1) Folks, reviewing the sweep of history---and I admit, I'm no expert in Chinese history---I can't find anyone in all of history who has for the most part peacefully so completely encircled and cut off an enemy state as Trump has done with Chy-na.
2) It is historical, it is mind blowing. Reagan came close with how he isolated and bankrupted the evil commie Soviets--tricky because they still had allies such as Chy-na.
3) But this is a Zulu-style bull-buffalo encirclement.
4) First, he neutralized Venezuela, #1 in the world in oil reserves. (No one talks about off shore Latin American oil, which is massive, but we have that too).
5) When you combine Venezuela & US oil, which is the largest PRODUCER in the world, you've already squeezed Chy-na.
6) It's been widely reported that Chy-na got 50% of its oil from Iran, 30% through Hormuz. That has been all but closed off. We let through a couple of Chi-Com bound ships the other day so as to prevent a war, but that is a drop in the bucket.
7) While the Hoax News was fitfully fretting about Trump actually WINNING in Iran (which even the NYSlimes had to admit), they were completely missing that he had already broken the huddle and had run another play while they watched the Iran replay.
8) Over the weekend, Trump's State Department team was in Jakarta solidifying a new deal with Indonesia, which has its own oil. More important, Indonesia mostly controls the Strait of Malacca, which is absolutely key for the Chicoms.
9) It's almost like the Black Knight in Monty Python: Trump has now lopped off both arms. Well, there is one more route I guess they could take---extremely long. That would be north through the arctic and coming down by way of . . . Greenland. 😆
10) Chy-na now is like a baby goat being surrounded by a boa constrictor. Xi is purging people right and left, but I got news for ya, skittledipper: they don't have answers either.
11) So far, this has come with remarkably few casualties in Iran and none on the Iranian mainland itself (they found the one airman not with a tracker by with an AI program called "Ghost Murmer" that tracked his heartbeat!!
12) There is nothing in human geopolitical history to even remotely resemble this kind of coup. It is an international version of Napoleon enveloping the Austrians at Ulm.
13) Meanwhile at home, the voter reg numbers continue to march to the GOP's drum. NV now has a whopping 7,000 GOP lead (was D+88,000 in 2020), OK gained, ID gained 5,000 for Rs, and NM gained a little.
14) In the past weeks, we've had three D-R state seat flips.
15) Too early to call, but the results in VA for overturning redistricting look solid. In CA, Farticus (Eric Swalwell) had to resign not only from the gov race but from Congress (as did TX R Henry Gonzolez). The ratios didn't change but each side lost a guy.
16) All the other indicators are positive however. Two of the top three candidates in CA are Rs, and they have a jungle primary. It's possible both Rs could end up as the finalists.
17) Businesses are fleeing New Azteca (LA) with KB homes now the latest to fly to Tempe, AZ.
18) You know I don't do polls, but the recent national generic polling is good for Rs in the House. Ds only lead by 2 nationally (they need to lead by 5 to make a real change).
19) HUGE but little discussed election here in AZ, as Salt River Project, which controls . . .
19) contd . . . our water and power, elected a conservative over the green spoogemuffin as supervisor. This means attempts to greenify AZ via shutdowns on new businesses won't fly.
20) Anyone not paying attention is going to miss a planetary reordering.
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