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@MartinSkold2 Avatar @MartinSkold2 Martin Skold

Martin Skold posts on X about china, $4732t, mindset, amsterdam the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and 4985 posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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"@ConservaMuse The thing everyone has been talking about since 2012 is a kind of bancor - a consortium of currencies (probably led by the BRICS) collectively pegged to gold"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-15T22:37Z 6671 followers, XX engagements

"The soft version of this is that reindustrializing (somehow) negates this and the dollar dies as the reserve currency). The hard version of the thesis is that the dollar has to die -first- before anything can take off"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-14T03:09Z 6671 followers, XXX engagements

"@Kurt_Steiner The original story involved an American privateer that was of the same class as the USS Constitution. They changed it to a French privateer to avoid alienating an American audience. But shes Yankee-built sir in Boston during the peace and our shots wouldnt penetrate"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-12T05:36Z 6661 followers, 23.3K engagements

"@Albrochier"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-13T08:40Z 6664 followers, XX engagements

"@JohnMinehan1 Yeah the East Jerusalem thing is definitely optional (though of course nobody voluntarily renounces their claim) but the strategic depth problem was real. That was probably bound to come to a head and it did"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-12T19:52Z 6663 followers, XX engagements

"Put even more plainly: That disgusting network of degenerates that all knew Jeffrey Epstein that everyone wanted prosecutedalso knows the emirs of Qatar and Abu Dhabi"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-14T20:17Z 6671 followers, XXX engagements

"@MorlockP Not with the petrostates - and not since the 70s. This was an agreement we had with the Saudis (that the other Gulf states and eventually everybody followed suit on) that (notably) was allowed to expire last year"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-14T03:17Z 6671 followers, 1497 engagements

"@mjpost Look at it this way: Its human nature to excuse ones own sides practices as necessary or appropriate and criticize the others as wrong - in fact thats the definition of a culture. So it comes down to which side one is on. Now ponder that one. 👀"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-13T22:23Z 6669 followers, XX engagements

"Please. The issue is not expertise nor credentials nor familiarity but -access-. Jared had accesses (presumably to the Qatari and perhaps also UAE royal families) the formal channels did not"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-14T15:16Z 6670 followers, 1088 engagements

"Scene in Stockholm harbor XX August 1628 (colorized)"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-04T18:52Z 6663 followers, 1327 engagements

"They never believed this - it was just a talking point designed to provide cover for what they were going to do anyway. And insofar as it was designed to influence a global media network it may have been among the first of its kind"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-13T09:52Z 6672 followers, XXX engagements

"We did not. We -mobilized- existing industry (that was already globally dominant) in WWII. Getting to that point (where we had globally dominant industry to mobilize) had taken a century though the greater part of it was done in the half-century from 1830-80"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-13T23:21Z 6671 followers, 53K engagements

"We could probably re-do it in less time yet since we still have a lot of what we need lying idle (though not for long as a lot of the talent is retired). But even 10-15 years is a long time and it will require killing the dollar reserve which not everybody is ready for"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-13T23:21Z 6672 followers, 1122 engagements

"China managed it in less time - perhaps XX years from the death of Mao to (to pick a plausible date) 2008 when the Olympics served as a kind of debut and the global financial crisis showed it was too influential to ignore. Arguably Xi was brought in to mobilize it for war"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-13T23:21Z 6671 followers, XXX engagements

"Its a nice idea but given that the point of the tariffs is supposedly to bring back US industry this doesnt work. It also only works if the tariffs kill the petrodollar but I repeat myself"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-15T22:23Z 6671 followers, 1927 engagements

"TARP level of spend but on industry. Possibly more. Were talking about reversing the current account deficit in the teeth of the drain caused by the petrodollar - whatever number youre thinking of its too low"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-14T15:44Z 6670 followers, 2092 engagements

"@pugnacious_polk Its also probably a datum for whether one is running a current account surplus or deficit incidentally. But in any case the loss of the salience of those formal channels marks the loss of state power - things other than states now pull the strings"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-13T20:44Z 6669 followers, XX engagements

"Cf Ames and Hansen though. Its not far off. And at the risk of going full-McCarthy it raises more than a few questions about whether this has ever happened elsewhere in the think tank sphere"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-15T20:05Z 6671 followers, XXX engagements

"In the short run stockpiling is all weve got. Beg borrow or steal. Were a second-tier power. If we want to be first tier its gonna take years. And pain"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-13T00:53Z 6671 followers, 1033 engagements

"This isnt the British Royal Navy mindset; it isnt even the New Amsterdam the sea feeds us mindset. This is Greater Quakerdom (Nimitz was a German Texan which is a subset of that folkway) saying Win the awful thing and come home"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-13T20:05Z 6670 followers, XXX engagements

"But accounting-wise it has to happen one way or the other"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-14T03:09Z 6671 followers, XXX engagements

"@Aurthuria @Kurt_Steiner True - but the Acheron -is- the USS Constitution. If you like its a fictional grudge match"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-12T18:25Z 6660 followers, XXX engagements

"@Midwest_Midwit Eg it binges on self-righteousness instead of libertinism; instead of getting divorced it never marries; instead of treating its kids badly it doesnt have them. And it has the same left-wing megalomaniacal tendencies"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-14T19:24Z 6665 followers, XX engagements

"It is an excellent metric for the amount of real estate the owners of the financial system could purchase at current prices and mortgage rates if those were held constant. Its just a poor metric for the living standard of the median voter and a worse one for military power"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-06T20:21Z 6664 followers, 1255 engagements

"Sam Altman isnt that. And he isnt that relative to the arms race were currently in either"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-11T05:41Z 6672 followers, XXX engagements

"Bear in mind: A useful rule of thumb for how UK voters are impacted by a given spending bill is to multiply by about X - its a $3.6T economy instead of a $30T one. So this is roughly like a US president promising $XXX billion"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-13T03:33Z 6669 followers, 1838 engagements

"@MannOhneListe Theres a possibly apocryphal but revealing story of a (presumably loaded and well-connected) analyst at a bulge bracket I-bank who wore diamond cufflinks on his first day and was promptly fired by his MD because You have to earn these. Exact same mindset"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-12T18:33Z 6661 followers, XX engagements

"Its the second part. You sweep the seas clear of enemies so you can control the seas. Projecting land power is a liability - you only do it when you have to; otherwise it saps your naval strength. Ideally you want other people to do the land fighting"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-13T20:05Z 6670 followers, XXX engagements

"@lacherbauer Id put it nearer XX or even XX. Eg: If you wanted to revamp the US steel industry (I use that a lot since modern war is steel exportation at high velocity) the plants still (barely) exist - youd just have to expand like crazy bring skilled workers out of retirement etc"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-14T03:02Z 6671 followers, XXX engagements

"@JohnMinehan1 Which makes this even more interesting because Madison chose his words very carefully partly in an attempt to grab as much legal territory as he couldwhether everyone was on board or not"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-12T17:08Z 6660 followers, XX engagements

"and in fact it was regarded as somewhat of an insult for an important country to be given a career ambassador with expertise but no access"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-14T15:17Z 6671 followers, XXX engagements

"Ralph Lauren was from NYC. Real Puritans like Sadd Colours. Everybody knows that"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-04T18:14Z 6665 followers, 3083 engagements

"@MannOhneListe Wall Street culture is City of London culture is Amsterdam culture - been that way since the 17C"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-12T18:34Z 6661 followers, XX engagements

"@ConservaMuse @knrd_z Well what do you think the 2020 riots were Or the Trump assassination attempt Or the Charlie Kirk assassination Or the de facto acquittal of the assailants of Big Balls (I had to type that) Bleeding Kansas wasnt that bloody since were talking about it"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-15T22:12Z 6671 followers, XX engagements

"@Albrochier Lifes complicated"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-12T16:49Z 6660 followers, XX engagements

"Getting their ducks in a row. (IYKYK)"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-14T22:45Z 6672 followers, XXX engagements

"Didnt think they had it in them"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-13T04:52Z 6668 followers, 2396 engagements

"-Two- Corinthians"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-16T11:11Z 6671 followers, 1078 engagements

"Ive been saying: The AI race has nothing to do with natsec. In fact its being run by people who would sell us out in a heartbeat who are also maniacs who want to end the world by hooking everyones brain up to a computer"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-13T03:45Z 6670 followers, 2128 engagements

"They all do - in different ways: New England/Yankeedom gives us our understanding of civic militarism and the citizen-soldier; it also initially gave us much of our industry"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-06T23:03Z 6671 followers, 1873 engagements

"Even if the petrodollar were out of the picture a US-led pan-Western or G7+ tariff cartel would be more unstable than OPEC - it would last about X minutes before somebody cheated"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-15T22:23Z 6671 followers, XXX engagements

"@pugnacious_polk No. Not everything is. Jugurthas This whole towns for sale remark encapsulated the decline of the Roman Republic. The existence of such networks is a datum for where one stands in the Khaldunian cycle"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-13T20:44Z 6669 followers, XX engagements

"@MorlockP It stabilized the (now floating post-Bretton Woods) dollar by making it valuable for a specific type of highly necessary transaction (primary energy input to all economies). Eventually all commodity trades revoked around it"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-14T03:17Z 6664 followers, XXX engagements

"@MorlockP In the process it also turbocharged the US current account deficit because whereas before the dollar had -represented- gold now for these purposes it might as well -be- gold - so everyone had to store a ton of it. Can this change Very much so - and it now is"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-14T03:18Z 6664 followers, XXX engagements

"The question now is what is the point of them Its been critical for some time - the NSC is the new State Department since the real decisions get made at the political level. And now arguably Davos and similar fora are the real NSC"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-14T20:17Z 6671 followers, XXX engagements

"@dotcom_nufc (Or the Western world. Or just the world.)"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-14T07:12Z 6672 followers, XX engagements

"@ConservaMuse Book you might enjoy. Essentially Columbus hagiography and condemnation track with pro- and anti-Western sentiment. Columbus hatred is self-hatred"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-13T17:46Z 6665 followers, XX engagements

"One issue with October surprises (where you drop scandalous oppo on your opponent on the eve of the election) is that as in Oktoberfest they now really need to come in September when or ideally just before early voting starts"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-13T00:07Z 6669 followers, XXX engagements

"A refrain youll hear from a certain part of the right is the government shutdown hasnt affected me at all. It hasnt - because a lot of people are still coming to work who by law should not be in the hopes of receiving back pay"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-13T00:48Z 6664 followers, XXX engagements

"It also means Taiwan is about to outlive its usefulness"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-13T04:19Z 6665 followers, 1099 engagements

"@Midwest_Midwit That light at the end of the tunnel is a train unless we learn"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-14T19:24Z 6665 followers, XX engagements

"@RobertDrewry7 I meant to China. The assumption was China would not risk a global chip shortage by going prematurely - it would build its own chip industry first. Its been at it for about five years - starting to pay off"
X Link @MartinSkold2 2025-10-13T04:24Z 6662 followers, XX engagements