You can hate Israel, or you can come and learn why it’s the only nation on earth that manages to be rich without effectively sterilising itself. This, not climate change or AI, is going to be the world’s main problem for the rest of this century. Israel alone has the answer.

Jeremy Boreing basically gets it, but doesn’t identify the culprits or their true target: “The real goal of this emerging antisemitism is to destroy the evangelical coalition on the right... There’s a movement underway to reorient the right away from its traditional values and towards a much more left-wing economic posture, a much more isolationist posture... Antisemitism isn’t even about the Jews... They’re a tool being used by nefarious actors to shatter the evangelical coalition.” But the nefarious actors aren’t actually interested in breaking the evangelical coalition any more than they actually crave violence against Jews. They don’t just want to break the Republicans; they want to break the Democrats, where they are also seeding extremism. But political parties aren’t the ultimate target either: it is Western civilisation itself, and the nefarious actors are Russia, China, and the Muslim Brotherhood. That’s why they particularly target the very things they know make the USA great: religious tolerance, the Constitution, and free markets. So, on the right, they promote and fund the Woke Right, the postliberals, and the Groypers. And on the left, the Singham network and others fund the DSA and everything to its left. They are doing this because they can’t compete in the marketplace of ideas or on the battlefield. Their only tools are to steal Western virtues and turn them into vices. It’s why the Jew-hate and division propaganda will not end until the CCP and Putin’s Russia are brought to their knees.

The thing to understand about CCP influence operations in the West is that they are totally indifferent to Jews per se; they merely noticed a pattern and are cynically trying to exploit it: the collapse of Western powers coincides with them turning on Jews. So they try to use the Jews as a wedge to fell the Western tree, and the pain the Jews suffer is just collateral damage; it’s not personal. But it won’t help them in their attempt to destroy the West from within, because they have made a causation error: three of the core principles that make the West so strong are meritocracy, openness, and internal-locus-of-control thinking, i.e., a “can-do attitude”—the antithesis of “doomerism” and “fatalism,” which are the default everywhere else. It’s when Western society rejects meritocracy, closes itself to the outside world, and starts obsessing fatalistically about the things other people are doing to it that two things happen: the Jews suffer, as the useful outsider culprits who must have cheated at meritocracy, and, separately, society starts to fall apart because it has defaulted to the standard global mindset. The Duginites understand this better than the CCP agitprop operation, which is why they focus more on the doomer-burrito-type slop, the anti-meritocratic propaganda, the isolationism, and the base racism.

Expect the collapse in diamond prices to accelerate substantially over the next few years. The natural-diamond market is shrinking in both size and value and circling the drain following the commoditisation of its product by modern technology. The same thing happened to pearls 100 years ago, but it will be much worse for diamonds: they will become a signal of bad taste rather than wealth, just as pearls went from high society to a matronly cliché within 50 years. I have been telling friends in the diamond industry to find a new line of work for ten years. It was clearly only a matter of time before lab-grown diamonds became a mass-market commodity, sold at some small premium over production costs—which would themselves continue to plummet. Since they are identical to natural diamonds, and buyers actually have multiple reasons to choose them instead—no “blood diamonds” and supposedly greater environmental friendliness—most buyers will not care. Attempts to differentiate the products using $20,000 machines will not help: they are indistinguishable in real life. There was always going to be some multiple that people would be willing to pay for “natural” over “lab,” but it did not really matter whether that multiple was 2× or 10×. Once lab-grown diamonds can be made for next to nothing, even ten times next to nothing is still very little. People will pay more—perhaps much more—for an identical product because of its backstory, but not infinitely more. The reason natural-diamond prices have held up reasonably well over the past four years—“only” falling by around 50% in real terms—has more to do with supply cutbacks. Production has been reduced by about 20% over that period, from 120 million to 98 million carats, in a desperate attempt to support prices as the natural and lab-grown markets diverge. If production returned to its previous level, prices would fall even faster. But it is going to get much, much worse. A trip to Miami will explain why: people who look like gangsters walk around wearing enormous tennis bracelets that would have cost a million dollars 20 years ago but can now be purchased for the price of a used Rolex. Diamonds are going to become a sign of tackiness—as, frankly, they always should have been—rather than class or exclusivity. And then the game will be up for everyone in the diamond industry.

Nothing to see here—just Russia and Iran tag-teaming to promise the assassination of US journalist and IRGC critic Laura Loomer. The man behind the RT English operation is Dugin, who, in addition to planning the murder of Americans, also inspires the Woke Right podcast circuit.