Heterodox
Why Did Trump Initially Support The Saudi-UAE Effort To Overthrow Qatar’s Government? One of the more curious things in 2017 in the first year of the Trump presidency was how when Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) placed a boycott on Qatar and more directly attempted to overthrow the government of Qatar, President Trump openly supported this effort initially. He would later be pulled back from this position as his first Secretary...
Read More »And I stupidly used to think Putin was smart. I pity the poor Russian people.
At his economic conference with other world leaders there, Putin said this... "We are hostages to this internal strife in the United States..." And I stupidly used to think Putin was smart. When one puts limits in one's own mind, even if they are imaginary, those limits can be debilitating. Putin, as the ruler of the largest country on earth, doesn't understand that Russia has no limits, especially none imposed by U.S. "internal strife," whatever that is. Pathetic. ...
Read More »I simply cannot tell who is stupider anymore, Trump or Putin.
This just in. Read.Putin talks about a big new fiscal expansion, which will be "paid for" with spending cuts and new taxes even though he has unlimited spending power in ruble.And we now find out Russia's been stupidly buying gold for years. Why??This is a total waste of financial and real resources and an even stupider subsidy to the mining industry.Then there's this...Russia's empty threats about retaliation against U.S. strikes on Syria. "We'll shoot down the missiles and target launch...
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