Winners
Russia’s Military - Ukraine being low on all sorts of munitions allows for a broad swath of incremental gains along the front. How fast can the US government make a deal to change the situation?
Maritime Insurance Firms - They get to raise rates due to Red Sea attacks.
Third World Immigrants - Never been a better time to make a rush for the US and EU. Plenty of NGOs to feed them and compliant governments to shelter them.
Losers
US Navy - Has America started its work in the Red Sea or not? Will it have any assistance from allies? What is the ROI on shooting down small drones with Raytheon’s missiles?
Western Natives - The human wave of immigrants is destroying quality of life. Is there a safe park to walk through in daytime any large city?
Harvard’s Ousted President - Sure she loses the office, but now she gets paid the same salary and becomes a race martyr beloved by the entire left.
Links
The Red Sea Houthi problem will affect energy markets.
The benefits of free trade were a myth, but how did that all start.
The FBI’s actions in the Whitmer kidnapping plot were despicable.
Honeypot scheme in Boston. Multiple nations possibly involved.
“US Navy - Has America started its work in the Red Sea or not? “
Why is it our work?
Seriously?
It’s time we let the world protect their own shipping. Free trade has been a horror story for Americans. As for energy, we have more than all of them in America.
As for global energy markets- option THIS.
As for the Navy, maybe they got the same memo we all did- walk away. Our trade, our markets, our food, our energy are all internal. We need nothing beyond ourselves and haven’t for over a century.
Now if the exporters wish their commerce protected hire mercenaries, it is long practice on land and can be on sea and air as well. There’s no shortage of people, and it’s far less costly and far more effective. The national military should be used to defend only the nation itself, not its “interests”. This is long practice of nations waging war for mercantile or material gains reasons, it’s very unwise to mislead patriotic men with courage and lethal skills who already exist in a cohesive body.
Wars for money should be fought by mercenaries, preferably American but not misled Patriots, but that has been the case for decades- I strongly advise this stop.
.... but as it happens you ain’t got no people anymore, anyway...
FAFO
Brilliant article on free trade. Looking at the names of ardent free-trade proponents and their motives made it all the clearer for me that we are right.