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Felix Patrick retweeted
In China, the AI bubble has already burst reut.rs/48foPk1
Felix Patrick retweeted
China's stock market is in a free fall, and the CCP is pumping money in to try and stop it.
The countries equity markets have lost 3.5 trillion and the primary index has lost 20% of its value since June.
Consumption has collapsed in the country and corporate earnings are down, causing the stock crash.
Felix Patrick retweeted
We have been reporting on this coming together for some time, it’s incredibly important. More so than a new fighter or an additional destroyer every couple years. Absolutely critical, and becoming more so with each passing day. Yes it’s scary, but it’s far scarier not doing this
FORTRESS: The Pentagon is preparing every major U.S. military base to survive 90 days without outside support — no civilian power grid, no global supply chains, no outside fuel or water.
The initiative, revealed in documents reviewed by Fox News Digital, envisions portable nuclear reactors, massive battery storage, and microgrids that can disconnect installations from civilian electricity entirely. Strategic reserves of munitions, fuel, critical minerals, and medical supplies would be stockpiled based on wartime consumption rates. Civilian factories are being pre-identified to shift to defense production during a crisis.
Pentagon chief spokesperson Sean Parnell put it bluntly: "Power is combat now. Without electricity, you lose communications, water, logistics, assembly lines and just basic military command structures."
Full story here foxnews.com/politics/inside-…
Felix Patrick retweeted
🇺🇸🇨🇳 China is no longer expected to overtake the United States as the world's largest economy anytime soon, marking a major shift from predictions made over the past two decades.
For years, economists expected China's rapid growth to continue until its economy surpassed America's, with some forecasts predicting that would happen before 2020.
But those predictions have repeatedly been pushed back.
According to Oxford Economics data, China's economy reached roughly 77% of U.S. GDP in 2021 before falling back to around 67% in 2025.
The latest forecast suggests China's economy will reach only about 84% of America's by 2040.
The comparison uses nominal GDP, measured in U.S. dollars, meaning exchange rates also influence the figures.
China's economic rise has been extraordinary, but the expectation that it would inevitably overtake the United States is looking increasingly uncertain.
Source: Financial Times / Oxford Economics / Writer: Mhedi
Felix Patrick retweeted
Starshield restored.
⚡️Starshield operations restored to speeds of more than 400 km/h, Ukraine's Defense Ministry says.
"We record a speed of more than 400 kilometers per hour, the connection is stable," the ministry said.
kyivindependent.com/starshie…
Felix Patrick retweeted
And there you have it:
President Trump said Friday he told the Department of Justice to preemptively file a lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska’s US Senate election if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses.
“Well, I’m the one that said ‘do it,’” Trump told reporters in Florida when asked about the lawsuit.
Felix Patrick retweeted
🇦🇺 doesn’t have a recruitment problem, it has a process problem. 74000 applications in the last yr.
Much better option here is to encourage these candidates to join the PNGDF (which we can help incentivise through university scholarships, ADFA, exchanges etc) then rotate PNGDF units through the ADF.
The time taken to develop this proposal would’ve been better spent with meaningful policy that enhances PNGDF capability & interoperability with Aus. Treaty was an important achievement, but this does nothing to operationalise it.
"I think that would outweigh my patriotism" - this quote neatly captures some of the ambivalence which will inevitably run through PNG recruitment into the ADF (From this story on yesterday's pilot announcement from my colleague @marianfaa) abc.net.au/news/2026-10-20/a…
Felix Patrick retweeted
"I think that would outweigh my patriotism" - this quote neatly captures some of the ambivalence which will inevitably run through PNG recruitment into the ADF (From this story on yesterday's pilot announcement from my colleague @marianfaa) abc.net.au/news/2026-10-20/a…
Felix Patrick retweeted
Fascinating, potentially significant. Aus-Vanuatu joint statement after Nakamal meeting says China's police arrangement in Vanuatu is "expected to reduce over time." Only second Pacific nation to say (albeit with caveat) it'll wind back PRC police presence abc.net.au/news/2026-10-19/v…
Felix Patrick retweeted
Lügen, Propaganda und Politik für Putin.
➡️Trump erfindet ein russisches Entgegenkommen bei den „Friedensverhandlungen“ und nebenbei gleich noch einen Ozean, zu dem die Ukraine jetzt angeblich keinen Zugang mehr hat.
➡️Zudem behauptet er, die Ukraine hätte vor zwei Jahren „einen besseren Deal“ als heute mähen können. Auch das ist natürlich frei erfunden.
➡️Nicht zuletzt lobt er Russland, weil es dem Iran nicht so sehr hilft, amerikanische Soldaten zu töten, „wie es könnte“.
➡️Alles in allem bleibt festzuhalten: Der Präsident der USA ist heute ein russisches geopolitisches Asset. Er macht Politik gegen Europa, gegen den Westen, gegen die Nato und für unseren diktatorischen Feind im Osten.
Felix Patrick retweeted
We will sell you out to your mortal enemies isn't the best sales pitch for US defence companies
Felix Patrick retweeted
It’s so tragic that this well-intentioned woman keeps repeating “this is not the cause.” What she doesn’t realize is that idealistic students in the West have been manipulated by hostile actors into becoming frothing bands of zombie bigots opposing the underlying principles of their own societies and democracies. “The cause” is not idealism, but nihilism, Islamism, Marxism, and anti-Westernism.
Felix Patrick retweeted
.@elonmusk make sure @Starlink keeps all records and communications regarding your alliance with Russia. Subpoenas are coming. I am sure the European market will want to know what happened.
Ukraine's Starshield terminals still don't work properly, President Zelensky confirms, disabling Ukrainian interceptors used to shoot down Russian jet-powered drones that have been hitting civilian targets in recent weeks.
kyivindependent.com/planned-…
This year’s El Niño is the wettest on record in Australia. Usually it brings drought.
youtu.be/d4p571au6c8?si=6ETL…
Felix Patrick retweeted
As of October 15, 2026, a Russian satellite called Cosmos 2612 is moving into position for close-proximity operations with a U.S.-registered commercial satellite supporting Ukraine. “No one should assume to know what Russia will do next, but the potential for a threat is there,” write @crswope and Chantal Li.
Read: csis.org/analysis/could-russ…
Felix Patrick retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: Elon Musk came to Donald Trump with the plan to throttle Ukraine’s use of SpaceX’s Starshield satellite internet network, sources have told the Telegraph.
The tech billionaire made the proposal during the US President’s row with Volodymyr Zelensky over strikes on Russian oil refineries.
‘The reality is that they were both in it,’ a senior source said of Musk’s and Trump’s involvement.
But after a night of carnage in Kyiv caused by the slowdown, Musk was alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe.
The SpaceX boss then proceeded to tweet, blaming the US administration, and ultimately, President Trump for authorising the slowdown.
‘He tweeted out that he was innocent and that it was the US administration that did it,’ the source said.
Felix Patrick retweeted
Congratulations to the people of Syria on the arrest of the brutal butcher Mirac Ural the perpetrator of the Banyas and Baydaa massacres where children were slaughtered on behalf of the monster Assad.
May he be brought to justice for his crimes.
