11 Replies to “April 4, 2026: Reader Tips”

    1. So doctors who kill someone are encouraged to falsify the cause of death? Any this isn’t somehow a problem?

  3. Why do this? Are they embarrassed by the popularity of the program or by it’s efficiency in reducing health care costs?

    Doctors to lying on death certificates must surely be illegal.

  4. Read the whole thing:

    Trump, Hormuz and the End of the Free Ride
    “The political class behaved as if the American security guarantee were a law of nature, not a contingent choice. Their conduct today is closer to Chamberlain than Churchill: temporising, issuing statements, hoping the storm will pass without a fundamental reordering of their responsibilities.

    Trump’s antithesis is to withhold the automatic guarantee at the moment of maximum stress. Militarily, the US can break Iran’s residual ability to contest the Strait; that is not the binding constraint. The point is to delay that act. By allowing a closure or semi‑closure to bite, Trump ensures that the immediate pain is concentrated in exactly the jurisdictions that have most conspicuously free‑ridden on US power: the EU and the UK. Their industries, consumers and energy‑transition assumptions are exposed.

    In that context, his reported blunt message to European and British leaders, you need the oil out of the Strait more than we do; why don’t you go and take it? Is not a throwaway line. It is the verbalisation of the antithesis. It openly reverses the traditional presumption that America will carry the burden while its allies emote from the sidelines.

    In this dialectic, the prize is not simply the reopening of a chokepoint. The prize is a reordered system in which the United States effectively arbitrages and controls the global flow of oil. A world in which US‑aligned production in the Americas plus a discretionary capability to secure, or not secure, Hormuz places Washington at the centre of the hydrocarbon chessboard. For that strategic end, a rapid restoration of the old status quo would be counterproductive.

    https://x.com/DrJStrategy/status/2040029898295632377

    1. L – The Pundits of Doom have been pridefully shouting that “Trump has no strategy”. While they are narrowly focused on tactics. This because, the very concept of strategy is beyond them. Trump plays chess. His detractors struggle with checkers. But when dealing with the true global threat of China. He proves to be a master of Go.

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