I guess winter hasn't unconditionally surrendered just yet..., and neither has Iran. We had snow flurries on Monday and Tuesday..., but nothing that stuck around very long. On Tuesday there was a stretch of a few miles on the road coming back home from a mail run where the sleet was so heavy that I was worried about hydroplaning on the black top driving the old Tundra. I was pretty glad that we didn't get any freezing weather to solidify all that slush.
Speaking of Iran..., Paul Craig Roberts offers his Prediction For the War with Iran..., "It looks as if Trump and Israel are going to lose the conventional war. Iran seems to have the larger stockpile of missiles and the determination and ability to stay the course. After having their children slaughtered by the Trump and Netanyahu war criminals, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is unlikely to counsel negotiations or surrender."
James Howard Kuntstler appears to be reading The Chump's lips and offers up Order of Battle "Don't lose your shit over mines in the Strait of Hormuz and the oil price shooting up. ... The news outlets who want the US to fail in this operation (Because: Trump) want you to think that we had no plan for dealing with this problem. That's not so. ... Iran is firing all they've got left..., and there isn't an endless supply of them."
Last week Ian Welsh said..., "Iran, if it keeps going, will run the US/Israel and Gulf States out of interceptors long before it runs out of missiles and drones." This week he focuses on the drones ..., "This is the sort of weapon where the production is almost impossible to stop. Nothing in it is particularly sophisticated and everything you need to make it is available, cheap, from China. ... Missiles are also relatively simple, certainly compared to manned fighters and bombers. The combination of them has up-ended warfare as we're seeing today, as Iran completely wrecks the Middle East and no one can stop them. ... America's global Empire is over after this war, but it will attempt to remain the hegemonic power in the Americas."
If you want a detailed analysis of the situation you can listen to an hour of Chris Hedges interview with John Mearsheimer..., or read the transcript..., "John Mearsheimer details how the American Empire stumbled into one of the largest strategic blunders, and what the effects of it all might entail for the rest of the world."
If you would like to know what the war is costing us in dollars..., this one might help you figure out what it might be at day 14..., when you know what it cost in the first six days. "Because this week the Pentagon went to U.S. Congress with the first tab from the war launched by the administration of Donald Trump: $11.3 billion in just six days --with no end in sight. ... This is what Trump's foreign policy looks like when the slogans fade and the receipts arrive: a war without a plan, a conflict without and endpoint, and a price tag climbing by the hour".
On the home front one gas station had a $5.20 price advertised..., I doubt that it will take long for the other two to breech the $5 threshold that they are already just a few cents short of. Yeah..., WTI Crude "nudged" up to $99.30 today. Good news on the Rib Steak front..., evidently that $18.99 a pound price spooked some folks..., I picked up a couple marked down to $12.99 a pound 😀
Country Joe McDonald passed away this week..., us old timers remember him as the guy at Woodstock who lead "the fish cheer"..., and played this anti-war song...,
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