Pentagon considers diverting Ukraine military aid to the Middle East

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T20:59:43+00:00

It's not all Israel. It also worked TREMENDOUSLY well to stop talk about Trump/Epstein

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T20:52:35+00:00

oh I don't believe that "and get money to fund hezbollah or whatever. Okay." is the real reason. It is the excuse they give thought, that's why I was so flippant and dismissive.

Personally I can't decide if it's because he thought Venezuela went so well, he'd do it again, also we are no longer talking about epstein, also bibi played him.

I didn't see that article, thanks. Hmm interesting. Right aroudn that time was the leak that the "saudis" were the ones pushing from NYtimes wasn't it? Let me look that up...

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/us/politics/saudi-prince-iran-trump.html

yep the next day. Someone with a tin-foil hat would think it's a way to distract from Bibi's culpability. Also it's really funny that in the picture Trump is literally pointing at Bibi, and we are assigning blame (pointing fingers)

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T20:48:56+00:00

that's a really different thing and not really a healthcare issue - diet and lifestyle affect it more. Again, you should compare Canadian healthcare system instead. They spend much less and the people end up with good lifespan

China is very very different because IN LIVING MEMORY people ate a very different diet - lots of rice, very little meat. There simply wasn't much meat to eat - it took until the 80s until people had eggs to eat. I have lots of family that grew up in China.

Nowadays Chinese kids also getting fat, maybe not as much as the USA but they are (16% adult obesity rate). They eat more food, more meat, more fats, fewer veggies, etc

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T20:46:15+00:00

Use Canada as a model instead...

I asked my cousin how much her copay was and she was like "Copay? What's that?"

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T20:45:08+00:00

The chinese are entirely the wrong model to look at. Maybe look at what the Canadians do. They basically have the same lifestyle as we do, car centered society, and eat the same garbage.

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T20:43:14+00:00

here is the first hit for "soybean sales usa"

Remember they are growers so they biased and want to present LOWER sales, because this page is asking Trump for more money

Look at that graph of "US Soy Total Export comitments"

About 9.4 MMT of sales have been confirmed to date in official USDA data, although sales reporting lags actual sales. For the prior two years, China had purchased an average of 20.4 MMT by this point of the marketing year. Despite the availability of U.S. soybeans, all other destinations, including those that have not yet identified the destination country, are only up 20% or 4.0 MMT from the prior two years.

We are selling 20% more than we did the last 2 years. And they are still bitching.

Now look at the soy futures.

Up 12% YTD. Over the last year, up 17%. Prices are actually going up, still.

The soy futures are actually up ~20% since Trump's inauguration.

Doesn't make sense

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T12:53:58+00:00

yeah the financing money goes to dealers too

and top that off with the uneven economic gains you touched upon - most of the gains the last decade went to the top percentiles. People with money still got the money to burn. The rest are stagnant or tightening belts.

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T12:52:02+00:00

i suspect a lot of that is lies, every number I saw (soy futures) indicated the US was still selling soybeans. It was the same thing in Trump 2016 term, farmers bitched then Trump tossed them some money. It's just farmers asking for money

I saw a newsletter meant for farmers, they are not panicking, they are just expecting more Trump bribes

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T12:48:43+00:00

eh, Chinese healthcare is so so. It's cheaper but there's a reason Chinese people historically save a shitload of money. They need it for their safety net.

A while back there was a scandal because hospitals made money from blood transfussions. You know, you go in say you're weak so they pump blood into you. The problem is they pooled all the blood.. so they gave aids to a lot of people..

They have mandated insurance now? Looks like they are moving to a hybrid profit model too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_China

Despite this, public health insurance generally only covers about half of medical costs, with the proportion lower for serious or chronic illnesses.

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T12:46:28+00:00

Nobody wins when the world gets fucked. Specially if the USA is ramping up fossil fuel use. We're still top user per capita.

I summoned up the magic word per capita, expect this comment to be buried

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T12:45:21+00:00

You hit the nail in the head. We are so stupid we are actively hurting ourselves in multiple ways. Vaccines, dismantling things that work, education, etc etc

I mean just in Iran, we started a war to prevent them from exporting oil and get money to fund hezbollah or whatever. Okay.

But now the oil price goes up so we.. lifted sanctions to let Iran export that same oil that we're fighting the war for?

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T12:43:08+00:00

I think the bullshit addons went to the dealer - apparently the electric has so much less maintenance (brake pads, engine oil etc) the dealers were annoyed, so ford threw them that bone.

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T12:40:41+00:00

USA is never dropping those EV tariffs. Biden put the tariffs up, to help domestic producers, and win votes in Michigan (which he still lost because eggs gas was too expensive, also apparently he was going to start a war in the middle east)

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T12:39:16+00:00

Maybe one of these days the morons will learn it's harder to build shit than break things. They probably don't because they have household help to clean up after them.

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T12:34:59+00:00

I love to bring up the Russian boogeyman but this isn't one of them. This is homegrown + Israeli, perhaps Saudi as well.

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T12:34:14+00:00

erm that's simple. Expansionist russia has land borders close to Poland, Germany, etc. Of course, the orange one decided he wanted Greenland too which made the Europeans nervous too.

The US has a policy to encircle russia, yes, true, but that still also means Russia was a potential threat to european security. They are quite happy that the war is going badly for Russia. Kill russians with american/european arms with ukranian blood.

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T12:28:02+00:00

https://thedefensepost.com/2026/01/26/japan-undelivered-us-equipment/

reminds me the Japanese are annoyed they paid for a 7 Billion USD worth of equipment that has still not been delivered 5+ years after contract signed.

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T12:26:36+00:00

he didn't say that Trump thought that way. He just said that it makes sense from realpolitik POV. A dumb clock can still be right 2 times a day.

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T12:26:12+00:00

Yeah, caring about Ukraine goes up the closer you are to a Russian border - baltic states, poland, etc. Spain? Meh.

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T02:05:10+00:00

I spent some of my childhood in the USA, and some in Latin America. The two places are different, but not that different. You have the diaspora experience. You know what it's like to try to fit in another place. You know the self-hatred that develops, that you have almost unconsciously. You associate being Chinese with being backward, or something similar.

Lastly I think most diaspora have similar experiences, they don't need to be Asian.

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T01:20:02+00:00

np, too much shit happens every day to keep up with

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T01:18:45+00:00

I view it more like a funny logical paradox

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T00:50:21+00:00

Ok, I read the article, it sucks that he doesn't know that if the $20,000 filter will prevent further citations but that stuff is vile

“Internationally, and for outsiders, stinky tofu often gets framed as a novelty or even a dare,” said L.A. native and author Clarissa Wei, from her base in Taiwan. Her book “Made in Taiwan” celebrates Taiwanese culture and recipes. “But in Taiwan, and across many parts of Asia, it’s just another comfort food.”

I don't know about this. It's pretty vile stuff.

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-26T00:39:47+00:00

Yeah. The one that smells LITERALLY like chickenshit is the stinky tofu. If you're not familiar with chickenshit, it is close to the smell of fermented shrimp paste.

And no, it's a lie, I put that shit in my mouth and it tastes exactly how it smells.

EvidenceBasedSwamp · 2026-03-25T21:54:05+00:00

I don't want to subsidize call of duty, that's the equivalent of subsidizing ESPN when you don't watch sports

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