As you are aware, CTH is watching the small details closely on the U.S-Russia alignment against the backdrop of friction with the European Union, the U.K and NATO on issues surrounding Iran. In the past several days there have been several smaller moments lost amid media chatter of bigger news items, this is one such example today in the Oval Office.
During a press availability with the Artemis II astronauts, President Trump was asked for an update on the Ukraine conflict and seemingly stalled negotiations between U.S. intermediaries and Russia. At 04:12 of the video below, President Trump notes he spoke at length with Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin today on issues related to the Ukraine conflict, and {{{thoughtful-pause}}} Iran. WATCH:
President Vladimir Putin is in no hurry to ceasefire in Ukraine, and the U.S. military operation in Iran is not against his interests.
On April 12, 2026, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent quietly extended the sanction relief for Russia, permitting oil/gas sales loaded on vessels by 4/17/26 for transit and sale through 5/16/26. This permits Russia to push oil to Asia, specifically China, India and ASEAN countries where it is needed, while simultaneously the UAE and Saudi Arabia increase oil pumping avoiding the issues with the Strait of Hormuz.
This is happening while the U.S. is providing large oil and LNG supply increases to South/Central America, Europe and Japan to offset any global shortages.
Russia supplies China, India and Southeast Asia; the U.S. supplies Europe and Japan; the UAE supplies India and Australia; while Saudi Arabia supplies Africa and Europe. Global markets stable, Iran then faces operation financial fury led by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. {Go Deep}
So, we can reasonably see the general tone of the conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.
Well, after this press briefing, President Trump sent the following message on Truth Social.
During the press briefing President Trump noted, yet again, his profound disappointment with Europe, the U.K and NATO allies. Trump delivered praise for King Charles as a statesman but separated the political policy aspects of the U.K from his impression of the monarch.
These remarks about drawing down U.S. troop levels in Germany comes against the backdrop of German Chancellor Fredrich Merz being highly critical of President Trump’s intention to incapacitate Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon. Chancellor Merz is looking for any distraction he can come up with to avoid the issue of a severely contracting German economy.
Most Americans do not fully appreciate how the German national identity is defined by their industrial economy. The traditional people of Germany have a self-image that is -in large measure- the result of their economic condition. Everything centers around industriousness. Weaken that a little bit and the hardcore German people get visibly angered.
Commissar and European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, is also not happy. “In just 60 days of conflict, our bill for fossil fuel imports has increased by over €27 billion, without a single molecule of additional energy,” she told the European Parliament in Strasbourg.” {CITATION}
For all reasonable intents and purposes President Trump has withdrawn support for Ukraine. At the same time President Trump has openly been questioning NATO General Secretary Mark Rutte about the seemingly irrelevant purpose of the alliance.
Now, we might think this is just some transitional matters that have been visited before in various peaks and valleys of the geopolitical relationship. However, that is not the case this time.
How do we know this time it is something far more significant?
Well, the EU is debating dropping their climate goals.
BRUSSELS — Energy companies will be able to break the EU’s pollution limits and get away with it, under measures being considered by the European Commission ahead of a gathering of EU leaders in June.
The EU executive is considering a “zero-penalty” option that would allow national authorities not to fine companies that break strict rules governing methane emissions scheduled to come into force next year, according to two people familiar with the matter who were granted anonymity to discuss the sensitive discussions. (link)
The IC and deep state have made us believe for 80 yrs that Russia is a boogeyman to fill their budgets and dark budgets.
Russia has never been the boogeyman like most believe.
Not when it has been controlled by actual Russians who love Russia.
It is necessary to subtract the Rothschild controlled oligarchs period between Yeltsin and Putin, as well as the communist decades period just before that from Stalin forward, and, most especially, the virulently anti – Christian, slaughterhouse Bolshevik period.
The genuine London animosity began after the real Russian revolution against the Holocausting Soviet Union which they collapsed to the chagrin of London. Soviet Union was a construct, a golem.
Lend-Lease: Western Aid for the Soviet Union
To this day, few Westerners realize just how extensive was US aid to the USSR in WWII. The Roosevelt administration purposely kept it on the down-low (while playing up US aid to Britain). Also, unlike Britain, which had to pay for its Lend-Lease aid, all the tanks, trucks, food and much else besides that went to Stalin was “on the house.” In 1951, we finally got the Kremlin to sign a treaty whereby they settled their WWII debts for about 10 cents on the dollar. Britain didn’t pay off its debt until 2011.
No country had to repay Lend-Lease and the UK got 3x what the Soviets did. What the UK repaid was a postwar loan given because of the decrepit state of their economy. It did include the value of Lend Lease goods in transit when the war ended. Neither country paid off their WW1 debt.
100% 🎯. Someone who actually knows Russian history here.
Bravo!
The Gulag Archipelago
By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
tells his own graphic Russian story as a captive in the Gulag camp(s) of his own country.
When Solzhenitsyn won the 1983 Templeton Award, he gave this speech:
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn-men-have-forgotten-god-speech/
Stalin and Khrushchev ???
Most people today have little awareness of the cozy relationship that existed between our Roosevelt administration and Stalin . FDR was President much of 4 terms.
“American Betrayal” book by Diane West regarding Roosevelt and Stalin relationship.
I have to disagree. I was in the Navy before the Berlin wall was taken down. When Russia was the USSR, I can tell you they were not our friends. They were the boogeyman. Show where they were not, but you cannot. So please don’t say 80 years. I am only 58, and I know how much the Cold War was not cold. Now, I believe that Russia today is not our enemy, but please don’t blow smoke up my ass saying we weren’t at each others throats a mere 35 years ago.
Follow the money, not the troops or the arms.
Russia collapsed when Reagan stopped the economic and trade subsidies, is my understanding.
I spent 6 years in post Soviet Russia (I am 60, so same vintage as you) on behalf of our military and IC, and I wholly concur with your statement. Soviets were indeed a threat. Russia not so much. The people of the Soviet Union and Russia are a separate story from the leadership.
^^^^
The worst Communists in the Soviet Union were Ukrainian and Georgian!
When I remember how the USSR (led by Russia, right?) was funding all the left wing groups in the US back on the 50s and 60s etc, I know that Russia was not our friend.
Many of the groups we are having trouble with today are the offspring of those groups.
And with Putin being ex-KGB, he is well aware of the damage they did to us.
The groups we are dealing with today owe their allegiance to George Soros and the Tides Foundation.
It goes back further than Soros. Soros is riding the coattails of more sinister people behind the scenes like the Rockefellers. Almost every globalist anti-American organization has the Rockefellers involved in their creation or initial financing long before Soros.
Back in early fifties I went on a junior high school trip to the Rockefeller Institute in NYC. Even at my age then I knew while there that I was in the midst of evil. I believe today that the trip played a large part in my becoming a Conservative. Right out of high school, I joined the John Birch Society.
The Soviets were doing their best to stir up trouble in black America and succeeded.
Woth the blessing of the moneyed elites of the west.
So that’s history.
Now American citizens – Soros et al – are financing the Marxist American Revolution.
Who needs a foreign bogeyman – apart from the City of London.
Stalin and Khrushchev were very real threats.
Go view Khrushchev’s speech at the UN where he proclaimed to the U.S. and the West, “We will bury you”.
Mistranslation.
Not in spirit. Much USSR money and time were spent on building internal strife in the USA, to fulfill the rest of that idea, which was to weaken and bring us (and our allies) down from within using every available means.
And that is what the present Marxist terrorists are continuing to do in the absence of the aparatchik-at-large that once was our most invisibly active worst enemy.
This from an old cold-war soldier eyewitness.
Whatever it was before. Modern Russia is not the threat. The Warsaw Pact has been gone for decades.
China is by far the biggest threat. And the Chinese democrat collusion was and is very real. The actual receipts are everywhere.
The FIB contacted me in the early 2010s, re: PRC malevolence in the NYC area. We met, I spoke, I followed up, and they never contacted me again. I made multiple other attempts to initiate contact: crickets.
In comparison with Russia — with VAST natural resource potential; hardly touched in several geological regions — I wonder what most Americans believe the EU — which, for the last decade and more, in pursuit of Faux Net-Zero, has been killing its manufacturing base — may have to offer in terms of TRADE with the USA?
This question is particularly relevant in view of POTUS Trump and his more-than-obvious desire to redevelop MASSIVELY the American manufacturing base.
Of course, POTUS Trump understands this fully, and, although the puppet-masters of the EU most likely have also known this, it seems that they, only now — in view of their diminishing global relevance — are at least thinking of going to Plan-B … which would be working with — although very reluctantly — with POTUS Trump and his Admin.
Trump knows that this full process is going to take years — decades — and that, for this to work, his MAGA AGENDA needs to continue; which is why, in my view, he is going to be most particular regarding selecting a successor who he believes will be most capable of picking up the ball and running in the same direction.
PS: Sorry, Zelinsky. This means that you lose.
America doesn’t need Europe, or Siberia. We could easily turn about 98% isolationist if we wanted to (which we don’t).
Proper, Trump wants overall energy prices to go down … the lower and the faster, the better.
For this basic reason — such is the key to low-cost mining and forestry, low-cost manufacturing, etc — Trump will want any global sources of fungible petroleum commodities, to include:
[a] Venezuela petroleum, in much higher volumes,
[b] Iranian petroleum, in much higher volumes,
[c] Other Persian Gulf petroleum, in much higher volumes,
[d] And he will want Russian and Ukrainian petroleum, in much higher volumes, and
[e] You can toss into this mix Canadian and other petroleums.
So, you are correct: America, at these moments, does not ABSOLUTELY NEED these foreign sources, and yes, therefore, we as a nation can transition to one of relative isolationism — without a single one of these entities contributing to our growth — but most likely such will not go on forever, where politically, such has never been an eternal reality and therefore while possible, not very likely.
And, obviously, I do not know about you … but, IMO, POTUS Trump and his MAGA AGENDA VISION extends FAR BEYOND his current Admin.
Isolationism — near total or otherwise, for any number of reasons — never has been a reality — not for our USA and not for nobody — and such policies may not be even for our lifetimes … or even the life of Trump.
May God bless our POTUS Trump, but he does tend to exaggerate numbers … particularly when he is discussing “in-ground” resources and reserves. And his exaggerations make me cringe … but I do take them with a grain of salt. [About the globe, many others have broader experiences than I, but my entire career has been international consulting within the extractive minerals industries — we focus on geologic and engineering reserves and resources estimates — and I can vouch for Trump’s exaggeration of our USA petroleum wealth. Live long enough, and we shall see]
Btw, thank you for reading and responding to my original comment.
Have you considered Alberta’s reserves? He he?
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FYI: Alberta is part of Canada. See above my listed Items, particularly Item [e].
Ok, Dick, I don’t mean to be snarky in my response, but what else does your question mean … unless you did not read my post … or, in fact, you do not know that Alberta is part of Canada?
President Trump in yet another end run around the powers to be.
Powers that were…. No more🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I imagine that DJT is the first thing that pops into the spongy brains of the globalists above and the last thing at night. Truly, a pathetic lot-
The Coke Brothers.
President Trump’s MAGA energy policies are the engine for domestic prosperity and drive strategic international alliances that greatly benefit America!
I remember when POTUS offered Mrs. Merkel a very generous and advantageous deal for LNG, and she instead chose to cut off her nose to spite her face. He immediately went before the cameras and stated that she would live to regret it-and still they keep underestimating him while he continues to run the table. The oh-so-smug-and-superior Germans are finding out just how badly they’ve been conned by their betters-
The Socialist/Communist/Islamists run countries into the ground. Their policies create hardship and sorrow.
Removing the Shining Light of Prosperity and Freedom is the goal of all of them. They need everyone living in squalor.
Attacking Iran has altered the administration’s energy policy bigly. The ongoing liquidation of the world’s strategic oil reserves and fake news media’s attempts to cover up the consequences of such are not going to work for much longer.
The Global Oil Crisis Just Escalated To A New Level And U.S. Farmers Are Planting The Fewest Acres Of Wheat Since Records Began In 1919April 29, 2026 8:09 pm by Alex
by Michael
Every single day that the Strait of Hormuz is closed, the damage that is being done to the global economy is getting even worse. But the full consequences of the global oil crisis that we are facing will not be felt for a while because nations all over the globe are still running through their strategic oil reserves. And the full consequences of the global fertilizer crisis that we are facing will not be felt until harvest season. So don’t judge the severity of this emergency by what we are experiencing at this moment, because the truth is that what we are experiencing at this moment is just the very small tip of a very large iceberg.
NATO is like three day old fish…ready for the trash bin!
Considering the USPS-just like Lucca Brazzi.
Since we’re on the subject of the EU and UK I need to point out that King Charles was right yesterday. If it wasn’t for the British 275 years ago we’d all be speaking French today! Cheers! 😎
It was a joke in reference to the long historical rivalry between Britain and France for control of North America; may be historically plausible but not guaranteed, resting on the British victory in the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763), known in North America as the French and Indian War.
Exactly! The French and Indian War was actually The Seven Years War which raged across The Carribean, Europe, the Middle East and India. The British were fighting just about everyone. In fact, the war continued after the formal French surrender as Chief Pontiac’s War with the siege of Fort Pitt, capture of a dozen British Forts through Ohio, Michigan and Wisconsin and ended with the Battle of Bushy Run in Western Pennsylvania when a Highland Regiment of Black Watch and Royal American Units defeated the Indians. Young George Washington was a British Officer at the time.
Sounds as if Sunriver Patriot has read Francis Parkman’s great works
Young George Washington actually started the war by ambushing a French patrol out of Ft. Duquesne.
I took it as a retort to the often expressed true reminder that if it wasn’t for the U.S., the U.K. would be speaking German.
I believe that the House of Windsor has German roots: Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, as did the House of Hanover before it.
Same House. They changed the name during WW1
The French contribution to the American Revolution was nothing short of victory and the numbers devoid of historical perspective don’t always reflect this.
Fascinating stuff. Thanks much for posting.
Do you mind also posting a book or two — or even some docs — that you may recommend reading to get somewhat up to speed on such things?
Kind regards, and again, Thanks Much.
IMO, this was all part and parcel of the royal PR efforts: turn a few clever jokes — that is, jokes to which most people can relate and will therefore more likely remember — while simultaneously these same people, over time, will retain absolutely nothing regarding the matters of great national importance and attention, which during this State visit, were discussed.
Nonetheless, good for Charles to do this — where, btw, our good POTUS Trump is a Master at this type of verbal distraction technique … for which I am happy — because otherwise, almost universally, and especially with his brother’s involvement in the Epstein affair, Charles and Camilla come over as real “stiff board elitists” who need every smidgen of positive PR they can muster.
But, in the end, it’s all part and parcel of the bait and switch … for which way too many people have been hooked and netted.
Mission accomplished.
And if it weren’t for Lafayette we would most likely still have a king!
Speaks to Putin, entertains KC3, meets the lunar astronauts, holds a presser all within the span of 12 hours or less. I’m sure there was more.
But he has no plan. /sarc
biden couldn’t even climb the stairs if AF1 fall free in that time line
Commissar and European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, is also not happy. “In just 60 days of conflict, our bill for fossil fuel imports has increased by over €27 billion, without a single molecule of additional energy,” she told the European Parliament in Strasbourg.”
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes! #FAFO.
They shouldn’t have let Biden blow-up the Nordstream Pipelines!
Hey Ursula, how much has the EU’s bill for fuel increased in the more than 1500 days of the Ukraine war? (That Europe keeps prolonging and trying to expand.)
“Most Americans do not fully appreciate how the German national identity is defined by their industrial economy.”
Without cheap energy, There can be no industrial economy.
The irony is that they stopped applying the American system which built up their industries and nation to such heights started in the first place by Bismarck.
It is not too late for them to reverse course, but that is not without political costs that many are unwilling to pay.
If the German national identity is defined by their industrial economy, was the populace asleep while their government dedicated their future to Net Zero?
They were except for Angela!
“Giving a society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.” – Paul Ehrlich
Political cults internalize any lie that justifies seizing and keeping power, and then blame the obvious consequences on whatever’s convenient. “It wasn’t us, it was Orange Man!”
I would ask the administration to communicate more (in laymen’s terms) about the machinations described above RE the movements & consumption of oil. Am still hearing people ask the reasonable question: “If we’re selling to all these people that used to get it from Iran, and we have so much damn oil, why is our gas still so expensive?” There’s a PR effort that, I think, needs to get to the heart of the matter in a way that doesn’t presume half the country drops by here daily (or more).
Gas going back down to $2.25 a gallon would send the message in the most direct fashion!
Here in northwestern Ohio it has just cracked $4.00, after stabilizing c. $3.25-3.69 for the past weeks.
A few gas stations still have it at $3.89.
Went up ten cents a gallon in the SW burbs of Chicago…4.59.
https://oilprice.com/
Brent crude 119.8
West Texas Intermediate crude 107.3
An interesting article, further down the website:
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/The-Pentagon-Has-268-Days-to-Replace-Americas-Most-Critical-Supply-Chain.html
Southern Maine, today at about $4.40 for regular unleaded.
I would really appreciate cheaper gas.
Come to SW Missouri. I am paying $3.29 a gallon after a 25 cent increase yesterday.
Highlights the fact that here in (central) NC gas has been holding at $3.95 for weeks, but that price includes the highest gas taxes in the Southeast. We can thank the dimo’rats directly for that prolonged misery.
You can blame the RINO republicans for the high gas taxes. It was the RINO legislature that increased the gasoline tax that card board cut out Roy Cooper signed into law. Democrats and Republicans suck in the Old North State.
It is a primer on why other Presidents kicked the Iran can down the road.
Okay Ausonius how much more “pain” can your auto stand?
Some more can be endured, but obviously Iran needs to crack sooner rather than later.
At my location in western WI it was $1.82 the day Pres. Trump left office in 2021, so that’s my benchmark to him. It’s been 3.89/3.99 for quite awhile and overnight went to 4.29.
Same here (central NC), almost to the penny at the end of PDJT 1.
Seems 4 bucks is the magic bullet here, I have yet to see any gas station breaking that threshold.
ditto WV.
Where I’m at in northeastern Ohio , cracked $4.30 , one place was $ 5.00 yesterday
We are mostly selling LNG. We don’t sell gasoline just some oil. The price of gas of course is related to the price of oil, but the refineries don’t control the price of oil. What we need are a bunch more refineries.
Given what it takes to put a refinery into operation right now is the best chance to start one given there’s a better-than-normal possibility that the planning & permitting could go faster than the usual 5 years.
https://energiesmedia.com/new-u-s-refining-development-america-phase/
“Many millions of barrels of light shale crude are being exported simply because many of our existing facilities are still optimized to handle much heavier foreign crudes.
Over time, this quiet reality created a structural weakness in the U.S. energy infrastructure system – and it began to be harder to ignore as we continued to export large quantities of crude and continue to import large amounts of petroleum products.”
…
“While this project may represent “the same old thing” for some observers, the fact that it represents the first new refinery to be constructed in nearly five decades in the U.S. makes it unique among new refineries.
More importantly, unlike most existing refineries, this project will be specifically designed to process only light shale crude — which will reduce dependence on foreign crude imports and improve overall efficiency.”
Goodbye China if all their accumulated carbon credits are useless. President Trump, you are the best!
Roosevelt was determined to get America into WWII despite the fierce opposition within America. Lindbergh said there were 3 main groups clamoring for America to join the mass murdering Soviets. One was the Roosevelt Admin, the other the UK, take a guess who the third group was.
The third group was the Communists but only after June 22, 1941. Before that they were anti-intervention.
Awesome. After a day of King Charles III trying to schmooze Trump into maintaining the “special relationship” that has nearly destroyed America since WW II (or is it 11?), the first world leader Trump talks to is Putin. The special relationship is over.
The not-so-subtle digs Charles took at Trump in his speech to Congress and remarks at the State Dinner was the tell. A British royal would never insult his host unless the pompous flattery failed.
I LOVE it that PDJT cocked a snoot at globalist KC3!!
The worthless Cuck talking about burning down the WH….. shows his true Snake ass colors and the Royals are also the ones in control of HRC and her fellow commies in the USA.
The Russian Federation and it’s people are not the natural enemy of the United States and it’s people.
Our Congress and Senate are far more communist than the Russian Federation.
Look no further than the communistic Thune, who doesn’t want free and fair elections in the United States.
Thune is blocking free and fair elections, just as was done in the old Soviet Union.
The Republican majority in the Senate are so totally pathetic that they allow this blatant disregard of the peoples will to go on.
We traded places when the Cold War ended
From 1918-1991: Russia (The USSR) was incredibly hostile to religion, individual freedom and capitalism; was constantly pushing to expand its empire; and it sought to bring the entire world under a single authoritarian government that would rule with absolute authority. The US led the opposition to that vision.
After 1991 (until Trump) we traded places. The US and the Globalist New World Order became incredibly hostile to religion, individual freedom and capitalism; constantly pushed to expand its empire (eg. NATO, the “rules based international consensus” etc.) and sought to bring the entire world under a single authoritarian government that would rule with absolute authority (you will own nothing and be happy.) Russia led the opposition to that vision.
Excellent short encapsulation of the last 100 years or so. That is exactly what happened.
Bring all our troops home from Germany as far as I’m concerned! Not needed like NATO! JMO
I have not even got to the 4 minute mark-but I will soon. My first impression after just 1 minute is, do any of these 4 or whatever support this greatest President of my lifetime?
Does it matter?
They do their job.
They do it well.
They haven’t made it political.
President Trump is a genius! Everything he has said and done since his second inauguration has been for the following purposes:
1. Make the United States and her citizens the richest, most independent nation on earth.
2. Create conditions across the globe that will foster success and prosperity in all the nations of the world who will “play ball” with the United States.
3. Punish and eliminate “bad actors” who create death and destruction around the world.
President Trump is dismantling the “rules based international order” because its only purpose was to enrich the elite. He is bringing back “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” here in the United States and around the world.
May God continue to bless and protect President Trump.
And guide him and his administration.
I like where this is all going long term. The Country, once past this speed bump, will see things turn around quickly. However, the Left Coast continues to slide further into the ditch.
San Andreas needs to finish the job, break half of Cali off as a separate island that can declare independence, or join up with Mexico, or China or whoever. Canada would take them.
And good riddance, excepting a few bright spirits like the ones I met in LA decades ago.
The shortage of energy supplies to Europe and Asia is not a bug, it is a feature that punishes worthless allies who went all in on the New World Order of energy scarcity and mass migration to crush their citizens. Go Trump! Best President ever!
So the Germans are waking up to the green scam finally.
Sounds like they may have a chance to get their country back if they get Merz out and the illegals.
Maybe hope for them.
Bet the German people like President Trump.
Laughable European Logic:
“We have NOT changed our rules for Climate Control!” *
*but we aren’t going to enforce them, so we basically capitulated and admitted how ridiculous we are.
Claiming methane (CH4 or a fart if you will) is dangerous is nonsense.
CH4 breaks down very quickly when exposed to sunlight. If it wasn’t so, this planet would be unliveable. The amount of natural methane emissions dwarfs human emissions.
Chemical breakdown which happens in hours is CH4 + 2O2 => CO2 + 2H2O.
We used to do experiments regarding this as kids. Fart in a jar, put it outside under the sun and watch it turn into a drop of water at the bottom of the jar.
Demonising methane is a political control act, not a scientific act.
If it’s a splatter fart, does it turn into a democrat?
never trust a fart!
In another venue I heard discussion that Aragchi ended his recent Pakistan – Oman – Pakistan with a last stop in St Petersburg to be greeted by Lavrov and a 90 minute conversation with Putin.
If this is factual, would be interesting to know the tone of that discussion. Seems to me Putin is a realist, and what could Aragchi possibly offer him?
“In just 60 days of conflict, our bill for fossil fuel imports has increased by over €27 billion, without a single molecule of additional energy,”
The Gall of this one!
But when my energy bill increased like mad without actually using more for the Build Back Better agenda, then it was just “for the greater good”, and only “transitory”
Im trying not to hate, but they make it real difficult
It is just a fact. Exactly why all the others ignored the cancer that is the IRGC and Mullahs
The most stubborn races are the Germans and the Scots. Is it any wonder Pres Trump has such toughness and drive? His mother from the Isle of Lewis Scotland, and his father from German extraction.
Europe Has Plenty of Oil, It Just Doesn’t Want to Use It
https://archive.is/gOZ2F#selection-505.0-505.56
Europe’s Energy Suicide: The EU Admits the World Runs on Fossil Fuels — While Deliberately Destroying Its Own
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22468/europe-energy-suicide
I can’t believe all those journos skipped past the Artemis crew like that. Jeez. So many things they could have been asked. Just spitballing here:
–We know that there is reason for concern regarding American students graduating high school with the skills needed to succeed in a complex society and economy. I’d like to ask Jared and the team for any thoughts they might have on technical education and even apprenticeship or internship approaches in US schools. Are there approaches that you consider especially promising? I’m thinking of the full range of educational approaches, including but not limited to curriculum. Do you think we should be moving funds away from recent curriculum fashions…and toward tech ed, and if so, what forms can that take?
–Can you describe briefly NASA’s model for working with US school districts on bringing young Americans up to speed on these topics? Can you describe where interested people can go to learn more about that online or otherwise?
–I noticed that NASA’s live feed of the Artemis II mission online was very well watched, especially during lift-off and splashdown. Given that the US media were a key part of Americans losing interest in the space program in the 1970s–including things like refusing to cover moon mission launches–what would you all recommend American media do to build on that excitement and interest going forward? What recommendations would you like us to carry to our employer organizations?
–President Trump said in his first term that “American footprints on distant worlds are not too big a dream.” I’d like to ask Jared, and the team if they wish, to comment on what their dreams are for the US space program and for space exploration in general.
–I’d like to ask each of you to share the one thing about this mission that stands at the apex of the entire incredible experience. Was it something you did, or saw, or thought? Something others did or said?
–The astronaut team had less privacy than any mission I’ve ever witnessed. It’s understandable that this is the case. And I was impressed by your equanimity with that. I mean, the first thing that happens is you have to repair a toilet, live, in front of the entire planet! (Kek.) I would sit on top of that monster Roman candle in a moment, and take the launch risks…but I don’t think I’ve got the courage to have the entire world watching me that closely. Can you comment, if you wouldn’t mind, on what it’s like to operate in conditions where you’re under so much stress, having to keep on schedule with complex activities and biological necessities…while also dealing with surprises…knowing that everything you say and do is being recorded and watched live by millions?
Sorry, those aren’t well written…just off the top of my head. I felt such frustration listening to the “let’s get Trump” questions…with those fascinating people all right there. Just another example of the media passing over incredible topics to push their agendas.
Excellent questions.
I, too, wished they had been incorporated into the Q&A.
It’s perhaps time now to get the UK futures (Brent) and ‘terrorism insurance’ (Lloyds) out of the ability to affect global oil costs. I would have liked to be a fly on the wall during the discussion between President Trump and King Charles, not only regarding oil, but regarding the UK not allowing the US to use their military bases initially, during the conflict with Iran. Prince Charles has never impressed me as much of an ‘intellect’, nor do I believe that he impressed his mother, Queen Elizabeth, which perhaps is why she hang on to her position, rather than letting him gain the throne while she was alive.
“ZELENSKYY: “But I still get my money, right?“”
I am not a betting man; however, in this instance I would venture to say that most of it will be left when his soul departs his body – whenever that may be.
ZELENSKYY: “But I still get my money, right?“Hillarious!
Why do the WH Press ignore the four people who just went further from earth than anyone ever has and instead ask stupid questions about seashells.
No LNG for Europe, please.