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

Comprehensive explanation from *the* authority on all things Epstein..

”Grab the by the ******” - Donald J Trump

That's an unusual summary of EU/Chinese/USA energy policy.

China and the USA are realists in relation to energy policy and make decisions in the best interests of the economic self interest and energy security.

China, while being a world leader in solar energy, burn staggering amounts of coal and are still building new plants. Many of these have significant issues around methane release. They are also leading the world in terms of new nuclear power generation.

A significant portion of their renewables are hydro; and authoritarian state has the advantage of moving a million people and just flooding their homeland.

USA oil production is after taking off over the last 15-20 allowing for energy security.

Meanwhile Europe bet the house on renewables and russian oil and gas. Even post 2014 with Russian troops in Ukraine they ploughed ahead with pipeline and reliance on Russian energy while shutting down nuclear.

In the absence of Russian gas and oil the slack is being taken by Norway, USA and the Gulf. The later two not the best of bedfellows in terms of reliability.

"Maxing out renewables" is great in theory but in the absence of fossil fuels and nuclear what's powering your base load?

The answers energy intensive AI explosion on the horizon, unless EU gets it's finger out quickly they are going to be left behind.

Mertz seems to have got the memo after the disastrous policies of Merkel, but he'd want to move quickly.

The same nonsense with energy has been mirrored in security also; it took a second coming of a dangerous lunatic in the White House to "start" to take security seriously.

Great speech by Rubio at the Munich Security Conference in Germany. Well received by his European allies at the end.

Not really the thread for this, but seeing as you brought it up.

The only countries in the E.U. with net exports of electricity are those that use nuclear generation. Renewables are intermittent and unreliable so when the wind doesn`t blow for extended period, nuclear is keeping the E.U. lights on. But you know that already.

Same as you know that France generates around 70% of its electricity from nuclear and has been making a profit from electricity exports of €5 billion annually. They are going to add 6 new ERP2 reactors and are considering adding another 8, each with a capacity of 1,630 MW. And no, countries that use nuclear generation are not doing it to build nukes or fuel submarines.

Even Denmark, the big proponent of renewables, has recently admitted that running an electricity grid on renewables is not possible without "something else" and changed their laws on nuclear. Spain plunged the whole of the Iberian peninsula into darkness attempting to run their grid on renewables, primarily solar.

”We are part of one civilization, Western civilization. We are bound to one another by the deepest bonds that nations could share, forged by centuries of shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry, and the sacrifices our forefathers made together for the common civilization to which we have now fallen heir.”

Points at Westernised Christians in Ukraine being invaded by human meat waves of Asiatic Russians and North Koreans supplied and funded by China and India

The same Russians who sneer, deride and denounce anything “western” and paid Taliban bounties to hunt Americans, support Cuba where Rubio is from and of course prop up mad Islamic regimes in Middle East like Iran and ISIS

Yeh Marco Rubio is talking out of his arse

Barack Obama

Vance seemingly said that ,not the host.

Without the clip ,how can we say what he meant?

Good for the Canadians standing up to the authoritarian regime in the US. They are showing us in Europe a good practical example of how to stand up to the US and boycotting them economically as much as possible makes perfect sense both for Canada and for us in Europe and can indeed have a real impact.

China and Europe are gradually moving away from fossil fuels - that’s the longer term trend although it’s very difficult to do - but Trump’s America is doubling down on them while he denies climate change. He can deny it all he likes but that won’t stop the droughts, heat domes, floods, wildfires, smoke and hurricanes that are coming his country’s way. This alone will cause a rupture between the US and Europe unless saner views prevail stateside.

I'd be curious to see who was the owner of this property before it was bought, and whether they contributed to Trump's election campaign.....