This may sound weird but if there's someone around you making leather gun holsters they usually sell gun belts too. I bought one that was pretty thick and came with brass hardware that I didn't manage to wear out in a decade of use.

Not as touchy as Germans being asked to meet their NATO spending requirements 😉

Ah, of course it's the US' fault!

Invest in defense.

The best time to build a modern army was 20 years ago, the second best time is today.

Not venting, but flaring and they're already doing that.

Russia really doesn't have any options to sell gas at this point. Their ballyhooed Siberia-China pipeline was a dictators' vanity project and the route was designed according to which oligarch was owed favors at the time, and consequently won't make any money.

They can't build LNG terminals for lack of capital, technical workforce, and western equipment.

So while they're able to sell oil, a huge chunk of their gas is stranded at this point.

Every time one of these exchanges goes belly up there are cryptobros unironically asking for government investigations and bailouts, from the government whose regulatory regime they are explicitly operating outside of.

Right now, we're at the "lender of last resort" chapter of learning why the financial system is the way it is, except the lender of last resort in this case isn't the US Treasury, it's some shady exchange whose "reserves" are just illiquid shitcoins.

I bet if the UK committed as much of its GDP to its space program as the Soviet Union did they'd have no problems.

Operation Iraqi Mexican Freedom

What kind of shitstorm would ensue if the cartels shot down a USAF plane?

Only took him a few days in Bahamian jail to decide that maybe extradition wasn’t so bad.

Trump was already ranting this morning on some Newmax morning show that nobody watches that the system is rigged and the American people won't stand for holding him accountable. I think he knows it's about to go down.