Europe to China. Look at a globe and not a map. Currently it mostly goes via Suez as Panama is such a long way out of the way. The Northwest passage was such a prized goal for 500 years because of trade with the far east.

I think you’re making the assumption that the Commander in Chief is actually commanding. One of the thing I found really scary about the Signal chat was that Stephen Miller said something along the lines of “as far as I heard him, it was a green light” and then everything kicks off. That group made it all happen based on hearsay of Trump giving a go.

…and WTF is the VP involved in the decision making of a strike for? He should be briefed, but he’s not part of the chain of command until Trump is incapacitated.

Yeah, I’d put this article under “bad takes”. Trumps focus appears to be mining. If this was on his radar he wouldn’t be so concern about Panama as it would be made largely redundant.

Then again for these guys “the oil must flow”.

I’m not sure France is moving right. It’s moving away from the centre in both directions.

Similar in the UK

To be fair, that interview was conducted in a respectful manner. He was given plenty of space to explain his position. Fox news has surprised me on this occasion.

No surprise there. Same with Shell. Companies are bad at pivoting away from established revenue streams. They can’t do it. Same reason car firms are pleading for deadlines to be pushed back.

We’re better off backing newcomer companies dedicated to the new paradigm, and let these fossils die. Sadly governments rarely see it that way.