Oh, so armed conflict is the answer?
It may come to that in time. Most people here can’t even wrap their heads around what’s happening. Almost nobody alive here has seen anything like this, and it’s only been a month. Protests are beginning, and I’m sure they’ll ramp up as things get worse.
It’s always easy to tell the other guy what he should do.
After four years of ‘Merrick Garland has a plan’ there is a certain degree of impatience, to be sure. The gradualist approach has allowed the US Constitution to become a historical curiosity.
Wtf armed conflict. I could go on about protests of all kinds and varieties all around the world. Often when it’s about a lot less existential stuff. Or far more dangerous.
We’ve recently had millions on the street all around the country because of a non-binding motion and a law that didn’t pass - in a matter of days.
Well, far bit more mobilisation than after Floyd was killed, for one ? That is at least a bar one could expect. What is happening now should perhaps inject some energy if not panic into Americans. There is not even a hundred thousand in the streets of your bggest cities. Compare that to the heroes in Georgia.
Good for you. You live in a country as big as our fourth largest state. Your population density is almost 10X the USA. Dare say it’s a bit easier for groups to gather there.
Well you said it was easy to tell others what do. That’s why I mentioned it.
And it was all all around the country. Big cities, smaller cities. I didn’t go to Berlin or Munich, I was here in Cologne. Cities like e.g. Oldenbug had 10.000 people on the street. And New York is a much bigger city than Berlin. It’s not like you don’t have metroplic regions with lots of people.
US citizens have been numbed by decades of bad education, right wing propaganda, relentless consumerism and hate speech.
In two weeks they’ll be on board with the idea that Russia is their friend and that Europe is their enemy.
My BiL, who takes an interest, and considers himself well informed, just told me that Trump’s win was a record breaking massacre and was genuinely surprised when I pointed out that it was only 1.5%.
That’s how divorced from reality even reasonably well educated people are.
Democrats are so so so unpopular
The far left is clueless why
https://x.com/stevekornacki/status/1892289406330950052?s=46&t=o3XUPKxiqJH7KZYdWMCtqg
So if they want this nonsense and resign themselves to their fate… fine, maybe these Maga people will learn a thing or two. They wanted the price of eggs to go down, but what’s going down are airplanes and their good reputation. What I find absolutely terrible about this apathy is that the whole world is now being dragged into it. What does Trump want to do with the Baltic soldiers, send them to Canada? Or Mexico or Greenland? I believe he’s capable of anything.
The information system has been broken, and incessant lies have been fed to the population via some of the biggest news sources, both on TV and online.
Yes, more people should have known better, but a rogue head of State - the like of which America has not seen before, is at the helm. He is above the law and is utterly dominating supposed coequal branches of government. He is a stupid and base man, but there are very capable ideologues behind him, enacting their agenda.
The political system should not have allowed his rise, as he is unqualified on any number of levels. The politicians should have dealt him a knockout blow after January 6th, but they did not. The courts should have dealt him a knockout blow after several huge things that would have sunk any other President in history. But they did not.
A whole slew of factors have come together for this to happen. It is far too simplistic to keep having a pop at the American public. I’m concerned if that sentiment grows, as it will drive a wedge between reasonable Americans on here and international members of the forum. We are both united in horror at what is unfolding.
Decomission many of them, is perhaps likely (it’s not that many). Trump has ordered Hegseth to shrink the defence budget with 8 percent every year for the next 5 years. After 5 years, the US defence budget will have been cut by 1/3.
Anti Imperialist (of the type that is mostly anti West, not so much if other states are imperial) can start celebrate. So can China (and of course Russia, but that goes without saying).
The US folk on here, such as yourself, are on the more reasonable end of the scale. Most are Brits, or have strong enough connections to support a British football club. Most provide the rest of us with an illuminating insight into what’s happening over there and that’s really useful.
There are a couple of Fox knobs, but only very few, thank goodness.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if he uses these troops “temporary” to “secure” his borders, and then we all watch as there are more and more of them there. I have a really bad feeling about it tbh.
Not those troops, I think.In the internal memo from FEB 18, Hegseth lists 3 categories within the US Defence budge that will face no cuts.
These are:
Of course, the political expertise claims that these budget cuts will be almost impossible to get through Congress, but I am not so sure. Trump is victorious on all fronts, so meh. Not counting on Republicans blocking this either. But maybe. Who the hell knows. It’s bingo…
At least Trump is getting a bit pushback on Fox. Not sure how much that counts these days, but I suppose it is positive
https://x.com/Acyn/status/1892312989782741034
Trump just now:
Trump: “The real polls, how can you be high when every city’s been demolished? Somebody said, no, his [Zelensky] polls are good. Give me a break.”
"We had a rare earth deal, but they broke it two days ago.”
There has never ever been such a deal. He lies more than the Kremlin.
A European diplomat, speaking anonymously to Politico:
“The transatlantic alliance has broken down, and now there is an alliance between the Russian and American presidents to destroy Europe.”
https://x.com/JayinKyiv/status/1892218907278131241
This won’t help, she talks like our AFD, Russian propaganda
She is literally previously payed by Russia and is a conspiracy theorist who denied obvious crimes in SYR and she has said similar stuff many times before on RT and Sputnik. The woman is a known Kreml Worshipper and has been regarded as Trump’s worst pick by most. Then again, his picks seem to agree and be similiarly corrupt.