You do realize Denmark/Greenland is (well, at least used to be before this circus act) your ally?
“Used to be” is not “is”. The USSR was an ally. As everyone is pointing out here, there’s no going back. Given that, and as much as I preferred the old order, we have only forward to go. If there were a path back, there’d be a point. But in this discussion, everything has already happened. There’s not much point in saying “if you hadn’t”. Well, Trump did. Having done what he did, nothing to do now but to go full bore…
Path back to what? Time before the US started bullying its allies and destroying Nato? This seems all self-inflicted.
I actually have a greater disgust for those who see it but don't act. I think this line from an incredibly relevant book is precisely this: > "Your ‘little men,’ your Nazi friends, were not against National Socialism in principle. Men like me, who were, are the greater offenders, not because we knew better (that would be too much to say) but because we sensed better. Those who act on behalf of evil are not free from…
The US wasn't exactly "friendly", but comparing US hegemony to Nazi Germany is a bit much, don't you think? /s
It wasn't of course. But the current regime looks more and more like them. Including all the minions going along with it
The British didn't really make unforced errors like Germany did, though. They mostly were forced into a fire sale situation as they were fighting for their lives. Even with everything they sold off, they were still within an inch of surrendering. The French story is similar. They may have been in a slow decline, but the war threw them off a cliff. It's hard to look at what the US is doing and not become extremely ang…
I agree but the difference between the French and the British is the French really didn't have a choice (they got physically invaded). You could make a very good case that for Britain entering into WW1 was a catastrophic and ultimately unnecessary decision. And you could make a (much more controversial but I think also true) case that entering into WW2 was also not necessary and ultimately fairly catastrophic. Yet th…
One good thing about the collapse of Soviet Union was that Gorbachev refused to start senseless wars. There were hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers stationed in various countries of Eastern Europe, but he explicitly said he will not use force to hold the countries in the Soviet fold. After that the communist regimes there promptly fell. Putin apparently thinks this was a mistake he decided to correct. So I don't know, maybe Gorbachev was telling us the (hubris, stupidity) is not inevitable, and Putin is telling it is inevitable, after all? Time will tell I guess.
> deportation rates are much too low “U.S. Border Patrol agents recorded nearly 238,000 apprehensions of migrants crossing the southern border illegally in fiscal year 2025” [1]. For 2012 to 2015, the chart shows about 360k, 420k, 480k and 330k, respectively. That means ICE is spending $330 to 580 thousand dollars per additional Southwest border encounter in 2025 versus 2012. ($250 to 440 thousand if we average Obama…
I've said for a while that ICE needs to go after businesses that hire illegal immigrants. So if you're looking for some kind of conflict in what I'm saying that isn't it.
I'd agree with most of what you said, but there is no "raising a Gestapo". ICE has existed for 25 years. And the laws that give it permission to act haven't changed. It has gradually grown over the decades but what it fundamentally does has not. What's new is finally the federal government pushing back against locales that refuse to allow local police to cooperate with federal law enforcement by means of massive infl…
ICE has not been disappearing people to meet quotas for 25 years. "Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. They're allowed to take only a knapsack and a little cash with them, and even then, they're robbed of these possessions on the way. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from schoo…
I'm not sure what you're quoting but that is fan fiction of some sort divorced from reality.
I agree but the difference between the French and the British is the French really didn't have a choice (they got physically invaded). You could make a very good case that for Britain entering into WW1 was a catastrophic and ultimately unnecessary decision. And you could make a (much more controversial but I think also true) case that entering into WW2 was also not necessary and ultimately fairly catastrophic. Yet th…
One good thing about the collapse of Soviet Union was that Gorbachev refused to start senseless wars. There were hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers stationed in various countries of Eastern Europe, but he explicitly said he will not use force to hold the countries in the Soviet fold. After that the communist regimes there promptly fell. Putin apparently thinks this was a mistake he decided to correct. So I don'…
this seems ongoing. From yesterday:
Lavrov: Russia is ready to communicate with the US on the Balkans