I too have been offered proposals that Rubio will be the saviour. Apparently he’s written some seriously dense and well-researched papers on China, for instance. I respect that. I don’t think he’s dumb. But so far I haven’t been convinced that there’s much daylight between him and the goals set by Project 25. I remember him sitting there mute, while trump, vance and various WH freeloaders humiliated Zelenskyy last year. Was he once an honourable man? If so, that man is gone.
Don't overlook how the Houthis in Yemen are planning to step up harassing shipping in the Bab-el-Mandab around the Horn of Africa, which will strangle the Suez Canal, which in turn will force cargo ships to go around the Cape of Good Hope, increasing demand for fuel despite the shorter supply of oil. Also, a third of the world's exported fertilizer passes through the Strait of Hormuz, so we are looking at food shortages and famines all over the world.
(The Houthis attempted to close the Bab-el-Mandab to support Hamas at the start of the Israel-Hamas war, but these efforts proved less than fruitful because the US sent an aircraft carrier to the area to counter Houthi missiles and drones. This time those naval resources are deployed elsewhere.)
I place the suffering, death and misery that will result from this squarely at the feet of Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump.
We have chosen wealth and social status over respect for our fellow human beings, at whatever status they may occupy. If we can’t remember “there but for the grace of God go I” we have jettisoned our membership in humanity. We are so bedazzled by our own egos that whether we look right or left all we can see is our own self importance.
Another astute observation, Mike. Thank you for sending it into the ethers of the Substack Universe.
I was unaware that Netanyahu had funded Hamas. Where was THAT reporting (and why am I not surprised to learn of it now?)
I doubt that we are getting a full account of what is really happening in this war - there have been some reports that all of our military bases have been hit in the Middle East, our embassy has been hit, airfields have been hit, two of our aircraft carriers have been hit, five air tankers were hit - but where are the news headlines; where are the on-the-ground reporters?
The Florsheim and Mamdani stories are also designed to divert our attention from the Trump-Epstein files, where financial and sex-trafficking connections run directly from Epstein to leaders in our administration, the Mussad, the Near East, Middle East and Russia. The corruption “that must remain hidden” is the reason we entered this war in the first place.
Scroll past most of what I see for this exact reason! Mike thanks for your consistent and thoughtful clarity. I recommend Robert L Arnold for more brilliant analysis. Please check his posts.
If not hinted at, then the dam that has been broken is the last block against a more rapidly downward spiral that will confuse our ability to focus on the essentials of correction. Short of a major wake-up in the geopolitical consciousness of virtually everyone, the global economy may have suffered a terminal blow -- and it was on its last legs anyway. Not that it can't be fixed, just that we don't have enough honest people to make it happen. Bad faith has become the watchword of a tipping point portion of the world's population.
To imagine that any of the Trumpians has the least clue about any of this is pure delusion - a tribute to the corruption of our national consciousness by billionaire media ownership. There are plenty of better heads, but this is a new and rather mind-boggling step down from our usual slow degradation, and while the only hope is tossing the bobbleheads out within the fortnight, we have to continue building the consensus of a new path -- not just adjusting the old one: that is Wile.E. Coyote off the cliff, awaiting the fall.
I too have been offered proposals that Rubio will be the saviour. Apparently he’s written some seriously dense and well-researched papers on China, for instance. I respect that. I don’t think he’s dumb. But so far I haven’t been convinced that there’s much daylight between him and the goals set by Project 25. I remember him sitting there mute, while trump, vance and various WH freeloaders humiliated Zelenskyy last year. Was he once an honourable man? If so, that man is gone.
Call me captain obvious over her but it appears that the world is moving faster than the Atlantic’s editorial decisions.
Terrific observations.
Please. I’m a loyal Bulwark reader and subscriber and I guarantee that no one there has the slightest regard for Rubio. None whatsoever.
Sorry, I missed an edit. I mean to praise both The Bulwark and Lincoln Square.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm more of a Linkin Park fan
I apologize for misinterpreting your intentions, and assume you are similarly enamored of the WSJ editorial board.
Ok then.
https://substack.com/@mikebrock/note/c-227952207?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=1xag6
Don't overlook how the Houthis in Yemen are planning to step up harassing shipping in the Bab-el-Mandab around the Horn of Africa, which will strangle the Suez Canal, which in turn will force cargo ships to go around the Cape of Good Hope, increasing demand for fuel despite the shorter supply of oil. Also, a third of the world's exported fertilizer passes through the Strait of Hormuz, so we are looking at food shortages and famines all over the world.
(The Houthis attempted to close the Bab-el-Mandab to support Hamas at the start of the Israel-Hamas war, but these efforts proved less than fruitful because the US sent an aircraft carrier to the area to counter Houthi missiles and drones. This time those naval resources are deployed elsewhere.)
I place the suffering, death and misery that will result from this squarely at the feet of Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump.
We have chosen wealth and social status over respect for our fellow human beings, at whatever status they may occupy. If we can’t remember “there but for the grace of God go I” we have jettisoned our membership in humanity. We are so bedazzled by our own egos that whether we look right or left all we can see is our own self importance.
Another astute observation, Mike. Thank you for sending it into the ethers of the Substack Universe.
I was unaware that Netanyahu had funded Hamas. Where was THAT reporting (and why am I not surprised to learn of it now?)
I doubt that we are getting a full account of what is really happening in this war - there have been some reports that all of our military bases have been hit in the Middle East, our embassy has been hit, airfields have been hit, two of our aircraft carriers have been hit, five air tankers were hit - but where are the news headlines; where are the on-the-ground reporters?
The Florsheim and Mamdani stories are also designed to divert our attention from the Trump-Epstein files, where financial and sex-trafficking connections run directly from Epstein to leaders in our administration, the Mussad, the Near East, Middle East and Russia. The corruption “that must remain hidden” is the reason we entered this war in the first place.
Scroll past most of what I see for this exact reason! Mike thanks for your consistent and thoughtful clarity. I recommend Robert L Arnold for more brilliant analysis. Please check his posts.
Right On, Mike!
Very well put.
If not hinted at, then the dam that has been broken is the last block against a more rapidly downward spiral that will confuse our ability to focus on the essentials of correction. Short of a major wake-up in the geopolitical consciousness of virtually everyone, the global economy may have suffered a terminal blow -- and it was on its last legs anyway. Not that it can't be fixed, just that we don't have enough honest people to make it happen. Bad faith has become the watchword of a tipping point portion of the world's population.
To imagine that any of the Trumpians has the least clue about any of this is pure delusion - a tribute to the corruption of our national consciousness by billionaire media ownership. There are plenty of better heads, but this is a new and rather mind-boggling step down from our usual slow degradation, and while the only hope is tossing the bobbleheads out within the fortnight, we have to continue building the consensus of a new path -- not just adjusting the old one: that is Wile.E. Coyote off the cliff, awaiting the fall.
Marco Rubio?
A man for all seasons?
The savior of conservatism in our delaminating imperium??
Sporting his gifted, flapping, over-sized Florsheims as he strides the globe as Trump’s foreign policy Colossus?
Pbbbffftt.
I’m sorry, but The Bulwark ridicules Little Marco, not least over the clown shoes. I can’t imagine why you think otherwise.
See my correction.