Lessons In Humility? by Robert Gore
Bracken makes a convincing case that it would take a ground-based invasion to stop Iran from bottling up the Persian gulf. The U.S. and Israel haven’t been able to drive two million Palestinians from Gaza; Iran has 80 million people. An invasion would be two fools’ errand, and the price of oil would skyrocket into triple-digits, perhaps $200 per barrel. That would be a boon for U.S. oil producers but a catastrophe for consumers. For countries and regions not self-sufficient in oil—Japan, South Korea, China, and the EU, it would be an unmitigated disaster and would spark a global depression
Russia is a self-sufficient oil exporter and could make up most of China’s shortfall. Iran is a central node of their Belt and Road Initiative, and that is the least of the countermeasures they would take against the U.S. and Israel. The world war three handwriting is on the wall.
To erase it, Trump will have to stiff his Jewish mega-donors and Netanyahu, who are counting on U.S. participation in their long-held dream of war with Iran. Trump has been revoltingly slavish, but the annals, Politicians Screwing Their Benefactors, has many volumes. Perhaps the screwing has begun. U.S. and Iranian delegations had “indirect,” limited talks recently that could be the beginning of negotiations. We can only hope.
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Russia is a self-sufficient oil exporter and could make up most of China’s shortfall. Iran is a central node of their Belt and Road Initiative, and that is the least of the countermeasures they would take against the U.S. and Israel. The world war three handwriting is on the wall.
To erase it, Trump will have to stiff his Jewish mega-donors and Netanyahu, who are counting on U.S. participation in their long-held dream of war with Iran. Trump has been revoltingly slavish, but the annals, Politicians Screwing Their Benefactors, has many volumes. Perhaps the screwing has begun. U.S. and Iranian delegations had “indirect,” limited talks recently that could be the beginning of negotiations. We can only hope.
This is an excerpt. For the complete article, please click the above link.
Benjamin Franklin
America as a Constitutional Republic ended in 1913 when Congress mis-used it’s “…Power to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, . . .” (Article I, Section 8)…” to impose legalized looting via the 16th Amendment i.e. Income tax
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America since has been a quasi-dictatorship. China and Russia, today, are nothing more than drabby full dictatorships the likes of which have dominated the landscapes of mankind’s governments.
The men (and women) in charge of the world seem to have the same four desires:
To accumulate large amounts of unearned wealth,
Self-aggrandizement on the world stage
A level of power over others denied to Caesar himself, and
A quest to be the first Emperor of the planet Earth
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Trump fits that picture to perfection.