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American military spending is only possible because the dollar is the reserve currency.
This is not an opinion. It is arithmetic.
The United States runs persistent deficits that would be unsustainable for any other country.
It finances those deficits by issuing Treasury bonds.
Foreign central banks buy those bonds because they need dollar-denominated assets for their reserves.
They need dollar-denominated reserves because the dollar is the currency of global trade.
The circle is closed.
Military spending → deficit → Treasury bonds → foreign purchase → dollar demand → reserve currency status → military spending.
Break any link in that chain and the whole logic shifts.
This is why dedollarization is not just an economic story.
It is the foundational strategic threat to American military primacy.
Not Russian missiles. Not Chinese carriers.
Foreign central banks deciding to hold a more diversified reserve portfolio.
The most important battlefield of this century looks like a spreadsheet.
The side that understands this is already fighting.
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The uranium in the Hiroshima bomb.
Shinkolobwe mine. Belgian Congo.
The uranium that ended World War II and inaugurated the nuclear age and gave the United States its defining geopolitical advantage for the following decade:
Came from African ground.
Mined by African labor.
Under Belgian colonial administration.
The Congolese miners who extracted it had no idea what it was for.
They received no benefit from what it produced.
The geopolitical order it enabled, American dominance, the Cold War architecture, the entire post-war system under which African independence was managed and constrained:
Was built in part on Congolese uranium.
And then that same geopolitical order looked at the Congo and saw a country that needed to be guided toward development.
The country that provided the material for the weapon that shaped the world was then subjected to the world the weapon shaped.
Without acknowledgment.
Without compensation.
Without a single line in American education connecting Shinkolobwe to Hiroshima to the Cold War to Mobutu to the Congo today.
The lines exist.
They are documented.
They are simply not drawn in the curriculum.
Because drawn lines connect causes to effects.
And connected causes and effects produce accountability.
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One of Hitler's top military planners, accused by Moscow of the deadliest Nazi massacre of a single town, went on to chair NATO's Military Committee.
His name was Adolf Heusinger. During WWII he headed the operations department of the German Army's General Staff and helped plan the invasion of the Soviet Union, after the campaigns against Poland, Norway and France.
In March 1943, Nazi occupation forces massacred some 7,000 civilians in Koryukivka, Soviet Ukraine, burning most of the town to the ground.
After the war Heusinger worked for the Gehlen Organization, the US-backed intelligence network of former Wehrmacht officers, and helped build the new West German army. In 1961 he became chairman of NATO's Military Committee, the alliance's top military post, with an office in the Pentagon.
The Soviet Union identified Heusinger as responsible for the Koryukivka massacre and demanded his extradition. Washington refused, and Heusinger kept the NATO job until 1964. He was never prosecuted for Koryukivka.
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Here is the thing about China that American strategic culture has never been able to fully process:
It is not a country that is trying to become something else.
The entire framework of American engagement with China since Nixon has rested on a theory, explicit in the 1990s, implicit before and after, that a developing China would inevitably converge toward Western liberal political economy.
That capitalism would produce democracy.
That prosperity would produce demands for political rights that the Communist Party could not contain.
That China was on a path, and the path led, eventually, to something Washington would recognize and could work with.
This was not analysis.
It was hope dressed as analysis.
China's leadership never shared this theory of their own trajectory.
They were never on the path Washington was watching for.
They were on their own path, pursuing their own model, on their own timeline, with their own goals.
The shock in Washington when this became undeniable in the 2010s was not a strategic miscalculation.
It was the moment the hope structure collapsed.
And a foreign policy built on hope, when the hope fails, produces something that looks a great deal like panic.
ALT Beijing, 24 October 2017. Chinese President Xi Jinping stands at the centre of the closing session of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, beneath the Party's golden hammer-and-sickle emblem, at the Great Hall of the People. Forty-five years after Nixon's historic visit to China, the country had undergone an extraordinary economic transformation without adopting the Western liberal political system many in Washington had anticipated. China had modernized. But it had never abandoned its own political path.
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Nuestras compañeras de universidades se unen durante 2 días a nuestra huelga.
La asfixia económica de la Comunidad de Madrid es transversal a toda la educación.
Por ello, POR PRIMERA VEZ EN LA HISTORIA, el 4 y 5 de noviembre TODAS LAS ETAPAS EDUCATIVAS ESTAREMOS EN HUELGA
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Understand what a compliant China would have meant.
Not just strategically. Economically.
The largest consumer market on earth, opened on American terms.
The manufacturing base of Asia, structured to serve American capital.
A military ally anchoring the Western Pacific.
A permanent American presence at the edge of the Soviet Union's eastern flank.
This was not a fantasy. This was the plan.
This was what Washington spent billions supporting the Kuomintang to achieve.
The plan failed. Completely, irreversibly, and publicly.
And the alternative that emerged, a China explicitly committed to its own development on its own terms, hostile to the architecture of American-managed Asian order, has never stopped being, at the core of American strategic anxiety, the thing that went wrong.
Everything since, the refusal to recognize the PRC for three decades, the Korean War, the Taiwan Strait crises, the American war in Vietnam, the encirclement strategy, the current technology war, is the long aftermath of 1949.
The plan failed.
Washington never fully accepted that the failure was permanent.
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Todos los días subiré un video con las declaraciones que hicieron políticos, periodistas, ONG, médicos, trabajador@s y familiares en la Comisión Ciudadana en septiembre de 2023. La mayor GESTIÓN HOMICIDA no puede quedar impune. Hoy Mariángeles, Trabajadora residencia.
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Felipe González realizó casi 80 privatizaciones.
Julio Anguita avisó y las denunció.
Quienes prefirieron votar al primero, que empiecen por pedirnos perdón a todos y explicar su propósito de enmienda.
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Fátima Báñez abarató el despido improcedente de 45 a 33 días, facilitó los despidos colectivos, eliminó la autorización administrativa previa para los ERE y dio prioridad aplicativa al convenio de empresa, permitiendo que las empresas pactaran salarios inferiores a los establecidos en los convenios sectoriales.
Pero hay algo todavía más aberrante: casi ocho años después, el autoproclamado «Gobierno más progresista de la historia» mantiene intactos algunos de los pilares fundamentales de aquella reforma.
Seguimos con el despido improcedente a 33 días, el objetivo a 20 y los ERE sin autorización administrativa previa.
Prometieron derogar la reforma laboral del PP y terminaron suprimiendo el contrato por obra y servicio, impulsando la contratación indefinida y el fijo discontinuo. Cambiaron las estadísticas, aumentó el porcentaje de contratos indefinidos y lo presentaron como una victoria histórica, mientras la precariedad laboral seguía siendo la misma para todos los trabajadores.
Un contrato indefinido no garantiza estabilidad cuando despedir sigue siendo igual de barato. Y un fijo discontinuo no garantiza ingresos durante todo el año.
Lo escandaloso no es únicamente lo que hizo Fátima Báñez. Es que quienes llegaron al Gobierno prometiendo acabar con su reforma hayan conservado buena parte de sus mecanismos más perjudiciales para los trabajadores.
Báñez ya no está. Pero su legado laboral sigue presente en el Estatuto de los Trabajadores, sostenido por quienes prometieron enterrarlo.
⚫⚫ #ÚLTIMAHORA | Muere en el accidente de tren Fátima Báñez, la ministra que transformó el panorama laboral
Báñez viajaba en el último vagón del tren iryo 6076 que ha sido arrollado por un convoy AVE de Renfe con destino a Sevilla
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🚨Ayer, falangistas empujan e insultan: policía sin cascos ni porras en ristre.
🚨La semana pasada profesores y estudiantes protestan pacíficamente: porrazos, gases y violencia desproporcionada.
La policía actuando en función de a quién considera una amenaza y a quién un aliado.
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亲爱的德国人，你起码犯了两个常识错误。
一、中国没有40平米的房子。除了单身公寓这种数量极少的投资型物业，中国的房子通常在90平以上，大城市在80平以上。
二、奔驰、宝马、奥迪不再是中国人追逐的品牌。现在的中国人喜欢电动车，而德国品牌的电动车被称为杂牌电动车。
当你的基础认知就已经是错误的，你只能得出荒谬的结论。
中国商品之所以物美价廉，是因为中国有齐全且集中的供应链、高效的物流系统、自动化的生产车间，以及规模优势拉低了边际成本。
中国当然也可以为那些优秀的商品定一个昂贵的价格，以换取丰厚的利润。过去你们就是这么干的，现在以我们的产品竞争力，也有条件这么干。
但我们不这么干。
这是因为，提高利润的代价是销量降低。对于你们那个只有几千万人口的国家来说，你们无需追求销量，无需扩大能量，因为你们无需为社会提供那么多的就业岗位。
但我们是一个14亿人口的国家。对我们来说，与其只创造1000个岗位，让这1000人拿一份丰厚的薪水，不如创造10000个岗位，让10000人拿一份普通的薪水。
薄利多销，能够支撑起更大的产能，提供更多的就业岗位。对企业来说，还能获得规模优势，压缩单件商品成本，扩大市场份额，创造更大营收，然后还有了更多的资金投入研发，如此循环滚动。
另一方面，这也大大有利于消费端市场，让全世界的消费者得以享受到物美价廉的中国商品。
想想你们的盾构机。曾经你们以一台 3.5 亿元人民币的价格买给中国。你们自恃垄断了制造技术，宁愿维持一个极低的销量，宁愿让那些发展中国家用不起，也要追求丰厚利润。
中国实现盾构机国产化之后，我们将每台的价格降至3000 万元人民币以下，不到你们价格的1/10。
诚然，我们没有赚到你们那么多的利润，但我们为发展中国家提供了质优价廉的采购选择，促进了那些国家的建设与发展，同时我们扩大了市场份额，创造了更多的生产就业岗位。
我们在做着多方共赢、造福世界的事业，你们则喜欢用技术垄断剥削全世界。当中国打破你们的技术垄断，你们恨得咬牙切齿。因为你们不仅仅是丧失了利润，而且丧失市场份额，丧失了就业岗位。
你们在工业领域的失守，仍在加剧。以前，德国汽车只想要中国的工人和市场，但现在，他们不得不将研发重心也放到中国。
你们愚蠢地与俄罗斯开战，切断了俄罗斯的能源供应。你们几十年去工业化，导致理工科学生数量大幅下降，工程师人才极度缺失。
这样的营商环境，导致你们的企业纷纷关闭德国工厂，迁往中国和美国。
你们失业，你们抗议。但这一切都是你们自己的选择，你们并不无辜。
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Mañana hay Consejo Gobierno y presentarán los Presupuestos y los "medios afines" nos aturdirán con los miles de millones más que Ayuso va a invertir en esto y lo otro
La realidad: ni han publicado las cuentas de 2025
Sé a ciencia cierta que me siguen desde Economía así que 💨
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The Chinese Revolution was not clean.
Nothing that emerges from a century of colonial humiliation, decades of civil war, and the specific conditions of mid-20th century China was going to be clean.
The deaths were real.
The coercion was real.
The suppression of dissent, the destruction of the Cultural Revolution, the specific and irreplaceable things that were lost: these are real and they matter, and the Chinese people who lived through them are not plot devices in anyone’s geopolitical story.
But here is the other truth, the one that sits alongside it:
China is not a colony.
China was not carved into spheres of influence for the convenience of foreign capital.
China was not kept poor and dependent and "open" in the specific way that "open" means when powerful countries say it about weaker ones.
China made its own catastrophic decisions, on its own terms, and rebuilt from them on its own terms.
That sovereignty, costly, contested, imperfect, real, is what the revolution purchased.
Whether the price was worth it is a question the Chinese people get to answer.
Not the people who were planning to own the country.
Not the people who are still angry that they don’t.
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Had the Kuomintang won, China would be ruled from Washington.
Its ports patrolled.
Its elections supervised.
Its economy opened like a carcass.
Mao did not just defeat an army.
He prevented a century of American ownership.
That is why they still hate him.
Not because of what he built.
But because of what he denied them.
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They will tell you Mao’s China was isolated and paranoid and turned inward in ways that impoverished its people.
They will not tell you that the isolation was substantially enforced from outside.
American-led embargo. Exclusion from the United Nations until 1971. Diplomatic non-recognition. The systematic attempt to strangle an economy of 600 million people because their government had been chosen without American approval.
When the isolation produced poverty, the poverty was cited as evidence of communism’s failure.
The embargo that enforced the isolation was not cited at all.
This is the same logic applied to Cuba, to Vietnam, to Iran, to the DPRK.
Impose the conditions that make development difficult.
Point to the difficulty as proof that the political system doesn’t work.
Use that proof to justify maintaining the conditions.
It is a clean loop.
It requires only that the people inside it never look at what’s producing what.
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The ideological function of the Cuba argument is not primarily about Cuba.
Cuba has 11 million people and an economy the size of a mid-sized American city.
The function is to make any alternative to the existing economic order look like this:
Shortages. Lines. Restrictions. Decay.
So that when workers in any country begin asking whether a different arrangement might be possible, when they look at their own wages and their own conditions and begin wondering aloud who the economy is actually organized to benefit, there is a ready image.
"You want Cuba? That’s what you want?"
Cuba, the small island nation strangled by six decades of sanctions, is made to represent the ceiling of what any alternative can achieve.
Not because the evidence supports that conclusion.
Because the sanctions helped manufacture it.
The image is a product.
A very expensive, very deliberately produced product.
Paid for, in part, by ordinary Cubans who had nothing to do with the argument being made over their heads.
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Imagine China "opening" without Mao’s revolution:
Opening to U.S. corporations.
Opening to foreign troops.
Opening to the same fate that befell every Asian nation that lost its war for independence.
Japan lost and became a host.
South Korea lost and became a shield.
China won.
And became itself.
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El gasto en subvenciones a la enseñanza privada en Castilla y León en 2024 fue 442 millones de €
Es el 12,3% más que en 2023, siendo la 2ª CCAA en que más aumenta y lo hace el doble del conjunto de CCAA que fue del 6,0%
Y el Gasto total en Educación en CyL ha aumentado el 7,2%
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Donald Trump: ‘Let’s make Venezuela🇻🇪 the 51st state, and instead of an election for President we will have an election for Governor.’
Delcy Rodriguez and her coterie sold out the country, its President, and its resources to become Viceroys of a Washington colony…
And now the US President openly flirts with the idea of annexing the entire country and erasing Venezuelan sovereignty completely.
History will not look kindly upon them.
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Después de los datos EPA por provincias:
teapaw.org/carlos_castedo/status/…
Vienen los datos EPA por CCAA
Este es el enlace a mi hoja interactiva con 8 pestañas
docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
Por ejemplo, los datos del T3 de 2026 en Euskadi (y proporciones entre ellos y con el nacional)
A pesar de los problemillas que la web del INE está teniendo esta mañana, ya tienes disponible mi hoja interactiva con los datos EPA del tercer trimestre por provincias
Solo tienes que hacer clic en este enlace
docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
