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Nathan Carson

3 years

A thread on America's foreign policy and its connection with economic inequality and elite power: One of the big reasons the US is so exceptional is it's geography. 1/n

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Nathan Carson

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2 years

🧵🧵🧵: Pakistani floods will likely reshape global ag markets and the regional security order. Flooding in Pakistan is truly biblical.1/3 of the country is underwater. 33 million - 15% of the population - are impacted. It also harms production of wheat, rice, and cotton. 1/n

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When General Lee surrendered at Appomattox, Grant immediately inquired what provisions were most sorely needed by the remnants of the Army of Northern Virginia. The surrendering Confederates were given a full salute, acknowledging their valor and status as Americans.

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Johnny Horton singing 'You Fought All the Way, Johnny Reb" to the last living Confederate veteran, aged 116, in 1958.

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Thread: A threat to American strawberries. Plant City is the Winter Strawberry Capital of the US. It's also my hometown. We've grown strawberries for 100 years and supply 20% of US production. It's a $1.1 billion industry for a town of 40k. That's all under threat. 1/n

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No, because the moment global supply chains start fragmenting those regions will go from flirting with disaster to full on disaster. Most of Sub-Saharan Africa is screwed once things hit the fan because of how dependent it is for all fertilizer imports.

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The future is mostly African, with some Arab, Latino, and Pacific Islander mixed in.

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The reason there will be no major reindustrialization in the US is because our environmental laws are written in a way where a single activist group with funding from China can prevent the construction of a chemical plant for a decade through environmental impact reviews.

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Thread on Canada's proposed fertilizer policy: Trudeau is wanting to cut nitrous oxide emissions from ag sources 30% by 2030. For ag, that means cutting applications of nitrogen fertilizer. The inventible consequence is mass starvation. 1/n

Keean Bexte

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It's official. Trudeau's meeting with provincial agriculture ministers wrapped up yesterday. He is moving forward with a 30% fertilizer reduction. Farms will fail, land will he purchased by billionaires/the government, and people will starve. Farmers are rising up today.

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Nathan Carson

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Middle school kids used to learn Latin and Greek 100 years ago and now we teach remedial English to college students. Decline is a choice. Raise your expectations of what is possible. Do not be afraid to condemn those who fail.

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Article here: "For most of my career, I assigned around 30 pages of reading per class meeting as a baseline expectation... Now students are intimidated by anything over 10 pages and seem to walk away from readings of as little as 20 pages with no real

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Nathan Carson

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Without fertilizer, several billion people starve. Simple as that.

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Biden official Samantha Power celebrates fertilizer shortages that will force farmers to “hasten transitions” to “natural solutions, like manure and compost.” “Never let a crisis go to waste."

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Pakistan produces 5% of global cotton and 2.5% of global wheat. It also accounts for 9% of global rice exports. These floods have major impacts for global ag markets. Let's break it down. 2/n

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Hot take: The next round of automation and AI will disproportionately impact the laptop class, not the working class. It's now cheaper to automate accountants, contract lawyers, and data analysts than it is to automate manual laborers. Big ramifications for US social structures.

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@DocStrangelove2 If you can turn brain waves to radio waves, it’s only a matter of time before someone reverse engineers it to turn radio waves to brain waves….

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Millennials now living through their third financial meltdown in 15 years since graduating high school.

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A reminder that Hamas is widely celebrated within Palestinian society. It's no different than the total war waged by Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. No one cried when Dresden was leveled or Tokyo was firebombed.

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Audio is put up on screen: A Hamas terrorist calls his father: "Father, I killed 10 Jews! Check your WhatsApp! I sent you the photos! Father, I killed 10 Jews! I killed 10 Jews with my bare hands. check your WhatsApp. Father, be proud of me!"

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Nathan Carson

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This is not a partisan issue. Democrats and Republicans are united in helping save Florida strawberries. Both sides recognize that food security is national security. Now is the time to work together and help protect our access to safe, nutritious, locally-grown food. 10/fin

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Wheat is Pakistan's most important crop. About half of daily calories come from wheat. Out of around 30 million acres of farmland, almost 30% grows wheat. Wheat is so important to Pakistan that it's accountable for 2% of GDP and 2.5% of *global* wheat production. 4/n

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The worst of the flooding is centered in Balochistan and Sindh with parts of Punjab also impacted. Pakistan's main ag hubs are in Punjab, Sindh, and Balochistan with Punjab as the most important by far. Already, it's clear that this is a bad situation. 3/n

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There's still a chance to stop this. The EPA has extended the deadline for public comments from today until to May 19. To save Florida strawberries, we need as many comments as possible *urging* the EPA not to ban the use of Thiram on strawberries. 8/n

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Pakistani wheat is traditionally planted Oct-Dec and harvested sometime beginning in May. There's serious concern flooding will severely disrupt wheat plantings. Even before the floods, Pakistan needed to import close to 10% of annual production. 5/n

Pakistan's Food Security Threatened by Massive Flooding

A food security crisis is looming, with crops destroyed and wheat planting set for disruptions

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Nathan Carson

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Pakistan exports 9% of the world's rice. Internally, rice accounts for approximately 25% of daily calories. With Pakistan's key rice centers totally submerged and harvests set to begin in a few weeks, it doesn't look good. 7/n

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Globally, rice is the second most important source of calories behind wheat. It's a staple for much of Asia. We're already seeing major pressures on wheat markets because of the war in Ukraine. Last thing humanity needs is for rice to be threatened. 6/n

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10% of tradable wheat and 15% of tradeable corn is gone because of the invasion of Ukraine. It's unknown how much wheat and rice are gone due to flooding in Pakistan. All I know is 2023 is going to be a rough year for global food insecurity. 21/fin

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Nathan Carson

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Next impacted is cotton. Cotton is *the* cash crop for Pakistan. 5% of all the world's cotton comes from Pakistan. Cotton alone is 0.8% of GDP. Textiles employ 17% of Pakistanis and is 8.5% of GDP. Problem is cotton really isn't a fan of standing water. 8/n

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Nathan Carson

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No one wants to talk about how corn ethanol mandates initiated by Bush and doubled down by Obama completely transformed the Midwest and U.S. agriculture into the monstrosity it is today.

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In 2008, Obama won Iowa by ten points and Wisconsin by fourteen, he even won Indiana (Biden won't come close to this performance in the Midwest). Rural Americans voted for Obama twice. Then he sold them out.

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Nathan Carson

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The end of the Florida strawberry industry means the destruction of 20% of America's domestic strawberry production in a time of rising food prices. It means inflicting a $1.1 billion economic loss on my hometown. It means ending a century-old tradition of farming. 7/n

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Nathan Carson

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@Will_Tanner_1 It was never about the Confederacy. It was destroying every connection with the past so Marxists can dictate our future. See how the same people sought to remove the statue of Teddy Roosevelt in NYC and Kit Carson in Colorado (who fought for the Union might I add).

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Nitrogen is *the* most important nutrient for crops. The invention of synthetic nitrogen is what allowed humanity grow from a population of under 2 billion to almost 8 billion within a century. No synthetic nitrogen, no food. Period. 2/n

Nathan Carson

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This is a brewing humanitarian crisis. Natgas is key to producing nitrogen, the most critical crop nutrient. By killing natgas, ESG investing is destroying the world's nitrogen supply. Without nitrogen, humanity would be able to feed a population of only around 4 billion.

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Nathan Carson

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The US has more navigable water ways than the rest of the world put together. North America is home the largest stretch of contiguous arable land. The US not only controls most of that arable land, its inland water ways, the Mississippi River Basin, overlays perfectly. 2/n

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Nathan Carson

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Officials report that half of Pakistan's cotton crop has been damaged. The severity is unknown. If Pakistan's cotton harvests are reduced by 10%, that's 0.5% of global production gone. We're not even accounting for the impacts to the Pakistani economy. 9/n

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China attacked the U.S. in 1950. China attacked Tibet in 1950. China attacked India in 1962. China attacked Vietnam in 1979. Take your communist propaganda and shove it.

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China is evil?

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The floods in Pakistan are of historical significance. Not just for their scale, but also their timing. COVID, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the coming winter apocalypse in Europe, and now this. We're seeing a domino effect of system failures. 19/n

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Agri-food supply chains are a highly complex, highly interconnected, highly interdependent system overly optimized for efficiency (profitability). This created the perfect conditions for a system-wide failure that results in mass starvation.

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I'm focusing on globally traded commodities, but I'd be remiss not to note that fruit and vegetable production is also impacted by the floods. The damage is so severe that Pakistan is even considering allowing imports from its existential rival India. 10/n

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Europeans get this lifestyle because Americans underwrite their security and prosperity through NATO and the WTO.

IYER Ⓥ

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The transatlantic econ discourse

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The dirty secret of environmentalist movements is that many are covertly funded by the Chinese and Russians with the intent of decimating US energy and manufacturing capacity. Think I'm wrong? Propose that all registered nonprofits disclose foreign donors and watch the blowback.

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Since the 1970s, real working class wages have stagnated. Meanwhile, the costs for education, housing, and healthcare - the 3 basic indicators for middle class life - have skyrocketed. It's little wonder there's been an explosion in deaths of despair here in America. 12/n

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The tldr version is Pakistan's ag systems are screwed atm. The only question is how screwed. Production of wheat, rice, and cotton is going to take some serious hits, that much is clear. It's the second orders impacts that are terrifying. 11/n

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When people get hungry, they tend to get really.freaking.angry. If Pakistan's economy collapses because there's no cotton and there's no food to boot, expect protests. Lots of them. Enough to possibly topple a govt. 16/n

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Nathan Carson

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The decision by Canandian and Dutch elites to restrict nitrogen usage is nothing less than a death sentence to millions globally to die of starvation. This self-righteous posturing by Canadian and Dutch politicians will create untold human suffering. 8/n

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America has a few simple geostrategic objectives: 1) Maintain control of North America. 2) Prevent outside powers from gaining influence in the Western Hemisphere. 3) Control the world's sea lanes. 4) Prevent any Eurasian regional hegemon from emerging and building a navy. 4/n

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The fact that 40% of the world's chemicals, 90% of the world's rare earth, and 28% of all manufacturing comes out of China bodes ill for US industry. Prepare for scarcity.

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If large war breaks out in the Pacific what’s your top concern that nobody’s talking about?

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Nathan Carson

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Banning Thiram would leave growers with no real way to stop the spread of diseases like botrytis and neopestalotiopsis. The EPA's decision effectively kills the Florida strawberry industry. 6/n

Pestalotia an emerging disease of strawberries in the Southeast - Fruit Growers News

Growers are beginning to prepare the ground for strawberry planting, which typically begins late in September and continues through mid-October – depending on the location in the state. Plants are...

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Nathan Carson

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The floods have devastated Pakistan's ag sector and will cause marked declines in production of wheat, rice, and cotton. We just don't know how bad yet. That's 2.5% of global wheat, 9% of tradeable rice, and 5% of global cotton under threat. 15/n

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Additionally, the US has more natural deep water ports than anywhere else in the world, and it borders both the Atlantic and Pacific giving it a geographic advantage when it comes to trade. By dominating the North American continent, the US is a de-factor superpower. 3/n

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One thing I do know about Pakistani politics is a PM has never served a full 5-year term. That's 29 PMs removed in a variety of ways including military coups, forced resignations, and assassinations. Khan is the first to be voted out by Parliament. 13/n

No Pakistani prime minister has completed a full term in office

Pakistan has had 29 prime ministers since 1947 – none completed a full five-year term.

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There's a problem with these this view though: history never ended. The US was given a peace dividend in the 90s, but instead squandered it on global police action in endless wars that did little to advance America's core geopolitical interests. 10/n

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Because of our tropical climate, disease is a big problem for growers. Thiram is a fungicide that's been used for 50 years without incident. Because many farms are small - often 50 acres or less - Thiram is applied using an overhead sprayer. The EPA wants to ban Thiram. 2/n

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@AP You should change your name to “Associated Propaganda.”

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Furthermore, American elites' religious adherence to neoliberal economics exacerbated income inequality and turned the Arsenal of Democracy into the Rustbelt. And because economic policy is all about wealth maximization, the only foreign policy tool left is military action. 11/n

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All these floods are bad news for Pakistan politically. Natural disasters in general are terrible for fragile govts. Hits to ag systems are catastrophically bad. This is the social and political equivalent of gas on a fire. 14/n

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There are two other threats here: 1) Nations often deflect domestic pressures by focusing on "the other." That's India. 2) Opportunities of weakness are often too inviting to pass up. Does India try to make moves in Kasmir during all this? No idea, but it's a possibility. 17/n

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The U.S. is a maritime power. Its security and prosperity is predicated on control of the sea lanes. America's lack of merchant shipping and shipyard capacity is a true national security threat. The fact the Army and Air Force maintain de-facto control over national security

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The EPA is ignoring its own science and is charging ahead with a blanket ban. It claims that there are other fungicides such as Captan and Mancozeb. Thing is Mancozeb isn't approved for use on strawberries and Captan isn't designed for full-season coverage like Thiram is. 5/n

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@johnkonrad @gCaptain @cmacgm @JakeSullivan46 We're witnessing the end to free navigation of the seas and switch back to military-led convoys in real time and no one is paying attention.

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The Florida Strawberry Grower's Association has provided a letter template to use for comments. I've included the link here. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to FSGA. 9/n

Thiram Comment - EPA Docket No. EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0433.docx

Shared with Dropbox

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Pakistani politics are *volatile*. Just this past April, the Prime Minister of Pakistan was removed cause, well, reasons. The inner workings of Pakistani politics are waayyyy outside my wheelhouse. 12/n

Imran Khan ousted as Pakistan's PM after vote

The former cricket star loses a no-confidence vote 13 hours after his party tried to delay it.

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We’ve gone from teaching Latin and Greek in middle school to teaching remedial English in college. You know who still learns Latin and Greek in middle school? Homeschoolers.

 Dr. Waitman W. Beorn (@waitmanwbeorn.com 🟦)🇺🇦

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You are not qualified to homeschool your kids.

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For the past year, I've been worried about global famine. We've been lucky so far in that we've avoid the worst-case scenario. There's been protests in developing countries and higher food prices in developed ones, but no famine. Yet. 20/n

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"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery" ~ Norman Borlaug. Food insecurity is a catalyst for social unrest. The French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Arab Spring. What do they have in common? Rising food prices. 1/n

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@MeghanMcCain Your dad literally died in office rather than retiring.

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Back in Dec 2021, the EPA decided to ban the use of Thiram for all non-seed treatment applications. One reason was applicator risk of exposure. Thing is, the EPA itself noted the low risk for Thiram applied via overhead sprayers! 3/n

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Trudeau and his allies in Canada are hellbent on cutting GHG emissions at all costs. That's why he's moving forward with a proposal to cut N2O emissions by 30%. But they're elites. They are so privileged they have no idea the suffering this will inflict upon humanity. 5/n

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There are already strict rules that determine when and how a grower can apply Thiram. The science behind Thiram's safety has been around for 50 years. Growers even use an algorithm called the Strawberry Advisory System to optimize sprays. 4/n

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US grand strategy since the early 20th Century is to be the offshore balancer. Essentially, US foreign policy is to cause problems for would-be hegemons such as Germany in WWI/WWII, Imperial Japan, the Soviet Union, and Saddam's Iraq in 1991. 6/n

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The fatal flaw of primacy is the US can't be everywhere at once. China, Russia, and Iran realize this. The simultaneous actions in Europe, Northeast Asia, and the Middle East is like a DDOS attack on the international system. 14/n

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Canada produces 8% of the world's tradable wheat, 10% of tradable barley, and well over 50% of tradable canola. Cut nitrogen usage 30% and all that's likely gone from the world market. That's the simple truth. 6/n

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There are only three regions that can produce a Eurasian hegemon capable of threatening the US: Western/Central Europe, the Middle East, Northeast Asia. Nowhere else has the population, industry, and/or natural resources to challenge the US. 5/n

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In conclusion, America faces serious challenges both at home and abroad. Embracing America's rich history of offshore balancing and industrial policy is a clear way to start addressing these problems. 19/fin

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A friend up in Alberta who has family on the ag boards informed me that Trudeau's proposals have to get through parliament this fall before they can be enacted, so there's still a chance to stop this. 9/n

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The only reason the US was able to assimilate all the immigrants from the late 1800s was because of the First World War. The Great War triggered a nationalist response that forced all other immigrant groups, particularly Germans, to adopt English and American customs. Don't

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Thread. A reminder that Europe free rides on American military power so that it can continue to fund its lavish cradle to grave welfare system.

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You mean the Europe that can’t meet even its modest commitments to Ukraine or NATO spending targets? “Kishida has said that Tokyo expects Europe to send weapons and ammunition in a contingency - the same aid Asian nations have dispatched to Ukraine.” 1/

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2023 is shaping up to be a rough year for global food insecurity. The question is only how bad things will be. Increasing agricultural production *must* be a priority for govts worldwide. Engaging in WEF utopian thinking will only result in the riding of the Black Horse. 11/fin

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There must be strong public pressure directed at Canadian and Dutch politicians to reverse their disastrous fertilizer policies. What's being proposed is downright inhuman due to the suffering that will be the direct consequence of cutting back nitrogen usage. 10/n

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@helldivers2 I look forward to discovering how the community will conspire to throw this major order yet again.

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Global food insecurity is rising rapidly. The world is staring down the barrel of a looming humanitarian catastrophe at a scale unseen since the mid-20th Century. It's a scary situation that's still unfolding. 7/n

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"You can't build a peaceful world on empty stomachs and human misery" ~ Norman Borlaug. Food insecurity is a catalyst for social unrest. The French Revolution, the Russian Revolution, the Arab Spring. What do they have in common? Rising food prices. 1/n

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There are a ton of unknowns here. We don't know just how bad ag production in Pakistan has been harmed. We don't know how fast drainage will happen which could mitigate some of the damage. We don't know how big resulting domestic protests will be or what India may do. 18/n

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🧵🧵🧵: The old Constitutional order exists only in its spirit. The fact is the Managerial Revolution that James Burnham (one of the founders of the American conservative movement) warned about is now complete. 1/n

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Notice he thinks we are both not under the system we're still under and also doesn't actually want the system the founders gave us, but something else. This is no different from the Marxists.

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For the past 30 years, the US has oscillated between primacy and liberal internationalism. Put simply, primary believes the US will rule the world while liberal internationalism believes the UN will rule the world. 8/n

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But while American elites busied themselves with grand visions of nation building and the American working class slumped into stagnation, history continued. Revisionists powers in Eurasia saw an opportunity to expand their influence and seized that opportunity. 13/n

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While primacy and liberal internationalism have different means, they both seek the same outcome: "The End of History." It's the triumph of liberal democracy (according to Western norms) and neoliberal economics. Humanity is destined to hold hands at Davos and sing kumbaya. 9/n

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Europeans are really doing everything they can to convince Americans to pull out of NATO.

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England Police say they will extradite and imprison Americans over social media posts

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This is the challenge facing America: the past 30 years of foreign policy has been an abject disaster because it ignores America's core geopolitical interests. The US must pursue a grand strategy of offshore balancing. 16/n

Nathan Carson

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America has a few simple geostrategic objectives: 1) Maintain control of North America. 2) Prevent outside powers from gaining influence in the Western Hemisphere. 3) Control the world's sea lanes. 4) Prevent any Eurasian regional hegemon from emerging and building a navy. 4/n

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Let's talk fertilizer. There's been a lot of panic the past few months over nitrogen prices hikes and the chance of shortages. But I'm afraid we may have missed the biggest nutrient at risk of skyrocketing prices and possible shortages: potash. 1/n

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Canada is one of the major ag players globally. It has a lot of great ag land and a small population. That means it's an export powerhouse. But this isn't possible without nitrogen fertilizer. 4/n

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What about liberal internationalism? Well, global institutions only have power cause nation-states give them power. All is takes is one state to throw a monkey wrench in the system. Exhibit A: Germany hamstringing NATO's ability to curtail Russian ambitions in Ukraine. 15/n

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These are globalists who have sold out their countrymen so they can keep drinking their $250 bottle of wine at their $500 a meal restaurant till they croak leaving nothing for their descendants cause they have to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps.”

GOODNIGHT LAURA

@laurastoobusy

2 months

We are boomers, children of Goldwater Republicans, living in a red state, ready to vote for Kamala Harris.

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Nathan Carson

@ndcarson

2 years

My family's been working in Florida citrus for three generations. Greening is an existential threat to the industry. Period. Meanwhile developers and environmentalists work to replace invaluable ag land with concrete jungles.

Peter Nooski

@laten_c

2 years

For years, Florida's farmers have been battling an insect from Asia, particularly China. The orange crop is so small, the "100% Florida" brand supplements with OJ from Mexico. Now, farmland is being gobbled up by developers. @maphumanintent @marcorubio

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@ndcarson

3 years

Offshore balancing relies heavily on partners in key regions to block the emergence of possible hegemons. However, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, US foreign policy has experienced a notable shift. 7/n

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Nathan Carson

@ndcarson

2 years

This guy deserves to be ruthlessly mocked. Seriously, go mock the guy on his timeline cause I can’t. The coward blocked me when I called him out on his BS.

Russia Apologists Posting Their Ls

@russophileLs

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@ndcarson

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@Noahpinion You should’ve been shoved in more lockers back in high school.

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Nathan Carson

@ndcarson

2 years

It’s the 6th anniversary of Harambe’s death. #NeverForget

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Nathan Carson

@ndcarson

7 months

American has gone from a high trust to a low trust society in less than 30 years. Our elders lied to us that character and competency matters. Then we wonder why millennials are so cynical these days.

Lafayette Lee

@Partisan_O

7 months

You can’t keep simple promises to your own children and grandchildren… why should I believe your grand designs for these “huddled masses” are motivated by anything other than contempt and greed?

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Nathan Carson

@ndcarson

2 years

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is generated as part of nitrogen fertilizer (particularly nitrate-based fertilizer) breakdown. N2O has been categorized as an extremely potent greenhouse gas (GHG) alongside methane. This is why many environmentalist groups want to curtail nitrogen apps. 3/n

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@ndcarson

3 years

Ammonia is a key input for nitrogen, the most important crop nutrient. Farm profitability and consumer food prices are about to take a serious hit.

Fabian Wintersberger

@f_wintersberger

3 years

#food #inflation is coming to Europe

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Nathan Carson

@ndcarson

2 years

@greggnunziata So what do you call the perfect alignment of the administrative state, the media, and big business?

Daily Wire

@realDailyWire

2 years

"Visa announced Saturday that the world’s largest payment processing corporation will begin separately categorizing firearm purchases at gun stores."

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Nathan Carson

@ndcarson

3 years

Man, I really triggered some of y’all for pointing out the obvious fact that having a bunch of geriatrics in political leadership is a bad idea. Even universities and businesses force people to retire at a certain point, why do politicians get a free pass?

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Nathan Carson

@ndcarson

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It was never about the Confederacy. It was about erasing all memories of the past so that Progressives can remake America in a way they deem fit.

Lafayette Lee

@Partisan_O

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The National Park Service is removing a statue of William Penn—champion of religious liberty and father of Pennsylvania—at the site of his home in the city he founded… to be more “inclusive.” Heritage America is being erased.

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Nathan Carson

@ndcarson

2 years

If Up happened today.

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Nathan Carson

@ndcarson

3 months

@RobertMSterling *does not apply to Florida. There are no rules here.

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Nathan Carson

@ndcarson

3 years

A return to offshore balancing has a lot of implications for how the US conducts its foreign policy as well as how the US views domestic political economy and industrial policy. Here's a primer. 17/n

Nathan Carson

@ndcarson

3 years

Incoming mega thread on US grand strategy: I see a lot of people talking about how either 1) we absolutely have to go to war with Russia or 2) we should let Russia invade Ukraine without consequence. Both positions are idiotic. 1/n

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@ndcarson

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DC is populated with academically brilliant people who've never spent a day outside academic/think tank/consulting space to learn how the world operates in practice. You end up with a lot of theoretically brilliant policies that only make things worse when implemented.

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@ndcarson

2 years

If you think geopolitics is crazy now, y’all have no idea what in the pipeline this decade. It’s gonna be the reckoning.

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