@MentORPHEUS I have not heard any Trump fans lay out this scenario. And what you suggest isn't happening in the dollar and yuan markets. Quite the opposite in fact. When assessing events like these, you have to separate emotions and what you think should happen from the process. This is hardly Trump fanboy stuff.
As a result of U.S. actions in Venezuela and Iran, the U.S. is now a sort of energy monopolist.
In the fantasy world of Donald Trump and his fans, maybe. Current US/Israeli aggression, have already set in motion the end of the Petrodollar, and will precipitate the full emergence of the Petroyuan as the world's dominant oil transaction settlement currency.
Trump/Netanyahu's stupid war, has already put in motion a historical crash of the dollar. It's dead, but most Americans don't know this yet.
As a result of U.S. actions in Venezuela and Iran, the U.S. is now a sort of energy monopolist. Almost anyone who wants oil has to buy from the U.S. or get it through shipping channels controlled by the U.S. Oil exports have thus increased by something like 1 million barrels per day and are likely to rise quickly. I don't see lower exports coming anytime soon; this is going to be permanent to some extent.
Iran is majorly screwed. It's about to run out of storage capacity. IRGC leaders are transferring assets and making exile plans. And for practical purposes, for the foreseeable future, the U.S. will control Iran's oil, like it does Venezuela's, as well as control shipping in that area. That results in China and Europe (and others) facing a U.S. that has much more leverage than before.
If all of this smacks of piracy or mafia-like tactics, I won't argue with you. But that's reality; the media is getting the whole Iran thing very wrong. It will be interesting to see who cozies up to Russia.
Read More@Typo-MAGAshiv That's what I think too. I wasn't all that familiar with him before the shooting, but young people knew about him.
@Typo-MAGAshiv I don't think they are, and don't think there was any conspiracy from what I've seen. I'm just saying that the prevailing view of Israel being behind it doesn't make a lot of sense to me, and that the GOP side of the uniparty has more of an interest in low turnout than Israel would. They spend their money on keeping people like Cornyn and Murkowski afloat, and it's better for them to be in the minority with Trump as president.
Israel's at no risk of its relatively modest funding being slashed no matter who is in charge. It's been known to back rabid anti-semites when it sees some strategic objective. Kirk wasn't on the radar of its lobbyists.
@MentORPHEUS We'll see what comes out at the trial. Israel's funding isn't all that large and wouldn't be affected by Kirk. A lot of anti-Israel dems are posturing and would keep the money flowing if push came to shove. That's why neither side will even attempt to do a budget. The GOP would have to explain why they are funding NGOs that start riots and want to destroy Western civilization, and Dems would have to explain why they are funding Israel.
@Typo-MAGAshiv McConnell and crew would rather be the minority party since the president is more populist. They've done nothing to help further his agenda. The GOP isn't making much effort to win the midterms, just like 2018. They sure wouldn't back Kirk's get out the vote efforts. Just look at Virginia the other day. I don't think there was any grand conspiracy, but if there were, the uniparty GOP people would favor it.
Israel wouldn't care about Charlie Kirk; young people on the right already don't like Israel.
This is precisely WHY TPUSA was so important to Israel, and why numerous big name/deep pocketed Zionist figures pumped literally 10s of millions of dollars into Charlie's operation. Support for Israel has been plummeting in the under 50 demographic, and has reached unprecedented negativity in the Under 25 Right Leaning cohort in just the past year. Israel literally depends on continued massive subsidies by US Taxpayers, making this trend an imminent existential threat to the nation.
Charlie was openly telling people he was THROUGH with the cause of Israel and Zionism in the months before his assassination.
the GOP side of the uniparty
Also massive recipients of Zio "donations", so not completely mutually exclusive.
I can understand steering away from what you consider "conspiracy theories." But, 90 seconds of searching and only reading from Mainstream sources, will show the Zionist financial titans with tentacles tightly enveloping TPUSA through its entire existence, and at a mind boggling budgetary scale.
Read More@MentORPHEUS I haven't been persuaded by the conspiracy stuff. Israel wouldn't care about Charlie Kirk; young people on the right already don't like Israel. If anyone would want to take him out, it'd be the GOP side of the uniparty, as he helped get young people out to vote. We'll see what happens at the trial. If the conspiracy stuff is true, presumably his defense team will offer evidence of it.
@Bozza Some courts here don't allow cameras. Federal courts don't, so there are artists like there are in your country. But some crazy trials in state courts are shown on tv.
