We Spent a Billion Dollars Fighting the Houthis…and Lost - The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity
Why does it seem the Pentagon is far better at spending money than actually putting together a successful operation? The failed “Operation Prosperity Guardian” and the disastrous floating Gaza pier are but two recent examples of enormously expensive initia...
Damn, that's three wars lost in a single term. Can we get a fourth before November?
Hopefully not as that war might be either Taiwan or Venezuela, both bad as you will quickly feel the impact in America.
The former because MOST of your chips for all your tech comes from there, the latter because that might send an EVEN bigger wave of..... possible refugees but definitely illegals to your border.
Not to mention with weekly crude draws, any reduction in oil imports will be felt hard. We aren't importing much oil from Venezuela, but its enough that for it to stop would cause WTI to jack up to 100
If only the Strategic Petroleum Reserve--our emergency reserve of crude oil--wasn't drained before the 2022 midterms for political reasons
Feeling the pain from war here would be a good thing. America has become soft, hence faggot flags everywhere you look. Weak men are creating hard times, this is just an unavoidable part of the cycle.
The fact that Silicon Valley doesn't produce Silicon Chips drives me up a fucking wall.
"Doesn't matter, global trade" doesn't mean you should make sure to bulldoze all of your ability to make the things.
Taiwan Semiconductor just finished building one fab in Japan and is ready to build a second one by the end of 2024. Meanwhile, production in the Arizona plant is delayed until 2025 and the company can't find anyone to hire except low-IQ, CHIPS Act-mandated DEIversity™.
We don't make anything in this fucking country, and the few shit that we do are literally falling from the sky. America's main industries are paper-pushing (a.k.a. finance, law) and rent-seeking (a.k.a. tech, services). We're a post-developed economy of grifters and con artists trying to grift and con other grifters and con artists.