CNN’s Piers Morgan interviewed Donald Trump last night. Trump wants to renegotiate our trade relationship with China, and Morgan challenged him. What is Morgan’s brilliant, and better idea? That we should roll up our sleeves and just try harder. Can you imagine?

Many cities in the Midwest have lost half of their population in a single generation. Hunter Morrison of Youngstown State University says that depopulation on that scale has not been seen since the Black Plague struck Europe 650 years ago.

Trump understands the urgency of the situation. Morgan does not. Morgan is a bubble-headed buffoon, and a preposterously pompous nincompoop.

Morgan also asserted that China is not a military threat. But China supports North Korea, which is helping Iran with their nuclear program. While that is an indirect threat, China has also developed a ballistic missile designed to target aircraft carriers. Whose carriers? Well the Chinese haven’t said who they are targeting, so why don’t we take a look around their neighborhood?

Does Japan have any carriers? Nope. What about Vietnam? No. Maybe the Philippines, Indonesia, South Korea, or Malaysia? None. What about China’s number-one target, Taiwan? Not hardly. In fact, the worlds smallest aircraft carrier belongs to Thailand, and it is mothballed. Even the Russians are down to one carrier, and the Admiral Kuznetsov spends its time on the other side of the globe in the Atlantic, Mediterranean Sea, North Sea, Black Sea, etc.

But it just so happens that the USA operates a fleet of 11 aircraft carriers. And not only do we have more carriers than the rest of the world combined, but ours are bigger, and I’m sure, way better.

The only aircraft carriers that China ever sees fly the American flag, and they have designed a weapon specifically to sink them. No other country has ever developed a ballistic missile targeted at carriers. The Russians considered it, but decided not to launch the project. But China is all gung-ho about their new weapon and are developing it as fast as possible.

That is a direct military threat.

And Piers Morgan is a damn fool.

Note: Here is the article about the rapid depopulation of the Midwest.

Yes, the Egyptian Army is equipped with a vast array of American weaponry, but Israel has no need to worry. The USA only allows Egypt a few day’s supply of ammo and spare parts, according to Eric Margolis.

Of course, being on the wrong end of an onslaught of such an army for “only a few days” wouldn’t be a picnic. But I’m guessing that an Egyptian attack on Israel is not very likely no matter how crazy the next regime may be.

Could the Egyptians build their own ammo and spare parts? I doubt they would be able to keep their American jets flying for very long without extensive outside help, but they do build the American M1A1 battle tank themselves under license. I couldn’t find much information on this, but according to this page, only 40% of the M1A1 parts are made at the Egyptian plant, with the rest being imported from the USA.

Another factor in Israel’s favor is that the Arabs are counting on the Israelis to help them fight off the Persians. If Iraq becomes an Iranian satellite after the USA is gone, then all of a sudden both Saudi Arabia and Kuwait will be effectively sharing a land border with Iran. Look at the maps: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait.

Will Iraq fall to Iran? Some observers think so. Muqtada al-Sadr, who was hiding out in Iran, recently returned to Iraq. Only three years ago, Iraqi troops were cracking down on Al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army in Basra.

Of course he would; don’t be ridiculous. While The Colonel is a Southern gentleman, he is a gentleman of the slaving variety. And recently his Chinese sweatshop workers have been getting uppity, demanding higher wages in order to buy food, of all things. Can you imagine? The Colonel would gladly run them over with tanks, but that doesn’t play well any more with consumers here in the Age of Facebook.

So, The Colonel has instructed his buyers to cancel their orders with Chinese factories while he secures a new pool of slaves. Vietnam looks promising, and maybe the Philippines, but if you are going to take the trouble to relocate your massive sweatshop empire why not move it closer to your end markets?

The Colonel ships a lot of product half way around the world from Asia to Europe, so why not set up shop somewhere in the region? Now, let’s think, where’s an ideal location for “investment”? Where can one find a very large number of people on the verge of starvation who could be put to work making sneakers for 14¢ an hour?

Egypt comes to mind, does it not? Look at the map, it’s a stone’s throw from the lucrative European market. Think of the savings in shipping costs alone.

Do the multinationals have designs on the Arab world? I don’t know, but the The Colonel’s appearance in so many main-stream media pictures from Cairo is a little alarming. Perhaps CNN is just supporting Obama’s plan for Egypt with propaganda designed to appeal to Americans. They cover-up the anti-Israel placards, and make sure that The Colonel is seen often enough for the subliminal message to stick in the brains of viewers: “See, those Egyptians are just like us! They just want to eat at KFC without being clubbed by Mubarak’s henchman.”

Of course, The Colonel’s visage does indeed appear all over the world. Yum! Brands is a very successful company – just look at their stock chart. So, it’s not surprising to see The Colonel, and I don’t consider Yum! Brands to be the least bit sinister itself.

However, the multinationals don’t have a battle flag of their own yet. So, there could, in fact, be a deliberate message being sent to us via The Colonel.

In my previous post, I gave some potential political and military reasons why Obama might want to punish Israel. But if the multinationals want to “develop” the Arab world, Israel will have even bigger problems. Nobody can stand up to the multinationals – not even the USA. If Israel had to be sacrificed to win over the Arabs, the multinationals would swat Israel like a fly trying to land on The Colonel’s biscuits.

In a worst-case scenario, Israel would suffer many years of political isolation. After all, it took a couple of decades for the multinationals to build up the economies of Mexico, China, and India.

Note: Here is a New York Times article about how the multinationals are canceling orders with Chinese factories.

DEBKAfile thinks that the USA is behind the Egyptian revolt. See their article here. What motive could the USA possibly have to overthrow a staunch ally? Well, a couple of things come to mind…

You probably remember Vice President Biden’s visit to Israel in March 2010. It sticks in the memory because many people considered it a huge insult to Biden when the Israelis announced construction plans for a new settlement in East Jerusalem. I have no idea if the Israelis did that on purpose, but if Obama felt slighted, you could expect him to eventually deliver some sort of payback. And the collapse of the status quo in Egypt is not likely to improve Israel’s security.

The other thing that comes to mind is American commanders saying that Israel was making the War in Afghanistan more difficult. The theory is that if Israel treats the Palestinians badly, more terrorists are motivated to attack US troops. I have no idea if that is actually true or not, but both Generals McChrystal and Petraeus publicly criticized Israel on the point.

So, there is a certain logic to the Obama Administration fomenting rebellion in Egypt. It delivers payback to the Israelis, makes Obama a hero to the Arabs, which helps the president wrap up the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in time for the 2012 election.

If DEBKAfile is right, then we might be witnessing an historic sea-change in US-Israeli relations. This might also explain why Obama did not accommodate the Israeli/Saudi desire for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Today on Fox News, I saw John Bolton say that the pro-Mubarak supporters in Cairo were wholesome, upstanding citizens just trying to restore order.

Can you imagine? I have a question for Bolton: if you are really just doing your civic duty and trying to get everybody to play nice, do you run up on Anderson Cooper of CNN and punch him in the face?

No, you do not. You wouldn’t worry about the media filming your good deeds. Yet Bolton’s “good Samaritans” were clearly hunting journalists.

Not only that, but CNN reported that Mubarak’s rent-a-goon squads are veterans of his rigged elections, and are paid to bust heads. They get $40 and a Viagra pill, which allows them to do more raping.

Another question for Bolton: are you a fan of the Iranian Basij too?

Larry Kudlow has been ranting on about how Ben Bernanke has caused the riots via food inflation in countries like Tunisia and Egypt. But did Bernanke set Russia on fire last year? Did he sink Australia to the bottom of the ocean? Did he cause droughts in the USA and China? Did he torture dissidents in Egypt?

I don’t think so.

Kudlow is frantically trying to blame Bernanke for food prices in an effort to deflect attention away from crop failures. That’s the last thing that Kudlow wants to talk about because it leads to questions about global warming.

And Ben Bernanke has larger fish to fry. It is the People’s Bank of China that has flooded the world with money, and Bernanke’s QE2 is designed to counter the Chinese onslaught. The President and Congress have failed to act against China on trade, so it is up to Bernanke to do the dirty work with the weapons at his disposal.

And so he is. The elephants are dancing, and the Egyptian mice are getting crushed worse than they otherwise would be. And of course, the Chinese are delivering a one-two-punch to the more unfortunate nations of the world. Not only do they print absurd amounts of money and create inflation, but they are also gobbling up the world’s food – literally.

Apologists for the Chinese mercantilists declare that we must continue to allow them to steal our jobs because they have so many peasants coming from the countryside into the cities who need jobs. But is it really a good idea to encourage that urbanization process in the first place? Is it really a good idea to pave over farmland in order to build giant ghost cities?

Speaking of which, you would think that with so much fresh water from the world’s longest river, the Egyptians would be able to grow enough food to feed themselves. But they can’t, and have paved over a lot farmland along the Nile. So maybe a good project for the new Egypt, instead of invading Israel, would be to dismantle Cairo, and move out to the desert to make room for more crops.

And perhaps letting Detroit go back to wilderness isn’t so much the tragedy that we think it is.