What we have here is a kind of a deal where Trump's gotta realize that just
because he four-putted the 18th green, for God's sake, you know he's not allowed to
be pissed off at Putin. That's what it comes to. That was Sunday after the golf game with Lindsey Graham and the Finnish president urging Trump to do the kinds of things that Trump is trying to NOT do with respect to Putin.
Hegseth: “…deterring communist Chinese military aggression…”
Pot calling the kettle black much? And where is this Chinese aggression? The Taiwan straits? Tensions were low there before both Trump 1.0 and Biden started stirring the pot.
ack then, the enemy was a virus; today, the enemy is Russia, but the protagonists of the drama all report for work to the same bosses, the people who control the too-big-to-fail financial institutions. Take, for example Germany’s newly elected Chancellor: he used to be the chairman of the board of BlackRock for Germany. BlackRock happens to have very extensive investments in Ukraine.
My gut feeling is Vance is more nuanced on Globalism.
Vance now seems anti Ukraine, anti Yemen debacle, anti Europe, anti censorship, and pro tariffs. Globalists are pro all that.
Trumps focus is on rebuilding the U.S. economy, and Vance besides his high tech supporters, has a focus on Americans left behind that are in horrible shape.
Pro Zionist - unfortunately it’s political suicide in U.S. politics, except for rare exceptions, to be anything else. It’s safest to stay out of the viciousness of internal Israeli politics, while Israel implodes. Paying lip service with antisemitism is our biggest focus, etc (Kash Patel), makes strategic sense. While more important areas get worked on.
1. We no longer really have a "coast guard"--it's gone global. We use the Coast Guard to irritate countries thousands of miles away from the US coast. Imagine this--the US Coast Guard transiting the Taiwan Strait, and other such global antics, instead of--think about this concept--guarding the US coast. Yes, that's the reality.
2. I'm no expert--not close--but my guess is that neither Canada nor Finland are able to quickly build Arctic capable icebreakers. Finland, in particular, has no port on the Arctic Sea, so I presume its icebreakers are built to operate in the far friendlier Baltic Sea and similar waters. I strongly suspect that Finnish icebreakers won't enable the US to compete with Russia in the Arctic.
As for Canada, name one port of any significance in the Canadian Arctic. There aren't any, which is why Canada's icebreakers can't really compete with the Russian ones--which are nuclear powered. Canada has never needed icebreakers of that sort because its icebreakers are largely used to clear its major ports--which are not near the Arctic region--whereas the Russians have long had that need because they do have major ports in the Arctic.
"Getting an accurate count of exactly how many icebreakers there are in the world is challenging, due to the fact that “icebreaker” is a much more ambiguous term than “frigate” or “submarine.” Which ships should count largely comes down to a source’s interpretation and context."
"During the winter months, most of the CCG’s icebreakers are based in southeastern Canada where they ensure that the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River remain accessible to vessels. During the summer season, typically between May and October, the fleet is deployed to the Canadian Arctic."
maybe NYT trying to blow up any ceasefire or negotiations with disclosures like this
eg: US identified target ( UA did not ask for it much less know about it ) US identified the RU defenses, created the plan (# of drones) charted the flight to avoid defenses - UA basically just turned the drones on -
"Longstanding policy barred the C.I.A. from providing intelligence on targets on Russian soil. So the administration would let the C.I.A. request “variances,” carve-outs authorizing the spy agency to support strikes inside Russia to achieve specific objectives.
Intelligence had identified a vast munitions depot in the lakeside town of Toropets, some 290 miles north of the Ukrainian border, that was providing weapons to Russian forces in Kharkiv and Kursk. The administration approved the variance. Toropets would be a test of concept.
C.I.A. officers shared intelligence about the depot’s munitions and vulnerabilities, as well as Russian defense systems on the way to Toropets. They calculated how many drones the operation would require and charted their circuitous flight paths.
On Sept. 18, a large swarm of drones slammed into the munitions depot. The blast, as powerful as a small earthquake, opened a crater the width of a football field. Videos showed immense balls of flame and plumes of smoke rising above the lake.
not 50 % US 50 % UA we share info and responsibility and planning
but in fact 95 % US 5 % UA on most of any successes
I am certain Putin will use this article to his advantage at home
and diplomatically internationally
NYT basically saying,.... ' the Only reason for UA failures was UA did not do what the US told them to - US provided the target, the weapons and instructions/coordinates ' the idiots only had to do what the US said to do
" Yet as with the Kerch Bridge operation, the drone collaboration pointed to a strategic dissonance.
The Americans argued for concentrating drone strikes on strategically important military targets — the same sort of argument they had made, fruitlessly, about focusing on Melitopol during the 2023 counteroffensive. But the Ukrainians insisted on attacking a wider menu of targets, including oil and gas facilities and politically sensitive sites in and around Moscow (though they would do so without C.I.A. help). "
I didn't see the NBC interview. Whatever Trump said is one 'blip' on the radar observatory of the globe. A lot of other things have been moving toward positive goals stated, albeit in terribly confusing blips of reported actions, continuing efforts, and staying the 'reset' course. I can't give up on Trump yet; but the puppet strings that have been tightened on the President are observable in national security, above all other policy areas. There is no domestic policy because everything is tangential to foreign policy--and who is paying to control that?
The Anglo-Zionists in the ages-old financial houses are the controlling underwriters of military/defense/infrastructure hardware, of big agriculture and transportation systems, and of health care/pharmaceutical industries, and of information technologies for block chain media distribution and social engagement.
Trump's modus operandi as being a chaotic mental tornado is truly natural to him---but he controls his Planned Objectives by this very ruse. Whether Trump has 'minders' over his puppet strings of a philosophical, or mere monetary sort, Trump is accustomed to the strings. I pray, seriously I pray, that Trump remembers that neither he nor his puppet masters are in charge; and that Trump finds the courage to right the ship of the U.S.A. by doing only what is right.
People act as if US foreign policy forms like a cloud in the president’s head, in reality it forms in think tanks arriving at consensus among powerful special interests before being sent to Washington with lobbyists to attract support from BOTH sides of the aisle. (BRIAN BERLETIC)
agreed I am 100 % certain as my speculation that eg: groups like Blackrock and eg: multiple colleges and other institutions, invested extensively in Ukraine farmland before and during the early 2022 years, and now are in a panic that investments is all gone to waste. I am most convinced they are riding Trump for US protection of their foolish investment.
Yeah, Bannon was going on about this a week or two ago. That deserved big eyerolls. But now Trump is repeating this bullshit. Do they WANT to tear the country apart?
Trump is creating chaff on the Ukraine/ Russia War negotiations.
Trump has to appear kinda sympathetic to Ukraine due to all the pro Ukraine forces in the US. But, Trump is continuing to move away from Ukraine and its European supporters. I view it as tacking back and forth, while separating the U.S. from the Ukraine tar baby. And Zelensky with his anti Trump responses is helping this process tremendously. As is Europe with their out of touch Russia responses.
My guess Trumps real focus is domestic, while he try’s to keep Ukraine, Yemen, Iran, and Israel from derailing his domestic agenda.
Truthfully, I don’t understand the why of the U.S. actions under Trump in Yemen. The danger of U.S. casualties I would guess outweighs the possible gains.
God knows, AC. Maybe I'm being unfair but I get that Bondi feeling when I listen to her. Talking tough but not taking the hard decisions. When Brent Scowcroft was National Security Advisor under Bush senior, the first thing he did was to sack nearly all of the intelligence staff from the previous regime. Gabbard should be doing the same. Same goes for Patel at the FBI.
Because it’s theatre in the already predetermined arena of globalism? The rejigging of national identities, civil rights and the extermination of the middle class - which the population would not go along with willingly, unless threatened by gun- err, nuke point. Together with the destruction of food sources people are about to be forced onto their knees, begging for merci….and many are there already, or are lying on their backs. The masses now need to be awoken from their apathy to consent to what is about to unfold on stage, where the globalist wrestling team are toasting each other.
It's not a matter of masses "needing to be awoken from their apathy." I'm wide awake. What am I supposed to do, sit on my porch with a rifle? I was wide awake when the "British Commonwealth" Canadian truckers had their bank accounts frozen for failing to "consent" to globalist rules. The donation I sent the truckers from the US was also frozen.
How do you define "kinetic?" My point is that American citizens en masse are powerless and defenseless. The only solution is for US to be broken up into 4 separate countries without allegiance to the Pentagon. Southwest states could join with Mexico--that's what's being forced on us anyway.
If you were the masses the world would be in a better place and you’d have company on your porch, susan. At the time of the convoy all it took was for the majority to ‘say NO’. Instead I got fingered often flying the national flag on my truck.
NBC is playing to their diminished audience of mentally disturbed progressives. They are attempting to rev up the dictator accusation so, they take to the streets.
As I said, in a comment yesterday, Trump in two months has squandered all of the goodwill he had coming into office. In record time he has just about blown all of his political capital.
I think what we’re seeing in real time is the implosion of his presidency already.
His obsession with Russia, Iran, and tariffs are doing him in. For our person who ran as a peace candidate, he has done them 180 on that and now seems committed to a path to war with Iran and by extension Russia, perhaps even China. I can only see a disastrous foreign policy that he is trying to follow devoid of logic and common sense.
Threatening Russia with more tariffs and sanctions means nothing to them. They’ve been dealing with that kind of stuff for 80 years since the Cold War. Trump doesn’t understand that Russia is building on its relationship relationship with China and BRICS, and has pivoted East, the real growth for the next 50 to hundred years will be in Eurasia. Russia doesn’t need the west.
At the rate he is going he will lose control of the house in the Senate in 2026. We will essentially have grid lock government at that point and Trump will not get any meaningful legislation pass for his domestic agenda.
It’s obvious he has made some terrible choices for some of his top appointments and cabinet positions and some of these people need to be replaced now not later
A State Senate seat in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania was recently flipped to democrats--which shocked even the democrats. The seat had been held by GOP for decades, district was Trump +15 in Nov. 2024. The GOP candidate who lost was strongly pro-Trump. GOP deserved to lose. Lancaster County residents have pressing problems. Elon campaigned for Trump in Pa. and recognized their concerns.
Exactly. This is becoming tragic and embarrassing. His presidency was a chance to change so many things for the better. He could use his time to carve out a new place for America in a multipolar world which maintained a lot of its traditional strengths but built new more fruitful relations with the other major players. Instead he faces being bypassed and boycotted on the international scene, and even worse, being seen as a hostile actor. And this is only 3 months in.
Hegseth regurgitating DJT's thoughts and threats: "deterring communist Chinese military aggression" by beefing up US bases in Japan to "warrior" status is scary AND loony.
Jimmy: "There’s only one country with bases around the world that goes looking for wars."
And--pointing to map of Iran and surrounding countries that are loaded with US military bases, saying in jest--"What are they doing putting their country in the middle of all our military bases?"
I recommend the entire video to you...includes video of Trump 1.0 vs. Trump 2.0, and Tulsi 1.0 vs Tulsi. 2.0 on the topic of Yemen.
‘…US Forces Japan would become a “war-fighting headquarters,”…’
ANOTHER Wiesbaden. And in the aftermath - ‘Japanese generals wouldn’t listen to us and THAT’S why they lost us the war.’
LOL!
Ray McGovern with good advice this morning:
What we have here is a kind of a deal where Trump's gotta realize that just
because he four-putted the 18th green, for God's sake, you know he's not allowed to
be pissed off at Putin. That's what it comes to. That was Sunday after the golf game with Lindsey Graham and the Finnish president urging Trump to do the kinds of things that Trump is trying to NOT do with respect to Putin.
In the interest of fairness, here's a most positive article about Trump from VDH. https://www.zerohedge.com/political/victor-davis-hanson-how-donald-trump-reshaping-america-just-7-weeks
Hegseth: “…deterring communist Chinese military aggression…”
Pot calling the kettle black much? And where is this Chinese aggression? The Taiwan straits? Tensions were low there before both Trump 1.0 and Biden started stirring the pot.
Chicom aggression = Chinese economic competition, which we want to solve by military means.
LEGALLY BLIND THUS CAPS
ALEX KRAINER TODAY...SUBSTACK
ack then, the enemy was a virus; today, the enemy is Russia, but the protagonists of the drama all report for work to the same bosses, the people who control the too-big-to-fail financial institutions. Take, for example Germany’s newly elected Chancellor: he used to be the chairman of the board of BlackRock for Germany. BlackRock happens to have very extensive investments in Ukraine.
Small world and obviously just a coincidence.
Sounds like just another conspiracy theory, misinformation or disinformation.
Just like the French President worked for the Rothchilds.
Or the Canadian prime minister was the head of the Bank of England.
Or another country, France, is jailing a presidential candidate, and blocking them from running.
Vance is a known globalist and pro- Zionist. I hardly think he would counsel Trump in that fashion.
My gut feeling is Vance is more nuanced on Globalism.
Vance now seems anti Ukraine, anti Yemen debacle, anti Europe, anti censorship, and pro tariffs. Globalists are pro all that.
Trumps focus is on rebuilding the U.S. economy, and Vance besides his high tech supporters, has a focus on Americans left behind that are in horrible shape.
Pro Zionist - unfortunately it’s political suicide in U.S. politics, except for rare exceptions, to be anything else. It’s safest to stay out of the viciousness of internal Israeli politics, while Israel implodes. Paying lip service with antisemitism is our biggest focus, etc (Kash Patel), makes strategic sense. While more important areas get worked on.
Hey Ray, I always respect your opinion.
Thanks!
It’s a lot of swags. I’m not sure what is true, the more I learn, the more uncertain I feel. The world is full of strange stuff.
Alex C says Trump just played golf with Finnish leader who hates Putin.
Icebreakers - us needs them asap to compete in the Arctic, and Finland can build them fast and cheaply, unlike the U.S.
https://amuseonx.substack.com/p/dei-at-sea-why-the-coast-guard-still?
Two things.
1. We no longer really have a "coast guard"--it's gone global. We use the Coast Guard to irritate countries thousands of miles away from the US coast. Imagine this--the US Coast Guard transiting the Taiwan Strait, and other such global antics, instead of--think about this concept--guarding the US coast. Yes, that's the reality.
2. I'm no expert--not close--but my guess is that neither Canada nor Finland are able to quickly build Arctic capable icebreakers. Finland, in particular, has no port on the Arctic Sea, so I presume its icebreakers are built to operate in the far friendlier Baltic Sea and similar waters. I strongly suspect that Finnish icebreakers won't enable the US to compete with Russia in the Arctic.
As for Canada, name one port of any significance in the Canadian Arctic. There aren't any, which is why Canada's icebreakers can't really compete with the Russian ones--which are nuclear powered. Canada has never needed icebreakers of that sort because its icebreakers are largely used to clear its major ports--which are not near the Arctic region--whereas the Russians have long had that need because they do have major ports in the Arctic.
https://breakingdefense.com/2024/08/ice-pact-why-the-us-had-to-recruit-help-in-race-with-russia-china-for-arctic-icebreakers/
"Getting an accurate count of exactly how many icebreakers there are in the world is challenging, due to the fact that “icebreaker” is a much more ambiguous term than “frigate” or “submarine.” Which ships should count largely comes down to a source’s interpretation and context."
https://clearseas.org/insights/icebreakers-in-canadian-waters/
"During the winter months, most of the CCG’s icebreakers are based in southeastern Canada where they ensure that the Great Lakes and the St. Lawrence River remain accessible to vessels. During the summer season, typically between May and October, the fleet is deployed to the Canadian Arctic."
I’m astonished at the us coast guard in the Taiwan straights:
https://www.foxnews.com/world/us-coast-guard-ship-sailed-through-taiwan-strait-day-blinkens-china-visit
It will take many years to build up the necessary complement of icebreakers for the US. Unless we buy them from Russia.
Trump must drive his staff crazy: "Okay, who talked to the POTUS last?"
Interesting:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/canadian-banks-linked-chinese-fentanyl-laundering-risk-us-treasury-sanctions-after
And the NYT exposed the US involvement with targeting Russia:
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/key-takeaways-nyts-secret-history-us-shocking-level-involvement-ukraine-war
thanks I was reading that
maybe NYT trying to blow up any ceasefire or negotiations with disclosures like this
eg: US identified target ( UA did not ask for it much less know about it ) US identified the RU defenses, created the plan (# of drones) charted the flight to avoid defenses - UA basically just turned the drones on -
"Longstanding policy barred the C.I.A. from providing intelligence on targets on Russian soil. So the administration would let the C.I.A. request “variances,” carve-outs authorizing the spy agency to support strikes inside Russia to achieve specific objectives.
Intelligence had identified a vast munitions depot in the lakeside town of Toropets, some 290 miles north of the Ukrainian border, that was providing weapons to Russian forces in Kharkiv and Kursk. The administration approved the variance. Toropets would be a test of concept.
C.I.A. officers shared intelligence about the depot’s munitions and vulnerabilities, as well as Russian defense systems on the way to Toropets. They calculated how many drones the operation would require and charted their circuitous flight paths.
On Sept. 18, a large swarm of drones slammed into the munitions depot. The blast, as powerful as a small earthquake, opened a crater the width of a football field. Videos showed immense balls of flame and plumes of smoke rising above the lake.
https://archive.ph/edNIT#selection-3783.0-3795.243
Thanks. And Trump really wonders why Putin is gaming him? I'll repeat: Putin owes Trump NOTHING.
it appears basically.... NYT is disclosing
not 10 % US 90 % UA we just give the weapons
not 50 % US 50 % UA we share info and responsibility and planning
but in fact 95 % US 5 % UA on most of any successes
I am certain Putin will use this article to his advantage at home
and diplomatically internationally
NYT basically saying,.... ' the Only reason for UA failures was UA did not do what the US told them to - US provided the target, the weapons and instructions/coordinates ' the idiots only had to do what the US said to do
" Yet as with the Kerch Bridge operation, the drone collaboration pointed to a strategic dissonance.
The Americans argued for concentrating drone strikes on strategically important military targets — the same sort of argument they had made, fruitlessly, about focusing on Melitopol during the 2023 counteroffensive. But the Ukrainians insisted on attacking a wider menu of targets, including oil and gas facilities and politically sensitive sites in and around Moscow (though they would do so without C.I.A. help). "
https://archive.ph/edNIT#selection-3867.0-3871.413
More good work by Sam Cooper on the drug entanglements in Canada.
Mark Carney is now facing plagiarism allegations with his doctorate thesis at Oxford.
NYT echo chamber fully operational.
Love the “untold story…” in the subtitle. Untold by who, geniuses?
I didn't see the NBC interview. Whatever Trump said is one 'blip' on the radar observatory of the globe. A lot of other things have been moving toward positive goals stated, albeit in terribly confusing blips of reported actions, continuing efforts, and staying the 'reset' course. I can't give up on Trump yet; but the puppet strings that have been tightened on the President are observable in national security, above all other policy areas. There is no domestic policy because everything is tangential to foreign policy--and who is paying to control that?
The Anglo-Zionists in the ages-old financial houses are the controlling underwriters of military/defense/infrastructure hardware, of big agriculture and transportation systems, and of health care/pharmaceutical industries, and of information technologies for block chain media distribution and social engagement.
Trump's modus operandi as being a chaotic mental tornado is truly natural to him---but he controls his Planned Objectives by this very ruse. Whether Trump has 'minders' over his puppet strings of a philosophical, or mere monetary sort, Trump is accustomed to the strings. I pray, seriously I pray, that Trump remembers that neither he nor his puppet masters are in charge; and that Trump finds the courage to right the ship of the U.S.A. by doing only what is right.
LEGALLY BLIND THUS CAPS
HERITAGE FOUNDATION / PROJECT 2025
People act as if US foreign policy forms like a cloud in the president’s head, in reality it forms in think tanks arriving at consensus among powerful special interests before being sent to Washington with lobbyists to attract support from BOTH sides of the aisle. (BRIAN BERLETIC)
agreed I am 100 % certain as my speculation that eg: groups like Blackrock and eg: multiple colleges and other institutions, invested extensively in Ukraine farmland before and during the early 2022 years, and now are in a panic that investments is all gone to waste. I am most convinced they are riding Trump for US protection of their foolish investment.
And in Europe, trying to gin up the plebs to go and fight for them. The Euros are just dumb enough to do it too.
Delusions of Grandeur
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/30/trump-third-term-president
Anglo-Zionist propaganda, no?
Yeah, Bannon was going on about this a week or two ago. That deserved big eyerolls. But now Trump is repeating this bullshit. Do they WANT to tear the country apart?
https://www.newsnationnow.com/cuomo-show/steve-bannon-trump-2028/
https://youtu.be/p9-ft4BvHTE?si=G2uhlVynK2U6BMqz
It could just be Trump trolling. If so, it got the required response. However, with DJT you never know!
Trump is creating chaff on the Ukraine/ Russia War negotiations.
Trump has to appear kinda sympathetic to Ukraine due to all the pro Ukraine forces in the US. But, Trump is continuing to move away from Ukraine and its European supporters. I view it as tacking back and forth, while separating the U.S. from the Ukraine tar baby. And Zelensky with his anti Trump responses is helping this process tremendously. As is Europe with their out of touch Russia responses.
My guess Trumps real focus is domestic, while he try’s to keep Ukraine, Yemen, Iran, and Israel from derailing his domestic agenda.
Truthfully, I don’t understand the why of the U.S. actions under Trump in Yemen. The danger of U.S. casualties I would guess outweighs the possible gains.
“My guess Trumps real focus is domestic…”
Could have fooled me.
“…while he try’s to keep Ukraine, Yemen, Iran, and Israel from derailing his domestic agenda.”
He’s doesn’t seem to be trying very hard. In fact, he seems to be doing the opposite.
Vance is also deranged. Russia holds all the cards.
The question is does Trump/Vance realize this?
My guess is yes. Which then leads to the next question, of why are they doing what they are doing?
And Tulsi's position on all this?
God knows, AC. Maybe I'm being unfair but I get that Bondi feeling when I listen to her. Talking tough but not taking the hard decisions. When Brent Scowcroft was National Security Advisor under Bush senior, the first thing he did was to sack nearly all of the intelligence staff from the previous regime. Gabbard should be doing the same. Same goes for Patel at the FBI.
AC, see my comment further dow, which includes a link to a part of Jimmy Doe's program. He includes videos showing Tulsi 2019 vs. Tulsi 2025 on Yemen.
Because it’s theatre in the already predetermined arena of globalism? The rejigging of national identities, civil rights and the extermination of the middle class - which the population would not go along with willingly, unless threatened by gun- err, nuke point. Together with the destruction of food sources people are about to be forced onto their knees, begging for merci….and many are there already, or are lying on their backs. The masses now need to be awoken from their apathy to consent to what is about to unfold on stage, where the globalist wrestling team are toasting each other.
It's not a matter of masses "needing to be awoken from their apathy." I'm wide awake. What am I supposed to do, sit on my porch with a rifle? I was wide awake when the "British Commonwealth" Canadian truckers had their bank accounts frozen for failing to "consent" to globalist rules. The donation I sent the truckers from the US was also frozen.
The way it seems to work is that people are pretty docile until their direct personal interests get hit en masse. Then things get kinetic.
How do you define "kinetic?" My point is that American citizens en masse are powerless and defenseless. The only solution is for US to be broken up into 4 separate countries without allegiance to the Pentagon. Southwest states could join with Mexico--that's what's being forced on us anyway.
“Never let a crises go to waste”
Rahm Emmanuel
If there is no perceived crises, create one.
Well, there IS a crisis. It’s on us.
OK, I'm sitting on my porch with a rifle.
If you were the masses the world would be in a better place and you’d have company on your porch, susan. At the time of the convoy all it took was for the majority to ‘say NO’. Instead I got fingered often flying the national flag on my truck.
Apparently Trump is already talking about a 2028 run. He raised possibility of running as VP to Vance, then having Vance resign. Per NBC
Delusions of grandeur.
If anyone wanred a real-life example of such a character trait, look at DJT and re-read NBC's report, posted by Mark.
Trump's power trip since Nov. 4th is now getting the best of him.
That’s putting it nicely. He’s confirming all the batshit lunacy of TDS.
NBC is playing to their diminished audience of mentally disturbed progressives. They are attempting to rev up the dictator accusation so, they take to the streets.
You believe NBC?
You think he DIDN’T say it? Steve Bannon was discussing this in interviews just a week or two ago.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/cuomo-show/steve-bannon-trump-2028/
https://youtu.be/p9-ft4BvHTE?si=G2uhlVynK2U6BMqz
As I said, in a comment yesterday, Trump in two months has squandered all of the goodwill he had coming into office. In record time he has just about blown all of his political capital.
I think what we’re seeing in real time is the implosion of his presidency already.
His obsession with Russia, Iran, and tariffs are doing him in. For our person who ran as a peace candidate, he has done them 180 on that and now seems committed to a path to war with Iran and by extension Russia, perhaps even China. I can only see a disastrous foreign policy that he is trying to follow devoid of logic and common sense.
Threatening Russia with more tariffs and sanctions means nothing to them. They’ve been dealing with that kind of stuff for 80 years since the Cold War. Trump doesn’t understand that Russia is building on its relationship relationship with China and BRICS, and has pivoted East, the real growth for the next 50 to hundred years will be in Eurasia. Russia doesn’t need the west.
At the rate he is going he will lose control of the house in the Senate in 2026. We will essentially have grid lock government at that point and Trump will not get any meaningful legislation pass for his domestic agenda.
It’s obvious he has made some terrible choices for some of his top appointments and cabinet positions and some of these people need to be replaced now not later
Trump is his own worst enemy and always has been.
A State Senate seat in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania was recently flipped to democrats--which shocked even the democrats. The seat had been held by GOP for decades, district was Trump +15 in Nov. 2024. The GOP candidate who lost was strongly pro-Trump. GOP deserved to lose. Lancaster County residents have pressing problems. Elon campaigned for Trump in Pa. and recognized their concerns.
Expect more of the same if this continues.
Exactly. This is becoming tragic and embarrassing. His presidency was a chance to change so many things for the better. He could use his time to carve out a new place for America in a multipolar world which maintained a lot of its traditional strengths but built new more fruitful relations with the other major players. Instead he faces being bypassed and boycotted on the international scene, and even worse, being seen as a hostile actor. And this is only 3 months in.
Hegseth regurgitating DJT's thoughts and threats: "deterring communist Chinese military aggression" by beefing up US bases in Japan to "warrior" status is scary AND loony.
See who the big aggressor is in the image Jimmy Dore uses here: https://rumble.com/v6r9v7i-u.s.-mobilizing-warships-to-attack-yemen-and-iran.html
Jimmy: "There’s only one country with bases around the world that goes looking for wars."
And--pointing to map of Iran and surrounding countries that are loaded with US military bases, saying in jest--"What are they doing putting their country in the middle of all our military bases?"
I recommend the entire video to you...includes video of Trump 1.0 vs. Trump 2.0, and Tulsi 1.0 vs Tulsi. 2.0 on the topic of Yemen.