Time for U.S. to focus on the Homeland.

 A STRONG AND UNITED HOME, CRITICAL FOR SUCCESS

POLICING THE WORLD, WHILE THE HOUSE BURNS DOWN

It has been a pattern for U.S. presidents that they invariably get bogged down in interventions and entanglements in many diverse places, while the domestic situation disintegrates. For decades this country has allowed its manufacturing base to deteriorate, its fiscal situation become unsustainable and has continued to focus on managing the rest of the world. A world, for the most part that seems to be managing itself more successfully, often in spite of U.S. interventions. 

With a debt near $39 trillion, often as result of these interventions and meddling, a manufacturing sector that is now only 10% of GDP, 750 military bases around the world and a proposed increase in the military budget of 50% to $1.5 trillion. A deficit that is 26% of the 2026 budget. That translates that over 1/4 of the spending this year will be financed by borrowing. Yet if you listen to the debates in congress it is mostly about how much more money we need to spend to protect the U.S. from all those adversaries plotting our destruction. We do not need any adversaries, we are furthering out destruction very well on our own.

It seems some believe we can make our situation better by attempting to weaken or destroy our adversaries whether economic or political. Is prosperity now a relative thing, as long as others are worse off, we are better off. That mentality is not how America became a great nation. Do we need to break the leg of our opponents in the hope of winning the economic race. Everyone will end up poorer.

There was hope of focusing on the western hemisphere as a region of mutual prosperity, were all would cooperate in an effort for mutual betterment, that hope has morphed into some perverted effort at neo colonialism, were the U.S. will prosper at the expense of its neighbors by military force if necessary. A losing proposition, all will become poorer and will demonstrate to the rest of the world that doing business with China and others is more in their interest. Much of the rest of the world does have a vision of mutual prosperity, not, lets knock everyone else

down so we will look prosperous.

Then there is the effort to force the continued use of the dollar as the reserve currency. An insane effort, the dollar became the reserve currency because it was considered "as good as gold", which is no longer the case. Indications are, and the word takes notice, there is no effort in congress or the executive to resuscitate the dollar from it imminent death, just a lot of threats and innovative financial schemes.

It is becoming more obvious by the day that the country is torn in many directions by those who want to sow death, destruction and chaos in the hope of reaping  some perverted profit. Are we now focusing our manufacturing on producing arms in the hope that they can all ultimately go up in flames and require more of the same. Is that what this country has become?

If this country is to survive there needs to be national reevaluation, how can we get our house in order? How can we again be a example to the rest of the world? An example in a positive image, rather than what no one should want to become.

 

Peace negotiations will have no result.

THERE IS NO CREDIBILITY LEFT

ALL ABOUT HOPING FOR THE IMPOSSIBLE

We were all in anticipation that a new administration would have a point of view that could make for serious changes in U.S. foreign policy. After one year, we now see that no new policies are possible in U.S. foreign policy. What is possible is that U.S. foreign policy will only change when it can no longer function economically and even militarily. That time is coming and it is understood by those on the other side of these negotiations, better than the American people.

U.S. foreign policy has not changed in any way, it is till the belief that the U.S. is the center of world and everything needs to revolve around its interests. Negotiations are only used when it is hoped to either deceive the other party or gain time to pursue other paths to supremacy. 

The latest is the ongoing negotiations between Iran and the United States. Only a agreement that would end the sovereignty of Iran and allow them to be disarmed would be acceptable. What is desired is what has been know as the Libyan or Ghadaffy plan. Promise that all one has to do to be an acceptable member of world society is give up your weapons and all will be well, then proceed to destroy the country and leave it in a state of chaos and destruction. It seems the world is now wise to this scheme and no longer bites at this ruse. Much of the world has already understood that western non government agencies, all mostly CIA fronts, intent on creating division and chaos from the inside. The only reason war has not begun is that Iran has acquired enough defensive missiles to make war very costly both to the United States and Israel. If those missiles are eliminated or easily protected from, war would ensue quickly. It has also become a practice in negotiations with the U.S. that one can expect attempts at assassinations of negotiators and leaders while negotiations are on going. That has happened in both negotiations with Iran and Russia. The world has witnessed these practices and now understand the situation.

Middle east countries many who have been allies of the United States now understand that if Iran falls they may be next on the menu. Concerns are now being floated that Saudi Arabia may have nuclear weapons and that Turkey could be a threat to Israel. It is reported that talks are beginning between these countries of a unified defensive origination, similar to NATO. A natural result of the endless conflict in the region.

While I expect that most Americans believe that all is fair in war and conflict, it will in the long run fully destroy any trust that is the basis for any meaningful negotiations, whether political or economic.

While many in Washington believe that they can prevail in global relations, the other side understands that they do not have to defeat the U.S. militarily, they just need to run out the clock and the country will continue to self destruct economically, and eventually militarily. The U.S. has expended itself on attempting to rule the world and will continue to do so until it no longer can. 

 wise to this 

Lots of Epstein dialogue, but no revelations.

 NOT ONE INSIDER HAS DARED TO SPILL THE BEANS

IT APPEARS THE POWER BEHIND EPSTEIN IS STILL POWERFUL

We continuously hear debates and email snippets about what was going on with Epstein's empire of global elite leaders. We understand that most all the leaders in politics, science and finance had connections with Epstein. Most of the scrutiny is focused on young women and sex, but little is focused on what was this empire and what was its purpose?. Many assume blackmail, but not one person, in all these years has admitted to being compromised by Epstein. While we hear of accusations of rape etc., it seems that the victims consented to what was going on. While we hear much about under age, I have yet to see a list of the ages of these victims, of course without their identities. 

There are strong indications that Epstein and Maxwell had connections to numerous intelligence organizations, mostly Mossad and Mi6, it can only be assumed that the CIA and FBI knew what was going on with Epstein.

What is becoming obvious is that all the participants were willing and enthusiastic participants and not one has ever yet conveyed their personnel experiences and interactions with this elite Club. What did they gain by this networking? Why were they there? We are being distracted by the allegations that all this was about sex, I suspect that the powers behind Epstein still retain that power and most likely the networking is still going on, but much more descreatly.

We have yet to hear from the technicians who operated all the video and audio equipment.  It seems the only testimony is by women who were used as entertainment for these meetings. No one, as far as I have heard, has revealed what  these meetings were about and of course who financed all this.  Then we hear the feeble attempt to claim it was financed by Russian intelligence, another weak attempt at discraction. 

I suspect that we are being entertained by a dog and pony show about sex, always something that will captivate the interest of the masses. I doubt that there any serious attempts, even by those who claim to be the maverick investigators, to ever reveal what was and still is the workings of this elite club of global leaders.

Bibi's coming, Will it now be war?

BIBI'S VISITS USUALLY PRECEDE VIOLENT ACTION 

IS HE COMING TO ENCOURAGE OR FOR SAFETY?

Bibi Netanyahu is coming to Washington tomorrow, his appearance in Washington usually indicates that some sort of violent action in about to transpire in the middle east. One must wonder why a phone call would not suffice or other secure communications, always a personal appearance.  Is Trump recording all these private meetings for posterity? never a leak of these meetings.

Some speculate that Bibi is concerned that Trump is going to make a deal with Iran concerning nuclear enrichment that allows them electric generation or other peaceful enrichment, but promises of no nuclear weapons. This has been the narrative for decades, "no nuclear weapons for Iran". It has been the enduring litany that Iran is within days of having nuclear weapons and if they obtain them they will immediately eradicate Israel and then the United States. After all, Iranians are by nature religious fanatics that need to be marginalized or even eradicated if possible. There is lots of evidence that Iran discontinued their weapons program in 2003, primarily because their wacko religious leader believes nuclear weapons are immoral, astonishing that any leader in todays world would believe that anything is immoral.

In their first negotiations the goal was to guarantee no nuclear weapons, but allowed for the enrichment for electric power and other uses, Iran agreed, but Bibi nixed the plan insisting that Iran could not engage in any nuclear enrichment, which everyone understood was impossible for Iran to accept. Then after Israel attacked Iran in June 2025 and assassinated their scientists and political leaders, Iran had the audacity to inflict serious damage on Israel with missile attacks. That has now caused Bibi to insist that Iran cannot have a conventional missile program either. It is not acceptable that a nation of 90 million should have any deterrence against a nation of 9 million. 

So, tomorrow we will see what's up, Trump has been reluctant to engage in war with Iran, mostly for practical reasons that U.S. forces will likely suffer some casualties or even many casualties, Israel will be hit hard with a missile response from Iran, that will encourage escalation and the world oil supply will be effected causing a world economic crisis. So far, Trump has evaded this war against pressur from the cheer leaders for war in the Senate, and Israel, who believe in the invincibility of U.S. and Israeli military power, a theory that will be tested if war ensues.

Then again the decision for war may have already been made and Bibi is just here to join his family in safety until their theories are tested.

NFL can't help being political.

 SPANISH HALF TIME SHOW

IS THE NFL NOW AN INTERNATIONAL SPORT?

Until last night, like many of the entertainers on Super Bowl half time shows, I never heard of Bad Bunny.  One has to wonder what is going on with the organizers of these half time shows, or their sponsors, they just cant help using these shows to make political statements.

First off, it seemed the whole show was in Spanish, without any appropriate translation at the bottom. I guess if you are not Spanish speaking this show was not aimed at you. Do they really think that they made a positive effect on any dialogue about immigration or was it just an opportunity to stick a thumb in the eye of non Spanish speaking watchers, who I assume was the vast majority. Was this all about attempting to provoke Trump, is that what the Super Bowl is now about? 

It also appeared that the majority of adds featured non white actors. In fact many had no white actors at all. Is the viewership of the super bowl no made up of a majority of nonwhites? Does this really aid in inclusion or encourage division?

So, it does prove that WOKE politics is not dead and much of the major media is still in some sort of a biased anti-American mind set. A mind set that believes that the world has a new home in America, if they choose, with all the privileges of citizenship, but requires citizens to provide the funding or assume the debt required to sustain all these inhabitants. They have a dream of a world without borders, without rules or consequences, as long as someone else is paying. It might be good idea for citizens to take note of these advertisers and scrub them from the list of products or services they purchase. 

I suspect this type of messaging will not have a positive effect on any dialogue about immigration, it just reinforces the need for escalated enforcement of immigration law.

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What is the plan for Cuba?

 IF YOU BREAK IT, YOU WILL NEED TO FIX IT

LIKELY TO BE A U.S. DEPENDENT

It is seems there is much anticipation of the end of present Cuban government. The embargo surrounding Cuba has left the island without reliable electric and even a scarcity of food. Proponents believe that the present government cannot last much longer. One has to ask the questions, how is this going to be accomplished and who is going to take over politically in Cuba?

I don't see a viable opposition political movement ready to step in, if the present government falls. I doubt that the population of real Cubans, that is the Cubans who live there now and have lived under the present system, are the same culturally as the Cubans of pre 1960. They have been born and raised under a socialist dictatorship and culturally are far removed from their ancestors in Miami. I suspect very few pre-1960 Cubans are still alive. 

I recall in 1959 listening to my radio as I went to bed of Castro marching into Havana and Batista fleeing to the Dominican republic and then to Spain. I also recall the rejoicing in the U.S. with parades of excitement in New York city. Of course I have no idea what was behind the rise of Castro, one must believe that the CIA knew who Castro was and likely supported his revolution. They has already engineered regime changes in Guatemala and Iran. One has to wonder where they played by Castro or did their agreement go bad.

After 66 years of the present government, which seems to be much more laid back than under the original revolutionaries, the island, from watching travel documentaries, appears to be run down in every way and the population seems also to be very laid back, living the life hoped for by many U.S. socialists. One has to wonder if these real Cubans really want to be saved by the U.S. 

Saving Cuba, of course has been a dream for many U.S. politicians and former Cubans whose ancestors once lived there. Most of the Miami Cubans have never set foot in Cuba.

Again, the question is, who is going to run Cuba in the future? Will it be real Cubans or transplants from Miami? What will happen if Cubans receive the right to vote and then vote for people not acceptable to the U.S. government? Will it be back to sanctions and threats? Do the Cubans of today want their island to be filled with Casinos and resorts or offshore investment havens? Maybe they do, I really have no idea, but has anyone asked them?

No matter what, Cuba has no oil, just sugar and Cigars, both out of favor in the 21st century. Cuba is going to need billions of investment in infrastructure without the means to provide that, so it will be the responsibility of the U.S. to provide that investment, probably for decades. Cuba has primarily been dependent on the Soviet Union and then Venezuela, so it may be the U.S. turn to take over that responsibility. After all, we are the richest country in the world, and saving the Cubans is worth the cost. 

Last nuclear limitation treaty expires.

 ARE THESE DECISIONS BASED ON FALSE ASSUMPTIONS?

NO LIMITS, NO TRANSPARENCY, COLD WAR 2

Yesterday, the strategic nuclear arms treaty expired, it had been in place since 1991. Originally this treaty limited Nuclear warheads to 6000, then reduced them to 1550 in 2010. It was the last remaining treaty that came about after the breakup of the Soviet Union, All the treaties were ended by the United States.

Trump ended the intermediate range arms treaty in his first term. It was ended, with the advise of John Bolton in the supposed hope of eventually including China in the treaty. Other treaties that have expired is one that limited conventional arms in Europe and one that allowed open flights over each others territory to insure compliance.

Putin has proposed several time that Russia was willing to extend the current treaty for 1 year. His proposals were never responded to by Trump or any of his administration.  

There are indications that this administration is being advised that a new cold war will force Russia into economic problems by not being able to compete in an arms race with the United States. This philosophy is based on the prevailing narrative that the Soviet Union collapsed because it could not keep up with arms spending by the United States, ironically the nation with a $39 trillion debt and a marginal manufacturing base. Of course, a new arms race will be very profitable for those who live by war, death and destruction.

Policies based on false intelligence and false assumptions which usually fail can also be very destructive. In this case it sends the message to the world, that it can expect little efforts at real peace treaties, and only that prevailing in military power will disputes be settled. 

The assumption that military spending brought about the end of the Soviet Union rather than a realization by the leaders of that country that Communism or Socialism was a dead end street and made the appropriate but painful effort to change their economic and political polices. An example that would serve most western nations well, as they flounder in an attempt to preserve their former status.