Tag: game theory
‘Trump is deeply afraid of being assassinated’ by Israel — Ray McGovern
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Joe Kent said the same in his interview with Tucker, below. Trump surely also fears for his family. Recall, Netanyahu gifted an Israeli-made cellphone to Trump. That was a blatant threat. He also gave a bunch of US Congress people Israeli-made cellphones some months ago. McGovern says these threats against Trump [and all of the US elite, I would add] are the real story here. Yes, it is. That’s the real story. A Jewish Supremist gang controls when and where USA goes to war and everyone at the top is afraid of being killed if they disagree. ABN
Kent on being accused of leaking secrets
Al-Aqsa struck by missile debris, allegedly
- Video footage of explosions and smoke near Jerusalem’s Old City walls, likely capturing shrapnel from an intercepted Iranian missile falling on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound during ongoing hostilities.
- News reports confirm an Iranian missile detonated overhead on March 20, 2026, with fragments landing inside the Al-Aqsa compound, the third-holiest site in Islam, amid a multi-week Iran-Israel war involving U.S. troop deployments and retaliatory strikes.
Israel bombed Iranian gas fields to disrupt world economy and mire USA deeper in the war
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Trump’s off-ramp from this war is control the Israelis with real threats of leaving them on their own to prevent precisely what just happened. This is a very short version of what Joe Kent says at the end of his interview below with Carlson. ABN
Japan to invest to increase Alaskan crude oil production
Japan will invest to increase crude oil production in Alaska as part of the $550 billion (87 trillion yen) tariff agreement with the United States and also stockpile the reserves produced in the U.S. state.
Sources said Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and U.S. President Donald Trump will announce the plan when they meet in Washington, D.C., on March 19.
Japan will purchase the additional crude oil produced in Alaska as part of its effort to reduce its heavy dependence on Middle East oil. Currently about 90 percent of Japan’s crude oil imports comes from that region.
I am seeing reports this has already been agreed on. ABN
Pete Hegseth in his own words
JD Vance at center of stunning Iran war rupture after secret meeting with spy boss
Before Donald Trump’s top spy chief submitted his stunning resignation over the Iran war, he had secretly confided his plans to his closest political ally, JD Vance.
Joe Kent quit as Trump’s director of the National Counterterrorism Center on Tuesday in protest over the Iran war, accusing Israel of pressuring the US into a conflict he says was built on lies.
Kent, a close political ally of Vance and Tulsi Gabbard, presented his resignation letter to the Vice President 24 hours before dramatically stepping down from the administration.
‘The VP encouraged him to speak to White House chief of staff and Trump before making any final decisions,’ said a White House official. ‘The VP encouraged him to be respectful to POTUS.’
Following the meeting, Kent issued a blistering resignation that claimed Trump was tricked into striking Iran ‘due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby,’ adding: ‘I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war.’
Kent accused the President of reneging on the non-interventionist principles he campaigned on.
Gabbard was present during Kent’s in-person resignation to Vance, according to the Washington Post.
It is unclear if Vance warned other members of the administration about Kent’s plan to discredit Trump’s war during his resignation.
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Trump is the incompetent one on this issue. He is either a liar, a crypto Jewish Supremist, a deep pragmatist with an ace in the hole (not likely) or something else. He is still our president and I hope he handles this much better going forward. To all appearances and evidence, he has made a huge mess which will be very expensive for USA in reputation and wealth. The good side of this is many more people are becoming aware of the deep stranglehold Jewish Supremists hold on USA and the West. ABN
Game theory and trust
The game linked below explains some basics of game theory and also some basics of why FIML practice works so well.
The game can be found at this link: The Evolution of Trust.
I highly recommend playing this game. It takes about thirty minutes to finish.
For the first part of it, I was only mildly interested though the game is reasonably engaging.
When it got a point where communication mistakes are factored in, I sat up and took notice.
The game is a very simple computer model of some very simple basic choices human beings make all the time. Without giving away too much, even this simple model shows something I bet most of us can already see.
And that is: zero-sum games do not give rise to trust. Win-win games do.
What was most interesting to me is the game also shows that communication mistakes foster trust if there are not too many of them.
Accepting mistakes in communication requires trust. Mistakes happen. When two people accept that in each other and in themselves, trust grows.
This is a very important point and a foundation of FIML practice.
In fact, I would say that mistakes foster trust even more in FIML than other communication games. This happens because in FIML mistakes are isolated in such a way that they can be fully recognized and understood for what they are.
This provides a method for solving immediate problems while also building a foundation for the inevitable occurrence of future ones. Moreover, the kinds of mistakes people make become less stupid.
In many respects, the game of FIML is largely one of recognizing communication mistakes or potential mistakes as soon as they arise, within seconds of their onset.
By doing that FIML shows us how our deep psychology is actually functioning in real-life. Multiple insights into this aspect of psychology are transformational.
UK security adviser attended US-Iran talks and judged deal was within reach
Britain’s national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, attended the final talks between the US and Iran and judged that the offer made by Tehran on its nuclear programme was significant enough to prevent a rush to war, the Guardian can reveal.
Powell thought progress had been made in Geneva in late February and that the deal proposed by Iran was “surprising”, according to sources.
Powell’s attendance at the Geneva talks, as well as at a previous set of meetings earlier in the month in the Swiss city, helps in part to explain the UK government’s reluctance to back the US attack on Iran, a reluctance that has put the UK-US relationship under unprecedented strain.
The UK saw no compelling evidence of an imminent threat of an Iranian missile attack on Europe, or of Iran securing a nuclear weapon. This is the first time it has become clear that Britain was so closely involved in the talks, and so had good reason to decide whether diplomatic options had been exhausted and a US attack was necessary.
Instead the UK regarded the attack as unlawful and premature since Powell believed the path remained open to a negotiated solution to the long-running issue of how Iran could reassure the US that it was not seeking a nuclear weapon.
TRITA PARSI – How Washington Underestimated Iran
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This is an excellent overview of the Iran War by a well-recognized expert on Iran. Napolitano is a skilled interviewer who has the good sense to keep his videos short and to the point. For this one, I wish he had gone on longer. Parsi lays out background and ancillary information very well, and has a clear take on Israel’s underhanded role in talking Trump into this catastrophe. ABN
Odds of Netanyahu doing something like 9/11 in USA ‘better than even’ — Ray McGovern
Ambassador Mike Waltz Holds Interview With CNN To Update Progress On Iran War
CONTROLLED: Trump’s Kharg Island Strike Ends Iran’s Oil Terror Premium
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Well-worth viewing. Shows Trump has a plan and it looks good. I would add that Israel’s constant disruptions of the Middle East may also be coming to an end, and may also be part of Trump’s plan. He gave Bibi what Bibi wanted, or thought he wanted, but the result appears to be a degradation of Israel’s status and possibly the end of their Greater Israel fantasies. ABN
Trump Calls on Oil Dependent Nations to Send Military Ships to Backstop Security in Hormuz
President Trump’s latest two messages via Truth Social present an interesting geopolitical approach with multiple enmeshed aspects.
First, some background context is needed. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and USTR Jamieson Greer are in Paris to meet with Chinese government officials ahead of a scheduled meeting between Chairman Xi Jinping and President Trump.
The main objective of the pre-summit assembly before President Trump goes to Beijing, is to hammer out the actionable agreement details that can be signed off by Xi and Trump. Bessent and Greer are looking to put a deal together with their Chinese counterparts so that Trump and Xi can announce mutually beneficial outcomes during their summit.
Second, President Trump has already indicated the March 31/April 1 meeting with Xi will be all business. The traditional pomp and splendor will not be present, and Trump will only be visiting Beijing – no sidelines.
Third, Secretary Rubio will be accompanying Trump on this trip to Beijing, which might seem ordinary were it not for the fact that in 2020 China sanctioned and banned Rubio from entering China for criticizing Xinjiang and Hong Kong.
Fourth, there are rumors that President Trump is going to announce a significant weapons deal with Taiwan at some point immediately following the trip. If those rumors are true, it would be a top priority for the Chinese advance team in Paris to stop that from happening.
Regardless of what happens in the next few weeks, President Trump will be meeting with Chairman Xi with full Eagle eye confrontation toward the returning dragon stare. There will be no panda mask on this trip whatsoever; this face to face is an apex predator showdown, while the world watches intently.Everything President Trump does between now and his arrival in Beijing, should be contemplated through this adversarial position. With strong moves in Venezuela and Iran President Trump has already pulled Chairman Xi into the jianshu1 circle, showing the soul of his blade.
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