For starters, success is still not guaranteed. Either Netanyahu or Hamas could kill the deal. But assuming success …
Why the Deal Sill Might Fail
Before explaining why Trump got much further than Biden, let’s discuss what might still kill the deal.
The Wall Street Journal reports Netanyahu Strikes Cautious Tone on Gaza Cease-Fire as He Tries to Hold Government Together
As U.S. politicians and Qatari mediators hailed a Gaza cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas on Wednesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu struck a different tone.
The prime minister’s office sent out a cautionary message, saying negotiations were continuing and a deal would be announced only once they were completed. Meanwhile, President-elect Donald Trump took a victory lap: “This EPIC ceasefire agreement could have only happened as a result of our Historic Victory in November,” he said on his social-media platform, Truth Social.
The contrast reflects the political reality for Netanyahu, who has been scrambling to hold his coalition together. He has to convince his right-wing base that the arguments he made against ending the war for 15 months no longer apply.
Netanyahu had long promised to continue fighting in Gaza until Hamas is destroyed. “It’s very difficult for him to explain to many people in Israel, including people who are protesting against him, why Israel has to promise an end to the war when thousands of Hamas [fighters] are still there,” said Ehud Yaari, a fellow for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a think tank. “That’s a big question that people all across the political spectrum are asking. You’re going to end the war and Hamas is there?”
On Tuesday, far-right minister Itamar Ben-Gvir threatened to quit the coalition if the deal goes through and urged far-right counterpart Bezalel Smotrich to do the same. A minister in Netanyahu’s Likud party, Amichai Chikli, said Thursday he would leave the government if Israel stopped the war, something that is supposed to take place in the second phase of the agreement.
The reaction to the deal shows the divides within Israeli society. For months, protesters have demanded that Netanyahu strike a deal that would end the war and free the nearly 100 hostages remaining in Gaza. But at the same time, his base and key elements of his coalition firmly resisted any end to the war if Hamas wasn’t destroyed.
“We see how he gives up on all values and gives up on the goals of the war,” said Yisrael Keller, a right-wing activist who opposes the deal. “This deal is very, very dangerous. It frees hundreds and thousands of terrorists, murderers, some who have blood on their hands. Every one of them has the potential to bring on the next massacre.”
A Deal at Last
Please consider A Deal at Last on Eurointelligence.
The deal will change the parameters of Israeli engagement in Gaza. They can only walk away from the deal with Trump’s blessing.
It is remarkable that Trump, with his belligerent rhetoric, could turn out to become the peacemaker in the Middle East.
There is still is a long road ahead towards real peace. To get the deal done ahead of his inauguration has been an astonishing success for Trump. Once he is in office, his US administration needs to build on this. The Abraham accords and the normalisation with Arab countries will be back on the table and with it the demands for a two-state solution.
The ceasefire deal was just the beginning. A walk in the park compared to what comes next.
Why Did Trump Succeed (or at Least Get Much Further)?
- Trump is transactional, while Biden is ideological. Trump’s support for other nations is always conditional, while it was unconditional for Biden.
- Trump has no problems to use all his power as US president to push through his way. Biden counted on diplomacy alone.
- Trump’s envoy, Steve Witkoff, is not your usual US diplomat. He is a real estate investor who knows how to conclude deals. And he directly reports to Trump.
The above points made by Eurointelligence.
The Irony of the Moment
The deal might still blow up, but there is a good chance it succeeds at least through phase one. But then Trump will be president.
The primary reason the deal might fail is Netanyahu. He will do whatever it takes to stay in power. And he has to deal with the possibility his coalition collapses, right now, over the deal.
The irony is that if the hard-liners kill the coalition and the government fails, the next government is unlikely to be as hardline as Netanyahu.
Multiple Bluff Possibilities
So is the threat of a government collapse a bluff or reality?
That is not the only possible bluff on the table.
Trump wants a deal. And he might easily threaten to make things difficult for Netanyahu, in many ways, if a deal doesn’t happen.
Base Case
My base case is phase one of the deal happens. Trump will then get to brag, and rightly so.
Then we will see about phase two and three.
Sixty days from now, the political landscape in Israel and Hamas may look much different.
Hamas-Israel Ceasefire Peace Deal, 47,000 Deaths Too Late, What’s Ahead?
Yesterday, I commented Hamas-Israel Ceasefire Peace Deal, 47,000 Deaths Too Late, What’s Ahead?
My post stirred up a hornets nest regarding allegedly exaggerated death numbers.
But Israel’s military has accepted in briefings that the overall Gaza casualty numbers are broadly reliable.
My point is not whether it’s 40,000 or 60,000 but whether or not too many are dead and why. I quoted Bob Dylan in a Musical Tribute.
Yes, and how many deaths will it take ’til he knows
That too many people have died?
Hamas did this … but Israel did that … the who started what and when bickering is endless.
Here’s the basic reality: There will not be peace as long as Hamas and Israel vow to eliminate the other, with both sides cheering.
We must find a way to stop rooting for revenge and cheering destruction. I believe it will take land for peace in a fair deal, and willingness to get along.
When? How?
The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind
The answer is blowin’ in the wind
Also, Biden’s team was the lightest of lightweights.
No chance of lasting peace. Proof – video of Gazans in the street when first three hostages released. Regroup, rearm, and attack once more. Create two states, more resources to regroup, rearm and attack once more.
Generational hate is difficult to solve. Romans finally tired of Carthage. Solution was to erase the culture from the earth. Israelis taking same approach with Gaza.
There’s also this: Trump is a bully. This type of ‘leadership’ can work short term to achieve specific objectives, though I think these are not long lived objectives and as a leadership strategy bullying is very short term thinking.
Title should be “Why Trump appears to succeed, while …”
The only good thing about this deal is that there is one. Hamas has not required to specific names, nor whether they are alive or dead. The deal addresses 33 out of 100 hostages. What happens next, then?
And lastly, nothing really changed. Hamas is still committed to killing Jews brutally.
Why would anyone expect to see peace between the Jews and the Palestinians. As descendants from the Philistines who hated the Jews (Goliath and David) why expect their DNA to have changed.
The Palestinians are Jordanian immigrants. There are no descendents of Philistines – except maybe in Malta, Tunisia, and Lebanon. DNA doesn’t contain opinions or beliefs, maybe you take a course on basic biology?
So, Trump succeeded, when Biden didn’t, yet this is the deal that has been on the table for months? So, it’s Trumps success? Oh, right, it’s that Trump said that all hell would break loose if it didn’t happen! Art of the deal!
As if Gazan’s aren’t already living in hell.
“yet this is the deal that has been on the table for months?”
Very good point, El Capitan!
Since Trump has always wielded a much bigger stick than Robinette, why is it so hard to believe that Hamas took seriously the “all hell will break loose” angle from Trump?
Seems quite reasonable to me, if not downright obvious.
So, are you saying that somehow Trump was going to get us directly involved in the war? And make life even worse for the Palestinians? And that scared them into accepting the deal?
What I’m saying is that Robinette was soft on Hamas. At the very least, they know Trump is going to go the other way in a very big way, so literally time ran out for them to hold out for some best deal under the outgoing regime. For example, Trump isn’t going to put hamstring the Israelis. As for Trump’s military commitment, I think it’s reasonable that two things COULD happen:
1) Trump may commit to airborne strikes from cruise missiles, fixed wing aircraft or drones.
2) Trump would commit special forces to assist Israel with hunting down the bad guys who are holding the hostages and hopefully get some out alive.
Both of those outcomes are reasonably possible to happen but not necessarily likely beyond 50/50. And, yes, he’s probably right because then all hell would break loose to a certain degree, giving the US & Israel cover to bomb Iranian nuclear sites, hopefully into dust. This might even be what he wants to happen, for all we know.
Like most American’s who love this country, we are very hopeful that the Trump brokered ceasefire holds & leads to all remaining hostages being released.
Again, EVERYONE should want to see Trump succeed on this front.
Cheers!
Deal? It was scripted for the mass public, please attach any names you want who put it together or if anything will change going forward. It ran it’s course.
The National Institute of Health (NIH).gov website states that…..” In recent decades ever-increasing efforts and ingenuity were invested in identifying Biblical Israelite genotypic common denominators by analysing an assortment of phenotypes, like facial patterns, blood types, diseases, DNA-sequences, and more. It becomes overwhelmingly clear that although there was maintained detectable vertical genetic continuity along generations of socio-religious-cultural relationship, also intensive horizontal genetic relations were maintained both between Biblical communities and with the gentile surrounding. Thus, in spite of considerable consanguinity, there is no historical Israelite genotype to identify.”
There is much scholarship and articles on the internet discussing the abundance of genetic diversity within any group that disqualifies most groups from being considered a race of separate people. Most groups partake in human pair bonding and reproduction with other groups.
One need only beg the question in an internet search…”Is there…. (fill in the blank with any group, Hippy for example)… DNA that makes them a race?……. i.e….. Is there Hippy DNA that makes them a race? It appears that most groups of people are often more of a social club, or nepotistic social-economic-religious structure than a Race of People. Groups that might fill this position include the positive, negative, small, and large. They could be anything from a College Alumni Group or Charity Organization at one end of the spectrum to the Republican, and Democratic Party at the other end of the spectrum.
The most physically and culturally isolated groups such as Japan or Korea enjoy over 97% homogeneity for generations due to lack of marrying outside of their group. Their genetics however are quite separate from the genetic composition of their ancestors only a thousand years ago.
Israeli occupation and Title Transfer of Palestine is predicated upon birthright citizenship. Consequently genetics is now the calculus of jurisprudence in this matter. WWII Germany was very wrong in both ideals and science. There is no Israelite Race. Also there is no Aryan Race. The genetic pool of these two groups has so many genetic inputs from other groups, that in Kennel Club Parlance they are all mutts.
There is ABSOLUTELY NO Title company in the world that would write a title insurance policy for this unique contested area. These findings are not disparaging, but actually liberating because most if not all people fall into the mutt category. There is no special pedigree of people with more or less inalienable rights endowed by our creator. When groups start claiming special knowledge or benefits only assigned to themselves, it is cause for suspicion. The Aryans and their counterpart will be noted by future historians as both having used genetic boasting as an excuse for poor behavior. In closing it is important to realize that it is OK to not identify as being a member of a race or any other group.
Why Did Trump Succeed on a Hamas Deal While Biden Failed?
Because President Walter Mitty Biden is a bell end, who isn’t taken seriously.
He is self-evidently a fake ideologue who is only interested in financial corruption.
“Trump is transactional, while Biden is ideological.”
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this
President Musk and his friend rump first day in office to sign over 100 executive orders they ordered “New” rubber stamps.
He’s having trouble writing his name these days. Things are going to be rough for him in four years.
I agree. Hell, Robinette might not even be alive in 4 years.
Boy am i glad you are in charge,The imbecile partner of yours is just another Biden congratulation on your new purchase the poor Bezos or mark or thiel don’t have enough money to compete.
Those guys completely missed the opportunity to buy the US presidency for 275 million. Would have been a bargain at 10x that. That’s why I’m so much richer than they are. I’m smart.
Who? My Democrats? My minion Sam Bankman-Fried gave them more dirty money than I did. Maybe they can ask my corruptocrat puppet Zelensky for a refund from his Swiss bank accounts?
Who, Biden?
Is peace really coming? What about the West Bank? 5 crucial questions for Israel post-ceasefireWednesday’s ceasefire announcement is just the start of massive changes in the Middle Easthttps://forward.com/opinion/689152/netanyahu-ceasefire-israel-gaza-west-bank/
Peace will only come when the region is cleansed by robot armies.
Do not underestimate the power of the dark side. My goblins and orcs are legion.
Trump is going to have that Reagan Inauguration hostage return flair. From there the “surge in US Patriotism”. Hard to say after that but likely another proxy war in a year or so but not before hearing the stories of the hostages and a Hollywood movie.
He’s going to send in Rambo and Maverick to conquer Greenland!
Rambo’s going on a more important mission… Hollywood.
In his place, we’ll be borrowing Steven Segall from Vladdy. Greenland will be Under Seige!
Fear Not, I will send my WEF puppetmasters to save the planet from the plebs.
It’s because Biden is a lifelong, virulent Zionist warmonger while Trump, though thoroughly unscrupulous and totally crooked, is instinctively aware of the futility of wars and conflicts.
It’s really simple, Biden governs from a position of weakness and appeasement, whereas Trump governs from a position of strength.
Even simpler – Biden is a Walter Mitty corruptocrat who is dementing and fermenting.
Good one, Lord Soros!
I own our democracy(tm)
Correct on Biden, Trump… it depends on the day.
This also ties in very nicely with Ukraine’s situation. Why has Putin NOT blown Ukraine into to dust yet? He could, He should, but He won’t!
Putin won’t because He doesn’t Want OR Need a War, That’s Why! Putin didn’t, because He could clearly see that Trump was going to Win without much doubt at all. He also “Trust” that Trump also doesn’t wish or. Want a War like Harris & Biden were just itching for one obviously.
Putin had zero “Respect and Trust” in Harris & Biden! Unlike the 100% Trust He has with Trump (NO WARS in his first term), and none expected in this term, unless He is forced to do so, and that would be Ok. So Putin will be happy to talk with Trump, and work something out, without war of course.
MAGA!
MAGA!
It’s coming Jay!!!
Those that wish to climb aboard, will reap the rewards of Safety, Health and Wellness, Rule of Law, and a Party that Speaks to You, and Not AT You!
I am so “Happy” for my Grandchildren, that may now have a chance to prosper and achieve MORE than those before them, as they were “Locked Down” & “Locked Up!! A hell of a way NOT to run a Country, but thats now way behind us TG!!!
President Pudding Head, has been cut adrift by his sbires Sullivan and Blinken, who have seen the writing on the wall and are scurrying like rats on a sinking ship. Their policies were absurdly naive and no one respects absurdly naive, except the ones fronting the money for it. If politics is the projection of power, Pudding Head is a dead battery, Trump a nuclear plant.
Because no leaders of any country respect Biden.
Exactly Laura!
When other Countries see that Americans as a whole, and proven to them via voting, Disrespect and Disapprove of the current (non) Leadership, then why on earth would or could they respect or worse trust these despised individuals at all.
On that same note, when they see these exact same Americans Cheer and Praise their Leadership, with total overwhelming support, also proven to them via voting, how could they not trust Him? He’s proven already to be trustworthy, and fair in the past, again unlike the current POS!
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of the LA Times and a renowned transplant surgeon, is raising alarms about the fallout from mRNA COVID-19 “vaccines,” linking them to unprecedented deaths and cancers in children.
“For the first time in my career, I’ve seen an 8-year-old, 9-year-old, and 10-year-old with colon cancer.”
“A 13-year-old child died of metastatic pancreatic cancer.”
https://t.me/EdwardDowdReal/1209
You’re like a dripping tap. This post concerns the Middle East.
He’s one of my drones. You be nice to him!
My drones in Davos are bigger than yours.
Are you still taking booster shots?
The US is the superpower and Israel is the vassal state. Israel did what the US wanted. We want the world in chaos to destabilize China and Russia.
Trump wants a clean slate in Gaza.
I’ll take James Baker, George Marshall, over any real estate “mogul” that is only transactional and his envoy is a closer that has no skin the game. Witkoff has no relationships with the players in the ME.
Political agreements in foreign policy require deft negotiation skills with a background in politics at the national level and years of experience at it. Very few are good at it. A real estate investor that cuts deals with bankers and holders of property are playing checkers compared to the ins and outs Israeli politics.
The Abraham Accords are dead. The Arabs do not trust the US nor Netanyahu.
The two state solution is dead. Neither Israel nor the Palestinians see the other as human. This is what the US wants is an unstable ME.
“The Arabs” is a figment of the imagination, pushed by Edward Said and post colonialism, supported by Marxist empires like USSR. Tribal conflicts, religious sectarian conflicts, nation state conflicts, proxy war conflicts etc. ad nauseum. All riven by greed and corruption. Add in US policy of creating local hegemons to war amongst themselves, like Turkey and Iran for example. Its all a crap shoot.
So, the ethnicity of Arabs are a figment?
The Arab empire after the death of Mohammed till the mis 13th Century is a figment.
Pan Arabism is a figment.
The French, British and now the US have created fissures by creating fake borders, sowing division, facilitating corrupt elites, siding with the Persians and/or Turks.
It is a policy of divide and conquer to thwart the Arabs from creating another empire.
Apparently Israel security cabinet approved ceasefire so now it heads to full cabinet.
Once this gets underway those in Arab world who want Abraham accord to succeed can put some money on the line for aid to Gaza and turn the tide of sentiment in Region.
In middle east peace is always for sale and goes to highest Bidder.
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Some thing about understanding “The Art of the Deal” comes to mind.
There is a path forward and as always it is colored with Green paper.
Real estate developers do understand Land and its multiple forms.
Due to the soon to be annexations of Gaza and the West Bank by Israel, then the building of colonial settler communities the two state solution that was always wanted more by the West than the inhabitants of the region is officially dead.
The Abraham Accords were signed as a trade and peace deal where the UAE would be an advocate for the Palestinians.Since the advocacy never occurred then Israel committed genocide the UAE and other signatories have to be kind condemned Israel.
Real estate investors know property values in their niche. They are clueless on ME history, geopolitics, geoeconomics, foreign policy strategy, the ins and outs of Israeli politics, etc.
Israel has broken more agreements with its neighbors, stalled, obfuscated, lied, stolen land, violated territory, than any other country in the region at the behest of the US.
Hopefully, the Donald can flip the script. I don’t see it with Rubio at State and Waltz as the NSA.
This lazy argument never ends. It makes it’s believers feel good about themselves, like the Fauci true believers, but like Fauci’s minions, they’re not allowed to think for themselves or question what they’re told.
Ok, carry on.
Refute the argument instead of generalizations then injecting an ad hominem and finally inserting a circular argument.
What you wrote is gibberish and nonsense.
Writing what you wrote conveyed nothing of relevancy or added to discussion with opposing facts, circumstances and/or events.
It is as if you wrote nothing at all.
Says the hamastan. Carry on, son.
To paraphrase the movie The Hot Rock: Hamastan Bananastan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Upn8oUy5xPk
https://x.com/i/status/1852543627534414086
Trump gallus potator
Oh Benji, you so crazy:
https://www.newsweek.com/netanyahu-postpones-gaza-ceasefire-deal-hamas-crisis-2015854
Clearly Biden’s fault!
Repeat after me:
Biden is a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.
Altogether now…
Lord Soros… could I trouble you for some Grey Poupon?
I used it all up on Biden’s nappies.
Biden is a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.
Nonsense! He is satan incarnate!
No, I am.
…. who should have been 25th by Headboard Harris 3 months into his farewell tour.
Here’s a guess, Mish:
Because Brandon has done everything possible to undermine Israel since taking office?
It this question really that hard to answer?
Here’s a second guess:
Trump took out Soleimani with the Ginsu knife version of the Hellfire missile?
Here’s a final guess:
Trump is unpredictable and very likely means what he says?
What a mess. Anyway, The Exodus is back home. With nukes to back it forever. Like it or not.
I love the idea of the Constitutional Republic the founding fathers gave us. May it live forever.
Side note: Recommend a visit to Young Chief Joseph’s grave at Colville Indian Cemetery Washington state.
The graveste should put the Palestinian plight in perspective for all Americans
Americans do genocide correctly. I’ve always admired that.
Wait, you admire genocide? Or is this just another one of your asinine attempts at sarcasm?
Can we please get a down vote button for you that throws down at least 100 at a time? Like seriously, for you, one at a time is at least two orders of magnitude insufficient.
I’m just a humble oligarch… don’t persecute me for my ideas.
You’re just some blowhard who’s masquerading as an idiot.
Yes, in the later, I’m talking about Musk. The guy loves H1-B visas which tells us everything we need to know about him.
You’d be more respected, if you changed your handle to President Robinette.
That’s Biden, BTW.
I literally have a place to stay at Mar-a-Lago, and I will have an office at the White House. I’m not going anywhere.
As You are not Elon Musk, no you don’t.
You’re confused, Ron. Have an orderly help you back to your room.
Here’s the probability that Elon Musk is posting on Mishtalk.com:
(0.0 x E^100)%
In case you’re bad at math, that’s ZERO, Mr. Mythomaniac.
You’re like one of those mean kids that tell everyone Santa doesn’t exist. Nothing in your stocking but coal next year! Claus Industries is a subsidiary of Tesla now.
I own Santa, and Claus Schwab, as well as the mainstream media, and all the left-wing parties in the developed world.
Resistence is futile.
Okay, feel free to call speaking the truth mean. I’m fine with that, especially coming from the nimrod who’s masquerading as the wealthiest person in the world.
They are all busy mopping up the Whitehouse after Biden babbed his pants and smeared it all over the walls on January 6th.
He’s not masquerading… he really is this dim.
Not as humble as me.
No way dude, I’m the humblest in the world. X says so.
I own the word humble and I have shares in the word humblest, as well as our democracy(tm)
palestinian plight? lol, the originators of the airplane hijackers and suicide vest bombers…. Your revisionist history is making the word ‘plight’ do a lot of heavy lifting.
– For starters, success is still not guaranteed. Either Netanyahu or Hamas could kill the deal. But assuming success …
> From the start, success is “Never” guaranteed, Until “It Is” Either side (50/50) can always stop the deal from occurring. A “True” Negotiator Expects Success!
>> This is part of the opposing side’s challenge with Trump. A true negotiator, is a skilled negotiator, and that’s exactly what Trump is. The opposing side has few negotiators, most of them untrustworthy now, and that leaves a handful. A weak lot at best…
– “We see how he gives up on all values and gives up on the goals of the war”
> I am not sure who’s quote, but I would guess it’s Biden, as it’s classic Biden giving up so much in War (For starters see Afghanistan), and “No” Values. Well damn, that’s the whole Biden Family, but I digress…
– Please consider “It is remarkable that Trump, with his belligerent rhetoric, could turn out to become the (I would use the word “possible” here) peacemaker in the Middle East”
> That’s classic misunderstanding of the opposing (Trump) side. A TDS issue, and one of the worst, of the many. When negotiating with “True” Negotiators, the opposing side knows they can “Trust” you. Biden and Equally Harris, Are Not “True” Negotiator’s as a point of reference.
>> There are several other factors, that cause “TDS” such as a few following:
1. A Deal is already signed and Delivered in His head, before it’s even “Offered” and they know it, but can’t do a thing about it more often than not. That’s because they are so iron clad most of the time, that there is not an option of saying no.
2. Overall “Trust” in what He Pledges.
3. Does “Not Like” after the fact changes, alterations, add-ones Etc. AT ALL!
4. Can’t stand “Phony” People, and He deals with a whole lot of Them! He is often turned off, by the sheer incompetence he must deal and try to reason with, and knowing he can’t trust them until it’s signed and delivered, or it will change as needed along the way if possible.
5. The biggest reason “Most” are dealing with, and listening to Trump, is He is in charge in days, and then for Years. Play now or pay later as they say. He is setting the table for his Agenda (People’s Overwhelming Mandate) and wants and needs certain People, Things, Partners, to carry it all out, Pete Hegseth, who will and should be confirmed, is a perfect example of that. So is DOGE as another one. These are Chess Pieces to the Don!!!
When He shortly comes out on “All Cylinders” you will want, and should be hoping, to be on His List to Negotiate With! Proved worthy, up until now, to be on it of course. This assures your in “The Washington Game” which everyone “Must Play” but only a few “Set the Rules” so you best be included in the ones willing to play by them, or start sharpening your pencils quickly, if you want in at all…
Land for peace? If you mean take the land and keep the enemy out, then yes. If you mean some quid pro quo, then no.
MORE BAD NEWS
The looming gas crisis facing the West
For decades, Norway has been Britain’s leading source of imported energy.
However, that relationship may be set to come under strain after the Scandinavian nation warned that its vast oil and gas fields are in decline.
The threat of dwindling production would herald a potential energy crisis for the UK, which last year relied on Norway for half its gas and a quarter of its oil.
According to a new report from the Norwegian Offshore Directorate (NOD), the country’s oil and gas supplies peaked last year and are expected to dwindle from now on.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/dusk-norway-dawn-russia-looming-120000196.html
DO YA’LL THINK THAT THIS CARBON TAX AND GREEN THRUST… IS JUST A WAY TO CONCEAL THE REAL PROBLEM?
THE REAL PROBLEM BEING – THAT THE WORLD IS RUNNING VERY LOW ON AFFORDABLE ENERGY
High energy prices and high carbon taxes have forced the closure of this strategic UK asset.
The UK, which used to be a major force in chemicals, employing a large and highly skilled workforce, has seen the closure of 10 large chemical complexes in the last 5 years alone and, in complete contrast to the USA, has not had one new chemical plant built for a generation.
Energy prices have doubled in the UK in the last 5 years and now stand five times higher than those in the USA. The UK cannot compete with such a huge disadvantage.
The synthetic alcohol, which is essential for the manufacture of many pharmaceutical drugs, is necessary for many of the new blockbuster drugs. It will now be imported.
The Scottish ethanol plant in Grangemouth is one of only 2 in Europe and since the start of production over 40 years ago, has produced the equivalent of 25 billion bottles of Scottish whisky.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe, Chairman of INEOS says, “De-industrialising Britain achieves nothing for the environment. It merely shifts production and emissions elsewhere. The UK, and particularly the North, needs high quality manufacturing and the associated manufacturing jobs. We are witnessing the extinction of one of our major industries as chemical manufacture has the life squeezed out of it.”
https://www.ineos.com/news/ineos-group/chemicals-coming-to-an-end-in-the-uk/
It’s not Biden (i.e., “Biden”), but it is Trump.
It’s neither of them, it’s me! I will be overseeing it all from my new office in the Whitehouse… when I’m not at Mar a Lago. I have to keep an eye on my purchase… he lacks object permanence, and generally just repeats what the last person he saw said, so I have to hold his attention at all times, lest he toddle off and get programmed by some rando he encounters.
Frankly, it’s exhausting. It’s like trying to get a toddler to watch The Lawrence Welk Show… but a small price to pay for becoming the world’s first trillionaire!
Bow down before the one you serve
You’re going to get what you deserve
Elon Musk does not have an office at the White House. He is now a Texan.
Texas? LOL! Like anybody with real money would live there! That was a stunt to rope in some tax breaks, and it worked brilliantly.
Now I live at Mar a Lago:
https://www.miamiherald.com/miami-com/miami-com-news/article297877853.html
… and in a few days I will have an office at the White House!
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/elon-musk-poised-occupy-white-house-office-space-report
Think of it! The richest man in the world in the White House! It is truly a golden age for the mega rich!
Get out of my White House, I own it, and all the billionaire Democrat donors.
But not Epstein – he’s dead.
I own the Whitehouse, and I am shorting Texas. shhh…
On Oct. 7, 2023, there was a wind blowin’ to the east from Gaza. The wind hasn’t stopped yet. An agreement with Hamas will not stop this wind. The answer must come from Israel, and it must be a windbreaker.
If hamas remains, the war isn’t over.
Hamas will be gone, but the kids that watched their families get maimed and killed will replace it, and the cycle will begin anew.
Sorry, no. The Qataris enjoy watching fellow Arabs blow themselves to bits. It’s good entertainment for them, and they’ll keep funding Hamas.
I might own Hamas, and their kids, let me check… I own so many things.
Stop there is no peace in Gaza and will never be until either group is annihilated.
Quite a leap to give credit to Trump. You appear to be caught up in Trump’s bluster. All Trump accomplished in his prior 4 years were tax cuts for the wealthy. The great negotiator could not get infrastructure done, nor health care and didn’t even get the “Wall” built. He left the GOP fractured and less unified than anytime in history. Scrape off his orange mask and the “tough guy” is pale white, diaper wearing old man who cheats at everything, including golf. I can’t wait for Musk’s book. Biden gets to take this lap. Stop being pathetic.
Unlike some people I am willing to both praise and criticize Trump and Biden.
Biden’s own administration credits Trump, as does Eurointelligence who cannot stand him.
So take off your TDS glasses.
I both praise and criticize Trump, but Biden I hesitate to criticize, because they may be changing what He requested after the fact. I would tend more to praise Him, as those ideas would be left alone. Of course the trick is to know which is which. There are tendencies an clues however…
The GOP was DEAD when they lost in 2012.
Now the Bush’s, Romney, Cheneys and many of the Old Guard dont even show up to the RNC.
And Trump won without them. More precisely he won because he jettisoned them.
The middle and working classes did better under Trump than they have in decades under the R and D Establishment politicians.
We’ve had enough of reality deniers. Do better, Jennifer.
Tax cuts for the wealthy are all that mattered.
That is obviously false.
Especially if they donate to Democrats and my open corruption foundation.
ROTFLMAO!!!!
You got a tax cut, and I bet you’re not wealthy. If I had to guess, you’re jealous!
I got a tax cut, and I’m only in the top 30th percentile.
Low-income people got a tax cut and most of them were already getting back more than the paid into the system through EIC.
In case you didn’t know, the top 1% pay about 40% of all federal taxes. The bottom 50% only pay about 3% of all taxes.
The average marginal tax rate for the wealthy is more than 23% or more than 6 times that of lower income.
Anyone who thinks the wealthy, ON AVERAGE, isn’t paying their fair share of taxes does know how to read, and or use Google.
30th percentile being a high school math teacher? Damn, I should have worked for The Man
Teaching is rewarding in all sorts of ways, including financial.
But honestly, the best reward is being part of helping our smart, overachieving students take on tomorrow’s challenges.
I just wish, like many others, that we could elect a Congress that truly cares about the American worker and places them first above all other options.
Starting teachers in Australia get around $A70,000 to $A80,000 to start depending on which state they live in.
Maybe Trump and Bibi wanted to get this deal done and get the distractions of Gaza and Hamas out of the way. Maybe Israel know all they need to know about Gaza, the tunnels and the status of Hamas and they have killed all the leaders. Israel likely knows they can roll up Hamas again whenever they need to.
The “peace” with Hezbollah is going to be over soon, so Israel has to look to the Northern border and also deal with the new regime in Syria.
Finally, Trump and Bibi’s full attention will shift from Israel’s border issues and focus on the overriding threat, Iran and its remaining proxies, particularly the Houthis. Then will deal with Iran itself. The nuclear threat is existential for Israel, Hamas and the other proxies are not.
Trump is not attacking Iran no matter how much Netanyahu wants it.
No one is going to help make Trump or any American President a hero.
Trump told Bibi, “you don’t have to stall any more, you did what I told you which helped me win the election and I’m almost there so I’ll take credit for any announcement now.” This allows Bibi to get out of what’s become a no-win situation in Gaza. It’ll take Hamas at least 5 years before they can launch another attack on Israel.
Where’d you get your gange?
I’m fairly sure that Blinken didn’t want any ceasefire ‘deal’ – he may have been pushing Netanyahu for moar genocide
So, you’re saying Trump negotiated & structured this deal? Interesting. I thought he just made a few statements about not wanting to deal with it when he becomes president & that if he had to, there would be hell to pay. If that’s all there is to being president, I could do that.
Read the Holy Bible to know the truth.
Because Joe Biden is a little bitch.
Monday the country returns to normal, thank God.
Sanity and 2 genders, starting Monday noon.
I saw Hegseth’s statement about generals. He said we won WW2 with 7 4-star generals. Today, we’ve got 44. Now that’s bloat & scope creep.
Indeed… we can defend this country with 4 fat guys and a potato launcher, and afford more tax cuts for poor folks like me that are just looking for a break.
I own fat guys and I have shares in potato launchers, my sex slave Bill owns lots of farmland for getting the poor folks to pick potatoes.
An eye for an eye will make the whole world blind.
Do you have “Imagine” being sung by Hollywood actors playing in the background, too?
Benji’s way of kissing the ring, so he can get new bombs for the Palestinans next time they perpetrate some pointless atrocity, providing an ongoing gruesome spectacle of shattered cities and maimed kids to draw bleeding heart liberal attention away from The Big Grift. Hopefully he doesn’t renege… but it really doesn’t matter.
All we need is a spectacle. There’s enough disinformation out there that nobody has any idea what’s really going on, but they all fervently believe they do, and will battle endlessly with each other…. a process full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Can’t let him finish off the Palestinians though. Having such a spectacle on tap is too valuable. At some point they have to be allowed to prepare for the next performance.
I’ll be the first trillionaire before the end of my first term. I’ll be able to buy the governing bodies of entire continents. The Golden Age is at hand!
Love me!
I own the ring, that’s why I’m invisible.
I also have shares in Palestinians ™ and I pay for the Big Grift with my open corruption foundation, I grew my “son” in a lab in the Ukraine, in one of Zelensky’s billionaire mansions.
I’ll be the first Quadrillionaire before the end of my reign, I already own the governing bodies of entire continents. I am shorting the Golden Age.
hate me, love me, I will buy hate and short love.