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  • None of these should be goals.

    Direct/liquid democracy where you have the individual right to vote on everything, and so be your own representative, in addition to the right to transfer your vote to a representative, and transfer it back to yourself or someone else at any time, is the only democracy.

    Instead of a cabinet, direct recallable functional administrators are elected until they piss off the people. Liquid/direct democracy can create subdivisions of functional silos with administrator in charge of single task/project, so you don’t have to think of a single cabinet official of a full department, even if there is some coordination/offices in same building.







  • The major, gigantic, impact on your life relies on the fact that these were military expert officers who warned that escalation or ground troops in Iran would be a major disaster. A disaster, where even/especially if you are outside of US will cause extreme cost of living increases with lower quality, at best, assuming you are not ones who will starve, or simply have 0 fuel and ultra low food production.

    Ground troops as an example, means a very long war that could cancel US midterms. Where global shortages are extreme and last too long. $400/bbl oil and $15/gallon US gasoline with double the price elsewhere in the world are the future under such action. Where political wing of Pentagon already needs an excuse to cancel mid terms, incredible global/little americans suffering is the consequence.


  • That would imply that the US would dismantle its bases throughout the region so that the Gulf countries would align themselves with Iran.

    An option that the US has to compensating Iran in exchange for peace, and then US paying for world peace, while keeping GCC control, is to just withdraw and try to pay, be nice to GCC, to keep them under their control umbrella with hope of returning to bases for new attacks on Iran. This cannot work, because Iran would stay angry at them. US bases are destroyed, and require repair $. Trump just proposed a 2027 budget with $600B increase in defense spending, 10% cut to social/health services, and $200B extra Iran war costs. Before the war, Dems wanted last healthcare cuts removed to reopen government.

    There is a genuine threat to automatic Israel reparations funding, and if GCC are practical towards Iran cooperation, then Trump and repbulicans will spite them, and Dems may promote fewer health/social cuts instead of strenthening the absolute failure of a “US protection contract” for these nations. GCC would need to continue being Israel/US colony voluntarily sacrificing themselves to Iran superiority, instead of being practical. Their biggest customer, China, can assist in making them more practical in friendship with Iran and China.





  • China doesn’t have allies, only business partners.

    A better way to go through life, that also makes the business partners friendlier to your continued business.

    Nuking a carrier group would probably doom humanity.

    Sinking ships is permitted response to war declared upon you. MAD is only about ICBMs headed towards homeland to fire back before they land.

    Russia’s patience is only about enduring a proxy war that makes it stronger, with better political capital unity for rulership. Direct war fails containment restraints.


  • A single carrier squadron could blockade china from middle eastern oil.

    Declaring war would be a weak move, and a nuclear missile power can sink a carrier group easily if it deserves to be. China also has real friends to help with anything it truly needs.

    The US will not go down quietly.

    The last gasps of this is flailing against Iran. A permanent war state prevents GCC from switching mid stream. GCC alliance to US/Israel was always based on CIA/Mossad colour revolution coups threats, but if the war ever stops, they will align with their customers and those who assist in reconstruction. There’s not much the US can do about its decline spiral causing allies to leave it.