ALLES was ich wahrnehme ist für uns erstmal real!
Ja da stimme ich dir zu.
Die Kunst das Gesehene nachträglich einzuordnen, sei es durch eigene Überlegungen ( gesunden Menschenverstand) oder Recherche im Netz, ist überlebenswichtig .
Man muss das Gesehene immer! hinterfragen.
Cui Bono....
In der akuten Covid-Phase, hätte man das auch mit Ivermectin machen sollen. Indien tat dies und hatte viel weniger Todesfälle.
So ist es.
Wäre Ivermectin als Therapiealternative zugelassen gewesen, immerhin ein Medikament, welches durchaus geprüft und für die WHO als wichtiges Medikament eingestuft war, hätte die " Notfallzulassung " der Impfplörre nie erfolgen dürfen, da ja, wie wir jetzt aus den Protokollen der Enquetekommission erfahren haben, ein Heilsversprechen oder eine Minderung des Übertragungsrisikos oder Krankheitsverlaufs von keiner Seite vorgelegen hat.
Das schlimmste war, dass die Medien eben dieses hilfreiche Ivermectin lächerlich machten, indem sie es lachend als ausschliesslich *Wurmmittel für Tiere * betitelten.
Ich kann mich noch zu gut daran erinnern, wie das im Bekanntenkreis rumgereicht wurde.
So : hast du schon gehört, es gibt tatsächlich Menschen, die behaupten, das Wurmmittel würde gegen Covid helfen....hahahaha
Das ganze war natürlich gegen mich als Impfgegner gerichtet...
Was ich mir da alles so anhören musste, war schon harter Tobak.
Deswegen: Vergeben und vergessen ist nicht !
Alles anzeigenGrosser Fehler, aber nun ist es passiert.
Eigentlich sind immer die Mütter vom Balkan nach NewYork gejettet, um da zu entbinden. Fanden sie toll, wenn der kleine Slavic dann Amerikaner war .....
Hier ein paar links:
https://kpmg.com/de/de/themen/…uerlichen-konsequenz.html
https://www.taxesforexpats.com…-doppelstaatsbuerger.html
Nein, totaler Unsinn! USA und DE haben Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen
https://trustyfinance.de/blog/…tz-in-deutschland-steuer/
usw usw , leicht im Netz zu finden. Im Erbfall geht dann eh alles in die USA.
Danke für die Infos Salorius ![[smilie_blume]](https://goldseiten-forum.com/wcf/images/smilies/smilie_blume1.gif "smilie_blume"){kind=small}
Kurze Klärung. Wie kommt der Finanzbrater drauf, dass sie nun mit dem Kauf einer ET KEINE Steuern mehr zahlen muss?
...... aber reicht 2 Steuererklärungen ein ....?
Frag mich doch nicht sowas 
Ich habe keine Ahnung.
Hat sie mir heute morgen am Telefon erzählt.
Ich hatte dann da so meine Einwände...aber... 
Deswegen suche ich ja nach ,für sie nachvollziehbaren Gründen dagegen !
Kann nicht sagen, dass ich von ihrer Idee begeistert bin. Hat sie auch gemerkt..
Nein, totaler Unsinn! USA und DE haben Doppelbesteuerungsabkommen
Deswegen muss sie ja immer 2 Steuererklärungen machen!
Grosser Fehler, aber nun ist es passiert.
Eigentlich sind immer die Mütter vom Balkan nach NewYork gejettet, um da zu entbinden. Fanden sie toll, wenn der kleine Slavic dann Amerikaner war .....
Lies sich nicht vermeiden...wenn man dort eine zeitlang(mehrere Jahre) wohnt...
Ich möchte den Steuerbrater keinesfalls nahetreten, aber der Tip ist ja sowas von alter Kamelle. Eigentumswohnung selbst/fremdgenutzt machen Weltenunterschiede in dr Betrachtung.
Dann bist Du Teil einer "WEG", viel Freude mit den Usancen der Deutschen bzw der anderen Mitbewohner.
Eine Eigentumswohnung ist die Hölle, weil Du in einem Boot mitschwimmst, wo alle mal nach links rennen und dann wieder nach rechts, oder nach hinten ....
Sie soll fremdgenutzt /vermietet werden
So Leute,
ich brauche mal eure Hilfe.
Tochter hat mit einem Finanzberater gesprochen.
Der hat ihr ,um Steuern zu sparen empfohlen, eine Immobilie also Eigentumswohnung zu kaufen.
ETFs , Aktien etc um sich anderweitig abzusichern
kommt für sie nicht in Frage, weil nach eigenen Aussagen keine Bank das mit ihr macht, weil sie 2 Staatsangehörigkeiten hat. Ihre Zweite ist US. Keine Bank will den Trouble alles an die US Steuerbehörde melden zu müssen machen. Ihre Aussage!
Bank in US kommt auch nicht in Frage, weil sie dann richtig in die Steuermühle dort gerät.
Sie muss eh 2 Steuererklärungen angeben. Das reicht ihr schon so.
Ihr Finanzberater hat ihr also deswegen eine Eigentumswohnung empfohlen.
Sie kennt einen Kollegen, der das wohl schon letztes Jahr so gemacht.
Jetzt meine Frage, ist das wirklich so, dass sie dann kaum bis keine Steuern mehr zahlen muss???
Eigentlich zu schön, um wahr zu sein.
Wenn möglich mit entsprechendem Link dazu.
Denn nur: Ich hab das so gehört , wird sie nicht überzeugen.
Alles anzeigenich sagte ja, Bibi wird beseitigt...
"DIE VERHÖRPROTOKOLLE VON NETANJAHU SIND GERADE DURCHGESICKERT UND ENTHÜLLEN, DASS ER DIE HAMAS PERSÖNLICH FINANZIERT HAT. DAS ÄNDERT ALLES.
Teil 1
1.000 Stunden geheimes Polizeiverhörmaterial von Benjamin Netanjahu. Jetzt öffentlich. In Israel verboten. Geht weltweit viral. Folgendes ist auf diesen Bändern enthalten:
Netanjahu veranlasste persönlich, dass die Hamas jeden Monat 35.000.000 US-Dollar aus Katar erhält.
Dies geschah in Koffern mit Bargeld, weil sich selbst Banken weigerten, mitzuwirken.
Er bat Katar persönlich, ein Land ohne Verbindungen zu Israel, Geld an seinen „Feind“ zu geben.
Er tat dies, während gegen ihn aktiv wegen Korruption ermittelt wurde.
Seine eigenen Worte: „auf persönlichen Wunsch von Benjamin Netanjahu“
Gesamtbetrag, der mit seiner Zustimmung an die Hamas überwiesen wurde: ÜBER 1.000.000.000 US-Dollar
Das muss man sich mal vorstellen. Derselbe Mann, der nach dem 7. Oktober aufstand und erklärte: „Hamas ist ein Monster, wir werden sie vernichten“, war es auch, der Hamas mit Koffern voller katarischer Bargeld am Leben hielt.
geht gleich weiter in Teil 2"
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Ich wundere mich nicht wirklich über den Inhalt der Protokolle.
Nur: Warum ! kommt das ausgerechnet JETZT raus ???
Wenn die Kurse in dieser Korrektur noch unter 4000 und unter 60 $ tauchen, dann haben wir bei COEUR die Riesenunterstützung von 13,7 USD (die vorherige "4")
das wäre in meinen Augen die Bastion und
wäre ebenfalls eine Kurshalbierung. Hier würde ich meine Position nochmals ausbauen auf das Klumpen-
risiko von 25 %.
Ich habe nicht viel Ahnung von EW .
Deswegen mache ich K.I.S.
Keep it simple
Und was ich in deinem und auch meinem Chart sehe...ist ein Doppeltop...
In diesem Sinne,
ich lern übrigens grad Brotbacken,
kann man immer mal brauchen und schmeckt echt besser 😎
Willkommen im Club der Brot Bäcker
Aber ich würd gern den Verantwortlichen für diesen Sch**** meine Docs in den A****
pedipulieren, symbolisch gesprochen natürlich 🙄.
Grüße Bb
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Das steckte heute in unserem Briefkasten!
By Tom Kool - Mar 24, 2026, 4:30 PM CDT
In a typical Chinese rare earth processing plant, 200 workers move through a maze of massive chemical tanks, risking life and limb to produce the materials that power everything from fighter jets and missile components to cellphones.
Hundreds of these facilities operate across China, and they give Beijing overwhelming control over the single most critical choke point in the modern industrial economy.
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What strategic advantages does REalloys' supply chain offer?
What makes Saskatchewan's AI-powered processing plant different?
How is REalloys breaking China's rare earth monopoly?
Why are the Pentagon's 2027 procurement rules important?
But now, in Saskatchewan, Canada, a hi-tech plant of engineers and chemists is beginning to break that monopoly.
The facility is built around an AI enabled operating system that minimizes waste, reduces exposure to hazardous materials, and creates a cleaner, more secure processing chain.
And one company has locked in exclusive rights to the vast majority of what that plant produces.
That company is REalloys (NASDAQ: ALOY).
It operates in the part of the rare earth supply chain that barely exists outside China - the step where strategic independence is actually won or lost.
As President Trump pointed out, it isn’t rare earths that are critical to national security, it's the “rare processing” industry.
Digging minerals out of the ground is relatively easy. Turning them into finished metals and alloys for fighter jets, drones, missile guidance systems, and advanced radar is something else entirely.
That’s where Western supply chains break down, and where REalloys is fighting to make a difference.
The company operates its own metallization facility in Euclid, Ohio, built on nearly a decade of R&D with the U.S. Department of Energy and Department of Defense. It also holds an exclusive offtake agreement with the Saskatchewan Research Council (SRC), the government-backed group behind the AI-powered processing plant.
Here’s how the chain works: SRC refines rare earth feedstock sourced from allied nations across four continents. REalloys takes delivery in Ohio, converts those metals into defense-grade alloys and magnets, and has confirmed contracts with the U.S. defense industrial base.
Every critical step happens on North American soil - with no Chinese chemicals, no Chinese technology, and no Chinese capital.
As REalloys’ Head of R&D, Andy Sherman, puts it: “Concentrates are commodities. Materials are commitments.”
The Pentagon doesn’t buy rocks. It buys finished, defense-qualified materials.
And that’s exactly what this supply chain delivers.
How China Accidentally Created Its Biggest Competition
When REalloys (NASDAQ: ALOY) processing partner began developing its first commercial rare earth separation facility, China controlled the overwhelming majority of global export technology. Following China’s 2020 export control law, access to that technology became restricted.
So the team ultimately designed and built its own separation, control and automation systems domestically – establishing independent Western rare earth processing capability.
What they ended up with was an alternative to Chinese technology with better output and without the supply chain risk.
As a result, the facility has automated the most labor-intensive step of rare earth processing, separating up to 17 chemically similar elements into the specific rare earths you need.
In a Chinese plant, this process requires over 200 workers managing chemical tanks and adjusting valves manually. The Saskatchewan facility was able to reduce this by approximately 80 workers and an AI that receives thousands of data points every second and can make the necessary adjustments that no human team could coordinate.
The plant was deliberately built at about 25-30% the capacity of a full-scale Chinese commercial facility, essentially a demonstration plant to prove the technology. At a fraction of the size, however, it already has the capability to produce much higher purity metals and higher output than Chinese plants.
Commercial production is expected to start in early 2027, once the plant reaches full production REalloys expects to receive approximately 460 tonnes of defense-grade rare earth metals per year. That material becomes the permanent magnets inside the next generation of Western defense systems like fighter jets, missiles, and drones.
Why This Matters Right Now
Most people have heard that China dominates the rare earths market, about 90% of the world's rare earths are processed there. What they haven't thought through is what that actually means when the supply gets cut off.
Japan figured this out decades ago and built strategic stockpiles covering two to three years of national consumption. The United States, however, has stockpiled nothing. Neither has Europe.
We've been running on just-in-time supply from a country that issues rare earth export licenses on a monthly basis. If Beijing is happy with you this month, you get your allocation. If they're not, they cut it.
When China briefly restricted exports last year, a Ford plant was forced to shut down almost immediately. When Trump threatened 100% tariffs, China's response was simple: no more processed rare earths. Trump backed off very quickly.
Now consider the effects on the military side. In 2024, Ukraine produced 1.2 million combat drones, every single magnet in every one of them was manufactured in China. An F-35 carries 435 kilos of rare earths. A next-gen U.S. destroyer needs 4.5 tons. A nuclear submarine needs 1.5 tons.
Without a secure supply of these materials, none of those systems get built, which means China effectively holds a kill switch over Western defense production.
The Pentagon knows it, too. That's why new procurement rules taking effect January 1, 2027, will ban Chinese-sourced rare earths from the entire U.S. defense supply chain, from the mine all the way through to the finished product.
That means every defense contractor in the country will need a qualified, non-Chinese source. REalloys (NASDAQ: ALOY)is positioning to be that source.
"1% Reliance on China Is 100% Reliance on China"
There's a reality in the rare earth industry that most companies haven't fully reckoned with: 1% reliance on China is 100% reliance on China. If any single input in your supply chain comes from Beijing, your entire operation is one phone call away from shutting down.
REalloys' supply chain has no Chinese inputs at any stage, processing technology, furnaces, chemicals, AI systems, or consumables. All of it is sourced outside China.
Most of the competition can't say the same. You can mine rare earths in the U.S., build your own processing plant, and still be one supply disruption away from a shutdown.
That’s because critical parts like graphite anodes need replacing several times a week, and right now they only come from China. Starting from zero, it would realistically take five to seven years to build what REalloys already has.
What Makes This Opportunity Different
REalloys has exclusive rights to defense-grade rare earth metals through the Saskatchewan facility, including the heavy rare earths, Dysprosium and Terbium, that dramatically increase a magnet's performance.
Light rare earths go into washing machines and consumer EVs. Heavy rare earths, on the other hand, go into F-35 fighter jet engines and missile guidance systems. REalloys (NASDAQ: ALOY) plays the scarcer, more strategically critical end of the market, at a fraction of the valuation.
Their Ohio facility converts those metals into finished alloys and magnets, and scaled production is expected to scale up to 18,000 tonnes per year of heavy rare earth permanent magnets. At that level, REalloys expects to become the largest producer of refined Dysprosium and Terbium outside of China.
Washington has taken notice as well. REalloys has secured a $200 million letter of intent from the U.S. EXIM Bank. And the board reads less like a commodities company and more like a national security briefing, including a former Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army, the President of GM Defense, an executive formerly from top defense companies like Raytheon and Boeing, the former Premier of Saskatchewan, and the President of Palantir Canada.
The Pentagon’s deadline is now months away, while competitors are still 5 to 7 years behind.
REalloys (NASDAQ: ALOY) expects to be the only company with a fully operational, non-Chinese, mine-to-magnet supply chain when it arrives, powered by six people and an AI that outperforms plants with 80 workers on the floor.
Despite what most believe, the rare earth story was never about who has the raw material in the ground. It's about who can turn the raw material into something the Pentagon can actually use, and right now, that answer is REalloys.
Alles anzeigenhttps://www.facebook.com/share/r/17i9LLwUCB/
Ende der kleinen Eiszeit 1850.
Sorry - Facebook, können leider nicht alle sehen.
lg meggy
Doch! Ging auch ohne Account. Nur der Ton nicht. Ist aber egal, weil untertitelt.
Oil Plummets 8% as Trump Postpones Hormuz Deadline Threat
Iranian media has claimed there had been no direct or indirect contact with President Trump.
Early on Monday, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) appears to have signaled a shift in tone as the deadline set by U.S. President Donald Trump to reopen the Strait of Hormuz approaches, easing earlier threats against civilian infrastructure even as the energy standoff continues to tighten global markets.
The Strait, effectively closed since late February following U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran, remains the focal point of the crisis. Roughly 20% of global oil and LNG flows transit the chokepoint, and the disruption has already driven a sharp spike in crude prices and heightened fears of a prolonged supply shock.
In a statement carried by regional outlets, the IRGC denied targeting desalination facilities in Gulf states and instead accused U.S. forces of striking water infrastructure on Iran’s Qeshm Island. The Guards warned that any U.S. attack on Iranian power plants would be an “inhumane act,” citing the cascading impact on hospitals, water systems, and critical civilian services.
The messaging marks a shift from earlier threats issued over the weekend, when Iranian officials warned of sweeping retaliation, including mining large parts of the Gulf and targeting regional energy infrastructure linked to U.S. interests.
At the same time, Tehran maintained that escalation remains on the table. The IRGC reiterated that if Washington proceeds with strikes on Iranian energy assets, it would respond by targeting power plants tied to U.S. operations in the region, along with broader industrial and energy infrastructure.
By Charles Kennedy for Oilprice.com
Die Frage ist ja, wie und wo er das gesagt hat. Bei einer Pressekonferenz oder auf einem seiner berühmten 6-Finger Videos mit randvollem Kaffeebecher, der auch bei schwungvollen Bewegungen nichts verschüttet.
Ja ...ich frage mich das auch. Zumal keine weiteren Angaben dazu gemacht wurden.
Oder ob das wieder bewusst gefaked wurde, um den Ölpreis zu drücken ???
Hat ja geklappt...fragt sich nur wie lange das diesmal anhält...
Alles anzeigenWas ist mit Netanjahu? - Hopf und Kettner sind die ersten deutschen Youtuber, die es bringen.
Jedenfalls nach allem, was ich bisher gesehen habe.
In letzter Zeit gab es drei Videos als Lebenszeichen von ihm. Zwei davon weißen eindeutige KI-Merkmale auf und auch das aktuellste hat immer noch eine Ungeremtheit mit einem Ring, der mal da ist und mal nicht.
6:02 bis 11:55
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By Josh Owens - Mar 19, 2026, 9:12 PM CDT
Oil prices pulled back sharply on Friday, reversing part of the previous session’s surge, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested the Iran war could end sooner than expected.
At the time of writing, West Texas Intermediate crude was trading at $92.57, down 3.12%, while Brent crude stood at $105.18, down 3.19%.
The latest decline follows a volatile 24-hour period in which oil prices surged dramatically on the back of an Israeli attack on the South Pars gas field and an Iranian attack on energy infrastructure across the region. Those escalations briefly pushed Brent beyond $119 per barrel on Thursday, as fears of further serious supply disruptions peaked.
Sentiment in markets then shifted as Netanyahu said that joint U.S.-Israel strikes had significantly degraded Iran’s strategic capabilities and that the war would "end faster than people think.”
Crucially for oil markets, Netanyahu also emphasized that the campaign would not be open-ended and indicated that Israel would refrain from further attacks on Iran’s South Pars gas field at the request of President Trump. The move helped ease immediate concerns about further escalation targeting critical energy infrastructure.
PHIL HARPER
MAR 17, 2026
Whenever I write about Israel, I immediately hear from people who cannot bear criticism of the state. There’s a similar effect when I talk about Trump. To navigate this moment requires considering things on their own merits—something I know my audience does well. Tribalism is what drove us here; I doubt it will be what gets us out.
Despite the clear incentive for a knee-jerk response to Trump, I have resisted it. Trump, like everyone else, can be judged on his own merits. He certainly has some: he stands outside the standard political oligarchy, and he says things no other politician would dare. I liked the anti-war campaign he delivered—his vocal commitments to avoiding Middle Eastern “adventures” and World War III. To hear it said so explicitly was refreshing. Given the subject matter that launched this Substack, I was also pleased to see Trump engage with RFK Jr.
But here’s the thing: what someone says can be entirely at odds with what they do.
In RFK Jr., we got something we wanted from Trump, but it’s important to understand why we got it. Trump engaged with RFK Jr. for the same reason he engages with anything: it benefited him personally at the time. He saw that RFK Jr. was polling well. He saw that the medical freedom movement had broken into the mainstream and, in that, he saw an opportunity to bring a powerful figure into his fold. He is a savvy political operative, so he seized the moment. The RFK phenomenon became wind in Trump’s sails.
Well, so what? We got RFK, right?
I don’t believe Trump actually cares about medical freedom or health. Do you? This is the man behind Operation Warp Speed. Trump observed he’d gain power by integrating RFK Jr. into his campaign, so he did it. Maybe the medical freedom movement gets something out of the deal, but it was always a transactional power play. The “why” was power, not health or policy.
The why is more important than the what, because understanding motivation gives you predictive power over future actions. As we’ll see, that is a very handy tool for getting people to do what you want.
When Trump campaigned on “no more forever wars,” no more taxes on foreign conflicts, and no more soldiers coming home in boxes, was it because he truly believed it? Or was it because he understood the power of holding that position? While it’s reasonable to assume a candidate might deliver on a promise made so unequivocally, that assumption misses the underlying motive.
Trump’s “why” is almost always rooted in power. That isn’t always a bad thing, but it is consistent. It’s how he has operated since the beginning of his career dealing with the property mafia in New York. Power, the perception of power, and the projection of power are integral to his survival. In this worldview, your integrity, your beliefs, and your actual commitments matter significantly less than the leverage you hold in an interaction.
So, when he told America he was anti-war, he was using that stance to gain power—power he might later trade for something else. When he championed medical freedom, he did so to gain power he could later trade. When he claimed to be the “crypto president,” he did so to gain power he could later trade.
It is easy to get swept up in the excitement. A crypto president? RFK heading health services? No more wars? Yet, each of those groups ultimately ended up disappointed. The crypto president didn’t deliver; he used his influence to make millions selling “Trump tokens.” The medical freedom president previously appointed Alex Azar, a bona fide pharmaceutical executive, as Secretary of Health and Human Services. And now, the “anti-war” president has started a catastrophic war with Iran.
Trump has plunged the planet into a global crisis—the exact thing he promised he wouldn’t do. The exact thing. You can twist and contort this if you must, but the facts remain. He explicitly campaigned on the opposite of what he is now doing. “I can tell you, you’re not gonna have a war with me,” he said repeatedly. “We will demolish the deep state. We will expel the warmongers... those stupid, stupid people. They love seeing people die.”
Another campaign favorite? “We would’ve had a deal with Iran within literally minutes after the election... They were dying to make a deal.” Yet here we are, staring down the barrel of WW3.
He said those things because it was expedient. It got him elected, and getting elected got him power. While Trump claims negotiations weren’t going his way, Omani mediators—key players in the U.S.-Iran nuclear talks—noted that every concession asked of the Iranians had been agreed upon. How does that equate to negotiations failing?
It becomes crystal clear: Trump is not anti-war. He simply recognized the power of the rhetoric. Given what we know now, Trump being “anti-war” is as absurd as a communist buying a water company or a capitalist raising taxes to 100%.
We can use this same model to understand why he launched this war. Did he mistakenly believe it would benefit him in the short term? Did he think it would gain him additional political leverage? This brings us to the fatal flaw at the heart of the Trump presidency.
In markets, an “alpha signal” is a pattern that predicts future movements. In poker, if you discover someone’s “tell,” you can exploit it. When Conor McGregor fought Jose Aldo, McGregor spotted a tell in Aldo’s game and even told journalists about it before the fight. He then ruthlessly exploited it and knocked Aldo out.
Trump has a tell. His game has been obvious for a long time: He has a massive ego, he acts in the short term to increase his power, he craves flattery, and he is wounded when people don’t respect him. These aren’t difficult tells to work out. It means the people surrounding Trump can gain power simply by playing the game. They frame things in ways that motivate him to act. Once you see the tell, he is easy to move into position.
A great, if odd, example is the shoes Trump buys for his hand-picked executives. They are expensive dress shoes he likes; he looks at a staffer’s feet, guesses the size, and has an aide order a pair.
“Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have some. So do Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, Trump’s communications director Steven Cheung, deputy chief of staff James Blair and speechwriter Ross Worthington. Fox News personality Sean Hannity and Sen. Lindsey Graham each have a pair.”
Marco Rubio wears these shoes even though they are reportedly too big for him. Imagine walking through NATO and White House meetings with your feet being chewed up by ill-fitting Oxfords. Why would you do that?
Because it pleases Trump.
What Trump considers a loyalty test is actually a tell to be exploited. If I say, “You have great taste, I love these shoes,” my proximity to his power increases. One reading is that Trump is a “strongman” demanding people wear his clothes. My view? Trump is the one being exploited. His penchant for flattery is so obvious that people like Rubio, Graham, and Lutnick are happy to play along if it buys them influence.
These idiosyncrasies make him easy prey for motivated actors. Lindsey Graham has been psychopathically campaigning for war with Iran for two decades. Two decades. Lindsey Graham wears the shoes.
Trump is an empty vessel of a president, just as easily manipulated as Biden was. The "swamp" he promised to drain simply learned his tell. You see this now as Trump realizes the war in Iran has not gone as expected. In a rare moment of contrition, he has begun blaming his advisors like a schoolboy explaining poor homework. He is trying to reclaim lost power by shifting the blame, but it isn’t an excuse. He is the one making the judgments. If his shortcomings allow him to be exploited, that is on him.
In the early days of this conflict, Trump clung to the idea that he could stop it “any time he wanted.” He likely believed it, but that belief was built on “advice” designed to stroke his ego and his desire for ratings. It is trivial to sell a war to a man led by those principles.The Digger is a reader-supported publication.
Trump’s tell has been used to drag America into a war that could last for years. The tragedy of promising to "expel the warmongers, those horrible warmongers from our government — those stupid, stupid people." only to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with them and accept their stupid gifts. The very "warmongers" he vowed to exile simply worked out his tell, put on his shoes, and played his ego until they got the one thing they’ve wanted for two decades.
It doesn't matter what Trump believes now. The war has started, and he doesn't have the power to stop it. He’s in it, and there is no obvious way out — which is precisely what the warmongers who infiltrated his presidency wanted.
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Das ist aber vom 17. Februar 2026 ....
