In the wake of Trump’s whirlwind election victory a mad scramble has ensued to both fill positions in his administration as well as from world leaders ingratiating themselves before the grand deal-maker’s return.
I will hold off on judging a Trump peace plan for Ukraine until it comes from him officially. There's a lot of bullshit flying around right now, with the scumbag neocons pushing plans that are supposedly from Trump, but that have no official backing from him whatsoever.
My hope is that he and Putin can cut a deal and end the war. If not, then Trump should simply cut all funding to Ukraine and let it collapse. The Russians can take what they wish and hand the rest off to the EU. Let them deal with it since they helped make the mess in the first place.
The Russians will NOT accept any of the bullshit neocon plans, nor should they. They are winning the war and have the right to decide what's what by right of conquest.
Yep, Trump's absolute priorities are the US and its people, not Ukraine or any other war.
He is not going to put the welfare of the US people at risk in a futile effort to prop up the neoCons' war in Ukraine. In fact he has recently referred to the extent to which US money being spent on Ukraine could be used to rebuild US infrastructure and do other work needed in the US.
And the people talking about a "$500 billion lend-lease program" for Ukraine are utter morons. No one will lend Ukraine 10c without a guarantee from a financially solid party, and the latter would never get their money back. Trump is a highly successful businessman. He understands where risk lies in borrowing arrangements and will not have a bar of such a proposal. He might agree with it in principle if European countries are the guarantors, which they're not in a position to be, but certainly won't agree to it with the US as guarantor.
It is also foolish to take what he may have said 18 months ago, when the war was at a very different situation than it plainly is now, and assume that reflects actions he will take on assuming office. The lodestar is that he will do what improves the economic welfare, safety and security of the American people. Anything else is a non-starter.
It does not work like that. Printing money is a form of tax since increasing mass of money chasing the same amount of goods will simply dilute the value of money. I.e. it causes price inflation.
And price inflation is one major reasons (and quite possibly THE reason) why Kamala lost. Americans are fed up with inflation. Trump understands that, and given a choice of destroying his popular support and giving up Ukraine he is not going to give any second thought about Ukraine. It simply is not important, as loss in Ukraine does not really affect security or prosperity of US. Inflation does.
Trump DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THIS. He's not a economist, and is very easily bamboozled by simplistic sounding plans. He's already going to be printing $3Tn a year just to cover the Govts expenses, another $500Bn might not sound a big deal to him - especially when it makes the MIC sweet.
I hope he DOESN'T do it, and that you're right and he can see through this, but I would not take that as concrete as you are doing.
This time he is surrounded with people who do understand. Vivek and Elon have shown that they understand Austrian economics, and I suspect Kennedy understands it, too (though it's not his forte). Vance so far did not espouse monetarist economic nonsense either. (Tulsi's grasp of economics is rather poor.)
Money printing will be necessary to avoid complete and sudden crash of both government and banks, but hopefully extricating US from foreign boondoggles and reducing government spending would help in reducing inflation.
Austrian economics is as bad as MMT, just in a different way. Problem with Trump is not who he has around him, it's who sounded authoritative most the last who spoke to him.
When he starts closing US bases, I'll believe you're right. But if I held my breath, I could collect a whole oceans worth of pearls, I suspect.
"Reducing Govt spending" under Trump, will almost certainly entail cutting social programs, rather than massively wasteful MIC/Big Corporates spending. With 50%+ of the US public already in poverty, and unable to pay bills, let alone afford healthcare, or saving for pensions, this is a recipe for catastrophe. Needless to say inflation is already considerably higher than admitted.
Workers are not just recipients of paychecks, they are also the consumers.
You think stinking billionaires like Musk are going to raise incomes by one cent?
Or cut the very Fed budgets he benefits from personally?
Trump MAY be OK on foreign matters, possibly end ONE war, but the American people are going to be a LOT poorer by the end of his term.
Donald Trump actually has a degree in economics, he graduated from the Ivy league University of Pennsylvanian with a bachelors degree in economics in 1968. Its rather amazing how few people know that.
His education in addition to the 40+ years in the Real Estate game make him both the most formally credentialed and practically experienced President in business and economics in a generation.
economic education in the US is as poor as one can imagine, it's all about maximizing profit, economic models (mathematics) that have proven wrong over and over again but seem to be scrosanct in the academic field. The distinction between micro & macroeconomy almost doesn't exisit and the fundamental knowledge that once debt is the plus money of another is not understand even rudimentarily as it seems to me. Since we all in the west live by a debt driven system, cutting on state credit simply means that this money will no longer exist - that means that the purchase power will be gone and no need to produce anything that can't be sold on the markets - with all the following consequences.
In the end 0,001% will have (own) all the means of production and money and the rest is going to cut each others hair and earn not even enough to eat because the debt will choke every part of private and state activity.
The only possible outcome at that point will be civil war since fathers will be out there trying to feed their children by any means they have.
He ran casinos into the ground, and is a superb grifter. His Daddy gave him his degree and his millions, but bred a hollow man -- the perfect president for self-destroying Empire like the USA.
Hey, the US is not even interesting: Caligula was MUCH more entertaining and as for Israel -- can anyone imagine a subject tribal leader going to Rome and excoriating the Emperor In the Roman Senate? Defying The Empire and leading it around Circus Maximus with aring in its nose?
Depends on which billionaire, and which economist. Many "billionaires" are as batshit as other mainstream businesspeople, and as Adam Smith said:
Smith states that the interest of manufacturers and merchants "in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous but with the most suspicious attention."
Frankly, I hold most Economists and most Businesspeople with the same contempt.
That's wrong, well the 'he's not a economist' part at least, the other part I am not sure to be honest. He has a business degree and worked in business his whole life, you mean maybe he was more a marketing/PR guy, which is true.
Marketing/PR? Sure he did that, as well as building things, completing municipal projects that were over budget and under built before he took over. This says nothing to the fact he also Owned/s many buildings and marketing assets.
exactly. I think the most relevent comment from Trump was about how Zelensky is the "best businessman in town" because he goes home with $6 B in his pocket every time he visits. Pretty sure Trump didn't like that because he himself always wants to get the better "deal" not some beggar in a T-shirt.
"The lodestar is that he will do what improves the economic welfare, safety and security of the American people. Anything else is a non-starter."
Sorry. I must disagree. I do agree that Trump will want to improve the "economic welfare, safety and security of the American people", but I disagree that such will be his highest priority which is to support the "economic welfare, safety and security" of the zionist regime in Occupied Palestine. He is an American patriot but above all a zionist patriot. He has made big promises to his Jewish supporters and is not just indebted to them, but honestly supports them with his heart. Though he does not want to pursue war, and I believe him on this issue, he will, in the end drive America into war in a fruitless pursuit of the "economic welfare, safety and security" of the zionist cancer growing in West Asia, abandoning America's interests. His full support for the zionist cause (and he is just a great a monster as the Occupier since he supports the genocide) and his contempt for Iran will be the motor that drives him to war with Iran - Bibi will see to that. And as a result of that war America will find its ultimate fall from hegemony and the final dissolution of the Western alliance.
Trump will not be able to fix the US Deep State. He has the right ideas but he will be redirected soon after taking taking office. IF he survives to take office, a scenario that must be considered - it could very well be the case that the zionists are setting him up for assassination (again planned by Bibi and friends) and blaming it on Iran which would cause an epic call for revenge on Iran and an immediate march to war - which America and the Western alliance will lose, if not militarily, most assuredly economically as their prime sources of oil will be destroyed.
In either case, the world will not be the same by the end of 2025.
As an addendum to the above, I am truly concerned with the wellspring of unrestrained optimism rising up among the American populace after this election cycle. The impact on American society if and when the fall comes might well prove fatal to the country.
Exceptionally.O'bomber was keen on repeating the unrivalled exceptionalism of the US of A and its priviliged class. Clearly it turned out just fine. By the sounds of it there is still a fair amount of influx on the southern border...:)
Sounds like "He'll do a lot of things I don't like because of Jews" to me. He did more to calm the middle east than any president in decades, and that was his first term.
Meanwhile every other country either provides weapons and support to stir up trouble or sits back and says "woe is me". Oh, and da jeewwws!
Hey David, how is ordering the assignation of Suliemani calming the Middle East? That is a copybook of what the Zionazis do and look where it them got today.
Not long now, and the US presence in the Middle East will be a thing of the past. The Middle East doesn't need America' The Land of the Free' to steal their oil, prop up whichever dictator kisses their backside, topple the ones that don't - and to just generally create chaos, by having military bases in places they are definitely not welcome in.
'Calm the ME' -is a typical entitled American viewpoint. The assasination of General of another country doesn't even feature...and that's the problem.
It's definitely time the rest of the world calms the USA down a bit - maybe accuse it of having WMD, too many oligarchs, a rigged undemocratic voting system, a crap culture that glorifies killing - sounds like more than enough reason to calm them down.
As for Israel...they also have to be calmed down. Someone has to tell them they're not as special as they have been led to believe. Otherwise they're going to walk themselves into HollowCause V.2, all by themselves.
>Yep, Trump's absolute priorities are the US and its people, not Ukraine or any other war.
Did you seriously write this?
Trump's priorities are the oligarch ruling class, and in particular the faction of it that supported him in opposition to the faction that didn't. But the policies he implemented in his first term were all generally in their favor of both faction as a single class, not in favor of the regular people, and so it will be now.
The wealth of the likes of Musk was steadily growing during Trump's first term, then exploded in his last year during the pandemic and thanks to his mishandling of it.
Well, guess what -- every dollar that the billionaires gain is a dollar stolen from you, thus when they get richer, you get poorer, and if they are getting richer, then the policies in place are directed against you.
If you see a US president using established precedent to call MQ-9 Reaper drone strikes on billionaire mansions just because he felt like it (established legal precedent gives him that power; by doing so he will force the elites to either restore the rights people in this country no longer have after that precedent was established, or the president can just continue to deal with the problem that they are with direct kinetic action), or he starts throwing them in jail for decades for financial fraud (not a single one of them is not guilty of that on a massive scale), then you will know that he is on your side. Good luck waiting for Trump to do that.
You mean those policies like prison reform, and trying to block all that cheap labor coming over the border, and tge $2k tax break middle class me remembers receiving?
No he is not. He inherited a fortune from his slumlord father, had multiple bankruptcies and was bailed out by NYC Jew owned banks. The blackmailing homosexual Ray Cohn kept a close eye on him. He is totally a Zionist project.
No matter how you repeat the tired tropes, your simplistic rationale of how Trump went from millions to billions will never be enough to explain that amount of success. I am however glad your view is comforting to the 'small brains'.
Had Trump taken the money he borrowed from his father and sunk it into an S&P 500 index fund and reinvested the proceeds, he would be richer than he is today, and he would not have to do anything other than cash checks.
At the bottom of the market in early 2009 the S&P 500 hit 666. Today it's 6001. Nobody could have predicted it would go up so much. It's gone up mostly because of bad government policy. It will likely come back to fair value at some point, maybe even lower.
I think its more that the deep state will infiltrate the Trump presidency, like they have with every other president since the 1940s. Like they did with the Trump presidency before. So it will be interesting, how that will play out. Could be a lot of compromises from the deep state and Trump too, remember, as Trump assassinated that Iranian General, all of a sudden all MSM praised him for the first time.
But it really doesn't matter that much regarding the Ukrainian war because that was over the moment Russia decided to start the SMO. Only uncertain outcome was the economic war of the West against Russia, I think not even the Russians thought it will go that good for them.
The Trump presidency will have a tough fight against the corrupt globohomo swamp. Its f.cking huuuuuge man. We are talking about millions of millions of people who are in the bureaucratic/technocratic swamp and profiteering off of the laaaaarge sums of money, billions of billions of taxpayers money. That will be a tough one, I think it will be interesting how he manages that, imho a almost impossible task. And they will try to off him again, guaranteed.
Correct. The media monkeys are already reporting "evidence" that Iran wants to "take out" Trump. Another Zionist false flag in the making with Iran featured as the contemporary Lee Oswald. The false flag factotums also report that the evil Putin is trying to blow up planes with a U$ destination. Oh! The horror! Like the Russians would have any interest in blowing up airplanes. Zero benefit to them and they're not stupid. You can't make this shit up.
Then tone deaf Zionists at the Euro-soccer match...thinking that acting like assholes in Amsterdam would somehow redound to their credit. Morons. Monsters.
I don't know what was involved in the decision-making over Amsterdam (though the Israeli press says Mossad was there "just in case"), but I think the actual Israeli ultras were mainly just enjoying themselves. It's reported that one of their chants was "We make war for fun!"
It seems the Trump camp posted a Tweet that both are not coming back into the administration. But we will see, I think he has to let some of the neocons in, some of them stayed loyal to him, like Lindsey Graham. And lets be real, are there that many people in the US in Politics or higher ups in the bureaucracy/technocracy who aren't hawkish in their foreign policies? And Trump was kind of hawkish against Iran for some reason in his first presidency.
What I hope Trump will do early on is to get rid of all the 4 stars that betray their oath to the Constitution withdraw from NATO. cut off all funding for foreign wars (including Zionist Israel) and start closing and withdrawing our troops from foreign countries, and do this with one big executive order.
>My hope is that he and Putin can cut a deal and end the war.
There is no deal to be had for Russia that Trump could accept.
The minimal acceptable for Russia outcome of the war is complete end of Ukrainian statehood, occupation of the whole territory of the country by Russia, and then gradual erasure of the very concept of being Ukrainian over the subsequent generations. Yes, in Galicia too.
First, things have gone too far by this point, and leaving any sort of independent Ukraine guarantees it will be used as platform for long-range strikes into Russia forever. Because there can be no Ukraine that is not an anti-Russia, due to the fact that most Ukrainians are self-hating brainwashed Russians, who will revert to being Russians the moment you take away their hatred for Russia.
Second, western Ukraine has two nuclear power plants that can serve as source of fissile material. And that is assuming the US/UK/France/Israel don't give the warheads to them directly.
Note -- this is the minimal acceptable for Russia outcome.
"Minimal acceptable" because it does nothing to resolve the issues of US nukes in Finland, Poland, Romania, Germany, etc.
An acceptable outcome means the US taking all its nukes out of Europe altogether.
A real victory is total eviction of all US military infrastructure from Eurasia.
Read this again, then consider where freezing the conflict along something approximating the current line of contact fits in that context.
Also, remember where the Nazis were in the 1941, and where the Brest-Litovsk treay drew the borders prior to that.
Putin will be in effect signing a new Brest-Litovsk, but this time one that will stick, or he will be making most of the Nazi gains from the 1941 Operation Barbarossa push permanent.
If he agrees to that, he deserves to be shot and buried in an unmarked grave by angry patriots the way Nicholas II was by the Bolsheviks.
Knowing Putin and how the elites under him are compradores, I wouldnt put it past him to "cut a deal" with Trump
I certainly hope I am wrong and he doesnt cut a deal, but I am not getting my hopes up considering Putins tendencies to cut cuckold deals and fear of escalating.
It seems to me Trump will continue supporting Ukraine - I believe that a conversation with Ze was had and guarentees were given - which is ironic given how Ze threw Trump under the bus during investigations against him.
Trump is no doubt hoping that the Russians will take Pokrovsk and move from there to Zaporozhye before he takes office. So he can say, it's over.
Trump knows that the Ukraine war and the Gaza holocaust are dead weights for a president. He saw what they did to Biden. He and Vance and others are no doubt thinking of how to end these while still pleasing the fanatic Jews in the media.
Re Russia advancing before inauguration - I don't know if he's hoping that, but it would be a politically neat solution. Alas there's too much ground to cover in 2 months
Re Gaza/Lebanon slaughter - Trump admin is going to be the same blank check for Netanyahu that Biden was ... he literally campaigned on it
I agree in regards to Russia, but the Israel status is that they have been largely successful and are seen in a favorable light (screaming street rats not withstanding).
Reports of Trump putting Marco Rubio up for Secretary of State ring true enough. Rubio hates Trump and will do exactly the opposite of what Trump campaigned on, so he appears qualified to be in a Trump Cabinet. With Mike Pompeo green-lit for a new role (Secretary of Defense this time, maybe?), we're just waiting for news on what positions John Bolton, William Barr, Jared Kuschner, and Liz Cheney will be offered.
F*ck Trump. Better than Biden, but the whole make-believe of appointing his enemies who do exactly what the establishment would do (and everything Trump promised he wouldn't) is old at this point. It's as manipulative as just outright lying on the campaign trail, like Obama did about being a Peace President in 2008.
I agree - until it comes from Trump, I would treat all MSM reports about his staff picks and policies as deep state lobbying. Remember the BS reported about who was going to be VP?
That looks like a good read on the situation, Morgthorak. I doubt the Artful Dealer telegraphed to Bartiromo his actual plan for Ukrainian peace or will ever propose a deal that risks making him look bad. I suspect whatever he says about it publicly is more like a feint or tease to feel out international reactions and keep expectations low. He’s more likely to leverage economies to get Russia and Ukraine to play nice—even if Ukraine gives up a chunk of real estate—than he is to expect anything from NATO. If in fact CIA bases on Russia’s border was Putin’s main beef, and considering four years of Pax Trumpana and four more of the neocon's disgraceful waste of personnel and materiel, whatever Trump settles for will almost certainly benefit the US. I hope.
Just so. And unless I misjudge their former mutual respect & admiration, Trump will not try to dominate Vlad at all. That’s not going to work anyway, as Rootin-Tootin is many times over more experienced at international diplomacy than DJT…who surely knows who holds (at the moment) the upper hand.
Just do the right thing mr. Trump, call CIA to JFKed Zelensky, instal Zaluzhny, and let Putin take the whole Ukraine, you can still have EU to pet, more importantly make peace with Iran, end Israeli Aid. Of course it will not happen and we know that for sure, so WW3 is about a year away.
Wait and not expect much, especially given the ugly names mentioned as possible cabinet members, is the only thing we and Moscow should do. Everything tastes better when you didn't expect a good surprise and yet received one, but it tastes just plain enough when you receive a "disappointment" instead.
"especially given the ugly names mentioned as possible cabinet members" Well said. Marco Rubio would be a return to Trump's first administration habit of appointing dangerous fools like Pompeo and Bolton.
It is widely said, no links, that it is NK which supplies AA with missiles, 'facilitated' by Iran
RF has no need to intervene
China is said to be very happy that such live testing by the NK and by the AA of missiles and drones against the US Navy should reveal all the many failures recorded
They have been supplying weapons to AA since the Sauds/Western media dishonestly claimed that AA were an Iranian ancillary - they had nothing to lose after that.
But the Yemenis don't even need actual missiles - just the blueprints to build them themselves, and have the high-end electronics snuck in.
Certainly not the RF - many pronouncements have been made to the contrary
C ertainly AA can stich together quite a lot, but they can have no deep industrial base and practice as possessed by NK to produce missiles of much sophistication
Is English not your native tongue? You seem to have problems in expressing yourself clearly.
Those "Stitched together" missiles have penetrated a US carrier strike fleets defences on several occasions, and have even probably managed to hit a carrier itself.
I'd be happy to be able to "Stitch together" such high technology.
And what you are ultimately saying is that IRAN'S technology is so superior to the Americans own, even knock-offs in the hands of AA are superior to the West's.
They clearly do not need Russian missile tech. Indeed, in some areas Iran may well be ahead of Russia.
On that note recall that Israeli pilots noted an "Unknown" radar profile that locked onto their "Stealth" US-built jets.
No one is denying the success of the AA and of their homegrown m's
It is also thusly with many drones
But it is clear that advanced missile technology is the product of industrial structures which the AA lack
I am not and have not commented on Iran's missile tech
I have mentioned that AA receives advanced missiles from NK - this with the blind eye blessing of the China gvmt, and is to the advantage of Iran when they say, with apparent accuracy, that their relations with AA do not involve the provision of missiles
'Native' is a word I do not much use in the attribution of successful English, although I am happy to recognise the general use of a variety of English by the ynakas and others, I hardly regard their forms of english as particularly successful
Try Indian english for a more adequate form thereof
Anything that distracts or depletes the US militarily or financially is in Russia's interests now and the Houthis have given the US Navy their hottest engagements in 80 years.
Furthermore, both the Russians and Chinese have a strong interest in learning how to defeat American systems. There is no better testing ground than in real operations. They could both help the Houthis by supplying and trading information at essentially no cost to themselves and without any of their signatures appearing on any missiles. And they could do this without the diplomatic cost of withdrawing their recognition of the Aden government.
It may be in RF's interests to make sure they may defeat the US, here and there
But not at the expense of behaving like the US
The RF, vey generally, does not use proxies
And certainly not in this case - as they have expressed on many occasions, both Lavrov and Nebenzya at the UN have been quite definite
The Chinese, as I have suggested, as well as the NK are adequate to the task of 'facilitating' what ever missiles may be added to AA inventory better to test and defeat the US Navy in the Red Sea
To suggest that the RF could, in ciircumstances in which they might easily be discovered, lie about their actions, when their actions are rendered unnecessary or redundant by the actions of their allies, is absurd
One does not have to 'sign' a missile for it's provenance to be discovered by an analysis of the parts- if these are being fired at an enemy this enemy has every possibility of establishing this provenance
You appear to think that all nations behave as the US behaves - by definition this is not true
If the US goes "all in" on Ukraine, Russia will fight back through symmetric and asymmetric means. It won't be just arming Ansar Allah, it will be providing carrier-killing missiles to Iran and it will likely also strike US and NATO assets directly.
Keep in mind NATO's often wrongly quoted Article 5 has a flip side: "An attack by *any* NATO country is an attack by *all* NATO countries." Russia could strike low-hanging fruit in the Baltics, Poland, Germany, and other NATO countries. If the US wants to step that up to general war, Russia will be ready.
A fight with the US directly attacking Russia is a very different deal than a proxy war within the limits of the former "Ukraine." Russia will respond accordingly.
Even to accept a situation is which the US might go 'all in' would be very difficult, indeed un reasonable
If one is being un reasonable it would be more reasonable to speculate about the use nuclear arms by the US
Rather than avoiding any specific speculation by the use of a generalised phrase coming from poker - even by playing such games one can tell something about one's opponent as long as they are playing by the same rules, which in this case they are not
The Russians do not play poker - only the US does
To start with an unlikely premise, or very unlikely, in order to speculate about potential reaction is the least reasonable of methods
RF is nothing if not reasonable
Even so the RF would not use the US methods of war - has not will not can not
First, if it ever was going to happen, it already would have. NATO strikes deep inside Russia have been ongoing for more than a year now. What is Putin waiting for?
Second, Putin is more loyal to Israel than to Russia, and he won't do anything that really pisses Netanyahu off.
Third, it is meaningless anyway. Given the West's egregious violations of all norms established back in the days during the Cold War, the only thing that will reestablish deterrence is direct strikes on Western elites (not the politicians, those are figureheads, though they deserve it too, but the people in the castles and skyscrapers). The Houthis can't do that all the way from Yemen.
Well consider that Putin is Yeltsin man and protected him from investigations by Russias cheif prosecutor in the 90s for stealing elections, widespread corruption and treason.
Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesperson said Doha will work with Biden’s administration “until the last minute” before U.S. election to reach Gaza truce deal--and beyond.
Meaning there will be obfuscations, falsehoods and smoke & mirrors toward which Burnsie can contribute before Joe's admin heaves its last breath on 19 January 2025.
G, can you believe it: Burnsie may never come back from Qatar.
Qatar going all in on Burns is good news for us and for the 'Middle East' as he calls it- Burns and Qatar both will keep alive the flame of Democracy until the return of Biden and his merry crew in ....when's the next US Election?
This is great news CS - to ship Democracy and it's true leaders to the 'Middle East' will open up the place to a new settler class - all those Dems and 4B's disgusted with Trump and men can re locate, and form new breeding grounds for a brighter future
This will re shape world geopolitics in a way few suspected the day before yesterday
Glassy shimmers rising from the sand form a liquefaction of mirages which have nothing to do w/ their child-less cat-full lives in the U.S. where the guys always forget to put the toilet seat back down
There are, you know, laws in the Middle East about cats and their care, about who touches a toilet seat and when and how, and whether women can or may drive cars
These and many other attractions, the rules as to who can meet or look at who, will serve to transform the Gulf and the Saudi A Hinterland into the blossoming and burgeoning full cradles of democracy
Hello Simplicius. Short article but said all that was needed. this quote - Bundestag deputy Anton Hofreiter leaked all the trumps. "In the eastern part of Ukraine, large reserves of lithium are concentrated and Germany is waging a war for them. " - I would have thought it was cheaper just to buy the lithium from the previous Ukraine than what Schollz did. What a horrible goblin he is.
Colonial civilized powers don't believe in buying but grabbing for dirt cheap cost...which they thought it would be. How else would they make huge profits and become first world countries?
Hi Rashmi. But Germany has gone under with this miserable policy. And I don't believe that the German people would have chosen this. And its not civilized to do this. Maybe when all Europe was blood thirsty back in the neo dark ages ( 1400's ) but not today. This is whatever is guiding most politicians now. Is it zionism ? I have heard that asshole is chabad lubavitz. Maybe that's to blame for what he did to Germany and those graves in Ukraine. In fact its so similar to Gaza. Like they're just clearing the land of the inhabitants. I mean there are ( were ? ) alot of Ukrainians that were jerks. Nazi supporters. But only a fraction of the population And all those graves.
"Maybe when all Europe was blood thirsty back in the neo dark ages ( 1400's )"
Back in the 1400's? That's missing the early part of the 20th century (lot of blood thirst in action in WW1), just before the middle part (hard to beat the European blood thirst on display in WW2), just after the middle part (the French using poison gas on freedom-seeking Algerians, France's brutal actions before its defeat in Vietnam, the Netherlands using bombing, mass executions, and village destruction to kill as many as 500,000 people in Indonesia in attempt to keep Indonesia their colony, the UK's brutality against Kenyan freedom fighters seeking their freedom, and then the UK's brutality against Greek Cypriot nationalists (admittedly, only a few thousand slaughtered by those "civilized" Brits).
And then there's the latter part of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, with European nations re-acquiring from the US a taste for slaughtering brown skinned people, for example, in the European bombing of Libya. Heck, they even went after their own whites, like the European bombing of Belgrade that killed over 30,000 civilians.
Most recently there's the EU blood thirst that's powering, along with the US, a war to the last Ukrainian that's already killed or maimed a million Ukrainian men. Nothing "civilized" about that.
I was thinking this. Europe could have had all that lithium on the free market (And internal market to boot), all they had to do was NOT attempt/plan to genocide the Russian-speaking population in those areas, to deliberately cause a Russian invasion (To "Weaken Russia in the ensuing conflict").
The Empire showed its true colours though, it couldn't help itself.
May the Total Hohol Death and Ukrainian demilitarization continue, and may the US join them in the same shallow grave.
I will hold off on judging a Trump peace plan for Ukraine until it comes from him officially. There's a lot of bullshit flying around right now, with the scumbag neocons pushing plans that are supposedly from Trump, but that have no official backing from him whatsoever.
My hope is that he and Putin can cut a deal and end the war. If not, then Trump should simply cut all funding to Ukraine and let it collapse. The Russians can take what they wish and hand the rest off to the EU. Let them deal with it since they helped make the mess in the first place.
The Russians will NOT accept any of the bullshit neocon plans, nor should they. They are winning the war and have the right to decide what's what by right of conquest.
Yep, Trump's absolute priorities are the US and its people, not Ukraine or any other war.
He is not going to put the welfare of the US people at risk in a futile effort to prop up the neoCons' war in Ukraine. In fact he has recently referred to the extent to which US money being spent on Ukraine could be used to rebuild US infrastructure and do other work needed in the US.
And the people talking about a "$500 billion lend-lease program" for Ukraine are utter morons. No one will lend Ukraine 10c without a guarantee from a financially solid party, and the latter would never get their money back. Trump is a highly successful businessman. He understands where risk lies in borrowing arrangements and will not have a bar of such a proposal. He might agree with it in principle if European countries are the guarantors, which they're not in a position to be, but certainly won't agree to it with the US as guarantor.
It is also foolish to take what he may have said 18 months ago, when the war was at a very different situation than it plainly is now, and assume that reflects actions he will take on assuming office. The lodestar is that he will do what improves the economic welfare, safety and security of the American people. Anything else is a non-starter.
It's taxpayer's money, not his own. In any case, the Fed will simply print it and hand it over to the demons that run the MIC.
It does not work like that. Printing money is a form of tax since increasing mass of money chasing the same amount of goods will simply dilute the value of money. I.e. it causes price inflation.
And price inflation is one major reasons (and quite possibly THE reason) why Kamala lost. Americans are fed up with inflation. Trump understands that, and given a choice of destroying his popular support and giving up Ukraine he is not going to give any second thought about Ukraine. It simply is not important, as loss in Ukraine does not really affect security or prosperity of US. Inflation does.
Trump DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THIS. He's not a economist, and is very easily bamboozled by simplistic sounding plans. He's already going to be printing $3Tn a year just to cover the Govts expenses, another $500Bn might not sound a big deal to him - especially when it makes the MIC sweet.
I hope he DOESN'T do it, and that you're right and he can see through this, but I would not take that as concrete as you are doing.
This time he is surrounded with people who do understand. Vivek and Elon have shown that they understand Austrian economics, and I suspect Kennedy understands it, too (though it's not his forte). Vance so far did not espouse monetarist economic nonsense either. (Tulsi's grasp of economics is rather poor.)
Money printing will be necessary to avoid complete and sudden crash of both government and banks, but hopefully extricating US from foreign boondoggles and reducing government spending would help in reducing inflation.
Austrian economics is as bad as MMT, just in a different way. Problem with Trump is not who he has around him, it's who sounded authoritative most the last who spoke to him.
When he starts closing US bases, I'll believe you're right. But if I held my breath, I could collect a whole oceans worth of pearls, I suspect.
"Reducing Govt spending" under Trump, will almost certainly entail cutting social programs, rather than massively wasteful MIC/Big Corporates spending. With 50%+ of the US public already in poverty, and unable to pay bills, let alone afford healthcare, or saving for pensions, this is a recipe for catastrophe. Needless to say inflation is already considerably higher than admitted.
Workers are not just recipients of paychecks, they are also the consumers.
You think stinking billionaires like Musk are going to raise incomes by one cent?
Or cut the very Fed budgets he benefits from personally?
Trump MAY be OK on foreign matters, possibly end ONE war, but the American people are going to be a LOT poorer by the end of his term.
Donald Trump actually has a degree in economics, he graduated from the Ivy league University of Pennsylvanian with a bachelors degree in economics in 1968. Its rather amazing how few people know that.
His education in addition to the 40+ years in the Real Estate game make him both the most formally credentialed and practically experienced President in business and economics in a generation.
economic education in the US is as poor as one can imagine, it's all about maximizing profit, economic models (mathematics) that have proven wrong over and over again but seem to be scrosanct in the academic field. The distinction between micro & macroeconomy almost doesn't exisit and the fundamental knowledge that once debt is the plus money of another is not understand even rudimentarily as it seems to me. Since we all in the west live by a debt driven system, cutting on state credit simply means that this money will no longer exist - that means that the purchase power will be gone and no need to produce anything that can't be sold on the markets - with all the following consequences.
In the end 0,001% will have (own) all the means of production and money and the rest is going to cut each others hair and earn not even enough to eat because the debt will choke every part of private and state activity.
The only possible outcome at that point will be civil war since fathers will be out there trying to feed their children by any means they have.
He ran casinos into the ground, and is a superb grifter. His Daddy gave him his degree and his millions, but bred a hollow man -- the perfect president for self-destroying Empire like the USA.
Hey, the US is not even interesting: Caligula was MUCH more entertaining and as for Israel -- can anyone imagine a subject tribal leader going to Rome and excoriating the Emperor In the Roman Senate? Defying The Empire and leading it around Circus Maximus with aring in its nose?
He obviously didn't learn much considering he still seems to believe that the Chinese will be the ones who pay for his tariffs.
billionaire>>economist
Depends on which billionaire, and which economist. Many "billionaires" are as batshit as other mainstream businesspeople, and as Adam Smith said:
Smith states that the interest of manufacturers and merchants "in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order, ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous but with the most suspicious attention."
Frankly, I hold most Economists and most Businesspeople with the same contempt.
That's wrong, well the 'he's not a economist' part at least, the other part I am not sure to be honest. He has a business degree and worked in business his whole life, you mean maybe he was more a marketing/PR guy, which is true.
Marketing/PR? Sure he did that, as well as building things, completing municipal projects that were over budget and under built before he took over. This says nothing to the fact he also Owned/s many buildings and marketing assets.
don't be surprised if getting rid of the Federal Reserve becomes a priority under a Trump administration. Stop the money printing.
exactly. I think the most relevent comment from Trump was about how Zelensky is the "best businessman in town" because he goes home with $6 B in his pocket every time he visits. Pretty sure Trump didn't like that because he himself always wants to get the better "deal" not some beggar in a T-shirt.
Trump knows most of that rubber-check money is making its way back to the ones who ok’d it. And he knows it’s gotta STOP.
"The lodestar is that he will do what improves the economic welfare, safety and security of the American people. Anything else is a non-starter."
Sorry. I must disagree. I do agree that Trump will want to improve the "economic welfare, safety and security of the American people", but I disagree that such will be his highest priority which is to support the "economic welfare, safety and security" of the zionist regime in Occupied Palestine. He is an American patriot but above all a zionist patriot. He has made big promises to his Jewish supporters and is not just indebted to them, but honestly supports them with his heart. Though he does not want to pursue war, and I believe him on this issue, he will, in the end drive America into war in a fruitless pursuit of the "economic welfare, safety and security" of the zionist cancer growing in West Asia, abandoning America's interests. His full support for the zionist cause (and he is just a great a monster as the Occupier since he supports the genocide) and his contempt for Iran will be the motor that drives him to war with Iran - Bibi will see to that. And as a result of that war America will find its ultimate fall from hegemony and the final dissolution of the Western alliance.
Trump will not be able to fix the US Deep State. He has the right ideas but he will be redirected soon after taking taking office. IF he survives to take office, a scenario that must be considered - it could very well be the case that the zionists are setting him up for assassination (again planned by Bibi and friends) and blaming it on Iran which would cause an epic call for revenge on Iran and an immediate march to war - which America and the Western alliance will lose, if not militarily, most assuredly economically as their prime sources of oil will be destroyed.
In either case, the world will not be the same by the end of 2025.
As an addendum to the above, I am truly concerned with the wellspring of unrestrained optimism rising up among the American populace after this election cycle. The impact on American society if and when the fall comes might well prove fatal to the country.
As I recall there was unrestrained optimism when bathhouse Barry the Bumboy became president too. How did that go for the plebs?
Exceptionally.O'bomber was keen on repeating the unrivalled exceptionalism of the US of A and its priviliged class. Clearly it turned out just fine. By the sounds of it there is still a fair amount of influx on the southern border...:)
And they voted for Trump in large numbers. Why? Because they are Catholics.
Opposite sides of the coin...but we'll see if it's a same outcome.
Sounds like "He'll do a lot of things I don't like because of Jews" to me. He did more to calm the middle east than any president in decades, and that was his first term.
Meanwhile every other country either provides weapons and support to stir up trouble or sits back and says "woe is me". Oh, and da jeewwws!
Not Jews- Zionism and Zionism is a psychotic supremacy force that stops at nothing to achieve it’s delusional aims
Hey David, how is ordering the assignation of Suliemani calming the Middle East? That is a copybook of what the Zionazis do and look where it them got today.
Not long now, and the US presence in the Middle East will be a thing of the past. The Middle East doesn't need America' The Land of the Free' to steal their oil, prop up whichever dictator kisses their backside, topple the ones that don't - and to just generally create chaos, by having military bases in places they are definitely not welcome in.
'Calm the ME' -is a typical entitled American viewpoint. The assasination of General of another country doesn't even feature...and that's the problem.
It's definitely time the rest of the world calms the USA down a bit - maybe accuse it of having WMD, too many oligarchs, a rigged undemocratic voting system, a crap culture that glorifies killing - sounds like more than enough reason to calm them down.
As for Israel...they also have to be calmed down. Someone has to tell them they're not as special as they have been led to believe. Otherwise they're going to walk themselves into HollowCause V.2, all by themselves.
"Highly successful businessman!"
Yeah, had me laughing too.
while you both sit back and barely make your monthly bills? It's the scorpion telling the elephant how tough he is.
>Yep, Trump's absolute priorities are the US and its people, not Ukraine or any other war.
Did you seriously write this?
Trump's priorities are the oligarch ruling class, and in particular the faction of it that supported him in opposition to the faction that didn't. But the policies he implemented in his first term were all generally in their favor of both faction as a single class, not in favor of the regular people, and so it will be now.
The wealth of the likes of Musk was steadily growing during Trump's first term, then exploded in his last year during the pandemic and thanks to his mishandling of it.
Well, guess what -- every dollar that the billionaires gain is a dollar stolen from you, thus when they get richer, you get poorer, and if they are getting richer, then the policies in place are directed against you.
If you see a US president using established precedent to call MQ-9 Reaper drone strikes on billionaire mansions just because he felt like it (established legal precedent gives him that power; by doing so he will force the elites to either restore the rights people in this country no longer have after that precedent was established, or the president can just continue to deal with the problem that they are with direct kinetic action), or he starts throwing them in jail for decades for financial fraud (not a single one of them is not guilty of that on a massive scale), then you will know that he is on your side. Good luck waiting for Trump to do that.
You mean those policies like prison reform, and trying to block all that cheap labor coming over the border, and tge $2k tax break middle class me remembers receiving?
"Trump is a highly successful businessman"
No he is not. He inherited a fortune from his slumlord father, had multiple bankruptcies and was bailed out by NYC Jew owned banks. The blackmailing homosexual Ray Cohn kept a close eye on him. He is totally a Zionist project.
No matter how you repeat the tired tropes, your simplistic rationale of how Trump went from millions to billions will never be enough to explain that amount of success. I am however glad your view is comforting to the 'small brains'.
I'm glad you are glad. What a lad.
True tired tropes
Millions to billions
Small brain comforts
Humpty Dumpty Trumpty
Is being set up
For a big fall
Please refrain from insulting others
Don't be rude
American
Had Trump taken the money he borrowed from his father and sunk it into an S&P 500 index fund and reinvested the proceeds, he would be richer than he is today, and he would not have to do anything other than cash checks.
what childish nonsense, made for tv viewers
S&P has an over time return of 10% or so, since 1928. This year, 28.35% so far, last I looked.
https://www.macrotrends.net/2324/sp-500-historical-chart-data
Back of the envelope says that $1m loan would be worth about $97 million today. So the answer to that is ...no, makes no sense.
His net worth today, $4.8 billion, would be approached in about 2067 if he lived that long, through that S&P 500 technique.
At the bottom of the market in early 2009 the S&P 500 hit 666. Today it's 6001. Nobody could have predicted it would go up so much. It's gone up mostly because of bad government policy. It will likely come back to fair value at some point, maybe even lower.
G'day FF, no EFTs in those days but spot on. Love it
True, but the beauty of an index fund is that anyone can replicate it.
I think its more that the deep state will infiltrate the Trump presidency, like they have with every other president since the 1940s. Like they did with the Trump presidency before. So it will be interesting, how that will play out. Could be a lot of compromises from the deep state and Trump too, remember, as Trump assassinated that Iranian General, all of a sudden all MSM praised him for the first time.
But it really doesn't matter that much regarding the Ukrainian war because that was over the moment Russia decided to start the SMO. Only uncertain outcome was the economic war of the West against Russia, I think not even the Russians thought it will go that good for them.
The Trump presidency will have a tough fight against the corrupt globohomo swamp. Its f.cking huuuuuge man. We are talking about millions of millions of people who are in the bureaucratic/technocratic swamp and profiteering off of the laaaaarge sums of money, billions of billions of taxpayers money. That will be a tough one, I think it will be interesting how he manages that, imho a almost impossible task. And they will try to off him again, guaranteed.
Correct. The media monkeys are already reporting "evidence" that Iran wants to "take out" Trump. Another Zionist false flag in the making with Iran featured as the contemporary Lee Oswald. The false flag factotums also report that the evil Putin is trying to blow up planes with a U$ destination. Oh! The horror! Like the Russians would have any interest in blowing up airplanes. Zero benefit to them and they're not stupid. You can't make this shit up.
Then tone deaf Zionists at the Euro-soccer match...thinking that acting like assholes in Amsterdam would somehow redound to their credit. Morons. Monsters.
I don't know what was involved in the decision-making over Amsterdam (though the Israeli press says Mossad was there "just in case"), but I think the actual Israeli ultras were mainly just enjoying themselves. It's reported that one of their chants was "We make war for fun!"
They already have. Pompeo and Haley are back in Trump’s good graces. Brian Hook is on the short list of nominees at State.
"But, but... This time will be different, Trump has LEARNED from the first time!" 🤡
It seems the Trump camp posted a Tweet that both are not coming back into the administration. But we will see, I think he has to let some of the neocons in, some of them stayed loyal to him, like Lindsey Graham. And lets be real, are there that many people in the US in Politics or higher ups in the bureaucracy/technocracy who aren't hawkish in their foreign policies? And Trump was kind of hawkish against Iran for some reason in his first presidency.
I agree with and support your advice about Ukraine and the US, Morgthorak.
What I hope Trump will do early on is to get rid of all the 4 stars that betray their oath to the Constitution withdraw from NATO. cut off all funding for foreign wars (including Zionist Israel) and start closing and withdrawing our troops from foreign countries, and do this with one big executive order.
Well, he won't.
He’s already asked for their resignations. https://youtu.be/P_96WiziP_0
>My hope is that he and Putin can cut a deal and end the war.
There is no deal to be had for Russia that Trump could accept.
The minimal acceptable for Russia outcome of the war is complete end of Ukrainian statehood, occupation of the whole territory of the country by Russia, and then gradual erasure of the very concept of being Ukrainian over the subsequent generations. Yes, in Galicia too.
First, things have gone too far by this point, and leaving any sort of independent Ukraine guarantees it will be used as platform for long-range strikes into Russia forever. Because there can be no Ukraine that is not an anti-Russia, due to the fact that most Ukrainians are self-hating brainwashed Russians, who will revert to being Russians the moment you take away their hatred for Russia.
Second, western Ukraine has two nuclear power plants that can serve as source of fissile material. And that is assuming the US/UK/France/Israel don't give the warheads to them directly.
Note -- this is the minimal acceptable for Russia outcome.
"Minimal acceptable" because it does nothing to resolve the issues of US nukes in Finland, Poland, Romania, Germany, etc.
An acceptable outcome means the US taking all its nukes out of Europe altogether.
A real victory is total eviction of all US military infrastructure from Eurasia.
Read this again, then consider where freezing the conflict along something approximating the current line of contact fits in that context.
Also, remember where the Nazis were in the 1941, and where the Brest-Litovsk treay drew the borders prior to that.
Putin will be in effect signing a new Brest-Litovsk, but this time one that will stick, or he will be making most of the Nazi gains from the 1941 Operation Barbarossa push permanent.
If he agrees to that, he deserves to be shot and buried in an unmarked grave by angry patriots the way Nicholas II was by the Bolsheviks.
Knowing Putin and how the elites under him are compradores, I wouldnt put it past him to "cut a deal" with Trump
I certainly hope I am wrong and he doesnt cut a deal, but I am not getting my hopes up considering Putins tendencies to cut cuckold deals and fear of escalating.
It seems to me Trump will continue supporting Ukraine - I believe that a conversation with Ze was had and guarentees were given - which is ironic given how Ze threw Trump under the bus during investigations against him.
Of course,it will continue. This isn't Trump's decision to make to begin with. Other people pull the strings.
Trump is no doubt hoping that the Russians will take Pokrovsk and move from there to Zaporozhye before he takes office. So he can say, it's over.
Trump knows that the Ukraine war and the Gaza holocaust are dead weights for a president. He saw what they did to Biden. He and Vance and others are no doubt thinking of how to end these while still pleasing the fanatic Jews in the media.
Re Russia advancing before inauguration - I don't know if he's hoping that, but it would be a politically neat solution. Alas there's too much ground to cover in 2 months
Re Gaza/Lebanon slaughter - Trump admin is going to be the same blank check for Netanyahu that Biden was ... he literally campaigned on it
I agree in regards to Russia, but the Israel status is that they have been largely successful and are seen in a favorable light (screaming street rats not withstanding).
Reports of Trump putting Marco Rubio up for Secretary of State ring true enough. Rubio hates Trump and will do exactly the opposite of what Trump campaigned on, so he appears qualified to be in a Trump Cabinet. With Mike Pompeo green-lit for a new role (Secretary of Defense this time, maybe?), we're just waiting for news on what positions John Bolton, William Barr, Jared Kuschner, and Liz Cheney will be offered.
F*ck Trump. Better than Biden, but the whole make-believe of appointing his enemies who do exactly what the establishment would do (and everything Trump promised he wouldn't) is old at this point. It's as manipulative as just outright lying on the campaign trail, like Obama did about being a Peace President in 2008.
Yes, such appointments would certainly confirm that he hadn't learned a thing from his first term.
It is obvious that Trump remains weak, stupid and easily manipulated.
I’m pretty sure I read that Pompeo is definitely out of the running for the Trump cabinet
I agree - until it comes from Trump, I would treat all MSM reports about his staff picks and policies as deep state lobbying. Remember the BS reported about who was going to be VP?
He's already appointed a neocon as head of his transition team.
Trump remains weak, stupid and easily manipulated.
That looks like a good read on the situation, Morgthorak. I doubt the Artful Dealer telegraphed to Bartiromo his actual plan for Ukrainian peace or will ever propose a deal that risks making him look bad. I suspect whatever he says about it publicly is more like a feint or tease to feel out international reactions and keep expectations low. He’s more likely to leverage economies to get Russia and Ukraine to play nice—even if Ukraine gives up a chunk of real estate—than he is to expect anything from NATO. If in fact CIA bases on Russia’s border was Putin’s main beef, and considering four years of Pax Trumpana and four more of the neocon's disgraceful waste of personnel and materiel, whatever Trump settles for will almost certainly benefit the US. I hope.
Just so. And unless I misjudge their former mutual respect & admiration, Trump will not try to dominate Vlad at all. That’s not going to work anyway, as Rootin-Tootin is many times over more experienced at international diplomacy than DJT…who surely knows who holds (at the moment) the upper hand.
Just do the right thing mr. Trump, call CIA to JFKed Zelensky, instal Zaluzhny, and let Putin take the whole Ukraine, you can still have EU to pet, more importantly make peace with Iran, end Israeli Aid. Of course it will not happen and we know that for sure, so WW3 is about a year away.
I looked back a few hundred years..didn't you write the same thing in Columbus' ship Log?
Wait and not expect much, especially given the ugly names mentioned as possible cabinet members, is the only thing we and Moscow should do. Everything tastes better when you didn't expect a good surprise and yet received one, but it tastes just plain enough when you receive a "disappointment" instead.
"especially given the ugly names mentioned as possible cabinet members" Well said. Marco Rubio would be a return to Trump's first administration habit of appointing dangerous fools like Pompeo and Bolton.
The supposed Russian arming of the 'Houthis' and others is not going to happen
The RF does not support the 'Houthis' and confirms support for the UN backed 'Aden' government
true, but sometimes long-range anti-ship missiles accidentally fall off the back of the truck don'tcha know ;)
It is widely said, no links, that it is NK which supplies AA with missiles, 'facilitated' by Iran
RF has no need to intervene
China is said to be very happy that such live testing by the NK and by the AA of missiles and drones against the US Navy should reveal all the many failures recorded
Of course the RF isn't going to arm Ansar Allah. But they WILL be arming Iran...
dot, dot, dot...
If it is your suggestion that Iran will pass on RF missiles to the AA - you are mistaken
This would be to supply arms to the AA, which they will not do, nor, as explained above, will they or Iran need to do
They have been supplying weapons to AA since the Sauds/Western media dishonestly claimed that AA were an Iranian ancillary - they had nothing to lose after that.
But the Yemenis don't even need actual missiles - just the blueprints to build them themselves, and have the high-end electronics snuck in.
'They' is who, who is supplying weapons to AA
Certainly not the RF - many pronouncements have been made to the contrary
C ertainly AA can stich together quite a lot, but they can have no deep industrial base and practice as possessed by NK to produce missiles of much sophistication
Is English not your native tongue? You seem to have problems in expressing yourself clearly.
Those "Stitched together" missiles have penetrated a US carrier strike fleets defences on several occasions, and have even probably managed to hit a carrier itself.
I'd be happy to be able to "Stitch together" such high technology.
And what you are ultimately saying is that IRAN'S technology is so superior to the Americans own, even knock-offs in the hands of AA are superior to the West's.
They clearly do not need Russian missile tech. Indeed, in some areas Iran may well be ahead of Russia.
On that note recall that Israeli pilots noted an "Unknown" radar profile that locked onto their "Stealth" US-built jets.
No one is denying the success of the AA and of their homegrown m's
It is also thusly with many drones
But it is clear that advanced missile technology is the product of industrial structures which the AA lack
I am not and have not commented on Iran's missile tech
I have mentioned that AA receives advanced missiles from NK - this with the blind eye blessing of the China gvmt, and is to the advantage of Iran when they say, with apparent accuracy, that their relations with AA do not involve the provision of missiles
'Native' is a word I do not much use in the attribution of successful English, although I am happy to recognise the general use of a variety of English by the ynakas and others, I hardly regard their forms of english as particularly successful
Try Indian english for a more adequate form thereof
I disagree.
Anything that distracts or depletes the US militarily or financially is in Russia's interests now and the Houthis have given the US Navy their hottest engagements in 80 years.
Furthermore, both the Russians and Chinese have a strong interest in learning how to defeat American systems. There is no better testing ground than in real operations. They could both help the Houthis by supplying and trading information at essentially no cost to themselves and without any of their signatures appearing on any missiles. And they could do this without the diplomatic cost of withdrawing their recognition of the Aden government.
It may be in RF's interests to make sure they may defeat the US, here and there
But not at the expense of behaving like the US
The RF, vey generally, does not use proxies
And certainly not in this case - as they have expressed on many occasions, both Lavrov and Nebenzya at the UN have been quite definite
The Chinese, as I have suggested, as well as the NK are adequate to the task of 'facilitating' what ever missiles may be added to AA inventory better to test and defeat the US Navy in the Red Sea
To suggest that the RF could, in ciircumstances in which they might easily be discovered, lie about their actions, when their actions are rendered unnecessary or redundant by the actions of their allies, is absurd
One does not have to 'sign' a missile for it's provenance to be discovered by an analysis of the parts- if these are being fired at an enemy this enemy has every possibility of establishing this provenance
You appear to think that all nations behave as the US behaves - by definition this is not true
If the US goes "all in" on Ukraine, Russia will fight back through symmetric and asymmetric means. It won't be just arming Ansar Allah, it will be providing carrier-killing missiles to Iran and it will likely also strike US and NATO assets directly.
Keep in mind NATO's often wrongly quoted Article 5 has a flip side: "An attack by *any* NATO country is an attack by *all* NATO countries." Russia could strike low-hanging fruit in the Baltics, Poland, Germany, and other NATO countries. If the US wants to step that up to general war, Russia will be ready.
A fight with the US directly attacking Russia is a very different deal than a proxy war within the limits of the former "Ukraine." Russia will respond accordingly.
Even to accept a situation is which the US might go 'all in' would be very difficult, indeed un reasonable
If one is being un reasonable it would be more reasonable to speculate about the use nuclear arms by the US
Rather than avoiding any specific speculation by the use of a generalised phrase coming from poker - even by playing such games one can tell something about one's opponent as long as they are playing by the same rules, which in this case they are not
The Russians do not play poker - only the US does
To start with an unlikely premise, or very unlikely, in order to speculate about potential reaction is the least reasonable of methods
RF is nothing if not reasonable
Even so the RF would not use the US methods of war - has not will not can not
Putin and the Russians play chess. The Americans scratch their onions and respond..."you misspelled 'chest'.
Of course it is not going to happen.
First, if it ever was going to happen, it already would have. NATO strikes deep inside Russia have been ongoing for more than a year now. What is Putin waiting for?
Second, Putin is more loyal to Israel than to Russia, and he won't do anything that really pisses Netanyahu off.
Third, it is meaningless anyway. Given the West's egregious violations of all norms established back in the days during the Cold War, the only thing that will reestablish deterrence is direct strikes on Western elites (not the politicians, those are figureheads, though they deserve it too, but the people in the castles and skyscrapers). The Houthis can't do that all the way from Yemen.
What 'of course it is not going to happen'?
Nuclear war?
"Putin is more loyal to Israel than to Russia, and he won't do anything that really pisses Netanyahu off."
Oh FFS!
Well consider that Putin is Yeltsin man and protected him from investigations by Russias cheif prosecutor in the 90s for stealing elections, widespread corruption and treason.
CS ---Comments please on how the Burns Caper in Qatar is confirmed as a CIA PR op
Qatar’s foreign ministry spokesperson said Doha will work with Biden’s administration “until the last minute” before U.S. election to reach Gaza truce deal--and beyond.
Meaning there will be obfuscations, falsehoods and smoke & mirrors toward which Burnsie can contribute before Joe's admin heaves its last breath on 19 January 2025.
G, can you believe it: Burnsie may never come back from Qatar.
Qatar going all in on Burns is good news for us and for the 'Middle East' as he calls it- Burns and Qatar both will keep alive the flame of Democracy until the return of Biden and his merry crew in ....when's the next US Election?
I like the way you spelled "Autocratic Imperialism" as "Democracy", that was clever.
Burnsie is getting fitted for a gelibiya as we speak. He may order an extra one for Joe who, it is rumored, will attend Eid celebrations in 2025.
This is great news CS - to ship Democracy and it's true leaders to the 'Middle East' will open up the place to a new settler class - all those Dems and 4B's disgusted with Trump and men can re locate, and form new breeding grounds for a brighter future
This will re shape world geopolitics in a way few suspected the day before yesterday
How to turn defeat into a Victory for Mankind
Glassy shimmers rising from the sand form a liquefaction of mirages which have nothing to do w/ their child-less cat-full lives in the U.S. where the guys always forget to put the toilet seat back down
There are, you know, laws in the Middle East about cats and their care, about who touches a toilet seat and when and how, and whether women can or may drive cars
These and many other attractions, the rules as to who can meet or look at who, will serve to transform the Gulf and the Saudi A Hinterland into the blossoming and burgeoning full cradles of democracy
Hello Simplicius. Short article but said all that was needed. this quote - Bundestag deputy Anton Hofreiter leaked all the trumps. "In the eastern part of Ukraine, large reserves of lithium are concentrated and Germany is waging a war for them. " - I would have thought it was cheaper just to buy the lithium from the previous Ukraine than what Schollz did. What a horrible goblin he is.
Colonial civilized powers don't believe in buying but grabbing for dirt cheap cost...which they thought it would be. How else would they make huge profits and become first world countries?
Hi Rashmi. But Germany has gone under with this miserable policy. And I don't believe that the German people would have chosen this. And its not civilized to do this. Maybe when all Europe was blood thirsty back in the neo dark ages ( 1400's ) but not today. This is whatever is guiding most politicians now. Is it zionism ? I have heard that asshole is chabad lubavitz. Maybe that's to blame for what he did to Germany and those graves in Ukraine. In fact its so similar to Gaza. Like they're just clearing the land of the inhabitants. I mean there are ( were ? ) alot of Ukrainians that were jerks. Nazi supporters. But only a fraction of the population And all those graves.
"Maybe when all Europe was blood thirsty back in the neo dark ages ( 1400's )"
Back in the 1400's? That's missing the early part of the 20th century (lot of blood thirst in action in WW1), just before the middle part (hard to beat the European blood thirst on display in WW2), just after the middle part (the French using poison gas on freedom-seeking Algerians, France's brutal actions before its defeat in Vietnam, the Netherlands using bombing, mass executions, and village destruction to kill as many as 500,000 people in Indonesia in attempt to keep Indonesia their colony, the UK's brutality against Kenyan freedom fighters seeking their freedom, and then the UK's brutality against Greek Cypriot nationalists (admittedly, only a few thousand slaughtered by those "civilized" Brits).
And then there's the latter part of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st, with European nations re-acquiring from the US a taste for slaughtering brown skinned people, for example, in the European bombing of Libya. Heck, they even went after their own whites, like the European bombing of Belgrade that killed over 30,000 civilians.
Most recently there's the EU blood thirst that's powering, along with the US, a war to the last Ukrainian that's already killed or maimed a million Ukrainian men. Nothing "civilized" about that.
I was thinking this. Europe could have had all that lithium on the free market (And internal market to boot), all they had to do was NOT attempt/plan to genocide the Russian-speaking population in those areas, to deliberately cause a Russian invasion (To "Weaken Russia in the ensuing conflict").
The Empire showed its true colours though, it couldn't help itself.
I think we should all be clear that it is the financial-corporate empire. And perhaps it always was ...