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Nederland hoeft niet voor ieder extreem op de schop “Nederland zal zich moeten aanpassen aan zomers van 40 graden”, kopt NU.nl. Die kop spreekt eigenlijk al boekdelen. Nederland heeft altijd extremen gekend. De zomer van 1947 was uitzonderlijk heet. Het KNMI noemt die nog altijd de “zomer van de 20e eeuw”. In Maastricht werd toen 37,3 graden gemeten en De Bilt telde vier hittegolven. In 1976 volgde een hittegolf van zeventien dagen. Toch ging Nederland daarna niet op de schop omdat zulke zomers voortaan de norm zouden worden. Waarom reageren we daar nu zo anders op? Natuurlijk is het klimaat warmer geworden. Extreem warme dagen komen tegenwoordig vaker voor en in 2019 werd voor het eerst 40 graden gemeten. Dat rechtvaardigt voorbereiding. Maar voorbereiding is iets anders dan een extreem alvast presenteren als onze toekomstige standaardzomer. Want waar houdt dat op? Nederland kan ook uitzonderlijk hoogwater krijgen. Windkracht 12. Extreme regen. Langdurige droogte. Zware sneeuwval. Strenge vorst. Gaan we onze hele samenleving dan op al die uitersten tegelijk ontwerpen? Middelen zijn eindig. Wat vooral veranderd lijkt, is de manier waarop over extremen wordt gesproken. Media, actiegroepen en ngo’s hebben ieder hun eigen redenen om urgentie te benadrukken. Daar hoeft geen gezamenlijk complot achter te zitten. Maar het resultaat is wel dat vrijwel ieder weersextreem onmiddellijk in hetzelfde grotere verhaal terechtkomt. Bloedheet? Kijk, daar is de klimaatverandering. Volgend jaar een milde zomer? Dan horen we dat één zomer niets zegt en de volgende hittegolf alweer om de hoek kan liggen. Dat is een wel erg comfortabele redenering. Er sluipt bovendien steeds meer moraliteit in. Wij vliegen te veel, rijden verkeerd, eten verkeerd en gebruiken te veel energie. De mens als zondaar. En voor de zonden moet worden geboet, opvallend vaak financieel, via belastingen, heffingen, hogere prijzen en verplichte investeringen. Daarmee wordt een technisch vraagstuk al snel een moreel verhaal. Neem verstandige maatregelen. Meer schaduw waar die nodig is. Bescherm kwetsbaren. Houd dijken en waterberging op orde. Prima. Maar blijf nuchter. Voorbereiden op extremen is verstandig. Van ieder extreem eerst een alarmsignaal, daarna een nieuw normaal en vervolgens een rekening maken, is iets heel anders.

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Can somebody save me from all the idio** who say that btc is going to 200k from here 🤷‍♂️, the bear isn’t over yet

⚠️ ETHEREUM HAS A MONEY PROBLEM NOBODY SAW COMING A former EF insider just warned: core development could hit a funding crisis in 3 to 9 months. The program that paid the client teams expired in April. No replacement. The Foundation is cutting its own spending from 15% to 5%. And today, a second director walked out. $30 million a year keeps Ethereum running. Right now, nobody's sure where it comes from.

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BREAKING: JD Vance just confirmed US strikes on Kharg Island from a podium in Budapest standing next to Viktor Orban. Then he pulled out his phone mid-press conference to check an unread text from Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy for Iran negotiations. Then he said the war will end very shortly and the US has tools in its toolkit it has not yet decided to use. Most coverage is treating the Iran signals and the Ukraine signals as two separate stories. They are not. They are one move. Vance credited Trump and Orban as the two leaders who have done the most to end the Ukraine war. He proposed Budapest as the venue for a leaders’ summit. He said Orban has been better than anybody at helping Washington understand what the Ukrainians need and what the Russians need to achieve peace. He accused EU bureaucrats of foreign election interference in Hungary five days before Orban faces voters. Now hold both threads simultaneously. Orban is the only NATO leader with a documented direct channel to Putin. He is also one of the only European leaders publicly aligned with Trump’s transactional diplomacy. The Iran war has structurally removed Gulf energy supply from global markets for what the IEA calls the largest disruption in history. That removal destroys Russia’s primary leverage over Europe, which was energy dependency, because Europe is now scrambling for non-Russian, non-Gulf alternatives and building the infrastructure to never be dependent on either again. The trans-domain move is this: the Iran war makes the Ukraine deal possible. As long as Russia held the European gas card, Putin had no incentive to negotiate. With Hormuz closed and Gulf petrochemical capacity destroyed for years, the entire global energy map is being redrawn. Russia’s gas leverage over Europe is depreciating in real time because Europe is being forced into permanent diversification by the molecule crisis, not by policy choice. The leverage that kept Putin at the table as the strong party is evaporating. Vance is in Budapest because Budapest is the hinge. Orban talks to Putin. Orban talks to Trump. Orban hosts the summit. The Iran war provides the energy shock that restructures European dependency. The Ukraine deal follows because Russia’s negotiating position weakens with every week that the Gulf remains offline and Europe builds alternative supply chains it will never dismantle. The Witkoff text is the tell. Back-channel negotiations with Iran are live. The 8 PM deadline tonight is real. If Iran concedes on Hormuz, the energy crisis partially eases and Russia retains some leverage. If Iran does not concede and the US escalates further, Gulf supply stays offline longer, the molecule crisis deepens, European energy diversification accelerates, and Russia’s position erodes further. Either outcome improves the conditions for a Ukraine deal. Vance did not go to Budapest to boost Orban’s election. He went to Budapest because it is the only capital in Europe where you can simultaneously manage the endgame of two wars using the same energy lever. The Iran war is the forcing function for the Ukraine peace. The molecule crisis is the mechanism. Budapest is the node. Watch what happens at 8 PM tonight. Then watch what happens in Kyiv next month. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanak…

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The next crypto crash might not start in crypto. It could be triggered by a silent liquidity crisis unfolding in Japan. Japan’s economy has been built for decades on extremely low interest rates. This means its financial system struggles when long-term rates rise too much. When 30-year bond yields move higher, borrowing becomes more expensive across the system. At the same time, existing bonds lose value, creating losses for banks and pension funds. These losses reduce confidence and make institutions more cautious with money. As a result, less money flows through the system, this is what we call “liquidity tightening.” Japan is important because it has long provided cheap money to the rest of the world. Investors often borrowed yen at low rates and invested in riskier assets globally. When Japanese yields rise, this strategy becomes less attractive or even risky. Investors start pulling money back, which drains liquidity from global markets. Crypto depends heavily on this global flow of easy money. When liquidity tightens, people reduce risk and sell volatile assets like crypto. This is why $BTC and especially altcoins often drop during these periods. Altcoins usually fall more because they are less stable and more speculative. A stronger Japanese yen can also reduce the amount of dollars circulating globally. Less dollar liquidity generally puts pressure on all risk assets. However, rising stress often forces central banks to step in. The Bank of Japan may intervene to stabilize markets and lower yields again. This can involve printing money or buying bonds to inject liquidity back into the system. When liquidity returns, risk assets tend to recover. This is why periods of stress can later turn into strong rallies. The key idea is simple: more liquidity pushes crypto up, less liquidity pushes it down. Japan is just one piece of the global system, but an important one. It doesn’t cause crashes on its own, but it can accelerate broader market moves. In short: rising Japanese yields = tightening liquidity = short-term pressure on crypto. But if central banks react, it can later become fuel for the next bull run.

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