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jsarnak's avatar

I have said since before the election, Trump had the easiest Off Ramp. Claim Elensky is totally corrupt and has stolen too much. End of story walk, no run away from this hot mess.

Instead Trump again falls victim to a ridiculous ego. These people who have been given Trump's ear are winning, Trump's people did a great initial job of laying out the truth. Suddenly with each day you can tell someone is bending Trump to the NeoCon way. It is a nightmare for every American who just wanted Trump to stop funding this war. The US will not receive 1 stinking dime of Ukrainian "rare earth's" LOL

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Rodders's avatar

the US has exhausted its resources and incentivised other great powers to balance the US collectively. Why empires fall by John Rapley and Peter Heather is a good read, and seems to be coming eerily true.

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Kojo's avatar

The Europeans are completely reliant on the US.

Every European nation has signed bilateral "Defense Cooperation Agreements" (DCAs) with the US, which basically supplants NATO. And cements their vassalhood. At the flick of a switch or a staged event, these countries will basically be controlled by the US under martial law. Even your own country, Glenn:

https://www.regjeringen.no/en/aktuelt/sdca_submitted/id2907892/

https://lovdata.no/dokument/TRAKTATEN/traktat/2021-04-16-3

Add that to some even more ominous laws, and you all in Norway could easily be living in a US rund dictatorship, just by someone staging a provocation and declaring a state of emegency:

https://www.nrk.no/mr/kva-pliktar-sivile-a-gjere-i-krig_-tenesteplikt-i-sivilforsvaret-og-arbeidsplikt-er-nokre-domer-1.17253480

That's just one example of one country, but all of Scandinavia already has that same setup: I'm willing to bet the veil of US control is similarly fairly thin in many European countries.

Europe has burned its bridges with Asian countries and Russia, and is seen with distaste by Africa, after having colonized them in the past and showing NO remorse and no lessons learned. So its NOT on preferential terms or positive terms with anywhere that the world is actually growing and dveloping.

Europe has severed the cheap energy it had from Russia and is now increasingly growing dependent on additional imports from the US and from Qatar (really the US via Conoco joint venture).

There are few European leaders, and none at all from Western Europe, that are not propped up by some faction of the US oligarchy, whether its the neocon faction or the American Taliban-Tech Megalomaniac faction.

All that is actually happening in Europe is its mis-leaders are busy fighting among themselves to conduct a mini version of the oligarchic battle that is going on in the US, which will then determine which flavour of US vassalhood Europe susbcribes to.

Dont mistake that for change.

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Per Dørup's avatar

The point is that Trump really seems to want to end the war in Ukraine. Now another European leader, Starmer, is making a pilgrimage to Washington trying to persuade Trump to continue the blodshed in Ukraine.

God, how corrupted personally, morally disintegrated the political leaders of the EU must be, the media and the academics in general too, since they, without having bad consciousness apparently, consciously and systematically lie to their population that Russia "unprovoked" attacked Ukraine. Thus putting the world on the brink of a nuclear war with Russia. And they decieve their population that they are pursuing a security policy!

But of course, also the receiving device, the population, must be kind of corrupted and ignorant since they in general unfiltered buy mentioned lies of the EU imperialists.

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jsarnak's avatar

Do you know how many citizens have dropped out of political discourse in the "WEST"? It is around half. This tells you that half of the people know our Govt.'s are corrupt and Democracy is a joke. Look at the "west" in Europe, cancelling elections, arresting politicians or just shooting them. We are crashing and burning live and in living color. How long until the collapse??

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Per Dørup's avatar

Well, maybe half of the population drops out, but they apparently dare not be critical in public for fear of the consequences, however.

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Kojo's avatar

Starmer is a creation of the US neocon wing and has no influence on Trump. Starmer's deputy David Lammy is the same and has in fact previously personally insulted Trump, which he is making grovelling apoligies about now but it is too late.

The real reason Starmer is going to the US is most likely to get new orders from his handlers in Langley, VA.. Not Wash. DC.

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Gnuneo's avatar

"They Believed Their Own BS".

On the gravestone of Europe.

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ScuzzaMan's avatar

There's no empire without competitive industrial capacity. There's no way for a nation surrounded by deep oceans to control a global empire without competitive ship-building capacities.

The new oligarchic faction ruling the empire has realised that the previous factions globohomo WEF Woke WTO Wall St financialisation scam nonsense has hollowed out the empire from the inside, over many decades, riding the inertia of the greatest industrial capacity ever built, riding the wave of money which that produced (especially after WW2 made them the last man standing, industrially speaking) while simultaneously claiming that impovershing their own middle class, ruinously debasing their currency, and enriching their enemies, would never cause any trouble.

By 2020 this lunacy was so obviously retarded they had to get a genuinely senile idiot to front it with any conviction.

In 2024 the nation rejected it like your stomach rejects rotting meat.

The new management are walking softly hoping to buy time to rebuild the big stick. They're not planning on going quietly into that goodnight. They're not good guys. They're not peaceniks. They're realist imperialists. Like the guys who built the empire in the first place.

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Givenroom's avatar

The Fraude, the corruption, the Omerta, the blackmail, the whitewash, anyone an idea on what ground somewhere at EU’s border? Didn’t they have the reputation before the war yet and how come those rare earths were none existing before the war? EU Eurocrats saying we have no future without Ukraine, with who else to make corrupt deals with and the same goes for the US. The now Gaza Monte Carlo Casinos can be installed as a Premiere in Kiev.

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