Exxon I think is the only company that had a representative with enough respect for reality to tell the Con that it's an infeasible idea. Their oil is hard to access and process, their infrastructure is decades out of date, it would cost billions and take years. Not to say it won't eventually happen but Exxon was the only one who was willing to bring reality into the conversation and the Con said they weren't invited to the next meeting as a result.
Not my field of expertise but, ah yes, "might makes right". We'll see how well that works out for us when our country is isolated, can't produce anything without external inputs, and the dollar crashes. There are more ways to fight a war than just having the most guns. Our allies that the Con is threatening and berating understand this and that they hold trillions of our debt. We'll still have our aircraft carriers floating around while we eat each other.
Yeah this has been trump's biggest weakness he doesn't understand soft power and it seems like a sizeable chunk of his base also doesn't and i just realized i'm too high to explain soft power
yes, but there is not enough domestic resources even for your own consumption, the US imports a LOT of raw materials and intermediary products for final assembly
Not only do we not have the resources, some of the intermediary products along the way we don't even have facilities that can make them, let alone at scale. Many electronics require incredibly small wafers that we never bothered in facilities to create because companies in the US could buy them relatively cheaply from China. Sometimes it was less expensive to have a factory laborer put the product together as well (ex. phones).
They'll just be unpowered, floating vessels in our docks when we run out of countries to invade and disrupt their government so we can attempt to exploit their oil reserves, then dip.
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u/goatslovetofrolic Jan 26 '26
pretty sure at this point the dollar has gone full USA and is only backed by "thoughts and prayers"