Serial fintech founder (NoviCap , Horizon65). Currently building deeptech.
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Surrealism in the 21st century.
Dali would be proud he started a movement that ultimately made it into Schengen Visa policies.
Russia is preparing for war in Europe, and they continue to be issued visas.
Spanish police have arrested a former Russian soldier after discovering an illegal weapons operation in Catalonia, near the French border.
Investigators uncovered a concealed workshop inside a rented warehouse in Figueres, approximately 25 kilometers from France. The facility contained 644 firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, silencers and weapons components.
The seized arsenal is estimated to be worth €5 million.
Haiti is a quintessential case that the law doesn’t mean anything when not backed up with violence.
States should have zero tolerance to anybody challenging its monopoly of violence.
Democracy evolved after absolute monarchy for a reason.
DIFUNDAN URGENTE 🚨
ACTUALIZACIÓN: OPERATIVO HAITÍ - EL SALVADOR (Domingo 25 de Octubre 2026)
🚨 ÚLTIMA HORA: Máxima tensión y operativo secreto en Haití
El rescate de los cuatro técnicos de aviación de El Salvador entra en su fase más crítica bajo un estricto protocolo de seguridad. Esto es lo último:
❌ Bukele desmiente hallazgo: El presidente Nayib Bukele negó formalmente que los cuerpos quemados encontrados el sábado sean de los militares salvadoreños. La búsqueda continúa activa.
✈️ Fuerzas Especiales: Hace horas un nuevo contingente de 450 soldados de élite de El Salvador aterrizó en el Aeropuerto Internacional Toussaint Louverture de Puerto Príncipe con muy importante equipamiento militar mientras se prepara otro avión desde El Salvador.
🪖 Operativo bajo absoluto secreto: Las tropas salvadoreñas avanzan junto a la GSF (Fuerza respaldada por la ONU) en Croix-des-Bouquets bajo una discreción total para proteger la vida de los rehenes y personal movilizado.
🎯 Buscan al cabecilla: El objetivo principal del asedio es Wilson Joseph, alias "Lanmò San Jou", el temido capo de la pandilla 400 Mawozo. Mis contactos en el terreno señalan que se le busca intensamente y aparentemente habría logrado fugarse de su zona habitual para esconderse en áreas rurales de difícil acceso tras el avance militar.
💥 Ataques de distracción: Ante la presión del ejército, las bandas lanzaron tiroteos en el casco urbano de Delmas 19, 31 y 33, que causaron pánico y forzaron el desplazamiento de civiles debido a ráfagas de armas automáticas para dispersar a las tropas y frenar el rescate.
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If every database on earth can be hacked then there is actual value in putting property and critical financial records on blockchain so that the attack is extremely expensive to execute.
My understanding is that they are ok with a Delaware-state winning as the preferred place of incorporation.
If you read it as "We'll just give it all to Estonia who already digitalized everything" then it makes more sense.
Not sure what the drivers are but we had supply shocks and high inflation.
Inflation will also be very high the coming year due to critical sea lanes being cut so this will only get worse short-term.
Why not throw in the commonwealth and OPEC while you're at it.
BREAKING: US reportedly offers Ukraine EU membership if they drop NATO bid
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He’s going to invest in lethal technology in Europe? An absolute desert of venture capital thanks to EIF rules and the idea that there’s limited M&A.
The delay is over co-determination (employee representation on boards) with the consensus going towards keeping national rules on it with optional circumvention safeguards.
There doesn’t seem to be a majority to get rid of employee representation altogether as the far-right disagrees with the 28th regime altogether.
Most consequential change in Europe right now.
Germany will probably make headway this year on a reform of its pension system that will help deepen European capital markets, Deutsche Bank CEO Christian Sewing says bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
More like foreclosing on your kids.
The wealth tax is dumb but wiping out wealth on death has a strong meritocratic argument on it which is that you only get to eat what you kill.
In any case kids of wealthy parents still have a major leg up over normal people in access to education, financial safety and network.
Might even remove rolex communists even.
Perfect excuse for @GiorgiaMeloni and @kmitsotakis to trigger a migration-related crisis with Libya and enact a total sea blockade. If Turkey escalates, Israel could enter and also Turkey can be blockaded as well as sanctioned.
Peace settlement should be migration control, unification, lifting of sanctions and extensive oil and gas investments in Libya.
EU would be protesting loudly to maintain ties with Turkey but ultimately has no jurisdiction on defence but maintain the mutual defence clause of the EU is absolute and has no opt-outs.
Libya without oil and gas exports and without food imports would destabilize very quickly and become dependent on Egypt and Algeria for supplies; two powers not aligned with Turkey.
If the Russians use their planes against the blockade then that would also sink the “Russia is not our enemy” narrative in Italy.
Maybe after the winter would be a good time.
There is a problem with construction costs though both material and labour has increased a lot in price.
I do think it is better solved by prefab than on-site robotics.
The future of housing looks more like lego.
Many people and cultures mistake being polite and reserved as weakness.
The pursuit of power is already well under way but it takes time to fix structural weaknesses and our achilles heel remains political unity.
There’s precedent for that though, Nazi collaborators were stripped of their citizenship after WW2 and those were natives.
The ECHR also doesn’t deem stripping citizenship as a violation of rights and within state’s rights.
It gets more complicated when you want to deport them because there is lots of case law preventing this but 48 countries leaned on the court last year which resulted in the court promising to take into account states’ rights to protect its borders and guarantee security.
The EU still has to find 3th party countries to deport them too but the EU return regulation is in force since 3 days.
That one enables countries to deport regardless to a safe 3th country.
I reckon by mid next year most countries will have deportation pipelines up and running and the harsh crackdowns those sociological geniuses desire will be both legal and practical.
Every soldier bleeds the same in war but a limited population group gets to choose between war and peace? What’s to prevent a Gallipolli scenario where Britain deployed Australians and New Zealanders to avoid electoral consequences at home?
European NATO forces in Afghanistan were already very unreliable with some countries refusing dangerous missions and some withdrawing.
What if a large state (e.g. Italy) votes against and then refuses to enter the war and finance it.
What if the future leader of one of the permanent states is against all war or completely ignorent on military affairs?
Maybe with today’s political leadership but in the future with other leadership.
I don’t think there’s a real substitute for elected leadership based on merit by all states and associated insurrection acts to guarantee compliance. That’s a structure that could evolve to democratic elections with bound electors like it did in the US after 40 years.