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China sending a powerful message as to where their sympathies lie. Analysts say the military collaboration with Belarus in particular marks a new chapter in China's European foreign policy objectives. "China has been very cautious and careful about extending military presence to Europe, or areas traditionally seen as close to NATO's core area," Sun wrote. "This joint exercise changes that. Given the timing, the exercise is evidently linked to the NATO summit in Washington that has Japanese and Korean participation. It is tit-for-tat." https://www.voanews.com/a/china-signals-defiance-to-nato-with-military-drills-in-belarus-/7696140.html

The excellent Simon Jenkins nailing it as ever. Non-military sanctions against Russia have failed. They have deterred no one, and have solidified Putin. They have punished western economies, cohered autocracies and cut Russia off from networks of persuasion or contact. Even the back channels so vital in the Cuban missile and Andropov crises have apparently weakened. There is no evidence that Putin was ever seeking a hot war with the west. He made a terrible mistake in marching on Kyiv, one from which he needs somehow to be extricated. But when peace-making is so neglected an art – when it is now derided as appeasement – it is depressing that a British prime minister should be a cheerleader for war. Is Ukraine really to be Starmer’s Iraq? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/15/prime-minister-cheerleading-war-ukraine-starmer-iraq-nato

Vote Jill Stein and stop the steal ! This computer modelling of the Trump bullet is amazing -must be God !

In response, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung told Reuters: "President Trump is the most effective statesman and negotiator in history, and he will solve this conflict when he is elected."😂

Trump plans to weaponise US/European trade deals to get his "Peace Deal" over the line. Nathalie Tocci, the director of Italy’s International Affairs Institute, said this week: “It is not necessarily clear that the political effect of a second Trump administration will have the same unifying impact on Europe as eight years ago. It is a far more politically fragile Europe. “We have been having the Putin-Trump conversation for almost a year now. How are we going to coordinate ourselves? How are we going to avoid a rather unseemly show in which different Europeans flock to Washington to kiss the ring. “Do we have a strategy? It is the kind of thing that does not require a lot of preparation. To the best of my knowledge, that is not there.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/20/european-divisions-risk-incoherent-response-to-any-second-trump-term

I would normally say get off the internet go for a walk and chill but when you live on it..... When my dad was old he would shout at the telly whilst my mum would keep on running the household - it was ever thus.

Freudian slip - you know who's team are running the show and it ain't Joe !

If you are a deplorable, and many are the Lincoln Project have made the pefect ad to get them to vote Trump. Michael Moore put it perfectly way back in 2016 - today this in spades once again.If he wins and Putin/Xi give him the full on mega state Emporer of the US visit - that's it , it's over - PAX Americana RIP. They’ve essentially lost everything they had, except one thing. The one thing that doesn’t cost them a cent and is guaranteed to them by the American Constitution: the right to vote. They might be penniless, they might be homeless, they might be f—ed over and f—ed up, it doesn’t matter. Because it’s equalized on that day: a millionaire has the same number of votes as the person without a job, one. And there’s more of the former middle class than there are in the millionaire class. So on Nov. 8, the dispossessed will walk into the voting booth, be handed a ballot, close the curtain, and take that lever or felt pen or touch screen and put a big f—ing ‘X’ in the box by the name of the man who has threatened to upend and overturn the very system that has ruined their lives: Donald J. Trump.

You made the title up have I must have missed the headline that confirmed it.

Putin has cancer / Parkinson's / months to live The Russian economy / Rouble will collapse There will be a coup The Russians are running out of missiles/ammo/guns/tanks/planes/manpower/convicts Ukrainian Wunderwaffe Leopard/Challies/M1 Abrams/HIMARS/ATCMS/F16s - Ghosts of Kyiv's will change the course of the war - one more push. Summer in Crimea hah - shovels/washing machines/toilets - the babarians live like rats in a sewer Trump/Vance - "hold my beer" The same tired rhetoric you've been posting for over 2 years with predictions then that the topic would not last longer than a couple of weeks, will you be here in 10 years time posting the same?

"However it concludes, we are going to have a very big Russia problem." Commander of US European Command, Cavoli, admits that a post-war Russia will feature a reconstituted military, retain the same leadership, identify NATO as it's enemy, and will be "very, very angry." America tempted the jeopardization of European Security by extending NATO's hand to Ukraine. Russia compromised European Security by invading Ukraine because of NATO The West ensured European Security stays compromised for potentially generations through its war-hawkish response. China ate popcorn, gathered data, and grew in power and influence with little effort expended. Long China , Long Gold , Long War - short everything else. After a diligent inquiry, I can discern four principal causes of the ruin of Rome, which continued to operate in a period of more than a thousand years. I. The injuries of time and nature. II. The hostile attacks of the Barbarians and Christians. III. The use and abuse of the materials. And, IV. The domestic quarrels of the Romans. — Edward Gibbon. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 71 "Four Causes of Decay and Destruction."

Yes , but no but yes but - it's called doing a Vicky Pollard.

When both him and Netanhayu are in the dock and then jail for their murderous rages I shall raise a glass to this better world which I'm sure you will join in with me.

"He also acknowledged that a return of all Ukrainian land was not necessarily a pre-condition for the fighting to end, as far as he saw it." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clmy1nkm51jo

What he actually cares about is Amerca First and if Europe cares about their own backyard then they should step up to the plate and fund Ukraine to effectively defend itself. I seriously doubt he has any love for Putin but just doesn't want anymore endless wars in which the US is on the hook in terms of blood and treasure contraty to the US national interest.

Just watching his rather Jeb Bushisan low energy speech just caught the sacred immigration chart that saved the life of Our Lord - behold a miracle. ‘I’m not supposed to be here tonight,’ he said, a line he has already used in interviews about the shooting last weekend. ‘Yes you are! Yes you are!’ the crowd chanted back. ‘Thank you,’ said Trump, with a little glimpse of the old Donald coming back. ‘But I’m not. And I’ll tell you. I stand before you in this arena only by the grace of Almighty God.‘ Trump’s grasp of theology is bizarre – if an all powerful God wanted him to survive, surely he was meant to be there? But he does seem to have fallen in love, almost too sincerely, with all the people from that fateful rally in Pennsylvania last weekend. ‘For the rest of my life,’ he said. ‘I will be grateful for the love shown by that giant audience of patriots that stood bravely on that fateful evening in Pennsylvania.’ https://archive.ph/eRm3Y

I would have thought the 'content creator' would have updated the thumbnail removing the picture of the hugely popular Army Chief Zalunhyi who Zelenskiy summarily sacked and sent him to be Ambo for the UK where he can't build an alternative power base. He's clearing out his PM and cabinet as well - this week. “While the polls show that [his predecessor], Zaluzhny, had 94 percent of the public’s trust, the number for Syrsky is something like 40 percent,” he explained. https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240217-zelensky-s-a-team-who-is-who-among-the-new-ukrainian-army-commanders

err was he will be balls in with Netanhayu and his successor to do what they want in the ME. I didn't know what you just posted . but whatever the Palestinians won't get a look in whoever wins that's a given.

Ukraine loses more than 1,000 men in battle for a single village At least 262 soldiers died and 778 are still missing in action after nine months of fighting for Krynky in the southern Kherson region UK TIMES https://archive.ph/gv4lN#selection-2121.0-2381.366

Aderall addiction has a dramatic effect on the sphincter but helps with the ADHD - so swings and roundabouts. He's on Ambien - basically a benzo that will help him get sleep after being wired. https://www.businessinsider.com/medications-drugs-trump-takes-2018-1

The Stigmata of the Trump

Trump's grandchildren are Jewish Israel, has no better friend than the Trump Crime Family. If I was US I would vote Jill Stein - problem is there just too many guns, too many rednecks and too much cowboy mythology in the national DNA that built America and is now a cancerous growth tham might well destroy it.

The Path to Power - Blood and Soil - the most powerful trope in the politcal playbook works every time.

Apropos of nothing I'm 63 now but as an 18 year old and a very well read Trot activist at University I vividly rememeber an intense conversation I had in a group where I argued that the US would go fascist in my lifetime and be renamed Amerika. My intuitive hunch then is pretty much on the ball. The writings been on the wall for a long time Meanwhile, Vidal, the supposed progressive, would behave as a reactionary. To him, Buckley’s politics were disgusting, which made his writings disgusting too. Around the time of their televised exchange, Vidal had the epiphany that America was a “fascist security state.” He claimed that the military–industrial complex had kicked into high gear during the presidency of Harry Truman, whose Cold War containment policies he saw as part of an effort to bolster the economy by maintaining a permanent state of war. https://www.nationalreview.com/2015/08/self-contradictions-gore-vidal/