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BradCitrino@BradCitrino

January 23, 2025

A thought. After watching a lot of Trump the last few days, it’s become somewhat obvious he doesn’t understand how tariffs work, including the fundamental principle that any payment of tariffs occurs at the import barriers by the importer.

It seems he thinks they’re paid by the manufacturer.

Obviously the cost of “tarrifing” is achievable only by each level of the product distribution applying that cost.

There’s also this declaration of cartels as terrorist organisation’s. It doesn’t mean much as the idea of conducting kinetic operations in Mexico without them being viewed as the tip of the spear, will cause a blowback effect of cartel members in the USA conducting coordinated attacks.

I guess you could always just pump hellfire missiles into “threats” as they head to the airport.

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FROM RUSSIAN SOCIAL MEDIA:
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Rodina has rid itself of Matveyev. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) in the State Duma is left without its strangest "Solzhenitsyn-like deputy."

A court in Samara has disqualified State Duma deputy Mikhail Matveyev for stealing photos of the parliamentarian and the fonts of his campaign texts from authors. Matveyev supported the "Bolotnaya" protests, initially opposed the SVO, and gathered around himself a whole group of online fighters against illegal immigration. The main result of Matveyev's five years as a deputy was the nickname "Zatullo," which he gave to United Russia member Konstantin Zatulin, who criticized his anti-immigrant initiatives. Matveyev himself ended his term not only without any bills passed by the Duma. Even the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) has essentially abandoned him, and now the Samara resident will only have his cat to help him remain active.

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440.9 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium are unaccounted for — and according to sources inside the Pakistani command, the only remaining channel with visibility into where it went runs through the mediator Donald Trump has just discarded. Pepe Escobar and Zulfiqar Ali report that Pakistan has taken a final decision: it will not close a single one of the six overland corridors keeping Iran supplied, it will not close Gwadar, and it does not regard Scott Bessent’s sanctions threats as reason to change course.

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Zarael@Zarael

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A quick commentary on the "Piss Summit"

I might not be able to upload much more or do lives for a while

My Fellow Duranianss.

Yes, it's happened again. I have been assaulted by a vicious Malware Bot Virus or whatever 911 Socks is and this thing is bad !

However I wanted to give you a "peace" of my mind concerning the "Piece" or piss, as Elensky calls it, as this thing fell to pieces before it even happened.

Coincidentally on the very SAME DAY this crap happened Saudi Arabia DROPPED the US Petrodollar as a buying currency and NO ONE absolutely NO ONE is talking about this fact anywhere !!!

Hope to see you all asap.

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