More American wealth is set to vanish.
I’m going to set up my commentary a little bit, so bear with me as I dump a few negative headlines on you – ice bucket challenge style.
The Bush Administration said the invasion of Iraq would cost $50-60 billion.
The actual cost?
The Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute (a widely cited nonpartisan source) estimated around $2 trillion for the Iraq War alone in earlier reports, with more recent analyses (covering 2003–2023 operations in Iraq and Syria, including anti-ISIS efforts) putting the figure at about $1.8–1.9 trillion to date, rising to roughly $2.9 trillion when including projected future veterans’ care through 2050.
American wealth is going going gone…
Long-term costs, given healthcare obligations to veterans, approach $6trillion by some estimates.
Now tack on another 40% to account for fraud.
The Kushner/Netanyahu war against Iran will be much the same. It is truly a sight to behold to watch an unelected cabal of foreign businessmen traipse around American military sites as if they owned the place:
You think they’re discussing how they’re going to deliver for the American people?
After all, they do own the military sites. Rather, they are direct representatives of the people who do. If you interrogated them after a police arrest, they would probably admit as much without blinking an eye.
Check out the current US national debt. This is the money that is owed to the R*thschilds, Chinese banking cartels, Japan, and various other elite conglomerates:
The Federal government spends a million dollars roughly every 17 seconds.
Having been raised by an award-winning accountant and a trained, professional scientist, I know the importance of the financial figures. They cannot be handwaved away.
America’s liabilities exceed $180trillion.
Trump has been directed to open a US Board of Peace which is basically a real estate group that looks to make upwards of $50billion on the seaside land that the United States just helped Israel level and empty of human life.
Let’s check in on public sentiment regarding the Board Of Peace.
Three weeks ago, the Vatican was invited to the Board Of Peace but declined:
The new Pope isn’t exactly based:
It’s worth noting that Trump did not campaign on the Board of Peace and that the $10billion “set aside” for the board and Gaza’s real estate development was literally conjured out of thin air.
Alright, done with the headlines – on to the commentary.
The recent Venezuelan venture done under the goofy auspices of the Monroe Doctrine, Operation Southern Spear, cost US taxpayers approximately $7billion plus ongoing security commitments in the region.
Have you seen the price go down at the pump?
No, you haven’t because all that Maduro oil is languishing in hoc for whatever reason.
The hope with Operation Unalive The Mullahs is that it will be a decapitation strike. The Democrats are pouncing on the political opportunity by attempting to shutdown Trump/Kushner’s military buildup in the Middle East:
Strip Tromp of all his powers heheh
I don’t like the Mullahs. The Ayatollah is a Black Lives Matter guy:
And he’s probably not an ally, he just said these things cynically to oppose “the Great Satan that is America”.
A part of me would be relieved for total outcome conclusion in the Middle East but we all know it will never end until the entire planet is completely subjugated.
Nest cameras are here. Drones flying by your house will be deployed after a “national emergency”.
Thankfully there is hope: Bitcoin is hanging in there after taking a walloping the past 4.5 months.
People who want to project their power don’t want to hear about Bitcoin. Why? Because all State power is advanced by taking other people’s money for one’s own ends.
That’s the accountant in me.
The accountant don’t lie.
The accountant is grateful you’ve made it this far and so here’s a cool pic as a reward.
The Accountant 1 with Ben Affleck? Good stuff. Accountant 2 with the swarthy little brother? Not so much.
If I was a betting man, I’d say that Bitcoin is set to go down another $20k but I’m not a betting man anymore and your guess is as good as mine. No one can predict the short to mid-term future of Bitcoin apart from figuring that war will drag it down another ~$9k or so, as it has done in each of the last 3-4 military engagements of the past ~6 years (including Biden’s war with Russia).
A nifty way of looking at the baseline price of Bitcoin is that is near or just above energy cost. Beyond that, think of the people who are HODLing right now despite the mountains of Bitcoin FOMO being spread on the timeline. These people are doing what they can to hold the uncivilized world to account. That’s the idealism in Bitcoin. Everyone has their reasons for being vested in it. Some people see that the health of Bitcoin as the death of the creeping Leviathan.
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I’m sick and tired of having to live with the decisions of other people, especially when they’re so inefficient at allocating capital that they force or defraud it out of others. Love the oil and gas guys. Love the organic food producers. Love Toyota for the wonderful, 32 year-old pickup they put into the world for me. Not exactly a fan of these bureaucrats in business suits brainwashing my fellow Europeans into going and dying in yet another Middle Eastern military engagement.
I guess I’ll hope for a limited decapitation strike. Once the money’s stolen, there’s no morality in it and so then you’re just stumping for your personal interests. I guess my personal interest is that as few White men, zero if possible, die in any conflict with Iran. Of course, I don’t want anyone to die. That’s because I’m kind-hearted. That’s a turnoff for a lot of people these days because everyone’s minds have been gooped by short-form video content and a constant barrage of negativity via headlines (sorry I did that earlier to you).
- Here’s my article on The Sea Of Negativity if you’ve been prone to doomscrolling in Tromp’s America and need help breaking the pattern.
- Here’s my recent Telegram post on a recent study showing reduced frontal lobe activity among heavy short-form video users (TikTok much?)
- My recent 12 minute video on X got 18k views. That’s what I used to get on YouTube in about 12 hours, believe it or not. Did you know that only 1.1% of viewers got to the end of the video? Dang, mon.
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