Yet another poorly analogized science journalism article. If you want to sell the idea, you have to explain Gravity and Weather as being the same exact thing. High pressure (entropy) tends towards low pressure. This naturally attracts and repels other high/low pressure systems based on their direction of spin. Think of gears engaging or not. Cyclones and Anticyclones; the cogs in the machine of creation.

Big T says 2 weeks, Hersh says this weekend. While the timing is ultimately irrelevant, this seems likely to happen, as the (corrupt, self-interested) motivation is the same as the Iraq and anti-daesh intervention; to steal oil and enrich a few Israeli firms our elites are balls deep in alongside our defense industry. We're also due another war (US goes in on average every 6 years).

If the theory from this book is ultimately correct, I would suspect the same forces remain at work. My prediction for such a scenario is that we'll go for a civil-war causing regime change operation with revanchist ethnic Azeris expanding the oil theft about Tabriz. This will enrich the Turks & Azeris enough to go along.

This will torch the MAGA movement entirely, and we'll get neoliberal regimes until the ship fully goes under.

It remains a very real question whether full on regime change is actually logistically possible for the US to pull off. The possibility that this turns into a real debacle is nonzero.

UPDATE: Signs the Euros are onboard. I presume they think this might ameliorate the fuel shortages caused by the war with Russia. They're suckers if they believe this. Of course, many of their elites are also engaged in shady dealings in Cyprus and Israel.

So far Newsom has acquitted himself well. Playing the face to DJT's heel here is in fact exactly what the country needs. The question of the "broader" lost cause (whither centralization) is still very much alive, regardless of whether the narrow cause of Secession ultimately prevails. Both the pernicious influence of CA on DC and vice versa need to be drastically reduced.

What is good about him is the recognition that as a good leader there is no such thing as "not my job", and focusing on personal dignity when fighting a lost cause.

What's bad is his blindness thanks to being "the manager". His corn-pone is dependent on not realizing that excessive centralization has made every other manager totally unaccountable & uninvested in long-term success, so the principal-agent problem is eating the country alive. He doesn't even realize his compulsion for taking on more responsibility is the true source of the problem.