USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) is pictured transiting the Arabian Sea in support of Operation Epic Fury. The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is nearly as long as New York City's Empire State Building is tall.
🚨#BREAKING United States military officials have confirmed that thousands of Israeli and American-backed Iraqi Kurds have launched a ground offensive in Iran as things continue to escalate rapidly
🚨 JUST IN: Marco Rubio just went off for nearly 12 straight minutes dismantling the fake news narrative around President Trump’s strikes on the Iranian regime. Calm. Detailed. In command of every fact. He didn’t dodge a single question. You can tell he lives this stuff. He’s built for moments like this. Right now he looks exactly like what a Secretary of State should look like. 🇺🇸🔥
topple Iran and Venezuela and that's 20% of China's oil energy supply. China will have to turn more to Russia for cheap oil. Remove El Mencho cartel leader in Mexico and you get rid of the criminals taxing 15% off the top of US-Mexico trade. That is all critical to US plan to decouple from China. The actions we're seeing over the past week are connected.
The US is implementing a grand strategy designed to weaken China's position. The goal is, If China moves on Taiwan in the next two years they will do so without support in the middle east, without proxy cartels in Mexico and without a Russia able to launch any attacks on NATO. The US goal is to focus 100% on the pacific in the next two years.
Not that anybody asked, but…
The first 13 months of Reagan’s second term the stock market (DJIA) rose 33%, setting a record high closing of 9 times
The first 13 months of Clinton second term the stock market rose 25%, setting a record high closing of 5 times.
The first 13 months of Bush’s Second term the stock market rose 5%, setting a record high closing of 0 times.
The first 13 months of Obama’s second term, the stock market rose 20%, setting a record high closing of 12 times.
The first 13 months of Biden’s term, the stock market rose 12%, setting a record high closing of 11 times.
The first 13 months of Trump’s second term, the market rose 10%, setting a record high closing of 10 times.
A $12B rare earth stockpile is a step in the right direction, but buying from China on the open market isn’t independence; it’s a piggy bank with a very fragile supply chain. Until we build domestic processing, this is a buffer against risk, not eliminating it.
#rareearths #refining #geopolitics