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The Trump Mideast Tour was huge -- absolutely huge.
This is the kind of trip one would see as the culmination of a
president's final year in office, not in the first 100 days or so. Trump did this at the beginning of his
second hundred days. Trump has about 4 x 3.5 one-hundred-day "periods"
(4 x 3.5 = 14 one-hundred day "periods").
I digress: the successes this president has had are mind-boggling; if he were a "media-loved" president like JFK or Barack Obama his successes would be even more insane.
Reagan had some political successes, perhaps. Made folks feel good.
Obama: an incredibly divisive president; divisive without the legacy media calling him divisive. Trump is also very divisive but in a different way. [In passing, I might add, I'm not convinced Trump is more divisive than Obama was.
Bush I and Bush II are now seen in a different light: pathetic for the most part.
Bill-Hillary-Epstein. Nothing more needs to be said.
Biden was so bad he made Carter look good; Carter looks good mostly because Biden was so bad folks have forgotten how bad Carter was.
But I digress. Back to winners and losers following Trump's tour of the Mideast.
Could this, by the way, be a blueprint for two Asian tours, more likely three: China mainland; China island; Japan; South Korea; Malaysis; India. Personally I don't see it happening any time soon, if ever, but one wonders.
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This is a page in progress; much needs to be added; much needs to be corrected. I assume sooner than later we will get a breakdown from The White House and a similar summary from The Wall Street Journal.
But the Trump Mideast Tour was huge -- absolutely huge.
This is the kind of trip one would see as the culmination of a
president's final year in office. Trump did this at the beginning of his
second hundred days. Trump has about 4 x 3.5 one-hundred-day episodes
(4 x 3.5 = 14 one-hundred day episodes). He has barely started his
second one-hundred-day period. More thoughts elsewhere.
The tour:
- his tour could very be more than evolutionary ... shall we say "revolutionary"?
- I was unaware of any restrictions being placed on Nvidia chips being sold to our allies in the Mideast
- if so, that makes the trip revolutionary
- lifting sanctions on Syria: ditto.
Let's look at the winners and losers:
- winners: US chip makers; US tech companies; the US in general; the Mideast;
- the losers: India, Asia, and China
- the biggest loser: China
- other winners: Boeing, US investors
- other winner: Syria -- absolutely huge.
- other losers: Hamas, Hezbollah;
- other big loser: Russia
- doesn't seem to be participating in the AI revolution at all
- ground-down in WWI-like trench warfare with a small, relatively insignificant county
- will lose a whole generation of young and middle-aged men
- really big loser: Iran
- the tech gap between Saudi/UAE/Qatar and Iran will increase exponentially
- Iran
remains a medieval country; actually becoming more and more akin to
North Korea (and at this point, North Korea without nuclear weapons)
- winner or loser, hard to say, but probably better than neutral: Israel
- except: Israel won't be happy if Trump shows some/any accommodation toward Iran
I don't think a lot of folks see this at all. Certainly not the American media who are still arguing about pronouns; the name of the body of water off the state of Texas; and, the seating arrangement for the White House press corps.
