"Rome seeks its own glory, wars against other peoples to subjugate them, revels in material existence, lives off the work of slave labor, allows many to die of poverty and starvation, and promotes entertaining circuses and gladiator spectacle."
To date, all of Trump's election rigging gimmicks have failed - the borrowed tax cut, the 1930s trade war, the recessionary interest rate collapse. The Draft-Dodger-In-Chief has only one more card to play to salvage 2020, and he knows it.
War got George W. Bush re-elected, even AFTER it was clear he lied about WMDs in Iraq. The GOP can always count on their useful Idiocracy to vote against their own interests. This will be their last blunder.
"Bin Laden wanted to lure the United States into Afghanistan, which was already being called the graveyard of empires. The usual object of terror is to draw one’s opponent into repressive blunders"
Wright, Lawrence. The Looming Tower (p. 272)
Speaking of carbon reduction - which of these two budgets has been systematically increased over the past decade by Banana Republicans, and which has been strip-mined to pay for tax cuts? All while useful idiots propagated the lie "we can't afford foodstamps".
The serial-failed NeoCons are out in force pounding the table for yet another massive military blunder. These people should have been jailed a long time ago. The blood of hundreds of thousands is on their hands.
"Wars to win elections"
America's big problem is that it's devoid of any knowledge of history. Something about turning the History Channel into a channel for Hot Rods and UFOs may have something to do with it. This article below goes back a few decades past the most recent events to recount America's sad and sordid history of undermining Iran. Unfortunately, literally NOTHING was learned from the last Banana Republican "Keynesian" blunders to stimulate the economy. Which is why an even bigger blunder is shaping up now. The article does an excellent job of explaining the standard policy of marginalizing recalcitrant nations until they have no choice but to fight back - the "strategy" currently being used against Russia, Venezuela, Iran, Cuba, and North Korea. One could argue China as well, under the auspice of the trade war, which is really a hegemonic battle for control in Asia.
America's other vassal states have fully capitulated and fulfill a useful role of propagating false narratives.
Once the recalcitrant is incited to attack, America can counter-attack while selling the phony moral high ground to a hyper-brainwashed audience of cannon fodder pumped up by Faux News, and educated on South Park. All of America's vassal states toe the line from Ottawa, Tokyo, London, and Brussels.
It's a formula. And the groundwork is complete.
Energy is always the last "reflation" sector to rally ahead of the FOMC meeting. So this gets that out of the way...
"Sixteen years ago, the George W. Bush administration manipulated intelligence to scare the public into backing an aggressive war against Iraq. The smoking gun mushroom clouds that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice warned against didn’t exist, but the invasion long desired by neoconservatives and other hawks proceeded. Liberated Iraqis rejected U.S. plans to create an American puppet state on the Euphrates and the aftermath turned into a humanitarian and geopolitical catastrophe which continues to roil the Middle East."
Thousands of dead Americans, tens of thousands of wounded and maimed U.S. personnel, hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqis, and millions of Iraqis displaced. There was the sectarian conflict, destruction of the historic Christian community, the creation of Al Qaeda in Iraq—which morphed into the far deadlier Islamic State—and the enhanced influence of Iran. The prime question was how could so many supposedly smart people be so stupid?"
The question isn't how so many proven stupid people could be so stupid, the question is why do we listen to these exact same people over and over again? They are war criminals.
I will say this right now, in the same vein as my previous post, this will be the last blunder.
And yes, it's 100% "priced in":
This record "rally" in oil is a Black Swan non-event:
Energy is always the last "reflation" sector to rally ahead of the FOMC meeting. So this gets that out of the way...
