Lone Candle
Champion of Truth
Some economists act like different factors of the economy are interchangeable when really they are complements.
The blocking of the Strait limited the supply of multiple inputs, and it will take time to get logistics and production back to normal. The downstream economic impacts of the blockade are not over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkxIhUk2Sig
Reading Trump’s Iran Deal So You Don’t Have To, with Mark Dubowitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dha2cy6jF1I
Trump argues that the frozen assets are Iran’s money, so they should be given back at some time anyways. Although, he completely rejected when Obama gave back money that the US rightfully owed Iran in a deal that delayed Iran’s nuclear program without war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdqmC3vyRJg
Officially, North Korea no longer seeks unification with the south. Trump blew his opportunity in his first term to get closer relations with North Korea, despite holding hands for the cameras. North Korea has deeply allied with Russia, giving North Korea advanced military technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruxntzId1uM
Foreign leaders are starting to just smile and nod and ignore Trump. They know he is a fool who can’t be trusted. If a more competent leader is elected next, foreign leaders will be like, this already happened, the US reelected Trump, we don’t trust the American people to keep elected a competent and decent leader.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygQshjQHnrM
Trump acknowledges that Israel has been blowing up apartment complexes to kill some Hezbollah members when there are a lot of other people in those apartments who are not Hezbollah.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VFa4Zp3SNU
The current Iran deal is an extension of the ceasefire, not a peace deal. The original ceasefire was supposed to have Hormuz open. We don’t know the outcome of the war because the war is not yet over. We don’t know how the negotiations during this extended ceasefire will go. Neither Trump nor Iran want to give in on key issues.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bg2o0kTgqd8
The Trump administration isn’t just acting illegally with domestic actions, but foreign policy actions. Assassinating criminals, even in foreign territory, is murder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfW6B66E3Qk
Iranian hardline protesters are chanting that their leaders are weak and pathetic if they agree to Trump’s deal, even though Trump’s deal sucks for the United States and achieved nothing that couldn’t be achieved diplomatically.
The chanters are asking what about the blood of their former leader who Israel and the United States assassinated. They are demanding no deals but victory against the countries who assassinated their leader.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DjtrVTYiyk
A lack of intellectual curiosity, and ignorance about the country one is attacking, facilitated both the failed Iraq war and the failing Iran war.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PcveqwF7MVI