AndyRM
Elder Goth
He doesn't have a clue how to do anything. He's an easily led and manipulated puppet who latches on to other people's ideas, talks sh!te about them and leaves others to figure out what the hell to do.
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He doesn't have a clue how to do anything. He's an easily led and manipulated puppet who latches on to other people's ideas, talks sh!te about them and leaves others to figure out what the hell to do.
I predict that Mr Musk wont cut UK$2 trillion from the Government.
Actually, not so much my prediction as BBC's More or Less podcast analysis.
Yet again, just like Xitter valuation and costs, Mr Musk will be demonstrating his failure to get any grip of money and numbers.
Ian
Actually, not so much my prediction as BBC's More or Less podcast analysis.
Yet again, just like Xitter valuation and costs, Mr Musk will be demonstrating his failure to get any grip of money and numbers.
Ian
AuroraSaab
Squire
They all do it. Obama's were probably the least controversial. Apparently the DOJ suggest a list and he didn't deviate much from it. Trump obviously, but Clinton also used his position to do some controversial personal favours. It's a thing I just don't see having a place in modern politics. It's like some throwback to a feudal monarchy.
BoldonLad
Old man on a bike. Not a member of a clique.
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Similar to our "Honours List" ?
Particularly after he'd assured the American population that he wouldn't.
For me (not a US citizen nor resident) Biden is a massive disappointment. I suppose he kicked of his incompetence with his US departure from Afghanistan (and what that permitted to then happen).
He put himself forward as being expert at bringing people together, getting agreement between disagreeing parties ... and we've seen what that means in Israel & Gaza where he is ignored by Israel, just doing what they say ie pouring in vast qualtities of arms to enable the Israeli Government to devastate the innocent Palestinian citizens. His poodle behaviour was recently highlighted when he wrote an open letter requiring Israel to start allowing aid into Gaza *defined thresholds or reduction in arms supplies) ... Israel completely ignored it and carried on as before so Biden does nothing, like he never write the letter. Complete ineffectual poodle.
That said, I hold less hope for next President. Or maybe hope is that US being more isolationist in the long term is probably good but will mean short term damage and pain. ie I don't feel US dominance is good for the world but decline in that dominance will cause disruption so ideally as slow gradual change but I see Trump as making that change rapidly which will damage the US ans well as everybody else.
Ian
AuroraSaab
Squire
If they to sit in the Lords, yes. I'm not that bothered about who gets an OBE.
Interesting report which I suspect is much much more significant that it might appear. My impression is Trump and his attitude to China has all the strategy of a bull in a china shop (think there's a pun in there). He [Trump] in his unthinking approach just assumes US is "all powerful" and rest of world just does what it's told. But
Still, maybe he'll be too busy de-nazifying and annexing Panama to even notice.
Ian
Which I suspect might put China is a very powerful position and Trump's "do as I say" unthinking, absense of strategy approach has missed.
Still, maybe he'll be too busy de-nazifying and annexing Panama to even notice.
Ian
matticus
Guru
Well it's about time someone sorted that out! Merry Christmas Don x
icowden
Squire
And buying Greenland again.
multitool
Pharaoh
Although it pains me to refer to Trump as anything other than execrable, he is showing some perspicacity here.
This is not the first time the US has expressed considerable interest in acquiring Greenland (remember they acquired Alaska from Russia), and with the melting ice caps and an emergent China with a blue water navy it is absolutely in America's strategic interest to secure the area north of its landmass and the searoutes that will become increasingly plausible.
The US will be pushed out of the western Pacific, eventually the Indian ocean and the Gulf. It needs to shore up its immediate environs.
Rusty Nails
Country Member
The world is definitely beginning to follow the theme of three areas at permanent war in Orwell's 1984.
Russia, US and China would all like a bit of Greenland.
