Donald Trump the Megathread part II - mod warnings in OP, Updated 18/03/25

Considering that most of the world had accepted that Crimea is now in Russian hands( it was annexed in 2014 and not a peep about it until 3 years ago) you don’t seriously believe a solution will involve Crimea being handed back do you?

You're delusional if you think Russia can go back to a peacetime economy while still under crippling sanctions from Europe.

As for Trump, I'm sure him buying Russian oil and gas would be great for the domestic oil industry. Why should Americans buy cheap natural gas when they can buy more expensive Russian LNG?

Infact, keeping Russia under sanctions means Europe is purchasing LNG from the US.

How do I put this politely?

One of these things is not like the other

Of course not. That's why I didn't say any such thing

Don't you understand the LNG from Russia would be more expensive than US piped gas.

You want the US to replace a cheaper source of energy (US oil & Gas) with Russian oil and gas to fuel its economy? Do you not hear how crazy that sounds?

The US is the largest producer of oil and gas, they don't need to be importing it from half a world away.

There are fine balances between peace and appeasement. The message being sent to Russia is that — when all is said and done — their imperialist aggression will be rewarded eventually and the West has no stomach for any retaliation that goes beyond proxy participation, economic sanctions and lighting city halls up in blue and yellow lights.

The victory for Russia goes far beyond this immediate conflict as well. They successfully unleashed a refugee and cost of living crisis on Western Europe that has left its resolve fragmented, with the united front of the early days of the war now long replaced with each country pointing fingers domestically at migrants and losing interest in the wider world. They now also have an increasingly imperialist United States — with an imperialist President pushing for imperialist things and willingly cheered on in this endeavour by many American people — who are clearly delivering the message that Eastern Europe is Russia's to threaten and the US will focus instead on their own territorial and influence endeavours in places like Greenland and the Middle East.

The problem is that Trump seems to actually like Putin more than he likes his own allies. That in itself is pretty concerning.

Sure the Danes could manage the escrow account to make sure it happens?

Therein is the issue, European reporting is unashamedly anti-Trump and show their bias like a badge of honour. A fair cohort of the US Media done the same when Trump was POTUS 45, but this time round they seem a little more nuanced and less biased on the TV at least.

I do often wonder if European and in particular Irish media ever take a step back and realise that this one-sided bull is increasingly being rejected by the public. Right-leaning movements and alternative medias are gaining in popularity all over Europe.

Like the US Dems and most of the US Media, their European counterparts are going to be irrelevant soon.

You should check out how certain ethnic groups were targeted when Russia was just occupying Crimea, disappearings were very much so a thing and this time round will be worse. You seem to think ethnic cleansing is all good if it's not too violent.

It doesn't.

It does however show that there are people like this, and significant in amount so as to vote for and succesfully elect someone who is Trumpian in nature.

The poster I was responding to in the original exchange suggested that most Irish people would see through this nonsense. My example puts that into question.

Statues do come down down due to growing irrelevance or simply that they're offensive. I'm happy for them to lobbed in museums. Let's just remember, the biggest event for retaining a statue was arranged by neo Nazis and ended up with the murder of a woman.

Just as an fyi, plenty of countries took down their Soviet era statues and monuments after the Ukraine invasion. None of those countries were actively at war. There was simply a consideration of what they represented.