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Putin hinted this week that the Ukraine conflict could end in weeks, so Trump may not have a long wait.
How to do the impossible? America is instinctively an expansionist power, needing new fields to conquer; new financial horizons to master and to exploit. The U.S. is built that way. Always was.
But – if you are Trump, wanting to withdraw from wars on the empire’s periphery, yet nonetheless wanting too, to cast a shiny image of a muscular America expanding and leading global politics and finance – how to do it?
Well, President Trump – ever the showman – has a solution. Disdain the now-discredited intellectual ideology of muscular American global hegemony; suggest rather, that these earlier ‘forever wars’ should never really have been ‘our wars’; and, as Alon Mizrahi has advanced and suggested, set about re-colonising that which was already colonised: Canada; Greenland; Panama – and Europe too, of course.
America thus will be bigger; Trump will act with decisive muscularity (i.e. as in Colombia); make a big ‘show’ of things, but at the same time, shrink the mainstream U.S. security interest to centre on the Western Hemisphere. As Trump keeps observing, Americans live in the ‘western hemisphere’, not in the Middle East or elsewhere.
Trump thus attempts to detach from the American expansionist war periphery – ‘the outside’ – to proclaim that the ‘inside’ (i.e. the western hemisphere’s sphere), has become bigger and is unquestionably American. And that is what matters.
It is a big shift, yet it has the virtue of beginning to be recognized by many Americans as a more accurate reflection of reality. America’s instinct remains expansionary (that doesn’t change), but many Americans advocate a focus on American domestic needs, and its ‘near neighbourhood’.
Mizrahi calls this inside-out adjustment ‘self-cannibalisation’: Europe is part of the western sphere of interest. Indeed, ‘Europe’ regards itself as its progenitor, yet the Trump team has set about re-colonising it – albeit in a Trump vein.
Robert Cooper, a senior British diplomat sent to Brussels, famously in 2002 coined the term liberal imperialism as Europe’s new purpose. It was to be imperialism of soft-power. Yet, still Cooper couldn’t quite let go of European ‘old empire orientalism’, writing:
“The challenge to the postmodern world is to get used to the idea of double standards. Among ourselves, we operate on the basis of laws and open cooperative security. But when dealing with more old-fashioned kinds of states outside the postmodern continent of Europe, we need to revert to the rougher methods of an earlier era – force, pre-emptive attack, deception, whatever is necessary to deal with those who still live in the nineteenth century world of every state for itself. Among ourselves however, we keep the law: But when we are operating in the jungle, we must also use the laws of the jungle”.
Cooper’s world-view was influential in the thinking of Tony Blair, as well as in the development of European Security and Defence Policy.
The EU élite however, began optimistically to see itself as having top-table (real) ‘empire’ status (global clout),based on its regulatory control of a market of 400 million consumers. It didn’t work. The EU had adopted the Obama stratagem that promised a ‘mind control’ framework which asserts that reality can be ‘created’ through managed narrative.
Europeans were never properly told that an EU trans-national empire implied (and required) the relinquishment of their sovereign parliamentary decision-making. They imagined, rather, that they were joining a free-trade area. Instead, they were being taken to an EU identity through stealth and the careful management of a confected EU ‘reality’.
That European liberal empire aspiration – in the wake of the Trump cultural assault in Davos – looks very passé. The atmospherics hint rather at the passage from one cultural zeitgeist to another.
Elon Musk seems to be tasked with tipping Germany and Britain out from the old worldview and into the new. This is important for the Trump agenda, as these two states are the primary agitators for war to sustain a global – rather than a western hemisphere – primacy. Europe’s decision-making failures over the last years, however, makes Europe an obvious target to a President determined on radical cultural change.
There is precedent for Trump’s Inside-Out ploy: Old Rome too, withdrew from its peripheral imperial provinces to concentrate on its core, when distant wars drained too many resources at the centre, and its army was being outmatched in the Field. Rome would never openly admit to the retreat.
Which takes us back to today’s ‘radical Inside-Out solution’: It seems to consist of ‘go like a demented whirlwind’ domestically – which is what matters most to his base – and, in the international sphere, project confusion and unpredictability. Continue repeating the ancient régime’s ideological shibboleths and counter-factual statistics, but then brace it up with occasional contrarian throw-away comments (such as saying in reference to the Gaza ceasefire that it is ‘their [Israel’s] war’, and that Israel’s interests may not always be those of the U.S., and, seemingly as an aside – that Putin may have already made up his mind ‘not to make a deal’ on Ukraine).
Dissing Putin as a loser in Ukraine perhaps was more addressed to the U.S. Senate and its ongoing confirmation hearings. Trump made these comments days before Tulsi Gabbard faces Senate hearings. Gabbard already is criticised by U.S. ‘hawks’ for allegedly holding ‘pro-Putin’ sentiments, as well as being subjected to a media slur campaign by the deep state.
Was Trump’s apparent disrespect toward Putin and Russia (which caused anger in Russia) said primarily for the ears of U.S. Senators? (The Senate is home to some of the most ardent ‘never-Trumpers’).
And were Trump’s egregious comments about ‘cleansing’ Gaza’s Palestinians to Egypt or Jordan (co-ordinated with Netanyahu, according to an Israeli Minister) intended primarily for the ears of the Israeli Right? According to that Minister, the issue of encouraging voluntary Palestinian migration is now back on the agenda, just as the Right-wing parties have long wanted – and many in Netanyahu’s Likud had hoped. Music to their ears.
Was it then a Trumpian pre-emptive move, designed to save Netanyahu’s government from imminent collapse over the ceasefire’s second-stage, and the threat of a walk-out by his Right Wing contingent? Was Trump’s target audience in this case then Ministers Ben Gvir and Smotrich?
Trump pointedly confuses us – by never making it clear to which audience he is addressing his ruminations at any one time.
Is there nonetheless some substance sedimented within Trump’s comment that any Palestinian state must be resolved ‘in some other way’ than the Two-State formula? Maybe. We should not discount Trump’s strong leanings towards Israel.
Netanyahu faces harsh criticism for mis-handling both the Gaza and Lebanese ceasefires. He has been guilty of promising one thing to one party and the opposite to the other (an old vice): He has promised the Right a return to war in Gaza, yet committed to the unequivocal end to war in the actual ceasefire agreement. In Lebanon, Israel was committed to withdrawal by 26 January on the one hand, yet its military is still there, provoking a human wave of Lebanese returning to the south, hoping to reclaim their homes.
Consequently, Netanyahu at this juncture is utterly dependent on Trump. The PM’s wiles will not be enough to get him off the hooks: Trump has him where he wants him. Trump will get ceasefires, and will tell Netanyahu,no attack on Iran (at least until Trump has explored the possibility of a deal with Tehran).
With Putin and with Russia, the opposite is the case. Trump there has no leverage (the favourite word in Washington). He has no leverage for four reasons:
Firstly, since Russia steadfastly refuses the idea of any compromise that “boils down to freezing the conflict along the line of engagement, that will give time to the U.S. and NATO to rearm the remnants of the Ukrainian army – and then start a new round of hostilities”.
Secondly, because Moscow’s conditions for ending the war will prove to be unacceptable to Washington, as they would not be susceptible to being presented as an American ‘win’.
Thirdly, because Russia holds the clear military advantage: Ukraine is about to lose this war. Major Ukrainian strongholds are now being taken by Russian forces without resistance. This ultimately will lead to a cascade effect. Ukraine may cease to exist if serious negotiations do not take place before summer, the head of the Ukrainian Military Intelligence Kyrylo Budanov recently warned.
But fourthly, because history is not reflected at all in the word leverage. When peoples who occupy the same geography have different and often irreconcilable versions of history, the western transactional ‘split the power spectrum’ simply doesn’t work. The opposed sides will not be moved – unless some solution recognises and takes account of their history.
The U.S. needs to always to ‘win’. So does Trump understand that the ineluctable dynamics of this war militate against presenting any transactional outcome as a clear ‘win’ for the U.S.? Of course he does (or will do, when professionally briefed by his team).
The logic of the Ukraine situation, to be blunt, suggests that President Putin should quietly advise President Trump to walk away from the Ukraine conflict – to avoid taking ownership of a western débacle.
Putin hinted this week that the Ukraine conflict could end in weeks, so Trump may not have a long wait.
Should Trump want a ‘win’ (highly likely), then he should be steered by Putin’s many hints: Intermediate missile deployments by both parties are creating heightened risk and ‘cry out’ for a new limitation agreement. Trump could say that he saved us all from WW3 – and there could be more than a grain of truth to it.
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Alastair Crooke provides us with the most rational analysis of the mumbo jumbo statement by Trump about Gaza that puzzled billions of people. But then we still have to wonder if Mr. Crooke is giving Trump more than he deserves for maybe Trump has no hidden strategy except to please Israel in return for some internal political advantage.
Let us hope this seasoned and highly intelligent diplomat has got it right.
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The act of Israel bombing Gaza flat and Trump tucking in Netanyahu’s chair rather exposes this secular Jew as a dissembling weasel. Adam Green was over the target.
agree with you joe, and perhaps crooke’s intelligence might hinder his understanding of “the don”. highly intelligent people tend to attempt to want to make order out of chaos and sense out of nonsense. they have a hard time understanding an intellect that is subpar in a person, that has achieved such heights of political power, that there must be something there they are not seeing. the more they scrutinize the situation, the more they connect dots that should be but aren’t there. kevin barret had an interesting article comparing trump to ubu roi and i think he may be on to something there, perhaps that could help alistair understand from a more educated perspective.
the don appears to be working from more of a mob boss mentality and it’s hard for intellectuals to understand this more instinctual, might makes right position, as opposed to a more traditional and diplomatic, civilized perspective.
trump has been sent in to paint a total strategic loss as a victory and from what i’m seeing, his strategy is this: if there’s no way to stop the russians in ukraine, than we’ll just grab whatever we want to show how big and strong we are, by beating up a bunch of smaller countries and economically canabalizing the e.u. vassal states, like saturn devouring his children.
we’ll see if they are really stupid enough, to follow through on their attempt to seize gaza. perhaps there’s something more to trump and the world, unifying against this outrageous crime, will actually force the israelis into the two state solution they fear most. i’m kind of leaning more towards the ubu roi perspective, right now.
Trump, like anybody who fundraises for his bread and butter, has so many “Who’s your Daddy?” issues. He can make blanket, ambiguous blather and let all his daddies flatter themselves. I think he has spent his whole life honing this skill, and it’s a wonder they still fall for it. Maybe it just keeps them all at each others’ throats, away from his.
Make no mistake, the British deep state is freaking out over Trump right now, as are their Antipodean pit bulls, the Arsesies. Gabbard’s likely confirmation has them in a full-blown panic. Meanwhile it’s obvious that Putin’s words that the conflict could end very soon is a direct result of quiet negotiations going on between him and Trump’s team. The British/Arsesie goal now is to derail those negotiations, make Trump appear to be an imbecile, and keep the war going at all costs. The Brits have major exposure on 3 fronts: losing access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals (now claimed by Trump LOL), the collapse of their casino play on Ukro debt obligations and the threat of massive litigation over Nordstream 2 which they blew up.
hey joe, i just had to send this to you as it seems simplicius has addressed it to you. he speaks of nutty giving a golden pager to trump, perhaps this is a thinly vailed threat, explaining why trump is doing the one thing the israelis could never do themselves. it also explains that trumps heinous, genocidal, monotonal speech he gave while standing next to his master, was actually written by jared, surprise, surprise! blink twice if your being held captive, donny.
good information on iran and turkiye as well, i don’t think this is going to go as smoothly as they think. perhaps this event will finally unify the islamic world, both sunni and shia, on the one thing they can all agree upon. if not we have been totally absorbed by the zioborg collective.
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/trump-announces-levantine-riviera
Trying to rationalize rampant insanity only traps the would-be rationalizer in the crazy-place along with its other inmates. Yet many ostensibly educated and seemingly thoughtful people keep at that exercise-in-futility in complete disregard of a certain physicist’s famous definition of “insanity.”
What is it in them that prevents their getting free of these fetters? From long-time observation, us surviving Free Wild Peoples have concluded it is the “self” sickness, the “individual”-ized presentation of the world-wasting “civilization” disease, that has so captivated so many of our domesticated Human Relations.
There is of-course The Medicine specific to the disease’s process. Our Free Wild Natural LivingLoving Arrangement of Earth and Sky is even now dishing-out megadoses of it to “self” sickness sufferers everywhere.
If Putin doesn’t take all of Ukraine east of Dnieper river, he lost.
And he better take Odessa.
I suspect Alastair is wary of saying what he really thinks regarding the chosen. Death in an Italian villa.
Trump is smashing up the US-Europe nexus. Even establishment media Brits like Andrew Marr are seemingly appalled at the Gaza play. I’ve seen stuff about the natural gas offshore of Gaza as Trump’s real interest.
So it’s all building up to the chosen versus the rest. The chosen have let their guard down over the past 20 years. They thought they had it all sown up. The hedge funds, private equity, derivatives… clever Jews.
But they couldn’t defeat Hamas.
Trump Trust Trudeau Tryst Gump
Trump is being back stabbed by Generals like Kellogg with idiotic peace ideas. Reports are that he wants a ceasefire to rebuild the Ukrainian army before Russia finishes it off. Then NATO troops will move into central Ukraine as peacekeepers even though Russia’s goal is to keep NATO out of Ukraine. A bigger issue is how to keep Russia out of western Ukraine so that Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, and others don’t defect.
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There is but one serious question before us today: not whether the USA shall pulverize Ciudad Juarez with aerial bombs, but when?
This murder capital of the world is ground zero for the Mexican cartels which import drugs into the US. This is the official policy of the Mexican government. It is an act of WAR.
Juarez is also a hotspot for illegal border crossings. This too is an act of WAR.
How did all the illegal invaders get through Mexico without having been stopped? Their transit required aid. This is an act of WAR.
The best possible retaliation—both for the USA and the world in general—is elimination of Juarez as a nexus of malicious Mexican mischief.
BOMB. MEXICO!—our real enemy.
NOT IRAN.
Ukraine ceasing to exist is GOOD. Look at what it has done since 1991: every kind of stupid crime, robbing the poor, stealing from garment workers, stealing gas from Germany and Russia, killing Ukrainians, taping people to lampposts, on and on.
Even back in the 1940s, Ukrainians were fighting on both sides of WW2. They need the firm hand of Moscow to maintain some basic civilisation.
Of course the land will still be there, and many people who call themselves “Ukrainian”, but they will have Russian passports. I hope they’ll be happy.
Last week, Trump, being Trump, said the U.S. will continue to support Ukraine and, in return, Ukraine will give us all the rare earth. Trump was unaware that all the Ukrainian rare earth is in the Donbass region, which is now under the control of Russia. Trump 2. is going to be Trump’s bluff.
I am ashamed that I ever supported Trump because he now seems like a guy who should have owned a string of bowling alleys and trailer parks. It really was his old mans money that allowed him to become big in real estate. Having him back in the White House now seems like a form of human torture.
The USA is an aged bully-boy thug, now dementing, with heavy, but flabby, musculature, and so deranged that it thinks it can still beat any and all into submission. It’s handler, Israel, loves to use it to settle scores with its numerous enemies, but has the ways and means of cowardly butchery too, in abundance. Trump personifies the dying pugilist, perfectly, and Satan-yahoo the devious manager. Looks like a re-make of ‘Requiem for a Heavyweight’ (the movie).
At this juncture for the US in order to show it’s still the winner despite the upcoming Ukrainian defeat, as well as the recent devastating blow by the Chinese technological prowess, the Necons are now left with only one option which is go for the jugular i.e. control of the West Asian oil/gas fields, trade corridors. They are setting the stage for their full spectrum global dominance via Zionist regime’s expansionist designs starting with the expulsion of Palestinians and annexation of their land then a regime change inside Iran. Bet Russians and Chinese intelligence already know a whole lot more about Netanyahu – Trump diabolic ambitions than most of us do.
Agree.
I would say it is Bibi who has the Don where he wants him, and not the other
way ´round (if the body language and the freaking tie were not enough).
Larry Wilkerson made a strong point the flurry of activity is a sign of weakness,
brutalizing allies to plaster over the inability to tackle the (((elephants))) in
Palestine, the Ukraine and at home;
Mexico and Panama are cowed for the moment, the moves on Canada and
Colombia respectively have made China stronger (and the trade deficit is
going ballistic); the Nord Stream bombing alone has cost the Germans €2T – it might
not be a good idea to push them further; the Perfidious steadfastly entertain
delusions of relevance but serve better as something for the US to contemplate
(the customary Fui quod es – sum quod eris beneath a skull and bones);
the Ukraine “Plan” is calling for a timeout when you´re losing, and everybody
and his mama can see it.
– Bessent knows the only way to really reindustrialize is to let the dollar go into
freefall but that would anger the (((donors))) and end the reserve currency racket
(and with it the empire).
It is not easy being
godPOTUS.USA and UK are just 3rd world shit hole countries with shit people occupying them:
– Corruption is prevalent everywhere. Everybody can be bought and everybody is bought.
– Level of crime is very high. Level of violence is very high. Level of trust is very low.
– Intelligence of the occupying people is very low. Most do not really know anything.
– Theres no roads, theres no schools and theres no healthcare.
They tick all the boxes of primitive 3rd world shit countries.
You forgot the absolute worst horror: “maternity” wards to produce babies for sale to child torturers.
One “major” deposit in Dniepropetrowsk Oblast is (yet) unliberated; if this is
what he intends to salvage from the jaws of defeat to appease Pedo Lindsey
& The Investors (nice band name, eh) he is out to lunch.
Bomber.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQw72DacXrE
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The funny thing of course, is that all those goodies are in Russian hands (come and get them if you want!) but recently it was made known that the Chinese produce chips without silicon and rare earth metals! There is a Romanian proverb: “to sell the skin of the bear in the wood”.
Crooke is a bozo. He went off the deep end months ago, and is now practically indistinguishable from a Q-tard. Nothing about this “analysis” is rational. It’s nonsensical wishcasting cope for Trump’s ass kissers.
I think the establishment media whores are feigning revulsion at the Gaza plan disclosed by Trump, only to try to recover some of their disgraced credibility.
It’s absurd for them to take a moral stance against ethnic cleansing having done absolutely nothing about an actual genocide.
Trump, like all Israel First politicos and individuals, is mentally schizophrenic. jews and their stooges are nutcases. Big Brother/ZOG Anglosphere subjects are screwy in the head and in the soul. And they have been on an epic level since LBJ and his warfare/welfare state scheme in conjunction with his Israel First treason
There’s no “4d chess” going on here, and never has been. There’s just a Ministry of Propaganda trying to author their delusional wishful thinking into reality, failing, but trying again like dumb rube Charlie Brown trying to kick Lucy’s football.
Crooke is an old British Anglophile who wants to believe there was a method to the Anglosphere madness of decades (centuries?) of Israel First treason, inside jobs, Satanic treachery, mass murder… it’s all so vast, sick and diabolical, that’s the only way he can process it. But there really never was.
Synagogue of Satanism has always been insanity. Jesus Christ was in the thick of it 2000 years ago, and we’re still bogged down in the mire to this very day. The insane old jew simply won’t die, because he’s the Devil.
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General Kellogg has the brains of a cheap cereal box prize.
A very astute observation. However Crooke is assuming that because he is rational and a skilled diplomat, then so would be Trump. Better to live in hope than die in despair ??
Trump is accustomed to dealing with RE folks in trouble and who, with the help of his Jew friends muscle them out for pennies on the dollar. Yet, how many times has he declared bankruptcy ! He can bully the smaller Latin States but with Putin, Xi and the other Brics leaders he will be told to fuck off.
He is in the big league now but still locked into the NYC bully boy MC loudmouth mode. The fellow make enemies into to bitter enemies and friends into enemies.
Yesterday I chatted with a colleague who pulled his son out of University and booted him out the house. One day he wanted to be a Doctor, next term a Dentist, then a Vet. Trump is like that, all over the place !! Canada, Greenland, Panama Canal, Gaza, Cartels, ending the Ukraine mess in 24 hours, trade wars blah blah and more blah. As fast as one pronouncement is exposed in minutes as utter shit, he barfs up another torrent of vomit as a replacement. According to him the earth spins and tilts on its axis because HE made it so.
Everything with the guy has to be a WIN for him, always an impossibility in the real world. I think he is going to find out that the Ringmaster of a circus may be the centre of attention and cheers during the show but afterwards just another clown in the black room.
America is on the decline and all the fluff and theatrics wont save it !
His followers may look at him and see gold but the really sharp sighted only see bullshit !
I don’t understand the appeal of this writer. This is almost entirely the ‘prophetic mode’, what ‘may happen’ down the line. Or if not it’s ‘what did he really mean by these words he said?’
Pointless really.
Follow the money. Look at what they do, not what they say. History, past and recent past.
These three principles should be the foundation of good political analysis.
Totally agree with your post.
Trump is on mission impossible.
Totally agree with your post.
Open the link from Armstrong Economics where Martin Armstrong, a long term supporter of Trump, exposes the weaknesses of Trump’s negotiating style.
Very interesting read.
https://search.app/qswkRkUQhsGgEZCHA
Trump knows that. That’s why he’s shut down the Ukraine activites of USAid and the Pentagon and is sending no more money or weapons. The talk of ceasefire agreements and demilitarized zones is just window dressing.
Even with more money and weapons Ukraine was on track for defeat in June/July this year.
Defeat defined as capitulation with a North/South line running through Kiev with a rump landlocked (demilitarized) Ukraine to the West and a resource rich Russian Ukraine región to the East (including Odessa). Then the US and the Europeans can do what they want.
Maybe Blackrock can enslave what’s left of Ukraine and “own” it.
Any realist would concur with you. Rather sad for Crooke and Trump.
Giving Trump a gold-plated pager was the most arrogantly cynical joke Netanyahu could play on him on so many levels.
First, and least important is that it had to be gold-plated to play up to Trump’s notorious, ostentatious bad taste, evident in the interior decoration of his residences in NYC and Mar-A-Lago (now known as Gaza-A-Lago), where everything is gilded.
Second, the pager may be interpreted as a threat to never-ever step out of line and third as a symbol for the world to understand that Trump may be called instantly and at all times like a whore whom the pimp can reach whether she is, in his case on the golf course or in the WH.
It will be interesting to see how Erdouan is dealt with…
‘America thus will be bigger; Trump will act with decisive muscularity (i.e. as in Colombia); make a big ‘show’ of things, but at the same time, shrink the mainstream U.S. security interest to centre on the Western Hemisphere.’ — Alastair Crooke
WTF is Crooke on about? A few paragraphs down, he brazenly contradicts this assertion: ‘We should not discount Trump’s strong leanings towards Israel.’ [the elephant in the living room]
This essay is simply incoherent. Crooke rambles in an urbane but feckless word salad. Maybe he needs to be put out to pasture.
USA blew up Nordstream.
Nobody else would have done it without US permission. Same as Boris Johnson wouldn’t have scuppered the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul but for the State Department giving him the go ahead.
“How to do the impossible? America is instinctively an expansionist power, needing new fields to conquer; new financial horizons to master and to exploit. The U.S. is built that way. Always was.”
Let me fix that for you.
“Libertarianism is a Ponzi scheme. A balloon with no birthday party, always in search of more hot air to suck. Libertarianism is built that way. Always was.”
Thanks. I was going to make much the same observation about the tacky gold-plated Trump Tower stuff.
One further point is that the pager specifies to use both hands. Not fingers. Implying of course that Trump has small hands. And we all know what that means…
Trump has the Obama/Biden scapegoat. Expand the current exposing of USAID to the CIA and the rest of the blob. Expose the dirty hidden underbelly of the machination that brought us Zelensky and the war. Blame it on Obama and the Deep State and say nevermore.
I just read this:
https://nypost.com/2025/02/07/us-news/trump-wants-a-deal-for-ukraines-natural-resources-as-payback-in-exchange-for-aid-stopping-russia-attack-envoy/#
I highly doubt Putin will consider any dealings with Zelinsky. However, it does say that there are resources in the western Ukraine.
The Mexicans are now gaslighting us with the novel theory that the cartels are a figment of our imagination. No existen hefe! Welcome to intersectionality and narrative decolonization applied to drug gangs. Something tells me USAID bankrolled this book.
The sobering part is FDR´s solution to the Kobayashi Maru problem was to
start WWII, and Orange Man is clearly contemplating it
(let´s face it, the US never were that competitive – except in producing capital –
but it was never quite as abysmal as it is now).
The people who have underestimated Trump lie in broken heaps of bones and flesh with reflexively quivering dead neurons.
He’s outsmarted all the Unz thinkers, the CNN thinkers, the woke military thinkers and the transgender Democrats. He won by doing the next logical thing and ignoring the fears of the normal power-hungry US political class.
It’s always best to assume an orderly plan behind Trump’s unorthodox words and actions. It occurred to me, as he ranged over US goals in the Western Hemisphere as the first foreign policy initiatives after the election, that he was conditioning the country to a reduced, but meaningful, empirical focus. It brutally cuts out the EU, NATO, Ukraine and, interestingly, Israel. It also distracts the prissy douches of the US elite foreign policy complex from their dreams of establishing homosexualism in Russia and China.
I like the way Crooke sees these moves, especially the idea that Trump is schmoozing the Israeli right wing without any danger of his talk becoming reality. Dreams of Greater Israel are now dancing in the heads of the crazies over there as they imagine the fantastical idea of US troops completing the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
No chance of it.
I haven’t seen the video, but have seen one or two other comments on Trump ‘tucking in the chair’ for Mileiofsvnyahoo.
A man, by showing etiquette due to a woman to another man, can subtly deride the other man. Depends on the situation. Having seen one still photo, it is easy to interpret that way.
Gawd we’ve been spoon-fed this “Netanyahu’s govt is on the edge of collapse” and “Bibi is going to prison” garbage for 15 years now at least. Bibi is exactly who the powerful jews want in power in Israel just like Trump is who they want in power in the US.
Everything you wrote is just “trust me bro.” Everything.
There’s ample evidence that Britain did it, including explicit accusations from Moscow, who had no reason to single out the Brits, and an incriminating text message from Liz Truss to Blinken that likely resulted in her being booted out of office. Her phone btw will be a key piece of evidence in the upcoming civil case that will put the UK out of its misery once and for all.
The Putin Fanbois(or the Russian Government Troll Brigade) keep saying “Russia is on the verge of winning” but they’re the only ones that see it. In all of 2024 Russia only captured. 06% of Ukraine territory and that came at a tremendous cost of men and matérial. Russian advances are measured in meters per week as they hurl human wave attacks through Ukrainian minefields that are miles deep. Now the 3 year anniversary of the invasion is fast approaching and it’s become Russia’s version of the Vietnam War.
Zionist Israel is in control of Trump and the ZUS regime and everything that Trump does has the Israeli stamp of approval and Trumps latest schemes ie the take over of Greenland and Canada and Mexico are also zionist globalists goals in furthering the new world zionist communist satanist new world order , while at the same time taking attention away from the Israeli and ZUS genocide in Palestine, this is what is going on.
Trump and Netanyahu have lured the Palestinians back into Gaza into a killing field ie a slaughter house and soon Israel is going to announce that the Palestinians have broken the so called cease fire ie so called because the Israelis have not stopped bombing and killing Palestinians, and the final slaughter of Palestinians will begin , this is the Israeli/ZUS plan and it is coming soon.
Trump is the most devious diabolical demented ZPOTUS that America has ever had even surpassing the demented Biden and Obama and Bush jr and Clinton and Bush sr., and Trumps controllers in Israel are demons straight from hell and are acting on satans orders, armageddon is coming and the messianic zionist jews are awaiting the destruction of the gentiles world.
it’s not just the tacky gag gift/threat, it’s also mounted on what, i am fairly certain is olive tree wood, most likely from one of the innumerable palestinian olive trees they have destroyed out of spite. once again, these fiends love to rub the world’s nose in their heinous jewish supremacy, flaunting their perceived impunity from the laws of man. i would not be surprised if there was some kind of passive listening device, implanted in it, it wouldn’t be the first time they did.
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/2/7/netanyahu-gifts-trump-golden-pager-celebrating-lebanon-attacks
https://www.etsy.com/listing/1581106849/20-inch-50cm-turkish-olive-wood-slabs?gpla=1&gao=1&
This comment exemplifies why I esteem TUR.
“Trump tucking in Netanyahu’s chair”
Don’t overthink.
Netanyahu is Trump’s guest.
Netanyahu is basically an invalid.
It is basic etiquette for Trump to help Netanyahu to the table.
No it’s a border war.
I don’t think that’s Trump’s intent. Subservience was being displayed like Butler.
Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic
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In the US it really depends on proximity to unassimilated africans. I never lock my car and nothing has ever been stolen from it.
Great
There’s a bottomless pit here.
There are Regime Change operations all over the place. There’s the Kennedy assassination, USS Liberty, 9/11, Iraq, WMD. How far is this going to go? Aren’t the Israelis supposed to be Trump’s best friends?
The world outside of the U.S., with all its divisions, reflects the reality of the US at home, which increasingly feels like large parts of it are on the brink. Witness “aspiring Americans” waving Mexican flags while they close freeways and accost cars. This paradox illustrates for even the most naive American that the rampant illegal immigration has led us to this point. There are millions here, and for those of us who have been here for 10 years or more you see the changes on the streets, we have replaced vibrant businesses with pop up Mexican restaurants, unpermitted, untaxed.
The US cannot project a coherent world vision abroad when it lacks one at home, we have a See-Saw foreign policy.
Indeed, a very interesting read.
Thanks.
And whence comes this narrow “distributive” mindset of Trump’s?
Maybe it stems from early childhood experiences.
Maybe it is his personality.
Maybe it is his experience in the real estate universe.
But I can’t help thinking that the “only one winner” mindset reflects demands from his Zionist backers.
Because that is the Zionist—even the Jewish—way.
I come to this opinion honestly: from reading Ilan Pappe’s Lobbying for Israel on Both Sides of the Atlantic. This well-researched account makes it absolutely clear that “my way or the highway” is the Jewish MO at least since the beginning of the colonial project in Palestine.
If you say Boo you are an anti-semite. They react with fury and get all of their sayanim to deluge any challengers with negative press and smear campaigns. They are very organized about this. Other than fundraising and buying politicians etc. this is their primary weapon.
Any compromise or letting the other side have a win is temporary–a ruse.
The Jews have to have everything their way.
Maybe that’s where Trump picked up this MO.
It seems to be working quite well in the domestic sphere—his adversaries here have already made such fools of themselves that they have made it fairly easy to Trump to come out swinging his EO pen. To some extent the same can be said of many EU leaders.
I don’t think Trump is actually stupid. I wonder how long it will take for him to see that this approach is of limited usefulness in the international sphere.
I would love to see Gazprom proceed to repair Nord Stream 2 and the gas to start flowing to Germany again.
Right.
It’s possible Trump was just trying to stop him from falling on his backside, but to be fair, I’d have pulled not pushed that chair. Is Trump the Butler?
What if for the sake of argument Trump has made a deal with Russia and China, that each should operate in their sphere of influences and instead of fuckery and regime change they cooperate and trade. Is this why Trump is cutting back the CIA to nothing and in effect the 5is? Is the Epstein exposure against the pedophiles or Israel’s spying and compromise of its benefactor?
For the US to stay in its sphere of influence, it needs heavy oil and rare metals to reindustrialize. Well, who has the heavy oil and rare metals? For heavy oil, Russia and Venezuela but also Canada and Greenland. Also who has rare metals? Russia, China, but also Greenland. Is this why Western Canada alone can become the 51rst state should Eastern Canada wish to remain the property of the Brutish Clown.
If the US would remove its nukes from Eastern Europe and Russia’s borders, where can they relocate them to continue maintaing them as an effective enough deterrent? Greenland. As a side bar, who do you think has the right of first refusal to the sale of Greenland? Hint: Who’s Bank is about to collapse? The Brutish Clown. Hence, Greenland is in the news.
As for Eukraine, Russia will split it up and return each part to the original owner. This accomplishes two things. Ends “Russia is expansionist” debate and leaves no foothold for Brutish Clown and MISick fuckery to continue trying to bust up Russia.
So to reestablish Trump’s control over his sphere of influence, he has to reduce the imbalance of trade with the Drug Cartels. Could it be that using AI to interdict drug shipments to the Eastern US, through the Panama Canal, is a first step in establishing some control? Will China also help by reducing exports? Here you can see a good example on how Trump works. He starts out with the unthinkable, “I am going to take over Panama and I am going to mess her up.” The world goes into confusion and the Panamanians panick, “the crazy gringo is coming.” Instead he sends Rubio to get access to inspect shipments and the Panamanians breath again and say: no problemo. In the first place, America never had the harbor equipment necessary to take over both Chinese operated ports, once the Chinese left with their equipment. See how Trump works. The same thing in Gaza. He got the Israelis to psychologically accept that Gaza will belong to someone else, America. Egypt’s alSisi, most hated modern ruler of Egypt, is panicking for he faces for sure, a coup if the Palestinians are evicted after another round of slaughter. I predict that Trump will avoid being a genocide president and will give Gaza to Egypt’s administration as was innitially proposed in the Egyptian/Israeli peace agreement where Sadat refused it, and in return forgive Egypt part or all of its $130 billion cripling debt with a promise to rebuild Gaza with donations from China and the Arab whores.
In the very end, part of the deal of the spheres of influences, is to tame the zionist entity, for it is causing too much instability for its neighbors and others to conduct trade with a semblance of predictability. After all, a slum lord like Trump, would never believe that God gave Gaza to the Jews, they already own all of Jew York.
Peace and trade raises all boats.
American are obsessed seeing necessity having a gun with them everywhere, not just with black people. Even rest of the world knows how troublesome, aggressive, violent and criminal all american and all british are, not just black people. These are really just primitive and savage cultures with low intelligence and high crime rates, not just among black people.
Another angle to view this from is Trump was openly negotiating with Netanyahu during the joint press conference, the look on Netanyahu’s face would suggest he was caught a bit off guard. I really doubt Israel wants the U.S. to own any part of land in or around Israel; especially the Gaza Strip.
Now, would they love us to come in and clean up their mess and spend trillions of dollars on modern buildings, infrastructure, and security? Of course! However, they’d never allow any rights to the U.S.
Honestly at this point I wouldn’t be surprised with any deal made. I think Trump understands the dire financial situation the U.S. has put itself into and is willing to entertain otherwise ludicrous propositions to try and safeguard the Country’s future.
-Rooster
You are an idiot.
Congrats; looks to me like ‘you got it.’ Israel is a net-negative [apart from the RoW ‘tolerated'[!?] *true* holocaust = genocide of native Palestinians, of course – ‘nobody’ cares?]
Me: Stop the genocide! Eject the Jews, prosecute all perpetrators and their supporters!
String ((‘em)) up!
This is a total-world catastrophe; the Jews *must* be stopped.
Alternative: Humanity [concept] dies – killed by ((them)). Really what we want? rgds
A possible timeline:
1. Zelenskky is killed by one of his generals in a palace coup.
2. Ceasefire – 30+ days. Freeze the lines.
3. The GAS must flow.
4. New borders for Ukraine. Russia keeps all captured territory.
I made this point in the previous articles comments, but it’s more appropriate here-
Was Trump being subservient to nuttyliar, or was he simply acting as a gracious host, i.e. like a husband holding the chair for his wife (or any other female) at a restaurant? I make no claims to know, but I think either interpretation makes sense.
Mr. Green claims that Christianity is a jewish plot to destroy gentiles even though the jews themselves, ridicule and suppress it at every opportunity. Which, of course, makes zero sense. If he can’t see the inherent contradiction involved, then I don’t think there’s much value in anything he says.
I and many other people like myself are defenders and liberators of our people who will destroy the american and british enemy and drive it out from our lands with legal means, freeing our people.
Resistance movements are preparing to fight the american and british enemy and eventually drive it out when the time finally comes. After us come our children and their children. We will never stop and surrender to american and british. We fight for good, justice and our people against Satan Himself.
Very interesting comments, that cover a large range of possibilities, probabilities, and options. Many are predictable and of little value, e.g., those that reduce Trump to a simple, single sentence summation or characterization. The logical fallacy of making statements such as these are that a part of a set of phenomenon is not to be held as the summation or whole.
What is missing in characterizations of Trump-or anything else-is the factor of time. Trump many find it necessary or convenient to induce or include himself in a categorical form or advocacy but there may be options, e.g., temporary projections, feigns toward a position-some of which are designed to be contingencies, or contain expiration time lines.
I have said before that reducing Trump to a man with singular motives or “corral-able” status is fraught with pitfalls and limitations. His entire history belies such a gestalt. Trump is not a fancy dancer. He is a street fighter. I have also said that Trump is overwhelming motivated by establishing his place in history. He sees himself as an historical standout with an enduring legacy.
This is what is termed an Override, a manual mode that overrides all other actions, controls, inputs, etc. Whatever Trump does, it has to end well for him at the end of his presidential term. This might include pre-positioning his adversaries in unsustainable actions, or provoking them into over-confidence and terminal momentum. Perceived weakness is sometimes a potent weapon if used to lower your adversaries’ expectations and create over-confidence.
If Putin doesn’t take all of Ukraine east of Dnieper river, he lost.
And he better take Odessa.
Russia hasn’t taken Kharkiv which is 30 minutes from the Russian border.
Ukraine has been taking out an oil depot or refinery about every week.
So no I don’t see Russia taking a hostile port city that overwhelmingly voted for Zelensky. At current rates Ukraine could take out most of their refineries before that happens.
Putin most likely wants to raise his “mission accomplished” banner and just hope everyone forgets that he said the war was about stopping the Eastward expansion of NATO. Well that goal has failed due to Finland joining.
Was Trump’s apparent disrespect toward Putin and Russia (which caused anger in Russia) said primarily for the ears of U.S. Senators? (The Senate is home to some of the most ardent ‘never-Trumpers’).
Trump told a room full of reporters that Putin is destroying Russia. That clearly wasn’t for the ears of the Senate. Good lord we have some serious wishful thinking happening with Putin and Trump.
You and others were hoping that Trump would side with Putin.
Well he has set the tone for an Israel First presidency and clearly doesn’t have as much respect for Putin as he did when this glorious invasion started.
Trump doesn’t like losers and the world’s second largest military still hasn’t removed Ukraine from Kursk. That’s rather sad. The Nazis took all of Ukraine in a couple months.
Should Trump want a ‘win’ (highly likely), then he should be steered by Putin’s many hints: Intermediate missile deployments by both parties are creating heightened risk and ‘cry out’ for a new limitation agreement. Trump could say that he saved us all from WW3 – and there could be more than a grain of truth to it.
Back to the ridiculous assumption that we need to meet Putin’s demands or else he will murder suicide the world. What a reasonable guy. He threatens to end the world in a nuclear holocaust over his occupation of Eastern Ukraine (which includes an oblast that voted for Zelensky).
Putin has been able to launch cruise missiles across the entirely of Ukraine since the war started. Why shouldn’t Ukraine be able to do the same? How about rational explanation other than cause Putin gets to make the rules of his glorious invasion. Putin is the spoiled brat kid that changes the rules of the game at his court. Well it’s my court and I say that all of your shots have to be outside this line.
russia did a deal with israel and the us – get out of syria and get rewarded in ukraine
Deployment of 1000km Iskander in Ukraine should make matters clear
Every European capital is in range with mobile launchers at field command level
Brits wouldn’t know what to do with a rare earth deposit if it bit them in the ass. It’s doubtful any could even explain how a bar magnet works.
My take on Christianity is that observant Greeks were making fun of Jews and wrote down a story.
I object to the over-representation of Jewish hands on the levers of power in the United States and Europe, especially in the areas of finance and politics. The influence of AIPAC, for example, on American elections, particularly disgusts me, as well as politicians with dual Israeli citizenship. Furthermore, the promulgation of a particular narrative of WWII in Europe maintains a certain control by Jewish social theorists of history going forward.
Jews have been expelled from so many polities over the last two millennia and their refusal to look inward for the reasons beyond knee-jerk anti-semitism is problematic.
We must understand the fundamental corruption since 1913 in my country, the USA, and strike at the root: an Ashkhenazim banking structure and corrupt monetary system controlling allocation of resources and information flow IS THE ENEMY!
See http://www.LetJusticePrevailThoughTheHeavensFall.com and scroll down past bio information to read a proposed Constitutional Amendment wresting control of our monetary system from the vile hands of a corrupt financier class.
Frankly there is no other way—-unless Americans wish to remain serfs in a financier neofeudalism…
That would imply they planned that Mossad president-for-life Aladeen –
which I doubt. If you want to bleed someone out you do not want him to shorten
his front, only ratchet up the exertion to hold it (-> “Kursk” front).
With Sultan Reccep I closing the Bosporus, supply shipping could no longer be
protected and aerial logistics are insanely expensive so the situation became
untenable but we haven´t seen the last of either Russian bases or Hizb´Ullah.
Lastly, if there was a deal the Izzies wouldn´t be sending Syrian weapons to the Zezi.
the filthy rich jews can afford to pay each and every palestinian $10 million each to decamp israel.
easy solution, albeit they are tight asses – but even tight asses can rethink their methods.
that l have never heard anyone suggest they pay palestinians to leave is a measure of how much the jews control the public dialogue
Robert Cooper, a senior British diplomat … writing:
“Among ourselves however, we keep the law: But when we are operating in the jungle, we must also use the laws of the jungle”.
Well, J6 committees was not keeping law at home and the USAID promoting homosexual perversion abroad was a different kind of law than that of the of jungle.
I agree but there is no need for a “passive listening device” in Trump’s pager. He is closely surrounded by “passive” and “active” listening devices like his beardless son-in-law and just about everyone else in his entourage
Lol! Cope harder. BUT, your silly comment gave me a preview of the coming headlines in our MSM: “Russia won, but a what cost?”
Recommended reading: Uwe Parpart: “How wars end… and why Ukraine’s may drag on”
https://asiatimes.com/2025/02/how-wars-end-and-why-ukraines-may-drag-on/
Nacos and Fresas
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Lol! Cope harder. BUT, your silly comment gave me a preview of the coming headlines in our MSM: “Russia won, but a what cost?”
And when would that be coming?
You do realize that Ukraine has been in Kursk for 6 months?
All the pro-Russian bloggers (MacGregor, Ritter, Duran, etc) got Kursk completely wrong. They all expected Ukraine to be quickly wiped out.
The war is not going as planned for Russia. That is an observable fact that is independent of the MSM.
It’s year 3 of the war and Russia was recently on video using Mad Max passenger cars in a column attack.
That was not the plan. This was supposed to be finished in the first month.
Time will tell. Trump’s words and deeds maybe shrouded in mystery.
I hope you are right but I have my doubts.
You’re a boring Jew. Go out, get a life, instead you spend the day composing long comments at TUR, with links and shit, I guess you’ve posted thousand upon thousand comments here.
If you’re a very old Jew then I understand your spending all your time writing comments at TUR, but still, old Jews can go the sinogogue to pray to Yawrwelsh or whatever is called the Jew God and shit. Do that and take a break from Unz.
All you can do is call me a Jew because you know I am right.
Priss Factor posted a video about Mexicans and Shrek but you took offense to my video that is related to the topic. That is because Priss is your fellow conformist that you don’t find threatening.
I’m not Jewish and over 200k Christian Slavs would be alive if Putin didn’t invade.
The Russians are actually on video using Mad Max style passenger cars in an offensive and you still think the Tiny Tsar and blood war is worth defending as we come to year three.
A real man can admit when he is wrong. You’ll probably never be a real man. Real men will just be something you read about.
Should they call an immediate ceasefire? Elensky may want to resume the war but I’d bet that his army will not.
I’m troll-concerned about your health, go out NOW.
Oh I’m sorry is this an open political form or a censored website that caters to your precious emotions?
Maybe find a censored pro-Russian forum if you find the minority pro-Ukraine view to be so threatening.
My comments have been on-topic so maybe ask yourself why you have such a hard time with dissenting views.
Sure, so did you go out?
Perhaps, perhaps not. I find it easy to interpret it as a slight.
‘Here, lady, I’ll handle your chair for you.’
Which is correct for a man to a woman, old-fashioned politeness. Not that the lady can’t work out how to sit down by herself if she wants, but accepts it as a remnant of old-fashioned politeness, so a slight by Drumpf to Bin’yamin Mileikovskyahoo.
That may be too much to hope for, I fear that your interpretation may be correct.
Is Alastair Crooke a Musk-Trump believer?
we had enough of the “trump is playing 10th dimensional chess” bullshit during the first term. now it’s just cringe. people need to realize he’s just a very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, very, VERY stupid asshole. that’s it. he’s good at selling snake oil but too dumb to realize it doesn’t work.
every idiotic utterance that oozes fom his jaundiced face is just the last thing a rando hanger-on whispered in his senile boomer ear. kinda like biden. and nothing he’s doing is a deviation from the original plans; including wrecking europe so his crony capitalist ilk can snatch up the remains at wish.com prices.
There is NO ‘over-representation’ of Jews, anywhere. That is an ‘antisemitic’ conspiracy theory. What you have is a meritocracy, so, naturally, Jews excel, being the best, as they endlessly assert.