🐮 🇺🇸 💰 For 5,000 years, one productive beef cow has been worth about one ounce of gold.

Mesopotamia. Rome. The Viking Age. The ratio held.

In 1926, a good cow cost $22. A $20 gold coin held 0.9675 ounces of gold. Almost exactly one ounce per cow.

Today, a young productive beef cow sells for $4,000 to $5,000 at auction. Gold sits around $4,300 an ounce.

Gold has survived empires, currencies, wars, inflation, and economic collapses. Cattle have remained a valuable productive asset for thousands of years.

So what happens if gold reaches $5,000, $6,000, or even higher? What could a cow be worth?

The ratio has held for five millennia.

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🇾🇪⚔️🇾🇪 The Houthis were able to intercept the communications of PLC fighters and knew their plans and their movements.

According to the WSJ The Houthi advance was aided because they were able to intercept the communications of Saudi-backed fighters, people familiar with the matter said. The Houthis have been in control of mobile communications networks in San’a since they seized the capital. The militants also gained access to the phones of captured Saudi-backed fighters.

The Houthi militants listened in on calls between their opponents’ commanders, giving them insight into their plans, the people said. They were also able to speak directly to rival fighters on the ground, urging them to surrender, they said.

People on the ground said the tactics created chaos and confusion on the battlefield.

Recall that previously it was revealed by CNN that PLC units on the Mokha front were undermanned, some even as low as 20% strength, with ghost fighters in the ranks so local commanders could cash in on the salaries.

📝 The defeat of the PLC by the Houthis in Yemen is reminiscent of the Taliban victory against the Afghan National Army (ANA) and the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in Syria over the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).

Recall that in Afghanistan, some Taliban fighters figured on the lists of the ANA as serving soldiers and they would drop in once/month to their posts to collect their U.S. taxpayer funded salary only to disappear in the wilderness and resume insurgent operations against the ANA. Taliban commanders also had access to the ANA's comms and in the lead up to the fall of Kabul convinced thousands of ANA soldiers and commanders to surrender or even defect. Similar incidents happened in Syria as well in the last days of the Syrian Civil War with SAA units disbanding or switching allegiance.

An ideologically/religiously zealous enemy will always prevail over an enemy that is simply paid to fight them.

🔗 https://unwall.app/www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/widening-mideast-instability-squeezes-global-oil-supplies-0cd316ad

🇾🇪⚔️🇸🇦 Three pumping stations along Saudi Arabia’s East-West Crude Oil Pipeline sustained significant damage, far greater than initially assessed. Saudi authorities are working to repair the affected facilities, but restoring them could take several weeks.

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