🇨🇳⚡️China is becoming the world's "first major electrostate", with 30% of its total energy consumption coming from electricity (vs about 18% for the rest of the world) and electrifying "nine times faster than the rest of the world".

https://rmi.org/insight/x-change-the-race-to-the-top/

📎 Arnaud Bertrand

🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 The U.S. "has made the difficult but necessary decision to reprioritize near-term planned deliveries of foreign military sales" to other countries of Patriot and NASAM missiles to go to Ukraine instead, per John Kirby - Lara Seligman

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/20/ukraine-air-defense-systems-00164233

🇺🇸📉 - America is turning into revolutionary France. Politicians are wilfully ignoring the omens.

Let’s start with the domestic and political situation. France in the late-18th century was bitterly inegalitarian. Economic inequality coexisted with social inequality — the old feudal caste system was starting to chafe against the realities of the early modern economy — and the political system itself had basically stopped functioning. Everyone knew reform was badly needed, but passing actual legislation was impossible. Special interests had the ability to veto every change, no matter how necessary, and as 1789 approached, total political gridlock became the order of the day. The French Revolution happened not because it was inevitable, but because the political system proved completely incapable of curing its deficiencies.

Does this seem a bit familiar? It should, because that is precisely the situation in the United States right now. An unequal political system has essentially seized up and stopped functioning, and is now stumbling towards election between the most unpopular president in modern history and the next-most unpopular president in modern history. One of those men is clearly fading rapidly, prone to slurring his speech or forgetting where he is; the other just became the first president to be convicted of a felony. Just as in France in the 1780s, violence, protests and disenchantment seem the likeliest conclusion.

But how is the economy doing? France in 1789 was famously bankrupt; in fact, the bankruptcy of the French Crown was the proximate cause of the entire revolution. It borrowed heavily to fund foreign wars and domestic spending, and before long, it had to keep borrowing even more money to pay off the interest on its old debt, only to borrow even more to pay for those loans, and so on. Finally, France could borrow no more, and the crisis began in earnest.

And yet, when it comes to fiscal impropriety, 18th-century France simply can’t compete with modern America. The US is by far the most indebted nation in the world today in absolute terms, gorging as it does on some $1 trillion in additional debt every three months. And unlike in revolutionary France, when public pensions and social welfare simply didn’t exist, America has a supplementary “shadow debt” of around $175 trillion, representing its commitments for future welfare.

On top of this already miserable situation, the US has to contend with another problem not faced by early modern France: deindustrialisation. On the eve of revolution, France was remarkably self-sufficient, which is why it could so easily go from a political and economic basket-case in 1789 to dominating most of Europe in 1812. By contrast, America in 2024 is not self-sufficient; the old industries that allowed it to dominate following the Second World War have now been sold off for scrap, and the US today is dependent on exporting dollars and importing physical goods in return. If demand for dollars drops, those physical goods cannot be quickly replaced. A much more painful period of economic readjustment will have to be undertaken in the US, while France in 1789 essentially only had to rationalise the resources it already possessed to become powerful again.

So, the social and political situation in contemporary America is at least comparable to that in France in 1789, while the economic situation is actually a fair bit worse.

🔗 UnHerd

"The Great Replacement and Australia"

Once a country with an explicitly pro-White immigration policy, Australia has been changed almost beyond recognition in the past 50 years.

In 1966 99.4% of the Australian population was White.

As of 2021 less than 74% of Australia's population is believed to be White.

The nation's British character has been diluted by millions of recent Chinese, Indian, Filipino, and other non-White arrivals.

The country is experiencing a profound housing crisis, a cost of living crisis, and overburdened public services.

Still, more than 5.5 million non-Whites in Australia have yet to be naturalized and could be deported with relative ease.

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📢 🇮🇱 🇵🇸 IDF spokesman says Hamas can't be defeated, clashing with Netanyahu

🔶️ Long criticized at home as well as abroad, Netanyahu's approach is now the subject of a deepening disagreement with his top brass as well as his country's top ally, the United States.

🔶️ And on Wednesday, the Israel Defense Forces' top spokesman seemed to lay bare the rift at the top of the country's leadership. The central stated goal of the war in Gaza — to destroy Hamas — was not possible and to maintain it was meant "throwing sand in the eyes of the public," said Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari.

🔶️ “Hamas is an idea. Anyone who thinks we can eliminate Hamas is wrong," Hagari said during an interview with Israeli broadcaster Channel 13. "The political echelon needs to find an alternative — or it will remain," he said, referring to the Palestinian militant group.

🔶️ Hamas welcomed Hagari's comments as an "admission" of defeat.

🔶️ "If we don't bring something else to Gaza, then at the end of the day we will get Hamas," Michael warned.

🔶️ The absence of a postwar plan for Gaza was at the heart of Gantz’ reasoning for quitting Netanyahu’s war Cabinet and has also driven criticism from Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/israel-military-spokesman-hamas-defeated-netanyahu-war-gaza-rcna157991

🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇱🇧 According to a U.S. Defense Official, Elements of Carrier Strike Group 2 (CSG-2) including the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) currently conducting Operations against the Houthi Terrorist Group in the Southern Red Sea, will soon be Redeployed into the Eastern Mediterranean to assist Israel with the Defense of its Northern Airspace from Large-Scale Attacks from Long-Range Missiles, Rockets, and Drones expected to be launched by Hezbollah at the beginning of an Israeli Ground and Air Offensive into Southern Lebanon. Once in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Ships will link with additional U.S. and British Navy Vessels currently Deployed to the Mediterranean and from Naval Station Rota in Spain, while Coalition Forces with the EU’s “Operation Aspides” will continue with Operations against the Houthis in the Red Sea.

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🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇱🇧 U.S. Republican Senator, Marco Rubio who is the Vice-Chair for the Senate Intelligence Committee has released a Warning that a “Very Dangerous War is Brewing in the Middle East” between Israel and Hezbollah, as well as possibly even Iran. - OSINTdefender

📝 Marco Rubio: "As I have been warning about for months because of Hezbollah & the regime in Iran the threat of a very dangerous war is brewing in the Middle East"

📎 Marco Rubio

🇰🇷 🇺🇸 💵 A major South Korean shipbuilder has purchased an American shipyard.

🔶️ U.S. shipbuilder Philly Shipyard will be sold to South Korean conglomerate Hanwha in a deal value at $100 million. The confirmation comes after months of rumors that the two parties were exploring an acquisition.

🔶️ Hanwha Ocean, previously Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME), is one of South Korea’s “big three” shipbuilders. Following DSME’s acquisition by the Hanwha Group in 2023, the conglomerate has been undertaking an effort to bolster its global influence in shipbuilding, most recently with a bid to acquire Australian shipbuilder Austal, which was ultimately rejected. Philly Shipyard has a history of using Korean designs in their shipbuilding.

🔶️ Philly Shipyard, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is known for being one of the few American shipyards capable of constructing ocean-going ships in compliance with the Jones Act. Currently, the shipyard is engaged in several commercial and government projects with a backlog until 2027, including the construction of five federal training and humanitarian ships for the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration. Commercial projects include an offshore wind Subsea Rock Installation Vessel (SRIV) for Great Lakes Dredge and Dock and three 3,600 TEU containerships for U.S.-based shipping line Matson.

https://gcaptain.com/philly-shipyard-sold-to-hanwha-for-100-million/

🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇷🇺 US says Ukraine can hit inside Russia ‘anywhere’ its forces attack across the border

🔶️ The subtle shift in messaging — which officials insist is not a change in policy — comes just weeks after the U.S. quietly gave Kyiv the green light to strike inside Russia in response to a cross-border assault on the city of Kharkiv. At the time, U.S. officials stressed that the policy was limited to the Kharkiv region, among other restrictions.

🔶️ Ukrainian forces have since used American weapons to strike into Russia at least once, destroying targets in the city of Belgorod, and managed to hold back the Russian assault. But Ukrainian and other European officials have pressed the U.S. to loosen its restrictions even further, allowing Ukraine to strike anywhere inside Russia.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/20/us-says-ukraine-can-hit-inside-russia-anywhere-00164261