🇵🇭🇺🇸🇦🇺🇯🇵 Balikatan 2025 concluded on May 9th, with over 14,000 Filipino, U.S., Australian, and Japanese service members participating.

Image 2: Visualization of Philippine Radar Sites and coverage ranges, including the positions of Japanese-supplied FPS-3ME fixed radar systems

Image 3: Visualization of AFP’s Northern Luzon Command bases and deployments, including the recent deployment of the US-operated NMESIS platform

🔗 Taiwan Security Monitor

💸📈 Rising 10-30 year yields without changed Fed expectations tells you this is about deficits and eroding reserve status of $. The term premium (the statistical junkyard for stuff we can't explain) has shot up to 90 bp, from negative.

This is partly global. But US deficits are now such a huge part of developed market borrowing (67%) that it's clear the impulse from U.S. to other bond markets is stronger than vice versa.

https://www.wsj.com/economy/central-banking/bond-market-yields-government-borrowing-4a78af80

🔗 Greg Ip

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian forces conducted one of the largest combined drone and missile strikes of the war against Ukraine on the night of May 23 to 24, but used fewer missiles than in previous large-scale combined strikes.

Additional Key Takeaways:

Ukraine and Russia conducted a second round of prisoner-of-war (POW) exchanges on May 24 as part of a larger 1,000-for-1,000 exchange agreed upon during recent bilateral negotiations in Istanbul.

Russian officials will reportedly submit a draft document of their conditions for peace in Ukraine following the conclusion of the POW exchanges, although Russia's conditions are unlikely to be anything short of Ukraine's full surrender.

Russian forces have significantly expanded their salient southwest of Kostyantynivka in recent weeks and established sufficient positions to launch an offensive operation toward Kostyantynivka from the south or to support the envelopment of Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad from the northeast in the coming weeks and months.

The Russian salient southwest of Kostyantynivka is likely sufficient to support a future Russian offensive operation toward Kostyantynivka or Pokrovsk, but Russian forces will have to make further advances from Chasiv Yar and Toretsk and west of Pokrovsk before Russian forces will pose a significant threat to either of these towns.

Russian forces recently advanced near Lyman, Toretsk, and Novopavlivka.

🔗 ISW

🚨🇺🇸 THEY WANT YOU CRUSHED & ENSLAVED. WEF’S MOST INSANE AND TYRANNICAL PLANS EXPOSED

The World Economic Forum — cradle of globalists and utopians — has pushed some of the most unhinged ideas for years, likely revealing the true ambitions of the world’s elites.

🧬 Nita Farahany: Planting false memories

WEF’s neurotech expert openly discussed manipulating human memory: “We can plant false memories in the brain.” She also explored using pain as a coercive tool.

🏙 Ida Auken: No privacy, no property

In her 2016 op-ed noscriptd “Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better,” the Danish politician envisioned a future without ownership or privacy — a vision critics called dystopian.

🤖 Yuval Noah Harari: AI fascism

Harari warned of AI-driven techno-fascism, claiming machines could soon make decisions, control money, and even invest. Many view his outlook as alarmist and dangerously speculative.

🎯 Alex Karp: 'Yes, we kill'

Palantir's CEO boasted about turning Ukraine into an AI war lab and targeting Gaza with AI tools. He admitted, “Our product is used on occasion to kill people,” and claimed Western dominance stems from “superiority in applying organized violence.”

💀 Bill Gates: Less people, less problems

At a 2008 WEF talk, Gates argued that deadly diseases could reduce populations in developing countries — calling it a “big benefit” for managing food and education.

🌐 Gita Gopinath: Globalize it all

The ex-IMF economist praised globalization for boosting output, wages, and jobs. Critics argue it has instead fueled inequality and job loss in developed nations.

🏦 Klaus Schwab: 'We penetrate cabinets'

WEF founder Klaus Schwab bragged about the forum’s influence over governments: “We penetrate the cabinets.” Many see this as proof of the WEF’s anti-democratic overreach.

💊 Albert Bourla: Spying pills

In 2018, Pfizer’s CEO lauded ingestible microchip pills that notify authorities once taken. Though pitched as a health tool, critics slammed the idea as Orwellian surveillance.

🐛 Jim Hagemann Snabe: Eat less meat (and more bugs)

At Davos in 2023, Siemens' chairman urged a billion people to quit meat to help the planet — echoing WEF’s broader push for insect-based diets to fight climate change.

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