US Defence Dollars at Work

I graduated with a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and/or Mathematics) degree, but no job offers. Science, Technology, and Maths are broad with no obvious applications. Engineering is very specific, so only one or two engineering fields are in great demand in any given year, then engineering students flock to those fields and those fields become overcrowded with job seekers and largely devoid of job openings, while new fields open up with huge demand and no graduates. So almost all of us STEM graduates were not seeing the vast array of jobs we'd been promised when we chose our majors.

But then I got an offer: the US government was offering defence companies $20,000 in cold, hard cash for every STEM graduate they hired, so they hired me.

My first day on the job, I was sent to Orientation with a Vice President. He told me, 'We don't need any T or E, only S and M, Sales and Marketing. Your quota is $250,000. If you don't bring in at least $250,000 in a year, you'll be fired. Now where are you going to go to get a contract for at least $250,000???'

I said I didn't know, did he have some numbers I could cold call? He handed me a thick book.

'You want me to start cold calling these numbers?' I asked.

'NO!' he thundered. 'These are numbers of customers who are already claimed by one of our salesmen, and we do not allow any of our salesmen to poach another of our salesmen's customers.'

(This was a long time ago, now he'd have to say 'salespersons' or 'salesmen and saleswomen', but back then, we had a few saleswomen, but very few, and you don't correct a vice-president over his gender usage.)

'Then whom do you want me to call?' I asked.

'You can call any number that is not in this book,' he answered, then added, 'I can see you're not a salesman, so I suggest you resign immediately. All the time you stay here, you'll just be wasting your time and ours. This interview is over.'

So I left his office. But I had read my contract, and if I quit, I had to repay the US government the $20,000. Or else. I wasn't sure if I could go to jail if I couldn't pay, or just hand over whatever money I got from a burger-flipping job, or what, so I did not resign, and they had me dig holes and fill them up, hoping I'd quit, but I didn't quit, I stayed for a year, then they fired me.

During that year, I met Chuck, and I asked, 'So how, exactly, so you get contracts?'

Chuck told me, 'My best friend in high school got a job as a government contracting officer, and he always gives me $100,000 a year, and that's my quota. I work just two months. I have to help my friend write the Request for Proposals, then he helps me write the proposal, then he recommends me for having the best proposal and coaches me on how to defend my proposal. Then I have to defend the proposal, and the committee has always accepted his recommendation, since he accepts their recommendations to give their contracts to their friends. That takes one month.

'Then, 10 months later, he coaches me on how to write the final report, and I have to present the final report saying we accomplished far more than we promised in the proposal, far more than what was required by the contract, and I get my $100,000 payment made out to the company. That takes the second month. My boss and his boss keep telling me, "Look, you only work two months a year and earn $30,000. If you worked 12 months, you'd earn $250,000 a year, and you and the company would be much better off." '

I looked up the company salary and bonus policy myself. Basically, the company policy was that, if you bring in $100,000, your salary and bonus come to $30,000, but if you bring in $600,000, your salary and bonus go way up, so you get $250,000. My friend continued:

'But I know I only have one friend who's a contracting officer, so if I worked my tail off for 12 months, I'd still earn just $30,000. So why would I waste my time working, when I won't accomplish any more or earn any more than I do barely coming into the office for ten months?'

We had card punch operators back then, and programmers. Officially, the US government did not want salesmen, they wanted STEM graduates doing advanced weapons research, coming up with formulae for new, advanced systems, but really, they just went to lunches and dinners with their contracting officer friends and talked and talked and got contracts, so the US government said they wanted STEM researchers, but the system only rewarded good salespersons.

For a real line of code that was part of a program that solved difficult Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematical problems, the total cost of research, development, programing, and punching the card really was at least $100, and that's what the company charged the government (a $100,000 contract meant 1,000 punch cards).

In reality, the programmer's only job was to write the code that would print out all the numbered lines of code, and, at the presentation of the Final Report, the salesman projected page after page of the print outs of the punched cards, showing there were 10 cards for every $1,000 the contract was worth (million dollar contracts had to have 10,000 lines of code, none of which would compile or run, except the few lines that got the computer to print out the lines punched in the cards, and no one knew enough about programming to know anything was wrong, or if they did, they had every incentive to say, 'I can see that this is brilliant science and coding that will lead to a new, very advanced weapon system.'

Our company did what was called 'basic research,' the underlying scientific research that would later be the basis for the development of actual weapons systems.

I saw the laser: they packed the target with explosives and a radio-controlled detonation system. As the target flew by, some distance away and fairly high up, they shot the laser at the target, someone pressed the button on the detonator, and the target exploded, 'totally destroyed by the advanced laser weapon.'

Ditto the advanced particle beam weapon system.

So the US will have a public defence budget of $1.5 trillion this next fiscal year, and weapons systems less capable than the Iranian weapons systems, let alone the Russian or Chinese weapons systems. And that $1.5 trillion is only the public part, the Classified TS/SCI/NOFORN//BBR part of the Defence Budget is almost certainly much, much larger (but we'll never know how much it is or how it is used).

And because of the huge budget overruns and deficits, gold has gone from $2,000 an ounce a few years ago to almost $6,000 an ounce this year, and this is likely to continue as the real value of the US$ keeps dropping and dropping, thanks to the US government wasting all the money needed for real research and development on fake weapons research.

Scott Ritter and Jeffrey Sachs differ on a possible Iranian War

I watched Scott Ritter, a former active member of the US military (not sure about his current status), who appeared on the Judge Napolitano podcast, and he says there will be no war on Iran: the US military commanders, the generals and admirals, know that Iran has weapons that can destroy:

1) All of the Great Armada(s) the US are sending to threaten Iran in the hope that Iran will surrender and disarm;

2) All of the US military bases within 1,000 miles of Iran;

3) All the oil producing areas in the countries hosting those US bases;

4) Most of Israel;

and Iran can close the Strait of Hormuz, which, added to the destruction of oil producing facilities, will block the world from about 25% of all the traded oil that travels by ship from producer to market and raise the price of a barrel of oil to at least $700.

So there is no way they will allow any US attack on Iran.

I then watched Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, who thinks Trump is an idiot who might start the war without thinking, and who would definitely start the war if ordered to do so by his Zionist owners.

There seems to be a disconnect here, but they were on separately, and Prof Sachs, who came on second, did not respond to Ritter's assurance that a US or Israeli war on Iran is impossible, but figures one is almost certain to happen, with disastrous results, given Trump's idiocy (Sachs does not like Trump).

There were more people on Judge Napolitano, and the majority figure any US attack on Iran will result in the destruction of all US military assets within 1,000 miles of Iran and also most of Israel, but they also figure Israel imagine that the US is so strong that the US military can totally destroy Iran before Iran can hit Israel with any weapons that can penetrate the Iron Dome (before, Israel was OK for about 9 days, then the Iron Dome ran out of ammunition and Israel was vulnerable to Iranian attacks, so the US, Israel, and Iran agreed to a way to end the war with a token US attack on Iranian nuclear facilities that did little damage, followed by a token Iranian attack on the US base in Qatar that did even less damage, so Israel, Iran, and the US agreed that they had reached a place where the US, Israel, and Iran could declare peace).

 Obviously, the US desperately want a repeat of the 12-Day war, with the US doing a symbolic attack on Iran followed by a symbolic Iranian retaliation, neither of which do any real damage.

But the Iranians don't want regular repeats of the 12-Day war, so they say that, if one American or Israeli bomb hits Iran, they will destroy all US and Israeli assets.

Current Best Guess: no idea, given the idiocy of Israel and the US: Israel want the US to carpet bomb Iran with a large enough fleet of bombers and missiles to totally destroy all Iranian defences, only this is probably not possible. Ritter says that the US military all know this, and say the US must never attack Iran, or all US military assets and just about all of Israel will be destroyed. Trump was a wild card when he first took office, he was ordered to send the US military into Syria, but instead he ordered all US troops out of Syria. The men in dark suits and dark glasses had a little talk with Trump, and then Trump ordered the US troops into Syria.

So Trump does what he is told, he is not really responsible for any of the idiotic and contradictory orders he keeps giving, he says whatever he is ordered to say, no matter how idiotic it is (of course, we don't know if Trump knows how idiotic these orders are or not).

But the people who really run the US of A have told Trump he'd better read the Teleprompter verbatim, or he'll be the next JFK.

And who knows what those people, who all have ID-10-T identification cards, will order Trump to do next. 

 

 

The Coming War Against Iran?????

Netanyahu has ordered the US to destroy Iran, so Trump sent an Armada a couple of weeks ago, and now says he's sending another Armada, and Iran had better be very worried, they must meet all US/Israeli demands or be totally destroyed.

Those demands are: 1) no nuclear weapons!

This is a reasonable demand, since the current Ayatollah says that Islam prohibits nuclear weapons, so Iran will never build one. Of course, Pakistan have nuclear weapons, but most Pakistanis are from a different sect of Islam than the Iranian Ayatollah and don't see having nuclear weapons as haram, but rather as a requirement since India have nuclear weapons they could use against a Pakistan that did not also have nuclear weapons.

2) no ballistic missiles! 

Iranian ballistic missiles, according to Israel, were all except one stopped by Israel's Iron Dome, and that one killed 24 Israelis, which is genocide under International Law, which defines genocide as 

Killing all or part of a recognised religious-ethnic group 

so killing 24 Israelis is genocide under the official definition, while Israel killing all the Palestinians or all the Arabs would not be genocide under international law, but self-defence against terrorists.

So all Iranian ballistic missiles must be banned to prevent another genocide by the evil Iranians.

3) no support for any anti-Israeli group!

Clearly, we must keep all the Zionists safe, since doing anything else is facilitating genocide, and the Iranians keep supporting the genocidal groups Hamas (which include all Palestinians), Hezbollah, and Ansarallah. 

So far, Iran has agreed to 1) and rejected 2) and 3), so such a rejection of a simple, essential Israeli Zionist demand means Iran must be destroyed.

Sadly, the only way that appears available to totally destroy Iran without risking major damage to Israel is to carpet nuke Iran. Israel has the nukes, but all those nukes have been officially TS/SCI/NOFORN/BBR, so Israel kind of, sort of, agrees that they have them while saying all such talk is strictly prohibited, and we must abide by whatever the Israeli Zionists demand, so we must never talk about Israeli nukes, but they have enough to totally destroy Iran, leaving Iran unable to ever threaten Israel again. Of course, that leaves Iranian oil too radioactive to use, so what will be left of Iran will have no obvious economic benefit to anyone, and all that oil that legally belongs to BP will be lost for the next 1,000 years or so.

A great solution does not seem available, but the total destruction of Iran by Zionist nukes seems like a good start to keeping Israel safe from attack by goyim, so I guess that's our only option. 

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One knows that we can rely on the always accurate US/UK/EU media, who get all their information from the CIA/MI6/Mossad and EU intelligence agencies who assure us that an attack on Iran poses no threat to the US military since Iran are very weak militarily, and their military were massively damaged in the 12-Day War where the US obliterated all their offensive capabilities, so there is no danger they could sink any US ships, shoot down any US planes, destroy any US military bases, or succeed in getting even a single drone past Israel's IranIron Dome.

In fact, Iran are even weaker than Venezuela, and the US military, by far the strongest military in the world, if not the galaxy, were easily able to disable all the Venezuelan defenders with a new weapon that left them all paralysed and lying on the floor, unable to shoot at the Americans as they made the legal arrest of the narco-terrorist Maduro.

That same weapon will leave all the Iranian defenders helpless as the US arrests or kills all the Ayatollahs, arrests or kills all the Iranian defenders, and puts the Shah back in as total ruler (with a force trained and armed by the US to support and protect him and enforce all his edicts, plus Mossad will have a massive force in Iran to make sure the new Shah never suffers the same fate as the old Shah unless he fails to do what Israel orders him to do).

Then Iran will, as it did in 1953, return all the Iranian oil to the rightful owner, BP, eliminate all defensive systems, in fact the entire current Iranian military, who were guilty of firing missiles at Israel, and any other Iranians who violate US or Zionist law will be gaoled for Life without Parole, and Iran will return to being a great friend of Israel, a strong supporter of Zionism, and a source of labour for BP to extract and take all the Iranian oil, all of which legally belongs to BP under US/UK law.

All should be for the best, in this, the best of all possible worlds. 

(And we all hope that nothing goes wrong with this excellent resolution of the Iranian problem.) 

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I must note that not all accept the obvious fact that the US military, the Greatest in the World, were easily able to arrest Maduro without the loss of a single US soldier, thanks to a new weapon. They say it was a very old weapon, the Almighty US$ that paid off the defenders (except the Cubans, who were most of Maduro's defenders who were not paid off by the US, and who were all killed).

But I think most know that Venezuelans speak Spanish, not English, and so could not understand the Americans demanding that they surrender, so the US had to use their advanced new anti-personnel weapon to totally disable all of Maduro's defenders and then arrest Maduro.

And now the US can and will do the same to Iran, and then probably  Russia, and finally the PRC.

Russia will be broken up into many small, demilitarised states, and the PRC will be returned to their proper state, a nation of farmers without any electricity or petrol, doing all the farming manually. (The US will take over all the PRC rare earth facilities and move them somewhere else under better US control, maybe Mexico or Canada, or maybe Greenland.

Neither state can possibly stand up to the US military, with new weapons that can disable all defenders and allow the US to destroy all military capabilities.

The US military and all the US/UK/EU mainstream media assure us this version is the TRVE one, so we must all believe it, not the Iranian/PRC/Russian propaganda channels that abound on social media that say the Iranians (with advanced Russian and PRC weapons) are more than a match for the US military (but not the Israeli military with their arsenal of nukes).

And we must ignore the fact that Trump keeps talking about the Great Armada, when the last Great Armada didn't do all that well against the English. 

Intersting times???

Right now, the US/UK/EU mainstream media assure us that Iran and Russia are very weak, on the verge of collapse, and both could easily be tipped into Democracy (with all their oil returned to the rightful owners, Western oiligarchs) if only the West would step up to the plate and hit the two easy pitches out of the park. Maybe the US are needed, maybe the UK and EU could do the job alone, at least in the Ukraine, while Iran will be a very easy task for the US to return the Shah just as they did in 1953, after the evil Mossadegh stole British oil in 1951, while the UK found that they were no longer able to accomplish the return of their own oil, after suffering massive losses in two World Wars (even if they were on the winning side both tines), so they got the US to step in and recover their oil, in exchange for a 50% share. And the US should be able to repeat the victory of 1953 much more easily than back then, since the 2026 US military is far more advanced than the US military of 1953.

So the UK and EU are preparing to overwhelm the evil Russians without (much) American help in just a few years, and everyone expects the US to recover all the stolen Iranian oil with the same ease that they recovered all the stolen Venezuelan oil: The US military is the most advanced in the world, and has a new weapon that disabled all the opposing forces in Venezuela, where all the defenders were paralysed by this new weapon, and were unable to shoot at the American military or defend Maduro from being lawfully arrested for his many crimes without a single US soldier being killed or seriously injured.

Of course, getting rid of Iran as a terrorist, Islamist state will protect Israel, which is the most important task for the rest of the world to perform after letting the Nazis kill Jews without doing anything during WWII, and the only possible solution is to follow the Bible: Jews must have everything from the northern-most tip of the Euphrates to the southern-most tip of the Nile (the Biblical word 'wadi' has had it's old, incorrect, non-Zionist meaning changed from meaning an arroyo near the southern border of historical Palestine to meaning the entire River Nile).

Right now, Bibi is demanding that the US take out Iran without allowing Iran to threaten Israel, but neither Bibi nor the top US military planners have figured out how to do this: Iran have a huge arsenal of missiles that will destroy just about all of Tel Aviv and most other major Israeli cities and military installations, and those missiles will be launched before the US can destroy them. They will probably sink a lot of US ships and kill a lot of US soldiers and sailors and airmen, but those are expendable, while nothing in Israel can be allowed to be damaged, let alone destroyed. So even Bibi can't see how the US could possibly achieve his demand, which is to utterly destroy Iran without risking the slightest damage to anything inside Israel (except for Palestinian areas that need to be demolished and cleansed of Palestinians).

Russia is an even bigger puzzle than Iran, since Russia once had the world's largest nuclear arsenal. We know MI6, maybe with help from the CIA and Mossad, took out a lot of the Russian nuclear arsenal, but we're not sure how much (MI6 probably know, but that information is classified TS/SCI/NOFORN/BBR). So how much damage could Russia do before the UK and EU could totally destroy Russia, returning all the stolen Russian oil, gas, uranium, and gold to the rightful owners, UK and EU oligarchs? Russia have been unable to do much damage to the Ukraine, taking only a tiny sliver of the Ukraine in 4 years, and couldn't possible manage nearly as much damage to the UK and EU, protected by the UK/EU military, probably the 2nd strongest military in the world, only surpassed by the US military, and easily able to defend the UK/EU from a weak nation like Russia, and probably able to stop any Russian nuclear attack over Russia where it could do no damage to the UK or EU (but we still have to worry that a Russian nuclear attack detonated over Russia would squander a lot of that oil, gas, gold, and uranium, taking massive amounts of wealth from the rightful Western owners). 

Of course, Russia say they are just as capable of destroying the rest of the world as the USSR were, but no one believes the Russian propaganda channels, and even Russia had to admit that MI6 damaged their nuclear deterrent, but they lie that not much damage was done and most of their nuclear deterrent is still intact and capable of completely destroying the US/UK/EU. Obviously, no one should believe the Russian propaganda, and the US/UK/EU mainstream media assure us that Russia can't do anything to stop the UK and EU if they decide to destroy Russia, break Russia up into a bunch of small, demilitarised states, and claim all Russian oil, gas, and mineral assets as war reparations (with a fair share given to the US, of course).

The only question is, 'What could possibly go wrong????', and, if one would just listen to the always reliable US/UK/EU mainstream media, the only answer is, 'Absolutely nothing!' so the US/UK/EU should get busy and overthrow Iran and Russia and get on with things. 

Stop worrying that Russia could destroy the US/UK/EU the way the USSR could have, the USSR is long gone and Russia is just a weak, third-world country. And there is even less worry about Iran, the US military now have new, advanced weapons that will make it as easy to arrest and/or kill all the Ayatollahs and install the Shah as ruler of Iran as it was to arrest Maduro.

Getting interesting

 CNN, always reliable, since they get their news from the CIA, the best intelligence agency in the world, so their news is the best in the world, interviewed Trump, and he said the US will stop all oil sales by Russia. Every Russian oil tanker will be stopped and seized by the US Navy, no exceptions, and if a Russian Navy ship or submarine tries to stop the US Navy, the US Navy will sink that ship or submarine, so Russia are in big trouble, and will soon have to pull completely out of the Ukraine, demilitarise and hand over all Russian oil, gas, uranium, and gold as war reparations. Which is good since the US ended the New Start Treaty yesterday, so there would have been no limits on what nuclear weapons Russia could have produced had they not been unconditionally defeated by the US, as they will be very soon.

Trump also said the Greatest Armada ever will soon help the vast majority of the Iranian people get their freedom from the horrible dictatorship of the Ayatollahs (and also return all that Iranian oil to the rightful owners, BP).

I figure this is all good to know. CNN assures us that Russia are very weak, they have lost millions of men, and have done very little damage to the Ukrainian military, the million or so Ukrainians murdered by the Russians have all been defenceless civilians.

And we know the CIA (and Mossad and MI6) would never give CNN any inaccurate information, so this must all be TRVE.

Of course, the Russian (and Iranian) propaganda channels lie that Russia have hypersonic missiles that can easily get past any Golden Dome that Trump might put up, and, since Trump ended the New Start Treaty by not renewing it (as Putin asked him to do), they will start developing more nuclear devices, but CNN assure us that Russia are so broke they cannot even maintain their existing nuclear arsenal, much of which was destroyed by "Operation Spider Web," done entirely by Ukrainian forces (with only a tiny bit of help from the CIA/Mossad/MI6) on 1 June 2025, so Russia have little or no nuclear arsenal left, and no money with which to rebuild one.

Likewise, the Iranian (and Russian) propaganda channels say that Iran has a massive fleet of drones and missiles that, if a single bomb is dropped on Iran, will be unleashed against Israel and all US military assets within 1,000 km (maybe 1,500 km) from Iran, totally destroying Tel Aviv and the ships in the Great Armada, and the Strait of Hormuz will be closed, raising the cost of a barrel of oil to above $700, but CNN assures us the attack on Iran will go just as successfully as the attack on Venezuela, which showed the incredible strength of the US military, with devices that disabled all the Venezuelan defenders so it was easy for the American military to arrest Maduro and kill 100 Cuban and Venezuelan defenders without losing a single American, and the US will use that device to disable all Iranian defences so the US military can take out all the Ayatollahs and install the Shah as supreme ruler, with all that stolen oil in Iran returned to BP.

Of course, the propaganda channels say the main weapon the US used in Venezuela was the powerful US$ that bought off most of the defenders, and this is not likely to work at all on Russian Navy ships or on Iran.

The Reserve Currency?

Years ago, I read the book Paper Money by Adam Smith (the author, a professional Wall Street gossip columnist, didn't want to use his real name, or the people who spilled Wall Street beans would stop talking to him, so he took the pen name Adam Smith).

Smith tried to explain that, at Bretton-Woods in 1944, the US dollar was declared the world's Key Currency. 

The correct definitions are that a 'reserve currency' is one of the currencies used in international trade, and so must be kept in reserve by international banks.

Before WWII, most of the world were colonies of the European imperial powers. International trade between British colonies and Britain were in £ sterling, so the £ was a reserve currency, and so were the ₣ and a few more currencies of the major European imperial powers. After WWI, the US$ became a reserve currency, and, a few years after WWII, when Japan had rebuilt and re-industrialised, the ¥ became a reserve currency. Today, the ₣ is no longer a currency, so it is off the list, which now consists of the "U.S. dollar, Euro, Chinese renminbi, Japanese yen, Pounds sterling, Australian dollar, Canadian dollar, and Swiss francs," according to the International Monetary Fund. (The renminbi is a very recent addition to the list, since 20 years ago, the PRC had a tiny economy and was not much of a monetary power.) Some of these currencies can be used in SWIFT exchanges (I know the US$, the £, the €, an the renminbi can all be used, and I think there are a few others.)

So yes, the US$ is a reserve currency, but it is one of at least eight reserve currencies.

After WWII, the French ₣ had collapsed, and the British £ was weak. The £ had always been worth at least $5, but had dropped to $4.75 and the UK were panicking over that tiny drop (the first of many). The US had banned ownership of gold by US citizens and permanent residents during the Great Depression, but, to ensure that the US$ could be used in international transactions, any foreigner living outside the US could buy one ounce of gold for $35. The British and French had borrowed huge amounts of those US dollars during the war to buy matériel, and owed the US, plus Germany owed war reparations, so most of the world's gold ended up in Fort Knox, where it stayed, so having a US$ was a good as gold, and your gold backing your dollars was safe in Fort Knox.

So, in 1944, with no one having any trust in any other currency, at Bretton-Woods, the US$ was declared the 'Key Currency,' the main currency for all international trade (this is not mentioned in Wikipedia, but it was emphasised by Adam Smith in Paper Money). All nations other than the US were ordered to price their currency in US dollars, which was worth 1/35 ounce of gold, making all currencies priced in gold, then believed to be the only real measure of the value of a currency.

The US spent lots and lots of US$, first on rebuilding Europe, then on buying oil. During WWII, the US was the main producer of oil in the world, so the Allies had plenty of petrol for their planes and ships and tanks, while the Axis was very short of oil, and had a hard time keeping their planes and ships and tanks running. But after WWII, most Americans were able to buy cars, and the US demand for oil soon exceeded the domestic supply in the US, so the US$s flowed out, and other countries began to get nervous and used their US$s to buy the gold in Fort Knox, until the gold was running out, so, on 15 August 1971, President Nixon announced that the US would no longer redeem a US$ for gold, a US$ was just a US$. The value of the US$ in terms of gold fell slowly at first, but then faster and faster, then settled a bit, and then fell rather slowly until about a year ago, when the US$ began to fall quite rapidly against gold.

Judge Napolitano starts each of his podcasts saying, 'Buy gold!', but there's a problem: a lot of the gold for sale ain't what it's cracked up to be. They'll say 'It's 24 carat,' when it's really 12 carat, so you paid twice as much as you should have paid. To be safe, one must pay to have the gold assayed, and then, when one wants to sell, the buyer will insist you pay to have an assay prove your gold is what you say it is (as the small guy/gal in the transaction, you have to pay all the expenses of the transaction, the big guy/gal don't pay). And after you buy the gold, you have to think of Silas Marner, who earned lots of gold weaving and had it all stolen. So where will you put it? In the bank? The government can seize it anytime they want. At home? A thief could steal it. There is no good place to keep that gold where you can't be robbed or cheated (not to mention taxed).

So the US$ ain't a good place to put your money, gold has lots of problems, and the Chinese 元 looks like the safest place to keep your money, but the Chinese don't make it easy for foreign barbarians to buy their  元.

What will happen with Iran????

 It is now well known, since Secretary Bessent admitted it, that the US deliberately crashed the Iranian currency in late December 2025, starting peaceful protests, to which Mossad, the CIA, and MI6 (and maybe other intelligence agencies) sent about 40,000 well-armed, violent protesters with Starlink terminals, directed by their Mossad, CIA, MI6, and other handlers to riot and kill, and tie up the Iranian government so that a US attack on 14 January 2026 would be able to easily overthrow the Iranian regime and enable a pro-US regime to take power.

Only the Russians and Chinese might have helped the Iranians by giving them the technology to block Starlink, cutting the rioters off from their handlers and also leading Iranian security forces to the locations of the Starlink terminals and the rioters using them, and quenching the riots before the planned 14 January attack by USAF bombers. The US had the refuelling planes in the air, the Qatar military base emptied of vulnerable troops and assets, and plenty of bombers flown in from US bases as far away as the US and Europe (with the refuelling planes, those bombers could stay in the air for a week or more).

But with the riots quenched, the Iranian government in complete control, and all the Iranian defensive and offensive weapons ready, the Iranian government announced that, if attacked at all, even with a single bomb or missile, it will not be at all like the 12-Day War, but Iran would fire many more missiles and drones, including some much more advanced missiles, at every US asset and at Israel, utterly destroying every US base and most of the Zionist parts of Israel, so Benjamin called Trump and said, 'Don't do it!!!'

Trump announced that he was sending an Armada to Iran, a huge Armada that could and would utterly destroy Iran, but he would give the Iranians a little time to completely surrender, agreeing to the US that inspectors could enter Iran and ensure that Iran have no uranium, no equipment that can enrich uranium, no missiles, no military, and probably all the stolen BP oil in Iran returned to the rightful owners. Trump keeps saying that Iran had better submit quickly, since his patience is wearing thin, and the attack will start soon if Iran does not submit. But Trump never said what he meant by 'soon'.

I listened to the Judging Freedom podcasts on Monday, 2 February, and the guests had two opinions: 1) Israel, the US, and Trump know that any attack on Iran, even a very limited one, would be a complete disaster for Israel and the US, most of the Zionist parts of Israel would be completely destroyed, as would much of the US Armada (about like that Spanish one in the history books) and all the US bases in the region, plus Iran would close the Strait of Hormus cutting off 25% of the world oil supply (sort of, the PRC have a new, high-speed rail line that could transport oil from Iran to the PRC without needing the Strait), so Trump will try threats (which won't work) but will not be stupid enough to actually attack Iran; and the alternative: 2) that with advanced US weapons, the US know that they can block Iranian attacks from damaging any US military bases, ships or Israel, so the attack will probably happen within the next two weeks, or next two months, or maybe next two ???

And there is one more possibility: Israel might decide to just carpet nuke Iran, leaving no threat to Israel (and also leaving no usable oil in Iran, so no profits for BP).

Best analyses say that the US have no non-nuclear weapons that could totally disable Iran's ability to retaliate and do massive damage to all US assets and all of Israel, and the US would not dare to use a nuke given that Russia, the PRC, and Pakistan are nuclear powers who would be furious, but Israel are under no such restrictions, so Israel using a nuke, knowing that is the only way they can  completely and permanently eliminate the threat from Iran, seems possible, maybe likely, and if Israel did that, they would still be protected by the US nuclear umbrella, so why not? 

Friday Night Chat with Jordanian-American

 As Secretary Bessent said, it was the US that destroyed the Iranian currency in December 2025 by dumping and shorting huge quantities on the monetary exchanges where the currency is traded, starting about three days of peaceful protests.

Meanwhile, Mossad, the CIA, and MI6 (that we know of, there may have been other, EU intelligence agencies helping) gave money, weapons, and 40,000 Starlink terminals to some foot soldiers of the rebellion to overthrow the evil Iranian regime that have been stealing the American oil in Iran since 1980 and replace that regime, as the US did in Venezuela, with a good regime that will return every drop of that oil to the rightful owners, US oiligarchs. The NCOs and officers of the rebellion remained in Israel, the US, and the UK (and maybe some European countries, but we're not sure about that), and directed the rebellion for about three days.

The US was supposed to start bombing Iran on 14 January 2026 to help the rebellion, so they'd be bombing Iranian government and pro-Ayatollah forces to help the anti-government protestors with the 40,000 Starlink terminals. Sadly, the evil Russians and Chinese put a minor crimp in Plan A: they gave the evil Iranian government equipment that could: a) make Starlink terminals unable to communicate or be turned off; and b) enabled the evil Iranians to track down every single Starlink terminal and arrest the people using it. So, by 10 January, the anti-government protests against the collapse of the Iranian currency had been completely stopped, and the Iranians had been warned, so they were ready at their anti-aircraft batteries and missile batteries. Iran said they would never start a war, but if the US attacked Iran, Iran would launch thousands of missiles at Israel and all the US bases in the region and close the Strait of Hormuz, raising the price of oil from the current $60 - $80 up to $600 - $800 per barrel.

Netanyahu called Trump and ordered, 'Don't attack Iran!' so the attack planned for 14 Jan 2026 had to be postponed.

My Jordanian friend said the US have the Armada and refuelling tankers ready, so the attack should happen in the next week or two. Iran are really very weak, and the US will use the device they used in Venezuela that disabled all the Venezuelan anti-aircraft batteries and also paralysed all the Venezuelan defenders on the military base where Maduro was staying, thinking he was safe there, so Iran will have absolutely no defences against the American attack which will take out all the Ayatollahs and let the Shah take over as head of state.

If the Jordanian is correct, and the arrest of Maduro was made possible because the US have such an advanced military that they can easily take out any head of state (Putin and Xi should be worried), then the attack should indeed take place in a week or two.

If, however, the arrest of Maduro relied on the Almighty US$, paid to most of the defenders who were in on it, except for the Cubans who were kept out since they would have told Maduro what was coming and been ready to try and defend him, so only about 100 people had to be killed, the rest were all on the side of the US, happy to get lots of US$ for helping get rid of Maduro, then the attempt to use that Almighty US$ has been tried and failed miserably in Iran (thanks to the help of the evil Russians and Chinese), so the attack by the USAF and US Navy is likely to be postponed indefinitely.

US Armada in the Gulf with Two Names

For about as long as there have been people on both sides of a certain, rather well-known Gulf, it has had two names. On the northeast side of the Gulf, it is the Persian Gulf, while on the southwest side, it is the Arabian Gulf. About 27% of world oil and 22% of world gas (LNG) that is transported by ship goes from the Gulf with Two Names through the Strait of Hormuz to the Oman Gulf, which connects to the Arabian Sea, then ships can sail northwest up the Red Sea to the Suez Canal and then west to Europe and the Americas, or eastward through the Strait of Malacca to the Pacific Ocean and supply nations on the Indian and Pacific Oceans with oil and gas.

Iran has promised that, if they are attacked, they can and will close the Strait of Hormuz, but my Jordanian friend who lives in the US says, 'Look at the US attack on Venezuela. The US military have devices that destroyed all the Venezuelan air defences and knocked out all the people in the military base where the evil terrorist Maduro was sleeping, so the US military were easily able to arrest the narco-terrorist Maduro and bring him to the US for trial, conviction, and punishment, leaving Venezuela in the hands of people who have returned all the oil and other resources stolen by Chavez and Maduro to the rightful owners, American oiligarchs. And the US military can do the same to Iran, destroying all their air defences, then landing and arresting or killing all the Ayatollahs and putting Iran back under the Shah who has promised to return all Iranian oil to the rightful owners, British Petroleum (owned by the US and UK), with no danger that the US military will lose a single US soldier or marine in this operation. Iran have nothing that can withstand an attack by the US.'

The US now have one Aircraft Carrier Battle Group (ACBG) in the US Armada that will do to Iran what they did to Venezuela. Commentators other than my Jordanian friend said it was not advanced US weaponry that enabled the arrest of Maduro, but the Mighty US$, paid to people who agreed to stand down and let the US military land, kill the Cubans and other guards–a total of about 100 people–and capture Maduro.

 The original plan for an attack on Iran involved about 40,000 people who want to get rid of the Ayatollahs, some Iranians, and some invaders. Iran have several ethnic groups that were stuffed into Iran against their wishes, e.g., Arabs and Kurds pushed from native Arab and Kurdish lands into Iran by the Ottomans, the British, and the French, and there are some other Iranian minority groups who joined the 40,000. There were also Arabs, Kurds, and others living outside Iran who wanted to help Iranians of their ethnicity break free of the Ayatollahs. Mossad, the CIA, MI6, and other EU intelligence agencies gave the 40,000 peaceful protesters Starlink terminals, money, and weapons to facilitate a riot that would start the overthrow, and then the US and Israel would help them finish the job.

Sadly, with help from the evil Russians and Chinese, the Iranians tracked down all 40,000 Starlink terminals and arrested or killed the people holding them.

And without those 40,000 helping with the overthrow, experts other than my Jordanian-American friend say the US need at least 3 ACBG in the US Armada to have any chance of success.

Of course, my Jordanian-American friend says the new devices that worked so well in Venezuela will work just as well in Iran, who use the same Russian and Chinese defence systems as the Venezuelans, so the US ACBG already in the Gulf with Two Names can easily disable all Iranian defences and kill all the Ayatollahs without any threat that Iran can strike Israel or US bases in the region or block the Strait of Hormuz.

But Iran is not Venezuela. On the first night of the 12-Day War, Israel had the names an locations of every top Iranian general and every nuclear scientist, and they knew the official residence of Ayatollah Khamenei, so they sent drones to destroy the homes of all the senior generals and nuclear scientists and the Ayatollah, killing every single senior general in the Iranian Army and all the nuclear science professors (but the Ayatollah wasn't home). Israel also used an EMP pulse to totally destroy the computer that ran all the Iranian air defences.

Within hours, Iran had named the successors to all the top generals, who took over management of the Iranian military, and the evil Russian repairmen had a computer running and the Iranian air defences were fully operational (so Israel had to fire rockets and drones into Iran from outside Iran where the anti-aircraft batteries could not reach).

But, starting late on the first day of the 12-Day War, Iran began firing missiles at Israel, and, during the 12-Day War, managed to kill 24 Israeli Zionists with a missile that struck before they could reach their bomb shelter. According to Israel, no other missiles got through, no one else was killed, and no real damage was done, but after 12 days, Israel had run out of ammunition for the Iron Dome air defence system, so the US bombed Iran, totally destroyed all the Iranian nuclear facilities, and the war ended. Israel placed an urgent order for a massive amount of replacement ammunition for the Iron Dome but their order has not yet been filled, so they wanted the 40,000 peaceful protesters with their Starlink terminals to overthrow the Ayatollahs and disable all Iranian air defences and missiles before the next war starts.

My Jordanian friend figures the US Armada can take out the Ayatollahs as easily as they took out Maduro, but Israel don't think so and asked for a delay until their order for replacement ammunition for their Iron Dome is filled.

Trump says the Armada will go ahead with the next War on Iran as soon as the Armada are ready, unless Iran surrenders before then, and Iran better surrender or the Armada will do major damage to Iran. Trump says that Israel have nothing to fear, the US military can take out all Iran's military capability, leaving them with no ability to attack Israel or US bases in the region, and the Armada can easily stop Iran from blocking the Strait of Hormuz.

Of course, while the US/UK/EU mainstream media all agree the 12-Day War did major damage to Iran and only minor damage to Israel, the Russian and Iranian propaganda channels say that war did major damage to Israeli military facilities, and the Iranians promise major damage to Israel and US military bases in the region if the US and/or Israel start a second war, but, since the CIA, MI6, and EU intelligence agencies, whose hard work give them more than 100% of all the information in the world and they then give this information to the US/UK/EU mainstream media, we can all be sure the US/UK/EU mainstream media is 100% correct in their descriptions of world news, and we can discount everything on the Russian and Iranian propaganda channels (available on Telegram if it's not blocked where one lives). 

As a fallback, of course, Israel have at least 100 nukes, so if the Armada starts something they cannot finish, Israel has a way to finish everything for them.

With US protection, no one would dare attack Israel if they nuked Iran totally off the map.

(Pakistan have already promised that, if Israel nukes Iran, Pakistan will nuke Israel, but neither the Israeli nor the American leadership can speak Urdu.) 

The US Carrier Force is nearing Iran

Trump announced that, after Iran murdered many innocent, peaceful protestors, he was sending an armada that might or might not attack Iran and replace the evil Ayatollah with a good Shah, but the newspapers only report that the carrier strike group is 'on their way' to Iran, no idea where, or when they'll get there.

The UN reports that Iran had a protest after Iranian government incompetence wrecked the Iranian currency, making it worthless, so no one could buy anything, and Iran responded by killing more than 20,000 of the peaceful protesters. This is supported by all the US/UK/EU mainstream media.

As usual, the social media like Telegram have posters (like the Iranian propaganda outlet, PressTV) that say the UN/US/UK/EU mainstream media are all lying, that the actual death toll during the protests was 3,117, where 2,427 were security forces and civilians and 690 were armed terrorists shooting at the security forces and peaceful protestors until they were killed by the security forces.

It seems someone managed to get about 40,000 Starlink terminals into Iran and also there was also an Iranian Royalist website, and both provided instructions to the terrorists on where to find weapons, where to go to join other terrorists, and told them to shoot security forces and peaceful protestors. Mossad, the CIA, and MI6 (that we know of, other Western intelligence agencies may also have helped) paid Iranians and others to riot and kill and gave them their Starlink terminals and lots of weapons: pistols, incendiary devices, etc. 

Iran has many minorities, Kurds, Arabs, Royalists, etc., some of whom want to get rid of the Ayatollahs, and who together are about 10% of the Iranian population. Also, Kurds and Arabs living outside Iran might have entered Iran (the border is not well guarded) to help the Kurds and Arabs living inside Iran try to overthrow the Ayatollahs.

It started when the US worked hard to destroy the Iranian currency, dumping and shorting rials on the various currency exchanges until the Iranian rial lost more than half the value, so shopkeepers could not buy replacement stock and went out to peacefully protest. Then Mossad, the CIA, MI6, et al. paid people and provided them with weapons so they could go out and join the shopkeepers and start shooting security forces and the shopkeepers, getting detailed directions from their Starlink terminals.

All was going well until Iran shut off the Internet, then used devices provided by the evil Russians and Chinese to track down every Starlink terminal in Iran and arrest the people who had them, and 690 innocent, armed Starlink holders, who shot at and killed some of the forces trying to arrest them, were then brutally murdered by the Iranian police (which means about 39,000 other Starlink holders were probably arrested).

So the US are sending a Carrier Task Force. Not clear what for.

Iran is not Venezuela, they have a rather impressive arsenal, some home-built, some sold to them by the evil Russia and PRC. Sayed Marandi says that Iran can easily destroy Israel, the Carrier Task Force, and all US bases in the Arab states near Iran, and will do so if attacked. Of course, if one reads the US/UK/EU mainstream media, Iran only managed to get a single missile past the Israel Iron Dome, David’s Sling, Arrow and Thaad missile defences, and that missile killed 24 Israelis who did not go to the bomb shelters in time. But if one reads Sayed Marandi, Iran destroyed many of Israel's military and government facilities (but only killed 24 civilians, since the government and military personnel were all in bomb shelters), so the 12-day war ended because Israel had suffered too much damage to continue, and they were out of ammunition for their air defences.

If Israel and the US use conventional forces,  it is almost certain that Iran will be able to destroy much of the carrier task force and do massive damage to Israel and to US military facilities in the region. They can also close the Strait of Hormuz, killing the Western economies that desperately need Middle East oil.

But Israel has a massive nuclear arsenal that could take out all Iranian defences (and many Iranians), but will they use it?

That's something we might find out very soon.

When will the US and Israel attack Iran again???

The prediction of my Arab friend who is living in the US that there would be a successful US/Israeli attack on Iran within days, maybe hours, of last Friday has not yet come to pass.

As I told him, several US Arab allies and Netanyahu all asked Trump not to bomb Iran, yet, but my friend said that was just to keep the Iranians off guard, and, in any case, US policy does not depend on US Arab allies or Netanyahu, it is about repeating 1953 and getting our stolen oil back from the Iranians (and cutting off the PRC).

But I only talk with my Arab friend on Fridays, and I'm sure he'll tell me on Friday that the US overthrow of the Ayatollahs and installation of the (now, not so young) Shah will be very soon.

In fact, Israel wants time to upgrade their Iron Dome/David's Shield/Thaad/Arrow defense systems and replace all the munitions used defending Israel during the 12-Day War.

Of course, if one reads the mainstream US/UK/EU news, the Iranian attacks only killed 24 Israelis who were too slow in responding to the warning sirens and didn't bother going into the bomb shelters, and one missile (and only one) made it past the Israeli defences and killed 24 people who were outside where the missile landed. Israel suffered no other damage. And Trump easily and totally destroyed all Iranian nuclear bomb development, leaving them nothing except conventional weapons, but now they are building factories to build ballistic missiles, and these must all be totally destroyed, along with all the Ayatollahs, and the Shah must get his country and throne back (and the US must get all that stolen BP oil back). 

If one reads Iranian/Russian propaganda channels on Telegram (RT, PressTV), or watches the Judging Freedom channel on YouTube, the Iranian missiles did a lot of damage to Israel, and Iran only used their older missiles. Also, the Israeli defences did stop a lot of incoming Iranian missiles, but they used up almost all the ammunition needed for their air defence systems to operate, and need time for suppliers to manufacture and ship new ammunition. And, of course, Netanyahu asking Trump to delay the attack on Iran fits much better with this narrative than the narrative in the mainstream US/UK/EU media that my Arab friend assures me is 110% correct.

But Israel ordered replacement munitions last summer, and, sooner or later, their air defence systems will be fully restocked and upgraded with newer and more effective components, and then Netanyahu will tell Trump that it's time to finish the job in Iran, but that might be much later in 2026, or even 2027, because it will take quite some time to restock and upgrade Israel's air defence systems. We know the attack on Iran by the US and Israel is coming, but no one knows when, just that it won't be too soon.

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Netanyahu's question, now, is whether to do the Big Thing: Nuke Iran!!! As best we know, Israel has about 100 (maybe more) nukes, and that could take out Iran so they would be unable to shoot back. It would also annoy the US, sort of, or the US might be very happy that Iran is gone and all the oil is radioactive so the PRC can't use it. The total oil from Venezuela and Iran is somewhere between 18% and 25% of the PRC's oil consumption, making a serious dent (but, of course, Russia and the PRC are working hard to move more and more Russian oil to the PRC).

So the US are certainly thinking, 'Maybe letting Netanyahu nuke Iran wouldn't be such a bad thing?'

If Netanyahu decides he can't wait, he has to go nuclear, that could happen almost any time. Not clear if he will coordinate on such a strike with the US, and not clear if the US would (or could) give an effective veto if he did.

So a conventional attack on Iran must wait months, maybe years, but a nuclear attack would be just as effective tomorrow as two years from now, with no chance of any Iranian response, and no one would dare nuke Israel if they nuked Iran. (Of course, Pakistan have already threatened to do just that, but the US and Israel don't speak much Urdu.)

Is the US about to destroy Iran and put a Shah as ruler, just like 1953???

An Arab friend sent me a bunch of screenshots of some Flight Radar or Flight Aware displays of all the aircraft in the air over Qatar, and then showed another screenshot of one of those Qatari planes flying near San Diego, CA and said this shows the US will destroy the Ayatollah regime in Iran and put in the Shah in a day or two. He also had a screenshot showing a US military refueling plane over Iraq, and an unidentified flying object (information blacked out by whoever sent it) flying over the Gulf with Two Names that lies between Qatar and Iran, and said this was an armed drone of some kind. I asked, 'Predator?' and he said, 'No, but I can't say any more.'

He said Iran are very weak, the entire Army will desert as soon as the first American bombs start falling, then something like the Venezuela raid, but taking out the government, not abducting it, and most of the Iranian people will gleefully welcome the return of a Shah.

I noted that those same sources say Russia are losing badly in the Ukraine, that Russia have no supply lines, so the Russian soldiers in the Ukraine have nothing to eat but their dead comrades, killed by the advanced NATO weapons that the Ukrainians are using to demolish the Russian army which only have old Soviet weapons from WWII, patched together with washing machine parts. Since he is Orthodox, he says those sources are obviously wrong, and no one believes them, but the sources reporting that Iran are on the verge of defeat are obviously correct.

I tried to point out that his two distinct sources, one completely reliable and the other completely unreliable are, in fact, the same source: basically, the mainstream media in the US/UK/EU all say that Iran are very weak, a US/Israeli attack will kill all the Ayatollahs and do a repeat of 1953 when the US gaoled Mossadegh for stealing British oil and installed the Shah, who promised that all the oil in Iran belongs to BP, with half the profits going to the UK and half to the US and none to Iran; they all also say that Russia are very weak, most of the Russian army have been destroyed, and the Ukrainians are winning easily. He  replied that I obviously don't know anything, anyone can just look at the pictures he sent me and Iran's immediate return to the Shah is obviously just a few days, maybe just a few hours away, while Russia's victory is obvious and probably very soon.

 I have not seen a single mainstream media source that does not agree that Iran were badly damaged in the 12 day war, and will quickly and totally lose the next war, and that Russia is only a few months from total defeat and having to accept being broken up and paying all their energy and mineral resources as war reparations.

On social media, one can find anything, from more extreme, more graphic versions of what the mainstream media are saying (but with poorer production values), or a complete denial of what the mainstream media are saying.

It was an interesting Friday night chat. I can't say that I learned anything, except that reading two stories from the same source, he figures they are either two completely different sources, or one source that have some accurate reporters and some totally inaccurate reporters.

Tucker believes Russian propaganda

Most in the West know the only reliable sources for news are the mainstream Western news media: they get all their news from the CIA, MI6, and Mossad, the three best intelligence forces in the world, so they know what is really going on, and one can find all this out from the mainstream Western news media.

But Tucker believes the Russian propaganda that Russia are a strong country, when the reliable mainstream media all say that the Russian military, armed with only obsolete Soviet WWII materiel, patched together with washing machine parts, were and are easily destroyed by the Ukrainians armed with the latest, most advanced NATO weaponry. The Ukrainians have killed more than 5 million Russian soldiers, who have no supply lines, so the only food they have are the dead bodies of Russian soldiers killed by the Ukrainians, and the western mainstream media got this by interviewing Russian soldiers. Or at least by listening to Ukrainian sources who interviewed those surviving Russian soldiers who had to eat their dead comrades to survive.

The Russians have only killed about 50,000 Ukrainian soldiers, so the Ukrainian military are at full strength, and growing rapidly as young Ukrainian men rush to join the military and keep the Russians out of the Ukraine, while the Russians have killed more than a million Ukrainians, but almost all were civilians murdered in undefended villages.

But the Russian military are very close to complete collapse, and the Russian economy has the Russians at home starving with no food and no clothes, since they bought all their food and clothes from the West until the West stopped selling to Russia.

But Tucker does not believe any of the Western mainstream media, only Russian propaganda, so he says that if the US force Russian and the PRC into an alliance, there is no way the US can win.

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In fact, Trump does obviously deserve the World Peace Prize. I fear the one in Norway went to a woman who begged the world to invade her own country, kill most of the people, make her Leader, and then she promised to reward those who did this with all the oil in Venezuela. Clearly, a woman who knows what peace means and how to achieve it.

But in the case of Trump, first one must know of the enmity among India, the USSR/Russia, and the PRC.

First, just about all International Boundaries were drawn by the Brits and the French. The PRC figured their boundary with the USSR was much too far to the south, and their boundary with India was much too far to the east. India got along with the USSR, but figured their boundary with the PRC was much too far to the West. The USSR got along with India, but figured their boundary with the PRC was much too far to the North. So the USSR and the PRC were at war over their boundary, and India and the PRC were at war over their boundary.

But Trump the peacemaker made it possible for me to see Modi, Xi, and Putin hugging each other on 2 Sept 2025 at a Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting. No one believed this could possibly be done.

Of course, the people in charge of the Nobel Peace Prize figure this easily disqualifies Trump, since the way to win the Nobel Peace Prize is to start the very best war, since they knew Nobel was a major supplier of arms to the world's militaries, and figure the best way to achieve peace is to win a lot of wars. So I figure Trump's successes at actually bringing peace totally disqualify Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize.

But if there really was a prize for bringing peace to the world, Trump deserves it for what I saw on 2 Sept 2025.

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It's a good thing Tucker wasn't watching PRC TV on 2 Sept 2025, or, based on his conviction that if Russia and the PRC and India are allied, the US is toast, he'd know it's time for the butter knife.

Trump talks to the New York Times

 The New York Times asked Trump about international law, and the New York Times reported that Trump said he always follows international law, and there is one and only one International Law: whatever the strongest wants, the strongest gets.

So all the oil and other valuable resources in Venezuela belong to the US.

Russian ships and PRC ships that violate US sanctions will be seized and sold, with all the proceeds going to the US government.

Russia have threatened that Russian submarines can take out any US Navy ships that try to seize a Russian ship, but, so far, Russia have let the US seize at least one Russian ship and take it to the US for sale.

The US have also seized a PRC ship with a huge amount of Venezuelan oil destined for the PRC; so far, the PRC haven't said anything or done anything about this. 

The PRC get about 5% of their oil from Venezuela, but a lot of Russian oil that was formerly sold to the EU is being diverted to the PRC, so the PRC might be able to do without any Venezuelan oil. The US plan to make Iranian oil unavailable to the PRC in the very near future. As of now, more than 13% of oil purchased by the PRC is from Iran, and the PRC have invested a lot in Iran.

And, as Trump said, the US is strong enough that all the Iranian oil belongs to the US, and the US will either take it all or let Israel destroy it all. Not clear what the PRC will do if the US manage to cut off 18% of all their oil.

It is looking like the EU are toast. Their economy depended on cheap Russian energy. The plan, of course, was to destroy Russia so ownership of all that energy would return to the rightful owners: Western Europe and the US. Russia have absolutely no right to the oil that just happens to lie under Russia, they owe every drop to the US and Western Europe as war reparations. And, as Trump said, the US are strong enough to take it. After all, MI6 and the CIA managed to destroy about 1/3 of the Russian nuclear arsenal, and should easily be able to destroy the other 2/3, maybe with a little help from Mossad. Russia were totally unable to protect that first 1/3 of their nuclear arsenal, and the West are sure MI6 and the CIA can easily destroy all the rest, probably with a little help from Mossad.

But, after the US get control of the oil, it's not clear they'll let Europe have it at a price that makes it possible for Western Europe to return to being the major manufacturing power that they were before they switched from cheap Russian energy to very expensive American energy that makes it impossible for Europe to produce at a price that people can afford to buy. 

But Trump figures it's best if all the energy and minerals in Russia go to the US, then get sold at astronomical prices, keeping Europe poor and weak, and leaving Russia non-existent, all of Russia being taken by the US as war reparations, and made into a bunch of small, demilitarised countries unable to defend themselves or claim any of the energy or minerals that really belong to the US.

That seems to be the plan.

The question is: Could anything possibly go wrong? The Soviets could never get the best of Bond when Fleming had him as a 00 agent working for MI6, so the UK, or at least MI6 are sure that they can get all this done, and Trump is sure the US can manage, and if MI6 help, their help will be accepted and rewarded.

The Russians can see this coming, and say they can stop it. The PRC are quiet, and don't seem to be saying much in English, and I have no idea what they're saying in Chinese. But I suspect the PRC feel about the same as the Russians.

So very interesting times ahead. I seem to vaguely remember something about 'interesting times,'  but I can't remember what it was.

Venezuela?

Russia provided Iran and Venezuela with many weapons.

The US demanded that Iran negotiate, Iran agreed, and, while Iran figured they were safe while negotiating with the US, Israel first, and then the US attacked Iran.

Israel had many Iranians telling Mossad, the CIA, and MI6 almost everything they needed to know: the initial Israeli attack killed most Iranian generals and Nuclear Science Professors in their homes, which were known to Israel, and also destroyed the Iranian air defence system with an EMP attack, so they knew exactly where the computers that controlled the Iranian air defences were located.

But Russians got the Iranian air defence system working again in less than 24 hours, so the second Israeli strike didn't go nearly as well as planned. And the Iranian response? Reported as totally ineffective by all the Israeli/US/UK/EU reporters, and totally effective by all the Iranian and Russian reporters. (So not clear at all what really happened.)

If the Iranian/Russian version is to be believed, after the damage from the initial strike was repaired (by naming new generals and having Russia repair the air defence system), the Iranians did massive damage to Israel and the US military base in Qatar. 

If the US/Israeli version is to be believed, the US/Israeli attack completely destroyed the Iranian nuclear bomb development programme (which Iran lie did not exist), with no damage to Israel or the US base in Qatar, so now Iran can never again threaten Israel or US assets in West Asia.

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But what about Venezuela?

It is obvious that all the Russian air-defence systems in Venezuela were easily destroyed by the US, who were then able to land dozens of helicopters full of US military, who were able to capture former president Maduro and bring him to the US, where he is now an accused (and soon to convicted) narco-terrorist, and his wife, who will be accused and convicted of the same crimes.

Net??? a) Russian air-defenses are useless against the US military, who could easily arrest Putin and Xi as narco-terrorist war criminals whenever they want, using exactly the same method they used to arrest President Maduro and his wife; or b) Venezuelan have a lot of CIA/MI6/Mossad agents who paid corrupt Venezuelans to give them all the details of where the Russian anti-aircraft systems were located, so the US could easily destroy all those systems, and also told the US where Maduro and his wife were hiding, so dozens of US helicopters could drop a huge force to kill all Maduro's Cuban guards and arrest Maduro and his wife.

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So, at this point, if one believes the US/UK/EU version of events, the US could very easily arrest Putin and Xi for war crimes and make the government in Taipei the legitimate government of all China and some good Aryan in the Ukraine the legitimate ruler of Russia, after which, all that oil and gas that Russia have been stealing from the US will return to 100% US ownership, along with all the uranium and other minerals those Russians have been stealing from the US.

Or, if one believes Russia/PRC propaganda, the US are losing in the Ukraine, which will soon be divided into a Russian part and an Aryan part, and the Aryan part will be much smaller than the former Ukraine, and too weak to threaten Russia.

Venezuela remains a question, since it is in the Monroe Doctrine area, close to the US and all the US weapons systems and very far from Russia and the PRC. President Trump has announced that the US will insist on a Venezuelan puppet who will do everything the US demands, starting with the return of all Venezuelan oil and other resources to the rightful American oiligarchs, who will pay a very tiny group of compliant Venezuelans a lot of money to let the US take everything, and leave the vast majority of Venezuelans with nothing. And many believe the Monroe Doctrine will prevail in Venezuela, so Russia and the PRC can do nothing about it, and won't dare to even try.

But the PRC have invested a lot in Venezuela, and they desperately need the oil. And if they let the US have Venezuela, Iran will be next. The US would love to have all the Iranian oil, but if it is not possible to overthrow the Ayatollah and return to the days of the Shah (before 1973, when the Shah did a Mossadegh), Israel are ready to nuke Iran to eliminate the Iranian threat to total Israeli dominance of Southwest Asia, and then no one will be able to use the radioactive oil. And the US will settle for cutting the PRC off from all oil, either by having all the oil under US control (best case scenario), or having the oil destroyed so no one can use it (not so good, but destroying the PRC economy would be worth it).