Shivsubramani Sankaranarayanan

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#IndiaMatters with @ShivAroor | NEET Aspirant Challenges Protest Narrative; Highlights Burden On Students

[Paris Saint-Germain @PSG_English]

What a season for Fabián! 🤩🏆

[Atul Londhe Patil (INDIA Ka Parivar)🇮🇳 @atullondhe]

महाराष्ट्र में SIR चल रहा है
या खेल चल रहा है

BLO को घर-घर जाकर फॉर्म भरना है
लेकिन BLO कार्यालय स्कूल में बैठ जा रहे है

सोसाइटी अध्यक्ष ,गांव के सरपंच से कह रहे है
मतदाताओं को बता दो हम यहां बैठे है
आकर अपना फॉर्म लेकर जाएं

मतदाता जाता है
तो उनके हाथ में फॉर्म दे दिया जाता है

लेकिन फॉर्म कैसे भरना है बताया नहीं जाता
बस कह दिया फॉर्म भरकर
इस तारीख को जमा कर दो

जब मतदाता भरा हुआ फॉर्म लेकर जाता है
तो कहते हैं जानकारी गलत भरी है

BLO जी फार्म आपको भरना है
घर-घर जाकर वो भी तीन बार
BLO तो एकबार भी नहीं जा रहे है

क्या आपके घर BLO जी आए !!!

[𝙼𝙸𝚃𝚈𝙲𝙷𝙾𝙽𝙳𝚁𝙸𝙾𝙽 @limitedbiriyani]

LAKSHMI AMMAL ❤️🥰

[faby jurídico modern family @fabyollaverass]

ela transformou as roupinhas do filho em uma MANTA cheia de memórias 🥹

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Fantastic flowing football for @BMbeumo19's goal 🤌😮‍💨

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

BRUNO FERNANDES. RECORD-BREAKER.

[Raunaq Mangottil @RaunaqMangottil]

Chennai airport exit to taxi pickup area is kind of a workout

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

The Arsenal. Your Premier League champions.

[Shivsubramani Sankaranarayanan @shiv_mufc]

@makemytripcare @makemytripcare this has not been closed yet

[Shivsubramani Sankaranarayanan @shiv_mufc]

@makemytrip flight UL 143 CMB-BOM on 10th May got cancelled.Booked through MMT with booking ID NN2AKOAE38022383863 and NN2AKOA978025390622. When asked for refund process your representative Sonali Chauhan gave vague response and cut the call. (1/2)

[Shivsubramani Sankaranarayanan @shiv_mufc]

@makemytripcare

[Dharmesh Ba @dharmeshba]

Karpathy introduced vibe coding
Thalapathy introduced vibe politics

#TNElections

[Shivsubramani Sankaranarayanan @shiv_mufc]

Kindly provide proper guidance else I will be forced to escalate to higher authorities.

[Shivsubramani Sankaranarayanan @shiv_mufc]

@rpomumbai @MEAIndia Thank you Sir.

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

When I think of Lok Sabha strength being increased from 543 to 850, my first thought is not smaller constituencies, more responsive representatives, and all that.
It is - 307 more VIPs. That many more entitled rulers, free tickets, perks, security, expense, sigh.

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

Start reducing hero worship as much as possible. Nobody is larger than life. Everyone, irrespective of the position they are in are human beings like us with their own flaws.

You can even come across Keenu Reves in NYC subways.

Arnold Schwarzenegger reached heights in three different fields: Body Building, Holywood and politics (he was governor of California). It is not uncommon to come across him in public places of Los Angeles.

Warren Buffett picks up the office phone himself most of the times. You may easily come across him in McDonalds or Dairy Queen in Omaha.

Traffic never stops for Japanese Prime Minister. The convoy of few cars wait and merge in to the traffic.

You all know how in many countries of Europe, the ministers including Prime Minister simply travels by cycle and easily accessible to general public.

I can keep on giving examples. What I'm trying to tell you is appreciate people for their goodness and positives. But don't keep anyone so high in pedestal and do hero worship.

[10Δ @_10delta_]

3 weeks ago I argued the US goal in Iran is to seize the global oil spigot. Venezuela in January -> Iran in February.

Neutralize every supply channel outside the dollar system within 90 days. Achieve a compliant successor government and complete energy dominance.

The oil thesis was the obvious layer. However, when you zoom out & view the last four years as a single sequence rather than isolated geopolitical events, the architecture of the grander US plan becomes visible.

1st was Europe, which laid the groundwork.

The Ukraine conflict provided the justification for sanctions that collapsed Russian pipeline gas from 150 billion cubic meters to 40.

Then Nordstream was destroyed, which rewired the entire European energy system permanently. The US went from supplying 28% of Europe's LNG in 2021 to 58% by 2025, exporting a record 111 million MTs, the 1st country in history to break 100 MT.

Europe was transformed from a customer with options into a captive market now purchasing its survival in USD.

2nd was Syria.

The fall of Assad severed the critical node connecting China's Belt & Road Initiative to the Mediterranean.

The trilateral railway linking Iran, Iraq & Syria, designed to bypass Western maritime chokepoints, was completely destroyed.

This isolated Iran geographically & cleared the path for what came next.

3rd was Venezuela.

In January the US effectively took control of the world's largest heavy crude reserves. The US Gulf Coast has the most advanced refining complex on earth, specifically built for heavy sour crude. Phillips 66, Valero & the rest are now positioned to process hundreds of thousands of barrels of Venezuelan crude daily.

The US captured a massive strategic reserve & solidified its position as the dominant exporter of refined petroleum products, an industry worth $110 billion in 2025 alone.

Venezuela & Iran were the two major oil supply channels that existed outside the dollar system. Both produce heavy crude sold primarily to China & evaded US financial supervision. Both now being neutralized within 90 days, which leads us to..

4th is Iran & the Middle East energy shock.

Israel struck Iran's South Pars gas field, the world's largest natural gas reservoir. Iran retaliated against Qatar's Ras Laffan, the single largest LNG facility on earth, responsible for a fifth of global supply. QatarEnergy's own assessment is that 17% of export capacity is gone and recovery will take up to 5 years. The Strait of Hormuz is closed. European gas prices spiked 70%. Asian spot prices doubled.

The only remaining scaled supplier? The United States.

If Iran falls & a successor government is installed that the US controls or influences (the Delcy model described weeks ago) then roughly 40 to 45 million barrels per day of global production out of 103 million is effectively under US control. OPEC becomes irrelevant because the US coalition is now the marginal producer. Now add the gas dimension & it goes beyond oil.

This war is solidifying the petrodollar system as it evolves into a hybrid petro/LNG-dollar. The old system was built on Saudi crude priced in USD. The new system is built on American crude plus American gas from the Gulf Coast, with no alternative supplier of comparable scale. The dependency is deeper because LNG infrastructure requires long term contracts & regasification terminals that lock buyers into supply relationships for decades. Europe & the Pacific allies (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, etc.) cannot pivot away as there is nowhere left to pivot to. They're now locked into the US energy system.

The market confirms this. DXY went from 96 to 101. Gold down ~20% from its January all time high. Bitcoin down 20% on the year. Brent above $100. European & Asian institutions are liquidating precious metals and crypto to buy dollars because they need dollars to buy the only remaining scaled energy supply. The world is selling its gold to buy American energy in American currency. The dollar is now being weaponized through energy dependency.

The structural repricing is happening regardless of how the conflict resolves.

But the US grand strategy goes deeper..

Artificial intelligence is a physical industry. It runs on power and chips. Data centers require massive uninterrupted baseload electricity, primarily provided by natural gas. Semiconductor fabrication requires helium & rare earths.

By choking the Strait of Hormuz & crippling Middle Eastern LNG & helium production, the US is systematically degrading China's ability to power its data centers & fabricate semiconductors at scale.

The US is energy self sufficient, especially with newly captured Venezuelan reserves & expanding Gulf Coast capacity running on domestic gas.

On the other hand, China is import dependent & every joule it imports effectively now transits chokepoints the US Navy controls..

Iran was the Belt & Road's overland energy bypass, the corridor that allowed China to mitigate the Malacca Trap. With Iran neutralized that corridor is severed. China faces a world where its compute infrastructure competes for scraps on a depleted global LNG market, while American data centers run at full capacity on domestic energy.

Russia is next in the sequence. A post-war Iran reopening under US influence competes directly with Russia for the same refineries in China & India at lower cost. Iran's production costs are lower. Russia loses its last structural advantage in heavy crude & its economic lifeline. Additionally, under the Iran war cover, Ukraine has been opportunistically destroying Russian energy infrastructure & all signs point towards Russia being at the end of the line. The message from Washington becomes very simple: we dismantled two regimes in three months, your economy is about to get crushed, sign the Ukraine deal.

Then Trump sits down with Xi holding every card. Complete energy dominance. The hybrid petro/LNG-dollar fortified, Iran cleared, Russia cornered, & China facing the Malacca Trap fully closed with no remaining energy bypass.

Israel & the GCC are absorbing the kinetic cost of a conflict whose primary beneficiary, counter to the mainstream narrative, is actually America (First). Qatar offline for 5 years reprices the entire global gas market in favor of US exporters for the remainder of the decade. The Gulf states face years of rebuilding. Europe faces its 2nd energy crisis in four years.

Sure, the average American might face temporary moderate inflation & higher gas prices. But if you are the architect of the US empire & you view the rise of China & Chinese ASI as an existential winner takes all scenario, the collateral damage is acceptable cost.

Whoever controls the energy corridors controls the monetary system. Whoever controls the monetary system & the energy supply simultaneously controls the compute infrastructure that determines which civilization builds ASI first.

The US is seizing all 3.

[𝐅𝐚𝐧 𝟏𝟎 @Cunha__utd]

this game was pure cinema

[Premier League @premierleague]

A century of goals ⚽️
A century of assists 🅰️

Bruno Fernandes, a @ManUtd icon 🌟