One of the reasons that Russia is still slow-rolling their victory in Ukraine is that the finality of it will trigger lots of financial defaults in Europe. This, in turn, will unleash massive civil unrest and riots in most major European cities. And that chaos will enable existing authoritarian governments to transition into tech-tyrannies, suppress civil liberties, and consolidate power under the EU figurehead. Russia will be blamed for this outcome and the EU will push for NATO to attack them. That is the contingency that Russia is currently planning for, and they are getting close to being ready and able to face it. The main conundrum, however, is "what does do Russia do after the war begins?" They have the means to "win" whatever that means, but they will not choose to rebuild Europe the way that the US did with the Marshall Plan. But they can't leave an open wound on their western flank either. And the US is broke, so that is no help. Will some idiot go nuclear? Not a simple problem.
In the latest call between Putin and Trump the latter tried to pull off another bluff - "if you do not agree to that unconditional cease fire we will restart supporting Ukraine"
Putin called the bluff - knowing that there is nothing USA could deliver that could change the outcome.
I don’t believe Trump has illusions about the state of the US military. His BBB is attempt address this. Even if his source of info were Fox, memes and Don jr, seeing the military flee Afghanistan would have put him on notice about its health. He’s also aware is the ruinous nature of the social engineering on recruitment and institutions. He’d know it’s not the military it once was. Of course he’s going to talk the military up as part of positioning tactics.
He’s aware? Are you sure? He’s in bed with evil. Netanyahoo shows up to beg for our help in the only way a Zionist knows how, by deceit and false flattery. Putting Trump up for a Nobel for peace while wielding a broken stick while speaking loudly and brashly suggests he is doing what he’s told to do. If I’m wrong then we have bigger worries about Trump than I even thought.
Your comment didn’t, but mine does. Bibi the butcher needs our military. His BBB doesn’t rectify the military’s problem, it placates the tin pot generals and our rapacious politicians. We get nothing but headaches and shame. Chew on that BK.
BK, that all very well may be, and if so it is all the worse for Trump and for Anerica, as he is clearly “under the influence” of the war mongers in his circle, not the keast of whom is Netenyahu. A devastating prognisis for a future “peace” president Mac has given us. I almost prefer the days of his manning the fryers at MacDos or driving Biden’s “garbage” truck. All very disconcerting.
More proof of the massive influence of the Zionists over the US governing class came yesterday: the complete suppression of the Epstein client list. In fact we are now told by Bongino that there were never any clients anyway. Even the MAGAtards at CTH are giving up on Trump over this.
G'day Mark, why do you Russia and Turkiye have a good relationship or even Putin and the snake Erdogan. Turkiyes efforts were behind Russia's back or so the Kremlin suggested. What are your thoughts please.
It's complicated. Basically Erdogan uses NATO membership and a strategic location to play off NATO and Russia against each other. He does enough of use to each side to induce each to tolerate his serial back stabbing while he pursues his pan-Turkic and/or neo-Ottoman ambitions.
One would have thought Erdogans actions in Syria would have proven to the Kremlin his revanchism or his desire to be the khalifa but one can look at the Kremlins actions in the same light in Syria and its tight Rusreal Putinyahu relationship totally opposed to Iran but it declares its support to defend Iran. The Kremlin is a corporation as is the US empire so strange machinations are par for the course.
The terror strategy was doomed to disaster to begin with. Ill thought out. it’s obvious that Trump thinks using bullying and intimidation tactics that seem to work in business and the real estate work would somehow work with diplomacy and he has found out that is not the case and his had his head handed to him.
China has thrown everything back into his face and says that we’re not playing this game and we’re not doing a deal. Russia is not going to deal with Trump at all. They have told him what the terms are and they’re not changing them. There might’ve been an opportunity for Trump to have a face saving deal with Russia early on as far as Ukraine, but we kept sending them money and arming them and twisting the knife in Putin‘s back every step of the way. so we’ve lost all credibility with Putin as with China they don’t believe a word we tell him.
Trump has absolutely no consistency whatsoever on his policies whether they are domestic or foreign he keeps doing 180° turns on his true social network which he shut down. He’s his own worst enemy.
What’s even worse is that he is surrounded himself with a bunch of amateur idiots who don’t seem to understand diplomacy, and how it works . he is obsessed with getting deals than implementing common sense policies that would bring peace to this war torn world we live in.
NATO for all intention purposes is a dead organization that should’ve been disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union. It was no longer needed. Expanding NATO to the Scandinavian countries as well as Eastern Europe was a colossal strategic blunder designed only to try to fence Russia in and find a way to push some type of regime. Change there to get control of everything they have. Well, that’s not going to work out.
Iran also has turned out to be a country that is not going to be a pushover and there’s not going to be any regime change there either . Israel, military I think it’s finished. They are not invincible. They do not have the resources and the manpower to continue war.
Iran is figured out where to hit them and have pretty much crushed their economy . The Houthis have shown they can hit Israel in select targets anytime they want and if necessary can start targeting ships in the Straits of Hormuz and calls a serious slowdown of oil traffic and trade in that area and who is that going to hurt Israel more than anybody else?
And then I can’t help but laugh when I see people in the joint chiefs and the government saying that that we will go to war to defend Taiwan from being taken over by China . China has no interest in starting a war to invade Taiwan why would they they don’t want to destroy the infrastructure or anything else. They are perfectly willing to wait until the time comes that Taiwan and China will reunite and that is going to happen. One shot being fired.
What I find fantastic with these military scenarios is how in the world could we conduct any kind of war that far across the Pacific at all we don’t have the resources for it .
Trump and a lot of people fantasize that airpower alone is going to bring Iran and other places to their knees and it’s not . I think we already prove that 30 days of concentrated bombing on Yemen didn’t do one damn thing they can’t be stopped.
I have said over and over in different post the only way you will have regime change in Iran is the introduction of ground forces. And given how tough a fight that would probably be you’re gonna need 1 million people to invade with and how and where could you possibly stage that that’s not going to be in range of Iranian missiles that will do tremendous damage.
We are not in 1991 any longer. We are not in 1965. We do not have the resources to fill an army and keep it moving and resupply it. Trump is totally delusional and he thinks our military power is at this point. we have dispersed our military over 850 overseas bases and we are stretched as thin as we can get. The only way we can get the manpower needed would be to reinstate the draft and nobody wants to do that. The 18 to 21 are not gonna go to war to fight, Iran or anyone else they’re not going to Ukraine to fight the Russians.
I keep saying that Trump’s presidency is imploding and I still believe that . And if he continues to make really stupid mistakes, he’s gonna find himself on the he will either be forced resign because he’s lost all his political support or he’s just gonna be impeached and removed from office.
I watched some of the Doug McGregor interview. I have read what Doug has said, and I believe he has come to the conclusion that I came to some weeks ago that Trump has absolutely no idea what he’s doing and he seems to be totally in the Thrall of the Anglo Zionist movement along with the neocons. He had his chance to extricate us from this mess and now he owns it.
Lurking behind all the threats is the foolish belief that air power alone can achieve our objectives. Plus a failure to reckon with the growing obsolescence of carrier projected power. The only thing preserving us from a disastrous is probably our sub launched nukes.
Neither Trump nor Israel can attack Iran again unless they are completely confident of a knock out blow in the first strike. The reason is that Iran would respond with a devastating counterattack directed at Israel's core infrastructure and guarantee the collapse of their economy and the demise of their society. Their people would flee for safer and more secure countries, and there would be nothing the US could do to stop this. For this reason, they will likely opt for a false flag against some US military target in which dozens, if not hundreds, of casualties would result. The neocons would demand war and Trump might be persuaded to take the bait, but I doubt it. A bully never fights when he thinks he might get his ass kicked.
Clearly the elites in Europe are in final desperation mode and willing to pull out all the stops. Methinks that is the reason for the Patel/Bongino Epstein lies. Some foreign intelligence service with copies of all the Epstein evidence is likely now threatening to take it public unless they get the US to fall in line with their demands. No more paddy cake, it's nut cutting time.
The country needs to demand the truth. Such a reversal is an indication of an outright lie and submission to a foreign black mail operation which is the Zionist Pirate state of Israel.
I have nothing original to add. It was never going to happen that the Anglo-Zionist Deep State CIA/MI6/Mossad were going to let the public know who they've been blackmailing.
Logical, you're right; but don't let this person who corrupted very young girls to confusedly accept losing their innocence to both Epstein and herself, and then to pimp these children to high rollers, knowing that everything she did was approved of, recorded, and paid in advance by depraved human beings higher up in authority of the satanic chain.
Thank you. So this tri-partner deep state global has now inflamed the voters of Trump 2.0 with so obvious a lie that they--me too--start to question if Trump the man is a "false front/false face" whose declarations, promises, assurances don't have any power of believe-ability, anymore. Worse, what Trump says, is losing any sense or sound of sincerity.
Despite what leftists believe, MAGA isn’t slavishly devoted to Trump. Recall he got booed when talking up his Warpspeed bs at his rallies. They have zero interest in protracted war with Iran. What they care about is their slipping economic status. They’ve seen the toll of the forever wars in the mid east and they’ve had enough. There’s been burbling on comments sections across the nets of possible false flags to psyop people into the next big conflict. We’ll see what happens.
I agree re what his voters--base and independent--care about. What they fail to understand is that the supposed solutions--tariffs and such--will not magically return America to virtuous greatness without the pain of either paying our debts or defaulting on them and accepting the consequences. They fail to understand that Trump got elected on a program of placating the domestic majority with measures that cost little but is doing the will of the global elite in trying to preserve empire. But building up an empire is exactly what got us in this fix. Will Trump's voters wake up to this reality, and what will happen when/if they do? One way or another it can't continue.
Bibi nominates Trump for Nobel: 7/7/25, WASHINGTON (AP)--"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Donald Trump that he was nominating the U.S. leader for a Nobel Peace Prize as the two took a victory lap on Monday to hail their recent joint strikes on Iran 's nuclear facilities as an unmitigated success."...
How thoroughly Zionist to brag about winning peace prizes while lighting the world on fire with aggression and war. The Israeli attack on Iran was said to be pre-empting an Iranian attack puts truth to the Polish proverb that “the Jew cries out in pain as they strike you.”
Oh my, this is like a fictional book or movie that is come to life. Netanyahu and Donald Trump getting the Nobel prize for peace. What they need to get is the price for continuing genocidal policies and making war they certainly don’t resemble anybody who would like to have peace and prosperity. They’re both delusional and they’re thinking on what they think they can do particularly Netanyahu and his fantasy of controlling all of the Middle East..
Excellent analysis all the way around, Mark. Thank you. I appreciate in particular the insight you make about this being the end of the post-Vietnam era. Yep, the Petrodollar system and going off the Gold Standard enabled a degree of fiscal profligacy that is no longer sustainable.
When even Japan and South Korea are not willing to buckle under Trump's tariff threats that is momentous. It tells you that the post-WWII order is also coming to an end. It signals that they will no longer be vassal states of the U.S., dependent on it for their defense and economic well being. Japan will no longer act to prop up the Dollar, either. And who can blame them after seeing our attitude and actions toward Iran and the rest of the world? No one wants to be the next Ukraine or subject to the whims and desires of an erratic, demanding, and unpredictable foreign power.
"When even Japan and South Korea are not willing to buckle under Trump's tariff threats..." Indeed. Japan and SK are the GAE's most compliant colonies. When you've lost them, things are pretty bad.
Yeah. That was a big moment when Japan and SKorea announced they'd coordinate responses to the tariff shock and awe with China, and now following up not only rejecting a deal but also refusing to attend NATO ...
I think they are. Once an unraveling begins it's like that ball of string that falls off the table and is rolling down hill it keeps going until it is fully unraveled and a big mess to rewind back to state.
“Trump was very clear. ‘I want this to be a perfect war. I want this to be in, boom, out.’”
Is Trump a simpleton? Everyone who starts a war thinks it’s going to be a quick victory. And then years later and millions of casualties later the war ends when both sides are exhausted.
The kill shot to his administration came from his own big mouth........Headline. It's all about headlines, optics..............gotta get the wins even if meaningless or a lie..........it's headlines, damn it!
. Interesting perhaps I thought I would add:
REFUSING TO ATTEND NATO SUMMIT
Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba & South Korean President Lee Jae-myung refused to attend the NATO summit in The Hague June 24/25
Both cited the Middle East following U.S. military strikes on Iranian nuclear sites as a primary reason for their absence.
............................Why is it So Important -
The United States maintains approximately 15 major military bases in South Korea, with around 28,500 U.S. troops
The U.S. operates approximately 85 military facilities in Japan, hosting around 54,000 troops, the largest U.S. military presence abroad.
.................... Perhaps Coincidental [ he did send out a lot of letters ]
Trump sent tariff letters to both Japan and South Korea on July 7, 2025,
announcing a 25% tariff on goods from these countries effective August 1, 2025
-----------------> However I believe it reasonable to state, it's a pretty big message
The East is rallying around the East - and Trump's behavior is pushing that hard.
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One of the reasons that Russia is still slow-rolling their victory in Ukraine is that the finality of it will trigger lots of financial defaults in Europe. This, in turn, will unleash massive civil unrest and riots in most major European cities. And that chaos will enable existing authoritarian governments to transition into tech-tyrannies, suppress civil liberties, and consolidate power under the EU figurehead. Russia will be blamed for this outcome and the EU will push for NATO to attack them. That is the contingency that Russia is currently planning for, and they are getting close to being ready and able to face it. The main conundrum, however, is "what does do Russia do after the war begins?" They have the means to "win" whatever that means, but they will not choose to rebuild Europe the way that the US did with the Marshall Plan. But they can't leave an open wound on their western flank either. And the US is broke, so that is no help. Will some idiot go nuclear? Not a simple problem.
Yes. This war is about money because Russia knows that it will continue until the other side goes broke.
The Commander in Chief should lead from the front in the next unconstitutional attack on a foreign country.
-- GEROMAN -- time will tell -  -- @GeromanAT
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In the latest call between Putin and Trump the latter tried to pull off another bluff - "if you do not agree to that unconditional cease fire we will restart supporting Ukraine"
Putin called the bluff - knowing that there is nothing USA could deliver that could change the outcome.
HOW TO: Get a cool high profile government job:
Dr. Simon Goddek @goddeketal
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KASH: “We need America to wake up and prioritize Israel.”
This is all you need to know to understand why they’re so violently desperate to bury Epstein’s Mossad-run sex trafficking blackmail ring.
Kash wants his taste of the Cash. It's like AIDS once you get the AIPAC cash bug it never goes away.
DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics
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 A reporter asks Trump about a two-state solution... in front of Bibi.
"I don't know. Ask Bibi that question. You have the greatest man in the world to answer that age-old question."
DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics
12h
 "We're gonna have to send more weapons to Ukraine." - Trump
To the last Ukrainian it is.
https://www.donotpanic.news/p/the-best-selling-apps-made-by-israeli
I don’t believe Trump has illusions about the state of the US military. His BBB is attempt address this. Even if his source of info were Fox, memes and Don jr, seeing the military flee Afghanistan would have put him on notice about its health. He’s also aware is the ruinous nature of the social engineering on recruitment and institutions. He’d know it’s not the military it once was. Of course he’s going to talk the military up as part of positioning tactics.
He’s aware? Are you sure? He’s in bed with evil. Netanyahoo shows up to beg for our help in the only way a Zionist knows how, by deceit and false flattery. Putting Trump up for a Nobel for peace while wielding a broken stick while speaking loudly and brashly suggests he is doing what he’s told to do. If I’m wrong then we have bigger worries about Trump than I even thought.
Trump is aware of the state of the US military and its evident limitations. My comment didn't go into his relationship with Bibi.
Your comment didn’t, but mine does. Bibi the butcher needs our military. His BBB doesn’t rectify the military’s problem, it placates the tin pot generals and our rapacious politicians. We get nothing but headaches and shame. Chew on that BK.
BK, that all very well may be, and if so it is all the worse for Trump and for Anerica, as he is clearly “under the influence” of the war mongers in his circle, not the keast of whom is Netenyahu. A devastating prognisis for a future “peace” president Mac has given us. I almost prefer the days of his manning the fryers at MacDos or driving Biden’s “garbage” truck. All very disconcerting.
More proof of the massive influence of the Zionists over the US governing class came yesterday: the complete suppression of the Epstein client list. In fact we are now told by Bongino that there were never any clients anyway. Even the MAGAtards at CTH are giving up on Trump over this.
With this revelation his administration has zero credibility. Bondi now appears to all as fool. Bongino and Patel incompetent boobs lacking a spine.
Unfortunately, the GAE won't go down without a fight. Every indicator shows that we are headed for war and plenty of it.
G'day Mark, why do you Russia and Turkiye have a good relationship or even Putin and the snake Erdogan. Turkiyes efforts were behind Russia's back or so the Kremlin suggested. What are your thoughts please.
It's complicated. Basically Erdogan uses NATO membership and a strategic location to play off NATO and Russia against each other. He does enough of use to each side to induce each to tolerate his serial back stabbing while he pursues his pan-Turkic and/or neo-Ottoman ambitions.
One would have thought Erdogans actions in Syria would have proven to the Kremlin his revanchism or his desire to be the khalifa but one can look at the Kremlins actions in the same light in Syria and its tight Rusreal Putinyahu relationship totally opposed to Iran but it declares its support to defend Iran. The Kremlin is a corporation as is the US empire so strange machinations are par for the course.
The terror strategy was doomed to disaster to begin with. Ill thought out. it’s obvious that Trump thinks using bullying and intimidation tactics that seem to work in business and the real estate work would somehow work with diplomacy and he has found out that is not the case and his had his head handed to him.
China has thrown everything back into his face and says that we’re not playing this game and we’re not doing a deal. Russia is not going to deal with Trump at all. They have told him what the terms are and they’re not changing them. There might’ve been an opportunity for Trump to have a face saving deal with Russia early on as far as Ukraine, but we kept sending them money and arming them and twisting the knife in Putin‘s back every step of the way. so we’ve lost all credibility with Putin as with China they don’t believe a word we tell him.
Trump has absolutely no consistency whatsoever on his policies whether they are domestic or foreign he keeps doing 180° turns on his true social network which he shut down. He’s his own worst enemy.
What’s even worse is that he is surrounded himself with a bunch of amateur idiots who don’t seem to understand diplomacy, and how it works . he is obsessed with getting deals than implementing common sense policies that would bring peace to this war torn world we live in.
NATO for all intention purposes is a dead organization that should’ve been disbanded after the fall of the Soviet Union. It was no longer needed. Expanding NATO to the Scandinavian countries as well as Eastern Europe was a colossal strategic blunder designed only to try to fence Russia in and find a way to push some type of regime. Change there to get control of everything they have. Well, that’s not going to work out.
Iran also has turned out to be a country that is not going to be a pushover and there’s not going to be any regime change there either . Israel, military I think it’s finished. They are not invincible. They do not have the resources and the manpower to continue war.
Iran is figured out where to hit them and have pretty much crushed their economy . The Houthis have shown they can hit Israel in select targets anytime they want and if necessary can start targeting ships in the Straits of Hormuz and calls a serious slowdown of oil traffic and trade in that area and who is that going to hurt Israel more than anybody else?
And then I can’t help but laugh when I see people in the joint chiefs and the government saying that that we will go to war to defend Taiwan from being taken over by China . China has no interest in starting a war to invade Taiwan why would they they don’t want to destroy the infrastructure or anything else. They are perfectly willing to wait until the time comes that Taiwan and China will reunite and that is going to happen. One shot being fired.
What I find fantastic with these military scenarios is how in the world could we conduct any kind of war that far across the Pacific at all we don’t have the resources for it .
Trump and a lot of people fantasize that airpower alone is going to bring Iran and other places to their knees and it’s not . I think we already prove that 30 days of concentrated bombing on Yemen didn’t do one damn thing they can’t be stopped.
I have said over and over in different post the only way you will have regime change in Iran is the introduction of ground forces. And given how tough a fight that would probably be you’re gonna need 1 million people to invade with and how and where could you possibly stage that that’s not going to be in range of Iranian missiles that will do tremendous damage.
We are not in 1991 any longer. We are not in 1965. We do not have the resources to fill an army and keep it moving and resupply it. Trump is totally delusional and he thinks our military power is at this point. we have dispersed our military over 850 overseas bases and we are stretched as thin as we can get. The only way we can get the manpower needed would be to reinstate the draft and nobody wants to do that. The 18 to 21 are not gonna go to war to fight, Iran or anyone else they’re not going to Ukraine to fight the Russians.
I keep saying that Trump’s presidency is imploding and I still believe that . And if he continues to make really stupid mistakes, he’s gonna find himself on the he will either be forced resign because he’s lost all his political support or he’s just gonna be impeached and removed from office.
I watched some of the Doug McGregor interview. I have read what Doug has said, and I believe he has come to the conclusion that I came to some weeks ago that Trump has absolutely no idea what he’s doing and he seems to be totally in the Thrall of the Anglo Zionist movement along with the neocons. He had his chance to extricate us from this mess and now he owns it.
Lurking behind all the threats is the foolish belief that air power alone can achieve our objectives. Plus a failure to reckon with the growing obsolescence of carrier projected power. The only thing preserving us from a disastrous is probably our sub launched nukes.
Mark as you know with Poseidon torpedos, the Russians still retain their own checkmate option - game over. For everyone.
Spot on.
Neither Trump nor Israel can attack Iran again unless they are completely confident of a knock out blow in the first strike. The reason is that Iran would respond with a devastating counterattack directed at Israel's core infrastructure and guarantee the collapse of their economy and the demise of their society. Their people would flee for safer and more secure countries, and there would be nothing the US could do to stop this. For this reason, they will likely opt for a false flag against some US military target in which dozens, if not hundreds, of casualties would result. The neocons would demand war and Trump might be persuaded to take the bait, but I doubt it. A bully never fights when he thinks he might get his ass kicked.
Clearly the elites in Europe are in final desperation mode and willing to pull out all the stops. Methinks that is the reason for the Patel/Bongino Epstein lies. Some foreign intelligence service with copies of all the Epstein evidence is likely now threatening to take it public unless they get the US to fall in line with their demands. No more paddy cake, it's nut cutting time.
The country needs to demand the truth. Such a reversal is an indication of an outright lie and submission to a foreign black mail operation which is the Zionist Pirate state of Israel.
"Neither Trump nor Israel can attack Iran again unless they are completely confident of a knock out blow in the first strike."
That's how I see it, too. And I just don't see how that could be pulled off.
That's true in a logical, rational world, but we have seen how far those qualities are lacking in DC and Tel Aviv.
They are now in full deceit mode. Everything they say must be considered a lie.
Are you going to share your thoughts about the supposed non-Epstein files?
I have nothing original to add. It was never going to happen that the Anglo-Zionist Deep State CIA/MI6/Mossad were going to let the public know who they've been blackmailing.
We know and they know we know except the MAGA fools.
Let me be the first to say the logical conclusion of Bongino's statement: Free Ghislaine Maxwell!
Logical, you're right; but don't let this person who corrupted very young girls to confusedly accept losing their innocence to both Epstein and herself, and then to pimp these children to high rollers, knowing that everything she did was approved of, recorded, and paid in advance by depraved human beings higher up in authority of the satanic chain.
After I wrote a comment, I checked the Daily Caller, night time. Look at this kerfuffle: https://dailycaller.com/2025/07/07/dark-forces-maga-revolts-trump-doj-jeffrey-epstein-findings-pam-bondi-ghislaine-maxwell-liz-wheeler-benny-johnson/
Thank you. So this tri-partner deep state global has now inflamed the voters of Trump 2.0 with so obvious a lie that they--me too--start to question if Trump the man is a "false front/false face" whose declarations, promises, assurances don't have any power of believe-ability, anymore. Worse, what Trump says, is losing any sense or sound of sincerity.
Despite what leftists believe, MAGA isn’t slavishly devoted to Trump. Recall he got booed when talking up his Warpspeed bs at his rallies. They have zero interest in protracted war with Iran. What they care about is their slipping economic status. They’ve seen the toll of the forever wars in the mid east and they’ve had enough. There’s been burbling on comments sections across the nets of possible false flags to psyop people into the next big conflict. We’ll see what happens.
I agree re what his voters--base and independent--care about. What they fail to understand is that the supposed solutions--tariffs and such--will not magically return America to virtuous greatness without the pain of either paying our debts or defaulting on them and accepting the consequences. They fail to understand that Trump got elected on a program of placating the domestic majority with measures that cost little but is doing the will of the global elite in trying to preserve empire. But building up an empire is exactly what got us in this fix. Will Trump's voters wake up to this reality, and what will happen when/if they do? One way or another it can't continue.
As mentioned above, even Conservative Treehouse readers are calling this a massive betrayal.
Interesting comment, Steg......even CTH. I read less and less of CTH as this site seemed slavishly devoted to Trump. Maybe they are waking up.
Thanks.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Bibi nominates Trump for Nobel: 7/7/25, WASHINGTON (AP)--"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told President Donald Trump that he was nominating the U.S. leader for a Nobel Peace Prize as the two took a victory lap on Monday to hail their recent joint strikes on Iran 's nuclear facilities as an unmitigated success."...
How thoroughly Zionist to brag about winning peace prizes while lighting the world on fire with aggression and war. The Israeli attack on Iran was said to be pre-empting an Iranian attack puts truth to the Polish proverb that “the Jew cries out in pain as they strike you.”
A warmonger nominates a warmonger for a peace prize?
Negative x negative = positive?
We're in Wonderland.
Twilight Zone.
Oh my, this is like a fictional book or movie that is come to life. Netanyahu and Donald Trump getting the Nobel prize for peace. What they need to get is the price for continuing genocidal policies and making war they certainly don’t resemble anybody who would like to have peace and prosperity. They’re both delusional and they’re thinking on what they think they can do particularly Netanyahu and his fantasy of controlling all of the Middle East..
I looked to see if this was posted on April 1st.
Funny. But no. Nothing really matters (Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody")---we're all in fantasy land, now
Well that's just putrid.
We are watching the Trump & Net Puppet Show, set in Fantasyland.
'See Trump & Net puppet each other! Their antics will obliterate you!'
Reality stranger than fiction.
Which is to say, can't make this shit up.
Excellent analysis all the way around, Mark. Thank you. I appreciate in particular the insight you make about this being the end of the post-Vietnam era. Yep, the Petrodollar system and going off the Gold Standard enabled a degree of fiscal profligacy that is no longer sustainable.
When even Japan and South Korea are not willing to buckle under Trump's tariff threats that is momentous. It tells you that the post-WWII order is also coming to an end. It signals that they will no longer be vassal states of the U.S., dependent on it for their defense and economic well being. Japan will no longer act to prop up the Dollar, either. And who can blame them after seeing our attitude and actions toward Iran and the rest of the world? No one wants to be the next Ukraine or subject to the whims and desires of an erratic, demanding, and unpredictable foreign power.
"When even Japan and South Korea are not willing to buckle under Trump's tariff threats..." Indeed. Japan and SK are the GAE's most compliant colonies. When you've lost them, things are pretty bad.
Yeah. That was a big moment when Japan and SKorea announced they'd coordinate responses to the tariff shock and awe with China, and now following up not only rejecting a deal but also refusing to attend NATO ...
Things are unraveling.
I think they are. Once an unraveling begins it's like that ball of string that falls off the table and is rolling down hill it keeps going until it is fully unraveled and a big mess to rewind back to state.
“Trump was very clear. ‘I want this to be a perfect war. I want this to be in, boom, out.’”
Is Trump a simpleton? Everyone who starts a war thinks it’s going to be a quick victory. And then years later and millions of casualties later the war ends when both sides are exhausted.
Did no one on his staff tell him of the risks?
The kill shot to his administration came from his own big mouth........Headline. It's all about headlines, optics..............gotta get the wins even if meaningless or a lie..........it's headlines, damn it!
They are all in the pockets of the MIC and Trump in the Zionazis pocket also Manul.