Current co-leaders Weidel and Chrupalla are moderates, but they lead the party with Höcke's blessing and don't distance themselves from Der Flügel either, to their credit. They acknowledge the identitarian movement has complete control over right-wing metapolitics and alternative media in Germany; and that the party's youth are more radical than they are. They also realise they can only win power with AfD's eastern electoral strongholds - all of which are under the influence of Der Flügel.

This gives Höcke extreme leverage and why he's seen as an unofficial third co-leader both inside and outside AfD. At the same time, Höcke (correctly) realises he can't lead the party outright because his radical politics at the helm would probably result in the AfD being banned outright.

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🕵‍♂️ 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 Peter Navarro, one of the US president’s closest advisers, is pushing for the US to remove Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network — which also includes the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

🔗 Financial Times

☢️ 🇺🇸 🏫 Texas Wants To Be King Of Nuclear Power As Next AI Trade Unfolds

🔶️ Amid a flurry of nuclear startups around the country, Abilene-based Natura Resources is one of just two companies with permits from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to construct a so-called "advanced" reactor. It will build its small, one megawatt molten salt reactor beneath a newly-completed laboratory at Abilene Christian University, in an underground trench 25 feet deep and 80 feet long, covered by a concrete lid and serviced by a 40-ton construction crane.

🔶️ The other company, California-based Kairos Power, is building its 35 megawatt test reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the 80-year capital of American nuclear power science. Both target completion in 2027 and hope to usher in a new chapter of the energy age.

🔶️ The U.S. Department of Energy has been working for years to resuscitate the American nuclear sector, advancing the development of new reactors to meet the enormous incoming electrical demands of big new industrial facilities, from data centers and Bitcoin mines to chemical plants and desalination facilities.

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/texas-wants-be-king-nuclear-power-next-ai-trade-unfolds

💸 🇺🇸 🏦 The Federal Reserve Killed the Penny. Is MAGA Next?

🔗 Ron Paul

💵 🇺🇸 🌎 What a ‘Mar-a-Lago Accord’ Would Mean for the Dollar - Bloomberg

🔶️ President Donald Trump’s aggressive plans to shake up how the US trades with the rest of the world have fueled speculation about the potential for a grand multinational bargain that would deliberately weaken the dollar — helping American exporters compete with rivals such as China and Japan. Analysts have already settled on a name, the “Mar-a-Lago Accord,” after Trump’s private club in Palm Beach, Florida.

🔶️ The trouble is, the dollar’s exchange rate has been historically strong, undermining US competitiveness by making imports relatively cheaper. Indeed, some analysts view the dollar today as overvalued based on economic models that look at things such as the domestic purchasing power of a currency. This overvaluation, and its effects, means Washington has an incentive to reach some kind of deal with other nations that would address the currency strength.

https://archive.ph/4dmDZ

🔗 Anthony Pompliano

More gold is being shipped quietly between countries right now than at any time in history. Why? Because we’re getting a new global financial system. Luke Gromen explains.

(0:00) Gold Is Still Critical to Our Economy
(8:17) The Government’s Secrecy Around Gold Ownership
(13:17) Why Can’t Fort Knox Be Audited?
(20:47) The Intel Community’s Propaganda Around Gold Owners
(24:41) Is Warren Buffet a Political Pawn for the Banks?
(30:17) The Biggest Global Players in the Gold Industry
(32:26) The Secret Initiative to Slow Energy Production
(41:19) Could Trump Use Gold to Fight National Debt?
(50:47) America’s Dependence on China and How Trump Is Fixing It
(1:02:21) The Parasite Bleeding the Life Out of Our Economy
(1:11:29) Trump and Vance’s Big Picture Plan for the US Economy
(1:22:15) Should You Invest in Gold?

👉 Tucker Carlson UNCENSORED

⚡️ 🇨🇱 🔦 A major blackout has struck Chile, leaving nearly 20 million people without electricity. The widespread power outage is causing significant disruption across the country. Details on the cause and restoration efforts are still emerging.

🔶️ In the capital of seven million inhabitants, hundreds of people were evacuated from the metro.

🔶️ "They let us leave work because of the power cut, but now I don't know how we will get home because all the buses are full," worker Maria Angelica Roman, 45, told AFP in Santiago.

🔶️ "Our teams are deployed at all stations to support safe evacuations. Once this process is completed, the stations will remain closed until power is restored," the metro company said in a statement.

🔶️ In 2010, damage to a power plant in southern Chile plunged hundreds of thousands of people into darkness for several hours.

🔗 Barron's

🇪🇺 🇷🇺 🇺🇸 ‘Europe would need to form 50 new brigades, calculates Bruegel, a Brussels-based think-tank, many of them “heavy” units with armour, to replace the 300,000 American troops that it estimates would be deployed to the continent in a war.‘

🔶️ In truth, it could take a decade before Europe is able to defend itself without America’s help. To understand Europe’s challenge, start with the debate over Ukraine. European countries are currently discussing the prospect of a military deployment in Ukraine to enforce any future peace deal. The talks, which are being led by France and Britain, envisage sending a relatively modest force, of perhaps low tens of thousands of troops. They would not be deployed in the east at the front line, but to Ukrainian cities, ports, nuclear power plants and other critical national infrastructure, according to a Western official.

🔶️ The fact that Europe would struggle to generate an independent division-sized force for Ukraine demonstrates the scale of the task involved in Mr Merz’s vision. Meeting NATO’s existing war plans—with America present—would require Europe to spend 3% of GDP on defence, far above existing levels for most countries. Britain took a step in that direction on February 25th, announcing a plan to spend 2.5% of GDP by 2027, but even that may not be enough. Mark Rutte, the secretary-general of NATO, is said to be touting a target of 3.7%. But making good American shortfalls would require a figure well above 4%, probably much higher.

https://www.economist.com/international/2025/02/25/can-europe-confront-vladimir-putins-russia-on-its-own

https://archive.ph/3J7Yw

🇮🇱 ❌️ 🇸🇾 Israeli PM Netanyahu laid out his vision for southern Syria:

1️⃣) IDF will remain indefinitely across on the Hermon Mt.

2️⃣) Syrian forces won't be allowed south of Damascus.

3️⃣) IDF will ensure safety for the Druze in Syria.
Establishing a de facto autonomous Druze zone.

🔶️ A coalition of Druze have announced the formation of the Sweida Military Council. The militia seeks to unite Druze forces and acquire the ability to ensure the safety of the populace in southern Syria. The only obvious threat they could counter are Jolani's forces in Damascus. The Council's statement can be found on this Kurdish Media post. Essentially, they have thrown their lot in with the Kurdish SDF: they are willing to remain part of Syria, but they want local autonomy, and are willing to use military force to keep it.

🔶️ Statement by Suweida Military Council: "Our goal is to ensure the protection of society, national and regional security, and to safeguard the southern borders from smuggling gangs, arms and drug trafficking, and the infiltration of extremist terrorist organizations, spanning west to the al-Tanf region"

🔗 H.A. Hazony

🇮🇱 ❌️ 🇸🇾 Interesting development. It seems the Druze in the south of Syria and the Kurds in the north are moving towards creating a geographically continuous alliance with Israeli support. This follows an Israeli demand for the demilitarization of southern Syria.

🔗 Uri Kurlianchik