We’re in the graduation season these days, and Trump and Veep Vance have been turning up at the military academies to make programmatic speeches about the role of the American military.
now it may be that the Iran-China rail line runs inland to skirt the vast mountain range that is the Himalayas, but is it also a lucky coincidence that the rail is out of range of any "Western" missiles" from any launch position?
Now, this is speculation, but it would appear to be easy for Russia to spike a spur from the trans Siberia rail down to meet it.
Thank you for your thought-provoking and most-informative post, Mark.
As I read this--"The rank hypocrisy of Trump saying that he doesn’t like killing people when he’s conducting a genocide in Gaza that deliberately targets civilians—we’re providing vast amounts of munitions as well as equally vast amounts of intel gathered with our drones and other aircraft, for use by the Israelis."--I said to myself that Trump is providing US intel and munitions to Ukraine that deliberately targets Russian civilians. So the man who announces that he doesn't like killing people facilitates the killing of people in TWO countries. Sickening! How Trump retains cheerleaders here in the US while he is complicit in killing astounds me.
Are the cheerleaders ignorant?
And...I enjoyed learning about the new Iran-China commercial railway! Good for all countries involved. Time and money saved, plus there is potential for growth. Perhaps passenger rail service may be in their future, via lightning-fast trains.
Fine summary, Mark. We have to admit at this point that Trump has gone to the bad. MAGA, we now know, means Make Aggression Great Again - against anyone who dares challenge US (and Western) hegemony. As Will Schryver, whom you referenced a while back, so pithily points, the US has no chance whatsoever in a fight against any of its three main rivals individually let alone collectively. Now we get to see in real time which of the options the dying Empire on the Potomac goes for: all-in war, or a humiliating climb down.
To me one of the key tells was when Trump threatened war on anyone who tried to supplant King Dollar and its hegemonic role.
Shit! Your comment here reminded me that I intended to include this other comment of yours in the post, because it fit right in with what I had planned:
"There are revolutions and revolutions. What was REALLY revolutionary in this merry month of May was that for the first time in history daily transactions via SWIFT were out paced by daily transactions via CIPS, the Chinese equivalent. Now that's a revolution - and it was reported precisely nowhere in the MSM."
Seems to be a perfect example of what Barbara Tuchman characterized as “The March of Folly”, in her book of the same name: people in power who persist in pursuing a course of action that is certain to end in disaster in spite of common sense screaming STOP!
Worst case scenario and the neocons succeed in drawing us into a hot war with Russia, China or Iran, how long before a hypersonic missle sends all of our carriers to the bottom of the ocean? Then what, all out war with global destruction the only possible outcome? So all of the jingoistic threats end up producing global warming of a totally different kind that won’t have anything to do with greenhouse gases!
Brings a whole new dimension to Pyrrhic victory. Just don’t see how this ends well for us or anyone else in the world.
And now we have a new nutter on the stage: Merz. I think it was one of Judge Nap's guests who called him the most dangerous chancellor since the guy with the funny moustache.
now it may be that the Iran-China rail line runs inland to skirt the vast mountain range that is the Himalayas, but is it also a lucky coincidence that the rail is out of range of any "Western" missiles" from any launch position?
Now, this is speculation, but it would appear to be easy for Russia to spike a spur from the trans Siberia rail down to meet it.
Thank you for your thought-provoking and most-informative post, Mark.
As I read this--"The rank hypocrisy of Trump saying that he doesn’t like killing people when he’s conducting a genocide in Gaza that deliberately targets civilians—we’re providing vast amounts of munitions as well as equally vast amounts of intel gathered with our drones and other aircraft, for use by the Israelis."--I said to myself that Trump is providing US intel and munitions to Ukraine that deliberately targets Russian civilians. So the man who announces that he doesn't like killing people facilitates the killing of people in TWO countries. Sickening! How Trump retains cheerleaders here in the US while he is complicit in killing astounds me.
Are the cheerleaders ignorant?
And...I enjoyed learning about the new Iran-China commercial railway! Good for all countries involved. Time and money saved, plus there is potential for growth. Perhaps passenger rail service may be in their future, via lightning-fast trains.
Fine summary, Mark. We have to admit at this point that Trump has gone to the bad. MAGA, we now know, means Make Aggression Great Again - against anyone who dares challenge US (and Western) hegemony. As Will Schryver, whom you referenced a while back, so pithily points, the US has no chance whatsoever in a fight against any of its three main rivals individually let alone collectively. Now we get to see in real time which of the options the dying Empire on the Potomac goes for: all-in war, or a humiliating climb down.
and, either way, economic meltdown awaits us…
The big 3 are out, but it looks like MAGA might be angling to smack around South Africa?
They do form the last letter of BRICS after all.
It is beyond disappointing. I really thought things were going to change and America restored
Now we are closer to the brink than ever before.
Talk about throwing an absolute golden opportunity away.
To me one of the key tells was when Trump threatened war on anyone who tried to supplant King Dollar and its hegemonic role.
Shit! Your comment here reminded me that I intended to include this other comment of yours in the post, because it fit right in with what I had planned:
"There are revolutions and revolutions. What was REALLY revolutionary in this merry month of May was that for the first time in history daily transactions via SWIFT were out paced by daily transactions via CIPS, the Chinese equivalent. Now that's a revolution - and it was reported precisely nowhere in the MSM."
Seems to be a perfect example of what Barbara Tuchman characterized as “The March of Folly”, in her book of the same name: people in power who persist in pursuing a course of action that is certain to end in disaster in spite of common sense screaming STOP!
Worst case scenario and the neocons succeed in drawing us into a hot war with Russia, China or Iran, how long before a hypersonic missle sends all of our carriers to the bottom of the ocean? Then what, all out war with global destruction the only possible outcome? So all of the jingoistic threats end up producing global warming of a totally different kind that won’t have anything to do with greenhouse gases!
Brings a whole new dimension to Pyrrhic victory. Just don’t see how this ends well for us or anyone else in the world.
And now we have a new nutter on the stage: Merz. I think it was one of Judge Nap's guests who called him the most dangerous chancellor since the guy with the funny moustache.