Update:
This is not true. The 2 AM post should have been a clue. Matt Bracken reposted so it showed on my X feed.
State collapse is inevitable when a society’s leaders are insulated from the negative consequences of their bad decisions.
Mike Shelby
Update:
This is not true. The 2 AM post should have been a clue. Matt Bracken reposted so it showed on my X feed.
6 responses to “Does this Sound Rational?”
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This is fake news, Trump never posted this on his Truth account.
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I do not know. I do not use social media. If Trump did post this he is crying like a baby. He blasted the EU and NATO for years. Now he rants, raves, and threatens them. Par for the course.
What is sad is that this could just as easily been TRUE. That is where we are at. His whining to NATO truly wasn’t much different. W did basically the same thing when nobody wanted to send their forces to due in Afghanistan or Iraq for Israel either.
What is sad is that it is so believable based on his real truth social posts.
This is just too unbelievable.
We don’t need that oil, Europe does. Withdraw and let them fix the problem.
The world interdependency chain will not allow for that. Our oil is shared for a multitude of reasons with everyone else we get along with. Those nations provide a lot of trade in return that Americans take for granted. All that fresh food in the supermarket was flown and trucked in from the southern hemisphere. We don’t build anything here anymore thanks to our sellout elites. The factories and the means to get the products here all require oil. I could go on for a week about all the ways this is going to cripple the United States aside from just high gas prices and there are probably other downstream affects no one has even considered yet.
The Petro Dollar is the economic basis for international trade and the foundation of the American Empire as it currently exists. If all of our trading partners are facing ruin and starvation, they will dump us and the Dollar in a minute and buy oil and safe passage from Iran to save themselves. No Petro Dollar, no reserve currency, Everyone dumps US Treasury Debt Notes = No products, no business, no jobs, no income, the dollars you already own are absolutely useless. and your standard of living returns to the 1930’s.
We could not lose a single man or machine in this war and we will still lose and lose badly if that straight is not opened up, OR if the means of production in the Gulf is destroyed on both sides. This war is going to rank up there with the stupidest geopolitical mistakes in all history. WW1 wiped out the German, Ottoman, Russian, and Austro-Hungarian Empires and nearly took down the British and French as well. We will be lucky to get out of this more or less intact as a humbled, reduced, and broke regional power.