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FullMoon wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 8:25 pm

DaKardii wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 5:21 pm Link to the monologue below. Keep in mind that it is over 40 minutes long.

https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-mono-jan-7

During the monologue, Carlson implies that China will be our main adversary in this war. He also says Russia is the key to determining who will win. Which is why Trump abandoning NATO/Ukraine and making nice with Russia should take top priority. If Trump fails to break Russia away from China, we will lose. Only if he succeeds will we have a chance.

John's analysis as to the Russian side was correct. It depends on how much they and Europe can make amends. At current levels that will take a long time and certainly be in China's favor. The European/Russian rivalry would be best wound down. There is no existential conflict between Russia and Europe. Europe got themselves into a hole by doing similar but much worse than we did. We have lots of options but what have they. We cut their pipeline and they don't even have cheap energy now.

tim wrote: Tue Jan 06, 2026 11:06 am

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tim wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 12:30 pm https://lionessofjudah.substack.com/p/e ... -a-wartime

Edward Dowd: Trump is Building a Wartime Command Economy Without Declaring War

"This is a test run. He is setting precedent to apply this model across sectors..."

Trump is building a wartime command economy without declaring war.

He’s not trying to reform the defense sector. He’s preparing to subsume it. Strip the optics. What he’s doing is establishing direct state control over strategic capital flow using loyalty pressure, populist framing, and fiscal levers.

He’s not negotiating with defense executives. He’s declaring them subordinate.

This is a test run. He is setting precedent to apply this model across sectors:

•Energy will be next.
•AI after that.
•Healthcare eventually.

The pattern is simple. Any industry touching sovereignty, logistics, or frontier technology will be absorbed under mission-state logic. Private firms will still hold the equity, but the state will dictate the capital structure, production cadence, and narrative frame.

Buybacks are forbidden. Dividends are conditional. Salaries are capped. Output is mandatory. Time is compressed.

It’s a shift from incentive alignment to compliance enforcement. From persuasion to control. From “make defense great again” to “you now work for me.”


No modern president has dared cross this line because it exposes how thin the veil of corporate independence actually is when national purpose is invoked.

Trump just crossed it.

And the deeper layer: this only works if he’s confident the military, capital markets, and the public will comply. That’s the real signal. He knows they will. Or he knows enough of them will that the others won’t matter.

This is how American Caesarism starts.

Not with tanks in the streets.

With cash flow commands.

DaKardii wrote: Sat Jan 10, 2026 5:21 pm Link to the monologue below. Keep in mind that it is over 40 minutes long.

https://tuckercarlson.com/tucker-mono-jan-7

During the monologue, Carlson implies that China will be our main adversary in this war. He also says Russia is the key to determining who will win. Which is why Trump abandoning NATO/Ukraine and making nice with Russia should take top priority. If Trump fails to break Russia away from China, we will lose. Only if he succeeds will we have a chance.

Edward Dowd: Trump is Building a Wartime Command Economy Without Declaring War

"This is a test run. He is setting precedent to apply this model across sectors..."

Trump is building a wartime command economy without declaring war.

He’s not trying to reform the defense sector. He’s preparing to subsume it. Strip the optics. What he’s doing is establishing direct state control over strategic capital flow using loyalty pressure, populist framing, and fiscal levers.

He’s not negotiating with defense executives. He’s declaring them subordinate.

This is a test run. He is setting precedent to apply this model across sectors:

•Energy will be next.
•AI after that.
•Healthcare eventually.

The pattern is simple. Any industry touching sovereignty, logistics, or frontier technology will be absorbed under mission-state logic. Private firms will still hold the equity, but the state will dictate the capital structure, production cadence, and narrative frame.

Buybacks are forbidden. Dividends are conditional. Salaries are capped. Output is mandatory. Time is compressed.

It’s a shift from incentive alignment to compliance enforcement. From persuasion to control. From “make defense great again” to “you now work for me.”

No modern president has dared cross this line because it exposes how thin the veil of corporate independence actually is when national purpose is invoked.

Trump just crossed it.

And the deeper layer: this only works if he’s confident the military, capital markets, and the public will comply. That’s the real signal. He knows they will. Or he knows enough of them will that the others won’t matter.

This is how American Caesarism starts.

Not with tanks in the streets.

With cash flow commands.

tim wrote: Tue Jan 06, 2026 11:10 am Iran is in an awakening era, where the younger generation is seeking to take power and install their own values in the country.