Champion of Truth
China is screwing Europe economically. The US could have worked with Europe to counter China’s cheating, instead, Trump declared economic war on everyone at once, and bowed to China because China was too strong for Trump to take on alone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-d3dZojivjI
Europe is facing an extreme heatwave and massive fires.
Climate change is fucking Europe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GOkq6_yiuE
The Iranian regime has a very high pain threshold, much higher than the US. They are willing to take a lot of destruction without giving in. Assassinating Ali Khamenei was a huge mistake. He was evil in a lot of ways, but he did care about his people and appeared to actually be against nuclear weapons. The new leaders care less about the people and are willing to let Iranians suffer tremendously.
The US didn’t seem to have a plan for the Strait of Hormuz. There were plans on the shelf, but no real reworked plan with preparation.
Opening the Strait of Hormuz by force would require ground troops, but Trump is against that.
Trump indicated verbally multiple times that he has a low pain threshold with regards to the economy. Why would Iran give in when Trump has indicated that he can’t take the pain?
The US didn’t fix its munitions shortage before choosing to attack.
The reporting indicates that Trump was for this war and most of the rest of his administration was against it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eGQBxy4W0A
Hospitals are seeing more uninsured patients showing up, and more people are putting off surgeries due to lack of insurance. This is likely caused by Trump policies limiting ACA credits and making it harder to qualify for help.
To offset losses due to treating uninsured people for free, hospitals will raise prices.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4D5JkFB8VA
Israel is intensifying its West Bank settlement project, taking land that was supposed to be Palestinian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zrphez0-nA
The US military needs to improve its urban warfare and subterranean warfare capabilities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAfqD0Oaa48
Trump thinks a trade deficit means the US lost. This is false. Americans agreeing to buy goods from another country is a win for both sides.
Trade enlarges the pie, creating more total goods than we’d have without it. Consumers count too, and they benefit by buying foreign products, so do companies using foreign inputs to create goods and services in America.
The US needs to maintain its ability to produce military necessities, but the administration’s approach is to treat deficits generally as a lost. They broadly attack bilateral deficits without a sensible strategy–this hurts most people.
Lower prices aren’t necessarily “cheap”. They mean more. You can buy more; American businesses can produce more.
A lot of manufacturing jobs aren’t even good jobs anymore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYsdgsiyQO0
Greece foreign policy history
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClDAMnloqXE
Much of the historical context of The Odyssey was wrong, but some of it was fairly right.
Even the ancient Greeks would create their own spins on their own classic works and add different themes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7h-0GUgDzk
Trump is surrounded by yes-men that laugh at all his bad jokes like sycophantic monkeys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF_tDPRNV5U