Note, this is also why there was a group of Dem’s who voted against the recent Graham sanctions bill - it was clear there where holes that would still allow trump to do this anyway
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Ooh, my bad. That was a compelling thing. That brave goose soldiered on for a long time, way after everyone had flown south for the winter. I would see him many times when I walked the dog, the poor thing couldn’t fly with a broken wing.
Sadly I do not know how the story ended, but one day I stopped seeing him. I walked around the pond where he stayed but I couldn’t see a body or anything, or even a pile of feathers in case a coyote got him.
I’d like to think he saw out his days sipping a margarita in warmer climes.
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I am not as convinced. For a start, it is absolutely clear that absolutely no one involved in oil/energy files on the American side is remotely connected to this - the deal is in metric tonnes, which is completely normal for European transactions and utterly alien to the American energy industry. My strong suspicion is that the White House has been suckered into this (again).
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We shall see. I have read many reports the last 2 months about Kushner and whatshisface (the other guy that I won’t bother to google the name of due to lack of respect for him) that they were trying to convince Trump of the merit of an energy deal with Russia. The White House’s fury over Ukrainian bombing of Russian petrolium is also widely reported, and Trump didn’t like it even before he himself drove energy prices through the roof with his idiotic little Iran adventure.
I will never claim to be correct as such, since I am open to you being right and it is quite possible, but we shall see.
We will know, Arminius, in a week or two. These matters always, always leak to the media in the US.
What have i just seen on the news…a total rant by the orange baby dummy throwing slob…asking for a new president of Ukraine…wtf is that all about…
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Witkoff…
My brain was trying sanitasion for my mind and wellbeing. But unfortunately it failed, and while I went outside to let in the cat; I rememebered his name.
Nice headline
https://x.com/Telegraph/status/2108727751108653086
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Lol
They are anti-ship missiles btw. Not like anything Iran itself can produce.
https://x.com/FaytuksNetwork/status/2109033072066785388
Meanwhile, Bessent is apparently planning to reduce the sale of longer-term debt in favour of debt with terms of 5 years or less. The logic is that they are struggling versus corporate bonds, and the current rates would lock in at 20 year highs.
The downside risk is that all US yields are pushing upward, and the higher the percentage of US debt held in short-term paper, the more vulnerable it is to upward movement of interest rates. In order to end the upward pressure on interest rates, he is more or less betting that interest rates will stop going up. If that proves not to be the case, letting inflation take over may be the least worst option.
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https://x.com/Acyn/status/2109023282469261805?s=20
I think those people really deserve him—with everything that goes with it.
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Would love to be a fly on the wall when the penny finally drops on Donald about how Putins been playing him.
Mind you, that’ll probably never happen given vow much of a moron he is…
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The orange toddler is true to form,he is still in melt down about not getting the Peace Prize…again
All he has done is the reverse of peace.He will never see it!
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Knew it. Here it comes. Starlink is likely going to be cut off in coming weeks, as I have predicted and feared.
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141
That will dramatically alter the trajectory of the war…
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Very unlikely. The Congress that comes back in session will be a lame duck Congress made up of the current members. The new Congress won’t be in place until January.
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We know they are petty and vindictive, but this is still shocking. They are determined to stifle all opposition, even going after a single mother from New Jersey.
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Yeah, that’s what I read. I posted Evans opinion on what should happen, not facts as such.
Point is, this is a total disaster
He’s failed on the peace prize (again). Next move. Canonisation? There are pros and cons to this…
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Major con being that he is alive.
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