Although there is quite a bit of pro-Israel content in the Canadian media, no one seriously wants to send Canadian troops to the Middle East. I think Americans have been at it for so long that it seems entirely natural to have the equivalent of 3% of your active duty troops there on a semi-permanent basis. I suspect that this is at least a small part of the reason for the US military recruiting crisis. I can see how serving in Europe or North Asia would be rewarding, but serving in the Middle East seems pointless and depressing.
It seems like the US is having to dedicate more and more financial and military resources to the Middle East. One wonders if there is a point where it proves to be too much to handle.
I don't know, it doesn't seem possible to get the public to care enough to get the government to care. I gave some thought to what one calls writing like this and realize this piece is most certainly a "Jeremiad" ,which more or less means the author finds it hopeless.
yeah I love that director's movies. You know the book of Dr. Zhivago is really good but the way the narrative is framed in the movie, told by the brother to the woman's daughter at the dam is a better way to narrate the story. I've been considering re-reading the book, I think I've only read it twice.
David lean I think it’s the Director. Yeah he’s really good I’ve never read dr. Zhivago, but I have it I’ll have to give it a read. I’ve been very focused on being a very authentic writer over the last few years. Even to the point where it got me fired from a job because I was writing about my experiences working at the place.
The US is a product exporter still a crude importer. Though the crude the US needs can be sourced from the western hemisphere, and plenty of other places, instead of the Middle East.. The thinking behind choke points like Hormuz is kind of dated. The canals themselves were built in an era of steam and steverdores, not containers, and terminals. commodities like bulk crude and products, scale is considered more important than time. A lot of the whole global commons hegemonic stability theory is from Pax Britanica, where the British Navy guaranteed shipping. I'm not saying the loss of the Suez or Panama is not an issue, its just not one worth making too much fuss over. Ultimately its an absorbable and affordable cost. How inflationary, it is hard to say. Hormus has to be kept open, no exporter or importer wants that blockaded for obvious reasons. The thinking behind that imo dates back to embargo and Volcker
it isn't actually that, though, It is the premise itself. The Suez Canal has nothing to do with shipping anything to the US. It is literally on the opposite side of the world, any other direction is a better way to get here. There is a point to prove and they are failing to do so.
Quite a few make the same point about Suez. Its not important to US national interests. Classical realists the ones whom have made public their position still stuck in pax Brittanca. Most as far as i can tell do recognize the original reason for backing Israel as part of the cold war balance of no longer relevant and argue a regional balance in the ME will develop independent of US guarantees or technology transfers.
I'm Indian the Suez for shipping is important. If people did pay attention to anything I had to say (they don't nor should they) the red sea isn't worth defending the cape may take longer and cost more but its cheaper than the alternative which hasnt been successful at all.
India has been running anti piracy off of Aden for a decade or so. Happy for India to continue doing that. Answering distress calls etc nothing more.
The authors people do take seriously in India and hindu nationalist normies are just as obsessed with making sacrifices at the alter of Abraham in the name of the accords for similar reasons to the Trump and Biden admins. Though there are other reasons too which are far more legitimate.
I don't object too much, I object to the singular obsession. There are other things just as important to Indian interests as its relations with the Americans the Arabs and Israelis. My sense is the External Affairs Minister sees it that way too, much to the dissapointment of Indic American diaspora.
Yeah I probably should have gone into Suez a bit, the US basically forced the UK to keep bases in Cyprus, but you know they gave up the Aden Protectorate. Either way its indeed true that Suez is extremely important to the whole old world but not the Americas.
The Panama Canal is also having problems but not security related, bad year for shipping.
Well it's a good piece, I clip excerpts and send them to people recommending they sub (most don't do indepenent, a lot of times what they read is new to them). Aden was run by Bombay Presidency before the Viceroy. India's wealthiest plutocrat father got his start in Aden working in what you call gas and I call petrol station I believe, before moving back to Bombay, Its an interesting story that. Shipping has changed a lot since the canals were built, and so have the economics around them, blockages are not unusual, last year the Suez was blocked by a vessel for a couple of weeks and the Panama as you say is dry at the moment and not navigable if I am not mistaken. Time is money, but not as much money as it used to be. For certain things like commodities, crude, iron ore, coal, etc, scale is now worth more money than time. VLCC are too big to navigate through canals and the vessels keep getting bigger.
I did actually know that Aden was initially conquered for the British by an Indian governor of some sort but dont really know more about it.
With the Panama Canal an issue has been natural gas evaporating during the wait times, they kind of have a "fast pass" now where they pay a huge amount to go to the front of the line
I was under the impression Panama was dry,. I don't know who actually conquered Aden, British India was initially divided up into regions, Madaras Bombay etc for regional adminstration who were under the Viceroy. Aden came under Bombay presidency then if memory serves the Viceroy assumed direct adminstrative control. Indian Rupee issued by RBI was legal tender across the Gulf monarchies and Aden. Anyway I don't want to waste any more of your time, thank you for being kind enough to reply.
Jefferson brazenly sent a young navy to the Barbary Coast to stop piracy in the support of American trade and as you mentioned, some 200+ years later and with the benefit of the world’s “greatest military,” we can’t keep a vital sea channel open.
In light of those facts, a nation governed by those with a moral compass bows their head in shame while apologizing and leaves the room to do some serious soul-searching.
There are good people in this cuntry, but this experiment failed a long time ago and I believe balkanization is the solution.
It takes me back to 2020 and learning that only about 15-20% of us have John Wayne coursing through our veins. We’re not acting like John Wayne abroad. More like Pee Wee Herman passing out Pride Flags and updated Gender Bear identity diagrams. Any rational person would be vomiting in disgust.
2020 was certainly profoundly depressing, though I don't know that a lack of courage and the woke military is so much the problem here as that it is all simply a fool's errand
Of course their diaspora hates the regime dumbass, that is the way the world works, ans even if they do want a different regime they very obviously dont want the pretender you lying zionist shills have been promoting. You are deranged if you actually believe in this where others are being cynical.
Although there is quite a bit of pro-Israel content in the Canadian media, no one seriously wants to send Canadian troops to the Middle East. I think Americans have been at it for so long that it seems entirely natural to have the equivalent of 3% of your active duty troops there on a semi-permanent basis. I suspect that this is at least a small part of the reason for the US military recruiting crisis. I can see how serving in Europe or North Asia would be rewarding, but serving in the Middle East seems pointless and depressing.
It seems like the US is having to dedicate more and more financial and military resources to the Middle East. One wonders if there is a point where it proves to be too much to handle.
A beautiful, articulate, poetic essay brilliantly describing the political corner into which we have painted ourselves …… we are doomed
As usual, an excellent, if somehow depressing read.
thanks, I was having some trouble thinking of how to describe it and realized this piece of writing is most certainly a "jeremiad"
solutions?
I don't know, it doesn't seem possible to get the public to care enough to get the government to care. I gave some thought to what one calls writing like this and realize this piece is most certainly a "Jeremiad" ,which more or less means the author finds it hopeless.
Lawrence of Arabia, love that movie. War is stupid and so are those who support wars. Thank you for your good words.
yeah I love that director's movies. You know the book of Dr. Zhivago is really good but the way the narrative is framed in the movie, told by the brother to the woman's daughter at the dam is a better way to narrate the story. I've been considering re-reading the book, I think I've only read it twice.
David lean I think it’s the Director. Yeah he’s really good I’ve never read dr. Zhivago, but I have it I’ll have to give it a read. I’ve been very focused on being a very authentic writer over the last few years. Even to the point where it got me fired from a job because I was writing about my experiences working at the place.
The US is a product exporter still a crude importer. Though the crude the US needs can be sourced from the western hemisphere, and plenty of other places, instead of the Middle East.. The thinking behind choke points like Hormuz is kind of dated. The canals themselves were built in an era of steam and steverdores, not containers, and terminals. commodities like bulk crude and products, scale is considered more important than time. A lot of the whole global commons hegemonic stability theory is from Pax Britanica, where the British Navy guaranteed shipping. I'm not saying the loss of the Suez or Panama is not an issue, its just not one worth making too much fuss over. Ultimately its an absorbable and affordable cost. How inflationary, it is hard to say. Hormus has to be kept open, no exporter or importer wants that blockaded for obvious reasons. The thinking behind that imo dates back to embargo and Volcker
it isn't actually that, though, It is the premise itself. The Suez Canal has nothing to do with shipping anything to the US. It is literally on the opposite side of the world, any other direction is a better way to get here. There is a point to prove and they are failing to do so.
Quite a few make the same point about Suez. Its not important to US national interests. Classical realists the ones whom have made public their position still stuck in pax Brittanca. Most as far as i can tell do recognize the original reason for backing Israel as part of the cold war balance of no longer relevant and argue a regional balance in the ME will develop independent of US guarantees or technology transfers.
I'm Indian the Suez for shipping is important. If people did pay attention to anything I had to say (they don't nor should they) the red sea isn't worth defending the cape may take longer and cost more but its cheaper than the alternative which hasnt been successful at all.
India has been running anti piracy off of Aden for a decade or so. Happy for India to continue doing that. Answering distress calls etc nothing more.
The authors people do take seriously in India and hindu nationalist normies are just as obsessed with making sacrifices at the alter of Abraham in the name of the accords for similar reasons to the Trump and Biden admins. Though there are other reasons too which are far more legitimate.
I don't object too much, I object to the singular obsession. There are other things just as important to Indian interests as its relations with the Americans the Arabs and Israelis. My sense is the External Affairs Minister sees it that way too, much to the dissapointment of Indic American diaspora.
Yeah I probably should have gone into Suez a bit, the US basically forced the UK to keep bases in Cyprus, but you know they gave up the Aden Protectorate. Either way its indeed true that Suez is extremely important to the whole old world but not the Americas.
The Panama Canal is also having problems but not security related, bad year for shipping.
Well it's a good piece, I clip excerpts and send them to people recommending they sub (most don't do indepenent, a lot of times what they read is new to them). Aden was run by Bombay Presidency before the Viceroy. India's wealthiest plutocrat father got his start in Aden working in what you call gas and I call petrol station I believe, before moving back to Bombay, Its an interesting story that. Shipping has changed a lot since the canals were built, and so have the economics around them, blockages are not unusual, last year the Suez was blocked by a vessel for a couple of weeks and the Panama as you say is dry at the moment and not navigable if I am not mistaken. Time is money, but not as much money as it used to be. For certain things like commodities, crude, iron ore, coal, etc, scale is now worth more money than time. VLCC are too big to navigate through canals and the vessels keep getting bigger.
Thank you for your support!
I did actually know that Aden was initially conquered for the British by an Indian governor of some sort but dont really know more about it.
With the Panama Canal an issue has been natural gas evaporating during the wait times, they kind of have a "fast pass" now where they pay a huge amount to go to the front of the line
I was under the impression Panama was dry,. I don't know who actually conquered Aden, British India was initially divided up into regions, Madaras Bombay etc for regional adminstration who were under the Viceroy. Aden came under Bombay presidency then if memory serves the Viceroy assumed direct adminstrative control. Indian Rupee issued by RBI was legal tender across the Gulf monarchies and Aden. Anyway I don't want to waste any more of your time, thank you for being kind enough to reply.
Jefferson brazenly sent a young navy to the Barbary Coast to stop piracy in the support of American trade and as you mentioned, some 200+ years later and with the benefit of the world’s “greatest military,” we can’t keep a vital sea channel open.
In light of those facts, a nation governed by those with a moral compass bows their head in shame while apologizing and leaves the room to do some serious soul-searching.
There are good people in this cuntry, but this experiment failed a long time ago and I believe balkanization is the solution.
Fair point though that all happened over a much longer timeline
It takes me back to 2020 and learning that only about 15-20% of us have John Wayne coursing through our veins. We’re not acting like John Wayne abroad. More like Pee Wee Herman passing out Pride Flags and updated Gender Bear identity diagrams. Any rational person would be vomiting in disgust.
2020 was certainly profoundly depressing, though I don't know that a lack of courage and the woke military is so much the problem here as that it is all simply a fool's errand
you know people say that but it has had as many eras of relative peace as anywhere else, but never as a bunch of small states
Lmfao who would possibly want that hack to rule over them. Whatever loser.
Of course their diaspora hates the regime dumbass, that is the way the world works, ans even if they do want a different regime they very obviously dont want the pretender you lying zionist shills have been promoting. You are deranged if you actually believe in this where others are being cynical.
Intelligent critique, not critique from moron hacks trying to promote obvious fabrications in an effort to trick my country into a devastating war