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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 9h

Can the Chinese really now detect the US' stealth fighters? Here's the truth:
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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 9h

Hungarians look set to oust their tyrant? Here's what the numbers say:
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Will We See a Hungarian Spring?

New Polls Suggest that, once again, Hungarians might be leading Europe’s fight for freedom.

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 9h

The dreadful tradecraft failures of Hungary's spying in Brussels. Discover the great lessons in this:
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The Intelligence Playbook Hungary Screwed in Brussels

Patriotic pitches, clumsy cash, and a network that collapsed the minute someone said no.

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 9h

Kick your EV in the guts if you want what's best for it.
Here’s why: torqueandtheory.brianiselin.com/everything-y...

Everything You Know About EV Battery Life Is Wrong

New Data from Stanford shows real-world driving adds up to 195,000 miles before replacement — stop babying your throttle

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 9h

So much cause activism, so many NGOs, and and so much of it performative. Here's how that works:
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When Activism Turns into Theatre, Who Gets Helped?

A regimen to replace performative activism with rules, real costs, and measurable repair.

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 9h

(Gift link) Where to be both safe and happy if WW3 breaks out. Read free: not what you might have assumed:
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Best Places to Live If WW3 Starts Tomorrow

This survival-and-happiness index blending food, power, distance, and trust. When the world ends, where’s the Wi-Fi and water still good?

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 9h

At what point is an extended warranty worth laying out for? Find out
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Extended Warranty Maths: When the Premium Lose

Honda-level repair costs vs $1,000 plans — see where self-insurance wins big

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 1d

(Gift Link) Beijing cannot spend its GDP, because it is an Illusion. Find out for free what that means: strategicedge.brianiselin.com/the-gdp-mira...

The GDP Mirage Beijing Can’t Spend

Debt-funded activity flatters headlines while median wealth and confidence lag.

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 1d

Online consent used to have a reason. It is now dead. Why, and what next?
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The Great Privacy Heist: How Online Consent Became a Lie

Consent was meant to protect you. Cookie banners and consent fatigue flipped it on its head.

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 2d

(Gift Link) Ever wondered the optimal time to trade your car? Here's the answer, proudly brought to you by maths.
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Keep It or Trade It? Follow this 7.6 Year Rule

A $3,000 repair threshold and 150,000 miles decide your 2025 math. Keep or trade your 7-year-old car?

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 2d

(Gift Link) Hungarians seem ready to send Orban packing, perhaps. The numbers are clear, for now. But can Putin steal it anyway?
Here's what's going on: medium.com/the-civic-le...

Will We See a Hungarian Spring?

New Polls Suggest that, once again, Hungarians might be leading Europe’s fight for freedom.

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 2d

Wondering how Hungary screwed the pooch in Brussels? Spying on the EU with simply terrible tradecraft.
Read where they went badly wrong:
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The Intelligence Playbook Hungary Screwed in Brussels

Patriotic pitches, clumsy cash, and a network that collapsed the minute someone said no.

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 2d

(Gift Link) Read how through your insurance you are paying for accidents you have never had. They always get you. Read how that works:
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The ADAS Tax: Paying for Crashes You Didn’t Have

Sensor calibration, glass swaps, and radar alignments push insurance premiums past two grand. Insurance premiums climb as complex sensor…

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 2d

Hungarians might be about to give Orban's autocracy the boot! Oh, happy days!
Read more here: biselin67.substack.com/p/will-we-se...

Will We See a Hungarian Spring?

New Polls Suggest that, once again, Hungarians might be leading Europe’s fight for freedom.

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 2d

(Gift Link) People have stopped believing the news. Almost. But in the "truth desert", find out who are the top news outlets for trust.
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When Europe Stopped Believing the News

Inside the crisis reshaping democracy, trust, and the battle for reality itself. This tool will make you rethink everything you read

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 2d

A handful of teenage girls rattled the German Army in WW2. Read for free about the inspiring story of the Night Witches: strategicedge.brianiselin.com/night-witche...

Night Witches: Teenage Girl Flyers Who Rattled the 3rd Reich

A wooden biplane, two courageous teenage girls, a dead engine, instilling a fear that nobody had mentioned

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 2d

(Gift Link) Read for free about the time tontrade, or not, your car. Maths say there is a magic inflection point. torqueandtheory.brianiselin.com/keep-it-or-t...

Keep It or Trade It? Follow this 7.6 Year Rule

A $3,000 repair threshold and 150,000 miles decide your 2025 math. Keep or trade your 7-year-old car?

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 2d

Where do you need to be when WW3 breaks out? Here's the ultimate index: open.substack.com/pub/biselin6...

Best Places to Live if WW3 Happens: The WW3 Happiness Index

When the world ends, where’s the Wi-Fi and water still good?

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 5d

Making every US soldier a mercenary at law

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 5d

(Gift Link!) Japan really has China's number - and they're dialling it. medium.com/the-strategi...

Japanese Ship-Mounted Railgun: The Cheap Hypersonic Shield China Didn’t Plan For

A hypersonic, low-cost defence layer now lives at sea, built to shred drones, blind sensors, and save missiles for the kill

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 5d

(Gift Link!) Putin's got just 3 "moneymaker" shipping lanes for his shadow fleet. What the hell are we doing??
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Ghost Fleet 2.0: The Three “Moneymaker” Shipping Lanes Keeping Putin Paid

How the Danish Straits, the Aegean, and Kozmino’s spoofing cluster still funnel billions — plus the simple checks that could stop it

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 5d

(Gift Link!) When your submarine is not longer sub marine:

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The Day a Russian Sub Became a Surface Ship

Why a Kalibr-armed Kilo rode high through Europe’s chokepoints — and what it says about Moscow’s readiness.

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 5d

Has China made the US' "stealth" fighters and bombers irrelevant?

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Quantum Radar vs Stealth: China’s Mirage Meets Physics Hoax

Beijing claims a “photon catcher” can expose F-22s. In the real world, the range maths still ends in single digits

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 5d

(Gift Link) This is what Trump, Putin, and Orban are up to, summit or no summit, with the EU: 3 tyrants walk into a bar in Budapest

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Means, Motive, Opportunity: The Budapest Plot to Slice and Dice the EU

Three tyrants, one victim: the slow assassination of the European Union

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Brian Iselin (林百安) 🇦🇺/🇸🇪 (FEIPIO) @brianiselin.bsky.social · 5d

The UK sold off King Charles' dignity very cheaply. Here's what happened:

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The Red Carpet Trap: Diminish a Monarch for What?

Inside the UK’s Trump visit—and the hard path from flattery to Federal Register.

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