United States as a Rogue state

Unfortunately when you get accused of this ad naseum it needs over explaining. It blows my mind how out of context many of my posts are taken. Or the assumptions made. People want it to be true so bad but I'd be lying if I said it was true.

And I'd say invariably Trump fans have a tendency to downplay being a fan. You won't even go as far as saying that it's unacceptable that he's threatening the invasion of Greenland. Instead you just went off on tangent after tangent. It's not business as usual that Trump is threatening invasion of a territory of an ally. The fact you're pretending it is batshit.

We need to bear in mind that the US designed the postwar West. They did so in such a way that it would guarantee their perpetual hegemony and now they're wailing about the costs they've had to pay to maintain said hegemony. Everything about the status quo is on them and it made them the richest country in history.

The problem is that fascism exists in a state of perpetual conflict and new enemies are always needed. They can only go so far in their infantile war on "woke" without changing the constitution. Obviously, the GOP has been stacking the deck for generations but that only goes so far.

The collapse in living standards, brought about in large party by US corporate lobbying and the GOP, has fuelled populism which has in turn turned against the global free trade model which made Americans stinking rich to begin with. It's only going to make them poorer but such are the cultural constraints on free speech and the prevailing anti-intellectual culture that they won't realise it until it's too late.

A much stronger Europe is only beneficial to the US if it remains subservient to the US, ie buying US arms and materiel. In the current climate, that's not politically feasible. Any trade barriers the US erects can go both ways. I even read the other day that there might be an EU alternative to Visa and Mastercard in the works. A stronger Europe will be pressured into spending EU taxpayers' money at home instead of abroad.

We saw a lot of this with Brexit. It made those of us stupid enough to live in the UK poorer, nobody benefitted and very few people now question it as it approaches the tenth anniversary of that abomination of a referendum.

Hate to break it to you, people are just reading your posts and seeing what you are doing pretty easily.

If everyone is taking them out of context, what does that tell you?

And yet again, you over explain. The gig has been up a long time

The thing is this discussion isn't about who is a isn't a Trump fan. You're also allowed to be a trump fan in our society. There are plenty of them. But if people will throw this irrelevant tangent at me I'll correct them.

You're also allowed to be a trump fan in our society. There are plenty of them.

Here you go again. Trying to normalise it so that when you "agree" with his policies, you can say that but then just revert to saying "ah but I am not a fan, read my posts".

You're going to great lengths to deny what Stevie Wonder could see.

Normalise it? It's pretty normal in this world. Million's upon millions support him. I'm not one though and would have no issue saying it. I've no issue making comments here that get 1/2 likes but the replies to me get 40. I've nothing to gain by not just saying I'm a fan. I'll continue to correct this falsehood.

When people repeat the same misinformation ad naseum it needs to be over explained and laid out as simple as possible. I have some very controversial opinions on this site and never shied away from them. Saying I'm a fan of trump would be small fish in comparison. But I'm not so what can you do.

He (Trump) is serious about Greenland I think, just as serious as he was regarding removing Maduro, which happened in the end.

Depends now really on how sycophantic the rest of this admin. of greedy idiots and the military top brass are, if he gets impatient and orders a US "Special Military Operation" to seize it once trying to buy it/bully Denmark to hand it over (like a trophy or a prize he covets) is not going anywhere.

He fear of/unfamiliarity with breaking out the US military hammer to get what he wants if the other methods fail is dissipating and he's actually becoming enthusiastic about it instead IMO.

The whole thing is just so f*cking stupid.

The US is very heavily dependent on free trade and foreign investment. The second he pulls the trigger on this, the EU is going to hit them with the worse tariffs and barriers in its history. The US will strike back. We'll all suffer terribly and all so one of the worst human beings in the world can rape a country for its minerals which it will then be unable to sell, all the while tanking the economy.

I read a book about trade some time ago. It was only 200 or so pages long and it's made me feel like I'm smarter than most politicians, honestly.

It's okay…some "citizen journalists" + friends of Elon off X and maybe Conor McGregor (again) can go over to represent Ireland instead, and White House will be more than fine with that (probably)!

I dipped into Eric Hoffer's book The True Believer published in 1951.

From part 73

The Americans are poor haters in international affairs because of their innate feeling of superiority over all foreigners. Should Americans begin to hate foreigners whole-heartedly, it will be an indication that they have lost confidence in their own way of life.