| Country | Immediate 1945 prize | Long-term outcome (today) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | Global reserve-currency, military basing network, industrial supremacy | Still top dog but domestic debt, cultural fracture, imperial over-stretch | Pyrrhic victor |
| Soviet Union | Satellite empire from Elbe to Pacific | Economic stagnation → collapse 1991; Russia now sanctioned & fighting in Ukraine | Biggest loser |
| United Kingdom | Permanent UNSC seat, victorious myth | Empire gone, major cities minority-British, economy behind Germany | Defeated winner |
| France | Occupying zone in Germany, colonial re-occupation | Lost wars (Vietnam, Algeria), racial riots, shrinking global sway | Hollow victor |
| Germany & Japan | Rubble, occupation, war-guilt | Rebuilt, export super-powers, demographic decline, no geopolitical sovereignty | Occupied success stories |
| Zionist movement | Refugee camps & underground militias | State of Israel, UNSO lobby, regional super-power | Late-game winner |
| China (Communist) | Poor, exhausted, starting civil war | 2026: #2 economy, rising military, poised to supplant US | Long term supremacy |
How UK & Russia became the only two major European nations to prefer Tea > Coffee
The Great Tea Divide
While most of Europe drink “Espressos” and identify with the “Coffee-First” culture of the Nordics, the United Kingdom and Russia stand out as the continent’s primary tea-drinking strongholds. This preference was not an accident of taste, but a result of strategic trade monopolies and the development of unique national infrastructure.
1. The British Maritime Monopoly
The UK’s tea culture was a direct result of geopolitical competition and corporate strategy. In the 17th century, Britain struggled to compete with the Dutch and French for control of the coffee trade. In response, the East India Company (EIC) pivoted to Chinese tea, eventually gaining a total monopoly. They controlled the entire supply chain, from production to shipping.
By the 19th century, tea was cheaper and more accessible than coffee. It became the primary stimulant for the Industrial Revolution, as it required water to be boiled—making it a safer alternative to contaminated urban water supplies for factory workers.
2. The Russian “Tea Road”
Russia’s tea dominance was shaped by its proximity to Asia and the establishment of reliable land-based trade routes. The Treaty of Kyakhta (1727) established a dedicated trade hub on the Mongolian-Russian border. While Western Europe relied on slow and risky sea voyages, Russia imported “brick tea” via massive camel caravans.
This “Tea Road” provided a consistent supply that allowed the beverage to permeate Russian society—from the imperial court to the rural masses—long before coffee culture could establish a foothold in the freezing climates of the east.
3. Cultural Hardware and Rituals
Both nations institutionalized tea through specific hardware and social customs. In the United Kingdom, “Afternoon Tea” was created as a social bridge between lunch and dinner, centered around fine bone china and ceramic teapots.
In Russia, the “Tea Circle” became a continuous social activity designed for cold climates. This was powered by the Samovar: a heated metal urn used to provide a constant supply of boiling water, ensuring tea was available at any hour of the day.
Key Insight: In both cases, tea was a strategic commodity that provided a reliable, safe, and taxable stimulant that fit the specific logistics of each empire.
The Great 2026 Rationalisation. A Pecking Order of US Strategic Bets: Which long term bets will the US start to abandon in 2026.
The Great 2026 Rationalisation
A Pecking Order of US Strategic Bets: Which long term bets will the US start to abandon in 2026.
Starting in 2026, the United States is entering a phase of ruthless transactional realpolitik. Washington will be forced to admit many of its long-term bets have failed and demand an immediate audit on investment or exit strategy.
Here is the pecking order of what gets cut and what gets kept.
The Abandonment List (The Cuts)
1
Renewables: The “Green Transition”
The Reality: The US has recognised that the “green dream” is a logistical and economic bottleneck it can no longer afford. With approximately 50 years of accessible hydrocarbon reserves remaining, the strategy has shifted back to energy supremacy through oil and gas.
The Pivot
- Low Earth Orbit (LEO) Hegemony: Securing military and communications dominance in space.
- Extra-terrestrial Mining: A long-term play to extract critical minerals (rare earths, platinum group metals) from the Moon and asteroids, bypassing terrestrial supply chains controlled by adversaries.
2
Ukraine: The Sunk Cost
The Reality: Ukraine is viewed as a depreciating asset. The initial objective—bleeding Russian capability—has yielded diminishing returns.
The Rationale: Losing influence in Europe is seen as acceptable collateral damage. Unlike other strategic theatres, Europe lacks the critical hydrocarbon or mineral resources necessary to justify a permanent, high-cost hostility with Russia. Washington is effectively handing the bill to Brussels, fully aware Europe lacks the military industrial capacity to sustain the conflict alone.
3
India: The Unreliable Partner
The Reality: Strategic patience with New Delhi has evaporated. India is increasingly viewed as a “two-faced” operator—a beneficiary of Western security guarantees that simultaneously funds US adversaries.
The Evidence
- China Trade: India runs a $120bn trade deficit with Beijing, effectively subsidising the Chinese economy.
- Russian Support: Continued purchase of Russian crude and defence hardware directly undercuts US sanctions.
The Verdict: The US sees India less as a counterweight to China and more as a geopolitical liability that cannot be trusted with sensitive technology or top-tier alliance status.
The Retention List (The Double-Downs)
4
Taiwan: The Silicon Shield
The Reality: Taiwan remains the single point of failure for the US economy and military.
The Stakes: This is the core of the AI bet. American dominance in artificial intelligence, consumer electronics, and advanced weaponry is entirely dependent on TSMC’s fabrication capacity. Until the US can replicate this manufacturing capability domestically (a decade away, at best), abandoning Taiwan is tantamount to surrendering global hegemony. Defending the island is not about democracy; it is about maintaining the foundation of the modern economy.
5
Israel: The Strategic Anchor
The Reality: Despite political noise, the US-Israel alliance is deepening. Israel serves as a forward operating base and a premier R&D lab that the US cannot replicate elsewhere.
The Value Proposition
- Military Tech Lab: Israel acts as the live-fire testing ground for next-generation US weaponry, including laser interception (Iron Beam), missile defence (Arrow/Golden Dome), and AI-driven drone swarms.
- The “Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier”: It secures the eastern flank of the Mediterranean and protects the petrodollar architecture.
- Economic Synergy: An expanding conflict in Gaza and the broader region drives guaranteed demand for US defence exports, keeping the American military-industrial complex solvent and active.
Summary Doctrine
The US strategy for 2026 is a hard pivot from “global policeman” to “global CEO.” If a partnership does not secure chips, oil, or dominance in the next theatre of war (space/AI), it is being liquidated.
The Rules Based Order dies as United States Goes Full Pirate
The Rules Based Order dies as United States Goes Full Pirate
In a bold rebranding move, the United States has traded its long standing membership in the “Liberal Rules Based Order” for a skull and crossbones flag and a parrot named “Sanctions.”
After decades of lecturing the world on “freedom of navigation,” Washington has decided that actual navigation is much more fun when you rappel onto a 333 meter tanker like it’s Fast & Furious: Port of Spain Drift.
The vessel in question, the “Centuries” owned by a Hong Kong company, flagged by Panama, and destined for China was carrying 1.8 million barrels of Venezuelan crude, or as the State Department now calls it, “confiscated democracy.”
In a touching tribute to consistency, the U.S. has promised to sell the stolen sorry, liberated oil to itself, deposit the profits into the “Strategic Hypocrisy Reserve,” and use the proceeds to fund a new battle-shit or ship named the USS Trump class.
Martin Thomas Glynn, this bloke is the new Australian national hero. Someone needs to setup a non Zionist controlled GoFundme clone for his legal costs.
Quoting thewest article
Mr Glynn allegedly took to Instagram endorsing the Bondi massacre just hours after the shooting on December 14, prosecutors told the court.
“I just want to say, I, Marty Thomas Glynn, 100 per cent support the two New South Wales shooters RIGHT TO SELF DEFENCE AGAINST JEWS AND ALL FUTURE JEWS,” he allegedly wrote in a social media post. “If you think this is an outrage, show me a single day where Jews killed less than 10 Palestinians. I stand by this and everything I saw… what did they expect if they killed 500,000 Palestinians?”
US Long-Term Bets Are All Failing at Once
🎰 US Long-Term Bets Are Failing
The house always looks unbeatable — until the numbers stop adding up. Across the global chessboard, none of America’s long-term strategic bets are paying off.
Israel. India. Ukraine. Renewables. Artificial Intelligence. Each was marketed as a winning hand. Each now bleeds capital, legitimacy, or time.
💰 Permanent Subsidy, Not Power
American hegemony is no longer self-financing. It is subsidy-driven.
- Hundreds of billions annually in foreign aid to Israel, Egypt, and Jordan
- Hundreds of billions more in remittances to India — indirect foreign aid masked as private flows
This is not investment. It is upkeep. Empires sustained by transfers don’t expand — they stagnate.
🕌 The Ideological Gamble That Failed
The Israel–India axis was expected to fracture Islam along sectarian lines.
It failed.
The Shia–Sunni divide is healing, not widening — because China brokered the Saudi–Iran rapprochement, quietly and decisively.
No aircraft carriers. No sermons. Just results.
🧭 NATO’s Zealotry Phase
NATO expansion eastward is no longer strategic — it is ideological.
A narrow group now pursues permanent civilisational rupture, inflicting damage to Christian civilisation that rivals — and may exceed — the East–West Schism itself.
This is not containment. It is doctrinal escalation.
⚡ Energy Is Destiny
The West cannot compete with China’s power generation capacity.
Without energy dominance:
- Renewables leadership is impossible
- AI leadership is impossible
Compute runs on electricity — not speeches.
🎲 Final Table Read
Empires don’t collapse from invasion.
They collapse from unpayable commitments, ideological blindness, and energy inferiority.
The US hasn’t lost the game — but the odds are no longer in its favor.
This XMAS let us pay homage to Australia’s greatest ever Actor/Film Director Mel Gibson who was right in 2006 & even more right today.
They already crucified him for speaking out in 2006; double jeopardy means they can’t do it again.
Australia’s Security Culture-war: Should the safety concerns of 0.5% of the population condemn the other 99.5% to a Police State?
Australia’s Security Culture-war: Should the safety concerns of 0.5 % of the population condemn the other 99.5 % to a Police State?
Roughly 140,000 Jewish Australians (half of one per cent of the country) have just lived through the deadliest antisemitic attack on Australian soil. In the fortnight since Bondi, their communal leaders, backed by the federal Opposition, are demanding a national royal commission, new visa-cancellation powers, citizenship-stripping laws and a statutory definition of antisemitism drawn from the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
Both camps claim they are defending the safety of all Australians. Yet, in practice, the debate boils down to this: should the fears of 0.5 % of the population become the reason for imposing sweeping counter-terror laws on everyone else (the 99.5 %). Laws that will never actually reach the elite 0.5 % whose own actions & deeds became the foundation of their security anxieties in the first place?
| Action | Who is doing it | What they are actually saying / doing |
|---|---|---|
| DISPROVE (federal RC not needed) | Anthony Albanese | Ordered in-house intelligence review; rejects RC as “delay”; concedes “we need to do more” after vigil booing. |
| DISPROVE (federal RC not needed) | Penny Wong | “Agencies need powers, not more hearings”; backs PM. |
| DISPROVE (federal RC not needed) | Tony Burke | “Last thing I want is RC delay—action today keeps people safe.” |
| DISPROVE (federal RC not needed) | Jim Chalmers | “Agencies must stay focused on criminal probe, not diverted to commission.” |
| PROMOTE (federal or state RC) | Josh Frydenberg | Bondi speech: “greatest stain on nation”; 8-point plan incl. federal RC; labels Burke “weak”. |
| PROMOTE (federal or state RC) | Chris Minns | NSW state RC, ban “globalise intifada”, new hate-symbol laws. |
| PROMOTE (federal or state RC) | Peter Dutton | Coalition package: recall Parliament; pass Envoy plan; strip citizenship; visa bans; “RC important but must not delay today’s action.” |
| PROMOTE (federal or state RC) | Julian Leeser | Private bill for campus-antisemitism commission; lobbying cross-bench. |
| PROMOTE (federal or state RC) | Paul Scarr | Coalition task-force: RC into “antisemitism & counter-terror failures that led to Bondi”. |
| PROMOTE (federal or state RC) | Sussan Ley | Promised Opposition will “implement Envoy plan & push for RC”. |
| PROMOTE (federal or state RC) | Barnaby Joyce | Nationals backing; applauds deportation message. |
| PROMOTE (federal or state RC) | Jacinta Price | “Strip citizenship from jihadists who want to kill Jews.” |
| PROMOTE (federal or state RC) | Alex Hawke | Lobbying for deportation bill; says PM repeating Bourke-St errors. |
| PROMOTE (federal or state RC) | Amanda Stoker | Drafting citizenship-stripping second-reading speech. |
| PROMOTE (federal or state RC) | Vic Liberal MPs (Battin, Southwick) | State petition for Vic RC; audit of multicultural grants to “anti-Israel groups”. |
| SIDELINE / DILUTE | Adam Bandt (Greens) | “Gun-violence” frame; demands Islamophobia inquiry too. |
| SIDELINE / DILUTE | Mehreen Faruqi (Greens) | Repeats Bandt; refuses antisemitism-only inquiry. |
| SIDELINE / DILUTE | Andrew Giles | Unsigned ministerial direction; no s.501 hate-preacher cancellations since Bondi. |
| SIDELINE / DILUTE | Group of Eight VCs | Refuse to appear before committee; want Leeser bill to die. |
| IGNORE | Published public polling | No major poll released; media claim “majority don’t care about RC”. |
| PRAISE | Pauline Hanson | Applauds “tough” deportation talk; backs RC. |
| PRAISE | “Ahmed” (Bondi Hero) | Social-media hero for reportedly running toward gunfire. |
Geopolitics of Pop: Why the West is *NSYNC and the Global South is Backstreet Boys
Geopolitics of Pop: Why the West is *NSYNC and the Global South is Backstreet Boys
If we view the current world order through the lens of late-90s pop culture, the structural fragility of the Western alliance becomes immediately clear: The West is *NSYNC.
For decades, the Atlantic order has functioned like a group revolving entirely around one charismatic frontman: the United States. The system works as long as the star is center stage. However, just as *NSYNC ceased to be relevant the moment Justin Timberlake walked away to pursue a solo career, the Western alliance faces an existential crisis if America turns toward isolationism. If the U.S. “goes solo,” the remaining members Europe and traditional allies are left as backup dancers without a lead, struggling to sell tickets.
In contrast, the emerging Global South functions more like the Backstreet Boys. It is an ensemble act that doesn’t rely on a single, domineering soloist to survive. Instead of star power, they rely on a pragmatic division of labor that creates a resilient harmony. In this multipolar arrangement, no one needs to be the “Justin.” Instead, Brazil provides the food security, Russia supplies the energy and defense architecture, Africa contributes the critical minerals, and China powers the industrial engine. While the West worries about its frontman leaving the stage, the Global South is building a synchronized ecosystem where the performance relies on the collective, not the individual.
She Married a Jew – women who had average résumés yet suddenly popped up in positions of influence, wealth or media exposure right after marrying a Jewish spouse
| Woman | Pre-marriage CV | Post-marriage “upgrade” | Jewish spouse |
|---|---|---|---|
| Armina Rosenberg | Junior sell-side analyst at a second-tier brokerage; zero public-speaking skills, no track record | Installed as CIO of a 100 mm AUM “family-office” fund that now markets her as a wunderkind | Jonathan Rosenberg (prop-trading heir) |
| Georgie Purcell | Topless waitress / stripper in regional pubs, Only-Fans soft-core account | Reps a seat in the Victorian Legislative Council for the Animal Justice Party (micro-party financed by her sponsor’s donations) | Sponsor:Ari Klinger (serial fintech founder), Hubby: Josh Burns |
| Isla Fisher | B-list Aussie soap actress best known for “Home & Away” | Hollywood red-carpet regular, co-writes New-York Times op-eds on refugee policy | Sacha Baron Cohen |
| Nicolette Robinson | Off-Broadway understudy with no major credits | Hamilton royalty, duets on Grammy-shortlisted Hanukkah album, Oscar-night performer | Leslie Odom Jr. |
| Alison Brie | “Mad Men” bit-part player, podcast side-kick | Headlines Netflix originals, produces via husband’s development deal | Dave Franco |
| Karlie Kloss | Super-model but zero tech or policy credentials | Guest lecturer at Harvard Business School, covers Vogue as “coding activist,” Kushner-family access to White House circles | Joshua Kushner |
| Priscilla Chan | Ordinary paediatrician in a California HMO | Co-chairs a 40 bn philanthropy with her name on a Harvard biomedical college, TIME 100 list | Mark Zuckerberg |
| Hannah Bronfman | Part-time DJ, Instagram influencer | Raises 20 mm seed for her “wellness” app, sits on the board of her husband’s VC fund | Brendan Fallis (Sephardi real-estate heir) |
| Molly Yeh | Juilliard percussionist blogging about bundt cakes | Food Network series, cookbook franchise, Target cookware line | Nick Hagen (fifth-generation sugar-beet baron) |
Global Aviation Nears Full Recovery: 2025 Total Airport Seat Capacity Just 1.9% Below 2019 All Time Peak
Airport Seat Capacity
2025 Annual Data
Global Aviation Nears Full Recovery: 2025 Seat Capacity Just 1.9% Below 2019 Peak
US maintains lead with 1.09B annual seats; China’s 821M reflects strong domestic rebound; industry poised to surpass pre-pandemic record in 2026
Visualizing total scheduled airline seat capacity by country (2025 annual). Orange bars show relative capacity; choropleth intensity reflects aviation market size.
Visual Key
= Seat Capacity (proportional)
= Aviation Market Size
Top Markets
🥇 United States: 1,093M
Atlanta, Chicago, JFK, Dallas, LA
🥈 China: 821M
Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen
🥉 India: 214M
Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad
Atlanta, Chicago, JFK, Dallas, LA
🥈 China: 821M
Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen
🥉 India: 214M
Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad
Key Insights
Middle East hubs (UAE, Qatar, Turkey) punch above their population size with major international transfer traffic. Singapore operates as ASEAN’s primary gateway despite small geography.
Top 30 Countries
Ranked by Total Scheduled Seats (Million/Year)
ABC Employee’s Woke War on Condom Prices. Why Condoms are now = War on Women
The Rubber Ceiling: Why Latex has become a ‘War on Women’
While everyday Aussies are checking their bank balances twice just to afford a Christmas ham, and the CSIRO is watching its science funding vanish into thin air, the tax-funded keyboard warriors at the ABC have found a new hill to die on: The price of condoms in China. The libtard elites are framing a potential tax increase on contraceptives as a patriarchal assault on female dignity.
According to the ABC, low-cost condoms are actually a pseudo-patriarchal plot to devalue women. In a display of mental gymnastics that would win gold at the LGBTQ+ Olympics, staff insiders are claiming that affordability is an insult to the gender.
“When you lower the price of a condom, you lower the price of a woman’s dignity,” one producer reportedly claimed. “By making protection accessible, you are essentially telling women that their body’s systems aren’t worth a tax. It’s a war on our values. It turns a sacred barrier into a common commodity, no better than a discount banana.”
The logic, which has been described as “deeply curated,” suggests that expensive condoms acted as a “financial gatekeeper.” The theory posits that high prices ensured only the most fiscally responsible and high-status partners could afford to engage in the reproduction of the species—conveniently ensuring we get more clones of Fmr Prince Andrew & Jewish Bankers than any normal society needs or wants.
Read the Original ABC Report
