IMHO, the states that are the most dysfunctional - CA, IL, OR, NY and others - are those where most of the people with 2 brain cells to rub together have gotten the fuck out of Dodge.
Those left that realize the mess they live in are too old or too poor to get out.
Somedays this is how I feel...
Martin Armstrong explains the "work around" - a China-Iran railway line that isn't even mentioned by anyone. I've heard about it and Armstrong adds in a nice historical perspective.
The Middle East & China Connection | Armstrong Economics
"The reason Iran can attack the Straits of Hormuz is...
[Just sort of free-forming this. It's on my mind.]
Speaking of shit we, as a country, should have avoided...
Just finishing Blackhawk Down again. I left Kenya for the last time as it was happening.
The command staff who didn't have "boots on the ground", especially Garrison and Harrell...
Haven't yet come to a point where I think this was a good or a bad thing.
No one really knows whether there was weapons-grade uranium available or not - I think it's instructive to remember the Gulf of Tonkin "incident" and "Iraq has WMDs". Both were purposeful, complete and utter bullshit...
Trump ran on "America First".
Sorry, bitches, even poking around the edge of other people's wars is none of our fucking business.
But still, some dumb motherfuckers just blindly follow Neo-Con shitweasels like Graham, Bolton, etc right off a cliff.
Morons.
We have a war - right here in CONUS...