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#51

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Jacob - December 10, 2025, 04:51:26 PM

Stop right now please, unless Maduro coughs up the protection money soon, the war will start. I want to discuss that not have the 145th Israel debate

You think the Trump admin is going to wag the dog with a war in Venezuela to distract from the shitty economy?

#52

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Savonarola - December 10, 2025, 04:35:57 PM

Yet another casualty in the War on Woke:

Rubio orders return to Times New Roman font over 'wasteful' Calibri

Good night, sweet Calibri,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

Comic Sans MS might be more appropriate for this administration.

#53

Off the Record / Re: Brexit and the waning days...

Last post by Tamas - December 10, 2025, 04:33:33 PM

This is the stuff where human rights organisations seem out of touch not just witb the zeitgeist bit rational thinking as well: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec/10/keir-starmer-hierarchy-of-people-constraining-human-rights

This "risk of creating hierarchy of people" thing/ the entire idea of nation states or heck even tribes or families is based on creating a hierarchy. The state IS supposed to prefer the interests of its own citizens over non-citizens. It's basic stuff.

#54

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Razgovory - December 10, 2025, 04:31:40 PM

Well, the " wink-wink neo Nazis" and Hamas broadly have the same goals.

One of them is now confined to handful of square miles and regularly pummeled by the IDF.

The other is running the most powerful nation on earth and the one in which I live. 

If only they didn't have support of hundreds of millions of people across the globe...

#55

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Tamas - December 10, 2025, 04:25:57 PM

Stop right now please, unless Maduro coughs up the protection money soon, the war will start. I want to discuss that not have the 145th Israel debate

#56

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by The Minsky Moment - December 10, 2025, 04:13:45 PM

Well, the " wink-wink neo Nazis" and Hamas broadly have the same goals.

One of them is now confined to handful of square miles and regularly pummeled by the IDF.

The other is running the most powerful nation on earth and the one in which I live. 

#57

Off the Record / Re: The EU thread

Last post by The Minsky Moment - December 10, 2025, 04:11:18 PM

So apparently the US National Security Strategy calls for:

• Pulling Poland, Austria, Hungary, and Italy away from the EU.
• Forming a new grouping of countries - the C5 - consisting of the US, Russia, India, China, and Japan as an alternative to the G7 (and unconstrained by G7 rules).

Link here: https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/12/10/fuller-version-of-trump-security-strategy-reportedly-calls-for-pulling-poland-away-from-eu/

It's a Russian wet dream.  An English translation and touch up of something that could have come right out of the Kremlin.

The idea of Russia being of the world's five powers steering the global economy is utterly laughable; their economy is barely larger than to Mexico. It's smaller than Canada.

The US national security establishment has become a straight-up mouthpiece for Kremlin propaganda.  It's heartbreaking to see.

#58

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by Razgovory - December 10, 2025, 04:06:29 PM

It's not exactly a good situation for anyone other than people who want to see Islam come to dominate the world.

First Crusade did a bang-up job of keeping Islam down.  Also of murdering every Jew in their path.  I'm not comforted.

As far as I'm concerned using the Jerusalem Cross this way is little different from putting a swastika on US military uniforms. 

I don't buy that the only choice is to accept the wink-wink neo Nazis or go full Hamas.  There is a real middle ground between those two poles.

Well, the " wink-wink neo Nazis" and Hamas broadly have the same goals.

#59

Off the Record / Re: The EU thread

Last post by Crazy_Ivan80 - December 10, 2025, 03:55:32 PM

Much depends to what extent our politicians are capable of taking the big decisions rather than cucking themselves for the  orange utang in the white house.

Playtime is over, but much of Europe (and that includes its citizens) doesn't seem to have gotten the memo.

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Beware the Europe You Wish For
The Downsides and Dangers of Allied Independence
Celeste A. Wallander
July/August 2025
Published on June 24, 2025

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/redeem/JZlfvFLrdKA

hopefully this works

#60

Off the Record / Re: What does a TRUMP presiden...

Last post by The Minsky Moment - December 10, 2025, 03:55:28 PM

It's not exactly a good situation for anyone other than people who want to see Islam come to dominate the world.

First Crusade did a bang-up job of keeping Islam down.  Also of murdering every Jew in their path.  I'm not comforted.

As far as I'm concerned using the Jerusalem Cross this way is little different from putting a swastika on US military uniforms. 

I don't buy that the only choice is to accept the wink-wink neo Nazis or go full Hamas.  There is a real middle ground between those two poles.