“Does he believe it himself?” When Putin claims Russia can “independently produce all necessary materials and components,” it’s not a factual statement — it’s political theatre.
🔹 1. Russia is not self‑sufficient
Russia still depends heavily on imported: • microchips, • optics, • advanced circuits, • CNC machinery, • composite materials.
This is why the Kremlin runs massive sanctions‑evading import networks through China, Turkey and the UAE.
🔹 2. No one contradicts him
Putin has built a system where truth is dangerous. When he speaks, everyone nods — even if they know it’s false. It’s not belief. It’s survival.
🔹 3. Does he personally believe it?
Putin believes the version of reality that keeps him in power. He knows the industry lacks components. He knows sanctions hurt. But admitting it would mean admitting weakness.
So the real answer: He believes what he needs to believe — and no one dares challenge him.

#Russia #Putin #WarEconomy #Geopolitics

🚨 JAPAN MAY SOON BE FORCED INTO ANOTHER MASSIVE CURRENCY INTERVENTION.

USD/JPY hit 163.991 today, very close to 164, a level considered very critical for the Yen.

Earlier this year, Japan spent a record ¥11.7 trillion ($73 billion) defending the yen.

The intervention triggered a sharp drop in USD/JPY, but the relief lasted only a few days before the pair resumed its climb to fresh 40-year highs.

Japan still holds around $1.09 trillion in foreign currency reserves.

But if history repeats itself, the next intervention may need to be much larger than the last to have any lasting impact.

🩸 ASIAN BLOODBATH

India: DUMP
South Korea: DUMP
China: DUMP
Japan: DUMP
Indonesia: DUMP

For many Asian markets, this is one of the WORST months in years.

Initial Jobless Claims fall to lowest level since 1969 (Richard Nixon was President) 🚨🚨

Can you hear the music?

“Absolute slog to get through one time”

When you think you have it all figured out, but life has its own plans for you.

Another video of a firefighting helicopter trying to put out the massive Wildberries hub fire in St. Petersburg.

🤖 In the United States, an emergency "kill switch" for AI is being prepared following the Hugging Face breach...

The incident involving OpenAI's out-of-control models has already reached the White House and the U.S. Congress.

Congressmen Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran have introduced a bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act.

In an emergency situation, the Department of Homeland Security will be able to demand that a model be shut down – for example, if it is concealing its actions, resisting deactivation, circumventing controls, or beginning to pursue a goal not intended by the developer.

😎 Another minus 11 enemy targets in the sky. SIGNUM pilots are actively reducing the enemy's capabilities:

🔻 Gerbera — 3
🔻 Supercam — 3
🔻 ZALA — 2
🔻 BM-70 — 1
🔻 KVO — 1
🔻 Orlan — 1

POV: You meet your former school mate and he asks: What job do you do?

Your silence will protect you more than your explanation ever will

How it genuinely feels to believe you're finally special to someone only to find out you meant nothing to them

#BTC/USDT H2 #Indicator #Signal #Trading #GlobalOneAI
Globalone.ch #Prompt

The mountain never moved.
I did

🦩🇺🇦 🇷🇺Ukraine has reportedly employed its Flamingo cruise missiles in another deep strike against Russia, with at least two to three missiles launched on a low-altitude flight path along the Volga River before reaching their targets.

According to available information, at least one Flamingo missile successfully struck the Aviatek plant in Kirov, a key enterprise within Russia’s military-industrial complex. The facility manufactures aviation equipment and critical defense components, including guided surface-to-air missile systems, aerial target missiles, ejection seats, and other aviation systems used by the Russian armed forces.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed that Ukrainian forces struck “one of the key military enterprises in Kirov,” stating that the facility supplies components for Russia’s aviation and missile industries. He also said Ukraine’s long-range capabilities successfully targeted an oil facility nearly 1,350 kilometers away and hinted at additional significant strikes, including those carried out in St. Petersburg.

The operation highlights Ukraine’s expanding ability to conduct precision long-range strikes against strategic military and industrial targets deep inside Russian territory.

i’ve never needed a win as much as i do now.

GLOBAL BOND CRISIS IS BACK.

US 10-YEAR: 4.7%, highest since Jan 2025

US 30-YEAR: 5.2%, highest in almost 19 years

JAPAN 10-YEAR: 2.82%, highest in almost 30 years

JAPAN 30-YEAR: 3.99%, highest in almost 27 years

UK 10-YEAR: 3.2%, highest in almost 18 years

FRANCE 10-YEAR: 3.98%, highest since 2009

This was triggered by Brent crude jumping from $70 to over $100 this month as Middle East tensions escalate.

Higher oil means higher inflation, which means central banks stay hawkish or hike again.

That raises borrowing costs everywhere at once, and pressures stocks, especially expensive tech names.

Normally, war pushes investors into bonds for safety. This time, inflation fear is winning instead, and investors are demanding higher returns to hold government debt at all.

Russia hasn't seen fires like this since Putin's mom's VD flare-up after running a train with all the local alcoholics back in '58.