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India said NO to Starlink. Musk thought he could throw a public tantrum and bully India into handing him a telecom monopoly, but he completely miscalculated. Thanks to Trump’s reckless betrayal of global allies and cozying up to dictators, the world is waking up to a terrifying truth: you simply cannot trust America—or its arrogant billionaires—with your national security anymore. Fareed Zakaria: “Elon Musk picked the wrong moment to lecture Indians. Frustrated that Starlink had not been cleared to launch in that country, he accused the government of protecting Mukesh Ambani whose telecom network Jio will launch its own satellite service. Musk cast himself as the champion of ordinary Indians against one of the country's richest men. It backfired. India's government dismissed his accusation as baseless. An influential nationalist group close to the ruling party went further demanding that Starlink be kept out of India altogether citing national security. Media and online reactions were similarly hostile to Starlink. Musk did not understand that in India as in much of the world, trust in America is collapsing. Indians have watched as Donald Trump has discarded 25 years of bipartisan outreach to New Delhi in favor of cozying up to Pakistan and its de facto dictator Field Marshal Asim Munir. They have watched Trump essentially abandon Ukraine, where the military version of Starlink has been suspiciously restricted, thus crippling Ukraine's military response to Russian aggression. Would India define itself in another crisis with Pakistan? Would it want its armed forces to be utterly dependent on a US satellite system controlled by Trump?”

🚨 JUST IN: Vladimir Putin has formally proposed a THREE-WAY SUMMIT with President Trump and Xi Jinping in November to discuss ending the Ukraine War, per WSJ Zelensky will be left out, as he should be, because he actually has no interest in ending the war, as we’ve known for YEARS. President Trump has made clear he believes that to be the case as well: “Zelenskyy doesn't care, and frankly, with all of the money that Europe is famously giving him, and that Crooked Joe Biden gave him in the past, he doesn't want to end this war, and probably never did.”

General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, former Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and current Ambassador to the UK: Due to scientific and technological progress, it has become impossible, regardless of what others may claim, to carry out operational-level tasks. 1/12

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital. Cette phrase change tout. L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ? Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible. Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur. Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé. Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire. L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants. Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution. Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain. Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée. Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien. La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose. Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins. Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires. La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

BREAKING - Just days after Senator John Thune said there was no time to debate and vote on the SAVE Act, it was revealed that senators held a dog parade inside the chamber, bringing their pets in for photos and celebration instead of moving forward on the election bill.

How do you like these cards, Mr. Trump? This is what the airfield of the Russian strategic aviation in Siberia looks like now (more than 4 thousand km from the Ukrainian border). Ukrainian drones bombed an entire fleet of strategic bombers of Russia. The governor of the Irkutsk region has already confirmed that the drones were launched from a truck parked near the airfield, and that this is the first attack on Siberia since the war. An airfield in the far north of Russia, in the Murmansk region (approximately 1,800 km from the border with Ukraine), was also attacked. While the US and Europe are bogged down in miserable bureaucracies, Ukrainian special services are conducting operations against a nuclear state that have never been seen in the history of wars.

⚡️Trump refusing to adopt sanctions against Russia as it would affect business opportunities with Moscow, NYT reports. U.S. President Donald Trump refuses to impose sanctions on Russia as it may hinder future business and trade opportunities with Moscow, the New York Times (NYT) reported on May 20, citing a White House official. kyivindependent.com/trump-re…

If you thought Assad was bad, wait till you see what is coming next.

When the aliens who are currently watching us slowly annihilate ourselves write the history of earthlings, they will note that the election ended with a debate about who was garbage and not the garbage that is killing us all.

Bill Maher Delivers a Brutal Wake-Up Call to Democrats, Exposing One of Their Biggest Problems “You’re brats, and you’re snobs, and people don’t like that.” “I saw Kamala was on Saturday Night Live, as the losing candidate often is... I’m sure every single member of the Saturday Night Live cast was a Harris supporter, but what if one of them wasn’t? What if one of those cast members was for Trump? Would they have felt comfortable saying so? I really don’t think so. They would have had to keep it to themselves. That’s not a good place for us to be.” “And that happens even more on the left. I remember when Elon Musk hosted. And this is well before he was a Trumper. This is three or four years ago. He was just the richest man in the world. And a number of the cast members on Saturday Night Live, like, they didn’t want to deal with him. “They didn’t exactly boycott, but they made it plain. And I was thinking, really, you have Elon Musk on your show for a week. You could talk to one of the most interesting, brilliant people the world has ever produced, even about this issue that bothers you so much—that he’s so rich and lots of people aren’t. But no, you don’t want to even deal with him. “That’s what I hate about the left. You’re brats. You’re brats, and you’re snobs, and people don’t like that.”

BREAKING: Hillary Clinton suggests jailing Americans for posting "misinformation" "There needs to be deterrence"

This is exactly what is happening

Thank you President Biden, thank you Jake Sullivan for giving Russia the time to do this. History will look negatively at their weak decisions and inaction

🚨🚨🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺 Politico is told by Biden Admin officials that they fear allowing Ukraine to launch long-range strikes on Russia will prevent the US from normalizing relations with Moscow in the future! This is a bombshell piece with a lot of details on Ukraine's ongoing efforts to convince the Biden Admin to lift the restrictions, which have so far: "failed to move the president and national security adviser Jake Sullivan. The Pentagon remains in lockstep with the White House’s thinking."

NEW: Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow brings out a massive Project 2025 book to slam Trump at the DNC despite Trump having nothing to do with the project. What a total clown. "I'm Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow and this is Project 2025." The stunt was just the latest attempt by Democrats to pin Project 2025 on Trump who has repeatedly denounced the project.

Think about this: Trump almost gets assassinated. Days later, Biden has a medical emergency in Vegas requiring "self isolation" at home. Last public appearance reported to be July 17, when deboarding a plane in Delaware. In the time since: Trump shows up at the RNC, accepts the GOP nomination. Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries ramp up pressure campaign to push Biden out. Leaks abound. WaPo reports Obama not happy with Biden's election chances. Pelosi starts operation: "Get Joe Out, the Hard Way." Biden aides Ricchetti, Donilon execute plan to push him out. Hunter, Jill reportedly have a screaming fest. A resignation letter with a suspect, digital signature with no official letterhead is issued on X. White House staff is blindsided. Chief of Staff informs Cabinet, takes over comms. Endorsements begin: Hillary. Bill. Newsom. Finally, Obama speaks out: "Joe Biden has been one of America's most consequential presidents..." Kamala shows up to take over. Family members Frank and Valerie Biden say that 'health was a factor.' FEC filings changed. Donations transferred over to her campaign. Kamala somehow raises $81 million in 24 hours. $81 MILLION. Kamala reportedly gets the delegates to be the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Joe Biden hasn't been seen in public *the whole time.* How is this not a COUP?

Just like that ?