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28 May 2025 21:15

🇺🇸🚢 Primer: Deterioration, Abuse, and Waste in the Shipbuilding Industry

America’s shipbuilding industry has been treated as if it is in hospice rather than infirmary care, receiving only the bare minimum to sustain operations while its workers and equipment age into dysfunction.

https://americarenewing.com/issues/primer-deterioration-abuse-and-waste-in-the-shipbuilding-industry/

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28 May 2025 20:53

🚢 John Konrad: I absolutely love saronic

But how are all those small drones going to cross the pacific ocean without refueling? How are they going to rearm without ammo ships?

🔗 John Konrad

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28 May 2025 17:59

Saronic Acquires Gulf Craft to Accelerate Autonomous Shipbuilding, Plans $250M Investment in Louisiana Yard

Autonomous vessel developer Saronic announced today the acquisition of Louisiana-based Gulf Craft, marking a significant expansion into autonomous shipbuilding.

The acquisition provides Saronic with a strategically located Gulf Coast shipyard that will serve as the production hub for its medium unmanned surface vessel (MUSV) fleet, beginning with the Marauder, a 150-foot Autonomous Surface Vessel (ASV).

The Marauder vessel features a 40-metric ton payload capacity and can travel up to 3,500 nautical miles or maintain a 30+ day loiter time. It will be fully unmanned and integrate Saronic’s proven autonomy technology.

https://gcaptain.com/saronic-acquires-gulf-craft-to-accelerate-autonomous-shipbuilding-plans-250m-investment-in-louisiana-yard/

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28 May 2025 17:10

🌏🇺🇸 ASEAN opens summit with Persian Gulf nations and China as US threatens tariffs

A regional association of Southeast Asian nations held a summit Tuesday with China and six Persian Gulf countries in efforts to expand economic engagement and bolster resilience amid global trade volatility due to U.S. tariff hikes.

The 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Gulf Cooperation Council and China have a combined GDP of nearly $25 trillion and a market of over 2 billion people, offering vast opportunities to promote cross-regional investment, he said.

https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-asean-gulf-china-cb6a65eecbe619f8eb7c7a97a756e26c

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28 May 2025 15:43

🇨🇳 This could potentially be very consequential: China and a group of about 20 other countries (including Indonesia, Pakistan, Algeria and Serbia) are launching on Friday the "International Organization for Mediation" (IOM), a treaty-based multilateral organization that will be a platform for the peaceful settlement of international disputes.

It's basically a competitor to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague with a few notable differences, besides the obvious fact it is started by the Global South and not the West.

The fundamental difference seems to be philosophical: where the ICJ determines legal rights and wrongs through binding verdicts, the IOM will seek mutually acceptable "win-win" solutions that allow all parties to save face and maintain cooperation. It's designed as an alternative that prioritizes relationship preservation over legal victory.

This is basically what China achieved in its mediation role between Iran and Saudi Arabia. In that instance there was no point to determine a "loser" and a "winner": the objective was to resolve differences via mediation in order to restore the relationship. Which is often the case in disputes between countries.

Obviously, this represents yet another significant step taken to de-monopolize the West's hold over the international order. With such an institution, developing nations will be able resolve their disputes without having to navigate institutions designed by (and often for) the West.

It's also in many ways an illustration of the dysfunction of the current world order: when existing structures fail to serve the majority of humanity, new ones naturally emerge to fill that void.

Which will likely be remembered as a critical strategic error by the West: by failing to reform existing institutions to serve the world as it is instead of the world they preferred, they sowed the seeds of their growing irrelevance.

🔗 Arnaud Bertrand

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28 May 2025 13:32

🇺🇸🇨🇦 President Trump stated that Canada would have to pay $61 billion for the Golden Dome, unless they become the “cherished 51st state.”

“They are considering the offer!”

🔗 AF Post

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28 May 2025 11:55

🇺🇸 If you’re older and wondering why America doesn’t look like the country you grew up in…the reason is immigration.

🔗 The Columbia Bugle

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28 May 2025 09:45

💴📊 BREAKING: Unrealized losses on domestic bond holdings for 4 of Japan’s largest life insurers rose to a record $60 billion in Q1 2025.

This is 4 TIMES more than unrealized losses seen in Q1 2024.

Nippon Life, the largest Japanese insurer and the world’s sixth-largest life insurance company, posted $25 billion paper losses, marking a +260% jump YoY.

This comes as Japan’s 30-year and 40-year bonds have seen one of their most violent price declines in history.

Japan’s financial system is on the edge.

🔗 The Kobeissi Letter

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28 May 2025 08:45

🇺🇸🏛 The Trump administration has paused new interviews for student visa applicants and is looking to vet all foreign students’ social media accounts for “antisemitism” before allowing them to enter the country.

🔗 AF Post

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28 May 2025 08:11

💸📈 Treasury supply is surging even as foreign investors leave for rising yields at home without fx risk. Tsy yields are on track to rise until they are so painful that the public ultimately opts for a period of austerity. Deficit spending has lost its magic.

🔗 Joseph Wang

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28 May 2025 07:11

🇺🇸🇵🇸🇮🇱 US company gunmen have lost control of the aid distribution center in Gaza.

IDF helicopters opened fire on Gazans near the aid distribution center.

🔗 Clash Report

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28 May 2025 00:48

🇨🇦👑 Support for the monarchy is rising in Canada, reversing a previous decline.

Monarchism is highest (48%) among the youngest age group, 18-34.

https://www.pollara.com/canadians-warming-to-king-charles-and-the-monarchy/

🔗 Riley Donovan

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27 May 2025 22:43

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 DHS Secretary Kristi Noem stressed from Tel Aviv that Trump will never accept a “nuclear-capable Iran.”

🔗 AF Post

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27 May 2025 21:00

🇿🇦🇺🇸 President Ramaphosa says South Africa will not be instructed by the USA to arrest anyone for singing "Kill the Boer, kill the farmer" because it is a "liberation chant."

He claims that the chant calling for the killing of white farmers is not a call for anyone to be killed.

📎 Newzroom Afrika

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27 May 2025 17:59

BREAKING: Meta just WIPED OUT nearly ALL identitarian Instagram pages & even some from AfD! Meanwhile, hardcore Antifa pages are untouched. Same old left-wing censorship!

👉 English channel
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28 May 2025 20:53

🚢 Sal Mercogliano: Autonomous ships are a waste of effort.

They should be focusing on minimal crewed warships that can be linked to current Aegis vessels to supplement and add to their sensor coverage and missile loadouts.

https://www.twz.com/news-features/new-dutch-navy-support-vessels-will-be-missile-toting-wingmen-to-frigates

🔗 Sal Mercogliano

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28 May 2025 18:41

🇺🇳🇮🇱 ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan was preparing to seek arrest warrants for Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir before he went on leave as the UN investigates sexual-assault allegations against him. - WSJ

https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/icc-israel-politician-warrants-91d24404

https://archive.ph/7mpYH

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28 May 2025 17:59

Startup Saronic to build ‘Port Alpha,’ next-gen shipyard focused on autonomous vessels

https://youtu.be/jf0QnvSKZng

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28 May 2025 16:34

🇯🇵🇺🇸 Japan proposes to buy U.S. chip products in tariff talks, Asahi says

Japan has proposed purchasing billions of dollars worth of U.S. semiconductor products during ongoing tariff negotiations with the United States, the Asahi newspaper reported, citing an unidentified source.

The Japanese government plans to subsidize domestic companies that buy the U.S. chips from companies such as Nvidia, opens new tab, with potential imports reaching up to 1 trillion yen ($6.94 billion), aimed at reducing America's roughly 10 trillion yen trade deficit with Japan, the report said.

https://www.reuters.com/business/japan-proposes-buy-us-chip-products-tariff-talks-asahi-says-2025-05-27/

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28 May 2025 14:28

🇺🇸🇸🇸 Trump asks Supreme Court to make it easier to deport migrants to South Sudan and other third-party countries

President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to make it easier for his administration to deport people to South Sudan and other countries that are not their homeland, the latest in a series of controversial immigration policies the administration has put before the conservative-majority high court.

The issue involves a policy the administration adopted soon after returning to power, which allows the Department of Homeland Security to deport immigrants to nations other than their home country or one where they have legal status – without first notifying them or giving them a chance to claim they risk persecution, torture, or death in that third-party country.

“The United States is facing a crisis of illegal immigration, in no small part because many aliens most deserving of removal are often the hardest to remove,” the Department of Justice told the Supreme Court.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/27/politics/south-sudan-deportations-trump-supreme-court

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28 May 2025 12:26

🍼📉 The increase in childlessness over time is among liberals, not conservatives.

🔗 Jonatan Pallesen

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28 May 2025 11:31

🇺🇸President Trump warns to withhold federal funds permanently from the State of California if a transgender is allowed to participate in female sporting events

🔗 Insider Paper

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28 May 2025 09:15

🇺🇸🇹🇼🇨🇳 US’ 500 military personnel in Taiwan an ‘open test’ of Beijing’s red lines

Some analysts downplay the number, but others say the revelation puts Beijing in a challenging position

Washington’s disclosure that around 500 US military personnel are stationed in Taiwan signals more open and substantial defence support for the island – a pivot from a previously discreet partnership that is openly testing Beijing’s red lines,according to analysts.

The disclosure, made on May 15 by retired US Navy Rear Admiral Mark Montgomery during congressional testimony, was the first official acknowledgement of such a substantial American military presence on the self-governed island.

Su Tzu-yun, a research fellow at Taiwan’s Institute for National Defence and Security Research, a Taipei-backed think tank, said Montgomery was likely to have been referring “to training personnel rather than combat troops” – distinct from the reported active-duty US military personnel stationed on the island who are serving in administrative roles.

🔗 Indo-Pacific News

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28 May 2025 08:16

📉 I think it's interesting that the most credit sensitive parts of the market like CLO equity is drifting back towards Liberation Day lows.

🔗 Joseph Wang

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28 May 2025 07:40

🇨🇦📝 "You know it's bad when Canadians on REDDIT are starting to voice discontent with "multiculturalism.""

🔗 Rational Posts

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28 May 2025 03:29

🇺🇸🇾🇪 America’s Military Humiliation: The Houthis exposed its waning power

It is very commonplace to blame reversals and even defeats in America’s various wars of choice as merely a matter of lack of will. If America really wanted to win, it would win, the story goes; the failure of the US is just one where it never commits the force necessary to finish the fight. But today, that excuse rings hollow. Trump’s Operation Rough Rider, unlike Biden’s operations, utilised many of America’s most limited, expensive, and advanced weapons to try to bring the Houthis to heel. And still it surrendered. The lessons here are thus quite bleak. America’s preferred and increasingly only viable method of warfare — aerial warfare — is no longer cost-effective nor practical. But the US has no alternative modes of warfare to fall back on, which means that its days as a military hegemon are probably coming to a close.

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27 May 2025 23:31

🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian forces conducted one of their largest drone and missile strikes of the war against Ukraine on the night of May 25 to 26 after three nights of record strikes. The May 25-26 strike is now the second largest combined strike of the war, after Russian forces conducted the largest combined strike on the night of May 24 to 25.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Russian forces launched nine Kh-101 cruise missiles from the airspace over Saratov Oblast and 355 Shahed and decoy drones from the directions of Bryansk, Kursk, and Oryol cities; Millerovo, Rostov Oblast; Shatalovo, Smolensk Oblast; Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Krasnodar Krai; and occupied Cape Chauda, Crimea.

The Ukrainian Air Force reported that Ukrainian forces shot down all nine Kh-101 missiles and 233 drones over northern, eastern, southern, western, and central Ukraine and that 55 drones were "lost."

Ukrainian officials reported that the Russian strikes targeted Chernihiv, Khmelnytskyi, Kharkiv, Odesa, and Kyiv oblasts. Ukrainian officials stated that the strikes caused civilian casualties and damaged civilian infrastructure and private residences.

Russia has launched three of its largest strike packages against Ukraine over the last three days, including its two largest combined strikes, and eight of the largest strikes of the war since January 2025.

🔗 Critical Threats

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27 May 2025 22:04

🇺🇸🇮🇱 Trump’s Comments on Gaza Reflect Israel’s Growing Isolation | NYT

“Israel, we’ve been talking to them, and we want to see if we can stop that whole situation as quickly as possible,” President Trump told reporters in New Jersey shortly before boarding Air Force One.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/26/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-trump-isolation.html

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27 May 2025 19:03

🇩🇪 Germany, Europe's dominant industrial power, is deindustrialising. Nobody has any answers for this and there is hardly any interest in fixing it.

We are in the fifth quarter of a persistent recession. Industrial production has fallen every year since 2017, and we have lost 10% of our output since 2019. Gas and electricity cost three times what they did before the energy crisis. In consequence nearly half of our energy-intensive operations are leaving or considering leaving the country. Our carbon emissions have dropped to levels not seen since the 1950s. And today we have news that Thyssenkrupp, iconic German steel producer, is being broken up and largely sold off – after more than 200 years.
In the end this could break the EU, and it is like nobody cares. Our political establishment responds to the crisis by leaning even harder into the moralising. We will never, ever take a sip from Nord Stream again. Plans to build more gas power plants, even if the gas were there – Brussels regulators don't like that. As far as energy, the main plan is to make conventional heating fuels and petrol even more expensive to appease the weather gods. No way out, no hope, nothing.

🔗 eugyppius

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27 May 2025 17:42

🇺🇸 Texas lawmakers are poised to ban minors from social media

The Texas Legislature has already passed a bill requiring age verification to download apps and is seriously considering another to ban children from social media.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/19/texas-ban-minors-tiktok-facebook-snapchat-social-media/