Posted by ipso facto
@ 10:59 on May 19, 2026
Gandalv
@Microinteracti1
The West Has Already Lost the Drone War. It Just Hasn’t Noticed Yet.
Here is something that should ruin your Monday. A Ukrainian AI drone engineer has gone on record to explain, calmly and with considerable evidence, that Western military planning is not behind the times. It is not lagging. It is not in need of reform. It is dead. Obsolete. A relic propped up by expensive acronyms and men in uniforms who still think the tank is the apex predator of land warfare.
Yaroslav Azhnyuk, founder of AI drone company The Fourth Law, has done the maths. FPV drones now account for somewhere between 70 and 80 percent of frontline casualties in Ukraine. Not artillery. Not missiles. Not the armoured columns that NATO has spent forty years and several fortunes preparing to counter. Small, cheap, autonomous flying machines that cost about as much as a decent restaurant dinner and kill with the precision of a surgeon.
But here is where it gets genuinely terrifying. China can produce four billion FPV drones per year. Ukraine, a country that has been at war for three years and is building faster than anyone in the West, manages four million. That is the kind of number that makes you want to lie down on the floor and stare at the ceiling for a while.
The West is not losing the AI arms race because it lacks the technology. It is losing because it is still arguing about procurement frameworks while the future arrives, uninvited, at four hundred kilometres per hour with a shaped charge attached.
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https://x.com/Microinteracti1/status/2056474595872403638
Posted by ipso facto
@ 10:57 on May 19, 2026
The Kobeissi Letter
@KobeissiLetter
BREAKING: NATO is discussing deploying troops in the Strait of Hormuz to help ships pass through the waterway if it is not reopened by early July, per Bloomberg.
https://x.com/KobeissiLetter/status/2056739366089670803
Posted by ipso facto
@ 10:54 on May 19, 2026
No it’s not. I hope he’s OK.
Posted by ipso facto
@ 10:53 on May 19, 2026
Peter St Onge, Ph.D.
@profstonge
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For 20 years we told every smart kid get a $100,000 degree and sit in a cubicle.
A cubicle that AI is now disassembling.
https://x.com/WallStreetMav/status/2056745552432201767
Posted by goldielocks
@ 10:52 on May 19, 2026
Posted by ipso facto
@ 10:42 on May 19, 2026
Posted by goldielocks
@ 10:41 on May 19, 2026
I know what you mean. I was quoting the dealer. The truth is not how much someone wants it to be but how much someone is willing to pay for it. As long as the deficit increases and not being able to stay out of other people’s wars or money problems somewhere else or plain greed and outright theft that will only increase. He wanted answers and was bewildered by the answer he got. If demand is so high and refiners can’t make it fast enough why the dropping prices although selling back is also high but only on the retail end.
What may have been left out is the interest rates. The refiners need to borrow or use credit to buy all this silver with overwhelming demand by the exchanges ” which I’m curious if there’s also pressure what price exchanges buy from refiners vs sell to the public”  and these high interest rates are a burden to them thus why their halting buying less than 999 pure because it takes longer to refine and probably more energy cost to refine. They can’t make it fast enough for industrial demand but apparently also limited by banking borrowing costs. All this selling with mines also can’t produce in fast enough is gonna go into industrial refining it looks like, once their gone then what? At what point does the retail buying back stop getting easy.
Posted by ipso facto
@ 10:30 on May 19, 2026
Posted by Maddog
@ 10:08 on May 19, 2026

German Bunds have already broken to upside…….

Posted by Maddog
@ 10:02 on May 19, 2026
Posted by ipso facto
@ 9:50 on May 19, 2026
Posted by ipso facto
@ 9:09 on May 19, 2026
I read recently that at the beginning of the war Iran sent many of it’s aircraft to Pakistan so they’d be sheltered from destruction.
Pakistan Deploys Thousands Of Troops, Jet Fighter Squadron To Saudi Arabia
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pakistan-deploys-thousands-troops-jet-fighter-squadron-saudi-arabia
Posted by deer79
@ 7:17 on May 19, 2026
No disrespect to you, but it seems like we’ve been hearing that mantra ( this can’t go on forever) for a very long time now, and I personally felt that the manipulations would have dissipated by now.
Maintaining the charade precludes the truth from coming out. Gold and Silver are two more tools that are used to do just exactly that.
Who knows how much longer the scum can keep the game going???
Posted by Maddog
@ 4:45 on May 19, 2026
Trump may well be annoying his supporters, but imagine what he is doing to the regime in Iran……one minute they can go outside, for a stroll, next minute they have to get back in the bunker and pray the Israeli’s lost their address’.
Posted by Maddog
@ 4:41 on May 19, 2026
Posted by Maya
@ 3:04 on May 19, 2026
Posted by goldielocks
@ 0:21 on May 19, 2026
The people coming in with info. One said HL AG and endeavor is no longer selling to the comex but directly to Shanghai. Silver deficit keeps growing. Refiners no longer taking sterling or 90 or less percent silver. Busy refining industrial.
Oh and Trump’s building a refinery.
https://youtu.be/kfkgcllZyIs?si=Ak5uxSBM_Go84_j7
Posted by goldielocks
@ 23:58 on May 18, 2026
They can’t keep this charade going on forever. They’re shaking the tree.
People are selling their silver, refineries overwhelmed. They’re cutting down on buying. Not the same as the shortage of industrial bars.
https://youtu.be/uMzTnuH_TEo?si=RB7F_BkiEdJ3i0b2
Posted by ipso facto
@ 21:16 on May 18, 2026
Wall Street Mav
@WallStreetMav
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6h
Climate alarmism disappeared the moment companies needed data centers.
Yeah, we noticed.
Posted by ipso facto
@ 20:10 on May 18, 2026
Agree absolutely! Disgusting corruption. It may somehow be legal but a rose is a rose
I guess it would be nice to have some confirmation before condemning.
Posted by goldielocks
@ 19:59 on May 18, 2026
It’s not about nuke enrichment Russia’s said to be helping with but for energy. Russia’s and others believe they have the right to that but America perhaps under the influence of Israel wants them to scrap everything. I can’t see them ever agreeing to that.
Posted by Buygold
@ 17:42 on May 18, 2026
for a POTUS to do while saying he doesn’t take into consideration “we the people’s” financial condition when considering war. Another war flip today too, ya think any bets were placed?
I’m ashamed I allowed myself to be deceived for 10 years.
The only saving grace is that the alternative to him was just as bad.
https://x.com/ric_rtp/status/2056000508452651512?s=46
Posted by deer79
@ 15:38 on May 18, 2026
Trump: Holding Off ‘Planned’ Attack On Iran At Request Of Gulf Allies, ‘Deal Will Be Made’
Posted by Buygold
@ 15:16 on May 18, 2026
They’ve done that 3 or 4 times today. Don’t worry, they’ll go right back down and take the shares even further down than they were before.
Going on all day long.
Posted by treefrog
@ 15:09 on May 18, 2026
silver price (on trading economics charts) just jumped a buck in three minutes!
chart glitch?
peace??
other??