Born Hunter

Buy 100k worth of goods from china and sell them to the yanks for 200k undercutting direct supply by 45k

Manipulating space and time though, outside of ‘normal’ special/general relativity, is fantasy.

Technically a rocket can do that. In actuality they haven’t done it yet but technically could. The DoD got very excited about Elons super heavy because they could drop 100+ tons of cargo anywhere in the world within 1 hr of launch with comparable cost to traditional air lift (C5 galaxy).

When they say “create XXXXX number of jobs” I assume that’s not a net increase in available jobs. I.e., yes these are new jobs but how many jobs close down as a result of consumers now spending their money at a theme park rather than the cinema or high street? Will it attract significant foreign investment / tourism? Or is it just redirecting the flow of commerce already here? Frankly I’d rather see BAE set up a new typhoon factory because Turkey suddenly want 100. That’s real jobs and real GDP growth.

I agree with your sentiment but I think Diego Garcia was secured as a military base for a long time right?

Apparently the yanks have moved a huge number of strategic bombers to Diego Garcia. Things are possibly about to escalate…

I’m not sure what the claim is but I doubt the Houthis have hit a US carrier with a missile. Air defences aren’t infallible but I find it unlikely.

Bit of kickback to this new foreign policy. Portugal have lost confidence in the US as a defence partner and cancelled their F-35 ambitions in favour of the strategically more reliable Eurofighter. Long term this is good medicine for Europe. But US power being reduced to carriers and tariffs is bad imo.

So, now the first shots in a trade war have been fired do we think this will play out how Trump expected? The UK is placed lovely to benefit from this you’d think.

If there’s two ships on the seven seas you DO NOT want to crash into each other it’s the one carrying a million tons of jet fuel and the one carrying cyanide!

I reckon after seeing Hull they were overcome with despair and immediately pointed the ship at the nearest object!

It’s this kind of wacky shit that keeps me coming back to the forum

Yeah it would and makes sense normally. But all this time we’ve been told that all the neocons do is rape other countries of their resources and in this war that it’s the encroachment of NATO/EU/‘the west’ that provoked the Russian invasion. This deal is the full realisation of that! I don’t know what the solution here is but what’s being touted is hypocrisy. But even accepting that as now necessary for peace, I think the way this administration is behaving has reduced US power projection to aircraft carriers and tariffs. The day before the Zelenskyy pantomime Trump announced how he would