why is he talking like that

Banality of evil . Villains who mass murder, like he does, usually describe life and death issues similar to taking about regular chores.

I mean, I read about them doing that; it’s a bit of a mind trip seeing it play out now

I hope somebody on board the disabled ship understood the barbarian’s language well enough to vacate the engine room.

Iran already won and will get many concessions. Those may happen after more attacks, or not.

In an ideal world the attackers would stop, now. But there are hundreds of billions of dollars to be had from market manipulation, and the few Americans who enrich themselves from it will take that, despite virtually everyone else in the country and world losing. That combined with Israel , will push this conflict as far as humanly possible.

Then Iran will get concessions after that

But I fear the threats to use nuclear weapons against Iran will be such a money maker that it will used with dramatic timings to wring the most money out of panics. And that will go on for weeks. And a perfectly timed nuclear blast, to jolt the markets, would enrich a few beyond their wildest dreams.

There is no way people can be asked about confidence without explaining which goals; and once those multiple, contradictory and insane goals are fully explained it would invalidate the poll.

My opinion of a liberal is one who thinks change can happen by hoping a central authority figure will fix it.

Some liberals think no change is needed as long as authority is followed.

The key idea is that both types are authoritarians, and need to follow rules and orders

I’m a firm believer in trickle down fraud.

The USA milbloggers are starting to remind me of the Russian ones. Super patriots who have really good suggestions, and critical insights, that have no hope of implementation.

Most People may become nervous about flight only if the disasters are mentioned too often in mainstream media.

Chances are there will be there will be yet another disconnect between some social media and everyone else.

This comparison resonates strongly with me; so many parallels both internally and militarily

I am worried about food in the countryside too, if anything breaks down too far. Most rural people in the USA have lost the skills to grow their own food. And most farms in the USA ( that are not owned by companies) are now owned by families that inherited them, and they don’t have as much knowledge as their grandparents, and would have difficulties .

So, yea, food insecurity if many parts of those very convoluted supply chains have trouble

The global economy is new, so much has changed

4 generations ago most of the food that people ate grew within 20 miles, now a good chuck of my food is grown on four continents in dozens of countries.

This and every single thing in my house and car has supply lines stretching over a million miles when the travel of every single item, and their materials are added up. Literally, tens of millions of people helped make my items

Banking is literally hundreds or thousands of times more complex than in my grandfather’s time.

And my entire career is based on technology and infrastructure I read only hints about in science fiction books as a kid.

Not op, and as far from an economist as possible. But I think there has never been a situation like this, ever, in the entire human race.

I have no clue what will happen but I deeply feel most will have wrong predictions

Japan only attacked the USA in 1941 because of an oil embargo by the USA

This is a 2400% increase of a service that has stigma using that. Of course 24 * 0 is still nothing, when compared to the actual ratios.

It’s possible this is a true measurement of dissent. If one realizes quiet dissent usually does not have people call that number, it’s honestly impressive

This video is probably the start of a very disturbing trend. Given most of the administration’s previous crimes with children and women, they can and will keep pushing the envelope to include what they personally enjoy

200 million dollars

Almost an hours worth of graft and bribes paid to the trump admin and their business partners

USA generals are not allowed to speak of these things until they leave the military.

All through history generals have had doubts and reservations and worry ; the horrible deeds still occurred.

The current USA generals are the same.I expect tearful memoirs later by the ones who do the crimes this month

If he uses nukes then that changes mainstream politics in the USA to be more repressive and authoritarian. The government will be brittle, and see many things as threats to their internal power.

Mainstream reform politics, even in many states, will be forced out

The only way the United States can be reformed as a nation is by non democratic socialism being imposed .

But as federal oversight grows weaker I think some states will try, on their own , to come up with solutions to avoid their citizens from being so harmed by the corruption

But I think people like him are allowed to say it openly because the American oligarchs do not see the USA as so central to their wealth ; which is why they allow earlier imperial institutions to crumble away, institutions that were so vital to them a generation ago.