Pastorius: Thoughts On Trump, The Grand Game, OPEC, and The Obliteration of the Obama Legacy

Here are the top Natural Gas Producers:

The world's top producers of natural gas

• US – 8.7 tcm natural gas reserves. ...
• Russia – 35 tcm natural gas reserves. ...
• Iran – 33.2 tcm natural gas reserves. ...
• Canada – 1.9 tcm. ...
• Qatar.

And here are the top Oil Producers

Top 10 Oil-producing Countries

• United States. Production: 17,886,000 bpd. ...
• Saudi Arabia. Production: 12,419,000 bpd. ...
• Russia. Production: 11,401,000 bpd. ...
• Canada. Production: 5,295,000 bpd. ...
• China. Production: 4,816,000 bpd. ...
• Iraq. Production: 4,616,000 bpd. ...
• Iran. Production: 4,471,000 bpd. ...
• United Arab Emirates. Production: 3,791,000 bpd.

Just ten years ago, US was 2nd or 3rd in oil-producing nations.

Trump has made it a priority to make the United States DOMINANT in Energy production.

The CIA, and the Deep State have a Grand Game strategy they have been working on for a long time now. It is what we call Globalism, and it is manifested in the United Nations. Every President has conformed to this strategy.

Trump is at best ambivalent to those strategic goals, because he has goals/agendas of his own. And they don't line up with the CIA's, or the Clinton's, or the Bush's, or the Bidens'.

TRUMP IS REDEFINING THE GRAND GAME.

He has his own strategy.

Trump's speech at the UN this past two weeks was a more clear restatement of what he has been saying since he became President: Patriotism and Nationalism are the way through to Justice.

We can see very clearly that the United Nations way has failed. Whenever there is a big international problem, the UN is sure to be on the wrong side of history, and the side of weakness and the side of the immoral, because the immoral are more prone to horrific and unending violence and the UN sees it's purpose as being, not Justice, but the elimination of violence (the promotion of "Peace"), which is counterintuitive if you want a Just world.

We need to periodically use violence to clear our the truly unjust (Al Qaeda, ISIS, Russia in Crimea, Germany, Japan, etc.) and re-establish a detente which can lead to MORE PEACE THAN NOT, not Peace everlasting.

And the only nations who are willing to do this are the strong, sophisticated nations with history and belief in themselves; the US, England, France, Australia, Japan, and other parts of Europe.

Saudi Arabia and Oman, and Iraq do not come to anyone's aid when there is trouble. Neither does Nigeria, or Argentina.

LOL

These nations don't even have a sense of Nationalism beyond soccer and Ummah and tribalistic hatred.

I know I am not telling you anything you don't know. I am only trying to put Trump's redefinition of the Grand Game into perspective. 

His renegotiating of Trade Deals is part of this agenda. Everything he does is part of this agenda.

What is interesting to watch is Trump and Obama are both epochal?Revolutionary Presidents, one right after the other.

You and I would agree that Obama's ideas were stupid and horrible, but that does not mean he wasn't a big thinker, that he didn't attempt to change things, nor that he wasn't successful at changing things. In many ways he was.

It is humorous to me to watch Trump obliterate pretty much everything Obama did.

That being said, Obama left a stamp on the US, and in many ways, he did more destruction in his time as President than Trump has done construction (so far). Just think about the Freeways filled with Marijuana billboards. Disgusting, and absolutely part and parcel of the Obama Zeitgeist.

But back to Trump, one of the biggest pieces of news recently - and this has been ignored - is that Iran took out half of Saudi Arabia's oil-producing capacity, albeit temporarily.

so i can see why people are not thinking of this as big news. Everyone knows it is only temporary.

So why is it big news?

Because Iran and Saudi Arabia are two primary founding nations of OPEC - 

... founded on 14 September 1960 in Baghdad by the first five members (Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela),

Back to my list of top oil-producing nations, Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia are the largest ME producers of oil. And that is AFTER years and years of us attempting to sanction Iran out of existence. 

So, what we could not sanction away, we have Fracked all to hell.

OPEC IS ALL BUT DEAD.

That is huge news.

My question is this:

In the future, what will be looked back as more significant, the end of the USSR, or the fall of OPEC?

It is my contention that it is very likely the fall of OPEC will be larger, because it cuts off much of the power of the world's net exporters of Islamic radical theology and Jihad.

HUGE!!!

TRUMP!

And THAT is another reason no one is talking about this.

Because it happened under Trump's watch.

And frankly, those who are smart enough to see it aren't going to credit Trump.

It is one of the few things I have not heard Trump brag about. I don't think it's because he doesn't know. I think it's because he has a coup de grace coming of some sort. and so it is strategic to keep his mouth shut right now.

It could have something to do with Saudi Arabia and Israel.

Then again, maybe he doesn't realize it.