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C R

C R

Guru
Beebo said:
Pie nails it again.

View: https://youtu.be/x0eq7VNCcYY?si=Xq3WpjinQLDCwoSY
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He'll have to be saying the same things here come the next election.
 
Rusty Nails

Rusty Nails

Country Member
OK I give in. Let's play top Trumps (geddit) in the doom and gloom game:

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icowden

icowden

Shaman
The really scary thing is that this time he can be manipulated to achieve a lot. For these guys:-
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025

The TL:biggrin:R is that Project 2025 was put together by around 140 people who worked in the last Trump administration to get executive orders ready to sign to get what they want - an ultra conservative religious autocracy. Trump claims to have nothing to do with it, but it is a good portion of the people he knows. He doesn't have to support it to be manipulated into doing what they want. They know how to pull his strings and massage his ego to get whatever they want, plus they have the backing of the senate and house I think.
 
Ian H

Ian H

Squire
Trump thinks presidents have near-total power: there will be little to stop him in his second term
The president-elect’s sweeping victory over Vice President Kamala Harris suddenly turned the theoretical notion that he will indulge his autocratic instincts into a genuine possibility.
When Trump returns to the White House in January as one of the most powerful presidents in history, he’ll be able to take advantage of his own filleting of guardrails during his first presidency, which he continued through legal maneuverings out of office.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/07/politics/trump-total-power-second-term-analysis/index.html
 
Psamathe

Psamathe

Veteran
And now ... Sir Starmer has to cosy-up and make friends with somebody found by a court jury of liability for sex offences. Maybe Prince Andrew should advise him (except didn't work out so well for him).

Ian
 
Ian H

Ian H

Squire
Psamathe said:
And now ... Sir Starmer has to cosy-up and make friends with somebody found by a court jury of liability for sex offences. Maybe Prince Andrew should advise him (except didn't work out so well for him).

Ian
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Grauniad headline today:-

Labour rejects Nigel Farage’s offer to help government as intermediary with Donald Trump​

 
Psamathe

Psamathe

Veteran
AuroraSaab said:
What we've allowed (or rather history has unfolded to present) is a situation where we expect the US to police the world, and bankroll NATO and bankroll the UN. Then we expect the right to moan about them being too influential.
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My own view is
a. I neither want nor expect the US to police the world. I don't think they do it very well. Just look at recent US interventions.

b. NATO is not a one way relationship and I expect US military expenditure would be pretty much the same with or without NATO. I don't see a problem with a European Defence Force replacing NATO.

c. US funding for UN is close to the amount they spend on eg their own coastguard service. UN funding by member states is calculated on a formula factoring in gross national income and population. US payments to UN are currently in arrears due to Congress expenditure caps.

But you don't mention many other aspects about their influence that can impact us eg if Trump goes ahead with his trade tariffs we'll be suffering the "US influence" - so I feel it reasonable to think the world might benefit from a US is not so dominant.

Ian
 
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