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OC375

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7. Well, of course.

Thu Mar 12, 2026, 03:19 PM

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Seemed pretty obvious to me when he made "overtures" with Panama Canal, Greenland and Venezuela. New refinery "America First" with India backing to be opening in Texas in a few years, apparently. NATO will be busy running Hormuz for the foreseeable future without Russia, so that kinda puts a bow on it for now.

As we all learned with COVID, you only need to substitute something for a short time to create new behaviors, especially when the globe runs on just in time delivery. The temp fix becomes SOP, and quickly, quite often.

Trump may be blowing Putin, but energy runs... well, everything post 1900's.

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