♦President Trump’s foreign policy approach brought North and South Korea together away from the table of conflict. ♦President Trump’s foreign policy approach brought Serbia and Kosovo together away from the table of conflict. ♦President Trump’s foreign policy rallied the Gulf Cooperation Council to stop Qatar’s support for Islamic extremists via the Muslim Brotherhood. ♦President Trump’s foreign policy brought Turkey and the Kurdish forces together away from war and conflict. ♦President Trump’s foreign policy created a ceasefire to stop the bloodshed in Syria. President Trump mediated a cessation of hostilities between India & Pakistan in the Kashmir region. ♦President Trump’s foreign policy brought Israel and the UAE together… and then Bahrain… and then Sudan in the Abraham Accords.
President Trump executes a clear foreign policy, a unique doctrine of sorts, where national security is achieved by leveraging U.S. economic power. It has been a fundamental shift in approaching both allies and adversaries; summarized within the oft repeated phrase: “economic security is national security.”
The Trump Doctrine of using economics to achieve national security objectives is a paradigm shift in American politics. Modern U.S. history provides no easy reference strategy, because until now no American president has ever leveraged this approach.
U.S. B-2 bombers struck Iran on June 22, 2025, as part of Operation Midnight Hammer, targeting key nuclear facilities.
Immediately following the August 2025, Alaska summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Trump, Russia restarted Arctic-2 LNG terminals and began increasing natural gas (LNG) production for storage on ‘floating platforms.’
President Trump met with President Putin on August 15, 2025, and the curious increase in Russian production began on August 18, 2025.
It absolutely did not make sense that Russia would start producing even more LNG considering the previously imposed western sanctions against them, and the fact that Russia was already overproducing LNG. As noted by analysts at the time. Russia had no market for this LNG, yet Russia began increasing LNG supply anyway. For six months Vladimir Putin extracted and stored LNG.
Two months later, on October 25, 2025, President Trump did something odd. President Trump had attended the ASEAN summit in Asia before; however, this time instead of flying West over the Pacific, he flew east to Malaysia. This put a refueling stop in Qatar, which everyone just ignored as a routine part of the travel plan.
However, upon arrival in Qatar, the Amir of Qatar came to the airport to pay a courtesy visit to President Trump. They spoke aboard Airforce One during the refueling stop.
Four months later, on February 28, 2026, Operation Epic Fury against Iran began.
Within 36 hours Qatar announced they were shutting down all LNG production, following retaliatory strikes carried out by Iran. Overnight the price of LNG skyrocketed, and immediate concerns were raised by ASEAN countries who are heavily reliant on LNG production from the Gulf.
Southeast Asia doesn’t use LNG for heating (don’t need it), that specific cheap energy resource powers everything else in their economy, cooking, transportation, electricity etc.
Six months earlier Russia began storing LNG and oil on floating platforms with no customers. A few days after Qatar made their March force majeure shutdown announcement, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent issued an interim license for Russia to sell oil and gas that was loaded onto “floating platforms and vessels” before March 12 and was valid through midnight Washington time on April 11. [Treasury Notice Here – OFAC Technical Details Here]
Either Russian President Putin was the luckiest guy in the world, or Russia knew something. In August 2025 what Russia did following the Alaska summit did not make sense. In March 2026 what they were doing for the past six months suddenly looked like something more than simply fortuitous.
♦ On August 25, 2026, CIA Director John Ratcliffe made an unexpected trip to Moscow. Western media reported that CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow to warn his Russian counterpart Sergey Naryshkin, head of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), about striking Baltic NATO states. Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed this western framing.
Three days after CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s visit, Russia blew up a massive ammunition depot in Kiev that Zelenskyy claimed he didn’t know about. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the placement of a weapons depot next to civilians was “terrible negligence.” The first impact, he said, hit a depot storing shells, mines, other munitions, and drones that “definitely shouldn’t have been there.”
On September 5, 2026, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner traveled to Moscow to discuss ceasefire negotiations. On September 8, President Trump and President Putin held a telephone call to discuss the visit. President Putin’s senior aide Yury Ushakov documented the phone call in a Kremlin readout.
Part of the readout: “[Russia’s] vision of the overall progress on the battlefield and achieving the goals and objectives of the special military operation. Speaking of which, actual tangible actions that the Americans could take to expedite the cessation of the hostilities were outlined.”
President Putin outlined tangible actions “Americans could take”?
Russian President Putin doesn’t believe that President Trump or any other U.S. President actually controls the mechanisms of government. This opinion is underlined and emphasized when it comes to the U.S. Intelligence Community and the CIA.
Putin has often stated that no U.S. President controls the CIA, and Putin has said while he never views the U.S. President or the people of America as his enemy, the CIA are the problem. Putin views the CIA as the real control mechanism within the U.S. government. America is not Russia’s enemy, the CIA is. That’s Putin’s perspective in a nutshell.
Obviously, President Trump would counter that outlook by saying no, he is in control of the USIC and all the downstream institutions. Unfortunately, President Putin would be incredulous to the possibility; he has a lifetime of watching things unfold like “Russiagate.”
So, here’s my point:
Did Trump just tell Ratcliffe to send “one ping only“?
Basically, using the timing of 9/11 anniversary to prove to Putin he does actually have control over the CIA.
The ping:
RELATED: KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to halt strikes on Russian diesel, saying the attacks are causing a fuel shortage.
Trump was asked by a reporter if he had spoken with Zelenskyy following his recent conversation with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
Trump responded by calling on Zelenskyy to halt strikes against Russia.
“Mr. Zelensky has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia,” Trump told reporters on the sidelines of the Irish Open, which is being played at his Doonbeg golf club. “Let him go after targets but not diesel fuel, because he’s causing a shortage of diesel fuel.” (more)
Captain Ramius:
Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please.
Capt. Vasili Borodin:
Aye, Captain.
“The Hunt for Red October” was one of the best cold war movies, and the book was great too.
It’s the only movie with Baldwin in it that I can watch. Plus the late Tim Curry as the Russian doctor was excellent.
Well a lot of navy nukes at that time did not appreciate putting out that book.
Then they shouldn’t have been so free with the information, giving it to the author.
I read the book first, loved it, then caught the movie some years later. Great collection of top acting talent. I didn’t recognize Tim Curry in that role as doctor until it was pointed out below by Uncle Al. Wow!
I was out biking earlier and didn’t see the hyper-link to the movie scene when I read this article on my phone . I was going off of memory of where that quote about “…one ping only…” came from.
Watching this makes me sad for all the wonderful talents who have departed since.
I always felt like the sound department really nailed that piNG! sound too. Really sold me. May be nothing like the real thing, but what a memorable moment.
Also, FJB.
We’ll know if he does if the strikes stop. If they don’t…
I thought diesel was a by-product of producing gasoline.?
Gasoline is a light fraction of crude oil.
Diesel, jet fuel, heating oil are middle-weight fractions of crude oil.
Crude oil, as a raw material, emerges as a natural product from the good earth in many different grades, viscosities (the “thickness”), specific gravities, colors, chemical compositions, usually some combination of liquid, gaseous, salt water, other elements such as sulfur.
For example, America Shale Oil is typically light weight low viscosity, almost like gasoline, low sulfur.
By contrast, Venezuela crude oil is thick, heavy, sulfurous, acidic.
Chemical engineers that build and run refineries can “mix” the two in process to make a variety of end products ranging from heavy and thick to light.
Sort of, but that’s an older definition because diesel has become much more valuable in recent times. Gasoline generally is made from the light distallates of crude oil, but the medium distallates can be “cracked” to produce more gasoline. Diesel generally comes from those medium distillates, so cracking can reduce the proportion of diesel that is produced. Almost all of the non- gasoline or diesel “byproducts”of crude have value, as LPG, kerosene, lubricants, fuel oil, asphalt, plastics feedstocks, etc.
re: “I thought diesel was a by-product of producing gasoline.?”
NO ONE (including those here) calculates or figures in the extra processing necessary to make the NOW required ULTRA-Low-Sulfur diesel mandated by the EPA …
THAT requirement kicked in 20 some years back, and NO ONE remembers …
Is that why the price of diesel went from 15 cents under gasoline to 15 cents over gasoline? Three months after I bought a diesel car, partly for the price reason. I remember the price change, and that was almost exactly 22 years ago now (Sept/Oct 2004).
One thing we are finding out…
We don’t know what we don’t know.
Out of the public view, the Trumpian wheels are churning 24/7.
Those who take issue with President Trump over this or that, really should take a seat and watch as all the pieces of the puzzle which is only beginning to be deciphered fall into place, God willing.
Again, the pendulum has started on its return journey.
Sounds to me like you’re telling us to shut up and color with a box of 64.
we are in a quagmire.
this is close to madness.
Pogo
If you’re close to madness, you could be a democrat.
The stupidity were surrounded by is just overwhelming, and these people have no historical context to work from because they’re so ignorant, a product of the public school system.
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I think Newt was spot-on when he said, “I don’t think you can ever impose order on Donald Trump. He is a unique entrepreneurial personality.”
My take is that to a remarkable degree, and to the extent possible, President Trump sets his own agenda, timing, and order of battle.
That’s not what Betsy said at all…..but you know that.
Additionally:
1. We are NOT in a quagmire.
2. Your “fake quagmire” is NOT close to madness, but quagmire believing agitators are. Seek help.
Not at all, Pogo…
I choose my words very carefully….always.
Please reread.
I’m fairly certain that you have no idea what you read or what a quagmire might be. Otherwise, you’re just a blithering moron.
I haven’t seen a good…quagmire….since ..
.Vietman……..
Aye yai yai… Indeed. And that ‘Police Action’* was the Gold Standard for wasted blood and treasure in Nation Building efforts enacted upon those who have no desire for a Nation built to the Western PTB standards…
* May the architects and executors of that war of attrition burn in the Inferno’s circles 3,4, and 6th through 9th for eternity.
For clarification for others:
VIETNAM.
you have no idea what you’re watching unfold right here. are you really that dumb or just pretending? Sundance is explaining what Trump‘s doing every step of the way do you read anything he writes or are you just here running gator?
There are none so blind as those who pretend they cannot see for purposes of political agitation.
Or something like that.
Awe
And if anybody missed it, Trump as a Peshwa warrior.
A video I’ve kept since it was done during his first term bc….it’s just fun to watch.
Is Elon going to help with the midterms?
Haven’t heard much from him lately.
“Elon Musk’s America PAC is going all in to help Republicans win key races and support President Trump ahead of the November 3 midterms.
• $7M + already spent on ads and voter outreach
• $2.6M in the Texas Senate race
• $260M + spent helping elect President Trump in 2024″
🐓 Chicken Little:
“Ah-hhhhhh! The sky is falling! The sky is falling!” 🌠
Upvotes are anonymous. Here’s mine. I’m No. 36.
Poor Poogoo.
Still sorely lacking in reading comprehension skills.
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the view uses 64 to take notes.
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Well said.
I believe that the Lord is using President Trump to do a great work.
So I just trust in the Lord.
I don’t try to figure out something that is clearly way above my pay grade.
I just watch in trust and awe…
And I do the same, Val.
We watch from afar.
Almighty God is in the room 🙏🏻
Betsy,
While it is true that, “we don’t know what we don’t know,” there are a few things that we do know. We can look at some past actions to anticipate where things may be leading.
PDJT uses trade as a powerful tool to achieve peace agreements. Bessent, Lutnik, Greer, Wright, and the other team members are well aware of lost trade opportunities and critical minerals supply risks. DOE Secretary Wright was CEO of an energy company and has served on boards of minerals, mining, and nuclear technology companies. These are smart and accomplished businessmen (Greer is an attorney). I am confident that they are working on some interesting strategies.
The Ukraine war / money-laundering grift operation has numerous supporters who profit from it and weapons manufacturers have a financial motive to keep the status quo. To counter this, the administration could enlist other industry sectors who would benefit from peace and the resulting trade with Russia. A few examples as follows.
China produces ~70% of the world’s titanium sponge. Russia was a significant titanium exporter in 2024 before sanctions. The U.S. imports nearly all its titanium – a critical metal for aerospace applications.
China produces ~80% of global tungsten output – some 67,000 metric tonnes (MT) in 2025. The next top producers were Vietnam (3,000 MT), Kazakhstan (2,400 MT), Russia (2,000 MT) and North Korea (2,000 MT). The U.S. does not produce tungsten, a necessary metal for cutting tools. It has the highest melting point of all metals at a whopping 6,192°F.
From a security perspective, we need to be expanding our sources of these metals and other critical minerals to grow our economy rather than being reliant upon the Middle Kingdom. Longer-term trade deals can help us sell things like commercial aircraft. Boeing used to sell aircraft and parts to Russian aviation firms. I think that trade is going to be the strong tool that helps end the war and hopefully puts us on a more business-like rapport for the longer term.
Tungsten is very dense too -> 19.25 grams per cubic centimeter. In comparison:
Lead → a measly 11.34
Uranium → 10.10
Gold → 19.30
Some tungsten alloys find use in radiation shielding applications due to its high density and other alloys are used for high temperature applications. The filaments in your old light bulbs used tungsten because they heat up brightly (2,500 – 3,000 °C), emit light and still not melt. This is a very critical metal to industry. It’s more than just cutting tools.
Tungsten prices have climbed ~ 500% in the past year due to Chinese export restrictions.
With all due respect to PDJT47, he isn’t in control of the defense-intelligence-industrial complex. The career deepstaters know how the game is played and are just waiting to reemerge from hiding.
He’s also not in control of zelensky, so telling zelensky where he is sensitive is either a huge mistake or reverse psychology and he WANTS the ukes to keep hitting Russian diesel.
Since we are stuck with the iran war until at least November, from my perspective it looks like PDJT47 is misplaying his hand.
The anti-Trump globalists are doing all they can to keep fuel prices spiking, because they know the pathetic US electorate doesn’t know enough to avoid it driving election results. Using our own media and whiners against us.
Well penned, my friend…pathetic US electorate…..
A warm body electorate cannot last.
Based on the votes, there’s quite a bit of cold body electorate . . .
Perhaps
Perhaps not
Time will tell
We will all have to wait and see what actually happens.
in the mean time ai is eating our lunch.
Yes, I can’t tell you how much I would always cringe every time Trump said he could end the war in just days.
Trump is not the one that will decide when, or how this war will end, it will be the Russians, and the Europeans.
The enemy always gets a vote, and sometimes it comes in the form of a veto.
isn’t this the post listing the numerous violent and long standing adversarial relationships that President Trump has maneuvered to peace
Ju jitsu is a martial art that uses an opponent’s energy and momentum against them. That’s how a seemingly weaker fighter can “control” a stronger opponent.
President Trump has become proficient at political ju jitsu. Our President is in fact controlling all of the people you mentioned in your post.
He has not killed the IC Deep State, but he weakens it with every round he fights, utilizing the tools and information Tulsi Gabbard gave him.
It’s so very easy to be an Eyeore-like Nattering Nabob of Negativism.
It would be nice to see more people rise above that ultimate base level by praying in faith for God to heal our land.
👍🏻
100%
I see these comments as coming from new plants.
The effort to divide and demoralize is relentless.
Back in 2023, I made a list of the posters who were constantly posting negative, demoralizing comments. I looked over the list a few days ago and all those posters are gone completely.
Of course, there are new ones but they won’t last long either, I suspect.
Iran is not a war any more. At least not conventionally. The real war being fought is in the frail stronghold of American media and yes, the battlefield will be radically different after November. But not like you think it will.
President Trump truly is our very stable genius who’s an American Firster! Praise the Lord! Godspeed President Trump!
I don’t know if he’s a genius or not, but he most certainly understands and employs the tremendous power of economics that, until now, have been treated merely as a supporting tool in achieving dominance.
May our Lord protect PDJT.
Trump is indeed a genius…. way beyond Einstein and Mozart and Musk. Huge topic.
No proof, but i believe Trump spends more than a few moments of his awake time quietly asking for God’s guidance.
At the midterm convention every speaker we saw(missed one of them),
gave glory to God.
Christian leaders, preachers, were given speaking time…
Every time God was mentioned the crowds stood, some with tears of joy …
It felt more like an American revival much of the time.
Politicians giving God glory!!!
It was so inspiring.
🇺🇸✝️❤️🫂🦅
In 3 months, this “Conspiracy Theory” will be proven true.
True that.
You are not in control if you have to play games to get your message out.
CIA control of US was in the open when Kenndys killed, Nixon watergate involved all EX (?) CIA break in suspect’s. 9/11 CIA and FBI allowed to go forward to have wars in middle east and Trump RUSSIA RUSSIA attempt.
CIA AND FBI NEED SERIOUS REFORMING.
I had rather they be removed and replaced. Scorched earth. Far too many rogue elements with far too much unaccounted for money. Start by cutting off ALL money supplies legal or otherwise. The start low and offer amnesty to the underlings to rollover on the uppers. Set examples and be ruthless in doing so, for beginners…
I like how you think!
re: “CIA control of US was in the open when Kenndys killed”
No evidence.
See 1) Vincent Bugliosi: No Evidence for JFK / Oswald Conspiracies
2) Vincent Bugliosi’s Reclaiming History. 53 pieces of Evidence against Oswald.
3) Gerald Posner, Author “Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK”
“The Trump Doctrine of using economics to achieve national security objectives is a paradigm shift in American politics. Modern U.S. history provides no easy reference strategy, because until now no American president has ever leveraged this approach.”
Because no American president has ever excelled in being a businessman and investor in the modern sense dealing with modern problems. PDJT is a businessman first and politician second.
And a genius who loves God and loves America.
Reagan did to some extent.
And it appears Ukraine has now hit a Warsaw bound passenger train with EU intent to blame Russia.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/attack-drone-hits-warsaw-bound-passenger-train-near-polish-border-raising-nato-spillover
Right on cue.
If one reads Sky News they might believe that Boris Johnson and several other politicians and former heads escaped with their lives. There is one thing though, they were on a different train.
https://news.sky.com/story/boris-johnson-in-ukraine-security-scare-after-train-hit-by-russian-drone-reports-13585471
Guaranteed, Ukraine has possession of Russian drones, or at least control of the narrative. It’s interesting that so many people don’t believe a word from the US government but when “western media” speaks it must be believed.
Note the recent western media lamenting the black woman found hanging in a tree and lo and behold, the police arrested her black boyfriend. I believe western media has also said repeatedly that Ukraine is winning and Trump was going to jail.
Besides a few accounts in the Twattersphere, only the MSM is reporting that Russia is responsible for this droned train incident.
Outlets like AOL and Al Jazzeera, the Kiev Independant; the usual suspects.
Otherwise, the Ukraine is the butt, once again, of false flag jokes and memes.
The hanging woman story . . . it didn’t gain all that much traction since it was so obviously staged.
It was so badly staged in fact, that it was embarrassing; most people had it pegged as a boyfriend or a drug/gang killing.
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Speaking of ‘right on cue’ . . .
In a related story the Polish Foreign Minister had this to say:
“If Russia attacked us and we took our gloves off, I think we will defeat Russia quite quickly, we have overwhelming superiority over Russia in airpower.”
— Polish Foreign Minister, Radoslav Sikorski
Who is Radoslav Sikorski besides the Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of Poland?
He has served as Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs twice, first from 2007 to 2014 and again since 2023.
In addition to his role as Foreign Minister, he became Deputy Prime Minister in 2025.
Sikorski has also held various significant positions, including Minister of National Defence and Speaker of the Sejm.
He was a Member of the European Parliament from 2019 to 2023, where he was active on the Committee on Foreign Affairs.
Sikorski is recognized for his role in launching the EU’s Eastern Partnership and establishing the European Endowment for Democracy.
He led the EU mission to Kyiv in 2014 during the Maidan protests.
His efforts have earned him recognition as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine.
Sikorski is married to journalist and author Anne Applebaum and and has worked as a war correspondent in various conflict zones, including Afghanistan and Angola.
https://xcancel.com/TheOtherSideRu/status/2099171941294739895#m
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His air superiority comment had to include the US, which is wishful thinking.
Cui bono? Not Russia. Ergo…
It makes ZERO sense that Russia would target this passenger train. HOW could that attack possibly benefit Russia?
Does Ratcliffe have control of the CIA?
Pretty easy to agree with Putin that np POTUS controls them.
The communists control our CIA… Is Ratcliffe a commie?
I don’t believe Ratcliffe controls the CIA. I am for dissolving the CIA.
I believe Putin to be correct in that no President nor the Director controls all portions of the IC.
President Trump has the clout to control our CIA…
For example: President Trump can cancel the secuity clearences of the communists in control of out CIA…
Why he hasn’t done so… Why he didn’t do so to help Tulsi, is beyobd my power to figger out…
Giving them more rope to hang themselves?
just another excuse for ignoring the situation.
Perhaps they left a message at Mara-lago when they ransacked his house??
That had to be chilling and infuriating at the same time. A clear attempt to intimidate him.
perhaps… Whatever the reason, he is obviously opposed to taking positive action here in the USA, so he concentrates on issues in other parts of the planet.
Methinks someone has convinced him that taking positive action of any sort for those of us here in the USA will cost him the mid-term “elections”…
But, the truth of the matter is: Taking positive action, ANY positive action to help the American people, will win the “elections” for him…
No doubt ms. susie has a finger in this pie…
Are you back?
Nope… not yet…
If the IC did DEI like the rest of government, it may be a Keystone Cop operation. There is no doubt there are huge problems with fake analysis and how about the agent that got 40 million in GOLD?
The sub-terrainian CIA, that’s not answerable to its publicly appointed leadership, has almost never worked to further America’s interests. It is always to further its own globalist goals.
Just look at their origins. Sorry dogs.
The CIA has been communist controlled since its inception in 1947…
Could it be that Radcliffe, under the control of PDJT, is actually in control of the CIA deep state, but they don’t realize it? Radcliffe acting as if he is just trying to make everything work without disruption is actually the plan.
Knowing the IC could get back at him “6 ways from Sunday” would obviously require a different sort of plan that would make it look like the deep state is still in charge. No one with any sense, including PDJT, thinks wading into the swamp and pulling the plug would work, so, we have something different. Trump took on the unions and the mob in New York so he knows a little about working with difficult people.
We’ll see.
Give a man a HIMARS and he’ll destroy a refinery.
Zelensky broke a window. The West handed him the brick, pointed at the window, and is now shocked that there’s glass everywhere and a draft.
The Chain of Events:
U.S./West gives Ukraine weapons→ Ukraine uses them to strike Russian refineries
Russian refinery capacity drops ~25% → Domestic fuel crisis in Russia
Putin bans diesel exports → ~800,000 barrels/day removed from global market
Global diesel shortage → Prices spike worldwide
U.S. diesel hits $6/gallon(record high) → 63% increase for truckers/farmers
U.S. responds by exporting record diesel (1.9 million barrels/day) → Draining domestic supplies further
White House considers Defense Production Act → Emergency measures to expand refining: i.e. give billion dollar companies our hard earned money to build out their refineries
Why not just ban the export of diesel fuel?
The U.S. and the West funded attacks that reduced global diesel supply, which raised prices globally, which now requires the US to export more diesel (further draining domestic supply), leading to $6/gallon diesel at home – creating economic pain for the very countries supporting Ukraine.
This is essentially a **self-imposed energy sanction** that backfired.
The policy architects who designed this — they had the information, the authority, and the obligation to think five moves ahead. Instead they thought one move ahead, patted themselves on the back, and are now surprised to find themselves in check.
They gave a man a weapon without apparently asking: “What happens if this works?”
U.S. diesel exports surge to record
Global scramble for diesel is increasingly draining U.S. supplies
The U.S. shipped a record amount of distillate fuel overseas last week as domestic stockpiles fell again, the latest sign that the global scramble for diesel is increasingly draining U.S. supplies.
Exports of distillate fuel, a category that predominantly includes diesel as well as heating oil and other products, rose to 1.9 million barrels a day last week, according to data released Aug. 5 by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
That’s the largest number on record, eclipsing the earlier high-water mark set in May.
Exports in the last two weeks have most frequently gone to northwestern Europe, according to data from energy analytics company Vortexa Ltd.
https://www.ttnews.com/articles/us-diesel-exports-surge-record
And build more refining/storage capacity to go along with banning diesel exports.
I remember Trump saying to expect short term pain at the pump. He also recently said this war will be over after the midterms. Why wait til then?
To the foreign policy approach, don’t forget Central and South America. Then there is also Canada/Mexico. A very comprehensive approach. Then there is the economic war on Iran to accomplish 3 goals: no nukes, no exercise of power beyond borders ( ie, terrorism), and unconditional surrender. Doing that without a ground invasion is remarkable, kind of a throw back to the ancient siege tactics.
backchannels good.
workarounds excellent.
PT solicits ideas.
PP happy to oblige.
PT says “ok, watch this”.
PT gonna keep Vasily busy.
😁
There are always operations and missions that traditionally are best (and appropriately) carried out by the CIA.
Looking at recent election results in Europe, I’ve been wondering how much CIA does Trump have that he can reliably call on to carry out needed operations, and how much of the old, deep state CIA is still carrying out its own missions?
How much operational difference is there between MI6 and deep state CIA? How many pairs of eyes are there in the current Five Eyes—and how many of them are looking from the White House outward?
There have been voices insinuating that Xi has been removing Chinese deep state leaders from his military.
IF we’re living through a global purge of rogue agencies and non-governmental power interests… I guess we should expect to be dealing with a lot of puke. “Clean up on Aisle Earth.”
Putin would never trust that a President has control over the IC, and even if Trump has some small measure of control, he will only be in office for another two years.
Putin, and the Russians are on their own path, and aren’t likely to deviate.
Genius ! He learned in the first term how utterly corrupt the “system “ was and is ,be of good conscience and watch the master at his trade. I think we’ll be well pleased
Carney’s Plan to Make Canada an ‘Associate Member’ of the EU Is Breaking the Internet.
Ukraine and Canada members of the EU?
Canada is 4000 miles from Europe with no transport capability.
Carney is looting Canada. Tear up USMCA already.
Insignificant pissants are insignificant.
“One Ping Only, Vasily”
The Hunt for Red October (1990), the last movie I watched with Alec Baldwin in it. On some late night show, ab called for Rep. Henry Hyde to be lynched, IIRC. Rep. Hyde was leading the impeachment inquiry into wjc at the time. ab suffered no backlash or repercussions for the remark against a Congressman carrying out his duties. Fast Forward to today.
Ecclesiastes 8:11 – Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
The impeachment failed, not because of guilt, some Senators later said that they did not want to overturn an election because of lying about a sexual matter. The impeachment committee was hamstrung from the start because they were only allowed to pursue things pertaining to Monica Lewinsky. Everything else was off the table , such as selling influence and technology to China (port of LA/ Long Beach, 5 axis milling machines that we used for our nuclear submarine propellers, etc. etc. etc.)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099810/?_ssoLoop=1&newac=true
The top diesel-producing countries (most to least):
United States
China
India
Russia
Chinese has reduced production of diesel, internal demand decreasing.
Russia, China and India leaders meet at BRICS Summit Setember 12- 13.
For anyone that is not familiar with the quote.
What was the meaning of “One Ping Only, Vasil”
Per Grok:
It’s a famous line from the 1990 film The Hunt for Red October (based on Tom Clancy’s novel), delivered by Captain Marko Ramius (Sean Connery) to his executive officer, Vasily (or Vasili) Borodin (Sam Neill): “Give me a ping, Vasily. One ping only, please.” (Sometimes slightly paraphrased as “One ping only, Vasil.”) In the scene, the Soviet submarine Red October (which Ramius is using in a planned defection) and the American submarine USS Dallas are close enough for periscope-to-periscope Morse code communication. CIA analyst Jack Ryan proposes that Ramius acknowledge the message and confirm range/position by sending a single active sonar “ping.”
A sonar ping is an active sound pulse used to detect or range objects underwater.Requesting exactly one keeps the signal minimal: loud and clear enough to be unmistakable, brief enough to be deniable or non-aggressive, and not interpretable as preparing to fire a torpedo or fully revealing the submarine’s location and intentions through prolonged active sonar use.
Ramius orders it to signal cooperation and help arrange a safe rendezvous amid the tense Cold War cat-and-mouse game with pursuing Soviet forces. The calm, polite delivery (“one ping only, please”) has made the line iconic and frequently quoted.
For those who prefer a human source…..
https://campusresources.blog/hunt-for-red-october-one-ping-only?__cf_chl_tk=xnEco0upqsb.JPaguZwr6bP6VdZwYtp72BRSXf1XYQ4-1789335373-1.0.1.1-FQX5J6L35ghBQ5C4hnjxGP5VPrl.aAeCM3ko_nSL6VM
Fabulous link. Thanks.
I like what another source says about the two most problematic 3-letter agencies: which one are you talking about?
I keep seeing things that happen that make me wonder how many undesirables are left in John R’s agency. And I keep seeing DJT execute on a plan with nimbleness.
one ping persilly. That one ping made a sound like it was in a hollow drum.
Biden heard that sound roll around in his ucranium.
Donald Trump first used variations of this line during his 2016 presidential campaign. At a rally in Macon, Georgia, in November 2015—and repeated later during campaign stops—he told the crowd:
memo to the Pentagon:
Trump knows that $7.00 diesel is not attracting attention at the moment, but in a month when heating oil season begins people are going to scream. Just in time for that anger to carry over to Election Day.
Diesell, by me is $6.23…the local gas stations all have it and other gasoline, priced the same. Cheap gas and name brand gas, all the same prices.
diesel was 6.19 for me this morning, 9/13/26, when filling up (mesa-gilbert, az region). can confirm you can only put 175$ in at a time before the pump stops at that particular station before you have to reinsert your debit/credit card to continue filling.
can also confirm the cheeky biden stickers at the pump that showed him pointing saying i did that are now replaced with donald trump stickers saying i did that. historically, this is a very red area politically so kind of surprising.
dont shoot the messenger.
It worked in the movie, lets hope the one ping works in real life.
For those of us who haven’t seen Hunt for Red October, can someone please explain the significance of the “one ping only” quote? Thanks in advance….
Just saw T4C answered my question further down this threat. Thanks!!!
Zelenskyy to Carney soon: “You arrogant ass! You’ve killed us!”
The recitation of President Trump’s efforts for peace and the American people is amazing. Thank you, Sundance! Much to be thankful for.
The thing that is hard to take is the fact that this view of the Predident’s work and accomplishments does not get to the general public. We are all familiar with this, from watching the snotty TV interviewers … to seeing the casual and routine blaming of President Trump for any random negative items in the news.
Folks, please get the word out to people you think might take you seriously.
And please pray.
Top Notch Sundance. You should write fiction. You would be great at it. I miss Tom Clancy and Rush Limbaugh. You could be both.
The Truth about Benghazi…
Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to secretly retrieve US made Stinger Missiles that the State Dept had supplied to Ansar al Sharia in Libya without Congressional permission.
Sec State Hillary Clinton had brokered the Libya deal through Ambassador Stevens and a Private Arms Dealer named Marc Turi, but some of the shoulder fired Stinger Missiles ended up in Afghanistan where they were used against our own military. On July 25th, 2012, a US Chinook helicopter was downed by one of them. Not destroyed only because the idiot Taliban didn’t arm the missile. The helicopter didn’t explode, but it had to land and an ordnance team recovered the missile’s serial number which led back to a cache of Stinger Missiles kept in Qatar by the CIA.
Obama and Hillary were in full panic mode, so Ambassador Stevens was sent to Benghazi to retrieve the rest of the Stinger Missiles. This was a “do-or-die” mission, which explains the Stand Down Orders given to multiple rescue teams during the siege of the US Embassy.
It was the State Dept, NOT the CIA, that supplied the Stinger Missiles to our sworn enemies because Gen. Petraeus at CIA would not approve supplying the deadly missiles due to their potential use against aircraft. So then, Obama threw Gen. Petraeus under the bus when he refused to testify in support of Obama’s phony claim of a “spontaneous uprising caused by a YouTube video that insulted Muslims.”
Obama and Hillary committed TREASON!
THIS is what the investigation is all about, WHY she had a Private Server, (in order to delete the digital evidence), and WHY Obama, two weeks after the attack, told the UN that the attack was the result of the YouTube video, even though everyone KNEW it was not.
Furthermore, the Taliban knew that the administration had aided and abetted the enemy WITHOUT Congressional oversight or permission, so they began pressuring (blackmailing) the Obama Administration to release five Taliban generals being held at Guantanamo. Bowe Bergdahl was just a useful pawn used to cover the release of the Taliban generals. Everyone knew Bergdahl was a traitor but Obama used Bergdahl’s exchange for the five Taliban generals to cover that Obama was being coerced by the Taliban about unauthorized Stinger Missile deal.
So we had a traitor as POTUS that is not only corrupt, but compromised, as well and a Sec of State that is a serial liar, who perjured herself multiple times at Congressional Hearings on Benghazi. Perhaps this is why no military aircraft were called upon for help in Benghazi: because the administration knew that our enemies had Stinger Missiles that, if used to down those planes, would likely be traced back to the CIA cache in Qatar and then to the State Dept’s illegitimate arms deal in Libya.
Forward this again and again and again until everyone reads the true story of Benghazi.
Tulsi may have helped him get his arms around the CIA, but that still leaves the FIB. They need to be shut down and their responsibilities delegated to other agencies.
As the CIA goes, so goes the FBI. It certainly seems that the CIA is more than a silo, bleeding into the layer that bridges them to form the DeepState – with a seat at the Globalists’ NWO table.
I trust Trump’s aim is at the head of the snake.
*ping*
CIA Director John Ratcliffe Releases 71 Presidential Daily Briefs (PDBs)
Outlining Intelligence Discussions Before and After 9/11 – The Last Refuge
some pretty smart comments, too.
“Putin has often stated that no U.S. President controls the CIA, and Putin has said while he never views the U.S. President or the people of America as his enemy, the CIA are the problem. Putin views the CIA as the real control mechanism within the U.S. government. America is not Russia’s enemy, the CIA is. That’s Putin’s perspective in a nutshell.”
The above paragraph nicely summarizes the background of the semi famous interview that Putin did with Tucker Carlson a while back.
Ping.
Ukraine halting attacks on Russian diesel production and storage is not militarily viable. Diesel is a critical for military logistics.