{"id":1749,"date":"2025-11-05T12:55:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/?p=1749"},"modified":"2025-11-05T12:55:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:55:04","slug":"november-5-2025-daily-x-posts-and-podcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/?p=1749","title":{"rendered":"November 5, 2025 Daily X Posts and Podcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"boldgrid-section\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-12 col-md-12 col-xs-12 col-sm-12\">\n<p class=\"\">Some quick X threads and podcasts, mostly about news in National Security. This post also serves as an open thread. I welcome readers to post comments or additional links related to national security or history, even if they are unrelated to the links below.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">An observation: Since I have been writing more lately, the traffic on this blog has ticked up considerably, and the two leading countries that read this are the U.S. (naturally) and China (interestingly). On the sidebar, if you click on the main site, there is a Popular Posts column, and two articles have been climbing the list: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/?p=1354\">Visualizing the Fortifications in the South China Sea<\/a>, January 24, 2025, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/?p=1230\">Daily Dump: China dominates the Caribbean, Their Own, and Redraws the Map<\/a>, September 4, 2023. Both are okay, but I find it interesting that those are the two that have been moving up the leaderboard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 660px; overflow: hidden; border-radius: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/ep-244-oren-cass-on-a-strategy-of-reciprocity\/id1589160645?i=1000735192768\" height=\"175\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-popups allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-storage-access-by-user-activation allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">Strategic clarity. An excellent podcast. My position is we need capitalism with a conscience, and China simply doesn\u2019t fit in our model. Decoupling is essential, and ideological spheres of influence are the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ayungin Shoal is not a favor from anyone \u2014 it is part of the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p>There was no \u201cgentleman\u2019s agreement,\u201d no promise to remove the BRP Sierra Madre, and no change to correct.<\/p>\n<p>The ship was stationed there in 1999 to guard Philippine territory after China\u2019s illegal\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/F55LNhU2L5\">https:\/\/t.co\/F55LNhU2L5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BRP Sierra Madre (@BRPSierraMadre) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BRPSierraMadre\/status\/1985977353110179935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\"><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">If you are trying to understand the disputes in the<del> South China Sea<\/del>&#8230; the West Philippine Sea, start here. This is an excellent primer on the situation.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The video unraveling how China is aggressively militarizing the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JohnsonReef?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JohnsonReef<\/a> (\u0110\u00e1 G\u1ea1c Ma)!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what this text written in Chinese means, but the visuals speak for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>China illegally built communication towers &amp; helipad, etc, to form a complete military base. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/R9ormSxWn0\">pic.twitter.com\/R9ormSxWn0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nguyen Thi hong (@NguyenThih36) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NguyenThih36\/status\/1985659639607017536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\"><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The video details the scale of the construction. It&#8217;s pretty incredible considering the islands don&#8217;t even belong to China. For more information and a look at all of the construction, you can go to this article we wrote several months ago: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/?p=1354\">Visualizing the Fortifications in the South China Sea<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Palantir CEO Alex Karp on open borders and killing fentanyl traffickers:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf fentanyl was killing 60,000 Yale grads instead of 60,000 working class people, we\u2019d be dropping a nuclear bomb on whoever was sending it from South America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Palantir, we are on the side of the\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d6ym0SDw5r\">pic.twitter.com\/d6ym0SDw5r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jawwwn (@jawwwn_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jawwwn_\/status\/1985485303608721884?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\"><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I don&#8217;t know if I think CEO Karp&#8217;s sentiment is as noble as he is making it sound, but this is pretty much EXACTLY how I feel. We are at war and are finally choosing to fight.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Lessons from El-Alamein: This week in 1942<\/p>\n<p>When Bernard Montgomery took command of the British Eighth Army in 1942, he inherited a force that had forgotten how to win. Morale was shattered, the officers were cautious, and defeat had become habit. Sound familiar?<\/p>\n<p>His first act\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fKuaE6wZPp\">pic.twitter.com\/fKuaE6wZPp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 InfantryDort (@infantrydort) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/infantrydort\/status\/1985849958562476374?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 4, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\"><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A history lesson about the British Army in 1942, where the key to success was removing the old guard and embracing a younger, more agile officer corps.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cows are destroying the planet!&#8221; \u2014Bill Gates, who\u2019s invested millions in lab-grown meat while ignoring the real solution.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, he\u2019s dead wrong.<\/p>\n<p>At White Oak Pastures, regenerative farming doesn\u2019t just offset emissions\u2014it reverses them. Their beef is carbon-negative, with\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/20VwNpqqcC\">pic.twitter.com\/20VwNpqqcC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Camus (@newstart_2024) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newstart_2024\/status\/1985351804675043720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"\"><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I love steaks and hamburgers and cows are a force for good.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some quick X threads and podcasts, mostly about news in National Security. This post also serves as an open thread. I welcome readers to post comments or additional links related to national security or history, even if they are unrelated to the links below. An observation: Since I have been writing more lately, the traffic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-x-threads"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Image-1.jpg","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1752,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1749\/revisions\/1752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cognitivewarriorproject.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}