@prchovanec
Private sector economist. Former professor at China's Tsinghua University and Columbia SIPA. Author of “Cleared for the Option: A Year Learning to Fly”, now available on Amazon. Visit me at http://patrickchovanec.com
"Trump chose to go to war and has taken explicit satisfaction in his power of life and death. War is a grave step after all other options have been exhausted. That Trump had other courses of action is well known. That he preferred this one is hard to unsee." My column. www.ft.com/content/2f3e...
But where would the troops come from? There has been no ground buildup to speak of.
mad king
Trump: "No other president can do some of this shit I'm doing"
TIL Trump didn't bother to refill the strategic petroleum reserve last year when oil was dirt cheap. what can you even say www.ft.com/content/d546...
Never input anything into a computer that you wouldn’t be fine having everyone see. www.404media.co/viral-quittr...
(ABC) - The U.S. has intercepted encrypted communications believed to have originated in Iran that may serve as "an operational trigger" for "sleeper assets" outside the country, according to a federal government alert sent to law enforcement agencies.
abcnews.com/US/iran-acti...
US Consulate in downtown Toronto hit by gunfire
“This morning the U.S. consulate was shot at. This comes after shootings at synagogues over the past two weekends. This cannot stand,” Toronto mayor
www.cp24.com/local/toront...
Yet it keeps happening to them.
I would be highly surprised if US SOF haven’t been on the ground at least somewhere in Iran since the beginning.
Because in DC’s mind, US SOF can do anything. They can win wars with 92 million population countries all by themselves, like ninjas.
Saying "maybe an Iranian Tomahawk hit the girl's school" is like saying "maybe an Iranian Virginia-class nuclear attack sub sank the Iranian frigate".
It's so bad that we've reached a point where members of Congress casually discuss stripping citizenship from and deporting people because they don't like their views.
“Who could’ve seen this coming?” is highly unpleasant when the answer is “most people who know anything about this big topic and they’ve been saying so for years.”
Wherever you go … there you are.
Alpha Male, right?
Trump’s buddies always cash in.
EXCLUSIVE: 7 months ago, Ukraine tried to sell the U.S. their battle-proven technology for downing Iranian-made drones.
The Trump administration dismissed the Ukrainians, only to reverse course last week after more-than-expected Iranian drone strikes.
oh my goodness -- watch Mike Johnson, Scalise, Emmer, and McClain clap like seals for Trump for nearly two minutes straight. None of them want to be the first to stop!
".. The last few years have been a steady exercise in market humility. 'Oil can’t go negative.' It did. 'Russia will always be a reliable supplier of gas to Europe.' It wasn’t. 'Hormuz is too important to actually stop.' Until it did."
- Morgan Stanley
I see your TACO and raise you STAR:
Some
Things
Aren’t
Reversible
Will any of the people who backed Trump ever acknowledge that his utter irresponsibility, cruelty, and ignorance were apparent from the very start, for anyone who had eyes to see or the guts to say? No, they won’t. They’ll forever wonder who could have possibly seen it coming.
Insult added to injury: "US reportedly considering easing Russian oil sanctions to reduce global energy prices" kyivindependent.com/us-waiving-o...
How come DHS didn’t protect us from that shirt?
@dennisgoris.bsky.social
If only someone could have warned you.
Guts has nothing to do with it. It’s all about the cost of insurance.
Trump should really read the story of another rich real estate guy turned politician named Marcus Licinius Crassus.
