CURRENT EVENTS - May 15-18
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I can tell from looking at the photo in the linked news article the extent to which Israel has gone to avoid civilian casualties. The part of Gaza in the photo looks barely touched. Kudos to the Israelis for their relentless efforts to avoid damaging civilian buildings and killing or wounding civilians!
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This country is in deep shit.
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Cool, cool: ethnic cleansing! We went to war to stop it; now we're doing it. BTW the country we fought was Serbia, closely aligned with Russia.
How could you possibly relocate 1 million people to Libya. Just the physical transportation alone would be difficult. And then housing, jobs, politics? How is that remotely possible?
Don’t bother Trump with details.
Trail of Tears was just 100,000 people and the terrain was all passable by foot or horse. There is no physical way to walk from Gaza to Libya. And when you get to Oklahoma, there was plenty of water and land that could be farmed. What can you do in Benghazi?
Edit -- well, I just looked at Google maps and there is a road that would work. But don't think anyone would survive that trip on foot.
Pray.
You are right about the journey. That is some of the most inhospitable land in the world. The Germans and the British had great difficulty dealing with it during the battle for North Africa during WWII.
1,000,000 might start the march, but no way in hell 1,000,000 make it.
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they will probably make them walk. They don't care how many make it there alive. Nor how they survive when they get there.
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Nope, it’s backTrump’s Truth Social seems to be glitching out — maybe their AI is having a moment of clarity this morning?:
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U.S. Drillers Say Peak Shale Has Arrived
Lower oil prices are expected to precipitate a decrease in crude output that won’t easily be reversed
—> https://www.wsj.com/business/energy...7c?st=eiT2ZP&reflink=mobilewebshare_permalink
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The U.S. is on track to see crude oil production modestly increase in 2025—in part because of growth in fields offshore—before declining next year by 1% to 13.33 million barrels a day, according to S&P Global Commodity Insights. That would mark the first year-on-year decrease in roughly a decade, outside the Covid-19 pandemic.
“We believe we are at a tipping point for U.S. oil production at current commodity prices,” Travis Stice, chief executive of Permian driller Diamondback, said in a letter to shareholders last week.
Trump had promised that his administration would bring a new dawn for America’s frackers by killing regulations and allowing them to build new pipelines. But even before he took office, U.S. oil production was on track to flatten out and fall by the end of the decade. …”
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Trump urging his buddies in OPEC to increase drilling to keep gas prices low has other impacts he doesn’t seem to grasp or just doesn’t care about. The weird mirage of American “energy independence” has been that even though we do produce enough oil to be genuinely self-sufficient in some years just based on gross barrels produced and gross barrels consumed, we actually export a significant portion of our product and import other oil that is better suited to our refining capacity. And that exported product is pretty price sensitive … there is a reason the Big Oil boom/bust cycle is counter-cyclical.
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