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" I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It's PATHETIC.”

This honestly sounds more and more like they want foreign nations / overseas corporations to colonize the USA.

So, like Toyota can't make a car in Japan in a Japanese factory and sell it in America without tariffs.

But they can move that factory to the USA, hire Americans, make the same car, sell it anywhere on earth and remove all the profits back to Japan without a tarriff.

One of the ways that people now interpret WW2 was that armored tanks , ships and planes became critical in combat, and every actor in the conflict was going out and trying to secure oil supply lines. Places like Europe, Africa, the middle east and the pacific were all involved due to reliance on fossil fuel resources... Whoever could capture the resources or secure the flow of the supply lines had huge advantages. You could bring down the enemy by indirectly starving them of oil just as quickly as attacking them head on. The allied forces directly targeted the axis oil infrastructure like refineries as their highest priority targets.

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/How-Oil-Defeated-The-Nazis.html

Surely that can't be happening again with new types of critical resources?

Top comment below the article: " In a further twist to the tale, that Jojoba (and I think, palm oil) that replaced the whale oil turns out to be grown in deforested tropical rainforest. So, in saving the whales we threaten the rainforest. There really is no panacea - if we want lots of stuff the environment pays the cost one way or another. "

If you have never read this "classic" from the collapse canon, I highly recommend this paper from 2012.

https://www.feasta.org/2012/06/17/trade-off-financial-system-supply-chain-cross-contagion-a-study-in-global-systemic-collapse/

PDF of the paper.

The BIG IDEA of this paper is that you can map countries by how central they are to the global economy (in resource, finance, political terms) and that if collapse comes, it will not be evenly distributed. And basically the globalized system can remove a lot of countries on the periphery and keep going.

Check out the discussion on page 60 and following, it was eerily prescient for describing what happened during the covid supply chain collapses. So the 2008 global financial crisis was one example of a type of "contagious" collapse of the financial system. But the paper predicted that supply/production could be very disruptive also.

Anyhow...this one passage is interesting:

"The actions taken to prevent a crisis, or preparations for dealing with the aftermath of a crisis, may help precipitate the crisis."

So what are we calling this now? "Lifeboat politics?"

Are you not forgetting the threat of tens of thousands of dog-eating Hatians in Springfield, Ohio?

In 2016 they ran the "be afraid of Shari'ah Law taking over the USA" program. ...so many hoax memes...

That's the funny part: if Trump and the supreme court somehow finagle a new legal loophole for the constitution, then Obama will get elected.

Even if he wasn't undead, it would be SUCH an upgrade.

It's not like a felon could get elected?!

Our climate simulations led to the staggering conclusion that continued growth of ice melt will cause shutdown of the North Atlantic and Southern Ocean overturning circulations as early as midcentury and “nonlinearly growing sea level rise, reaching several meters in 50-150 years.”  These results contrast sharply with IPCC conclusions based on global climate models.

Its's like asking the emperor to look in a full length mirror.