A couple of things I have been thinking about non specifically but feel generally important. 1. Who is the one who convinced Trump to abandon the jcpoa nuke treaty with Iran in djt1? 2. The reason Japan attacked the us during ww2 was an oil embargo. 40% of the worlds oil supply flows through the strait of Hormuz and shutting it down will have impacts that are unknown unknowns. 65% of Asia’s oil supply comes from there, so ones most impacted will be China, Japan, Korea, and India. These thoughts are unconnected, but both loom large in the back of my mind.

Today’s thoughts from the armchair as far as possible from any frontline… as is tradition. Ha. (But also, sad ha.) I’m deeply anti war, I’m also anti the cia and state department installing a puppet leader to run a country; I want self determination to be the way the world runs. But it feels like the msm leaking internal conflict and potential high ranking military resignations incoming is laying the groundwork for a withdrawal from the Iran conflict that will leave America even worse off permanently from a trading partner and dollar hegemony perspective. If the core conceit of “banker’s wars” was so that the dollar remains the reserve currency of international trade, don’t we have to stay in the fight to protect the average American from having their purchasing power drop significantly? Was this the plan all along? Are we now being held hostage to a fight we never should’ve joined in the first place? Feeling very conflicted. I want what’s best for the American people, I also want to reduce the net suffering in the universe, but serving one end produces the opposite result for the other. Blerg.

Conflicted thoughts on the conflict: day 3. So, both Rubio and Mike Johnson spoke yesterday about why the us went to war. Their logic is as follows. My brother was going to kill my neighbors dog. If my neighbors dog is killed, my neighbor will blame me and my brother. So I decided to kill the dog with my brother so my neighbor will blame the right people. So when my neighbor starts retaliating against both me and my brother the fact that our kids will die, and we have to spend a whole bunch of money trying to prevent our kids dying, is just par for the course. … yeah… this math doesn’t math for me.

More mindless musings from a man mean reverting to midwitticism. Why am I expected to care about the happenings abroad when my problems are here and now at home? Moreover, why do my elected officials talk more about the well being of other people and not their own constituents? When was the last time any of these people on tv talked about what’s best for me and my fellow Americans? When they were running for office? This current moment where getting the job being more important than doing the job is a curse to our way of life and I can’t stand it. Makes me just want to check out and embrace apathy. Double Blerg.