Game Over when Iran can sink aircraft carriers, hit Diego Garcia and American bases in the region

  Trump is still gloating and threatening Iran with his huge and beautiful armada and demanding Iran to surrender or else. Trump still thinks he holds all the cards, that he can hit Iran freely with Israel and Iran will be a lame duck sitting there to be hit like before.

Has anything changed? Why is Iran so confident and not budging? Why is Iran threatening to hit back just as hard, to clean up Israel? Did the American intelligence give Trump a briefing on the current battle order of both sides? Did they tell Trump what Iran is now possessing and capable of doing, to hit back at the Americans? Or they did not know what China and Russia had delivered to Iran, how many Russian and Chinese defensive units and missile batteries or squadrons are operating in Iran?

When Iran has the capability to hit back, to sink aircraft carriers, to flatten Diego Garcia and all the American bases in the region, the game is over for the Americans. All the threats and warnings will now be useless and ineffective. The Americans know that it is now two ways. You can hit, Iran too can hit you. When your aircraft and missiles approach Iran, they can be taken out.  How many aircraft and missiles that the Israelis and Americans have? How many Iran has, with many more coming in from China and Russia that are just next door? 

Never mind if the Arab and Muslim countries are not acting. But if they do, it will be a big bonus. The Arab and Muslim countries have been restrained and bullied for too long, and waiting for a right moment to throw everything at the Israelis and Americans. They have waited very long, they know who are their real enemies, they know about Greater Israel. They know the Americans are with the Israelis to create a Greater Israel. When presented with an opportunity to free themselves, they will.

What is important now is Iran's ability to take out aircraft carriers and Diego Garcia and other bases. Trump may want to continue to bluff, to threaten and to bully. But his generals know the risks and the stakes. When they are no longer the hunter, but the hunted, they better run as far away as possible for their own safety. They are not silly and wanting to be dead heroes and wanting their boys and girls to return home in body bags.

They were brave in the past, eager to hit Iran, because they can hit and Iran cannot hit back. This has changed. The equation is now more in favour of Iran. Don't bet on it that the fighter pilots or bomber pilots can come home again. Don't bet on it that the boys and girls in aircraft carriers, warships and American bases are safe. not even in Diego Garcia or in the Mediterranean. Turkey can play a big part, on the side of Iran to take care of the Mediterranean region.

Game Over!

India is like a stray dog, cannot be trusted

That is why I say India is like a stray dog looking for anyone that throws it a bone. It cannot be trusted, has no backbone to stand its ground, no principles to uphold and has no respect or support whatsoever among its immediate neighbors. India is looked upon by neighbors as just a bully, nothing more.

China has long washed it hands off India, hardly bothering with its antics. The Chinese have seen the behavior of India under the influence of the USA towards its investments in India, with BYD now investing in neighbor Pakistan. India has also banned a number of Chinese companies like Huawei and Tik Tok, all following the dictates of the USA.

India is behaving like its master, the USA, but lacks the economic power to do so and everything is backfiring without enough foreign investments to create enough jobs for its growing population. For India, a touted growing graduate population without corresponding manufacturing jobs for their skills is just throwing good money after bad. Without migrating jobs from largely an agricultural economy towards a manufacturing economy, India is stuck in limbo. Whatever boasting that India has resorted to is not going to change the status quo.

Moreover, changing alliances by following the direction of the wind is not going to help India. India has good relations with Russia, but by straddling two boats, it risks losing the Russian support as well.

Elsewhere in BRICS, India is looked upon as a Trojan Horse, trying to do more harm to the bloc rather than helping to foster the direction of the de-dollarization agenda of the rest of the countries.


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America's rock solid economic balloon must go bust. The Math says so...any time now

USA can still continue to print furiously to keep the game going, keeping those toilet papers in circulation inside the USA, forcing big banks, retirement funds, Wall Street investors and its own citizens to buy up the debts and everything is going to be rosy. Own-self indebted to own-self is the way to go.

With job losses escalating and job creation cratering, wonder how the partying can continue like the norm. Big USA tech companies are investing in each other, called round tripping, to keep the appearance of growing the pie. AI spending is a big problem with returns full of uncertainty when Chinese AI upstarts can do as well with a fraction of the expenditure.

With de-dollarization being adopted by more countries in BRICS, wonder when the shit is going to hit the fan. But as always, ignorance is bliss and burying heads in the sand will avoid the consequences.

Meanwhile, the Anglo-Saxons clique can help to keep the house of cards from falling over by also buying up some of the debts, like the UK. Maybe Japan will do the same. But Japan is already in deep shit itself. with rising bond prices and debts twice the GDP. The Japanese Yen is also in trouble and with wages unable to keep up with inflation due to the falling yen, life in Japan is no Japanese dream, just like the American dream. How times have changed! But it is alright to have dreams and keep dreaming.


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Superpower India capitulates under Trump pressure

When the Americans imposed the mother of all sanctions against Russia for attacking Ukraine, India was happily buying cheap Russia oil at a steep discount. In the process India made billions by reselling Russian oil to the European buyers and incurring the wrath of Trump. India came under immediate attack by the Americans for violating the oil sanction. India did not budge. India's world best Minister for External Affairs, Jaishankar, defended India's position confidently and eloquently in front of American and western leaders, even making them looked foolish. He went on to say India would buy oil from any country in the interests of India. Period.

The clumsy Americans were not able to out talk Jaishankar. This led to the imposition of another 25% tariff against India on all Indian products. For a few months, India was steadfast and held on its position to continue to buy cheap Russian oil. India as a superpower or superpower to be in the same league as America and China, would not be bullied by the Americans. Caving in to American pressure would be hard to swallow for Modi and the Indians. Apparently serious negotiations were in progress to remove or reduce the tariffs.

Just a few days back, Trump and Modi sprang a surprise by coming to a great deal. India will stop buying Russian oil and buy Venezuelan oil from America instead. In return, Trump agreed to withdraw the 25% additional tariff imposed on Indian goods. Washington also made clear that the withdrawal of the additional tariff came with conditions and will monitor what India will do, whether India will completely cut off buying Russian oil. Washington warned India, no direct or indirect buying of Russian oil.

India has been quiet about this, without an official statement to stop buying Russian oil. Is Trump bluffing or India lying? If a superpower like India will be forced by the Americans to stop buying Russian oil, India will not look good in the eyes of the Global South. India is the one and only BRICS member to capitulate to the Americans. This in a way will offend Putin for sure. Jaishankar has gone into hiding, not saying a word about this deal. By now he must have realised that his clever talks mean nothing to the Americans.

Did superpower India really cave in to Trump? Looks like Modi will be invited to the White House again to meet his good friend Trump for more photo ops, more hugging and kissing in front of the media. The bromance between Modi and Trump will move to 2.0. Would India also agree to oppose BRICS' dedollarisation plan again as part of the deal? Can BRICS or Putin trust Modi? It seems that Trump has successfully deflated the Indian arrogance and smart talks by Jaishankar.

What do you think? Is India confirming that it is the weak link in BRICS? What are the other conditions Trump dictated to India and what role will India now play in BRICS?

The White House is a very interesting place

 The White House was once a decent place for peanut farmers and Hollywood actors. But this gradually changed when D graders started to move in. Then it turned into a hospice for the aged and undead. Then came the liars, cheats, conmen, felons and the paedophiles. The latest, the White House was supposed to be zoo, housing apes and monkeys.

No one seems to take much notice when it was associated with dull schoolhouse for dull kids.  No one mind if it was turned into a hospice, a halfway house for drug addicts. No one care when it was an asylum, housing lunatics. But when it was called a zoo, it started to ring a bell. Some senators and house representatives find it offensive, or pretend to be offended. Not many dare to utter the word racism. Not the black men and women. They were hoping for Trump to say it was a mistake, or any excuses. They just need something from Trump to drop the subject. But not Kamala. She is not the usual blacks or Afro Americans. She is black from India.

 The Indians are of a different level in intellects and pride. They have proven themselves that they are not dumb. They are the highest achievers of migrants, and a force to be reckoned with in Silicon Valley. And many are in the Who's Who List of corporate honchos. Kamala said it loud and clear. It is racism. What the Afro Americans fear to say, the Indian Americans would face it squarely and say it without the historical baggage of slavery.

The racist mask of Trump has been exposed. And he got the audacity to think that the blacks would not mind his caricature of Obama and wife as apes or monkeys. He is the POTUS and expects everyone to laugh at his racist pranks, or at least the white men.

Would this affect Trump's black voters? Not at all. They are all suffering from the Stockholm Syndrome. They really love Trump. The support for Trump from the Afro Americans will likely to grow as they would not associate themselves with the blacks. Many successful Afro Americans think they are white or at least half white with white blood in them.

This cute little prank of Trump will pass away in no time, just like I Can't Breathe George Floyd. The Afro Americans are a forgiving lot and have very short memories. They will believe, they want to believe, Trump is not racist, like all their white bros.

And Trump said he would not apologise. Why apologise to apes and monkeys? After all there will be no consequences to white men in white America when they killed, abused, bullied and insulted black men as a societal norm.