Houthis shot down 17 American Reaper drones and sank several American warships

 The USA has admitted it has failed to take out the Houthis. This news comes from anonymous sources inside the Pentagon itself, according to Dr. David Oualaalou. It seems the Houthis are not short of missiles and drones.

What has never been talked about regarding the war against the Houthis was the number of USA Reaper Drones shot down by the Houthis. According to Dr. Oualaalou, 17 such drones have been shot down so far. At the cheapest of US$30 million a pop, it is costly. What did the Houthis use to shoot them down is perplexing and the USA has no answer. The USA is starting to blame Iran for such effective weapons being used by the Houthis. Any attack on Iran is going to drag the Russians in, as Putin has already said that the Russians will step in if Iran is attacked. Will the USA and Israel take the bait?

The USA, despite its touted military might and aerial and weapons superiority, also failed in Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam when fighting against enemies using guerilla warfare tactics. When it comes to guerilla warfare, China is well versed in exploiting it. Besides Sun Tsu's Art of War, Mao Tse Tung formulated his own guerilla warfare tactics - 'When the enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue.' One mistake Mao made was not pursuing the Nationalist and wiping them out in Taiwan.

I think Mao's tactics that others learned, worked in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and is working for the Houthis against the USA. These countries do learn from Vietnam onwards, when even with half a million troops in Vietnam at its peak, on top of those from South Vietnam itself and allies, the USA could not carve out a victory. The USA has no answer when fighting countries using guerilla warfare and is terrified of getting sucked into another Afghanistan in Ukraine and Yemen. A nuclear war means no winners.

Anonymous

PS. Trump unintentionally exposed the sinking of warships by saying, 'they would not sink any more American warships'.

Lunatic Trump is punishing everyone, friends or foes, allies, American citizens and leaders of the world and more

 Lunatic Trump is as good as bankrupting everyone including all the billionaires that supported him. Musk has lost hundreds of billions, and his Tesla empire is collapsing. The tech billionaires are also losing hundreds of billions. And trillions have been wiped off from the American investors in the stock market. Trump himself lost $500 millions in a week.

That is not all. European allies, colonies like Japan and South Korea were also hit and in fear of their economies collapsing. Countries around the world were also hit badly but more insulting is rogue Trump denigrating their leaders, calling them arse kissers, all queuing to kiss his arse. How many of these leaders are doing that or would dare to go to Washington and be seen as being there to kiss Trump's arse? This is very rude, uncouth and unbecoming of a state leader. The Americans proudly and officially insulted Lai Ching Te by announcing that Taiwan is the first country to go to Washington to kiss his arse.

The most impactful consequences of Trump's tariff war are the American farmers and American people. Their hardwork, their produces are as good as being shut out from the Chinese markets. Many will go broke, bankrupt because of this lunatic they voted into power. Then there are the average Americans living from paycheck to paycheck. How are they going to pay for essential items that would now cost double of what they used to pay? A dozen eggs cost US$6 or 50c a piece. In Singapore, a dozen large eggs cost S$3.40 or less than US$2. These average Americans could barely make ends meet but are forced to cough out another $5000 a year to pay for more expensive basic needs. Where are they going to find the money? This crazy tariff war is not going away tomorrow.

The plight of the average Americans is just beginning. Not only that prices would be more than double, but many goods would no longer be available, especially the good and affordable stuff coming from China. The $145 billion exports to China would freeze up. The $450 billion imported goods would not come in to fill the shelves of supermarts and stores. Dump Walmart still thinks it can squeeze the Chinese sellers to lower their prices! What a joke. The average American blokes, the hillbillies, will be the hardest hit. Trump is as good as halving the value of their money, that they can only buy half of everything from the same money they have.

With many businesses going broke, Tesla is cutting jobs and cutting production, many supporting businesses would also be affected. Farmers going broke, workers losing jobs and going broke, the average American unable to feed themselves, the billionaires losing hundreds of billions, and lunatic Trump still gloating how successful is his tariff war, while the whole world turning against the American terrorists, ... is Trump making America great again or making the Americans to suffer from his lunacy?

Trump needs not feel bad about it. Some silly asses in Asean, especially those in the media and fake academics are still rooting for the Americans claiming that they trust the Americans more than China when China did not do anything against anyone. The American lies that China is stealing their jobs and cheating America are only believeable to the dullest and most thick headed hillbillies and Asean believers of white supremacy. All the American big businesses and corporations voluntarily moved to China to take advantage of China's cheap labour and cheap cost of production and made huge bucks. China did not put a gun on their heads, China is unable to do that. Still, unthinking hillbillies and silly American newscasters like Fox, CNN etc etc are selling these lies to dupe the unthinking hillbillies that will have to pay dearly for believing in their lies and the lies of lunatic Trump.

Trump is on fentanyl. The feel good effect will go off very quickly

 China's decoupling from the USA is no longer a choice but a necessity, in order to avoid continued bullying by the USA. Enough is enough and the USA is not the only market for Chinese products. Just losing a little in the short term and reaping the benefits over the longer term is what we call patience.

China is not that short sighted in looking at developments and where it will lead to. Five thousand years of history, civil wars, uprising, floods, earthquakes, foreign subterfuge and coping with the rise and fall of dynasties did not disintegrate China. What is a little trade war? The Chinese people have gone through more serious hardships for centuries and being humiliated before and will not bow down to bullying.

China must dig in, tit for tat in tariff hiking. The Chinese Government's response had been calculated not to affect citizen's cost of living too radically. Looking for alternatives and getting hold of them first is very important. Trying to act tough without getting the base ready is a big mistake. Moreover, Chinese citizens no longer depend largely on expensive imports from the USA, whether in agricultural produce, EVs and batteries, essential minerals, cheap energy and availability of enormous amount of steel and aluminum. In fact, deflation has long been considered a problem for China by the West, and a little inflation is not going to hurt them that radically. I would, feeling ashamed to say this with no clout, tell the Chinese to 'hang tough' and fight the bully.

The whole Global South is thankful that China is exporting deflation with cheap products, while the USA is exporting inflation with its money printing. The USA wants the whole world to continue to fund its deficit spending, and to support its uncompetitive industries and even being forced to buy its expensive products. That has to end.

As I said before, China is blessed with a huge consumer market and a powerful industrial base. Domestic consumption is a factor that is keeping China chugging along. Those tariffs are hurting USA investments all over the world, and China knows that for a fact. The tariffs hurt not only Chinese manufacturers, but allies and USA companies overseas exporting to the USA, which may force them to relocate back to the USA. But what about being able to compete on markets outside the USA? Why isn't Apple moving back to USA instead of looking towards India for example?

Anonymous

Americans paying for voting a conman and convict to be their President

 With Elon Musk's running of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) going out of favor with USA voters and even fueling widespread protests, what is Trump going to do? Moving DOGE forward with job cutting measures is being met with unrests, more joblessness, more homeless people without jobs and putting pressure on wages in the private sector. That is a bonus for business owners and the super-rich, who are already going to benefit from Trump's tax cuts for them. The USA voters who supported Trump are going to be also just collateral damage, so 'just hang tough' in there and let Donny Make American Great Again standing on their backs and shouting.

But finding US$4 trillion to fund the tax cuts is not that easy, even with DOGE doing due diligence, even touted to be targeting Congressmen and women. That is sure to ignite fire and fury.

One item I am very interested in seeing happen is Elon Musk doing an audit of the gold in 'Fort Knox'. But the truth can be suppressed in the context of the 'Empire of Lies'. Nothing is beyond suppression through lying.

Talking about gold in Fort Knox, Germany is now asking the USA to return the gold it placed with the USA for showing its confidence in the credibility of the USA in the past. Why is Germany now having second thoughts about its gold held by the USA? Will Germany get its gold back? If the USA refused to comply, it is going to send a signal to others that their gold is also no longer there. This is going to be interesting.

Anonymous

China moves into high tech manufacturing benefitting Africa and other Global South countries

  As China moves into high tech manufacturing and moving mid-tech industries into South Asian countries like Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, Africa will benefit with the moving in of lower tech industries like textiles, toys and some consumer products. These are the goods needed by them than making iPhones or high-end gaming gadgets, which is not Africa's priority at the moment.

This was how China rose up from its humble beginnings. China went from textiles and toys in the beginning, industries that the West discarded, learn from them, innovate to improve, build up its education system to cater to those industries it wants to go into and persevere. China cannot just be resting on its laurels or be overtaken, thinking it can remain so without making any effort to improve and compete. Countries develop faster today than in the past, where it took a century to progress to where they are now, but China managed to cut the timeline of development to a couple of decades.

With AI at its core, the future development will be hard to imagine.

Anonymous