Miguel's Conspiracy Ruminations.
I guess I can do them theories like the rest.
How about if Trump really wants to be king? Think about it.
One of the platforms he runs on is arrest and deportation of Illegal aliens and the other is the raise of the status of the US as superpower. He wins the election and begins the removal of people that entered here illegally, but there is special noise and hollering in Minnesota.
While nobody is looking, he takes a tactical swipe at Venezuela removing the dictator and bringing him and the wife to the US to face charges for drug trafficking and other crap. The remaining government left soon accepts dealings with the US and the oil production is now directed to US interests leaving Cuba out of the free sucking of energy and China gets a sudden drop of access to very cheap hydrocarbons.
Next of the agenda was Iran which had already had a warning of future attractions if they did not behave, but after decades of dealing with much weaker and even friendly US governments, decides to do the usual crap of lying and playing the victim “knowing” that the US would not dare attack them because they could unleash hell from their country and from inside the US.
But Miguel, wait one second. What do you mean inside the US? Other than the Senegalese dude shooting the bar in Austin, there have been no attacks and no extra warnings have been issued? Well, what if some of those ICE immigration raids that happened and are still happening without fanfare all over the country were not truly removing illegal aliens, but highly trained individual removing by any means necessary Iranian lone wolves and Quds cells infiltrated in the country? For all we know, they are now shark or gator feed rather than raising hell and destruction across the Land of the Free. While there is no doubt that Minnesota has a particular high amount of floating turds in need of flushing, it was well and properly used as a distraction from the hunter teams doing what needed to be done.
Trump knows that the war will cut oil transport which is why he made sure Venezuelan oil would continue to be available by striking Maduro first. Oil prices would have to go up, but no return to the Oil Embargo lines and mayhem of the 1970s.
And finally, by the time Iranian mullahs are done for, the country will begin its rebuild and they would need a proven leader to make them like the old kingdom they were once. Some temporary governance will take happen, but at the end there can be only one.
Welcome to Trump the First. King of Persia. (Available end of January 2029)
The man who would be king!
Just saying.
Musical interlude:
"The man who would be king" is a WONDERFUL movie (starring Michael Caine and Sean Connery), from a story by Rudyard Kipling. It's set in "Kafiristan" which sounds like a fictional country. It's actually the name of a province of Afghanistan, which apparently got that name because it was the last part of the country to accept Islam. (The name translates to "land of the unbelievers".)
You should be writing a news blog, Miggy! I've been trading thoughts about what's going on in the Middle East; sort of ignoring the domestic front.
Your comment on ICE activity is a very likley scenario. Our intel capabilities are scary (from a civil liberty perspective) good, especially SIGINT. Find the troublemakers, remove and repatriate them before engaging in hostilities. That still leaves a very scary remnant of lone wolves, but we can assume any coordinated efforts were already neutered.