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This is Trump's screwup, though not his alone. The US empire was already failing, and the events putting that in motion were before Trump was even president the first time. Biden also made things worse by trying to paper over the economic problems, but now we are seeing these tactics of the Biden administration being used in the Trump administration, I was not a fan of it under Biden, and I am not a fan of it under Trump. Eventually we cannot fake our way through economic reality.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/iran-says-it-closed-strait-of-hormuz-again-over-us-blockade-6013867?ea_src=frontpage&ea_med=section-1

Did we really go from "the Strait of Hormuz is open" to being closed again already? And for what, so the Friday headlines would get the market numbers to go up before the weekend?

This is exactly how I expect a declining empire to operate. Do everything to keep up appearances while being ineffectual at maintaining anything long term. No one is going to remember Number Go Up in the future, but they are going to remember the actual decline in standards of living.

I would prefer that the outcome of the war with Iran would be that the USA stops trying to project power and influence in the world and learns to keep more to themselves. But I cannot count on that outcome. Zionist interests and our current politicians seem to be putting us on a path to serious harm for the US and its people. It seems we will have to have the harsher lesson rather than the easier one.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a99rrTC8BQQ

A good example of the feminist mindset on "an unborn [baby] being killed is only bad if the woman did not choose to kill the [baby]."

I have seen this when it comes to the issue of forced abortions in countries such as China. The only trajedy for feminists was not the babies dying, but the fact that a woman's choice was violated.

In a way this shows a religious mindset of the woman's desires being a central tenant to their morality. "I want, therefore it is moral."