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I’m guessing that Trump won’t last four years… He may become ill, retire, quit, die, be assassinated.
Trump (2nd term) is a signal of the end of the US Empire, the hailed now failed Pax Americana.
MAGA. America *USA rah rah* has to be made great again, back to were it was Great, when was that? Post WW2 to maybe 1979… Vain hopiness..
Tarifs won’t accomplish anything, Trumpy is just using them to threaten and huff ’n puff, as he the Prez has ontrol of that, no need for Congress Approval.
Tarifs provoke richochet, Canada Cos, others, react with counter measures. Implementing ‘trade wars’ on close neighbors is a huge mistake, it just gets ppl riled up, destroys some ‘companies’, ditches workers who got paid, etc. The wish that ‘Foreign’ cos. will then move their ‘biz’ to the USA is completely illusory.
Some might ‘envisage to do so’ – these would be bribes paid to Trumpy/ USA.
No big foreign Corp or Conglomerate (not to mention small ones) will now invest in the USA because the cost would be incalculable and most likely a loosing prop. Say, set up a factory? Hmm, infrastructure is shit, threat of shutdown exists, insecurity is rife, transport is poor (or non existent), needed imports (materials, etc.) may be unobtainable, too expensive or suddenly blocked (tarifs..), tax struture not stable, workers foreign risk expulsion, etc.
Tarifs have to be used very carefully, very selectively, very gradually, and this is from someone who is way LEFT and for a protectionist and state-run economy, say.
Trumpy’s jabs > trade wars are not coordinated, planned, for any desired or predicted outcome.
Brigitte Macron being secretly a man is a sort of copy-paste by some factions in France of *Michelle Obama is a Man.*
Candace Owens can make some hay. Brigitte being a man – oh a huge cover-up! — etc. is put out there in F with some success, some ppl latch on, follow.
The French adore the US, be it whisky, jazz, denim, killing natives (other topic), Obama (not Trump) etc, some ardently took over this meme of ‘first ladies’ being Trans.
What sex Brigitte – Bibi – actually is, is of no importance whatsoever for ppl world wide. Nor that of Michelle O. This is all Gossip Distraction, Tabloid Screeching…
Tucker Carlson discredited himself with that sortie. Link at top post, *Oh Candace*..
Note all is contradictory with the WOKE Zeitgeist from the US, where anyone can be ‘any sex’, ‘any persona’, you can just be you, order others to call you whatever, etc.
So Trans Ppl are to be sub rosa identified as sneaky pretenders, fakers (Brigitte M. Michelle O.) while others are at the same time to be adulated for their ‘trans’ status? Hmm..
It reminds me of dissident Alain Soral (F-CH national condemned for anti-semitism and much more in F, huge fines, prison sentences…) now living in CH (to avoid the sentences as CH won’t return him to F) being the first person to be condemned for ‘hate speech’ of a certain type.
He called a journalist “a Fat Lesbian” – both true – and that was judged to be hate speech. Being fat is super OK, being a lesbian is cool, groovy, or whatever, so…why is this hate speech? Hmm… 🙂
Re. top post,
Darien Gap crossings.
Docu from Bald ‘n Bankrupt, Benjamin, crossing via the Darien Gap, showing at least some of the nodes, dangers, humanitarian thingies, etc.
Nov. 2023. 49 mins.
Many are asking how Europe / the EU ended up with such stupid leaders? Like it is now dawning on many… Macron gave a crazed speech last Friday… etc.
A quick outline of what happened in F. (Setting aside the history of the EU, other important topic), Long Post, heh ..
President — Defeated Opponent — Expected >> ousted:
Chirac — Jospin (Socialist) — was ostensibly a toss up
Chirac — Le Pen — //Le Pen was boosted up to that position//
Sarkozy — Royal (Socialist) — toss up
Hollande — Sarkozy —- Dominique Strauss-Khan, DSK
Macron —- Le Pen — Francois Fillon
Macron — Le Pen
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Le Pen-s are Father vs. Chirac and Daughter vs. Macron 2x. (Fam Biz.)
Sarkozy has Jewish roots and was an Atlantacist. He beat Royal, common-law wife of Hollande at the time. (Fam Biz on the Socialist wing.)
The expected Socialist successor set to win was DSK, who was head of the International Monetary Fund. He had been dealing with the Chinese (and Indians) in view of changing XYZ to promote a more multi-polar, ‘fairer’, better, more profitable for MANY Int’l banking system. A Globalist .. of some type.
Sex scandal! He was accused of attempted rape of a chambermaid in the Sofitel Hotel, New York, was arrested and imprisoned in Rikers Island. Top F pol, head of IMF, ouch! (DSK had a past reputation of other ‘sex’ stories.) He could no longer stand!
Hollande was propulsed to the top as a ‘safe’ candidate, a future ‘normal’ President (Post the chaotic Sarkozy rule.)
Hollande’s presidency was marred by ‘Islamist’ terrorist attacks (Other story.)
The expected next Pres. was Francois Fillon, a ‘Républicain’, tagged as pro-Russian, from the Chirac mold. (Chirac and Schroeder refused to join the coalition of the willing re. Iraq, > freedom fries, all that.)
Fillon was attacked via a made-up scandal, Penelopegate. He had paid x sums to his wife, to one or two? of his children, for doing ‘work’ that was ridiculous.
True, but elected Parls. in France get a sweet envelope of funds to ‘hire anyone at any time’ for ‘anything’ at all, sugar on the Marie Antoinette cake. Between 1/3 or more of Parls. pay spouses, mistresses, lovers, family members, for ‘work’ that seems insignificant, trivial, or is a real contribution, it has been shown. Fillon got hammered! The MSM demonized him and his wife.
Fillon did not withdraw from the first round. So, enough ‘right-wing’ voters switched from him to Le Pen, ensuring a Macron win. Was all calculated, extremely transparent. Who was behind it – other story.
GB, where Jeremy Corbyn was ‘removed’ for ‘anti-semitism’ is a in many ways a similar story.
And so it goes.
!! Trump insists on ending the ‘War’ in Ukraine, seems very determined. (Mineral ‘deals’ and so on are no guarantee of anything.)
“Thousands of young men, ppl, are dying every week …” – Trump says on some vids. Yes it is total horror.
Meanwhile, children in Gaza are scrabbling in the toxic debris, and will die of starvation.
‘Arab’ peace plan refused:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7vd4pnxx3o
Electricity to Gaza shut off:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/10/what-does-israel-cutting-off-gazas-power-mean
Israel halts food aid:
More:
This is just from the complaisant MSM.
… there’s too much going on, and those were philosophical. Dr D posted.
Yes, you can say that again, Dr D. But this thread is dead I suppose.
Dr. D surpassed his ‘length of post’ today.
He makes some good points but it becomes hard to pick and choose, respond.
On, at top post,
European leaders want ‘forever war’ in Ukraine – Musk
People such as Danish PM Mette Frederiksen don’t want the conflict with Russia to end, the tech tycoon has argued. — from RT.Ridiculous. European ‘leaders’ that is a London-Paris Axis, with Canada Joining (see last summit thingie) have been cleverly manipulated in the past say 40 – 50 years to do the bidding of the US, and those in ‘power’ in the W outside the US are more subservient now than ever.
All oppo has been driven out, discredited, etc. Ex. Jeremy Corbyn, Francois Fillon, Sarah W. in Germany who didn’t make the 5%…etc. Not to mention other ‘corruption’ and ‘deals’ re. Corps…
The Europeans thus fight the good fight for the USA, lackeys who bow down endlessly, thru fear for the most part. (Recall Yugoslavia!) They are terrified of an attack by the US so now will up their attacks on Ukraine, insofar as possible (won’t be able to do much) so will be slowly discredited and let go, or more, as they can’t comply with US demands (e.g. 5% of GDP to US milit cos, taking over the war in UKR with massive troops, young men sent to just die for nothing.…) too bad…
Europe is of course diverse. (The EU no longer plays a role.) Greece, Portugal, Spain, Southern periphery, is another story.
I posted previous that Greenland is not part of the EU, just like Iceland, Norway, the UK, Jersey, Guernsey, Isle of Man. Ireland is the outlier because of its catastrophic relations with Britain, so is rigorously enthusiastically pro-EU (> they have cashed in on various ‘exemptions,’ ‘favors’, etc.) Greenland however is a full member of NATO.
Trump is totally serious about this. It is about shipping lanes, links to the Artic, and more. His last statement to the Full House or whatever it is called is quite clear. Short clip:
He, his team, know Greenland has been making moves towards full independence (from Denmark) -> that it can’t survive independently, -> the US can become the ‘new patron,’ replacing Denmark.
One article on ‘anthropological’ (not *directly* economic) history of Greenland. Feb. 20 2025.
Greenlandic Grievances With Denmark and Trump’s Annexation Plan, J. D. Terwilliger
A very familiar story, colonialist slow ‘domination’ by ‘excusable’ means.
From Top Post, RT reports on Bloomberg piece, re. NatGas.
MSM, left / right oppo, ‘independent analysts,’ so just about everyone, adhered to a mantra that Europe (or the EU) is having to import NLG from the US, that Europe has more or less stopped importing natural gas from Russia (see Nord Stream pipeline blow-up etc.) that German Industry is Being Destroyed, Cos. are moving to the USA!
Wild exaggeration. Gas is just one source of energy, electricity, oil, coal etc. and more are at the top of the flow chart. Setting that aside,
Info. is being manipulated. See for ex. the Swiss European Energy Import Chart (I’m ashamed, really…to be fair it is not Swiss data but taken up from elsewhere..) – like the majority of National sites that track Gas imports it uses the words Europe and EU without distinguishing them.
The title of the first ‘circle’ chart (see at link) is *Gas imports to Europe in recent years.*
The categories include: *Norway* (part of Europe but not the EU), *Russia excluding LNG* (this is mixing up source and type, to show that Russia as a source is less important.) Note, accusations of obfuscation can be explained by blaming a ONE-word error by some dumb intern.
https://energiedashboard.admin.ch/gas/import-europa
There are many far worse exs. around… So?
Figure 5 at link shows EU quarterly imports by source. Post 2022, Russian imports were reduced by between 1/2 and 1/3 (what ‘other LNG’ is Idk?) and have been slowly rising again. USA NLG increased somewhat and then sagged a bit.
https://www.bruegel.org/dataset/european-natural-gas-imports
‘Transits’ from one importing country to another are not tracked. For ex., where did the gas from Azerbaijan to Europe come from? 🙂
The price spike of Nat Gas in Europe WAS very real.
I now better understand this whole mess about the RARE EARTH ‘deals’.
Krainer is informative. 1H 09. https://tinyurl.com/3tjra4ys
However! UKR does not have any rare earths. Found this out consulting Wiki, and then watched,
Kevin W.: 13 mins. https://tinyurl.com/3xuydyef
or see CNN for a short anti-Trump piece:
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/27/politics/trump-ukraine-minerals-doubts-resources/index.html
So it looks like all those who wanted the war to continue (NATO, Zelensky, Brits, etc.) just made this up to create the illusion that the ‘war’ would ‘pay for itself’, there would be PROFIT, a rationale, etc. Then Ze went around touting this selling point.. to the Brits (a vague contract signed), and then to Trump, but Trump didn’t fall for it, turning the ‘agreement’ into a (post peace) ’Reconstruction Investment Fund’ without any ‘security guarantees’, forcing Ze to refuse to sign.
text of the prop (same as I posted before)
https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/articles/2025/02/26/7205922/
Trump, Zelensky, and JD Vance, argue, shout, a bar room brawl without the beer mugs and direct punches.
11 mins at the White House.
Once more, the ‘minerals deal’ is fantastically ridiculous in many ways. Why Trump is pushing this is either distractive bluster, or ‘allowed or encouraged’ stupidity. Both are terrible positions, the real issues are avoided. Now, this type of move isn’t new from Trump, but this one… Oh oh…
The Starmer-Trump presser. Never heard Starmer speak – he comes over like the idiot he is often called, he doesn’t even know how to use diplomatic ‘codes’, talks too much, is stupidly arrogant, posturing for the Gallery, a Russia Hater, etc.
A bad feeling re. the Trump 2 Term. Not that Trump is a ‘worse’ Pres. than Biden, Obama, etc. Rather: a USA trajectory going down a path of destructive actions (internally + foreign policy) that can’t seemingly be ‘corrected – halted’ by anybody. Say, the Deathly Spirall of Empire !USA! (!MAGA!) entails lashing out all over without any clear aims / strategy, floundering around, uncoordinated with others, etc.
Trump, in the vids, clips I watched, is insecure, hesitant, tired, has no clear messages, is confused.
Trump – Starmer, 32 mins.Thanks to Ilargi for posting the relevant shorts of Trumpy and so on.
About the ‘deal’ – some links in prev. thread from zerosum, I read this one:
BILATERAL AGREEMENT ESTABLISHING TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR A RECONSTRUCTION INVESTMENT FUND. Full text, 26 Feb 2025.
https://www.eurointegration.com.ua/eng/articles/2025/02/26/7205922/
Basically a vague, yet to be fleshed out, bi-lateral position paper, it specifies very little. It is not a ‘Memorandum of Understanding’, which has to be more specific, and more binding. Signed only by UKR Econo. Min. and US Scott Bessent.
As moving forward to stop a war, re-build, that is positive, say. Neither party will be constrained by any of the terms, as is to be expected in this situation.
The agreement is not only about ‘minerals’ (I posted previous this focus made no sense) though it seems Trumpy likes to boast about being paid back or some such. It is a partnership agreement between the US – UKR, and the setting up of a **Reconstruction Fund**, controlled by, let’s coin, USukr. (I used to refer to USuk-isr, now outdated..)
An exclusivity clause:
Neither Participant will sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of, directly or indirectly, any portion of its interest in the Fund without the prior written consent of the other Participant.
That doesn’t mean others e.g. Russia can’t join.
The core:
The Government of Ukraine will contribute to the Fund 50 percent of all revenues earned from the future monetization of all relevant Ukrainian Government-owned natural resource assets (whether owned directly or indirectly by the Ukrainian Government), defined as deposits of minerals, hydrocarbons, oil, natural gas, and other extractable materials, and other infrastructure relevant to natural resource assets (such as liquified natural gas terminals and port infrastructure) as agreed by both Participants, as may be further described in the Fund Agreement.
So the Q. is how this Fund works, Post Peace. What will The Fund control, do, use its revenues for, etc. If it holds….
Trump posts on Truth Social a bizarre AI video: GAZA, what’s next?
Lots of symbols packed into 35 secs! Some I saw:
Breasted belly dancers with beards, modelled on Conchita Wurst (of Eurovision fame, Conchita = Conch / cunt, Wurst = Sausage.) The Trump Team certainly did not notice this.
(> Nobody is vetting this stuff.)Musk sort of supervising little children who are grabbing dollar bills coming down from the skies!
The buildings in the background are from Dubai and NY, though some have odd additions, and some, Idk. Add in, a superbly tall sterotypical Mosque tower.
Trumpy and Bibi, buddies, recline in b-suits in front of a pool, imbibing fancy drinks. The sign behind them is a cutesy ref. to *Milo the Cat* and/or some mixed reference to *Hello Kitty.* (between *s goog provides.)
The Gold HU-uge / small statues of Trumpy provide a ‘front blast’ – dominant in yr face message – presumably approved of by Trump-Team, no comment needed.
Hey, what about, The Gaza Plaza? Mar-a-Gaza? The Gazino? (ouch…)
This all looks like light relief, but no….the MSM and the ‘alt media’, thru very clever prop. specially visual, shape attitudes, influence ppl.
As US funding the OUTPOSTS comes under scrutiny,
Report to Congress on U.S. Contributions to International Organizations. Fiscal Year 2023.
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/FY23-Report-to-Congress-on-Contributions-to-IOs.pdf
Scrolling down, note the chart is to the TOP TEN (below that not listed)
Comments, The Word Food Program -> Deserves analysis, whole other story.
The Global Funds to fight AIDS (etc.) is the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which was set up to challenge, undermine, and then control the WHO, in which it succeeded. (I am not defending the WHO.)
Pew Resarch has a summary, all under ‘nice’ labels (which prob. in most cases are unrelated to the real purpose) yet imho informative, and a sort of starting point for anyone who wants to analyze such data … Feb. 2025.
Here, US foreign assistance by country, indicative, possibly it gives some starting points / is a good tool, Idk for now. (?)
So, from several articles up top (ZH, RT, etc.) Zelensky is toast.
He was installed by ‘soft’ US power, in conjunction with some URK oligarchs.
Recall Yushchenko Prez. of UKR (2005-2010), a former top bankster, married at the time to a well-connected Ukrainian – American woman, Katerina, a former US State Departement Official, ex. “Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs.” (this title from wiki.) He was voted in legitimately it seems…The election was contested, opponent was Yanukovitch, it was re-run, and he won again. (European Dreams.)
The Orange Revolution (typical color revol. thingie) was launched, see here for some pix. (Link is prop..)
—> it failed. Yushchenko was poisoned with Dioxin but survived (other story.) In 2010, Yanukovitch, pro balance between Russia and Europe (opponent, Yulia Tymoshenko, the Lady of the Braids) was elected. This election was also contested, but the original result was upheld by ‘Courts.’
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Zelensky (elected 2019) defeated Poroshenko, mostly imho because of his TV-actor role, etc. He is of course Puppet Supreme. So.. we see a long history of infiltration and Kontrol of UKR, and here I have only pointed to POL matters reported on in the MSM, leaving aside all Economics, deals between Corps, and other, which needs deep digs.What actually are the ‘precious’ / ‘rare’ / other / minerals in the UKR that Trumpy now wants to have turned over to him / the US?
Let’s see a list, estimates, etc. The costs of exploitation…and more…Hmm….By now, a bigly (riffing of DT speech) part of E. UKR is not UKR any longer but Russian, as Trumpy has admitted (“UKR will have to make territorial concessions” etc.) So the deal won’t be with URK but with Russia…?
Plus, on the other side of the non-deal, it was Poroshenko (elected in 2014) who annuled laws restricting foreign ownership in UKR of land etc. leading to privatization, probably quite massive, but who knows, I haven’t seen, as looked for without success, any even vaguely accounting or decription of anything about Minerals in whatever territory / mines / expliotations, etc.
Imho all this is Trumpy bluffing usind a ‘transactional’ card, We gotta Be paid Back.
Just 2 links, note I am not pretending to know, understand, this whole story.
Re. upcoming German elections, a quick profile of Alice Weidel, AW, the leader of the AFD.
(All > public knowlege, Wiki, MSM articles, etc.)
AW’s background, it need not matter, is ‘Christian’ though she calls herself agnostic. She has a grandfather who was a Nazi, etc. She went to an Xtian Highschool and has +++ Degrees in Economics.
She has worked for (from Wiki, I didn’t know..) Goldman Sachs Asset Management, the Bank of China for 6 years, then as VP of Allianz Global Investors. Next, as a freelance Biz. consultant, and for *Rocket Internet* (into internet Biz) + other.
Alice ‘lives’ in Switzerland – yet her official residence is in Germany – as she is openly lesbian and in a civil partnership with another woman, Sarah Bossard (typical Swiss name, a film maker), who is from Sri Lanka orginally. They have two children. AW publically states that she supports the traditional family (one ma, one pa, etc.) but exceptions should be made.
She is a rabid Zionist and violently anti-Muslim. It is said (have not checked this so prob an exageration) .. that she has called for all Muslims to be deported from Germany.
*SOME* of her mains stances.
Interdicting minarets, interdicting veils, burkas, no social AID for such immigrants, and the like (the enemy within, newest version.) No unemployment pay for immigrants, until they have worked for 10 years. Expulsion of (xyz..) immigrants. Etc.
NATO to be replaced with a European Force.
Gaz imports from Russia to be re-instated, resume. ( > Tear down wind turbines.)
Building new Nuclear Power Stations.
Instoring obligatory military service.
one pic of her with wifey, https://tinyurl.com/3wfacf7y
Truly fascinating to see such a mix of opporunistic, ‘modren’ appeals in one or another direction. Note, Meloni and Milei were invited to the Trump inauguration, but she wasn’t.
Re. the last thread > Formerly T-Bear, Happy Birthday.
You used to post on Moon of Alabama, iirc ? I posted there for years, when I saw your name here, I thought, heh, that’s good 🙂
all the best, Noirette.
on GOLD, Rand Paul, Fort Knox. (at top post.)
Gordon Brown + Gold was a Huge Scandal back in the day — Idk what really took place.
In 1999, one of the most significant and controversial financial decisions in British history took place. The Labour Party, under Chancellor Gordon Brown, initiated the sale of nearly half of the United Kingdom’s gold reserves at a time when gold prices were near a multi-decade low. This sale, now infamously referred to as “Brown’s Bottom,” was carried out at what would soon be recognised as the very bottom of the gold market, just before the precious metal’s price rallied for the following decade.
The decision to sell 395 tonnes of gold has sparked endless debates, conspiracies, and criticism over the years. From accusations of market manipulation to concerns over the decision’s political motives, the story behind the UK’s gold sale is a complex one. Below, we explore the reasons behind the sale, the controversy surrounding it, and the broader implications that continue to resonate as we look to explain the real reason Brown sold the Gold.https://auronum.co.uk/the-browns-bottom-gold-sale/
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999%E2%80%932002_sale_of_United_Kingdom_gold_reserves
WES my friend I didn’t think you were attacking me I was just taking off from what you wrote, which I agree with 90%.
May we live in interesting times! 😉
WES posted, Europe is A CIA Construct:
Trump’s real battle with Europe is against the CIA. After WW2, the CIA rebuilt Europe’s political structures, such that only CIA approved politicians rose to power. The current EU political structure is all CIA built. Noticed all the top EU political positions are selected, not elected. Typical CIA handiwork. So now Trump needs to destroy the CIA’s current hold over European politicians.
So when Macron says Ukraine must have a seat at the negotiating table, he really means the CIA must have a seat at the table to sabotage any peace talks. When Germany says they “suddenly” need to declare an emergency, it is because peace might break out instead of war!
Just what the CIA would say! So view every EU politician as a CIA agent! Then everything they say, will suddenly start to make sense!
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Idk re. the CIA. After WWII, which was lost by anti-Russian forces e.g. Germany – the US only joined in when the loss was plain to see, it shifted to the ‘winning’ side.
Around 1955, the USA judged the European patch-work was tiresome, difficult to manage, some ‘small’ countries could act / legislate / opine / go their own way / fight each other for what ? / etc.
A ‘Federation’ under Central Kontrol by the US was set up. The impulse for creating the EU was a Customs Union (that is, free trade pact, which all big Cos. wanted), and it went on from there.
Now, today, as the US retrenches to become a Superbly Dominant Regional Power (see decl. re Mexico, Greenland, etc.) it jettisons the far-off Vassals who are of no use, no interest, fools who were exploited.
WES in resp. to me (Noirette) – the author is Yanis V., about Trump’s economic program / aims.
I try my best to poke holes in the author’s/Trump’s logic.
Trump wants to be able to have his cake and eat it too.
Trump will be partly successful.
Yes, I also *sorta* concluded something like that. Trump is going for ‘broke’, the path has many pitfalls, it is risky, let’s recall Trump is a showman, a business man, he is dealing with World FIN Matters like some BigBiz Mogul, he can fire Directors and Managers, he can close subsidiaries, gut outposts by refusing return, insult / punish his competitors, and so on. One can just see him slamming down an old phone on its cradle, shouting WE ARE F DONE – bang. 🙂 When things go wrong, he can fix-meld-re-orient etc. (Leaving aside military threats / might.)
https://unherd.com/2025/02/why-trumps-tariffs-are-a-masterplan/
TRUMP – TARIFS – THREATS, which he uses to coerce others to agree to some concessions, to bow down to the US, etc. work somewhat. Threats are made, concessions follow, punishment is dialed down, etc. *Claro*
Not a fan of Economic ‘Science’ – imho it is superficial, poltically driven, and ‘prescriptive’, always tailored to favor those in power.
Yanis Varoufakis makes a case for Trumpy ‘plotting an anti-Nixon shock.’
One sentence from the last pargraph, which rings true.
Suddenly Trump will have to betray either his own tribe of outraged financiers and realtors or the working class that elected him.
worth a read,
https://unherd.com/2025/02/why-trumps-tariffs-are-a-masterplan/
I listened to VANCE at the Munich Security Conf.
POV from CH.
He berated the Europeans for their lack of adherence to Free Speech and Free Religion (ex. ppl praying in public being arrested in GB), and their stance on Open Migration (if one can call it that.)
He accused them of denying DEMOCRACY, citing the ex. of the Cancellation of the Romanian Presidential Election Results. He emphasised that ‘Security Threats’ (whatever… ) are *internal* and not *external.* He spoke as a Supremo Leader to befuddled minions.
Of course all this accusatory discourse from Vance and the puzzled dismayed reactions of the audience don’t spell out in clear words what is really going on. (E.g in the ME, in the Artic, in Sudan.)
Vance singled out the GB as ‘bad’. 19 mins.
Note that Musk viciously attacked Keir Starmer some time ago, about the Grooming Gangs, practically accusing Stramer of covering up the /***/ depths of depravity.
The Special Relationship is toast. What exactly that means is open for now.
On Vance, mentioned at top post.
His first foreign visit was to PARIS at an AI summit.
Watch the first part, below, his 4 points. Very domineering.
The US will be the BIG BOSS. The US will not accept any ‘briding’ of US cos. We will collaborate with (implied…) those who accept our supremacy…He was very agressive, forceful, overall (imho), interesting, as it is about AI, and not, say, about Movie Copyrights, Women’s Rights, or whatever.
Project UKR is being abandoned by the US, and ‘supposedly’ turned over to the Europeans.
(Who won’t do anything much except whine, how that all turns out, other topic.)
Russia! bis, bis! emanated from Great Britain, obsessed since at least 200 years about the Russkies, and was taken up by the US Democrats, e.g. Trump elected first time round by Russian interference, or some other such fantastic nonsense.
The Christopher Steele Dossier, other info supporting same, was all made up out of whole cloth, by Brits essentially, then embraced by the Dems, or maybe paid for from the start, Idk.
At the beginning of Trump’s first term it was clear that his strategy was to make ‘deals’ with / accept as a ‘partner’ -> Russia. To split it away from China, integrate it into the EU, the Atlantic ‘sphere.’
Updated 2025 version. UKR will not be allowed to join NATO, will not be able to conserve its 2014 borders (Hegseth speech), must give up territory, and “pay back” the HUUGE investments the US put in via furnishing ‘rare earths’ to the US. (Trump decl., rather fanciful) Russia is rehabilitated, a rump Ukr can well who knows ***.
Re. Feb. 8 posts, DBS and Dr. D Rich. responses. I didn’t mention Jews because I don’t see the world conflicts in terms of ‘religion’ or ‘religious belonging’ or some vague def. like ‘ethnicity.’
That doesn’t mean that adhering to some kind of ‘tribe’ / ‘in-group’ / ‘branded identity’/ plays no role in Intl. Affairs, or that various ‘groups’ don’t use such ‘belonging’ to attract ppl, to further what they esteem are their interests.
(below, info from Wiki.)
For ex. re. Jews, all of Joe Biden’s children are married to Jews. Hunter’s first marriage is an exception, was to a Catholic Kathleen.
Jared Kushner, husband of Ivanka Trump, we all know about him.
What does all that mean?
> Money and Influence is flowing back and forth between Isr. and the USA. None of these ppl adhere to any ‘Religion’ in the sense of believing in, observing, any religious tenets, practices, etc.
DBS posted, prev. The USAID scandal is not handled until the Zionist/AIPAC control of USAID is broken …… and that’s not even close to happening yet. Our Executive Branch is chock full of Zionists/AIPAC loyalists. (…)
They intend only to take down the other side’s use of USAID money and power, and fully intend to keep the rest of that juice for themselves. What they intend to use that juice for is the zillion dollar question that’s foremost in everyone’s minds.
Yes. The US-Isr relation is symbiotic in its money-churning, back to US pols and others. But the upper hand is held by the US, as Trump showed the world when he said Isr. would give Gaza to the US. Re. your q., well we will have to see.
Further. DBS. I suppose that it’s possible that Israel is the greatest friend that the United States ever had. (…) But I would sure love to see some tangible evidence of what they have ever done for us that earned them that much friendship. What have they given us? Hollywood? The USS Liberty? (…) If it’s a reason that we can’t actually see then I reckon that it’s a reason that we don’t yet know about. I just have to wonder what that reason is.
Kicking in some open doors, you know all this DBS, Isr. was set up by GB and then taken over by the US as a small but VITAL ‘foothold’ ‘outpost’ ‘landing station’ adjacent to the ME, to act as a disruptor, a potential threat to Arab States (plus others like Iran), an emissary if one wills, a perpetual thorn in the foot of the regional powers, creating strife, doing violent excursions (‘war’).. taking sides, preventing any agreements, keeping going the issue of the Palestinians, etc.
Isr. fulfilled its ‘mandate’ to remain viable, sweet money flowing to the PTB and its ‘citizens’ and that all continues to this day!
At some point such a system cracks and breaks down. The vassal isn’t ‘getting the job done’, isn’t performing right, etc. The ppl who live there clumsily turn against their Gvmt. and many leave. Enemies make inroads, etc.
Being a ‘friend’ of the USA is a perilous position. Isr (imho) is getting close to some ‘crisis.’
Trump and Gaza (> prev. thread)
Trumpy: Everyone could live there, the new GAZA will be TOPS.
He is decribing a ‘rich’ (by what means, other q) society with ‘wonderful’ characteristics, close, infact, to a ‘one-state solution’ .. A kinda ME Riviera, a *magnificent* (his word) place, where harmony and turbo-market-economy reign. Pals can live there too! It’s for everyone! 🙂
Trump seems to be articulating an Utopian vision for ME ‘Peace’ which can be built with coordination, investment (from the US, prob. not too much, perhaps KSA might pay a lot, one possibility, about that Idk), as he did previously repeatedly with for ex. the Abraham Accords, attempting to normalise all relations. He has said many times in many ways that this ‘conflict’ – between jews and arabs in the tiny ‘Israel’ – has to end.
How to achieve it is another q….
The US threatening to take over Gaza signals to Israel an end of their own attempted territorial expansion. The Master Comes In and Orders!
Now, the US is taking over Lebanon (see Embassy build..) as a second ‘outpost’ as Isr. may collapse.
At the same time Trump is trying to organise, force, the re-location of 1.5 or more million Palestians to Jordan, Egypt, elsewhere. In camps! Tents in the Desert!
What happens next to them is not spelled out….as the F say, à suivre…
* ! Tariff Riff ! * -> Trumpy saying Tariffs are the most Beautiful Word in the dictionary. 30 secs:
The tariffs stuff … Bluster, threats, to make others capitulate on this or that (e.g. tariffs on Canada halted for 30 days…etc.) are regular Trumpy tactics. Yet, all these shenanigans are bound to raise prices for goods in the US, particularly affecting the poorest (possibly nobody cares about them) yet also middle-class Trumpy supporters.
Brian Berlectic, US tariffs pave the way for war with China. Makes good points. 27 mins.
See also, at top post. “UK hoping to buy its way out of Trump tariffs..” shows how some hope to appease the US and escape tariffs by buying more (paying more..) to the US for arms etc. That is win-win for the US.
On, *Ukraine has lost* at top post.
Yes. The ‘Maidan’ fakey Revol. to install Zelensky was engineered by the US after a consequent ‘infiltration’ program, which cost quite a lot.
The split between the pro-W in UKR (Nazis some of them, other story) and the East, the ‘Donbass’ (the richer and more productive part, more aligned with the ex-USSR) was created, supported, provoked, by the US (+ stooge W) via Center Kontrol (Kiev) Gvmt. Attacks on the Donbass by Kiev were a supposed ‘Civil War’ – No.
A Proxy war, with the UKR used as a fooled Dupes. Many knew (at top levels) that UKR, no matter what the support, could not win against Russia, once it decided to act. Sacrificing the UKR population became just ‘normal biz’ for some.
(Recall the hysteria in the W following the seemingly effortless re-taking of Crimea by Russia, no longer mentioned at all.)
Trump Says He Wants Ukraine To Guarantee Access To Rare Earth Minerals in Exchange for Military Aid. The ART OF THE DEAL! Something positive has to be conjured up…
Feb 3 2025. https://tinyurl.com/y9v37xhy
On, Stop the Nonsense and Confirm Tulsi Gabbard. (at top post.)
This article is a sort of semi-rebuttal of the arguments AGAINST a Tulsi ‘nomination’, and is in strong support of what Trumpy is doing. Excerpts:
The American intelligence world is arrogant, wayward, and in dire need of reform. That is precisely why President Trump chose former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a longtime critic of these agencies, to be his director of national intelligence.
So what are the criticisms, objections, etc. to Tulsi that need to be shot down?
…one of the top smears against Gabbard is the same one brought against Trump eight years ago: the wild claim that Tulsi Gabbard is a “Russian asset.” Just like the attack on Trump (…) Gabbard supported military aid to Ukraine prior to the country’s invasion in 2022. She called Putin a U.S. adversary.
Yes, about Putin ‘adversary.’ A red herring meant to confuse, Tulsi was never seriously believed to be a Russkie Asset by anyone in the know. Another is her visit to Syria, quote:
It’s another lie – Gabbard has been saying she believes Assad used chemical weapons for more than five years.
(It’s more complicated. She denied parts of the official narr.)
Tulsi has turned radically pro-Israel and anti ‘Islamists’. Ex. 8 months ago:
Tulsi Gabbard: Pro-Palestinian protesters are ‘puppets’ of ‘radical Islamist organization’ | Cuomo. Vid 5 mins.
She herself is a ‘Puppet’ now fully accepted in the ‘Deep State.’
US attractive populist figures always denounce one war / some X war / false intell / bad if heartfelt alliances / poor strategies / etc. etc…to then go all out on a New War.
This one, which Tulsi will support HARD, will be against Iran. She is already making noises about that (Afaik.)
Post re. prev. thread. which failed..
Oroboros, heh, about Musk, cars, etc. whatever, 🙂
Car sales by various Cos. go up and down, that isn’t meaningful, as ‘Brands’, ‘Cos’ are owned by Higher Conglomerates, shareholders, World Wide, etc. All big producers of cars are multi-national, in the sense that parts, materials for parts, are produced all over the world, fashioned all over, assembled here and there in function of labor costs, taxes, market take-up, etc. As you know…
PEAK CAR is a reality. Lots of info around,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_car
For Europe,
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352146517307445
Analyses using diff. measures (miles travelled, money spent on car, new car sales, second hand car sales, etc.) sort of jell around Peak Car in 2017, World.
China an exception… anyways this is a complicated topic, heh.
thx for the Medieval Keith Richards, nice.
Greenland is not part of the EU. It left after a Referendum.
Iceland, Norway, Jersey and Guernsey, and since Brexit, the UK are not part of the EU. Ireland is the exception here, trad. strongly pro-Europe, pro-EU,understandable, damn those Murderous Brit Colonisers…
From top post,
EU Military Chief Wants Troops In Greenland (RT):
The European Union should deploy military forces in Greenland, the chairman of the EU Military Committee (EUMC), Gen. Robert Brieger, said in an interview published Saturday. He cited Greenland’s geopolitical importance and “tensions” with Russia and China as the reason for his suggestion.
Why would the EU control / defend a non-EU country? Humanitarian stuff, hmmm.
–> Greenland is a full member of NATO. Should the US ‘attack’ or ‘control’ Greenland, that would be a NATO country subjugating another one, thru force of arms, intimidation, or more. One other reason for Trump to quit – disband – nullify, NATO.
I guess all these ‘accords’, signed pacts, security guarantees, are now just immaterial, part of the Past.
From RT at top post. In recent weeks, Trump has expressed ambitions to expand US territory and showed interest in annexing Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal.
“We might be an enlarged country pretty soon,” Trump said in a speech in Las Vegas on Saturday.
https://swentr.site/news/611637-trump-teases-us-expansion/
A kind of emulation of Putin, “We need Ukraine for our security” -> Expansionism is the name of the game! (To grab ressource, other, whatever…)
The Trumpy-USA-MAGA faction is trying to loot the Allies, re-colonise the ‘dependent areas’, eating up and commanding the Nearby Vassals, assuming Kontrol where that might just fly, as no resistance .. (e.g. Germany..)
Soft Power is flipped into Hard Power, as the Hegemon flounders about.
DBS rant, prev. thread, snip:
The chance of building and operating a world spanning full spectrum surveillance state with data collection and AI processing centers costing TENS OF TRILLIONS of presently non-existent money is precisely ZERO (…) … has as much chance of actually happening as does the chance of Elon Musk running an interplanetary self-driving Uber service to Mars and back for hundreds of thousands of billionaire space cadets.
Advances in technology have always been used to control ppl. Family story, my ancient-grand-uncle (born before WW1), a sporty bicycle enthusiast, travelled all over Europe, in his breast pocket a ‘laissez-passer’ which was a handwritten and stamped document from his country Authorities, testifiying he was an honorable person and was to be accorded ‘passage’ and respect — worked fine.
When mass photography became ‘cheap’, everyone had to have a ‘passport’ with a photo, the State(s) took control of that.
The last time I went to renew my Swiss Passport I had to go into a creepy booth to have pix of my Iris taken, this was the new *bio-metric standard* !
See also, Finger-printing (USA) has an interesting history.
Identifying individuals and tracking them has become an obsession linked to control, as the digital infrastructure affords staggering, incredible, opportunities. Ultimately doomed imho, other story.
