Notices by Chris Abraham (sirchris@noauthority.social)

@icedquinn
Read the Budapest Memorandum. It gave Ukraine assurances, not a guarantee. We promised to respect its borders, not attack it, and take it to the UN Security Council if anyone nuked it. Nobody promised to defend it, which is why Ukraine has spent thirty years begging to get into NATO. Russia broke the deal, and we didn't. And America has never run on honor anyway. We won the Revolution shooting redcoats from behind stone walls while the British complained it

years in the war on terror with total air dominance, so our surface-to-air missiles sat in warehouses doing nothing. We cleared that old stock out to Ukraine, Congress paid to restock with the newest models, and Trump made sure it isn't a gift: the minerals deal is how he plans to collect. Now Europe buys American weapons for Ukraine at full retail, and Israel buys them with aid money we hand it to spend at our own stores. That's a clearance sale on credit followed by full-price @icedquinn

@icedquinn
I'll grant Bastiat the glazier. My point is that the line between breaking windows and ordinary commerce is blurrier than he lets on. A guy selling Fourth of July fireworks is selling pure destruction, and so is every razor blade, ink cartridge, and phone built to die in three years. Modern commerce breaks its own windows on purpose and calls it a business model. War is that model at the largest scale, and a lot of it is plain housekeeping. We spent twenty

than anyone: the proxy war against Russia through Ukraine, all the money backing Israel against every enemy big and small, and whatever the Iran contracts end up being worth, which will probably help us dodge a couple of bumps in the road toward recession. @icedquinn

@icedquinn
Everybody who voted for Trump both times voted for him as the isolationist, anti-war, non-interventionist guy. He was elected for his inability, or lack of desire, to be a war maker. So all of us who voted for him are glad he really sucks at making war, is terrible at it, doesn't even help Ukraine or Gaza very much, and is commitment-phobic about Iran. Meanwhile he's probably minted more millionaires and billionaires off the various and sundry wars he's funding

@icedquinn
Napoleon fought wars to win territory. Modern war exists to create jobs and move money, and by that measure Trump is very good at it.

Ukraine: the 2025 minerals deal gives the US a cut of Ukraine's resource revenue, and most of the aid money Congress approved never left the country. It went to American defense plants to rebuild stockpiles, which means American jobs in American districts.

Gaza: there's a natural gas field sitting off the

Iraq set the template. Halliburton and KBR pulled in billions in contracts, and the oil fields were secured before the museums were.

Every one of these wars made somebody rich and kept somebody employed. Trump understands that better than any president before him because he's a dealmaker first. You're grading him on a test nobody's taking anymore. @icedquinn @icedquinn

coast called Gaza Marine, and Trump's own plan for Gaza was to clear it and redevelop it into a "Riviera." That's a real estate developer looking at a war and seeing a property.

Iran: no land grab needed. Every bunker buster dropped is one a contractor gets paid to build again. Every carrier group sent to the Gulf is tens of thousands of sailors and pilots on the payroll. It's taxpayer money turned into munitions, the munitions get blown up, and the contracts renew.

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@icedquinn
Donald Trump is amazing at wars when he engages in them because extracting shareholder value and extracting maximum wealth making is what wars are used for in the modern world. Donald Trump wanted to use the deportation industrial complex to stimulate the economy but he ended up needing to use the Old reliable which is engaging in mid-century level warfare. Modern war is a money-making venture.

Donald J Trump is modeling all his behavior on how Napoleon Bonaparte actually behaved! His rôle model!
https://pca.st/episode/dd580d8c-a571-4dc4-947b-f66180acf6db

Rest in Peace, Miss Dolly Parton.

Stop Calling These People the Most Vulnerable

"On immigration, remittances, and the dignity of being an adult
https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/stop-calling-these-people-the-most?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1"

The Meddler

"Every political tradition eventually produces a hero who cannot see his own wreckage
https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-meddler?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1"

The Mascot Economy

"Every institution that wants a symbol is drawing from the same small room, and the bill always comes due later than the applause
https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-mascot-economy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1"

Words Are Code
> I write two or three articles a day now with an AI copilot, after twenty years of writing alone and unread. Here's why I don't think that makes what I'm doing any less mine.
https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/words-are-code?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1

Words Are Code

"I write two or three articles a day now with an AI copilot, after twenty years of writing alone and unread. Here’s why I don’t think that makes what I’m doing any less mine.
https://chrisabraham.substack.com/p/words-are-code?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1"

Laugh riot

"The WNBA Can’t Define A Woman And Now Men Are Signing Up - Dumpster Fire 341
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZjdLcbeFK_0&si=6EV5thYPzibgI1V6"

Misleading: the child is a citizen of whatever countries the parents are from.
> The justices will hear arguments Wednesday in a case that could determine whether children born in the U.S. to noncitizens have a country to call home.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/03/31/birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-trump/

Watching Disclosure Day and the Hitchcock influence is unmistakable—not the black-and-white classics, but his color period: that Kodak warmth, the patient camera, tension built through framing rather than jump scares. It's got a genuine 1950s/60s cinematic texture layered onto a very contemporary paranoia. I'm not finished yet, but as someone who's logged 30 years with Art Bell, this one of the most visually and thematically compelling treatments of the disclosure subject I've seen.

Unlimited Shrimp For All
> Damola Adamolekun for President, 2028, or the closest thing the Constitution will let him have.
https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisabraham/p/unlimited-shrimp-for-everyone?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=aqj1