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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
from the "unintended consequences can be a pisser" department:
I have been listening to the Bloomberg "Odd Lots" podcast & their interesting discussion with a Center for Strategic & International Studies person. they have been speaking about our de facto abandonment of any real Pacific defense posture and the rapid depletion of US missile stocks that is going on now in Trump's War. choices have consequences.
"The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it" - Paul Atreides (character in Frank Herbert’s novel "Dune")
Trump's War is slowly strangling the US economy, and has probably killed any chance of an interest rates drop at this Fed Meeting. because of Trump's War sucking up military resources from elsewhere, the PRC is more likely to be emboldened to act against it's neighbors. by this "decapitation" attack against the parent of the next leader, Trump's War has ensured that the remaining Iranian leadership will not want to negotiate.
Iran's leadership knows that it still has the capacity to control passage through the Straight of Hormuz, so why negotiate with the killer of one's Father?