[ExI] I hate to say it but, I agree with Trump

[spike at rainier66.com]

From: John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> 



>So why did we allow the danger to continue? 

 

>…Because although it was obvious to anybody who looked at a map, to get rid of that choke point we'd have to alter the physical geography of the entire Middle East…

 

Nonsense.  Read on please.

 

> Ja, it only sunk their navy. 

 

>…A navy that was useless and ridiculous and never could've played a part in a modern war….

 

It was valuable to world peace, in that it demonstrated that a surface navy is vulnerable to modern weapons.  This demonstration may have been what convinced Xi to avoid invasion of Taiwan.

 

 > It isn’t that hard to create tunnels in which oil pipes can be placed safely out of reach of air attack.

 

>…It isn't hard to build a 750 mile long pipeline that is 100 feet underground?!

 

 

It wouldn’t need to be that long.  John use some imagination.  Oil field, multiple rigs, multiple pipes, going various directions to some (possibly short) distance away to multiple sites.  A few miles of pipe would suffice, where the oil can be pumped into trucks and carried over land, across Saudi Arabi to the Med.  This would offer redundancy in case of attack.  I do not think Iran wants to start trouble with powerful neighbor by blasting oil trucks on Saudi Arabian roads.  

 

 

>…Who is going to pay for that?

 

Those countries which are selling oil.  While they are doing that, Venezuela, the USA and Canada build out oil infrastructure.  Shorter supply lines means lower cost.  Everybody wins, almost.  The countries on the west side of the Persian Gulf lose, but they have the option of bombing Tehran into the seventh century.  Iran can’t take them all on simultaneously.  

 

Having theocratic Iran as a neighbor is part of the cost of doing business in the Middle East.

 

Notice that with the strait mostly closed, the price of crude oil is lower than it was in May 2022, when the strait was open.  The Middle East has a lot of oil, but it doesn’t have all the oil in the world.  We can leave that closed while we work with Venezuela.

 

 

>I do invite you to look thru my comments in the ExI archives, and note that I do not comment on government policy. 

 

>…When a Democrat is president, government policy over immigration needs to change…

 

Policy on illegal immigration doesn’t need to change.  It only needs to be enforced.  This is always true, regardless of what party controls what seat of power.

 

>…  When a Democrat is president, government policy over vaccination needs to change…

 

Why does the government have a policy on vaccination?  There’s nothing in the constitution which allows that.

 

>… When a Democrat is president, government policy over deficit spending needs to change…

 

Regardless of who is president, government policy on deficit spending has been appalling.  The US government has no intention of stopping deficit spending until there is a general recognition that it cannot repay its debt.  I realized it some time ago, but people are still loaning money to the US government.  I cannot imagine why.

 

> I do however comment early and often on government corruption,

 

>….Only when a Democrat is president. I remember the huge fuss you raised when Hunter Biden got a job at a hedge fund….

 

No John, it wasn’t Hunter Biden.  He wasn’t in government.  I (and plenty of others) raised a huge fuss over a government official’s comment “…if the prosecutor’s not fired, you’re not getting the money…”  You do remember that, ja?  If one searches carefully, one might find a quid pro quo hiding in that comment somewhere.  This is corruption.

 

>… compared with the gargantuan ASTRONOMICAL amount of corruption of the Trump administration….

 

By all means, any corruption should be prosecuted.  No disagreement there.

 

>…#1) King Donald controls USA's cryptocurrency policy…  John K Clark

 

Indeed?  A president makes law now?  When was the constitution overthrown please?  

 

Congress make law.  Here’s the policy regarding cryptocurrency regulation:  

 

https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R48963/R48963.2.pdf

 

Presidents don’t make law.  They can refuse to sign a law congress made, but that didn’t happen as far as I know.  Do you know otherwise John?  Do tell please.

 

spike

 

 

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