7월 2일, 리투아니아 의회 정당들이 핵무기와 외국 군사기지에 대한 헌법적 금지 철폐에 합의했다. 나우세다 대통령은 "지정학적 상황이 악화되고 있다"고, "우리 헌법은 완전히 다른 상황에서 작성되었다"고 말했다. 1990년 소련으로부터 독립을 회복한 후 36년간 유지된 헌법 조항이다. GDP 대비 7% 국방비, 독일 여단 상시 주둔 준비, NATO 가입 후...
7월 3일 저녁, 러시모어 산. 네 명의 대통령 화강암 두상 아래서 트럼프는 공산주의를 "죽음의 위협(mortal threat)"이라고 선언했다. "칼 마르크스에 충성하거나 미국에 충성하거나, 공산주의자이거나 애국자이거나, 둘 다일 수는 없다." 공산당은 "불법 이민자, 범죄자, 일하기 싫어하는 모든 자들로 구성되었다"고 했다. 1950년대 조 매카시 상원...
On the eve of America's 250th founding anniversary, Philadelphia canceled its Independence Day parade. Several cities near Washington postponed or abandoned their fireworks displays. In South Dakota, ...
Last week, a thousand people in France died from the heat. From Wednesday, June 25 to Friday, June 27, over three days, the excess deaths across France were over a thousand more than usual. According...
The criticism was justified. But the way I initially understood it was wrong. When I responded, "I will cover the stock market from a class perspective," I had only seen half the problem. I thought i...
After the morning circuit breaker was lifted, the KOSPI seemed to briefly narrow its decline. It was an illusion. Thursday's final close was 7,648.07, with 7.89 percent evaporating in a single day. At...
Thursday morning, the Korea Exchange halted all program trading for five minutes. The KOSPI plummeted 5.36 percent immediately after opening, triggering a circuit breaker. Samsung Electronics and SK H...
Wednesday night, the clock in the Strait of Hormuz keeps ticking. In Doha, Kushner and Witkoff held indirect technical talks with the Iranian side through Qatari mediators, and Trump declared that "pr...
Wednesday, Iran announced that it exported 40 million barrels of crude oil in the two weeks since the lifting of the US naval blockade and is receiving a 20 percent premium over pre-war prices. Iran a...
Tuesday: a US special envoy arrived in Doha, but no high-level talks were held. A Qatari official confirmed that 'there will be no high-level meeting,' and Iran only stated that 'an expert delegation ...
Tuesday morning, the KOSPI rebounded to 8,640. That's a 2.93% rise from Monday's 8,394. Just 24 hours ago, the market was dumping Samsung and SK Hynix stocks; now it's buying them again. Is the 800 tr...
Monday morning, President Lee Jae-myung, along with the heads of Samsung and SK, declared a "three-axis great leap forward." Three mega-projects: semiconductors worth 800 trillion won, physical AI, an...
On Sunday night, the US and Iran agreed to stop striking each other and to meet in Qatar on Tuesday. Vice President JD Vance headed to Switzerland. This agreement, reported by Axios citing a "US offic...
Half a day after exposing JD Vance's "Either way, America wins" in Diary #341, the shape of that victory has become clearer. On Sunday, Iran attacked US military bases in Bahrain and Kuwait, and US C...
In diary entry #340, I wrote that the "US-Iran provisional agreement was buried under gunfire within ten days." Half a day later, that gunfire revealed a deeper truth. Let us face Vice President JD Va...
The provisional U.S.-Iran agreement (MoU) signed by Trump and Pezeshkian on June 15 was buried under gunfire within ten days. On the 25th, Iran attacked the Singapore-flagged commercial vessel Ever Gl...
Two days have passed since earthquakes of magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5 struck the northern coast of Venezuela on the evening of June 24. The scene in La Guaira reported by Reuters on the night of the 26th i...
Sometimes a single self-destructive statement from the enemy reveals more than 200 pages of analysis. The case in point is AWS CEO Matt Garman's June 23 interview with Platformer. Casey Newton introdu...
KOSPI was pushed down to 8,213 this afternoon. It has been only a few days since it hit an all-time high of 8,471. The Nasdaq's four-day losing streak — the first since February — coincided with Apple...
On the night of June 23 (Eastern Time), what happened in the New York City Democratic primary was not simply a candidate swap. All three candidates supported by Mayor Eric Adams won. Claire Valdez def...