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Unimaginable levels of corruption

Funny they chose to use the words “Indian question”.

This is really vile stuff. No surprise with the title “The Indian Question” (Google JQ if you’re unclear) but this is just a litany of basic xenophobic garbage, with highlights like “white nationalism’s” — meaning a white ethnostate - problem is it’s not strategic. 1/2

Best thing I watched on X today

Every domestic flight you book sends your name, date of birth, and passport number to the government before you board. Since May 2025, that same packet has also been going to ICE. TSA flagged 31,000 travelers in 14 months. More than 800 arrests came out of it. The airport became the most efficient immigration checkpoint in America and almost nobody noticed.

Here is how the newest one worked.

Milo Yiannopoulos entered the US legally in May 2019 and stayed seven years. He missed an immigration hearing on July 22, so a judge signed a final order of removal. Five weeks later he walked into the New Orleans airport to catch a flight. ICE officers have been stationed in that terminal since March. He was in custody at the gate and back in the UK the next day.

The system that caught him is called Secure Flight. Congress built it in 2007 to check passengers against terror watchlists. Airlines are legally required to transmit your data to TSA before every departure, and the fine print always said TSA could pass it to other law enforcement. A 16-page agreement between TSA and ICE, released through a records request this summer, turned that fine print into a pipeline.

Think about what this replaces. A home arrest means finding an address, staking it out, hoping you're there, and hoping you open the door. An airport arrest means you file your own location, time, and gate number, then show up voluntarily to a building with ID checks at every entrance and one way out.

A final order of removal never has to come to your door. It waits at the gate.

The part he found degrading, the handcuffs and chains, comes from the same machine. ICE transport rules put every detainee in the same restraints regardless of what they're charged with, so a visa overstay rides to the plane the same way a cartel enforcer does. No officer decides that. The policy already did.

Seven years in the country. Twenty-four hours from the check-in counter to a flight home.

Every ticket you buy is a location report. Most people just never had a reason to read it that way.

HUGE Israeli flag and not one American flag in the office of a US Senator.

Our government is occupied, and they’re not even hiding it anymore.

A brilliant piece no journalist even attempted to write.

My two cents.

Boards over reaching themselves in the name of independence and governance is tragi-comic. In the name of governance, you cannot perpetuate your self interest by waging a war against the principal Shareholder itself.

If our entire system remains a mute spectator to this circus and believes this is statescraft , the Nation's image itself will be affected.

If four pygmies get so much power simply because a person who was not exactly in his mind picked and put them there, imagine what we have brought ourselves to?

Finally Saw A Reel Of Someone Who Speaks my Language.

This is the Kind Of Humiliation Required.

As I said before, Social media will continue being a Kryptonite for Indians.

Days are not far when Countries start making Travel Visa’s tougher & Immigration is already Tough now.

Locked shelves. Closed stores. Higher prices. Failed leadership. 

As Attorney General, I’ll crack down on organized retail theft to make New York safer and more affordable.

Michigan’s public high school students are required to take the SAT.

Share scoring 1200+ (the floor for a competitive college):

Asian: 46%
White: 16%
Hispanic: 7%
African American: 2%

An unexpected moment during Indian Prime Minister Modi’s official reception:

The horse picked the worst possible timing.

#WATCH | Mumbai: Radhika Ambani paid tribute to Lord Ganesh through a dance on Ganesh Chaturthi.

Holy shit. A THOUSAND TRADES A MONTH.
50 trades per day. This is a TEAM.

He hired professional traders to use inside information to make money for him on the stock market while he uses every lever in the federal toolkit to pump up equity prices.

Staggering organized crime.

One warning. One instant decision. 1,643 children saved.

As floodwaters raced towards his school, Headmaster Rajendra Dawadi rang the bell, turned the buses back and led the children to higher ground.

In those few decisive minutes, he created an extraordinary legacy: the gift of life to 1,643 children, and the gift of their future to Nepal.

What greater legacy could a teacher leave?

🙏🏽

#MondayMotivation

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.

250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.

A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.

An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.

The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.

A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.

A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.

Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.

$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.

And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.

And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?

Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.

For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?

Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?

They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

There’s no overstating how extraordinary this Atlantic article is, given the author and the outlet.

As a reminder Bob Kagan is:

- The co-founder of Project for the New American Century, probably the single most imperialist Think Tank in Washington (which is quite a feat)

- A man who spent his entire life advocating for American military interventions, especially in the Middle East, and a vocal advocate of the Iraq war. He started advocating for intervention in Iraq before 9/11, which speaks for itself...

- The husband of Victoria Nuland, an extremely hawkish former senior U.S. official (a key architect of U.S. policy in Ukraine, with the consequences we all witness today)

- The brother of Frederick Kagan, one of the key architects of the Iraq surge

In other words, we ain’t exactly looking at some sort of anti-imperialist peacenik. This is quite literally the guy Dick Cheney called when he needed a pep talk.

And the man is writing in The Atlantic, the most reliably pro-war mainstream media outlet in the U.S. (also quite a feat).

So when HE writes that the U.S. “suffered a total defeat” in Iran that has no precedent in U.S. history and can “neither be repaired nor ignored,” it’s the functional equivalent of Ronald McDonald telling you the burgers aren’t great: it means the burgers really, really aren't great.

Extraordinarily (and somewhat worryingly, for me), his arguments for why this is such a defeat are virtually the same as those I laid out in my article “The First Multipolar War” last month (open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbertrand/p/the-fir…).

Here they are 👇

1) Vietnam/Afghanistan were survivable, this isn't

He agrees that this war - and the U.S. defeat - is fundamentally different in nature from previous U.S. interventions.

Where I wrote that the wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan didn’t change the equation much in terms of power dynamics (“in the grand scheme of things, the giant walked away with little more than a bruised ego”), Kagan writes that “the defeats in Vietnam and Afghanistan were costly but did not do lasting damage to America's overall position in the world.”

And when I wrote that “it’s painfully obvious that the Iran war is of a qualitatively different nature” from these, he writes that “defeat in the present confrontation with Iran will be of an entirely different character.”

Same point.

2) Iran will never relinquish Hormuz and uses it as selective leverage

When I wrote that Iran has turned “freedom of navigation” on its head by establishing “a permission-based regime” through the Strait of Hormuz, Kagan arrives at the same conclusion: “Iran will be able not only to demand tolls for passage, but to limit transit to those nations with which it has good relations.”

He also agrees that “Iran has no interest in returning to the status quo ante,” when I myself cited Iran’s parliament speaker Ghalibaf in my article, saying: “The Strait of Hormuz situation won’t return to its pre-war status.” Same point and virtually the same words.

3) Gulf states will have to accommodate Iran

He agrees that most Gulf states will have no choice but to accommodate Iran, effectively making Iran into a, if not THE, dominant regional power.

Kagan writes “the United States will have proved itself a paper tiger, forcing the Gulf and other Arab states to accommodate Iran.”

On my end, I wrote that “the Gulf monarchies will eventually have to choose between two security propositions. One where they stay aligned with a distant superpower that [can’t protect them]. The other proposition being: make peace with the regional power that just proved it can hit [them] whenever it wants.” Which is not much of a choice…

4) Military impossibility to reopen Hormuz

Kagan writes that “if the United States with its mighty Navy can't or won't open the strait, no coalition of forces with just a fraction of the Americans' capability will be able to, either.”

On my end, in my article I cited Germany’s defense minister Boris Pistorius: “What does Trump expect a handful of European frigates to do that the powerful US Navy cannot?”

The exact same argument.

5) Global chain reaction

Kagan agrees that this is a global strategic failure that fundamentally changes the U.S.’s position in the world. As he puts it: “America's once-dominant position in the Gulf is just the first of many casualties… America's allies in East Asia and Europe must wonder about American staying power in the event of future conflicts.”

You’ll have guessed it, I wrote essentially the same thing: “Think about what it says if you’re Saudi Arabia, quietly watching your American-built defenses fail to protect your own refineries. Or any European country now facing the worst energy shock since 1973, caused not by your enemy but by your ally, and realizing that said ‘ally,’ supposedly in charge of ‘protecting’ you, couldn’t even protect Israel’s most strategic sites - when it’s the country with which it’s joined at the hip. I’m not even speaking about China or Russia who are seeing their worldview being validated on almost every axis simultaneously.”

6) Weapons stocks depleted, credibility shattered

Kagan: “just a few weeks of war with a second-rank power have reduced American weapons stocks to perilously low levels, with no quick remedy in sight.”

Me: “America’s most advanced weapons systems are much more vulnerable than previously thought - not theoretically, but in actual combat.”

Kagan: “America's allies… must wonder about American staying power in the event of future conflicts.”

Me: “The U.S. security guarantee has been empirically falsified in real time.”

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So, yup, Bob Kagan and I agree on nearly everything. I need a shower 🤢

Reassuringly though, we still differ on a few fundamental aspects.

First of all, arguably the most important one, the moral aspect. In typical neocon fashion, his article contains not a word about the human cost of this war - not the 165 schoolgirls, not the devastation inflicted on Iranians during 37 days of bombing, not the toll this war is taking on the entire world through its devastating economic consequences (the economic devastation on ordinary people worldwide is referenced only as a political problem for Trump). For him, this is purely a strategic chess problem, morality and people don’t figure in his mental map.

For me, the moral bankruptcy of this war isn't separate from the strategic failure - it is the strategic failure. Much like Gaza can only be a failure because of its sheer abjectness.

Secondly, there is not an instant of reflection in the article on how we got there. Which is unsurprising because he personally, alongside his wife, his brother, and every co-signatory of every PNAC letter, spent a generation pushing for exactly this kind of confrontation. The man spend 30 years advocating for military dominance in the Middle East and hostility towards Iran, thereby forging them as an adversary and facilitating this very war that he now says has “checkmated” America.

I know introspection has never been the neocon forte but at some point you have to stop setting houses on fire and then writing op-eds about how surprising the smoke is.

Last but not least, we differ on what should be done. This is the funniest part of Kagan’s article - showing that the man is decidedly beyond salvation. On one hand he calls this a “checkmate” by Iran, and a U.S. defeat that can “neither be repaired nor ignored,” yet an the other hand his solution for it is… surprise, surprise… a bigger war still!

He writes that what’s to be done is “engage in a full-scale ground and naval war to remove the current Iranian regime, and then to occupy Iran until a new government can take hold.”

The arsonist's solution to the fire is a bigger fire ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

For my end, this was the conclusion of my previous article:

"There is almost a Greek tragedy quality to U.S. actions lately where every move taken to escape one’s fate becomes the mechanism that delivers it. The U.S. went to war to reassert dominance - and proved it could no longer dominate. It demanded allies send warships - and revealed it had no real allies. It waged forty years of maximum pressure to break Iran before this moment came - and instead forged the very adversary now capable of meeting it. It started the war in part to have additional leverage over China - and handed the world the spectacle of begging China for help. The prophecy was multipolarity. Every American action to prevent it reveals it instead."

I wouldn’t change a word. The only thing that's changed since I wrote it is that even the arsonists now smell the smoke.

Src for the Atlantic article: theatlantic.com/international/2026/05/iran-war…

🇺🇸BREAKING: Someone placed a $920 million crude oil short at 3:40 AM.

70 minutes later Axios reported the US and Iran were close to a deal.

Oil dropped 12%.

The trade made $125 million in profit.

Minutes after that Iran launched the “Persian Gulf Strait Authority” and oil surged 8%.

$760 million placed before Trump’s last announcement.

$920 million placed before this one.

Every major announcement in this war has been front-run by someone who knew it was coming.

What kind of war is this?

This is more like a trading desk with an army.

Never stop connecting the dots.

This will blow your fucking mind!!!!!

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A Geneva-Based Secret Ruler of Pakistan

Controls India’s Banking Roots

The unpaid Serena Hotel bill wasn’t just Pakistan’s humiliation — it was India’s wake-up call.

Inside story only in @BWBusinessworld @anuragbatrayo

businessworld.in/article/a-geneva-based-secret…

JD Vance is the most disciplined, calculated, and patiently dangerous political operator in America right now.

The scariest part is that somebody built him.

Somebody owns him…

and when that bill comes due…

what will happen.

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29 March 2026

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