As long as the Iran conflict continues, energy speculators have the justification for higher oil, gas, fuel and energy prices. Even if global oil and gas flows return to their pre-conflict levels, so long as the conflict itself is in place the market traders, speculators and manipulators have a justification for higher prices. The center for this global financial matter is London.
If you are an EU minded ‘climate change’ ideologue having constructed decades of fabricated net-zero objectives, the Iran conflict now serves your interests. The Iran conflict does not assist the interests of the people of Europe, but rather the interests of the political and powerful elite in finance control who benefit from higher prices of traditional energy.
The blame for higher EU energy costs now shifts from EU climate advocates to Trump.
Here’s where it takes a Machiavellian twist. One way to keep the Iran situation in place is to place ancillary pressure on the key to the solution, Russia.
So long as the EU keeps threatening Russia with expanded conflict, there is no motive for Russia to assist President Trump in the solution within Iran. Solving the crisis within Iran is against Putin’s security interests, as long as the EU threat holds some reasonable possibility, because Iran -a Russian ally- can strike Europe with their remaining ballistic missile inventory.
What we see is the creation of a Gordian Knot. You cannot resolve the Iran conflict so long as Russian security interests are threatened, and you cannot resolve the Russian security interests as long as the Ukraine-Russia conflict continues.
President Trump wants the Iran conflict resolved. Russia is the key; which is why President Trump has redirected diplomatic resources to resolve the Ukraine-Russia war. However, that war underpins the justification for expanded conflict espoused by Europe toward Russia. The EU take a hostile position toward Russia knowing a peaceful resolution is against their ‘climate change’ agenda. There are trillions of pre-positioned interests at stake.
Ukraine President Vladimir Zelensky (correct name) tells his western supporters that President Trump is too favorable toward the position of Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin. {SOURCE} This is not fully accurate, nor is it entirely false. The missing element is ‘why’.
Both Trump and Putin want the Ukraine issue resolved. Resolution of this issue means a significant realignment in U.S-Russia strategic relations around the overarching issue of energy development. However, EU interests do not want the Ukraine issue resolved; instead, they want a western (EU/NATO) conflict to continue against Russia using Ukraine as the proxy war long ago established. Again, a divergent energy aspect.
Ultimately, the EU/NATO threats against Russia are a bluff, as long as President Trump is in office. If the EU/NATO group want to materialize the threat into something substantive, they need the United States military to lead the conflict; after all, it was the previous Obama/Biden U.S. intelligence, state department and military operation (2014) that created Ukraine as the proxy war. Trump want’s out, the EU/NATO demand America stays in.
This is a considerable Gordian Knot, and both President Trump and President Putin are visibly frustrated.
Underneath all of this are really small European leaders trying to retain global energy position on the issue of climate change, carbon exchanges, net zero, Paris climate treaty, banking and other financial schemes. Small soft powers with big financial stakes. London and the EU Central Bank sit at the center of it.
When the Americans and Russians talk about security, it’s not just about security guarantees for Ukraine. In fact, it’s more about some kind of new security framework between Europe and Russia.
We find this approach a bit strange. Because for 30 years after the Soviet Union collapsed, Europe treated Russia well. And Europe tried to have as much trade as possible, as much cooperation as possible, and as good relations as possible with Russia.
Putin’s wars are really about only his attitude toward others – not some kind of permanent confrontation with Europe that was impossible to avoid. But still, we hear what we hear today.
From an address at the 9th European Political Community Summit. (1/3)
— Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) November 12, 2026
If you understand this knot and all of the interests within it, then you understand why President Trump, President Putin and Chinese Chairman Xi Jinping meeting together, privately, at the Nov 18/19 APEC summit in Beijing has all of those EU leaders in a state of visible concern.
President Trump can cut through this knot with a frank, deliberate and direct discussion with Xi and Putin. Iran doesn’t get nuclear weapons – EVER. Russia has security guarantees from Trump, and long-term resolution to Europe’s manipulation of Ukraine comes by Chairman Xi leveraging his influential economic status against the scheming and conniving European players.
Trump, Putin and Xi have individual interests, but are also significant enough men of legacy that they can align their common interests.
Trump only has two years left, so Putin needs to rely on another mechanism; that’s where Xi comes in.
Together, the knot gets cut.
Iran gets resolved with strict parameters. Russia and Ukraine get resolved with borders and security. Europe gets managed and the conniving western banking interests get overwhelmed by forceful hard power agreements. Many in the USA (mostly leftist-minded and EU-centric supporters) will not like this outcome. All of it will be consequential for generations.
If you live in Canada, Europe or Australia, you can prepare your kids for the future by having them learn Chinese. The Western Hemisphere, including Cuba will be home to technological advancements, increased quality of life and a specific labor market demographic. The U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy will modify accordingly (the carrot for Xi), meanwhile Russia and the U.S. being a strategic energy-based realignment in the Arctic.
For us, we watch the apoplexy that is about to surface!
If we are to modify the U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy, we need to keep Japan and the Philippines under our umbrella. Our government is right to be weary of China, hence the refurb of numerous old WW2 airstrips on several Pacific islands.
What becomes of Taiwan? Consumed by the communists like Hong Kong?
I believe the Hong Kong banking sector is still controlled by the Brits. And China is no longer Communist but might be better described as an authoritarian mercantilist system.
Great description of China.
HOW WOULD – FASCIST – Fit for Describing China ?
( ONE STEP Past Communism )
” Fascism is characterized by support for a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived interest of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy ”
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fascism
An Article to Ponder –
https://ponderingprinciples.com/2017/08/16/the-alt-right-isnt-right/
Thanks Quinn. I appreciate everything people bring to the table here. That said, I didn’t much agree with this article.
The article assumes that the chief characteristic of the so-called alt-right is / was hatred. Seems to me the main thing about them is a desire to avoid woke politics and its corrosive influence in society, including legal formulation and interpretation.
The hate label this guy puts on them is just part of the standard mud-slinging of the left.
Thanks for the Input
i Found His Opinion on the Scale of Control ( my terms ) in the Political Spectrum to be Correct –
ANARCHY Is TOTAL LIBERALIZATION from Government Controls ( moderation IF Proper Controls ).
Herein lies the advantage with regards to China. Note what PM of Canada, Mark Carney, said about their alignment with the EU and new alignment with China: the world must move past the U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency (that was the bait, the carrot); however, China’s own currency and financial markets would also have to change and (most importantly) ‘liberalize’. So Carney (and he is the UK/EU banking system boy) wants to use the Chinese currency/banking system to take on and dethrone the U.S. dollar. This is worked out as a geopolitical trap for both us and China; they get to reap the benefits and profits from it. They also want the Chinese to ‘liberalize’, this means reducing (getting rid of) their own sovereignty at the behest of the UK/EU banking cartel. This was back at the end of September; since then Carney has been nothing but a sovereignty first, respect sovereignty when talking about and to the Chinese.
I won’t lie; the carrot is a very tempting one, and perhaps that issuance of Chinese green bonds in Canada recently is a signal that the Chinese are going to take a bite. However, the risk is that it will be China’s turn at the millstone: basically a puppet for the globalists to make use of until they can no longer. Let’s hope there are some analysts within China that see this threat; I’m sure our President’s administration sees it. Perhaps that message will be relayed to Xi at the upcoming trilateral; and that may be why the ‘middle powers’ are in such a tizzy about it.
I believe you are wrong look at the top 100 world banks and compare CCP to Brits.
It is funny Hong Kong Shanghai Bank is HQed in London.
In the old days it was head quartered in Hong Kong, but those days are long gone.
I think Taiwan is a different kettle of fish than Hong Kong ever was.
The British Empire is waning.
Taiwan was never really a part of it – but rather a victim.
This doesn’t make sense to the average hard working, 9-5 maybe 9-8, American trying to get ahead. Make it make sense or illiminate it.
It makes perfect sense. What don’t you understand?
Maybe “Gordian knot”. Paying attention throughout one’s schooling has advantages.
“Maybe “Gordian knot”. Paying attention throughout one’s schooling has advantages.”
It really does….
How about bombing the knot to pieces. Maybe Israel started today what we should have continued to do. Destroy their capability completely and kill the crazy leaders.
Phil wasn’t stating he doesn’t understand, he’s stating the average voter doesn’t understand. We are miniscule fraction of the US populace, the vast majority will have no knowledge of the Green Energy vs Real Energy background that drives these conflicts. You can not use the CTH comment section as a good indicator for the general public.
Make common sense great again.
“We are miniscule fraction of the US populace, the vast majority will have no knowledge ….” fixed it for you.
The Tik-Tok Instagram generations are essentially morons who get their information from online “influencers” who aggregate slanted particles of world events and trends to fit the globalist/demokrat messaging propaganda they are fed daily.
Absent a generalized grounding in history, political structures, and the ability to perform critical thinking, empty minds cannot make judgments about the information they are fed to discard the obvious bias.
Did you mean to type “eliminate it” or “illuminate it”?
Oops oops and oops!
Well there is a scenario where it get’s illuminated while being eliminated.
“Illiminate it?”
I think I understand why you don’t understand.
Yup, I did that and I don’t understand how I did? It is funny though……
Three super powers.
U.S. -China-Russia
Europe/ EU still thinks it is an Empire.
It’s Not.
The only way EU remains solvent is to keep
US in NATO. And to to do that it must have
an enemy- Russia.
Middle East- Turkey is a member of NATO.
If President Trump we’re to just walk away from
Ukraine and Iran….concentrate on domestic issues
and trade with Russia and China …it would be disastrous
for EU.
All Wars are Bankers Wars…and the “ Bankers “ who pull
the the strings…are located in Europe.
♟️EU have bankrupted themselves by pouring money into
Ukraine… their end goal was/ is to capture Russia, strip it
of its wealth and resources….and as Kaja Kallas has said
— break Russia into smaller pieces/ countries. Video clip
of that went viral!
💥 💥 Routes and Resources are what all wars are about— Michael Yon.
We can’t ‘solve’ Iran without ‘solving’ Ukraine, and we’ve got all the middle powers desperately not wanting both solved. And, they have friends within our own country who will try their utmost to make sure both don’t get ‘solved’.
Sundance …. Why does “cutting the Gordian Knot” NEVER = physical (NO Weapons and NO INTEL) as well as well as NO Money to the Ukraine???
Why no OFFICIAL Statement to make DIPLOMATICALLY very clear that EU proactive actions taken vs Russia ARE NOT Protected by the NATO Charter. The US does not have to “withdraw” from the NATO treaty to take NATO off the table. NATO involvement is the reason the EU slow rolls Ukrainian membership in the EU .. as EU membership without NATO’s involvement directly makes the Ukraine a 100% EU problem.
Why no sanctions on the EU and EU Institutions for scuttling every peace negotiation since 2023??
This is the ONLY way the Gordian Knot is cut because ALL ACTIONS so far have been a one-way punishment of Russia. This is also one of the primary reasons President Putin is “frustrated”.
The resolution to the Ukraine conflict is now at the TALK is CHEAP Point as far as any US Solutions are concerned.
The situation is also past the keeping the congressional RINO’s happy … they have clearly betrayed any deals the President may have had with them.
POTUS can cut the knot with direct appeal to the American public by laying out the geopolitics of the situation, with receipts, and a direct charge to Congress to act on the matter in the interests of Americans and the American economy. In this regard, the timing of Sen Johnson & Grassley letter to POTUS is curious. To quote POTUS, “what do you have to lose?”
Any appeal to Congress by President Trump is not likely to succeed. Simply look at what Congress “accomplished” in the first two years. The One Big Beautiful Bill. That’s it. Congressmen and women are there to make money off the US taxpayers, not to represent them/us. They work for the globalist team, against America, against President Trump.
CONGRESS will never cut ties with their cash cows financing the conflict and associated issues.
Hate to say but the US Public is more worried regarding their own finances to worry about the Ukraine and 90% of the US Public is 100% ignorant of the issues, with their knowledge of anything international being 1-news headline deep from sources 100% backing the continuation of the war.
They may be ignorant of important issues, but they sure as hell know who won yesterday’s college football game, or what pop song is top of the charts, or what some Ole’ Miss bitch/student SAYS she saw through her dorm door ring.
I don’t know any of those things. Door ring?
That is exactly the same over here in Europe.
The fake news is swallowed whole the 90% of the Sheeple.
For instance just this week up to 1 million Poles celebrated their independence in a joyous and peaceful parade in Warsaw.
The only coverage it got was from Reuiters? so called agency who termed them ‘far right’
The Media could/would probably not cover such an Address.
Such an Address must be at the State of the Union. Name names.
Get new speech writers.
Go for broke, bare it all.
Make the pundits vomit.
That’s the spirit in which my comment was intended…and challenge Congress on the spot.
The NATO charter is functionally dead with respect to Article 5. Any US president that dives into that pit will cause immediate riots in US cities.
The NATO Charter is the ROADBLOCK to any solution and EU Membership by the Ukraine.
There is NO PIT as long as nothing is said about revoking the Treaty. Just like there have NO riots n the streets when the President brought home the Augmenting Forces sent to Europe by the Biden Auto-Pen on 2023 … and not the President is still moving forward with establishing the Biden Auto-pen bases in Eastern EU. Your comment lacks any anchored in fact. Even Congress was mollified as they will get their kick backs from the “new US Base” construction.
Maybe we need a GATO – Greenland Atlantic Titty Organization ?
Only after the CIA starts influencing elections in Greenland…
Russia is becoming frustrated and disinterested.
They keep stating their terms. No one listens.
They have said repeatedly—No NATO membership.
The negotiations just a month after the SMO started
in Istanbul…before Bojo the UK clown sabotaged…🤢
was no NATO membership for Ukraine.
If we 🇺🇸 were to give any “ Security Guarantees “ it would
be a tripwire. Just like “ ceasefire “ – security guarantees is
just a recycling of same talking points by the Little Green Gnome.
The Russians were open for EU membership for Ukraine.
But now that Ursula Fond of Lying is working Really hard
to get an actual EU military force started— even that may
be off the table for the Russians.
At this point….EU is irrelevant. Kind of like children sitting
at the little table wishing they were at the big table.
Nonsense.
Most Americans can’t even spell NATO, nor define what the acronym stands for.
Not Actually Taking Over?
The US NEVER wanted to have decent relations with Russia after the Cold War. Ukraine was always a pawn in the weakening of Russia. It has worked very well up to this point. which is why Trump is “engaging” with Putin for the billionth time.
It is all a ruse. Zelensky is on it but being a good actor, he keeps complaining about Trump favouring Russia !
Putin also knows it, but the current situation shows that he is in no position of strength to change this dynamic. He is stuck being China’s junior partner because he has no other option given that Russia is an international out cast now .. He cannot count on anyone to help him out and he needs the war to keep the Russian economy going as well
The whole thing is a damn shame.. Now you know how a small island in the middle of the Atlantic has been able to rule the world directly and indirectly for the last 200 plus years after Napolean was vanquished
The ironic part is that it was Russia that had a major hand in vanquishing Napoleon both Times that he was vanquished.
They sent Large Armies deep into Western Europe both times and actually went home after the victory parade BOTH Times..
” given that Russia is an International outcast now “
I really do believe you need better sources of information.
Seriously. 😳
If you believe “International” consists only of the EU kakistocracy —
then yes.
The World outside that small group of morons do negotiate and interact
with Russia….Bigly!
One other thing to add.
We are about to get winter in Europe.
That means some grown up fuel supply.
At the moment Norway oil and gas plus French nuclear is just sufficient.
when it gets really cold we will need more Russian supplies.
Note the ‘more’ bit as we already get lots from Russia.
Obviously windmills and fairy dust will not keep us warm.
What does Xi need to get his cooperation? That’s the part I just can’t figure out was the modification in US Indo-Pacific strategy.. The carrot.
Xi potentially gets favorable EXPORT-IMPORT LICENSING decisions on a wide range of US Products, Technology, Banking, “exchanges”, etc.
For over 30 years … those EXPORT LICENSES have been the R&D Department for the current China Inc.
There is also an International Pressure Point the US Holds over China inc. with respect to access to the LOANS China inc. requires.
The Chairman of the US FED has a seat with a UNILATERAL VETO on the board of the World Bank and Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in Basel, Switzerland.
I think many overlook the obvious carrot for both Russia and China: a functional USA and a partner in combating the globalists centered in the EU and UK.
The old cold war paradigm, with which we have been propagandized for nearly a century, no longer applies.
Geography.
Routes and resources.
Shared- intertwined history.
Russia and China share borders.
🤷♀️ China isn’t stupid.
They realize that if Russia were to fall and be broken up
into smaller countries….and under control of globalists…
China would be next!
Their shared alliance equals self preservation. They realize
they are stronger together.
Gordian Knot? I would call it a tar pit.
Please explain.
In a tar pt, the more you move the worse it gets.
Where dinosaurs go to be trapped and die.
See the La Brea Tar Pits
IKR
One tangential piece, PDJTs speech regarding CCP influence in the election this past late summer. CCP has funded the DSA candidates in the midterms, DOJ. CCP Xi is purging targets in ruling succession and government. Election security report is due o the President in ~30 days. The ARC meeting will take place prior to release of report. Leverage up
DSA = communism = Bolsheviks.
When the Bolsheviks captured Russia at the
beginning of the 20th century their goal was
to implement communism Internationally.
The Bolsheviks were involved in spreading communism
to China. The Bolsheviks still remain and have actually
been in China for over a century. Small group but powerful and Hidden-
unknown by many but they are still there pulling the strings.
Interesting research on that. 😳
Russia was able to shake the yoke of Bolshevism-
it took decades. China is still in the process.
Russian method of elimination-was also known as “purging”.
Same term. 😉
Bolshevism is a parasite..it feeds on its host until
it is no longer viable- then it finds another host.
OPEC, along with the US, Russia and China can’t be happy with the traders in London reaping unearned wealth from manipulated oil markets. What can be done???
Have the 3 Leaders and OPEC agree to cut London out of the picture. Don’t sell to them. Don’t honor their calls for futures.
Consumers, including China pay less for energy. Manufacturing consumption goes up as the price falls. Win win.
(Having said that, speculators do provide valuable signals for forward pricing. These are 2 different topics.)
Speculators should have to take physical delivery of whatever they bet on, if physical delivery is possible.
Paper contracts that manipulate the price without physical custody should be illegal. LME, CME, and oil speculation. Make the cost high enough so when they lose they’ll think twice
I still don’t know why it is this way. If speculators’ price is artificially high come delivery, why would the purchasers of the product be willing to pay for it? Is there just no other place for them to buy oil?
Exactly. The folks talking about this have no clue on how Markets work. It is the ignorant leading the blind.
Don’t forget the US oil industry! I bet those bastards are in neck deep.
If the US oil industry in colluding to set an arbitrarily high price. We can haul them in for price fixing.
The speculators are a completely unnecessary element of cost … they have nothing to do with anything that adds value. The co’s involved in the process, from exploration to extraction through refining provide plenty of information. Cut the cancer out.
OMG There are so many uninformed people as to how commodities work. It allows the average citizen the same access to commodities as anyone else. I’ll wager the people of Russia have no access to the commodities market.
Speculators are not the problem. It’s the producers. Producers can claim there is a shortage whether there is or not. Speculators react.
I’m of the opinion, over the last 3 decades of “Green” pressure from government force, they are happy to take grants and go green. It’s just less hassle and just as profitable. They don’t want to drill baby, drill. “Landman” is a fictional character from a bygone era. We have no T Bone Pickens anymore. We have boardrooms of pajama boys.
Now you have me hungry for a steak… a T-Bone in fact.
Santa, can you put me down for a case of them next month?
Deliver anytime next month… they will stay frozen if you just leave them on the front porch.. thanks.
/s
You do not understand the market. You can make a deal directly with a producer if you have the volume. The speculators give an expert opinion on where the price should be and where it is likely going in the future. It is accurate or the “speculator” will be eaten alive by its brethren.
The shipping insurance goes through London; if they don’t play along, their product doesn’t ship. Remember Lloyd’s threatening to cut insurance off ships transiting Hormuz? That’s also a dagger aimed right at China as well — no ships, no shipments, no economy; no economy, millions of very angry citizens and possibility of a revolution/collapse.
Lloyd’s functions as a hub where multiple independent syndicates (comprising corporations and private individuals) compete to underwrite risk, meaning policies are written by these specific members rather than Lloyd’s itself.
While Lloyd’s is a dominant force—underwriting roughly 40% of global marine cargo risk—it faces significant competition from other major entities:
You answered yourself: they are the dominant force in cargo underwriting.
True, but DJT showed that there was a need for alternatives when Lloyds refused to insure ships transiting the Gulf and the US govt stepped in and insured them while they were transiting the Gulf.
Yes, he did; that’s why I brought it up. There were certain threats made by a certain underwriter at that time; wonder why?
Lloyd’s controls the lion’s share, and London Company Market controls another 6%.; then there are the P&I clubs That’s over half the underwriting, well over half, controlled out of London — you want to ship something; you have to play London’s game.
Jane, i am trying to educate you.
This all seems like an out for Dems winning and energy not falling. I dont disagree with the thesis, but this seems to be a hedge that is forming against the prediction of falling fuel prices with the dems having won.
To be fair, I never really believed refined product prices would go down more than 10% and stay there. Not when diesel refining is in short supply, and further that the US can’t refine the light sweet crude it extracts. Instead it relies on imports to feed our refineries. Of which have been running at the 97‐98% ish capacity. For those unaware, this isnt sustainable. Typically you run maybe 95% due to regular maintenance that needs performed. Currently we are forgoing maintenance and chasing refined runs. When, not if, those wore out parts breakdown it leads to downstream effects also. So the downtime that would have been “short” with regular maintenance becomes extended.
Even further, why would dems want cheaper energy? Does anyone really believe they’d want to take a victory lap vs tightening the screws to further their desires of full control via 15 minute cities, electric cars, restricted a/c use, food in shorter supply, etc?
And on top of that, another record draw from the SPR further setting a record for low reserves. CPI came in hot. I’m sure PPI is even worse, given many companies are eating some cost increases for as long as possible.
50 bps hike on deck with high energy prices. Despite the tandem nature, the remittances to the treasury via interest payments and debts that are not being “retired” – this isnt having the effect of removing money from the supply. Since 2024 the m3 supply has not gone down, and on top of that tax receipts by .gov are down 9%. Shrinking tax base with an increase in money supply. Seems like Joe and Jane Main Street have stopped spending but .gov is trying to fill the gap via defense spending which increased 29% just for the month of October
Covid hysteria redux – let’s print another 7 trillion. 2 days to flatten Iran turns into years.
Anyone checked the repo market lately? That’s what burned up helping lead to covid spending spree which then fit perfectly as they parlayed it into the 2020 steal.
Will it matter really, if Dem control after 2028 means they complete their agenda for destroying constitutional guard rails and the Constitution itself?
Elimination of the Electoral College in favour of the “popular vote”… Blue states are inching ever closer in their pacts to give their electoral votes to the presidential popular vote ” winner”, said “winner’s” totals bolstered by fraud and tech manipulation.
Assuming such a “win” will precipitate adding Puerto Rico and DC as “states” with equal privileges?
Assuming the Dems are successful in packing the SC?
They’ve been playing the hard long game for decades with an impotent, obstructionist “opposition party” which barely manages to show up. And when it rarely does, it’s not for the good of any voter who placed them in Congress to look after/protect their interests. Just the illusion of doing so…
My point…
Two years is nothing relatively speaking. The only man in America’s corner will be gone. We’re starting to get a feel for who will try to succeed him, and I’m as yet not liking those suiting up.
Unless the legitimacy of our elections is restored, I am engaging in a reality exercise here. And even then…
This trifecta of powerful leaders may well be able to cut through this particular Gordian Knot. But make no mistake…
The Communist/Dem haters of America will get right to work re-weaving it. And worse.
Almighty God’s intervention and guidance is what are needed here. His merciful Presence in the same room with Presidents Trump, Putin, and Xi. And His assistance in helping us find the right path towards keeping our freedoms which it seems too many have taken taken for granted that would be with us in perpetuity.
The Communist Dems are cocky. They and their globalist allies have perfected the mechanisms for their intended takeover in 2028.
Theirs is another vicious Gordian Knot which needs to be cut through and destroyed lest any successful solutions to the one we’re discussing be turned to ashes.
Perhaps it’s just me but I fail to see why anyone trusts Xi. Heck, SD consistently has discussed the panda mask. China and Russia, at best are freinemies, of necessity for the moment.
Not just you.
My understanding is that he is purging some of his inner circle with ambitions.
He has a potential sell by date just as with any political persona, and a God ordained sell by date, too.
Everything can change…quickly.
Nothing is certain except that everything today is in flux. No solid ground beneath anyone’s feet.
Have to try though, Okie.
All credit to President Trump for doing so. Time is relentless and running out.
China is nothing if not pragmatic. If something works in their best interest they will go along. Same with Russia, which is trying to reconstitute itself after its disastrous experiment with liberalism during the last century.
You cannot expect loyalty from either, but we all have the same enemy at the moment, the UK/EU conglomerate.
China worked with the globalists for a time because it forwarded their aspirations of overtaking the US. That seems to have ended in about 2022, which was indicated by Fauci starting to blame them for Covid and Soros designating them as the enemy (I believe he had been trying to gain a foothold there, but the Chinese kept his money and kicked him out, something like that.)
Nobody should trust any of them. That’s how politics is done. However, we don’t have to be buddies or even like each other — what’s in our best interests, and how can this be protected while negotiating with Xi and Putin whereby we show how our best interests coincide with their best interests.
100%
Insightful
So if the UK essentially controls the price of oil and other energy prices via their market makers in London, the USA is not a sovereign country. We have enough of our own energy of all types for generations to come, but our prices are set by outside forces that basically hate us and want to control us? Sounds pretty stupid if we have allowed this to take control.
It’s like having a pantry full of food and starving to death.
They do not
Oh what tangled web we weave. Even the simple spider has good reason to spin one. Why knot? Something has to hold it together.
“The blame for higher EU energy costs now shifts from EU climate advocates to Trump.”
no it doesn’t – at least not if we don’t allow that construct to be normalized
by those trying to escape the rightful blame.
with a little assist from PT,
the truth of the matter can be hammered into the collective consciousness.
any retrograde in the standard of living can be placed squarely onto
the green + financial manipulation crowd.
“Trump want’s (sic) out, the EU/NATO demand America stays in.”
since when does the EU/NATO dictate to America?
we fund their sorry patooties, tell them to go picnic in Somalia.
now having vented a bit ( 😂 ), absolutely LOVE the proposed solution.
praying for exactly that.🙏🏻
Conflict is the water that keeps their rose garden blooming. Create the chaos, engineer the scarcity, inflate the prices, and collect the vig. Peace threatens profits when your entire business model depends on manufactured crises.
So virtuous they are…
Gayyyyy!
https://jesuschrist.pictures/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/mary-untier-of-knots-schmidtner-full-painting.webp
Yup, Mother Mary is the way to her Son!!!
Amen. Thank you. Co-Redemptorist.
She is the patroness of both Americas. Pray for repentance and atonement for all sinners and sins committed in both Americas. Abortion above many others. The list is long.
The patronage of the Americas is divided between Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Rose of Lima in Catholic tradition, while St. Herman of Alaska and the North American Martyrs are recognized in Orthodoxy.
For the United States specifically, the Catholic Church designates Mary, under the title of the Immaculate Conception, as the official Patroness, a title approved by Pope Pius IX in 1847.
Also the Novena to Mary, the Undoer of Knots is assuredly recommended.
How many will heed the warnings? The Bible is full of examples of all manners of indifference to God and resultant fate come The Day of Judgment.
Against all the godlessness and wickedness ..
God, from His holy throne, is currently displaying His righteous anger against every form of irreverence and injustice. This wrath targets people who knowingly push down the truth He has made plain, choosing sin over submission. The passage shatters any illusion that sin is harmless or that God is indifferent; it calls every reader to face the reality of divine justice and to seek the only refuge—His grace revealed in the gospel.
This wrath is currently active and universal, addressing both impiety (lack of reverence for God) and unrighteousness (moral failure toward others).
The suppression of truth occurs because people reject the clear revelation of God’s eternal power and divine nature, which have been clearly perceived through creation since the world began.
“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness”
Romans 1:18
God’s Judgment and the Law ..
“on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges bthe secrets of men cby Christ Jesus”. Romans 2 : 16
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Love the Jensen Huang-themed attire. Trying to understand what the “US-Indo Pacific strategy” modifications might mean in terms of a carrot for Xi? Taiwan? Tariff relief? Pulling out of South China Sea?
What is needed in the Ukraine are free, open and fair elections for a new President to get rid of the warmonger and obstacle for peace Zelensky! The rebuilding of the Ukraine and the ending of the Congressional Ukraine honey pot are a must! JMO
Based on Trump’s performance on the domestic side you may be giving him more credit than is warranted.
What don’t you like, the peace or the prosperity?
Name the ‘domestic side’ issues you blame Trump for.
I see success by Trump in every facet of US except the price of oil which he has no control over.
Where can the President most wield executive authority granted?
Interesting take, i do not fully agree with them all. Regarding the Russian involvement in ending the Iran war i do have similar takes though.
(Especially the emphasized focus on the climate change issue. I think it is simply a smoke screen, a very sellable and understandable concern. But they are not the main reasons.)
However considering on the home front of the USA, with the new New Jersey bills, and now Texas also following suit, i would say there are more dire things that the citizens of the USA need to worry about.
A few bills filed to the upcoming Texas legislative sessions:
The New Jersey bill defining Islamaphobia has stalled.
The problem is that it was still brought up. It has stalled, but for how long?
This is a testing the waters tactic. Perhaps not today, but it will be coming.
(In the EU this has been done with many policies and regulations. They often submit a regulation that will be completely be disagreed to, only to remove some parts make it slightly less appaling and now it passes.)
And could it be “watered down” to a degree where it can be enacted? And slowly but surely built upon this watered down version get it back to where the original was, and then grow from there?
These are valid questions and important ones, that one must consider when they hear about such issues.
I think there is a far more nefarious play here. The central bank mafia is by far the nastiess group of individuals on the planet. I am fairly certain they are holding all heads of state hostage to using nukes on the various populations as a means of control. That is the gordian knot that needs breaking. If special forces of all three countries (USA, Russia and China) in a joint military operation eliminate the various bank criminals then peace has a chance. Otherwise the merry go round continues.
It is interesting that in this moment of time the world has three leaders who are aligned against the British Financial Empire thus making these three countries aligned. Thus it is not Trump against the globalist world, it is Trump+Putin+Xi. Aligned with these three nations are many other nations.
Because of President Trump’s principled stand against the globalist behemoth, he has assembled a powerful group of countries along with the USA, countries united now but which were never before united because the British geostrategic policy was to always have great powers at loggerheads. Thus the British were behind the US cold war policy of wanting to destroy the USSR, or the US policy of hostility and suspicion towards China.
My reading of this post is that we Americans have a lot to look forward to, as we, Russia, and China move together towards the future, and all the nations under the thumb of the British Financial empire have many worries and many doubts clouding their future.
”…in this moment of time the world has three leaders, who are aligned against the British Financial Empire, thus making these three countries aligned.”
Absolutely correct !
Remember the two-colored world map of Sundance ?
Half of it is the Patriot International, the modern Patrintern..!
BUT, how could ”this moment of time” be changed to ”permanently” ?
Presidents Putin and Xi Jinping look to have a rather secure future.
In US, after 2028, will American Patriots be still in power ?
Trump was elected to end the Ukraine war Day 1…or at least America’s involvement. He had a mandate. Instead, we are still sharing intelligence with Zelensky and allowing them to use American made arms (trafficked through a 3rd party NATO country). If we didn’t allow those two things, the war would of been over. We shouldn’t even be in this situation.
The Deep State was still there on day 1 of Trump.
You give IT too little credit for IT’s willful and dedicated sabotage on every possible front, at every possible opportunity.
Are you seriously arguing that our involvement in Ukraine is anything close to what it was under OBiden? Or are you just complaining that ending the war has turned out to be harder than anyone would like?
Bingo!
Great analysis, Sundance. I discovered that you have identified the way out of this difficult Gordian Knot we have created for ourselves here in the U S. By accepting the NWO we allowed the creation of the Ukraine Conflict. Trump sees the way out, and the Dumocrats know it, which is why they had to cheat on November 3rd.
Anything that causes consternation in Chatham House and in the EU works just fine for me; and while he’s at it, Trump needs to blow up the USMCA now that we have the Mexico part buttoned up.
Canada cannot be allowed to fall to the Chinese, right by our border in Our Hemisphere. Instead, they better learn to spell “color” not “colour”.
I don’t think that’s part of the plan, but Canada needs a generation or two in the wilderness. They have been front and center in trying to destroy our country and everyone else’s sovereignty on the altar of “the New World Order” TM, aka. globalism.
I hope we have something particularly nasty for them.
The Green New Scam is not green or new. It’s the same old lies, push by the same old crooks, costing a lot of red blood from innocent people.
Death and destruction are the only outcomes of liberal rule.
Wouldn’t it be sad if Zelenskyy had an accident he fell in the bathtub.
If it happened, the MSM headline would be “Putin pushes Zelensky.” Either Putin or Trump. Not sure which one they would go for.
The issue becomes, as both Presidents Putin and Xi are aware, that US policy can and does change, depending on who is in the White House. Any ‘agreements’ that are currently reached between them becomes somewhat moot, when President Trump leaves office, if a like minded president is not elected. The initial issue with Ukraine, back in 2014, as well as the creeping of NATO toward Russian borders, is testament to this. Sadly, IMHO in this upcoming meeting, I do not feel as though the US holds the strongest cards in any arrangement. The strength comes from Xi’s economic hold over the EU, and potentially Russia’s ‘fuel hold’ over China. Interestingly, I do find it difficult to believe that Russia, as a Christian country, is an ‘ally’ of an Islamic radicals. The final arrangement of this meeting will be interesting, and hopefully all three leaders are weary of the City of London/EU hold over global affairs.
Agreed, ‘agreements’ can be broken, and certainly will be if the Dumocrats take control in ’29. One solution: Trump 28. Another solution: treaties, which are harder to break. Both very unlikely.
Best the two-years-remaining President can do is structure trade and financial arrangements in a way that neither a Dumocrat Executive nor a rebellious Congress can easily break or renege on them.
This meeting between Putin , XI and Trump has to be a success to finally destroy the City of London. In return the EU can also be broken up and the Countries can go back to defending their cultural heritage and get rid of the Invading Scum.
Haven’t heard a word about the trade agreement with Mexico. I thought that was basically done. I wonder if Mexico is gonna slow-walk this waiting on next year and how Trump proceeds.
Canada still hasn’t been given their 6-month notice yet either (i don’t think). Time is not on Trump’s side and everyone involved knew that. Delay, negotiate, agree, break agreement, delay, negotiate, agree, break agreement, yadda, yadda, yadda……
To understand the carrot for China, one has to understand that China very likely had a significanr influence on the midterm elections. I am sure there are individuals in the US who already have the data in this. Whether that summary of that data has been shares with Presudent Trump is another story.
China has a lot to lose if they are identified as illegally and substantially affecting the midterm elections.
Taiwan is already lost, it’s just a matter of time and the reason chip founderies are being built in the US. The indo Pacific will be controlled by China, the variables are timing and US support/opposition.
Trump still has the bully pulpit.
The result of the midterms had little to do with informed votee sentiment and a lot to do with corruption in which members of both political parties participate and benefit.
One carrot for China is that they hate the City of London much more than Trump does. The Opium Wars were fought to keep the City of London supplying drugs to China. Hong Kong and Taiwan became territories of the British monarchy.
The City of London wants the US to intervene in a do-over of The Charge of the Light Brigade (Britain and France were supporting the Ottomans to take Crimea from the Russians, got slaughtered). The City of London and British royalty have a long history of using evil alliances (including Nazis) to forward their agenda.
The resurrection of the OSS by Hegseth appears to be a shot across the bow of the US deep state, now that the first tranches have been released about Operation Paperclip, MK Ultra, etc.
Such a worthless bunch of people.
Do these malevolent clowns wake up every morning and just start scheming?
Sorry, but President Trump will have to get Spec Ops soldiers to forcibly close down the CIA stations in Ukraine that provide the satellite intell for drone targeting and then round up the CIA Russia House dept. and shut it down. They do not listen to him regardless of his verbal commands. They and others ignored his first term command to withdraw from Syria. They are the real enemy.
Also, he should change the COMEX and other oil futures trading markets to only allow people who take physical delivery of oil to place trades. There will be huge pushback from Wall St and London traders; but that is the real battle.
Ike ended the Suez war in 1956 by threatening to bankrupt Britain and France if they didn’t stop. This can be done again with energy as the hammer. The European ruling class might even like it as a step in their plan to impoverish the peasants.
“… for 30 years after the Soviet Union collapsed, Europe treated Russia well. And Europe tried to have as much trade as possible, as much cooperation as possible, and as good relations as possible with Russia.”
The Rape of Serbia wasn’t exactly friendly, but still.
Somewhere around 2015, the Obama/Clinton Syndicate and the Rothschild/Rockefeller World Mafia realized Pres. Putin was a patriot who would not sell them Russia. So they reverse-engineered Pres. Reagan’s Cold War victory with themselves as the New Evil Empire.
Then they began manufacturing this war with NATO Expansion and overthrew PDT to obtain it.
Perhaps B-2 strikes on Langley would help cut the
WindsorGordian Knot.Pretty sure the plundering of Russia by the west began as soon as we decided we’d won.
Agreed.
But there was also an impulse to integrate Russia into Europe as Sundance noted.
How ‘shock therapy’ created Russian oligarchs and paved the path for Putin : Planet Money : NPR
“… Despite waving the banner of free markets and democracy, the reformers of the 1990s — perhaps ironically — did much of their reforms undemocratically, often by presidential decrees that were hammered out through backroom deals with the rich and powerful. Thanks in no small part to the oligarchic beneficiaries of these deals, Yeltsin beat the odds and won reelection. Russian-style crony capitalism was here to stay.
Weeks after the victory, Boris Berezovsky bragged to The Financial Times that he and six other Russian oligarchs controlled half of Russia’s economy. That number seems to have been significantly inflated. Nonetheless, by 1996, the world could see that Russia had a new class of industrialists and bankers who wielded enormous power. A class that made their fortunes not through society-improving ideas, consumer-pleasing products, or technological innovations — but rather through corruption, skullduggery, and the plunder of Russia’s raw materials. Many Russians would come to resent the oligarchs and the liberal reformers who empowered them.
As Yeltsin’s health continued to deteriorate in the late 1990s, the oligarchs began to worry about who would be his successor. The natural heir to Yeltsin would be whoever occupied the post of prime minister. If Yeltsin stepped down, the prime minister automatically became acting president and would have the advantage of incumbency during election time.
In 1999, Boris Yeltsin and his oligarchic allies agreed that an obscure former KGB officer named Vladimir Putin was the man to become Yeltsin’s prime minister, and soon Russia’s next president. He was a nobody, barely a public figure, but he had a reputation for loyalty. They trusted that, once in power, he would look after their interests.
Little did they know that they were unleashing a monster they soon would be unable to control.” …….
Putin pulled Russia out of that mess. He did some horrible things, but he alone stood against the world mafia when PDT and Bibi were out.
They call him a monster because they don’t control him either.
Father, tip the bowls of iniquity that Ukrainians would no longer be sold for Cannon Fodder Blood Money, but that Your Kingdom would obtain even there, to the Glory of God, Amen!
Europe attempted, sadly with our help (and with the help of certain corrupt Russians, that has to be remembered), to turn Russia into its gas station, and they nearly succeeded.
The three most powerful individual government leaders in the world are pictured above.
Can these three men, working together, defeat the globalist cabal that seeks to sacrifice millions of innocent lives for the sake of their own lust for power and wealth?
The answer to that question determines the kind of world our children and grandchildren will live in.
Pray continually.
Refuse to comply with the commands of globalist authoritarians.
Practice peaceful, forceful civil disobedience and activism.
Educate your family and friends on the principles of constitutional republicanism, the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
I hope they do come together but my main concern regarding their success is do the other two still feel they have to work with PDJT.
Their perception of how much power they believe he lost/still has, post election, is key to their willingness to work with him.
Xi, I think smells blood in the water, Putin maybe.
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I believe Putin and Xi are willing. However, President Trump needs to make the first move by abandoning Ukraine and Europe. Until he does that Putin and Xi will continue with the status quo and not assist with Iran. Worst case scenario for them is a weakened United States. Although not ideal it is not the end of the world for them. The bottom line is that President Trump needs them more than they need him. He needs to get moving because time is limited.
That move was made during the Alaska meeting between Putin and Trump.
Yup yup, on target.
“If you live in Canada, Europe or Australia, you can prepare your kids for the future by having them learn Chinese. The Western Hemisphere, including Cuba will be home to technological advancements, increased quality of life and a specific labor market demographic. The U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy will modify accordingly (the carrot for Xi), meanwhile Russia and the U.S. being a strategic energy-based realignment in the Arctic.”
For consideration:
Here might be an opposition trump card that they’d be willing to play in desperation. If the Alaska vote stands, Democrat governors will control every US state on the Pacific coast.
If a US civil war is desired by the globalists, then all those governors would have to do (in concert, by whatever means, including Antifa-style, Seattle-tested protests) is shut down ports and the production, refining, and transport of energy.
The federal gov’t has every right to address that with force if necessary. But if they do… there you are. Then, if Democratic governors of states along our borders choose, they can inhibit the enforcement of border security.
Those moves–especially if coordinated–would make John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry and the attack on Fort Sumter look like firing a starter pistol at a 4th of July picnic three-legged race.
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Am I just doom speculating? Or is this play legitimately on the board?
According to Google Gemini:
Using the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) Top 25 tonnage rankings (which measure total domestic and foreign waterborne weight), 13 ports are located in states with confirmed Democratic governors:
Texas (5 ports — Flipped to Democrat): Port Houston, Port of Corpus Christi, Port of Beaumont, Port of Port Arthur, and Port of Texas City.California (2 ports — Democratic hold): Port of Long Beach and Port of Los Angeles.Bi-State / Multi-State Ports (2 ports — Democratic hold): Port of New York and New Jersey (NY/NJ) and Duluth-Superior (MN/WI).Georgia (1 port — Flipped to Democrat): Port of Savannah.Maryland (1 port — Democratic hold): Port of Baltimore.Pennsylvania (1 port — Democratic hold): Philadelphia Regional Port.Virginia (1 port — Democratic incumbent, no 2026 election): Port of Virginia.Alaska (1 port — Pending AP call): Port of Valdez would bring the total to 14 if Kreiss-Tomkins’s lead holds.(The remaining 11 ports on the top-25 tonnage list are in Republican-governed states: 5 in Louisiana, 2 in Florida, 1 in Alabama, 1 in Indiana, 1 in Mississippi, and 1 in South Carolina.)
Shoulda been “…Antifa-style, Portland-tested protests”
Democratic Senator Says ‘Beauty’ Of Ukraine War Is Paying Ukrainians To Kill Russians |
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) said on Monday that the “beauty” of the nearly five-year-old Russia-Ukraine war is the fact that the US is “paying Ukrainians to kill Russians.”
Gallego, who joined the Senate last after serving in the House for about 10 years, made the comment on X, where he insisted that Ukraine could win the war if its forces killed enough Russians.
“But Ukraine can win. Thats why I back them. It’s a Russian talking point that Ukraine can’t win, cause Russia big blah,blah. If Ukraine kills enough Russians they will quit,” Gellego, an Iraq war veteran, wrote.
A user replied, telling the Senator to join the Ukrainian foreign legion, to which he replied, “No, that’s the beauty of this; we can pay the Ukrainians to kill the Russians.”.
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We can pay the Ukrainians to kill the Russians by paying Zelensky to kill Ukrainians.
In fairness, Ruben was raised by the Sinaloa Cartel who installed him in Kari Lake’s seat. No, not the Governorship–they gave that one to Cartel Katie.
Pictured here: $enators Ruben Gallego and Mark Kelly celebrate the recent Mid-Steal “Election” at a recent Sinaloa Cartel “Bring Your Trafficked Child to Work Day” -event.
I say pull out of the Middle East entirely. We don’t need their oil and they can’t do anything with it but sell it. Let them fight it out among themselves.
Make peace with Russia as an ally against the CCP. No more weapons or intel to Ukraine.
Vigorously defend our interests in the Western Hemisphere. If we’re going to use military force anywhere, it should be in Cuba.
With both Hillary Clinton and John Brennan stating “that if Trump can end the Ukraine war he deserves the Nobel Peace Prize ” the globalist will keep the war going until Trump is out of office. They can’t afford a Trump success and would rather see 25 Thousand people a month die than risk losing power. Just as they were behind the release of COVID killing millions to regain power and defeat Trump. They didn’t expec to lose it again 4 years later. And now they smell permanent power with control of globle elections.
Maybe that many people die each month, but I am still waiting to see or hear about the funerals and cemeteries.
As much as I disagree with what he did in later life, it would be refreshing to see a Dan Rather with camera, on the front lines in Ukraine.
I’d rather see Dan, pun intended, that cooper. I still don’t think we would get the truth from either one. I wonder what pictures the WH are viewing.
The simple solution is for Russia to win the war and for the USA to win the war.
It looks like neither party has the capability to achieve victory.
The nazis and Imperial Japan were not talked into submission.
Patton said keep killing them until the fight goes out of them and Germany collapsed when they lost the will.
Japan had to be bludgeoned into submission because they didn’t know the USA only had 2 bombs; they folded.
Look at the surrender signing ceremony on the deck of the USS Missouri; those generals and admirals, politicians from Japan, had the demeanor of an unbowed, undefeated group of men. The Emperor told them to surrender,otherwise they would have fought on, casualties be damned.
Their strategy was one of maximum casualties for the USA and Japan.
Look at the USA casualty estimates for the 2 phases of Operation Downfall, scheduled for 1945 and 1946.
Iran, the IRGC does not care how many Iranians suffer or perish; it does not care how much rubble the USA/Israel produces. They have to be KO’d. Having the bomb is not negotiable for them.
It’s a fight to the death, and the incoming Democrat Congress is all in on letting the IRGC survive.
In war, there is no substitute for victory.
Are Western leaders too thick or too powerless to win ?
Its not a real estate deal.
Please insert Columbo into the pic…
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I am reminded of a post I wrote, not long ago, saying the United States should take over selling Middle Eastern oil to China. Why? Because our navy is there. All the oil going out passes by our ships. It would give us leverage with the Chinese regime.
So, when we take over selling oil to China from the Iranians, it turns the tables. We will be selling something Lord Xi desperately needs, and he will have to meet our terms. No London middleman, because we will be insuring the shipments ourselves. Xi will require the Europeans to be civil, else King Charles won’t get any toothpaste next month. And no nukes for Tehran, and no more money for Z.
It is a job for Hercules! And we have him for two more years. Who else could put this together?
The IRGC needs killing.
Just cut the knot and be done with it! Worked for Alexander the Great (per legend).
Excellent analysis. Just hope they sort it out this way.
Just very concerned. With the homefront as well. We are about to witness leftist insanity you can measure on a Richter Scale!!!
These euro weenies are trying to manufacture their own importance. They represent nothing but a bunch of Muslim infested poor economy countries.
France, England and Germany are dying de-industrialized former economic powers or, as they call limply themselves, Middle Powers. Destroyed by environmental and feckless “leaders”. They have no power here.
“So long as the EU keeps threatening Russia with expanded conflict, there is no motive for Russia to assist President Trump in the solution within Iran… What we see is the creation of a Gordian Knot.”
Russians are a self-sufficient people while Western Europeans have become a soft, welfare-dependent people without the stomach for a long-term conflict. The motor driving the Ukraine war is a handful of Western globalist elites scrambling to keep power and the posh standard of living that accrues from power.
But the fly in their goblet of Château Lafite Rothschild is the economic machine that supports their welfare states is shrinking at an alarming rate. And that is why these globalist elites are losing elections by equally alarming margins!
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The rats are gnawing at the Gordian Knot
As Margaret Thatcher once said, “The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money!”
The center for this global financial matter is London.
The Promethean ladies have been saying the same thing for ages.
As an oldster myself, I always smile when I think about what a good job the Promethian ladies are doing.