Perhaps dementia is taking a toll on his brain, as he seems to have forgotten what he said earlier. But he is the President of the United States, the exceptional country that can say anything without consequences. Amidst all the ups and downs, on and off antics, the Trump family has been accumulating wealth of grotesque proportions from top to bottom using insider trading practices. Trump himself increased his wealth by about US$4 billion since 2024. I think that is just the tip of the iceberg, with money he siphoned off using his Board of Peace and hidden in Qatar, if I am not wrong.
We have read all about Trump not taking a salary as President, but he took more than what he would have taken in salary, just counting his golf trips expenses alone. And some also mentioned that jewel thieves and bank robbers also do not take a salary, lol.
Now, about the Iran War, the USA is trying very hard to pull China into directly getting involved, the same agenda as trying to get China involved in the Ukraine War. All the motive is to split China's close relationship with Russia and Iran by cutting oil imports, which is not going to happen. Both Russia and Iran are important allies for China. Both are BRICS members and both are on the same wavelength regarding de-dollarization.
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With the antics Trump is pulling against Iran, setting ultimatums and now saying he is in no hurry to forge a deal with Iran, is, I believe all just a front to buy time for the USA and Israel to rearm and regroup, while conducting sporadic attacks to show they still have weapons to carry out such attacks and to show Iran they still hold the upper hand while still conducting the negotiations. Let us see whether Iran takes the bait.
The Gulf States are on the way with plans to form its own defense co-operation instead of relying on the USA, which did not do its work of protecting them from Iran. This war against Iran is not the only USA failure of sorts. When Saudi Arabia was at war with Yemen, its oil installations were hit by crude Houthi rockets despite relying on highly expensive USA interceptors. After that, there were reports that Saudi Arabia had bought some Russian air defense interceptors instead to boost its defense capabilities.
Trump is now threatening to blow up Oman; I suppose again to the stone age like every other country that Trump cannot agree with, if it carries out its plan to side with Iran and together going to control the Strait of Hormuz. This shows that the Gulf States are no longer united with the USA's agenda.
Elsewhere, the USA is losing allies, with Norway, the ninth country moving away from the USA nuclear umbrella and joining France's nuclear umbrella instead, closing ranks with NATO Europe. The big tree heading NATO is falling and the monkeys are scattering. This is a clear indication that the USA is being isolated. Putin and Xi must be laughing. After all, Russia was the butt of jokes over total isolation at the start of the Ukraine War, but the reality says otherwise. Oh yes, he who laughs last laughs best.
I want to take this opportunity to talk about the propaganda campaign to lure China into the same trap that the Soviet Union fell into, trying to compete head on against the USA in the military front when its economic potential lacks what the USA had then. The USA knew this for a fact and had succeeded to bankrupt and collapse the Soviet Union eventually.
China does have the economic power today to do the same, but it is soft power projection that China is migrating into, and hardly military power projection was and is the Chinese intention. China's pre-occupation is all about economic domination and building up alternative infrastructure to bypass the USA controlled system. China is moving away from playing by the USA and Western rules. In other words, total decoupling is its intention.
China must likewise move away from the idea of competing head on with the USA by throwing big money into the semiconductor and AI war by building massive data centers to take pole position. China should just continue with exercising patience, and strike when the iron is hot, just like its rise over the last three or four decades and just take its time to narrow the gap at its own pace.
The AI and data center madness is just going to collapse when usage under open systems goes dirt cheap, which will kill off the big players when their revenue stream fails to match up to cover the massive costs of building such infrastructures. Sure, just increasing the cost to users may work for a time for those large language models, but with open AI systems proliferating worldwide, only the hardcore users may continue to hang on and keep paying through their noses.
In the area of aircraft carriers, the mantra is that China is unable to make use of its fleet to project power around the world, so that is a joke to them. Did China ever say that building a few aircraft carriers was its intention to use them to go around acting as policeman to patrol the oceans? This is trying to put subtle pressure on China to fall into a sinister trap. China must not fall into such a trap engineered to put a negative spin on its aircraft carrier buildup. After all, what Iran did to aircraft carriers already tells the world that even with no aircraft carriers, it could still counter the power projection of the USA navy.
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