I think China has many internal problems and this military stuff they are doing is to distract from the internal issues.They have way too many men versus women because of their one child policy years ago. They have several major real estate bankruptcies going on and unemployment and underemployment are big problems. Xi isn’t as strong as he would have us believe. Trump knows this.
Cleaving Russia away from ties with China is also a goal in these negotiations. Further isolation of China is also an unspoken goal here as well.
Well, I suggest we help them out - just once - by buying back all the farmland China has purchased in America, most of it next to our military installations. They are spying on us full time like they did when Biden let them float a balloon over our country. Data collection fulltime.
There are thousands upon thousands of Chinese men who poured over our open border during the Biden administration.
I recall watching a video stationed at just one opening somewhere along the border with CA with a broken fence opening, to witness hundreds upon hundreds of ALL Chinese men flooding in through just that one opening, day after day after day.
Xi has a veritable army stationed within this very country. God only knows what they have planned.
Yes, and there was one photo of a row of clean-cut young military-age men with identical short haircuts and wearing identical chinos and polo shirts and with identical backpacks.
Yes, thank you for sharing this evidence of their "silent invasion". Their sleeper cells are here and that is a very serious threat to our sovereignty and security. Xi will call them into action when the timing is right, although I doubt it will happen under Trump's term unless we destroy their economy to the point where it depends on their survival (Xi's survival).
There are solid rumblings from China, with a heck of a lot of political repositioning going on there, that the “powers that be” there are not at all thrilled with where Xi has led his country, now too, on the brink of devastating financial ruin.
It is not crazy to think, nor out of the realm of possibility that should the USA join forces with Russia in some manner, it could be the tipping point for them to realize their time is up, and decide they want to get in on the action too.
Trump is proving to the world, who doesn't understand the power of the weapon, that trade can be more powerful than a bomb - and no buildings or lives are lost in the process.
Remember - we knew it was floating over the country - we followed it all the way -learned a bit about it - then shot it down over the water so we could recover and learn more.
Yes, we waited until it collected all its intelligence and didn't shoot until it was over the Atlantic ocean. Sounds like a treasonous conspiracy #2 to me.
We knew where it was going so we could hide anything that wasn’t already seen by Chinese spy satellites. Biden did a bunch of stupid stuff, but this was an example of the Chinese being stupid.
While I disagree with Don's assessment of Putin, who's a smart cookie and pragmatic (look at the slime industries which Trump has worked in: NYC real estate, Hollywood, and US politics....anything really dirtier and more cut-throat than those? At least as an intelligence office in the KGB, everything was more known.) But Don has a lot of good points about what may have been going down in Alaska. Do not overlook the fact that, instead of riding from the planes to the meeting place in two cars, Trump invited Putin to ride with him....unplanned...
Putin and Trump have much bigger plans than divvying up rare earth minerals. The location of their meeting, Alaska, speaks volumes. Russia broke the British naval blockades in NY and San Francisco during the Civil War to help the north defeat the south. Hence, Seward's Folly. The Russians sold Alaska to prevent the Brits from getting it.
Putin and Trump both understand that, historically, our respective countries have a mortal enemy, The City of London, which has been undermining the U.S. since our independence and has been provoking Russia into a war with the U.S. in hopes of bankrupting both countries, or better yet, a nuclear war. It's why the Brits, the EU, the left and the neocons had a meltdown over the meeting. Their highly successful plan since the end of WW2 of stealing trillions of dollars from the U.S. is ending. America and Russia are forming a partnership in a multi-polar world to neuter the City of London and the EU from starting anymore color revolutions, regime changes, etc., that they have been using to bankrupt the U.S.
The polarization of the U.S. populace via gaslighting over the past 80 years was key to the plan. A nation divided cannot stand. The Gabbard file releases leading up to the Alaska meeting is Trump telling Obama, Brennan, Soros, the Clintons, Starmer, Macron, Rutte, et al, "I know what you did, I have the receipts, cease and desist or I destroy you." Lower expectations for indictments, and raise expectations for Trump having an open field to make America great again in the next 3 1/2 years. The dark side is losing. Embrace the light.
I love your bringing up Russia's role in the US Civil War, not many people know about it. It's been years since I did a little research paper on it, but seem to recall that Imperial Navy ships even sailed up the Potomoc.
The Russians, Brits, Europeans and Chinese think in terms of centuries. The U.S. thinks in terms of a 4-year presidential election cycle.
Trump has ended the Marshall Plan for Europe, cut off the USAid flood of money to the Dems and NGOs, will exit NATO and join forces with Russia. The UK and EU are broke and desperate. They know Trump has the intelligence files on them. Their choice is submit and be humiliated or say “f*** it all” and start WW3 with a nuclear false flag and try to blame it on Russia.
Dangerous but hopeful times. Can Trump can pull it off?
Agree , except the Brits and Europeans " used " to think in terms of centuries . They managed to pull off the ultimate long con but squandered it due to stupidity 🙄 .
Brian, maybe, but I think the destruction of the English and European (and Canadian and Australian) peoples by their leaders is part and parcel of the quest to destroy nations’ sovereignty and establish a one world government.
It's news to me that the Brits had naval blockades of NYC and SF. They were neutral until the defeat of Lee at Gettysburg in 1863. It was also news that the russians helped the U.S but they did apparently, in 1863, send small fleets to those ports to help protect them from Confederate raiders
Yes, the Brits not only blockaded NY and SF, they had troops amassed on the Canada/USA border set to invade the north if the south won.
Another fun fact: after the British abolished slavery in 1834 they kept sending ships with slaves to the south despite that being banned in the U.S. since 1808. The governor of Georgia complained to the federal government to get them to stop. (Edmund Wilson, Patriotic Gore)
The Brits are masters at appearing neutral while provoking both sides to exhaust themselves in a war with each other, then swooping in to reap the spoils.
They’ve been playing this same game for over a century to provoke the U.S. and Russia into a war with each other, using their proxies in Germany, Israel, Iran, etc., etc., etc.
Nobody said Putin is such a great guy. I think he and Trump are the perfect leaders for their respective countries at this point in history. The era of faux consensual politics is over.
Together, Putin and Trump are destroying the cabal that since Churchill’s “Iron Curtain Speech” has been trying to provoke the two countries into a war neither could win and/or bankrupt both in the process. The cabal almost succeeded, and likely would have, had Kamala won.
So this was the comment from dancing time, not you —“ look at the slime industries which Trump has worked in: NYC real estate, Hollywood, and US politics....anything really dirtier and more cut-throat than those? At least as an intelligence office in the KGB, everything was more known.”
And you’re right he did not say Putin was a great guy—
And I was just pointing out that a murderous dictator KGB IS a lot worse than a New York real estate mogul and Hollywood reality star and recent politician
Hilarious that the defense is what the KGB does is ‘ well known’ —-don’t make me laugh
For many years following WW II, American "foreign policy" was centered on one thing: containment of communism and the primary promoter of communism was the USSR. When the USSR was disbanded (or rather simply fell apart) the "foreign policy experts" couldn't cope; they were ossified in their anti-communism/anti-Soviet Union position, so failed to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the sea change that had occurred. They thought, "Aha! Now it's time to destroy our enemy!" instead of seeking to enlist Russia to join the Western Democracies in the global conflict with communism, the focus of which had shifted to the CCR. They failed to remember that Russia had long sought to become "European" instead of "Oriental" beginning with Tsar Peter, and instead of encouraging that development, simply continued the fight against the now-defunct USSR. (As has been noted, armies--and the countries with those armies--are always "fighting the last war" instead of looking forward.) They also failed to remember that Russia's greatest single opponent on the world stage was its neighbor to the East, viz., China and instead of seeking to aid Russia in that confrontation, the "foreign policy establishment" thought it could thread the needle and play each off against the other. Both the Chinese and, eventually the Russians, decided they were not interested in playing that game and, at least temporarily, mended fences and united against Europe and America. One of Trump's greatest and most long-lasting (I believe) achievements will be his elimination of the old "foreign policy establishment" and replacing it with a new realpolitik which is centered on "America First" which means dealing with other nations AS THEY NOW ARE rather than as they were back in the Cold War era. America still has many enemies on the world stage, but America's greatest enemies now reside within its borders, and largely compose the democrat party establishment, which for all practical purposes has replaced the USSR as the wellspring of world communism. Opening the eyes of traditional America to that threat is Trump's other great achievement. Let us pray he finds success in both endeavors.
"They thought, "Aha! Now it's time to destroy our enemy!" instead of seeking to enlist Russia to join the Western Democracies in the global conflict with communism, the focus of which had shifted to the CCR."
Yes, what a missed opportunity.
Trump is the first president who would have seen that chance for aligning two great nations. Nixon is the only other one who may have followed through but his time was over.
The biggest challenge here is deporgramming tens of millions of people who have over-consumed Western left wing media narratives. They won’t know what just hit them. Entire fact-sets are wrong. They lack the pattern recognition necessary to understand this looming, Trump-Putin outcome. This is Realpolitik at work, history playing out. And the exposure of several decades of Neocon, war-mongering perfidy masquerading as “interagency consensus.”
Get back in show biz and his young mistress!! Trump always has a plan, you know he does on this. Thank God for him, I feel like we’re back to living in the USA again. Finally! Nothing gives me greater pleasure than watching Obama on the Russiagate hot seat!
Loved the logic. Worked on what to do about Zelenskyy and Putin. While I think Z man will be vulnerable to a lot of things, and not a hero either, his best bet is to take the money and run ... say to Switerland; get some body guards. He will live looking over his shoulder. Putin, on the other hand, is going to be damned for the loss of Russian soldier's lives, BUT he is still the man in control, and stay in control he will. He will eventually be the Russian Obama, setting policy from the background. The Trumpster is working in rarified air and, if you are going to have a 'gamer' working at this level, President T is as good as we will every have to 'make a deal'. Who's looking out for everyone in the USA? (even the haters and the Democrats ... but I repeat myself) The one and only - President Trump. God bless America.
I have a feeling that Trump just saved Putin's bacon. Russia's history has plenty of precedents of leaders being violently overthrown as a result of an unsuccessful war -- which the one in Ukraine certainly is. And it could still happen when enough Russians rub their eyes and say: "We lost a million men (not counting the millions who fled the country), and for THIS?"
Z better suck up to Elon ; nowhere on this planet is going to be safe from Putin . And for good reason ; dozens of biolabs from whence nothing good will come . Going a little OT , I hope PDJT and Putin expose those on both sides responsible for those crimes against humanity .
With Mr. "The Art of the Deal" at work, I believe there will be a rewarding outcome with Russia. Regardless of Russia's politics and leader, they were allies to the USA in WWII when they were the USSR, a totalitarian socialist communist regime. We were allies with them 80 years ago, so let's do it again. If we establish a strong trade agreement with them perhaps we can pull a "Reagan" and swing Putin to the right to "Westernize" him. The BEST result of that would be to break the ties China has made with Russia to hurt America. Pull Russia over to our side and continue to isolate China and break them.
China is our enemy. Russia is just a "bad neighbor" once in awhile.
A REE agreement out of Ukraine will leave the EU hanging like the doofuses they are. What a bunch of genetically mixed up idiots. Screw them.
The legacy media's reporting on this over the weekend showed just how infantile they really are, Nicole Wallace the ugliest among them. Remember that her husband, Michael Schmidt, is now under investigation by the FBI for Russia gate. That may explain why her face always looks like she has stage 3 constipation.
Best line in today's article: "Imagine the bridal shower her daddy gave her." A Surber classic. Nobody does it better.
"I have no direct knowledge of what Putin and Trump discussed but ..."
Almost painful the amount of commentary we've read and heard from the people who won't admit this fact. Don you're among the last honest newsmen. Thank you.
If Little Z agrees to anything today he becomes a persona non grata. For this reason and the fact he is bringing along his Globalist EU puppet masters that need to keep the status quo just can't see a resolution anytime soon. But if anyone could pull it off it be DJT.
PDJT is the one who has invited the group of Europeans to join everyone in the Oval - he's going to be telling everyone how "the cow ate the cabbage" and doesn't want to have to repeat himself to this bunch of children
Graduated in geology and in mining engineering a half century ago and did work on four continents. Don’t know beans about REE, however I’ll stick my oar in the water based on general knowledge.
1) rare earths aren’t rare.
2) processing is intensive
3) grade v. tonnage curves tell us there are lots of tons if we mine low grade deposits.
Once we develop domestic capacity, China will periodically drop their price (ala OPEC) to undermine the economics of our efforts. A strategic mineral policy will come with a price tag.
Classic Surber: “I read this weekend that Biden’s daughter is getting a divorce. I didn’t know she was married. Imagine the bridal shower her daddy gave her.”
“I am the great and powerful Wizard of Oz!” he exclaimed, just as the curtain was pulled back to reveal nothing more than a mere mortal masquerading as a god.
I used to read his columns - stopped when he went wacko like the rest of the clowns that signed on to the Never Trump edition in National Review. I wonder what Buckley would think of what's happened to the magazine he created. John's father Norman, although a neocon, wasn't afflicted with TDS.
I think China has many internal problems and this military stuff they are doing is to distract from the internal issues.They have way too many men versus women because of their one child policy years ago. They have several major real estate bankruptcies going on and unemployment and underemployment are big problems. Xi isn’t as strong as he would have us believe. Trump knows this.
Cleaving Russia away from ties with China is also a goal in these negotiations. Further isolation of China is also an unspoken goal here as well.
Well, I suggest we help them out - just once - by buying back all the farmland China has purchased in America, most of it next to our military installations. They are spying on us full time like they did when Biden let them float a balloon over our country. Data collection fulltime.
There are thousands upon thousands of Chinese men who poured over our open border during the Biden administration.
I recall watching a video stationed at just one opening somewhere along the border with CA with a broken fence opening, to witness hundreds upon hundreds of ALL Chinese men flooding in through just that one opening, day after day after day.
Xi has a veritable army stationed within this very country. God only knows what they have planned.
Yes, and there was one photo of a row of clean-cut young military-age men with identical short haircuts and wearing identical chinos and polo shirts and with identical backpacks.
Yes, thank you for sharing this evidence of their "silent invasion". Their sleeper cells are here and that is a very serious threat to our sovereignty and security. Xi will call them into action when the timing is right, although I doubt it will happen under Trump's term unless we destroy their economy to the point where it depends on their survival (Xi's survival).
There are solid rumblings from China, with a heck of a lot of political repositioning going on there, that the “powers that be” there are not at all thrilled with where Xi has led his country, now too, on the brink of devastating financial ruin.
It is not crazy to think, nor out of the realm of possibility that should the USA join forces with Russia in some manner, it could be the tipping point for them to realize their time is up, and decide they want to get in on the action too.
Hope springs eternal.
Trump is proving to the world, who doesn't understand the power of the weapon, that trade can be more powerful than a bomb - and no buildings or lives are lost in the process.
They are probably already working for Newscum and the Commie Mayor of LA.
Doug, you are too nice. Those two are already in the "Xi Communist club", as are the mayors and governors of any sanctuary city/state.
Buy back, but at a dollar per acre.
I'm close to Manhattan KS and Ft Riley. K-state has loads of Chi-Com students. They should all be deported.
We should only allow foreigners access on a one for one basis. Does China have any study avenues that Americans would be interested in?
A PhD in rice cultivation or high rise apartments?
I know slave supervision in an industrial environment.
Remember - we knew it was floating over the country - we followed it all the way -learned a bit about it - then shot it down over the water so we could recover and learn more.
Yes, we waited until it collected all its intelligence and didn't shoot until it was over the Atlantic ocean. Sounds like a treasonous conspiracy #2 to me.
We knew where it was going so we could hide anything that wasn’t already seen by Chinese spy satellites. Biden did a bunch of stupid stuff, but this was an example of the Chinese being stupid.
Read four Chinese CEOS jumped to death last week ,purge of capitalistic notions??
Is Jack Ma of Alibaba fame still alive? I think he disappeared for many months a few years ago. Haven't really seen him since.
Unanswered Shrugged, your guess is as good as mine but do not get thoughts of free business expansion in Chyna .
That was my 2nd poll choice - avoid 3rd story windows.
See the lyrics for “China, My China” by Brian Eno (Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy) for more info!
Welcome back Z !!
While I disagree with Don's assessment of Putin, who's a smart cookie and pragmatic (look at the slime industries which Trump has worked in: NYC real estate, Hollywood, and US politics....anything really dirtier and more cut-throat than those? At least as an intelligence office in the KGB, everything was more known.) But Don has a lot of good points about what may have been going down in Alaska. Do not overlook the fact that, instead of riding from the planes to the meeting place in two cars, Trump invited Putin to ride with him....unplanned...
The surveys were great.
Putin and Trump have much bigger plans than divvying up rare earth minerals. The location of their meeting, Alaska, speaks volumes. Russia broke the British naval blockades in NY and San Francisco during the Civil War to help the north defeat the south. Hence, Seward's Folly. The Russians sold Alaska to prevent the Brits from getting it.
Putin and Trump both understand that, historically, our respective countries have a mortal enemy, The City of London, which has been undermining the U.S. since our independence and has been provoking Russia into a war with the U.S. in hopes of bankrupting both countries, or better yet, a nuclear war. It's why the Brits, the EU, the left and the neocons had a meltdown over the meeting. Their highly successful plan since the end of WW2 of stealing trillions of dollars from the U.S. is ending. America and Russia are forming a partnership in a multi-polar world to neuter the City of London and the EU from starting anymore color revolutions, regime changes, etc., that they have been using to bankrupt the U.S.
The polarization of the U.S. populace via gaslighting over the past 80 years was key to the plan. A nation divided cannot stand. The Gabbard file releases leading up to the Alaska meeting is Trump telling Obama, Brennan, Soros, the Clintons, Starmer, Macron, Rutte, et al, "I know what you did, I have the receipts, cease and desist or I destroy you." Lower expectations for indictments, and raise expectations for Trump having an open field to make America great again in the next 3 1/2 years. The dark side is losing. Embrace the light.
I love your bringing up Russia's role in the US Civil War, not many people know about it. It's been years since I did a little research paper on it, but seem to recall that Imperial Navy ships even sailed up the Potomoc.
Thanks, Christopher.
The Russians, Brits, Europeans and Chinese think in terms of centuries. The U.S. thinks in terms of a 4-year presidential election cycle.
Trump has ended the Marshall Plan for Europe, cut off the USAid flood of money to the Dems and NGOs, will exit NATO and join forces with Russia. The UK and EU are broke and desperate. They know Trump has the intelligence files on them. Their choice is submit and be humiliated or say “f*** it all” and start WW3 with a nuclear false flag and try to blame it on Russia.
Dangerous but hopeful times. Can Trump can pull it off?
Agree , except the Brits and Europeans " used " to think in terms of centuries . They managed to pull off the ultimate long con but squandered it due to stupidity 🙄 .
Brian, maybe, but I think the destruction of the English and European (and Canadian and Australian) peoples by their leaders is part and parcel of the quest to destroy nations’ sovereignty and establish a one world government.
You and I are definitely on the same page concerning that ; that's what all this insanity is about 👍.
It's news to me that the Brits had naval blockades of NYC and SF. They were neutral until the defeat of Lee at Gettysburg in 1863. It was also news that the russians helped the U.S but they did apparently, in 1863, send small fleets to those ports to help protect them from Confederate raiders
Yes, the Brits not only blockaded NY and SF, they had troops amassed on the Canada/USA border set to invade the north if the south won.
Another fun fact: after the British abolished slavery in 1834 they kept sending ships with slaves to the south despite that being banned in the U.S. since 1808. The governor of Georgia complained to the federal government to get them to stop. (Edmund Wilson, Patriotic Gore)
The Brits are masters at appearing neutral while provoking both sides to exhaust themselves in a war with each other, then swooping in to reap the spoils.
They’ve been playing this same game for over a century to provoke the U.S. and Russia into a war with each other, using their proxies in Germany, Israel, Iran, etc., etc., etc.
Britain sent 11,000 troops to Canada, and the British fleet was put on a war footing with PLANS to blockade New York City if war broke out.
Well said Alan , we have much more in common with Putin's Russia than most people realize .
Yeah, Putin is such a great guy:
https://chatgpt.com/s/t_68a32af6493c819187e5444bb2fd3de7
🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
Nobody said Putin is such a great guy. I think he and Trump are the perfect leaders for their respective countries at this point in history. The era of faux consensual politics is over.
Together, Putin and Trump are destroying the cabal that since Churchill’s “Iron Curtain Speech” has been trying to provoke the two countries into a war neither could win and/or bankrupt both in the process. The cabal almost succeeded, and likely would have, had Kamala won.
So this was the comment from dancing time, not you —“ look at the slime industries which Trump has worked in: NYC real estate, Hollywood, and US politics....anything really dirtier and more cut-throat than those? At least as an intelligence office in the KGB, everything was more known.”
And you’re right he did not say Putin was a great guy—
And I was just pointing out that a murderous dictator KGB IS a lot worse than a New York real estate mogul and Hollywood reality star and recent politician
Hilarious that the defense is what the KGB does is ‘ well known’ —-don’t make me laugh
PKsweets, my apologies! It popped up in my messages do-hickey from Substack.
For many years following WW II, American "foreign policy" was centered on one thing: containment of communism and the primary promoter of communism was the USSR. When the USSR was disbanded (or rather simply fell apart) the "foreign policy experts" couldn't cope; they were ossified in their anti-communism/anti-Soviet Union position, so failed to take advantage of the opportunities offered by the sea change that had occurred. They thought, "Aha! Now it's time to destroy our enemy!" instead of seeking to enlist Russia to join the Western Democracies in the global conflict with communism, the focus of which had shifted to the CCR. They failed to remember that Russia had long sought to become "European" instead of "Oriental" beginning with Tsar Peter, and instead of encouraging that development, simply continued the fight against the now-defunct USSR. (As has been noted, armies--and the countries with those armies--are always "fighting the last war" instead of looking forward.) They also failed to remember that Russia's greatest single opponent on the world stage was its neighbor to the East, viz., China and instead of seeking to aid Russia in that confrontation, the "foreign policy establishment" thought it could thread the needle and play each off against the other. Both the Chinese and, eventually the Russians, decided they were not interested in playing that game and, at least temporarily, mended fences and united against Europe and America. One of Trump's greatest and most long-lasting (I believe) achievements will be his elimination of the old "foreign policy establishment" and replacing it with a new realpolitik which is centered on "America First" which means dealing with other nations AS THEY NOW ARE rather than as they were back in the Cold War era. America still has many enemies on the world stage, but America's greatest enemies now reside within its borders, and largely compose the democrat party establishment, which for all practical purposes has replaced the USSR as the wellspring of world communism. Opening the eyes of traditional America to that threat is Trump's other great achievement. Let us pray he finds success in both endeavors.
"They thought, "Aha! Now it's time to destroy our enemy!" instead of seeking to enlist Russia to join the Western Democracies in the global conflict with communism, the focus of which had shifted to the CCR."
Yes, what a missed opportunity.
Trump is the first president who would have seen that chance for aligning two great nations. Nixon is the only other one who may have followed through but his time was over.
💯‼️👍
Where else could you postulate so beautifully? You should be so grateful to Don for giving you a platform, that you would become a FM today.
Excellent points.
WELL SAID ,Steve .!!
"...the focus of which had shifted to the CCR."
They broke up way too soon.
The biggest challenge here is deporgramming tens of millions of people who have over-consumed Western left wing media narratives. They won’t know what just hit them. Entire fact-sets are wrong. They lack the pattern recognition necessary to understand this looming, Trump-Putin outcome. This is Realpolitik at work, history playing out. And the exposure of several decades of Neocon, war-mongering perfidy masquerading as “interagency consensus.”
The rot in our own tree is spouling the fruit of our nation.
Spoiling.
Agree , more commonly known in these parts as " tough love " .
Get back in show biz and his young mistress!! Trump always has a plan, you know he does on this. Thank God for him, I feel like we’re back to living in the USA again. Finally! Nothing gives me greater pleasure than watching Obama on the Russiagate hot seat!
There's a reason that Jeff Childers frequently reminds us TAW - Trump Always Wins!
Loved the logic. Worked on what to do about Zelenskyy and Putin. While I think Z man will be vulnerable to a lot of things, and not a hero either, his best bet is to take the money and run ... say to Switerland; get some body guards. He will live looking over his shoulder. Putin, on the other hand, is going to be damned for the loss of Russian soldier's lives, BUT he is still the man in control, and stay in control he will. He will eventually be the Russian Obama, setting policy from the background. The Trumpster is working in rarified air and, if you are going to have a 'gamer' working at this level, President T is as good as we will every have to 'make a deal'. Who's looking out for everyone in the USA? (even the haters and the Democrats ... but I repeat myself) The one and only - President Trump. God bless America.
I have a feeling that Trump just saved Putin's bacon. Russia's history has plenty of precedents of leaders being violently overthrown as a result of an unsuccessful war -- which the one in Ukraine certainly is. And it could still happen when enough Russians rub their eyes and say: "We lost a million men (not counting the millions who fled the country), and for THIS?"
Good call!
Z better suck up to Elon ; nowhere on this planet is going to be safe from Putin . And for good reason ; dozens of biolabs from whence nothing good will come . Going a little OT , I hope PDJT and Putin expose those on both sides responsible for those crimes against humanity .
With Mr. "The Art of the Deal" at work, I believe there will be a rewarding outcome with Russia. Regardless of Russia's politics and leader, they were allies to the USA in WWII when they were the USSR, a totalitarian socialist communist regime. We were allies with them 80 years ago, so let's do it again. If we establish a strong trade agreement with them perhaps we can pull a "Reagan" and swing Putin to the right to "Westernize" him. The BEST result of that would be to break the ties China has made with Russia to hurt America. Pull Russia over to our side and continue to isolate China and break them.
China is our enemy. Russia is just a "bad neighbor" once in awhile.
A REE agreement out of Ukraine will leave the EU hanging like the doofuses they are. What a bunch of genetically mixed up idiots. Screw them.
The legacy media's reporting on this over the weekend showed just how infantile they really are, Nicole Wallace the ugliest among them. Remember that her husband, Michael Schmidt, is now under investigation by the FBI for Russia gate. That may explain why her face always looks like she has stage 3 constipation.
Best line in today's article: "Imagine the bridal shower her daddy gave her." A Surber classic. Nobody does it better.
All I can say about the Rare Earths is, Get Ready. Get Ready!
Well, twiddley dee, twiddley dum
I just wanna celebrate!
"We are at the point where the KGB treats our president with more respect than the CIA does. It’s Reagan all over again."
Indeed.
"I have no direct knowledge of what Putin and Trump discussed but ..."
Almost painful the amount of commentary we've read and heard from the people who won't admit this fact. Don you're among the last honest newsmen. Thank you.
“…Imagine the bridal shower her daddy gave her.” 🤣😂🤣
Thanks for the great start to the week Don!
Truly a Surberism !!
After your list of REEs, I expected ‘artificial coloring’.
Is that going to be on the final?
I just love that many of Mr. Surber’s readers/commentators have his same rich sense of humor.
We all try in our own little ways....
Londinium wants in on the list. And oui bit o’Softbrienium and don’t forget a ton of Teutonium.
Are my eyes playing tricks on me? Are you actually a FM now? If so, Congrats. If not, be one.
If Little Z agrees to anything today he becomes a persona non grata. For this reason and the fact he is bringing along his Globalist EU puppet masters that need to keep the status quo just can't see a resolution anytime soon. But if anyone could pull it off it be DJT.
PDJT is the one who has invited the group of Europeans to join everyone in the Oval - he's going to be telling everyone how "the cow ate the cabbage" and doesn't want to have to repeat himself to this bunch of children
Graduated in geology and in mining engineering a half century ago and did work on four continents. Don’t know beans about REE, however I’ll stick my oar in the water based on general knowledge.
1) rare earths aren’t rare.
2) processing is intensive
3) grade v. tonnage curves tell us there are lots of tons if we mine low grade deposits.
Once we develop domestic capacity, China will periodically drop their price (ala OPEC) to undermine the economics of our efforts. A strategic mineral policy will come with a price tag.
Thank you. Facts are always valuable.
Great analysis, as always Don.
Classic Surber: “I read this weekend that Biden’s daughter is getting a divorce. I didn’t know she was married. Imagine the bridal shower her daddy gave her.”
Omg, you went there! 😂
Excellent read, Don. I particularly liked following the Sean Davis X response to Podheretz. My, what a childish little dweeb Podheretz has become.
“I am the great and powerful Wizard of Oz!” he exclaimed, just as the curtain was pulled back to reveal nothing more than a mere mortal masquerading as a god.
I used to read his columns - stopped when he went wacko like the rest of the clowns that signed on to the Never Trump edition in National Review. I wonder what Buckley would think of what's happened to the magazine he created. John's father Norman, although a neocon, wasn't afflicted with TDS.