They talk like he didn't threaten to declare war on Europe just a few months ago to invade Greenland. The world has been fed up with his shit for a long time now.
Long past time to say it openly, but now is second best.
The big question is what, if anything, can or will they do about it.
Yeah, where's that '30 days before congressional review' thing? The us is full of shit. And not only in the white house.
60 days, and it's not a review.
What do you mean it's not a review?
If a congressional comitee and a few invitees (such as POTUS) reviewing golf clubs together in a courtroom isn't a judicial review, I don't know what is.
In essence, the world (and the media as well) should treat the U.S. exactly as it behaves: as a failed state that, like Russia, is ruled by organized crime, tramples on international law, and blackmails its former allies. One should not do business with such a country, especially since it is committing the most egregious war crimes alongside its genocidal allies in Israel.
It is a reflection of the lack of integrity in the political systems of other countries that no sanctions have been imposed on the US in response to its brutal actions in Iran - this war is just as much a war of aggression in violation of international law as the one Russia is waging against Ukraine.
Sanctions against the U.S. will, of course, not happen. But the barbaric behavior of the U.S. should at least ensure that Western countries turn away from the U.S. in the future, so that it cannot continue to exploit its power to blackmail the world.
First everybody needs to get their gold out of the USA, switch over all critical infrastructure and payment to home brew solutions and sell USA treasuries. Then the sanctions can start. But switching away from USA infrastructure in already a form of sanction.
Stuff like Wero matters and is making actual progress. Once they open up to merchants I hope to see it being a realistic homebrew payment network.
Definitely. The world was so quick to sanction Russia for its invasion, but the US faces no consequences for its actions…
Sanctions against the U.S. will, of course, not happen.
It would be more productive for the rest of the world to reduce its dependence on the US. This dependence takes a variety of forms and degrees but it’s this very dependence which makes sanctions impractical. It’s this very dependence which emboldens jackasses like Trump.
So just divest. Disentangle. If we could get there then there might actually be something we could do about a problem like Trump.
As things stand, it takes forever and a day to gather the will to merely speak out.
I think they also need to come up with a better term than 'western countries', to something that does not include the US but is open to include others. 'Countries that try to not be complete asshats'? Idk, the bar is in hell. But there are quite a few non-western countries that could fit the bill if it weren't for US fuckery.
They didn't lose patience with him like eight years ago? These people must have the patience of saints.
Or fools.
As usual, people are only upset with him because he's now costing them money.
The world is run by shitbags.
Well democratic (Western ones) countries don't often show how upset they are with other western countries unless it impacts them. They may not condone actions but I'm pretty sure none of them ever liked dealing with Trump.
There's that one picture of Trump in his first term sitting down while (I think) Merkle(sp?) was trying to explain something, there were other people in the shot and all (or mostly standing facing Trump) while he looked like a kid getting a lesson. They were okay for internal issues, well maybe not fine but mostly they wouldn't say anything, but this round he's fucked the world economy so yeah make sense. So I think they voiced their opinions previously as well just not in headlines as much.
Also the US has taken the lead so often, and (used to have) soft power that they managed properly.
Basically Trump (well his handlers) have effed up the social order so much it's time to set the line. Sucks it took this long, cause all should have been done first term when the US elected a petulant child as leader.
Though I imagine it comes down to money as usual as you said, cause heaven forbid we figure out a way to run a country without billionaires making their voice known.
It'd be great if the people's voices were heard for sure. Fortunately when time comes there are more of the regular folk than them. While I don't condone violence it sucks that they can use violence and legal issues to make their goals happen without pushback.
I think I missed this going by:
But the byzantine web of knock-on effects from Trump's pronouncements — let's not call them policies — in the past five weeks means that Russia is facing a huge boom in its finances thanks to the US decision to lift sanctions on Russian oil in a bid to ease the global market which, of course, is in chaos because of the Iranian response to US and Israeli attacks.
Trump is a Russian asset.
What are they gonna do about it?
Dismantling a intertwined global system that has been built in the last 80 years can't be done in an afternoon.
I hate the US as much as the other people here, I want to get rid of them and their influence on us as much as the next guy, but its completely unrealistic to do it suddenly and in a speedy manner. Its a deep swamp and we are up to our necks in it, we need to dig ourselves out carefully so we dont sink deeper.
It’s a pretty good article, and, while the headline is pretty accurate, it doesn’t do the content justice.
your comment, sir, was enjoyed
I lost patience 8 years ago when it was obvious he was a disaster for the commoner, and that the elites saw that disaster as a ladder. It's all been very clear for a while now.
they should come out admit hes only doing this to distract from epstein files, but they wont, because they have people in thier own countries being named epstein files.
... world leaders are increasingly just dismissing the US President, his offensive taunts and, more importantly, any notion that there is method in his madness.
There is something about this particular war that is bonkers erratic even by the standards of this lunatic. It's as if he had been goaded into it, told to start it, without any reasoning at all. There was no plan, there was no rationale, there was no goal, there was no warning, there was no consultation.
There just was a military force that did whatever it was told to do, without ever questioning anything about it - legality, operational effectiveness, long-term consequences.
Now I appreciate the countries that make a figurehead head of state the nominal commander in chief of the military. It's a really stupid idea to vest control of the armed forces in someone with real power.
Rumour is he's in hospital. Wonder if we'll get the news by morning
one of the most annoying things is even if we get a "blue wave" and get maga out of the presidency and congress you know that two years in they will be loudly blaming whoever is president and the democrats as we are not doing great with all the infaltion and being an isolated country whos currency is becoming regional.
Does a strict two party system even constitute a democracy? There's so little incentive to do what the people want when the worst punishment is that you only have to wait until the other party fucks up worse than you did and then you're back in the game. In the meantime, just sit tight and snipe from the sidelines.
The Republican Party needs to cease to exist for what it's done. I don't know how that could happen but I don't see a bright future for the world if they're still around when the next Dem President starts to become unpopular.
I have said they need to cease to exist and only the voters can do that. Them not winning even 25% of the legislature should do it. Many folk want to bring something forward over the democrats and I often say we pretty much have to eliminate the republicans first. dems would easily split in that scendario along with likely the greens taking office. actually that would be a good metric. If the republicans were down to just the nuttiest areas then if the greens could hold as much or more than them it would effectively eliminate them as their nuts would vote democrat over republican if the greens were a real threat which would drive the republican party even further down.
Yeah, when the Dems take back the power, and have to clean up the unholy mess that MAGA will leave, there will be very loud opposition, and the Dems are going to have to get over their obsession for politeness to traitors, and learn to employ the phrase "SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
If the democrats win as well as we're expecting they COULD take down billionaires and mass media propaganda machines that's behind all these right-wing movements...but I'm betting they won't. They probably won't abolish ICE, they won't stuff the supreme court, they won't cut off Israel, they won't roll back the insane power of the POTUS and executive branch, etc, etc.
This country is fucked for a generation at least, or as long as this two party government remains intact.
Y'all keep saying democrats as if democrats are one unified party.
its not.
Its 37 parties in a trench coat.
Thats the problem with the democrats. Its basically a Chimera built out of everything thats not-republican, and thats down largely to our two party system of bullshit.
The only reason the alliances aren't formally broken is because moving investments and reorganizing supplies takes time. At least from the European perspective, it's only a matter of time; the moves to abandon Visa and Mastercard can only be interpreted that way.
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