🧵🇨🇳 A new picture emerges in which the U.S. is hanging on to its illusory hegemony, finding itself unable to militarily contain China due to China's military and technological advances, the logistical challenges stemming from long distances and the lack of a more robust defense-industrial base, alongside a lag in keeping pace with China's rapidly growing innovation capacity

The U.S. is adapting to a new reality in the Indo-Pacific, where China’s rapid military modernization has shifted the balance of power. While the U.S. is investing in infrastructure upgrades and adopting strategies like agile combat employment” and the “island chain” approach, it faces significant constraints, including budget limitations and an overstretched military

https://fxtwitter.com/StarboySAR/status/1876851084263825452

🇺🇸💬👤👤🕊 — 🇺🇸 Politico | Trump: Putin is ‘destroying’ Russia | “I think he should make a deal,” U.S. president says about the Kremlin chief. The war “is not making him look good.” | January 21, 2025:

"Russia's war on Ukraine has landed Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin in "big trouble," U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Monday.

"[Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy told me he wants to make a deal, I don’t know if Putin does ... He might not. I think he should make a deal. I think he’s destroying Russia by not making a deal," Trump said in the Oval Office on the first day of his second presidency.

"I think, Russia is kinda in big trouble. You take a look at their economy, you take a look at their inflation in Russia. I got along with [Putin] great, I would hope he wants to make a deal," he added.

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"He’s grinding it out. Most people thought it would last about one week and now you’re into three years. It is not making him look good," Trump said.

"We have numbers that almost a million Russian soldiers have been killed. About 700,000 Ukrainian soldiers are killed. Russia’s bigger, they have more soldiers to lose but that’s no way to run a country," he added."

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🇺🇸 Tom Homan CONFIRMED: They are going after everybody else once the CRIMINAL illegal aliens are deported.

He says this will occur every day under the Trump presidency.

📎 Eric Daugherty

Immigration does not improve living standards. There is no tradeoff here - immigration just adds crime, ethnic conflict, and political decay to an already bad situation.

https://cis.org/Camarota/There-No-Evidence-Population-Growth-Drives-Capita-Economic-Growth-Developed-Economies

📎 arctotherium

After posting proof of his de-banking by Bank of America, Amber Duke defends Nick Fuentes on The Hill show and argues against de-banking.

📎 AF Post

🇺🇸 Trump tells reporters he’d like Jordan and Egypt to house Palestinians from Gaza — he says he mentioned it during his call today with the King of Jordan, and believes he’ll be talking with Egypt’s leader tomorrow.

“I’d rather get involved with some of the Arab nations and build housing at a different location where they can maybe live in peace for a change,” Trump says, per pool report. “Could be temporarily or could be long term.”

📎 Shelby Talcott

🇺🇸 Trump issues shock threat to 90,000 new IRS staff as he reveals where they may end up working under him

Donald Trump has revealed what could be the fate of nearly 90,000 newly hired Internal Revenue Service (IRS) staff, suggesting he might 'move them to the border'.

Hours after he was handed over the presidency, the Republican leader signed an executive order to stop the hiring of all federal civilian employees until 'his Administration can determine that it is in the national interest to do so'.

Apart from the IRS, the decision is temporary for all other federal offices. He also froze funding for the Inflation Reduction Act commonly known as the bipartisan infrastructure law.

President Trump's order has since thrown the future of about 87,000 new IRS agents who had been hired for the 2022 Act into jeopardy.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14325569/Trump-IRS-staff-fate-border.html

🇯🇵 "This is Japan, Japanese people come first" — Makoto Sakurai, leader of the Japan First Party.

📎 politicalawake

🇨🇩❌🇨🇩— The Congo River Alliance (AFC - commonly referred to as M23) demands the Congolese armed forces and its allies drop their weapons and retreat from Goma, North Kivu provincial capital, within the next 48 hours.

The rebels add that the city of Goma should never be turned into a battlefield.

🇨🇩❌🇨🇩🇧🇮🇿🇦— #BREAKING - AFC (M23) announces the closure of the Goma airspace, citing Congolese armed forces 'bombing on civilians' and demands all foreign forces to leave DRC at the earliest.

The fall of Goma to the AFC/M23 is now imminent.

🇨🇳 China plans to build enormous solar array in space

The new project, according to lead scientist Long Lehao, the chief designer of China’s Long March rockets, would be "as significant as moving the Three Gorges Dam to a geostationary orbit 36,000km (22,370 miles) above the Earth."

China isn't the only nation eyeing plans for solar satellite arrays. The U.S. companies Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman, the European Space Agency, and Japan's JAXA space agency have also been investigating the technology, with the latter scheduling the launch of a small, proof-of-concept satellite this year to assess its feasibility.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/china-plans-to-build-enormous-solar-array-in-space-and-it-could-collect-more-energy-in-a-year-than-all-the-oil-on-earth/ar-BB1rrRXo

🇺🇸 Philip Pilkington on X: "Trump legit has the opportunity to carve up the world rationally into spheres of influence, work with rivals on a pragmatic basis, and maybe save American from its otherwise grim “failed empire” fate."

📎 Philip Pilkington