Iran Targets Water Making Plants- Zelensky Targets Russian Oil Export Facilities

Iran has escalated from attacking military bases, oil tankers, and oil shipping facilities to striking desalination plants that supply water to civilian populations in Persian Gulf countries. They hit a plant in Kuwait yesterday, killing an Indian worker. This escalation is plainly a war crime.

Replacing water production for these desert nations within the short timeframe people can survive without it (a maximum of about three days) would be extraordinarily difficult. Bureaucracies do not move that fast. If global warming, the federal deficit, or Homeland Security funding needed to be fixed within three days, the results would likely be just as chaotic.

It is challenging to weigh President Trump's options regarding Iran and the Strait of Hormuz. A ground invasion of the Iranian littoral and the strategic Persian Gulf islands would likely cost many American lives. Iranian forces hold superior battlefield positions, allowing them to attack downhill with sustained waves of drones and rockets. The time required to sanitize the Strait safely for shipping would be significant. While U.S. military counter-drone technology will improve over time, it will not arrive soon enough to fully protect Persian Gulf allies from ongoing Iranian drone and missile attacks.

A boots-on-the-ground operation in Iran to secure the Strait of Hormuz could also cost Republicans control of the House of Representatives, unless it proves to be a quick and victorious campaign—an improbable outcome for such an invasion.

U.S. troops heading to the region could help defend Persian Gulf allies while supporting efforts to engineer emergency water production—perhaps by transporting desalination equipment or other solutions across the region's deserts. Developing alternative routes to export oil and import water, even as long-term hostilities with Iran continue, may be the least ineffective approach.

Kharg Island and other Iranian oil production facilities could be targeted and razed using air power, such as B-52 strikes. This would deprive Iran's government of critical income from oil and gas sales.

As the world's leading oil producer, the United States could sell large volumes of oil at elevated prices to Europe and Asia while regime change develops in Iran over the course of a year or more. With domestic gasoline prices rising as a result, the Trump administration could take the bold step of offering tax cuts and incentives to electric vehicle producers and buyers, while quantitatively stimulating solar panel and alternative energy production in the United States. This could help attract some environmental voters from the Democratic side and improve Republican chances in the upcoming House and Senate elections.

The American oil industry already stands to reap record profits while Iran continues targeting Persian Gulf oil exports, so they are unlikely to oppose the policy.

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America's air defense equipment is not good enough to defend Persian Gulf allies against Iranian drones and missiles. The U.S.A. is developing lasers to target incoming drones, yet the army's ground based HVP weapon to hit missiles within 10 miles isn't yet ready for prime time. It is still "being developed".

"The U.S. Army's "smart pebbles" ground-based Hypervelocity (HPV) weapon is formally known as the Hypervelocity Projectile (HVP), a next-generation, guided, kinetic-energy projectile designed to be fired from conventional 155mm cannons for high-speed missile defense."

Emperor Zelensky is of course targeting Russian oil and gas facilities in order to drive up the cost of oil for Europe (supplying Ukraine with military support) and reduce Russian revenue supplying oil to Europe. He may leverage anti-drone defense experience from Ukraine to offer to help out the Persian Gulf alliance 'in exchange for'... The U.S. should be able to develop its own cloud of anti-drone drones for short term use. TEMU supplies drones for $29.95. Anti-drone defense drones need to be better quality though, and with smarter AI chips. Someday homeowners may buy their own anti-drone drones from TEMU or ebay- such as a Peregrine raptor-predator model, co-piloted with a good AI chip.

Supplying water to the Persian Gulf is the most interesting and vital challenge to find a solution for. It is something to consider. It is hard to believe that with so many years to prep for anti-drone defenses that the U.S.A. wasn't ready to defend against the mass of cheap weapons Iran has stored in hidden, distributed bunkers and basements.

Chinese Leadership May be Smarter on Space Exploration, Energy Development and Environment than the West's

Recent analysis have discovered that China is surpassing the United States in the development of power required to support the needs of artificial intelligence development. It has also developed a practical engineering approach to developing lunar rockets and colonization. That is a result of the United States having forgotten how to get things done on large scale projects, besides piling up public debt at which the nation excels, since the last Apollo moon landing,

China is on schedule to start building a moon base by 2030 and may be the first to develop artificial general intelligence- surpassing the combined intelligence of all of humanity.

Because the Democrat Party is corrupt it doesn’t get things done. It would fund day care instead of environmental remediation, and flood the nation with illegal workers getting paid under the table to support the economy of Democrat voters. Government cannot substitute for good wages and union negotiations for employer provided day care. The Republican Party is too interested in corporate profit and tax cuts to lead an intelligent political Risorgimento for the U.S.A. like nation runs risks similar to those of the late Roman Empire of failing through too much focus on investments abroad, lack of political cohesion and leadership and other nations maturing militarily and economically beyond the criterion of the healthy political economy of Rome. It did not help when the capital was moved abroad to Constantinople.

The United States has far fewer engineers than China. Because China can coordinate teamwork in larger numbers better than the United States, which is overly focused on entertainment and consumerism, it can create a web of space science supporting industry, while the United States cuts the N.A.S.A. budget and hired a Lysenko to lead the Department of Health.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3DMeC-HOtg&t=647s Chinese Space Program

I have advocated a few policies over the years to renew the national energy grid, to develop electro-magnetic accelerators to launch space ships to orbit and to build electro-magnetic accelerators on the moon and in space to accelerate space-ships on vectors around the solar system. Robert Goddard if living and funded would have accomplished that by the age of 130 or less I would guess.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS0jM8mlAw0  China's A.I. Developments in a desert

Scientific American published an article decades ago about build a super-conducting power line across the nation within liquid hydrogen filled pipelines. Solar and wind power as well as nuclear power could be added to the line that could be buried below interstate highways. That would go a long way toward solving the problem of a clean power grid that is suitable for the present need for power. Plainly though, super-cooling of super-conductors will be easy at a moon base, so it is likely that lunar development would catalyze the rise of artificial general intelligence with easy super-conduction. The nation requires leadership on the challenges presented for power, super-conduction and artificial general intelligence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5Mzwd1iw7U Chinese Energy Grid and A.I.

 Few politicians have good sense about the global environmental challenges to day and the way a transformation to a sustainable economic based in environmental economic principles is required to sustain human rather than artificial life on Earth. One might hope for a leader able to walk and chew gum at the same time, yet such hopes are never fulfilled. Perhaps the greatest challenge for the United States is how to engineer a President and Congress that can realistically address those major challenges of a new energy grid, a better, more effective space transport technology, making water through evaporation on condensation on a vast scale in canals along the Mexican border, adapting the economy to harmony with the requirements for a healthy and even thriving global ecosphere without ongoing atmospheric heating and mass species extinction, securing the nation’s borders, structuring universal basic income for all citizens to allow realistic adaptation to challenges of occupational obsolescence and exploitation by corrupt industries and actors of capitalism in the effort to renew the United States as a great, leading, beneficial nation able to compete successfully in economics with China in the future.

China has an interesting AI problem of success putting people out of work.  With 800-900 million workers needing a basic income to stay alive the challenges for development of relevant occupations for humans in the new economy of AI and robots within a competitive global economy will be interesting to observe; can they get it right the first time?

President Trump has worked with moderate success on two important goals; one to secure the borders and secondly to end the Ukraine war. The west investing time. Thought and budget in the absolutely useless distraction of the Ukraine war instead of responding to the challenges mentioned above is doing it’s best to let China be the smart nation and the West the stupid political entity.

In the ideal, democracy would have brilliant public service motivated grass roots citizens littering cities and rural copses solving the nation's challenges. Unfortunately corporatism has made minions of the masses and they select from political column A or B. In the decadent era of the Byzantine Empire there were chariot racing fans that wore colors as Bloods and Crips did in the 80s. They fought like soccer hooligans; greens versus blues and reds. They even became political. The Byzantine Empire's decline and fall went on for hundreds of years. They had very few writers or philosophers, yet a surfeit of Icon painters in monasteries and elsewhere until they divided over that too in a battle with iconoclasts.

https://suno.com/s/lynLapWoX24Xbstm Cai Su Right (a song)