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Mary Lake, Yoho National Park, CanadaAsian nations celebrate Lunar New Year of the Dragon
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It begins with the first new moon of the lunar calendar and ends 15 days later on the first full moon. The dates of the holiday vary slightly each year, falling between late January and mid-February as it is based on the cycles of the moon.
Festivities to mark the Year of the Dragon in Taiwan were marked by appearances by newly elected president Lai Ching-te and the speaker of the Legislature, Han Kuo-yu, who represents the opposition Nationalist Party that favors political unification with China.
In her address, Tsai said Taiwan faced a continuing conflict between “freedom and democracy versus authoritarianism” that “not only affects geopolitical stability, but also impacts the restructuring of global supply chains.”
“These past eight years, we have kept our promises and maintained the status quo. We have also shown our determination and strengthened our national defense,” Tsai, who is barred by term limits from seeking a third four-year term, said in reference to the self-governing island democracy’s close economic ties but fraught political relations with China which threatens to invade the island to realize its goal of bringing Taiwan and its high-tech economy under its control.
Taiwan, China and other areas saw highways clogged and flights fully booked as residents traveled home to visit family or took the approximately one-week holiday as an opportunity to vacation abroad.
Firing bottle rockets and other fireworks is a traditional way of welcoming the new year and seeing off any lingering bad memories. Children are given red envelopes stuffed with cash as a show of affection and to help them get a leg-up in the coming months.
Long lines of cars congested South Korean highways on Saturday as millions of people began leaving the densely populated Seoul capital region to visit relatives across the country for the Lunar New Year’s holiday.
Royal palaces and other tourist sites were also packed with visitors wearing the country’s colorful traditional “hanbok” flowing robes. Groups of aging North Korean refugees from the 1950-53 civil war, which remains unresolved, bowed northward during traditional family rituals held in the Southern border town of Paju.
The holiday came amid heightened tensions with North Korea, which has been ramping up its tests of weapons aimed at overwhelming regional missile defenses and issuing provocative threats of nuclear conflict with the South.
The South’s President Yoon Suk Yeol started the holiday by issuing a message of thanks to South Korean soldiers, saying that their services along the “frontline barbwires, sea and sky” were allowing the nation to enjoy the holidays.
Vietnam also celebrated the Lunar New Year, known there as Tet.
Parades and commemorations are also being held in cities with large Asian communities overseas, particularly in New York and San Francisco.
Mary Lake, Yoho National Park, CanadaTrump Doctrine: Peace Through Space
Was President Trump’s Greatest Accomplishment Overlooked?
https://badlands.substack.com/p/trump-doctrine-peace-through-space
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What if the endless lists of accomplishments you can find for President Trump’s administration are all missing his greatest one? What if all the credit he is given pales in comparison to the credit he deserves?
.....Peace Through Strength
I’m confident you’ve heard the phrase Peace Through Strength.
If not, it’s a foreign policy focusing on maintaining strong military & defense capabilities to avoid war, preserve peace, and deter enemies.
Interestingly, only a handful of American Presidents have adopted this foreign policy, including Washington, Trump, and most notably Regan.
“The foundation of Reagan’s foreign policy, known as the Reagan Doctrine, was the support of freedom for all people around the world. His commitment to the idea of ‘peace through strength’ led to the modernization of our military forces.” He hoped these “new military initiatives would not only contain communism but defeat it.”
Q highlighted this phrase 5 unique times, but I believe the concept is best illustrated in drop #1350.
There’s that COVFEFE signal again! If you are unfamiliar, I encourage you to take a quick break and review the COVFEFE Dig by GMONEY, which provides a high-level overview of the connections between Q, Trump, Bitcoin, Pepe, and JFK. While it isn’t necessary, having that knowledge will help you understand the connections I’ll make here.
Regardless, drop #1350 alludes to a network (or interconnected group of individuals) of brave, united men & women whose strength and fight is sufficient to bring about peace. However, the drop ends with the phrase Peace Through Strength, indicating a non-kinetic and non-violent solution.
While many equate this network with the US Military, GMONEY and I believe it’s more correctly equated with a counterinsurgency (COIN), which can be defined as “comprehensive civilian and military efforts taken to simultaneously defeat and contain INSURGENCY and address its root causes” (reference Q drop #4363).
Remember, General Flynn told us, “We have an army of Digital Soldiers” and “This was run like an insurgency.”
......On June 18, 2018, Trump announced the creation of the Space Force as the sixth branch of the US Military; however, the concept of space as a warfighting domain wasn’t new, having roots back to the 1940s, “with the first Air Force space programs starting in 1945.” Later, the Air Force’s “Western Development Division, under Gen. Bernard A. Schriever, was established in 1954 as the first dedicated space organization within the U.S. Armed Forces.”
Prior to the Space Force, military space programs were under the Air Force Space Command (established in 1982). On December 21, 2019, the Space Force was signed into law.
Warfighting Domains: Adapt or Die
Major Lowery’s book documented various points in history where the hubris of powerful nations caused the rejection of new Schelling points of war, often resulting in their demise as they failed to enter new warfighting domains. Using a solid set of data, he concludes Bitcoin is a new Schelling point of non-kinetic warfare in cyber-space. He also concludes we are in the middle of a digital, path-dependent arms race within the space warfighting domain, much like what gun powder, naval ships, airplanes, etc. did in other domains (i.e. adapt or die).
Therefore, I must ask:
Why did Trump [really] pour over $2.2 Trillion into the US Military under the policy of Peace Through Strength?
Why did Trump [really] create the Space Force?
Why did Trump [really] elevate Cyber Command into a major warfighting command?
Was it [really] to continue the nearly 80-year-old stalemate of mass assured destruction through kinetic arms, or was it something entirely different to [end it] for good?
.....Let’s summarize the key points to ensure we’re on the same page before the grand finale:
Trump invested over $2.2 Trillion into the US Military, under the policy of Peace Through Strength.
Trump created the Space Force.
Trump elevated Cyber Command to a warfighting command.
Elon is dominating the space industry.
Elon is the DoD’s largest contractor.
A SpaceX failure destroyed a Facebook satellite intending to provide similar capabilities as Starlink.
Facebook failed to implement their own cryptocurrency.
Mnuchin and Brooks, under Trump, made it legal for Banks to custody Bitcoin.
I don’t find it a big leap to think something brilliant was going on behind the scenes with Trump, the US Military, Elon, and Bitcoin; however, while there’s seemingly endless circumstantial evidence, there’s no direct confirmation. Therefore, we must let the data speak for itself, continue to dig, and await more ‘future proves past’ news.
This hypothesis focuses on three distinct phases (some overlap). If true, it would represent Trump’s greatest accomplishment and true legacy.
First, I’ll consider Trump’s administration (January 2017 to January 2021) as the preparation phase. Then, I’ll consider Covid as the print phase. Lastly, I’ll consider the time since Trump’s administration as the pulverize phase. Let’s discuss.
Preparation Phase
The main obstacles to a GAO opinion were: (1) serious financial management problems at the Department of Defense (DOD) that made its financial statements unauditable.”
Another one of my favorites: on September 10, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld stated, “We cannot track $2.3 Trillion.”
Therefore, we can state with confidence that Trump could have used the over $2.2 Trillion poured into the US Military for any purpose. Perhaps it was to have Elon build up his space launch capabilities behind the scenes in preparation for the pulverize phase?
Print Phase
Trump knew something was going to happen to enable the hidden enemy to steal the 2020 election. He knew this well ahead of time, as he repeatedly stated. To go a step further, it’s likely he even knew the specifics of what would happen, due to tabletop / gain of function exercises (Clade X – 5/15/2018, Event 201 – 10/18/2019) that were focused on pandemic response (masks, social distancing, vaccination, lockdowns, the economy, etc.).
He also understands how the fiat slave system works, as evidenced by his actions to enforce a “good economy” during his administration. Lastly, he was adamant throughout his administration that the responsibility for actions rested with state and local officials.
What did these officials do with their responsibility during Covid? They created a massive amount of dollars out of thin air to fund a bunch of “pork.” This led to massive inflation, potentially a key enabler during the pulverize phase.
If Trump knew what they were going to do, and the consequences of their actions, wouldn’t he work that to his advantage in as many ways as possible?
.....Therefore, we can state with confidence that Trump allowed the hidden enemy to massively devalue the dollar. Perhaps it was to ensure Elon would be successful in the pulverize phase? (Note, devaluing the world’s reserve currency hurts other currencies [much] more as their local currencies are weaker (have less demand) in comparison.)
Pulverize Phase
To connect Starlink to the military data, “the U.S. Air Force has also tested Starlink for military purposes as early as 2020.” The Space Force recently awarded SpaceX a contract for Starshield, which “leverages SpaceX’s Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts.”
Therefore, I must ask:
Is there much more to Starlink than meets the eye?
Is something brilliant going on behind the scenes with Trump, the US Military, Elon, and Bitcoin?
Was part of that brilliance the timing, waiting until [after] the devaluation of the dollar to unleash SpaceX, ensuring other space programs were not only technologically behind, but could not afford to keep up?
Conclusion
I hope you enjoyed today’s mind-bending journey!
While I don’t have all the answers, I believe I’ve logically derived the right questions. Before leaving, I’ll provide one last piece of information to further support the data and questions presented here.
“During Reagan’s administration, the size of the U.S. Army grew by two active divisions and saw the development of new weapons systems.”
Looking at the hash power graph below, the Bitcoin network was essentially flatlined until Trump was elected, then exploded after the Space Force was established. Coincidence?
To put this in context, on February 20, 2023, the hash power of the Bitcoin network was 320 exa-hashes per second. Per his analysis, Michael Saylor stated this as equivalent to ~2x the power consumption of the entire US Navy. Since then, the network is seeing sustained spikes to 562 exa-hashes per second, which would be equivalent to ~3.51x the power consumption of the entire US Navy.
Perhaps Trump also developed new weapons systems under the policy of ‘Peace Through Strength?’
Therefore, I called this article, “Trump Doctrine: Peace Through Space.”
If I am correct in my thinking, the endless lists of accomplishments you can find for Trump’s administration are all missing his greatest one.
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