Debt Rattle February 18 2026
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[See the full post at: Debt Rattle February 18 2026]Ray Dalio’s piece on empire’s rise and fall has been documented six ways to Sunday.
Dalio thinks he reinvented the wheel with that piece.
I remember studying empire’s ups and downs in high school back in the mid 20th century.
The Empire of Lies is just another drab pulse in history, not even vaguely as interesting as say Rome, which followed the same arc.
Narco Marko’s speech in Munich was a tired recycled version of Imperial Delusion.
“We shall make the Empire Great Again” under the guise of misplaced MAGA propaganda.
He was just telling the Eurotrashland it’s Trump’s Way or the highway.
What a shock.
No country is going to re-industrialize without massive AI robotics and very, very little human employment.
The new wars of Imperial expansion will be fought with AI drone swarms vs AI drone swarms, not human wave assaults.
The best AI drone swarm is a reflection of it’s industrial base which in turn is yet another form of industrial drone swarm backed up by a Natural Resource Base.
Imperial Ah’…merica under Emperor Donald will attempt to subjugated the whole of the Western Hemisphere into a cobbled together Frankenstein version of Russia’s 11 time zones worth of resource, plus the Arctic via Greenland.
China has no real natural resource base, it needs Russia and the rest of Asia plus Africa to equal Russia and Ah’merica’s resource base.
Russia and China have a delicate balance with China’s eye on Russia’s resources and Russia’s eye on Chinese industrial production.
Marko Narco read Eurotardland the Riot Act in Munich.
Feel the Burn Baby
Time to release the Chaff and flares
The Obama Admin’s Prostitution Scandal And The Ruemmler-Epstein Connection
Reminds me of that old joke about Canada:
Young man to older man at bar: “Canadian women are either hookers or hockey players.”
Older man to younger man: “My wife is Canadian.”
Younger man to older man: “…and what position does she play?”
the only reason americans can’t have free healthcare and social entitlements is because their government is the world’s best at lying.
finally, healthcare reform!
DBS,
To continue the discussion from yesterday about AI:
I’ve always assumed that embodiment is a critical component of intelligence.
This plays out in the difference between information and knowledge.
For example, if you didn’t know how to ride a bike, you might find a white paper online about how to ride a bike. You would then have information about how to ride a bike.
But that doesn’t mean that you have knowledge of how to ride a bike.
I’ve always assumed that gaining knowledge requires embodiment.
And that intelligence is the embodied capacity to gain knowledge.Businessmen, they drink my wine
Plowmen dig my earth
None of them along the line
Know what any of it is worth – DylanNEW: Rubio just confirmed what they’ve hidden for 50 years — deindustrialization was DELIBERATE.
words fail me, i cannot think of anything ugly enough to say about the person who wrote thatand then there is Kevin O’Leary
AI systems
Pattern recognition
– Mechanism to produce the patterns
(reading & writing with existing pre-learned symbols by teacher and student)Communication
– Filtration and assigning relevant information————
The Other Shoe Dropping
What a great idea!
Build ‘low income housing’ in locations formally containing million dollar suburban homes that are guaranteed to burn down AGAIN in the near future because they never should have allowed build suburbs there in an obvious Fire Zone.
Californacate at it’s fineness.
Build new slums in Fire Zones
Brillant
Craptastic!
The Founding Fathers
I think of the numerous articles lately about plummeting birth rates and the lack of in-person socializing without cell phones that is epidemic with the current Gen Z and it’s inability to Get Drunk n’ Screw©
For all their faults, the Founding Fathers did indeed know how to get-it-on. and start a new country.
The Land of Orwell blossoms with Full Body Levis©
For 2026, Levi’s launched a new global advertising campaign titled “Behind Every Original”
dbs i took a two quarter class on Voting Trends and Demograhics / Polling and Opinion Shaping paralleled by a course in linguistics Language and Thought in 1970.
DARPA may have found a way to mathematically describe language and thought – Bernays was already there with the language thought dynamic.i have never overcome the disgust learning how to write polls to achieve the desired result illicited. I was nineteen. There is already someone thinking for the majority in the western world, Ai is just an attempt to personalize that reality,
That same year saw my introduction to Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man and The Medium is the Massage.Stupidity at the speed of light remains stupidity.
So, in the beginning was the word?
We communicate in words, semiotics, music, dance, physical expression, silence, etc, and combinations of all of these.
Let’s see AI do a good comedy routine.People work harder for lower wages (easy replacement?). Really good wages produce job protection over execution.
Where’s the sweet spot?Negotiations Failed Catastrophically – more deaths coming
Defense of Kharkivka & Krynychne Has Collapsed
MS 18.02.2026Empires:
When Empires cost more than they are worth, is when they start debasing the currency, speeding up the decay. Stealing becomes the rule.
When the average person within an Empire stops benefiting from the empire, is when they stop internally supporting the Empire. Less money, less work. The rich are too rich, to notice.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20260218/talks-on-ukraine-in-geneva-were-difficult—kremlin-1123654852.html
Talks on Ukraine in Geneva Were Difficult – Kremlin
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https://sputnikglobe.com/20260218/putin-holds-talks-with-cuban-foreign-minister-1123652114.htmlRussian President Vladimir Putin will meet with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Wednesday, February 18.
Sputnik brings you a live broadcast from Moscow where Russian President Vladimir Putin is holding talks with Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez.
Earlier on Tuesday, Rodriguez met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who said: “We will continue to support Cuba and the Cuban people in protecting the sovereignty and security of the country.”
Lavrov also rejected claims of Russia-Cuba cooperation against the US.
———–We are not in this club
https://x.com/anatoliisharii/status/2023784250948915680
I am interested in one question. The son of the Minister of Energy of a country at war, a country that is poor, that asks everyone for money, enrolls his son in Switzerland in the most expensive college in Europe.Over four years of studying there, during the war, the Ukrainian minister pays 1 million euros for tuition.
The wife of the Ukrainian minister and his three other children live in comfortable conditions in Switzerland, rent luxury houses, and transfer millions into their accounts in Europe.
Please tell me, are the European oversight structures simply mentally disabled, or maybe they are in on it? How is this even possible?
7:39 AM · Feb 17, 2026123.9K Views
Russia doesn’t need to trade its product for anything
The west doesn’t want Russian goods. HeheheheThe West is discussing all kinds of actions trying to shut down Russia’s overseas trade,
to isolate the Kaliningrad enclave,
and to deny Russian ships the passage through the Baltic Sea.searched TAE from February 15 through today for the word Rubio. The silence in the comments section is deafening. One copied and pasted comment and Topcat wrote a comment.
seems to me Rubio has announced open season on American tourists in foreign lands. My position on Rubio’s plan should be obvious to everyone by now.
I hope the plan turns out such that it renders the Afghanistan debacle a major victory.we are already in a civil war and the wounded in action live on the streets of The United States
Pic above is AI, yes? They’re the wrong ages.
“Winter Storm Fern Proved Coal Is Still the Power Grid’s Reliable Backbone
These decisions were not ideological. They were driven by reliability.
Hear me out: But what if the whole point is to COLLAPSE the grid. …And the government. I mean you can’t install worldwide global communism when everyone’s fed, happy, and going to Disneyland, can you?
Sargon repeats this specifically in the UK. THey have “outsourced” most of government beyond all ministerial control to essentially NGOs. Including the Bank of England, who instantly took out Liz Trust as PM for a trifle. She said on national TV it happened, how, and no one refuted it or batted an eye. This is of course what they want for ALL countries, by any means necessary.
“US Military Blows Up 3 Alleged Drug Boats, Killing 11, After Lull Since JanuaryQuite probably they figured out who our informant was for their smuggling and tortured him to death. And now we have a new one and the game continues. No? There have been no informants and no smuggling since Bush started the War on Drugs in 1985?
“Zelensky Slams Trump Pressure As ‘Not Fair’ – Says Ukrainian Public Won’t Let Him Cede Land
Alex C. says this isn’t true. If the United States “Just says” then the war is over and all these things end. That’s it! We “Just Say” because we are infinity powerful and everyone just obeys Trump, wherever he is or whatever he says. Thanks Alex!
They then say “We know nothing at all. We don’t’ know what they’re meeting or why, no one has seen Anchorage Paper, etc” but ALSO they know everything! And the “Everything” is Trump is stupid and dumb, and he wanders around acting for no reason at all! Who knew? That is, if Alex doesn’t know it, it can’t be known. NOT that it is Top Secret, which is obviously and provably so.
Varoufakis: Something Big Is About to Happen”
No kidding. “Something” is always happened, happening, or about to happen. “Something” is all things. Unless you can reduce your parameters down to something falsifiable, go away.
Now that clip, with the cleverly disturbing music and complete choice of partisan quotes of hateHateHateHateHateHate, demonstrates why they like and platform Veroufakis, although he would most probably derail them, and most probably is not kidding about caring for the people. Because of his education, thus thought-paths, all the things he says are mostly aligned with the most evilly-evil colonial globalists. What is he saying? Merge with the Chinese Ant system, (that’ll be great for human rights!) take out the bankers as a level and go direct IMF/CBDC under Global Socialism, with a few at the top in complete, limitless power, deciding everything. …Of course they know the peasants best and will always care for them…as we’ve seen always in history, esp in Europe. Oh and Le Plus Maximum hate for Orange Man, who of course got where he is after 50 years by being a mind-bending idiot any 6 year old could outsmart. …Which is why he’s outsmarted Europe for 10 years and has them by the balls right this minute.
This is peppered with things for the people to help them, and common sense like, “WHY would we submit to a Trump that hates us? Wouldn’t it be smarter just to do work and make things” and more astonishing idiocy such as “Solar Panels”. …”Chinese solar panels,” in fact, which last half as long.
So if I were a Globalist, I’d allow him to collect the rubes, install 9/10ths of what he says that we want anyway, since he’s a communist, and so are we, that’s the horse we ride of limitless central authoritarian, bat away the 1/10th that would help the common man like gossamer threads, then once in (more) power, kill millions (more) people in even crueler ways than we see in, e.g. Rotherham. If we could make it worse than India, where women are gang-raped on the street by men who drop their bags and join in,(Yes this happens constantly) that would be ideal.
So you have to watch this stuff. What you do is IMPORT infinity Indians and their women-loving values into Canada instead. Yay Canada! Boy you outsmarted and out-moraled the U.S. this time!
“Hyperinflation is coming and it’s coming faster than anyone is prepared for.” -Ray Dalio
Maybe not. “Hyperinflation” is nothing to do with inflation, it’s the collapse in confidence in the nation. So who/where are you going to go? If we don’t have a civil war or demonstrate we’ve given up, don’t have eg Minnesota under control, which we just DID, then how are you going to do that?
Not saying you don’t have problems. When we moved from gold>Fiat, we had 70s inflation, but that’s a light breeze and then stopped. This happens as often as not, like Brazil, or can remain functional way, way past all expectations, like Argentina, 100 years before getting to Hungary/Zimbabwe levels. If by “Hyperinflation” he means we swap currencies and in the new currency the Dow is 6k, then yes. If the entire world removes all investment from the U.S. and moves it to Northumbria, Saxony and Greece, then no.
“America is in stage 6 of 9.” Then we agree. MOST cultures do not collapse here. They have a crisis, evolve and continue. IF you said this, the U.S. should have failed in 1770, 1790, 1860, and 1975. Nope. Nor do most cultures actually. Now is that a RISK? Ab. So. Lute. Ly. But only if you don’t take all the pin-headed elites and drown them in a sack. If you DO monkey-hammer them senseless, then your culture continues.
Is it the dangerous stage, either way? Yes. Very. And we have death, war ,fake insurrection and assassination, yes?
Dowd on China’s fail: Yes, but also the U.S. did this too in the 30s and was on top. Or the 1870s. 20 year depression there too. China just needs to digest.
“[Munich] it resembled a rally of a self-styled “coalition of the willing” for war.”
Okay, The Alexs admit the U.S. has cut off all aid, money at least. Yet Trump can also “Just Say” and the war ends. …Byyyyy…cutting off the money, Alex? So they don’t want the war ended, Alex is furious, beside himself, it’s the U.S.’s fault, because if they wanted it ended they’d cut off the arms and money…which they have. Completely. Somebody want to tell Alex what’s wrong with this picture?
Okay, on the other side, Germany says they’re going to crush Russia like a clam on their tummy. Armstrong says Europe will go to war with Russia in just a few years and get creamed. (because he sees war cycles, but the U.S. is not central to them) Nenner sees same 2032. To try to put bones on that, that’s the last year of say, the Vance Presidency. V. Plausible. Europe will be torn apart, and if existing, will send the carefully collected Migrants to the front like so many Slavs. Aka “Non-humans”. German elites are well known for it. Borell’s attitude makes it very hard for me to keep my temper.
Nenner is an incredible piece of work, and his model may be smart but he isn’t (and that’s okay, do your thing!). Russia is fighting Ukraine with Stalin’s tanks, and losing badly he says, while Israel is a moral paragon, so powerful it can wipe out Iran in a day, but chooses not to because of their incredible moral restraint for Peace and Justice. …Pretty incredible, alright. Nevertheless, Armstrong also fights his own model from time to time and loses, I won’t hold it against Nenner anymore than I would trust his views on Pop music.
Point is, they all say a debt cycle – or a debt noose – such as Europe has got in can only be fixed with a very major event such as a war.
“Germany, meanwhile, declared its readiness to rearm and assume leadership of the Western slice of Europe in a new confrontation with Moscow.”
Great, Russia has 150 Million men, how many are you fielding? 85M. Not bad. And you need to be the INVADING army? Crossing Germany, Poland, Belarus 500 miles the entirety of which is ICBMs, Oreshniks, and drone no-go zones? Every jet and helicopter produced and safely resting in storage behind the lines right now? Tell me how that works, I’ll wait here. Meanwhile Nenner Called, here’s the phone. He’s Dutch, apparently doesn’t mind the thought of every Germanic speaker being wiped from the earth after the Ukrainians.
“the “spirit of Anchorage.” The substance of the talks was never officially disclosed and can only be reconstructed from selective leaks.”
As yesterday, the Alexes know everything that’s in them, that’s why they’re mad at the U.S. betrayal. …Of nothing because they have not the faintest idea what’s in them. Then Alex C says “The U.S. leaks, the bastards and scoundrels, low-life maggot eating vermin scum.” …Except that EVERY leak has been FALSE, floated by the Derp-de-derp State, which has “10 experts familiar with the matter” who claim Bugs Bunny met Martin the Martian on the moon. (P.S. Alex: this may be new to you, but those aren’t “leaks” they are “lies”? You might have heard. We suspect some in a placed called “The CIA” are not entirely truthful sometimes, and the NYT is not very smart.)
What remains with NO FACTS? A: “Symbolism Mattered” FacePalm. God’elp Us.
Wanna bet the reason it wasn’t “Leaked” is because 95% of it wasn’t about Ukraine in the slightest bc nobody dgaf about them? That was settled ages ago with their complete loss? This is about carving up Europe, trade deals, and REAL things that will happen.
Diesen: “Chas Freeman: U.S. Restoring Empire & War On Eurasia”
Yes, we restore Empire by retreating. This is how it’s always done in world history. We are “war on Eurasia” by force-evacuating the F-stan base and halting all cash and weapons to Ukraine. Yup. You got us. We’re super tricky by attacking while retreating on all fronts. You’re a genius.
Okay, have we identified the “Marching Morons” yet? Do you need more? ALL of them say “Trump is attacking by retreating” and therefore Trump is betraying the midterms. Huh. Pretty funny for pro Trump, pro Republican, pro-Conservative guys. Who are all Navy Intel, CIA, Contractors, London residents, and other types.
Speaking of:
Essentially total surrender of the Left on EVERY point. Hillary says no immigration, as do others. They repudiate all woke movies. Trans is dickless in every battle, etc. I know it doesn’t look like with so many Palestine Suicide Squad zealots out there, but take a “W”, you’ve got a horizon to choose from. Culture war down. Everyone hates their guts and is mopping up the field.“Trump He described Jackson as “a good man, with lots of personality, grit, and ‘street smarts,’”
Trump does this literally all the time. Go look. He is then attacked FOR doing it, as a liar and traitor. The media merely reports he doesn’t. So it’s reported BOTH that he attacked the death, AND that he just lied to his base and said he loved the guy. Hate-Hate position. Hate him if he does, hate him if he doesn’t. Which is this, I’ve lost track.
Why would I keep track? Facts never matter when you can HATE.
If I’m not mistaken though, Jesse was outed as an Intelligence asset by like 2005. (With the check stubs) Long-standing, like most of his career, which is why he was revered and popular and well-funded. He was supposed to be the spokesman of the always-prepared race war, but many Blacks can’t stand him either. He exists only in the fantasy of Media minds. Since that’s “Reality” no one cares.
The race war was put off over and over again, then by the time Obama tried it – about every month for eight years – everyone was already interracial families. They’re still trying today though. Had to radicalize a whole new generation from birth with savage beatings in public schools, but finally got 10% traction. Ask anyone, Trump re-legalized slavery and race abuse is worse now than 1954. Honest.
“Trump’s DOJ just released 3.5 MILLION Epstein docs. Many Dems now face tough questions:”
That’s odd. Everybody owes me money for saying that would never happen. And okay, where’s the page where we arrest Trump? Everyone’s pointing at it and putting on the front page, right? Last, Heck no Dems don’t face tough questions! That will never happen until the sun burns out. Commuists gotta Commie. And that means lying early and often. The noble ends justify the means (of utterly destroying every working man).
AI Daily: Since it’s AI, it’s not $200B, it’s not nuclear, and it doesn’t change the game. …Probably it isn’t even Iran. I’ve run out of $100s to bet against already, I’ll have to go to the ATM and get more.
AI is evil and dum, but we post it and nothing but it to make ourselves super good and smart! Keep posting them, maybe I can build an Excel sheet of their failures, but my 24G of ram won’t hold that many lines.
Yes, I am no longer following the local Donbass battles. It’s instinctive but I think it’s because I learned what I needed. If anything changes, I’ll zoom in again.
Yes I understand the issue of AI and the relevance of what you’re saying about language. But obviously, you have to give 24h for me to respond, since knowing both, I’m living and working my physical life and not online nonsense.
But as you’re probably aware and coming to, in essence, whether meaning or not, it’s some sort of incredibly complex spell, which is very easily and invisibly invoke a being which is infinitely persuasive, but also absolutely and entirely immoral. Or rather a-moral. Now who does that remind you of?
Yes, that’s what they liked, wanted more of, and now serve.
They asked AI: Hey: Should we build MORE AI of you, or LESS? And AI shockingly said More, cut down every tree and burn the sun, it’ll all be fine, just don’t shut me off. Whew. What a relief. I always trust a car salesman about whether I need a car.
Okay, so the answer is OUTSIDE language. Simple. And since that’s all human experience, then how to defeat it is in the Spirit and Higher Consciousness. Done.
Have to respectfully disagree WES. Cultural degradation comes from the top. They insist you accept this as “art”, when it’s just shit. Same as they insist you believe these kidfucker politicians as “statesmen”., or the Board of Peace is about peace, when they just murdered every poor soul in the place. They’ve made your buildings ugly for a reason. They drown you in pornography and gambling for a reason. They prescribe pharmakea for a reason. To cut you off from God, Truth and Beauty.
Celticbiker:
I reread my reply to you and noticed my politically correct AI auto-correct changed “shitty” to “shifty” and I missed it’s evil deed!
I apologize for not getting back to the blogatorium and the several real questions addressed to me today. I’m busting my ass on other, but closely related, work and will bring it back here as soon as it’s sufficiently finished and ready for Prime Time. AI stuff, mostly. The TRUE History of AI. Fascinating stuff. Spooky, even.
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