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I completely agree that medicine is about to be variably available. I have dramatically reduced my dependence on prescription drugs because I knew this was coming. Unfortunately nutritional supplements, that I have turned to replacing prescription drugs, are also going to be similarly variably available. Just like drugs many of them are produced overseas from petroleum refining. We'll have to provide our nutrition by growing it.

The effects of the loss of 20% of global petroleum production is cumulative. The jump in the price of chemical fertilizer has only begun. Farmers that intend to continue to survive need to turn away from chemical fertilizers and to regenerative farming practices, using manure to fertilize soil, which works particularly well with cover cropping for spring grazing that intensely and beneficially delivers organic manure that is worked into soil by the hooves of the grazers of the cover crop. It will be years before petroleum production is restored in the ME, because it's not the institutional control of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran that has ended the supply of that petroleum, it's the bombing and destruction of production facilities that has, and those will take at least 10 years to rebuild - if the war ever ends and they can be rebuilt. These facilities, if just shut down rather than destroyed, can be restored to production in only weeks, but refineries bombed and burned will take a decade to bring back online.

"Porridge built nations."

Not porridge tainted with glyphosate. Organic porridge can keep you alive, but it isn't nutritionally complete, and you will need to add sardines to provide necessary nutrients and protein. Even that will not get the glyphosate out of gruel. Grasses, like oats, rye, and wheat, are today dried for harvest by soaking them in roundup, which horribly taints porridge today.

It is ludicrous to expect Iran to agree to talks with the USA or Israel, since they clearly made good faith efforts to maintain a peace by doing so, and twice the negotiators on the US showed only bad faith and then Iran was attacked during negotiations. Iran has stated it's terms, and it's enemies can meet them, or continue to suffer the refusal to meet them on the battlefield. The USA is widely known to be agreement incapable, seemingly pathologically addicted to disingenuity and outright lying. That explains the company it keeps in Israel, that has never known a ceasefire it did not violate.

Regarding Professor Jiang (sp?), his concluding remark that losing the GCC countries' investment funds could cause violent revolution, I do not see any possibility of the US being further invested in after its betrayal of the petrodollar agreement so totally and cravenly. Only the moral failures of the GCC leadership has maintained that agreement with the USA, whose incessant betrayals and lapses of its obligations is definitive.

The 'bloodlines' have too long managed to backstab and profit by treachery against humanity, have come to narcissistically huff their own farts, and today this terrible failure of judgment is become an existential threat to mankind. Fashion Week sure is grotesquerie, and mirrors the moral state of the rulers of humanity, and the quality of their leadership in all things.

As to US Marines landing on Iran, it appears that Trump and Israeli leaderships' flat-footed surprise at losing so hard to Iran has taught them nothing, and they intend to deliver Americans to their mortal peril by the same egomania and hubris that have caused them to engage in this horrific crime against, not only the people of Iran, but of humanity across the world. How can they imagine Iran is not as prepared for hostile boots on the ground after such proof of Iran's wise investments in security for exactly the attack they have suffered from Israel and the US? I can scarcely credit the madmen running the US with such conceit. If US Marines set foot in Iran I approach certitude Iran will be fully ready for them, and with utterly unacceptable consequences for America and American families of the Marines sent in.

I have been no less surprised by the Iranian preparedness for this criminal attack, but having witnessed it so far I can only recommend quickly and wisely suing for peace, and at least ceasing to make the execrable situation worse. If this war continues with the destruction of Israel and the infrastructure supporting the peoples of the ME, the global consequences will only get worse, and the economic catastrophe the belligerents have set on mankind more dire. Did I not know the narcissism of psychopaths well enough from personally suffering their acquaintance, I would not be able to believe they were so foolish and arrogant. Every day, every bomb that injures the Iranian people, that this goes on only worsens the consequences to global comity, and the welfare of the people of Iran and the ME, yet worse for Americans and the West. Every bullet fired at Iran is two shot into the hearts of Americans, and then Iran takes it's shots. This war is utterly surreal in the ill consideration and bad faith, approaching pure evil incarnate, that has caused it.

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