Donald Trump the Megathread part II - Mod Warning updated in OP 12/2/26

Personally, I am willing to take some short/medium term pain in order to give the US administration and their supporters a bloody nose. The EU should go hard now, sell a large portion of the US debt we hold, apply tariffs/the anti coercion act. The current US administration respects only strength, not diplomacy.

yeah, he despises our version of civilisation. He'd love to be a king or despot or something like that. He's an orange p!ss stain on the devils jockstrap.

And thanks to both Denmark and the US being in NATO and the 1951 Treaty of Greenland he can station all the troops he wants to in Greenland already.

This has nothing to do with defence its about mineral rights and legacy building by expanding the US that's it.

Consumers can also make choices to show their opposition to what Trump is doing.

I think EU anti trust policy needs to change to allow European tech giants to rise. While I dislike Bessent's arrogant speech, he does have a point that Europe is over-regulated. He points to barriers to trade between European states. This is true.

Based on what, though? We have real standards for our services and products. American food is abysmal for the most part. Take ractopamine for instance. It's banned in Russia, India and China but legal in the United States. It poses health risks to consumers and causes the animals to suffer.

If the average American were truly better off than the average European, they wouldn't have voted for Trump.

Im not saying we should go as far as the US. But we need tech giants that can compete with the likes of X, Meta to end their stranglehold on the minds of our young people.

I heard this morning a poll that showed 10% of 18-29 year olds do not believe the Holocaust happened, and one quarte think only 2 million died in it. Also that 50% don't know about the Holocaust. Social media has a lot to do with this in my opinion.

The pre-Musk Twitter went too far in the opposite direction though with censorship favouring the Left. But now its a cesspool full of fascists including Alexander Dugin, a Russian advisor to Putin pushing Russian nationalism blended with Russian Orthodoxy. Parallels with the current alliance of MAGA and Christian fundamentalism. It also had an actual video of the Kirk assassination which I, when clicking to read the news of the assassination, was unexpectedly confronted with.

“This has nothing to do with defence its about mineral rights and legacy building by expanding the US that's it.”

Need to keep repeating this every few pages till the message gets through to all- mineral rights definitely but equally his “legacy” of expanding American territory- it’s nothing to do with security and I’m surprised we don’t see more people say this over and over - the territory is protected by NATO - what more could you want from a security perspective. This is all Trumps ego at play, nothing more and world leaders need to call it out and stop pussy footing around

Have you anything to back that up?(you say "incontrovertible")

I don't call "living from paycheck to paycheck" well off and it seems this is very common in the States (how common comparatively in Europe ,I wonder)

Same way Orcistan successfully took Ukraine? Orcistan vs NATO/EU, they lose quickly. China, you must be joking, they have their hands full taking Eastern Orcistan.