Trump wants to normalize Putinism. It's beyond disgusting. He should end up in prison for it.
He should already be in prison NOW. He’s a convicted felon.
He might end up there next year.
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#272Trump is gonna end up destroying EU right wing parties which have been very pro-Trump exactly like he did to Pollievre. I wonder whether UK media decide to hammer Farage over his Trump connections to screw Reform super hard.
Danish right wingers that rubbed shoulders with MAGA are trying to bury their pro trump stuff hard right now.
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#273I think the administration's real goal isn't taking over Greenland. I think it's scaring the EU enough about the possibility the US might take over Greenland that the EU pays to fortify it so the US doesn't have to. (Somebody needs to fortify it, because the world is warming and it will become a strategically important trade choke point when a Northwest Passage opens up.) Just like Trump being hot-and-cold on Ukraine…
The goal in Ukraine for the US is to bleed Russia. While Russia is busy in Ukraine, it's losing its influence and positions, from Syria to Iran.
The ideal for the US superpower right now, is to collapse Iran's regime while Russia is kept busy in Ukraine. It's unable to lend support to prop up its allies. The peace efforts are fake, meant to maintain a constant back and forth that never really goes anywhere. The US system has been focused on trying to strip Russia out of that region for decades, since before 9/11. Iraq was about Russia. Syria was about Russia. The first Gulf War was about decimating the Soviet supplied Iraqi army with the latest generation of US weapons, to put them to the test.
Most of the agenda exists from one administration to the next. The Pentagon works on its strategic aims across decades (see Bush & Obama & Trump and pivoting against China).
The US superpower is interested in the great power conflicts, it's not interested in Iraq because of oil, or Venezuela because of oil. It's about Russia and China, the other components (oil, chips, weapons, etc) are mere strategic calculations on the board.
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#274I wonder how the current events in Greenland will impact the safety and sovereignty of Taiwan. The US is Taiwan’s most important military ally, even if that relationship remains unofficial. It is also the most critical power in the First Island Chain. If the US stopped being a global superpower, countries like Japan and South Korea might not be willing to aid in defending Taiwan on their own.
I wonder how the current events in Greenland will impact the safety and sovereignty of Taiwan. That was my thought as well. It's a dangerous rhetoric being displayed by USA. "We need this land for our security". Turns out, what if other powers start using the same rhetoric? Russia did it already for Ukraine, China might say "We need Taiwan for our security".. where does it stop and ultimately it leads absolutely nowh…
China already claims Taiwan, and has for decades; the only thing keeping it practically separate is uncertainty over the outcome in various dimensions if China tries to take it militarily. I don't think there's any doubt that if they were sure they could take it relatively bloodlessly and without significant repercussion, they would do so immediately.
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This comment shows why the damage done by Trump will be so hard to reverse, no matter who's in charge next. When Trump talks about taking Greenland, the answer should be "no, moron, it's effectively a part of NATO", and instead you get all this muddying analysis of the strategic signifficance of Greenland, history, and how the EU is weak.
Trump is a symptom. The US cannot be trusted because we will always be one US election away of this bullshit again, because there are a lot of people there that actually agree with this.
The EU should be untangling itself from the US as quickly as possible. Any dependency on it is a major security risk.
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#276Earlier quoted context omitted.
Too much credit. Thigs like this were done way before Putin came to power.
It was done, but it wasn't normalized. These crooks want to present it as normal. There should be a very strong push against this garbage.
It was normalized. It is just the first time in modern history when it happens to "wrong people"
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#277Why even make a deal with the US now if Trump just changes his mind like some senile old man?
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The EU should have the place of Russia on that. Russia's population and GDP are tiny.
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""Can a man get pregnant?"" With Japan's artificial womb technology, sure! We can also create sperm or egg cells from just about anything and implant that into the womb. ICE is gestapo. And I'll keep beating them down every chance I get. Can't screw with someone that mines nuclear materials very easily.
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