21 hours ago, impulse said:

 

Do you honestly believe that India hasn't been playing the USA all along?

I'd suggest a walk along Sukhumvit near EmQuarter to see how they negotiate.

 

Is Sukhumvit in the US?

 

Since the Obama Administration, the US has built an ever-improving relationship with India, especially in terms of intelligence sharing with RAW. Even during times of surface difficulties, the CIA maintained excellent relations with India, and often worked behind the scenes to diffuse tensions between the two nuclear powers of India and Pakistan. The US also got lots of intel re various radical Islamic terror groups as well as Iran-supported Shi'a terror groups. That's now dead.

 

Trump messed it all up. He tried "making friends" by sending Uday and Qusay Don, Jr and Eric to try to license the family name in RE projects, but Modi didn't bite. Trump really blew it when he tried to intervene publicly in the recent Kashmir scuffle. Modi has always been vehemently against any outsider getting involved in the Kashmir issue, so Trump's claims of having solved it drove Modi crazy, which is likely why Modi turned so quickly toward Putin and Xi. (OTOH, Pakistan played its own hand, seeking US money, and flattered Trump by lying about his influence and suggesting he be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Pakis are clever enough to see how easy it is to manipulate the woefully insecure Trump.)

 

US influence is dying across the globe. Trump passed on traveling to the Quad Summit (the Quad includes the US, India, Japan and Australia), so that alliance is dying. The US is also now reviewing its place in AUKUS (US, UK, Australia), which is likely to really irritate Australia, as it was retrofitting the port in Perth to accommodate US submarines.

Trump’s tariff gamble on India’s oil trade is backfiring. Despite a 25% penalty, Indian refiners snapped up 11.4M barrels of discounted Russian crude in a week. Moscow’s deeper price cuts make Urals $3–4 cheaper than Brent, saving India billions.

 

I did this...

 

So Ukrainians are in fact fighting to make China great, right?

What the hell has Ukraine got to do with China,Russia and India cozying up to each other my God.

6 hours ago, illisdean said:

such as secure border, reduced crime, drug wars and interdiction of drug smuggling, how about exposing and halting USAID fraud, maybe record US foreign investment, solving wars, destroying woke, DEI, child sex mutilations, ending child and human  sex trafficking, inflation MANAGED, deporting your criminal illegal aliens AKA democrat voters. What laws has Trump broke? Is he trashing democracy like biden did? Speak up or go back to the fetal position and try not sucking your thumb so much.

You're making stuff up  as usual...

12 hours ago, BarraMarra said:

Well i just seen a sight we should all worry about. I watched the Victory parade in Beijung and the military and weapons on show should seriously worry  the West what China has. 1 nation would not take them on and win. That includes the US or a European army.

From a military and economic perspective, the U.S. won't be able to deal with China alone. It's just a question of time before China becomes the global superpower, above the U.S.

 

Of course, instead of building a stronger alliance in order to deal with China, the current U.S. moron in chief is bullying and trashing U.S. best allies, not only NATO, but also allies in Asia-Pacific. 

12 hours ago, BarraMarra said:

Well i just seen a sight we should all worry about. I watched the Victory parade in Beijung and the military and weapons on show should seriously worry  the West what China has. 1 nation would not take them on and win. That includes the US or a European army.

It’s concerning to be sure tho a lot of it is a mind game lets us all hope the weapons are never used.what’s more concerning to me is at this time in history Donnie is busy kicking our allies in the nuts at every opportunity and in every way possible undermining our institutions our constitution …..kinda makes a guy think ehh??

3 hours ago, sharot724 said:

Moscow’s deeper price cuts make Urals $3–4 cheaper than Brent, saving India billions.

It's less of a profit for Russia, which makes it harder to fund the war. 

I'm afraid if a war was to be declared the only winner would be Chinese, our once great Nation in the UK couldn't defend ourselves due to cuts in man power and weaponry. The US to would be no match against the Chinese Milatary.

Trump again he has created the with his tarrifs. America you need to depose this Dictator. 

On 9/3/2025 at 1:26 AM, BLMFem said:

So the US and the West have for decades tried to engage with India and turn it into an ally, away from Russia and China. It's been really slow and hard work, but progress has been made.....and then Trump 2.0 happened, and in a matter of a couple of months the clown managed to frack up years of painstaking diplomacy.

Well done, Americans, for electing a complete and utter muppet as your president, and for the second time. Un-fracking-believable.

 

Trump is making US foes great again

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/03/politics/trump-china-xi-putin-kim-modi-analysis

 

"President Donald Trump is mad that China is palling around with his strongmen friends.  If China’s two big gatherings of authoritarian leaders, US adversaries and erstwhile allies this week was intended as a personal affront to the US president, it worked perfectly. And it underscored the futility of his attempts to subject the true global hard men to his art-of-the-deal charms and his claims that his supposedly close relationships with such leaders can be decisive."

 

Donald Trump; outplayed, outsmarted, out-anything.

 

 

You would last 2 minutes in a debate with him. Swinging WAY above your weight class here sister. 

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1 hour ago, mrwebb8825 said:

You would last 2 minutes in a debate with him. Swinging WAY above your weight class here sister. 

It's true that he is morbidly obese, but more importantly his cognitive abilities are regressing rapidly (his brain is basically mush), and since the whole world knows his triggering points by now he wouldn't have lasted long, hon.

I would have had him stutter and blabber withing a minute!😆

China will find solutions together with other nations who wants to cooperate, and India have for long been searching alternatives even they got border conflicts with China.

 

 

 

I was sent this very funny animated cartoon which sums up the recent situation and the fact that Donny feels a "little left out of things"!! I hope this is ok to post...........

 

 

 

On 9/8/2025 at 9:19 AM, BLMFem said:

It's true that he is morbidly obese, but more importantly his cognitive abilities are regressing rapidly (his brain is basically mush), and since the whole world knows his triggering points by now he wouldn't have lasted long, hon.

I would have had him stutter and blabber withing a minute!😆

When the argument slips through your fingers and the debate is lost, there’s always the trusty refuge of an Ad Hominem attack. Bravo—well played.

7 minutes ago, nick supreme said:

When the argument slips through your fingers and the debate is lost, there’s always the trusty refuge of an Ad Hominem attack. Bravo—well played.

Which argument are you referring to and what debate has been lost?