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An angry Donald Trump just denounced the Israeli attack on the South Pars gas fields in Iran, part of the world's largest natural gas reserves, stating in all caps that "NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE BY ISRAEL" on it, though he then threatened to blow up the entire thing himself if Iran continued attacking Qatari energy facilities.

What's that last part about? In retaliation for the Israeli attack on the South Pars gas field, Iran launched an attack on Qatar's Ran Laffan Industrial City, a facility that took years and a small fortune to build. As a result, a full 17 percent of Qatar's liquified natural gas production will be offline for three to five years, after just one strike.

"We may have to declare force majeure on long-term contracts for up to 5 years," said the CEO of QatarEnergy.

Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, who received the endorsement of his life when the neocons went into overdrive to keep him out of the administration, asked the natural question: Israel claimed they coordinated the strike on the gas field directly with the United States. "But Trump here claims, no, they didn't! So who's running the war?"

From the beginning it is apparent that at least nominally the U.S. regime opposed hitting the oil infrastructure of Iran -- the public rationale for which was that a "free Iran" would need those resources, and the additional private rationale being that Iran would likely retaliate against U.S. allies in the region and potentially spark an energy crisis.

Yet the Israeli government launched the attack anyway, which had predictable consequences that harm American interests, but the gamble is that the U.S. regime will not stand up for itself. The Israeli regime does not want the U.S. exiting the war early from its point of view, and strikes like this increase the likelihood that the U.S. gets bogged down in a quagmire.

We should have listened to Pat Buchanan.

We should not have fallen for the equivalent of "wear a mask" and "two weeks to flatten the curve" and "stay home, save lives." We are smarter than this.

Speaking of smart, my friend of 20+ years, Scott Horton, went on the Lex Fridman show several months ago and discussed the entire theater of the disastrous "War on Terror" (how would you like to live in Syria or Libya today, or for that matter Afghanistan?) in great detail.

No regime slogan survived it. Scott talked for ten and a half hours, knowing every detail off the top of his head.

I don't know about you, but I want to learn from a guy like that, as opposed to from Sean Hannity, who knows the 30 seconds worth of slogans his assistants fed him five minutes ago.

Scott feels funny promoting his Scott Horton Academy during a war (or whatever we're calling it), but since it's not my company I feel no such compunction. Not to mention, the war profiteers don't lose sleep over their wartime profits (which come coercively out of your pocket, to boot), so Scott shouldn't lose any over his -- and if ever there were someone who deserved them, it's Scott.

While you're driving your car, learn from Scott so you don't get taken in by the bipartisan War Party. 

Until midnight tonight, take 30% off with coupon code Buchanan, the conservative and patriot we should have listened to:
 
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