With its economy “the size of Texas”, Russia has somehow managed to defeat a U.S. liberal-globalist coalition of 40 countries. Very interesting and impressive. Clearly, Russia is a country with strong people, and thus, one that we should cooperate with.
Comparing economies using GDP is not a worthless measure, but doesn't tell the whole story. For example, with all the inefficiencies and corruption in the Russian economy, the U.S. is so much worse, that a dollar spent on arms in Russia is equal to far more than a dollar spent in the U.S. And so on throughout other goods and services. Who would have thought the ex-commies would end up with a more efficient economy than the "democratic", "capitalist" west? Things are looking up, but we have a long way to go.
And would make a much better trading partner than being at war with because a bunch of Operation Paper Clip NeoConneds can’t get their chip off their shoulders from losing the last Eugenics-Vaccines-Crystal Meth WW II.
I never attribute to ignorance what can be explained by malice. Especially when it comes to people capable enough to navigate their way to positions of power. Much more likely they're fine with thousands dying, and degrading all countries involved so long as it feathers their own nests. In fact they revel in causing misery.
I couldn't agree more. Look for malice first. Evil is aggressive and requires an aggressive response. Ignorance is generally benign. Only after an event/situation/individual fails the test for malice can it be safely dismissed as mere stupidity.
Excellent John. Seems as if, for once in a life time, common sense and reality are breaking out in the US government. It has been obvious for ages that Ukraine was the end point of all the madness that came from 9/11. Obviously impossible to "win" and most probably undesirable even so to do. It would be like Russia backing a civil war in Mexico. Bonkers. Russia could never "win" such a project. The real agenda has been to push back the Russian border and keep up the money flow to the American military machine. The pathetic behavior of twerp like BJ show how weak and subordinated western Europe has become to US empire building. Now things are, hopefully, going to change for the better; it can hardly be worse than what has gone on under Biden - already looking like a prime candidate for the very worst administration in US history. The last thing we need to be doing, or ever should have even thought of doing, is provoking wars with Russia and China.
Because "common sense and reality" are "breaking out" in the US government, the imposters to US governance are being aggressively force fed the irresistibly powerful emetics and osmotics of disclosure and accountability. Purged if you will. It will take some time but the noxious odors of the cleansing will dissipate and we'll be able to see this new Golden Age we should have been living all along. No honest Americans voted for what we are learning has been done in our name.
Let's not pretend that Trump and Putin have NOT already set the terms for the end of the Obama-Biden NeoCon disaster (2014 Maidan to 2024) in Ukraine. And let's be grateful that we have walked back from the nuclear brink, although we did tremendous economic damage to western Europe and at the same time promoted and elevated Russia on the world stage.
The terms are set: Ukraine (as the USA promised in the 1990s) is to be a buffer zone between NATO and Russia. For ever.
Crimea and the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts are not going back to Ukraine. You can thank the NeoCons for fomenting a coup and inciting a hot war for those results.
what is more distressing to me is that we blew up the Nordstream pipeline to make money here and play havoc with the economy of the EU especially Germany
I was lucky enough to spend a lot of time in Germany in the late 1990s, in its robust, pre-9/11 economy. My German friends, more honest and less afraid to speak back then, commented that America should be grateful most of her immigrants (in the 90s) were Hispanic. When I asked why they said, “Because they’re not trying to kill you.” Even back then, Germans were wary of the large numbers of Islamists moving into their country.
It's nice to hear politicians that actually have some sense and are willing to face reality. They have a lot of damage to undo left by the previous idiots. We've pissed away more money than I can comprehend in just about every way imaginable. From Ukraine to free money for illegal immigrants. Talk of Ukraine joining NATO provoked Russia into war and then trying to "help" Ukraine was about as much use as trying to help an anthill faced with a D-9 Cat. All we did was succeed in killing off a generation of Ukrainians and wrecking the country. Which will no doubt result in massive profits for a few corrupt corporations.
Two world wars in Europe, the land of kings, queens and court jesters. Russia was an ally in each of the world wars. Germany is the dark face in the woodpile. My father's parents left Germany for a reason. My father was born in Astoria Queens NY in 1913 on Christmas morning. NATO and the EU are utter failures. Neither would have made it to 2025 without the taxpayers of the USA.
Europe needs to find another teat to suck.
JD and Pete were correct. As was DJT and his discussion with Vlad. The Ukraine is Bidens debacle. Why would any Russian leader not question USA biolabs in the Ukraine and the total disregard of the formally executed Minsk Agreement ? And then there was Nordstrom. Court Jesters.
Admittedly, Vance's and Hegseth's public pronouncements have been fun to watch or listen to. It is wonderful to hear people in positions of leadership who have some brain cells string sentences together in a coherent fashion. But I don't really buy into the "Trump is back and doing it better" theater. I am skeptical at best that our uniparty government has changed its tune, and for that reason, Vance's speech sounded more than a bit hypocritical. And just because USAID got rearranged and is now overseen by Marco Rubio, cheerleader for regime change, does not mean in any way that we have given up on our regime change foreign relations strategy. Actions and outcomes matter more than words.
You say the EU are 'governed by childish people with childish ideas about what is best for their countries' yes. They are idealogically possessed corrupt globalists who have lost all contact with common sense and what ordinary folk think. As Thomas Sowell said “It’s hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong" I loved J D Vance's speech whilst, tellingly the BBC were at a loss to understand what on earth he could be talking about. It reminded me of all those doctors and scientists totally flummoxed about what could possibly be causing excess deaths from 2021 onwards.
This seems to overlook the fact that the US is a bully and has bullied and dominated Europe and Nato since the end of the Second World War. The Europeans would love to have been free of Americana but their occupiers chose not to go home, opting instead to turn much of Europe into a military base for the US of A.
But fear not, the Europeans do share values with the US because they have played a major role in the proxy war the Americans have waged against Russia, using Ukrainian blood and guts, and the war they wage with the Israelis against the people of Palestine, which works for their genocidal ethnic cleansing.
The Hypocrisy of Vance condemning Europeans over limiting freedom of speech when Trump has announced students supporting Palestine will have their visas revoked, is breathtaking.
As to growing up, the US is the adolescent bully kid on the block and the Europeans are ancient culturally and the foundation of the modern world. Sure, they can do better and they will if the Americans go home, pack up their bases and leave and stay home.
There is something inherently childish about the American vice=president with no international experience, or indeed real political or diplomatic experience, chiding the Europeans for their failings. The Americans are responsible for the Ukraine war and the war in Palestine. What hypocrites. It is the US not Europe which has rampaged in bloody warmongering around the world for half a century and more.
It is the US which has assassinated democratically elected leaders, toppled valid Governments, funded tyrants and now supports the genocidal colonial slaughter in Palestine, denying the native people all rights and freedom. And Vance pontificates to the Europeans about values. The US has no values. Actions speak louder than words.
I think most understand, even if the Americans and perhaps some Europeans, have not, that military power is not real power and that it is economic power which counts. The Russians, Chinese and I bet the Iranians know this. They want to make money and sell to others. They all understand that defensive military power is important but that is its only use.
The Americans should have learned the lesson in Vietnam but they did not. Then in Iraq, but they did not. Then in Afghanistan but they did not and now they are being reminded by Russia and the Palestinian Resistance that military control and domination is a failure and is in fact, the old way of doing things.
The Europeans have allowed American boots on their soil out of fear and through economic and political bullying. To that degree Trump and co. are right and the Europeans need to stand on their own feet.
The Americans need to understand that they do not rule the world and their massive military power could not help them rule the world.
Only a fool keeps doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
Kilquor, your writing needs editing to make it understandable. Before posting, would you consider pasting your comments into an AI app like ChatGp2 and ask for it to be rewritten in the style of John Leake or Steinbeck or Hemingway, or some other American author you like and after that is done then review it to see if it figures out what you mean to say? If good, then post.
It is truly bizarre that these traitors running European countries have bowed down to America for decades imposing woke policies and destroying their countries with mass immigration of illiterate people and watched the US blow up their infrastructure and murder their countrymen who dared to think of voting communist back in the 70's and 80's only to be told that somehow this was all their doing and that they need to grow up.
No the US needs to stop destroying Europe and go home and stay home and get out of every other country around the world, they are not wanted and never were.
The sooner the reserve currency is not the US dollar the sooner the countries of the world can stop paying for their own chains and being blamed by the plantation owner for acting like slaves.
I agree with much of your post, but I wonder if the EU and the US are/have been serving the same globalist plantation owner. As much as the US meddles and dominates worldwide, US leadership certainly has a puppet master too.
I’d like to point out that we ousted the democratically elected Ukrainian leader Victor Yanukovich in 2014 because he was pro Russia. Then the Biden administration blew up Nordstream 1 and 2 cutting off energy from Russia to Germany. It sounds like both the US and Europe must grow up and stop fighting over natural resources.
Russia is taking the part of Ukraine that voted to join Russia, as they are ethnically Russian people, they say the Ukrainian people don't want them in Ukraine either, so what was decided by a vote back in 2014, is now in effect after a pretty ridiculous war.
With its economy “the size of Texas”, Russia has somehow managed to defeat a U.S. liberal-globalist coalition of 40 countries. Very interesting and impressive. Clearly, Russia is a country with strong people, and thus, one that we should cooperate with.
Comparing economies using GDP is not a worthless measure, but doesn't tell the whole story. For example, with all the inefficiencies and corruption in the Russian economy, the U.S. is so much worse, that a dollar spent on arms in Russia is equal to far more than a dollar spent in the U.S. And so on throughout other goods and services. Who would have thought the ex-commies would end up with a more efficient economy than the "democratic", "capitalist" west? Things are looking up, but we have a long way to go.
And would make a much better trading partner than being at war with because a bunch of Operation Paper Clip NeoConneds can’t get their chip off their shoulders from losing the last Eugenics-Vaccines-Crystal Meth WW II.
I never attribute to ignorance what can be explained by malice. Especially when it comes to people capable enough to navigate their way to positions of power. Much more likely they're fine with thousands dying, and degrading all countries involved so long as it feathers their own nests. In fact they revel in causing misery.
Incompetence makes for a great malice smoke screen.
I couldn't agree more. Look for malice first. Evil is aggressive and requires an aggressive response. Ignorance is generally benign. Only after an event/situation/individual fails the test for malice can it be safely dismissed as mere stupidity.
Agree. And, if we think we're smart enough to craft a reliable test to rule out malice, we're arrogant, and deserve to be duped.
Excellent John. Seems as if, for once in a life time, common sense and reality are breaking out in the US government. It has been obvious for ages that Ukraine was the end point of all the madness that came from 9/11. Obviously impossible to "win" and most probably undesirable even so to do. It would be like Russia backing a civil war in Mexico. Bonkers. Russia could never "win" such a project. The real agenda has been to push back the Russian border and keep up the money flow to the American military machine. The pathetic behavior of twerp like BJ show how weak and subordinated western Europe has become to US empire building. Now things are, hopefully, going to change for the better; it can hardly be worse than what has gone on under Biden - already looking like a prime candidate for the very worst administration in US history. The last thing we need to be doing, or ever should have even thought of doing, is provoking wars with Russia and China.
Because "common sense and reality" are "breaking out" in the US government, the imposters to US governance are being aggressively force fed the irresistibly powerful emetics and osmotics of disclosure and accountability. Purged if you will. It will take some time but the noxious odors of the cleansing will dissipate and we'll be able to see this new Golden Age we should have been living all along. No honest Americans voted for what we are learning has been done in our name.
Let's not pretend that Trump and Putin have NOT already set the terms for the end of the Obama-Biden NeoCon disaster (2014 Maidan to 2024) in Ukraine. And let's be grateful that we have walked back from the nuclear brink, although we did tremendous economic damage to western Europe and at the same time promoted and elevated Russia on the world stage.
The terms are set: Ukraine (as the USA promised in the 1990s) is to be a buffer zone between NATO and Russia. For ever.
Crimea and the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts are not going back to Ukraine. You can thank the NeoCons for fomenting a coup and inciting a hot war for those results.
Why do we still get punished with Lindsey Graham?? Can SC not do better? Poster child for term limits.
what is more distressing to me is that we blew up the Nordstream pipeline to make money here and play havoc with the economy of the EU especially Germany
I was lucky enough to spend a lot of time in Germany in the late 1990s, in its robust, pre-9/11 economy. My German friends, more honest and less afraid to speak back then, commented that America should be grateful most of her immigrants (in the 90s) were Hispanic. When I asked why they said, “Because they’re not trying to kill you.” Even back then, Germans were wary of the large numbers of Islamists moving into their country.
It's nice to hear politicians that actually have some sense and are willing to face reality. They have a lot of damage to undo left by the previous idiots. We've pissed away more money than I can comprehend in just about every way imaginable. From Ukraine to free money for illegal immigrants. Talk of Ukraine joining NATO provoked Russia into war and then trying to "help" Ukraine was about as much use as trying to help an anthill faced with a D-9 Cat. All we did was succeed in killing off a generation of Ukrainians and wrecking the country. Which will no doubt result in massive profits for a few corrupt corporations.
Which corporations or types of corporations would you say?
Two world wars in Europe, the land of kings, queens and court jesters. Russia was an ally in each of the world wars. Germany is the dark face in the woodpile. My father's parents left Germany for a reason. My father was born in Astoria Queens NY in 1913 on Christmas morning. NATO and the EU are utter failures. Neither would have made it to 2025 without the taxpayers of the USA.
Europe needs to find another teat to suck.
JD and Pete were correct. As was DJT and his discussion with Vlad. The Ukraine is Bidens debacle. Why would any Russian leader not question USA biolabs in the Ukraine and the total disregard of the formally executed Minsk Agreement ? And then there was Nordstrom. Court Jesters.
I don't think Zelensky wanted to win the war with Russia as that would end his grift to skim money off of Ukraine Aid.
the rat is now scrambling because the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ is coming to an end
but if our pockets were bare, it would be as though he never knew us
Imagine how much of our $ he has stolen. He’ll be fine.
reports of mansions for family and his wife's couture trips to Paris
Kilquor - you’ll need to write more legibly in order for people to comprehend your comment.
Admittedly, Vance's and Hegseth's public pronouncements have been fun to watch or listen to. It is wonderful to hear people in positions of leadership who have some brain cells string sentences together in a coherent fashion. But I don't really buy into the "Trump is back and doing it better" theater. I am skeptical at best that our uniparty government has changed its tune, and for that reason, Vance's speech sounded more than a bit hypocritical. And just because USAID got rearranged and is now overseen by Marco Rubio, cheerleader for regime change, does not mean in any way that we have given up on our regime change foreign relations strategy. Actions and outcomes matter more than words.
You say the EU are 'governed by childish people with childish ideas about what is best for their countries' yes. They are idealogically possessed corrupt globalists who have lost all contact with common sense and what ordinary folk think. As Thomas Sowell said “It’s hard to imagine a more stupid or dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong" I loved J D Vance's speech whilst, tellingly the BBC were at a loss to understand what on earth he could be talking about. It reminded me of all those doctors and scientists totally flummoxed about what could possibly be causing excess deaths from 2021 onwards.
Exactly!
This seems to overlook the fact that the US is a bully and has bullied and dominated Europe and Nato since the end of the Second World War. The Europeans would love to have been free of Americana but their occupiers chose not to go home, opting instead to turn much of Europe into a military base for the US of A.
But fear not, the Europeans do share values with the US because they have played a major role in the proxy war the Americans have waged against Russia, using Ukrainian blood and guts, and the war they wage with the Israelis against the people of Palestine, which works for their genocidal ethnic cleansing.
The Hypocrisy of Vance condemning Europeans over limiting freedom of speech when Trump has announced students supporting Palestine will have their visas revoked, is breathtaking.
As to growing up, the US is the adolescent bully kid on the block and the Europeans are ancient culturally and the foundation of the modern world. Sure, they can do better and they will if the Americans go home, pack up their bases and leave and stay home.
There is something inherently childish about the American vice=president with no international experience, or indeed real political or diplomatic experience, chiding the Europeans for their failings. The Americans are responsible for the Ukraine war and the war in Palestine. What hypocrites. It is the US not Europe which has rampaged in bloody warmongering around the world for half a century and more.
It is the US which has assassinated democratically elected leaders, toppled valid Governments, funded tyrants and now supports the genocidal colonial slaughter in Palestine, denying the native people all rights and freedom. And Vance pontificates to the Europeans about values. The US has no values. Actions speak louder than words.
I think most understand, even if the Americans and perhaps some Europeans, have not, that military power is not real power and that it is economic power which counts. The Russians, Chinese and I bet the Iranians know this. They want to make money and sell to others. They all understand that defensive military power is important but that is its only use.
The Americans should have learned the lesson in Vietnam but they did not. Then in Iraq, but they did not. Then in Afghanistan but they did not and now they are being reminded by Russia and the Palestinian Resistance that military control and domination is a failure and is in fact, the old way of doing things.
The Europeans have allowed American boots on their soil out of fear and through economic and political bullying. To that degree Trump and co. are right and the Europeans need to stand on their own feet.
The Americans need to understand that they do not rule the world and their massive military power could not help them rule the world.
Only a fool keeps doing the same thing and expecting a different result.
Well, they were liars about Minsk so why would anyone trust anything the Americans or Europeans say now? The Russians certainly don't.
Kilquor, your writing needs editing to make it understandable. Before posting, would you consider pasting your comments into an AI app like ChatGp2 and ask for it to be rewritten in the style of John Leake or Steinbeck or Hemingway, or some other American author you like and after that is done then review it to see if it figures out what you mean to say? If good, then post.
So delightful! Thank you.
It is truly bizarre that these traitors running European countries have bowed down to America for decades imposing woke policies and destroying their countries with mass immigration of illiterate people and watched the US blow up their infrastructure and murder their countrymen who dared to think of voting communist back in the 70's and 80's only to be told that somehow this was all their doing and that they need to grow up.
No the US needs to stop destroying Europe and go home and stay home and get out of every other country around the world, they are not wanted and never were.
The sooner the reserve currency is not the US dollar the sooner the countries of the world can stop paying for their own chains and being blamed by the plantation owner for acting like slaves.
I agree with much of your post, but I wonder if the EU and the US are/have been serving the same globalist plantation owner. As much as the US meddles and dominates worldwide, US leadership certainly has a puppet master too.
I would say yes without doubt you are correct
Happy to leave and close our checkbook too! 🥳
Sooner the better .
Yes. Every bioweapons lab in the world needs to be defunded and destroyed.
I’d like to point out that we ousted the democratically elected Ukrainian leader Victor Yanukovich in 2014 because he was pro Russia. Then the Biden administration blew up Nordstream 1 and 2 cutting off energy from Russia to Germany. It sounds like both the US and Europe must grow up and stop fighting over natural resources.
Russia is taking the part of Ukraine that voted to join Russia, as they are ethnically Russian people, they say the Ukrainian people don't want them in Ukraine either, so what was decided by a vote back in 2014, is now in effect after a pretty ridiculous war.