This is not at all wrong:
I care much more about domestic policy, so the choice is clear to me. And it’s not that the Dems are good on foreign policy. They suck on it but they suck worse on domestic issues, so it’s not that noticeable how badly they are screwing up overseas. With Republicans, at least you don’t get a total horror show at home.
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I think people should pay more attention to foreign policy because it and domestic one are connected. A disastrous foreign policy will bite us in the behind sooner rather than later. Prime example- the war with Iran. Trump should be thankful to Zelensky for not giving him the middle finger and instead offering to help.
I’m curious about your opinion on Trump’s trip to China.
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I’m honestly not seeing anything disastrous in the war with Iran. SNP500 is in the stratosphere. China and India are suffering. Our energy dominance is solidifying. Gas prices are back to Biden level but other than that, where’s a single disastrous consequence?
As for Ukraine, Trump has been nothing short of amazing for Ukraine. He lifted the US LNG export ban that Ukraine begged Biden to do for years. He lifted the ban on striking into Russia’s territory. Daily Ukraine now blows up a Russian energy facility. Recently, Ukraine attacked Grozny. If Ukraine could have done all this in 2023, there would no longer be a war.
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You live in a parallel universe.
The war with Iran is a complete and utter failure for the US. Nobody cares about SNP500 (my 401k and IRA accounts have been on a wild ride since the beginning of the war). Most people do not feel the effects of the market’s fluctuations.
Gas prices to Biden level? Again, what country do you live in? I was getting gas today and it’s $5.29 where I live. We’ve never had gas prices so high, even at the height of Covid.
Trump’s been acting like a bull in a china shop, with his idiotic posts on social media that definitely haven’t been helping with ending this ill-advised war. He alienated all America’s long term allies and even any potential ones with his daily tantrums. I don’t see anything good coming out of it except the US once again showed it’s incapable of winning any war in the last 80 years on it’s own, and from a supposedly much weaker adversary.
Trump’s been nothing but disastrous for Ukraine. The moment he came into the office, he began his attack in Ukraine and Zelensky. Starting with the infamous meeting in the Oval Office to today, Trump emboldened russia to not only continue the war but to become more destructive with their attacks on civilian infrastructure. His disgusting crawling in front of putin, involving Witkoff and Kushner in the sham “negotiations”, cutting off help, easing sanctions, doing backroom business deals with Dmitriev. All this just shows that he’s absolutely useless at best and detrimental at worst. Nobody in their right mind, and especially in Ukraine, thinks that Trump’s been good for Ukraine.
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I see you’ve been reading Simplicius 😀
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I haven’t but I will start now that the semester is finally over.
This administration is accomplishing amazing things. Yes, a lot remains to be done. Perfection is not within reach. But there’s so much great stuff going on.
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Haha, I don’t recommend Simplicius. I subscribe to keep track of the official Russian propaganda. The commenter above seems to be consuming him full-strength without activating a gag reflex. Curious!
ethyl
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Sorry, my brain glitched. I know there’s somebody I should be reading but I’ve been snowed under over here.
I don’t know how anybody can look at everything and conclude that Russia is doing better and 🇺🇦 is doing worse than with Biden. Things got very hairy in January but then Elon Musk came through like gangbusters and it’s been going really well since then.
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Who is the really good blogger I should be reading? Can anybody jog my memory?
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For capsule important-news-item brief purposes, I love Jeff Childers over at coffee&covid.
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Yes! That’s the one I’ve been trying to remember!! Thank you, I’ve been going crazy grasping for the name in the depths of my memory.
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I don’t use social media and I don’t know who Simplicius is.
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He’s got a Substack. You should check him out. You might like him.
ethyl
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This is, yet again, the contrast between words and actions. I see daily footage of Russia’s energy infrastructure being destroyed. A full 1/3 of it is compromised or completely gone. Russia’s two major allies are either gone or defeated. Russia is being destroyed in Africa. Once Cuba falls, that’s the last serious ally. These are all actions, not words.
But yes, Biden said all the right words while kissing the ass of every Russian ally, banning LSG exports, and preventing Ukraine from striking into Russia’s territory. Trump reversed all that but he said some hurty words. Surely, that is worth a lot more. To some people.
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I’m still expecting the list of the disastrous consequences of the Iran war. Other than somewhat higher gas prices, what else?
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“Other than somewhat higher gas prices, what else?”
IIRC a lot more than oil goes through hormuz and with fertilizers not making it out… there could be food issues in several parts of the world…
FYI only I have no idea when, where or how much this might be an issue….
https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/strait-of-hormuz-crisis–fertilizer-scarcity-will-affect-next-harvests-and-food-supplies–fao-warns/en
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Oh, I suspect it matters, my uncles in Saskatchewan are seriously thinking about using less fertilizer this Spring. This is no longer about some family homesteading, this is about computerized farming multiple square miles. It will be the same in the States, production will deline, so food costs will increase. And in Asia and Africa?
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Actually my uncles’ spreads are now farmed by two university educated cousins. The family are now tumbleweeds, scattered over four provinces, two territories, three states, over three countries mostly talking by phone and video chat ;-D
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From a UK perspective it is hurting, but that is mostly self-inflicted.
Strangely enough, if you increase costs of employment, employment falls! And the current government have no-one who has ever had to make payroll and hence the lawyers totally fail to understand how much the admin burden hurts.
And if we had allowed North Sea oil to continue to be extracted, total UK consumption would be slightly higher but UK costs would be much lower, and we could have invested the surplus into following the carbon tax approach from the Stern Review (why not use Nobel Prize winning economics to solve the “biggest emergency of our age”?)
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