weapons sale to UAE

OIL OIL EVERYWHERE AND NARY A DROP TO SHARE

Posted on by Helena

Trump’s Department of Defense has no idea what to do about Iran.  The Strait remains closed.  Iran just called Trump’s bluff and declared the Strait would open if Trump stopped the war against Iran and Lebanon by America AND Israel.  Trump is stalling.  Gas just rose over $111 Brent Crude and the UAE has announced it is no longer an OPEC Member. 

The UAE dropping out is a direct reflection of anger over the outcome of the war on their infrastructure and loss of revenue as a result.  Dropping out of OPEC will allow them to produce and sell as much oil as they want without restrictions, thereby giving them the opportunity to secure their losses. 

Trump wants the Strait closed because American oil company profits would fall as oil became more available.  In addition, he has yet been able to negotiate a share in charging fees thru the Strait.  Uranium was always a non-sequitur.   What to do?  Have America focus on a Ballroom.  The larger picture – what if OPEC dissolves?  Free Oil Production will create a glut and the price could collapse to $35 a barrel.  While benefiting consumers due to price collapse, shale oil producers in America require a $60 minimum to profit. Middle Eastern producers and Russia have a much lower cost threshold.

OPEC Members include;  Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Congo, Algeria, Equatorial Guinea, and Venezuela.  The ONLY producer of oil that requires the $60 threshold is the US.  Thus, Saudi Arabia as Director of OPEC, is really controlled by the US.  The UAE is triggering vengeance and other countries are likely to follow.  What should Trump do?  Build a Ballroom.

Secretary of WAR, Hegseth, decided that given the Iran war was in shambles, and the dastardliness of the weekend Correspondence Dinner charade, he was so traumatized that he needed to give Kid Rock a ride in an Apache, pose with him for a photo-op, and allow Kid Rock to brief soldiers in a meeting at the Pentagon.  Two Apaches were coordinated by Hegseth at a cost of $14,000 per hour.  Initially, the pilots were suspended for the misconduct until it was revealed the misconduct was via their boss ~ Hegseth. 

The degree of judicial misconduct under President Trump’s Regime is beyond comprehension – they learn from Big Daddy.

There are three carrier strike group naval vessels in the Red Sea making sure no one slips by their command control of International Waters.  Waiting for Hegseth and Trump to tell them they can go home.  Meanwhile Trump has ordered the Navy to shoot and kill any small Iranian boats laying mines (a blunder of word grouping challenge – you can’t kill a boat).  Iranians have more than likely already mined the strait and have no need for further mines.  But narratives are no longer worth 3cents. So let’s build a BALLROOM!

In addition to the Iran Blockade, it appears that Trump is coordinating the global gas supply shortage via CIA assist in strikes by Ukraine on Russia’s oil infrastructure.  These attacks are hitting refineries positioned in ports where the destruction not only impacts the port but also endangers the Black Sea environment.  How long can Trump continue this charade on a global level is on par with how long Zelenskky can retain his Presidency.    

With Midterms looming, one would think Trump would be actively running a positive campaign to boost his chosen one candidates.  But as the polls indicate, favorability with Trump is a death sentence for any candidate he endorses.  Incoming Pandemic?  Trump has chosen a pro-vaccine Director for the CDC, Dr. Erica Schwartz.  With Kennedy doubling down on his support for Trump – we may be in for another rollercoaster ride in time for the Midterms … 

Israel will be holding their elections just days before ours and it appears the ‘soul’ of Netanyahu is losing.  The latest reasoning behind his absence being cancer.  No explanation for the zombie campaign of AI Netanyahu’s.  However, the two parties united to beat the Likud are campaigning on a ‘kinder Israel’. 

The ‘kinder Israel’ is a unification of former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett and opposition leader Yair Lapid who claim it is time for ‘a new chapter for Israel’.  Bennett is a hard liner former IDF soldier who was allegedly responsible for the massacre in Kfar Kana when 101 Lebanese were killed when struck by a bomb on the UN compound.  He believes in annexing ALL of Palestine immediately, and views killing of civilians there as WWII Nazis deserving of death.  Promoting Zionism for all, Bennett is Netanyahu’s kissing cousin. He made a fortune buying and selling companies in the US including a Cyber Security company, Cyota (now known as RSA Security), which facilitated  the creation of ‘backdoor access’ for the NSA.

So be it for a Kinder Israel….so what will Trump do?  Build a BALLROOM!

US Weapons? Going, going GONE -Sold to the Middle East

Posted on by Helena

The US had a record year for sales of weapons to foreign governments – so far totaling over $47 billion and going strong through the remainder of the year. The sales are 30% over last year and double that of 2013! Great – right?

But our own military just released a sobering report stating that we are running out of weapons and our military defense is spiraling… How will we fight ISIS if we don’t have any weapons left?

From gifting F-16 fighter jets to Egypt, to Apache helicopters and warships, to patriot missiles and Gatling guns, arms deals with Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, have contributed to a burgeoning arms industry still going strong. The Saudis have used these weapons to parade before Iran and to reduce Yemen to rubble. The US and media claim that Iran poses a significant threat to Saudi Arabia is well – rubbish.

But giving Iran nuclear power while arming Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Kuwait – is not rubbish. It is instigating an all out massive Middle East implosion.

And while the $47 billion price tag sounds like mega $$$$$ profits, our friendly US government subsidizes those sales from our coffers that are apparently empty of dollars to provide weapons for our own military! Of the $47 billion, we taxpayers footed about $11 billion or roughly 25% of the cost. Why? Because the Saudis don’t have enough money to pay the full tab and deserve a discount??

Just this month the Department of Defense authorized the sale of $70 million arms to Turkey. Why? Because Turkey blackmailed Germany, the EU and the US over the refugee crisis. And Turkey won $3 billion euro – to start – $70 subsidized arms, and EU membership status despite its deplorable human rights, its ongoing decimation of Kurds, and its downing of a Russian fighter jet using US made weapons. Add to that the recent reports of ISIS utilizing US made weapons and it would appear everyone has US weapons but – the US!

According to  General Welsh with the US Air Force, the US is “expending munitions faster than we can replenish them.” But how is that possible if we sell $47 billion with $11 billion US government subsidies? Obviously someone is making weapons because we keep selling them! Obviously someone is making money. Obviously the US military is on the short end of the stick in terms of priority. Even more odd is the fact that this General stated that replenishing stock could take up to four years…but we anticipate continuing sales to the Middle East to go on without a hitch!

I have a plan, let’s stop selling to the Middle East. Maybe then it would only take a few months or a year to ramp up our supplies. Or maybe we should just let the Middle East deal with the Middle East. There’s a novel idea.

The news of depletion comes at the point of depletion. Under normal circumstances wouldn’t the statement be made as we ‘approached’ depletion? Because now we may be phoning Russia with our buy order of their cache –  

How much is this little war costing the US?

Between August 2014 and June 2015, the US spent roughly $2.7 billion fighting in Syria, which amounts to $9 million per day. But that does not include what we have been spending on Iraq since 2003 – $187 million per day. That would amount to $71,540,000,000 per year. And what do we have to show for that?   Containment in Syria…nothing in Iraq, we’re still too busy helping Turkey kill the Kurds that we support.

So when we hear about the $500,000 gas station that should have cost $50,000, the $1 billion training program that trained no one in Syria, a Syrian ‘refugee’ plan that will cost the US $55 billion, $4.5 billion to help rebuild everything we destroyed in Syria, and lets not leave out – DYN Corp., a private military company that receives 96% of its funding from the feds amounting to over $3 billion, despite the fact that it has been indicted for fraud, corruption, tax evasion and sexual abuse of children (with no one being punished), I would venture to say that – spending needs a bullwhip!

Of course, all this spending comes as veterans get jacked by VA hospitals, their pay is cut, and their service is life. Who is running this show? Because it is most definitely not the people – as in We the People.