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How Pakistan made the world over 3 trillion dollars richer
On April 7, the world edged toward Trump's 8pm ultimatum that "a whole civilization will die tonight." By mid-afternoon, Polymarket gave less than a 5% chance for a ceasefire. But then in a flurry of last-minute diplomacy led by Pakistan's PM Shehbaz Sharif, ceasefire odds shifted from near-impossibility to 100%, as both U.S. and Iranian leadership publicly acknowledged the important role played by Pakistan.
The sharp shift in probability of ceasefire from near-zero to certainty, allows us to estimate cleanly the market value of Pakistan's successful diplomacy. There was a sharp jump of 2.9% in S&P500 around the ceasefire announcement. The reaction was similar the world over.
Global markets represent about $125T, so a 2.9% jump represents a gain of 3.6 trillion dollars for the world. Pakistan helped create TEN times its own GDP for the world!
For me, the best part is not the trillions of dollar, but seeing Pakistan on the world stage as a peace maker.
I hope Pakistan runs with this new identity by promoting peace not only abroad, but also at home. That means moving away from politics of division and exclusion, and treating every citizen as its own.
Is Israel using a base in Azerbaijan to attack Iran again?
In the last few hours, the Israeli Air Force released footage showing attacks on Iranian ships and an installation on the Caspian Sea.
This brings us right back to the strong suspicion that these flights are taking off from Azerbaijan. The Israeli journalist Ariel Oseran confirmed that the strikes were carried out by fighter jets and not drones.
In 2024, Iran already suspected that Azerbaijan might be helping Israel. Then, during the 12-day war in 2025, they gathered evidence and directly confronted Azerbaijan.
In 2026 the situation became tense again, with Azerbaijan moving troops to the border. After a few days the tension eased and Azerbaijan sent an amount of humanitarian aid to Iran.
But this latest publicized attack leaves Azerbaijan with no explanation. Israeli aircraft do not have the range to reach the Caspian Sea unless they are taking off from Azerbaijan, where they reportedly operate a secret air base, something already reported by the Israeli media.
Tensions between the two countries may rise once more.
🇺🇸🇨🇳 THE PENTAGON JUST CONFIRMED WHAT NOBODY WANTED TO HEAR
China offered Pakistan 40 J-35 stealth fighters.
Not J-10s. Not JF-17s.
Fifth-generation stealth. Beijing’s answer to the F-35. Yup! 40 latest Stealth Fighters!
Here’s what makes this civilizational.
Remember yesterday’s story? Trump de-escalated with Iran through Pakistan at 1am.
Now ask yourself: why is China arming the same country that just brokered US-Iran backchannel diplomacy?
959 kilometers. That’s the Pakistan-Iran border. ISI-IRGC intelligence channels predating both current governments.
The same geographic inevitability that enabled Trump’s message enables something else entirely: stealth technology transmission to a sanctioned state without a single export license violation.
Pakistan buys J-35s through CPEC financing. Iran observes. Iran learns. Iran eventually operates.
This is the JF-17 playbook at fifth-generation scale.
The numbers are brutal for Washington.
J-35 unit cost: $70-80 million.
F-35 unit cost: $90-110 million.
China is not trying to match American stealth. China is trying to proliferate stealth at 30% discount to every country America won’t sell to.
Saudi Arabia is watching. UAE is watching. Indonesia, Argentina, Egypt. Every nation denied F-35s now has an alternative.
The F-35 monopoly held for two decades. It just cracked.
And the timing is surgical.
While Trump uses Pakistan to calm Iran, China uses Pakistan to arm Iran’s neighbor with platforms that could eventually reach Iranian hangars.
While BRICS talks economic cooperation, China hands India’s primary rival stealth parity that Delhi cannot match until AMCA arrives in 2035.
This is not an arms deal.
This is the architecture of a parallel military order.
The Pentagon confirmed it because they cannot stop it.
40 jets. 959 kilometers of shared border. One transmission channel for technology that took America $1.7 trillion to develop.
The stealth monopoly is over.
The question is whether Washington understood it ended yesterday.
“I think the world must realize that China will not converge with Western norms, and it will find its own path to modernity,” Singaporean Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said in a recent interview with the Financial Times, noting that China is a technological leader in many areas, in advanced manufacturing, in renewable energy, and the world has to contend with and accept the reality that China is not just a rising power, it is a risen power. China recently decided to forgo its special and differential treatment provisions in the WTO. In just this past year or so, it has doubled down on its support for global institutions. These are examples of how we have to embrace the reality that China will be a key player, and potentially a key leader, in this new global system, said Wong.
It’s fascinating how many Zionists are replying that this is fake when it’s literally still live on the NYT site
The typical behaviour of those indoctrinated into cults is to deny reality when reality contradicts the conditioning of the cult
Zionism is a delusion, a fiction designed to perpetual atrocities and massive injustices
It cannot co-exist with reality, and so reality is being shaped and distorted and censored to fit the Zionist narrative
This is and will continue to cause massive disruption and chaos for the world, including both an erosion of human rights — such as the right to protest — and massive censorship and infringements into free speech, all to serve Zionism
Zionism is an enemy of all humanity
What if I told you that Tony Blair, the former UK prime minister reviled not only across the Arab world but even by many in Britain itself, could soon govern Gaza as part of Donald Trump’s bold new technocratic plan?
Despite fierce rejection from Palestinians and Arab states, Blair is being lined up to oversee Gaza’s future under a US–Israeli vision. Follow the story packed with explosive details about Blair’s decades-long ties to Israel.
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🇶🇦 Israel’s Channel 14 reports that 10 Air Force jets took part in the strike on Hamas offices in Doha.
Imagine being Qatar, getting bombed while the planes supporting it take off from your own airbase.
Wild...