{"id":31145,"date":"2017-07-06T14:56:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-06T18:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31145"},"modified":"2017-07-06T14:56:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T18:56:32","slug":"when-dominoes-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31145","title":{"rendered":"When Dominoes Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WVz1-XQIcN8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a> is always posting pictures of creative patterns people create with dominoes. Here is one:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WVz1-XQIcN8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>But sometimes things in real life have a domino effect. We are seeing that effect in some recent seemingly unrelated moves by the Trump Administration.<\/p>\n<p>One of the immediate changes that took place when President Trump took office was the lifting of many regulations regarding energy production and energy exporting in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=38.8833333333,-77.0166666667 (United%20States)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">United States<\/a>. That was the first domino. What seemed to be a national issue is now going to have major international implications.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-07-04\/poland-seeks-trump-visit-catalyst-to-cut-reliance-on-russian-gas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloomberg News<\/a> posted an article predicting an agreement between the Trump Administration and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Poland\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=52.2166666667,21.0333333333&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=52.2166666667,21.0333333333 (Poland)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">Poland<\/a> that would allow Poland to begin importing <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Natural gas\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Natural_gas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">natural gas<\/a> from America. That is the second domino.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Polish leaders are betting <a title=\"Billionaire Profile\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/billionaires\/id\/1252249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s visit to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Warsaw\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=52.2333333333,21.0166666667&amp;spn=0.1,0.1&amp;q=52.2333333333,21.0166666667 (Warsaw)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">Warsaw<\/a> starting on Wednesday, two days before the U.S. president meets his Russian counterpart, will bolster their efforts to reduce the nation\u2019s dependence on natural gas from its eastern neighbor.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Less than a month after Poland\u2019s Baltic Sea terminal received its first shipment of U.S. liquefied natural gas, a spot cargo from <a title=\"Company Overview\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/LNG:US\">Cheniere Energy Inc.\u2019s <\/a>Sabine Pass plant in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Louisiana\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=31.0,-92.0&amp;spn=3.0,3.0&amp;q=31.0,-92.0 (Louisiana)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">Louisiana<\/a>, authorities in Warsaw are mooting ambitious plans. The ideas range from a long-term gas\u00a0deal with U.S. producers to infrastructure projects linking <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Eastern Europe\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=50.0,30.0&amp;spn=1.0,1.0&amp;q=50.0,30.0 (Eastern%20Europe)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation noopener\">east European<\/a> nations reliant on supplies from Moscow-based <a title=\"Company Overview\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/OGZD:LI\">Gazprom PJSC<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u201cWe\u2019ve tested our ability to receive U.S. gas,\u201d Krzysztof Szczerski, who heads <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"President of Poland\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/President_of_Poland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Polish President<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Andrzej Duda\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrzej_Duda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">Andrzej Duda<\/a>\u2019s office, said on July 1. \u201cSo what\u2019s left is a simple business conversation &#8212; when, how much and for how much.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>America&#8217;s vast energy resources have the potential to change world politics&#8211;from <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"OPEC\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/OPEC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener\">OPEC<\/a> to Russia&#8217;s blackmail of Europe by threatening to cut off the gas supply.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect we are going to see a log more dominoes fall in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube is always posting pictures of creative patterns people create with dominoes. 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