14 #August2026 #Pakistan #جشن_آزادی_مبارک #پاکستان_ہمیشہ_زندہ_باد #سلام_افواج_پاکستان
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Ukraine sent Russia an offer, transmitted through a third party, suggesting both sides halt attacks on civilian targets in the Black Sea, amid mounting strikes on vessels and ports raising fears over global food supplies. Kyiv is still waiting for a response, per a source familiar with the matter.
Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said before the report emerged that Moscow had received no formal ceasefire proposal: "We have been hearing many calls for various kinds of moratoriums and truces... but we have not received any formal proposals."
The stakes are concrete. Shipowners largely stopped calling at Odesa-region ports in late July after Russian strikes on dozens of vessels, forcing Ukraine onto alternative routes.
Russia, in turn, had to suspend operations at all three terminals of its own Black Sea port of Novorossiysk this week after a Ukrainian attack.
Turkey separately urged both sides Sunday to declare a moratorium on Black Sea attacks. The result: Ukrainian grain exports have fallen 76% year-on-year so far in August, with the agricultural sector warning of severe economic consequences if the current blockade persists.
This directly echoes the UN- and Turkey-brokered grain deal that kept exports flowing after 2022's invasion, which Russia refused to renew in 2023, after which Ukraine built the alternate sea corridor now itself under threat. Euronext wheat prices pared gains after the Reuters report, coming off a two-week high.
Video: "Ukraine has increased its attacks on Russian vessels in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, as each side in the more than four-year war tries to cripple the other's economy. Dan Flynn explains how these developments are affecting farmers." - Reuters
Source: @Reuters
BREAKING: Senior Pentagon official Elbridge Colby says the US is "currently reviewing the strategy for the specific and potential use of nuclear weapons" as part of a "nuclear strategy review."
U.S. Strategic Command head Adm. Richard Correll adds the Department of War is looking at ways of "expanding options" available to Trump and providing the "decision space for any conceivable escalation scenario."
Correll says this spans from "non-kinetic/conventional capabilities to, if you would envision, some kind of limited nuclear exchange to high-end escalation," as an "escalation maneuver."
@HormuzLetter final move before the trap over the weekend or more of a fear tactic to create retail go heavy on shorts and be another taco weekend but its to soon. we still need to see how we close tomorrow and what bs they tweet as markets open tomorrow and closes.
BREAKING: The US announces starting next week, it will apply "measures that have never been seen" on Iran, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Newsmax.
“We are going to apply measures that have never been seen on Iran,” he said.
IMPORTANT.
A CNN journalist witnessed Israeli settlers abduct and blindfold a Palestinian farmer for refusing to leave his land, as IDF soldiers stood guard.
He was later shot, while the IDF blocked the road to prevent anyone from coming to his aid, making sure he would die.
JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇫🇷 Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi says "France should stop lecturing the world about 'human rights' and international law."
"The hypocrisy is blatant and embarrassing."
This now means Iran can get their frozen assets and reparation money by auctioning attack exemptions to Gulf states including Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Qatar.
BREAKING: 🇺🇸 President Trump sued over Plan to sell Fast PAID ACCESS to Truth social posts, per Bloomberg.
Over 10 companies are paying $100,000 subscription for early access to his official government statements on Truth Social.
Remember Galaxea Robotics?
Huazhe Xu, its former co-founder and Chief Scientist, left earlier this year and started his own company, Pokee Robotics, focusing on home robots.
They dropped a new clothes-folding demo, and the sound from motors and grippers is really satisfying.
And if you ask me… it already looks stronger than Galaxea.
the market is gonna cool of for now. normally crude starts its rally around 2am mst. and thats when you see the spx go down. the spx normally stabilizes around 4am as buyers step in for the 5:30am data which tomorrow is plus cpi + the twitter king-war post